Two men have been jailed in connection with a savage attack on a family’s dog in the North.

A man who admitted setting fire to a family’s pet dog is due to be sentenced today.

A leading Irish nationalist today became the first leader of her party to wear the poppy on Remembrance Sunday.

The main Dublin/Belfast railway line is closed due to a security alert in Portadown and Moira in Co Armagh.

The North's Assets Recovery Agency has frozen property worth almost £3m (€4m) which it claims is the proceeds of major crime.

An alleged drug trafficker’s property empire and luxury cars worth nearly £3m (€4.3m) have been frozen by crimefighters in Belfast, it was revealed tonight.

A live mortar and launching tube have been found close to Lurgan in Co Armagh.

Police questioning dissident republicans about serious organised crime in the North today arrested a sixth man as part of an ongoing intelligence operation.

Detectives were questioning four dissident republican suspects today as part of an intelligence operation in the North.

Four people were arrested in County Armagh about serious crime after a police intelligence operation.

The British government today announced the expansion of integrated education in the North and the closure of two traditional primary schools.

Reg Empey’s Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) were in the red by almost £500,000 (€730,480) last year, it was revealed today.

TESTS for bird flu on six dead swans in the North have proved negative.

Tests for bird flu on six dead swans in Northern Ireland have proved negative, it was announced tonight.

A SWAN which died of bird flu has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of the virus, the Scottish Executive confirmed yesterday.

AGRICULTURE Minister Mary Coughlan said her department was fully prepared to deal with an outbreak of bird flu.

Six dead swans were today reported to authorities in the North in the wake of a confirmed case of bird flu in Scotland.

A bomb was found in a car in Co Armagh tonight after police mounted widespread searches for devices across the North.

Soldiers defused a device discovered on a railway line in Northern Ireland today.

Two men died and one was seriously injured in overnight traffic accidents in Co Antrim and Down.

Customs officers in Northern Ireland have made their biggest seizure under new proceeds of crime legislation, it was revealed tonight.

With the deaths of 29 people in the 1998 Omagh bombing, the Real IRA succeeded in carrying out the worst single atrocity in more than 30 years of violence in Northern Ireland.

The funeral takes place today of 31-year-old Gary Jess who was killed on Saturday after an accident at the Ulster Grand Prix.

Two people were killed in a road accident on the M1 motorway in the North today.

A section of the Dublin to Belfast rail line between Lurgan and Moira in Co Down has been closed following a coded bomb warning.

Rail services in Northern Ireland were in chaos today after a series of bomb alerts closed main lines.

The cross-border rail link between Belfast and Dublin has been closed after several explosions were heard in the vicinity of the line.

The railway line between Moira and Lurgan in Co Armagh has been re-opened after a reported bomb alert on the line turned out to be a hoax.

There are currently two security alerts ongoing in the North.