First Minister Peter Robinson's DUP has today accused the North's Boundary Commission of gerrymandering in a fierce attack on its proposals to reduce the number of Westminster seats to 16.

Twin 14-year-old brothers have been seriously injured in a hit-and-run road accident in the North, police said today.

A forensic identification specialist has been called in to help detectives find the IRA killers who shot dead a Protestant businessman in Northern Ireland more than 10 years ago.