For the first time people living in a border area of the North will be able to access urgent GP out-of-hours services in the Republic, it emerged today.

An 18-year-old was charged today with the murder of man in Co Tyrone.

The North’s police ombudsman is investigating claims that a suspected republican dissident was assaulted by police during his arrest last Tuesday morning.

Police tonight warned of a dangerous new threat from dissident republican terrorists in Northern Ireland after intercepting a bomb which could have caused carnage on the scale of the Omagh atrocity.

Police in the North have revealed that the car at the centre of a security alert near Armagh this morning contained around 200lbs of fully-primed home-made explosives.