Police in the North are investigating the possibility that an independent nationalist councillor whose body was found in a lake 29 years ago was murdered by soldiers from the Ulster Defence Regiment.

THE family of a murdered councillor are to go to court to challenge the handling of the investigation by police.

A FORMER member of the Northern Ireland Assembly is expected to be questioned by detectives investigating the murder of a man whose body was found in a lake nearly 30 years ago.

The family of a man murdered in the North in 1974 has criticised a decision to reopen the investigation into his death.

Detectives today launched a new investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found in a lake 27 years ago.