Loyalist leader Mark Haddock was kept apart from 13 co-accused as one of the biggest paramilitary murder trials in decades began in the North today.

The gas probe into the deaths of two teenagers poisoned by leaking fumes in the North is a criminal investigation, it was revealed today.

IAN PAISLEY’S Democratic Unionists have suspended a party member found guilty of harassing a gay colleague, it emerged yesterday.

Police restrained an angry father today when a woman appeared in court in Belfast charged with the murder of his 16-year-old son.