Almost 100 prisoners in jails in the North have had their applications for Christmas home leave rejected, it was revealed today.

A Westminster committee is recommending that loyalist and republican prisoners in the North should be housed together instead of in separate wings.

An armed robber and a forger have gone missing after being given Christmas home leave from a Northern Ireland jail, it emerged today.

Responsibility for the destruction of security files on hundreds of former paramilitary prisoners in the top security Maze Prison was today laid at the feet of a Northern Ireland prison governor who has since died.

HIDDEN tales of life inside the North’s infamous jails are to be filmed to protect their legacy for future generations.

Magilligan Prison in Co Derry is to be replaced with a new jail, it was confirmed today.

Prison visits in the North were conducted as normal today despite an overtime ban by warders in a bitter row over pay.

Prison officers tonight threatened to plunge Northern Ireland’s jail regime into chaos as a bitter pay row intensified.

Police were called in to run prisons in Northern Ireland tonight after warders failed to report for duty.

Prison chiefs were today accused of breaking a pledge by putting loyalist inmates on 24-hour lock-up at a Northern Ireland jail.

Loyalists today attempted to seize control of part of the high security Maghaberry Prison in Co Antrim.

Loyalist prisoners have failed in an effort to seize control of a cell block in Co Antrim’s Maghaberry Prison.

Businessmen hired loyalist assassins to gun down a Sinn Fein councillor after he refused to accept their bribes, it was claimed today.

A bitter dispute which threatened to plunge Northern Ireland’s prison system into crisis has been resolved, it was revealed today.

Applications for cash to pay for new security measures for prison officers in Northern Ireland who fear for their lives are to be rushed through, the authorities pledged today.

Britain’s most senior frontline officer on Bloody Sunday today denied that 13 unarmed civilians were killed because the British army was trying to make his suggestion to shoot rioters into a reality.

Communications Minister Dermot Ahern has launched a new cross-border ferry service between Greencastle in Co Donegal and Magilligan in Co Derry.

POLICE investigating the murder of workman David Caldwell at a Territorial Army camp in Derry made two more arrests in the area yesterday.

TWO men and a woman were last night being questioned by police after a construction worker was murdered in a bomb attack on a Derry Territorial Army base.

Rogue republicans were today blamed for a bomb attack which killed a construction worker at a Derry army base.

A man was injured in an explosion at a Territorial Army camp in Derry today.

Detectives and forensics experts are today continuing to investigate the scene of a bombing in Derry yesterday.

A man is fighting for his life in the North after an explosion at a British Army training camp.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate John Hume spoke today of his dread for the march which turned into Bloody Sunday after a confrontation with troops a week earlier.