Prominent republican Colin Duffy, currently held over the murder of a Northern Ireland prison officer, is at the centre of a challenge to the European Court of Human Rights which could force a change in the laws governing the length of time terror suspects can be held.

The family of a soldier gunned down in the North feel more should have been done to protect the military base, it was reported today.

Rank-and-file police representatives today called for an urgent security review after a gunman shot dead the first PSNI officer in the North.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has visited the Massereene military barracks in Co Antrim this morning following the murder of two British soldiers by dissident republicans on Saturday night.