An end to a teaching strike which has left hundreds of Northern Ireland school pupils out of class may be in sight, the Stormont education committee claimed today.

The decision to suspend striking teachers’ pay in Northern Ireland will be reviewed if they agree to seek mediation, the education minister said today.

Teachers expected to join industrial action at a secondary school in the North called today for independent mediators to become involved.

Hundreds of pupils at a secondary school in Northern Ireland were sent home today after teachers went on strike as a dispute over a pupil who assaulted a teacher deepened.

Police in the North were alerted the night before a loyalist paramilitary assassin carried out a grudge killing, an inquest heard today.

Cannabis with a street value of worth more than £10m (€14.8m) was seized from a warehouse in the North today.

A man extradited from Spain to the North is due to appear in court today on drugs charges.

An incendiary device was found in a shopping centre today.

A paramilitary mob lured police into a riot to avenge the shutdown of an illegal drinking den, it was claimed today.

A businessman whose tractors ripped up an internationally-protected nature reserve declared tonight: “I’ve done nothing wrong.”

A woman was subjected to a vicious sexual assault by two men as she made her way home on New Year’s Eve.

Top Irish golfer Garth McGimpsey, who has been cleared of any link to a drugs seizure, claimed today he may have been the victim of a set-up.

A 28-year-old man was recovering in hospital today after suffering a fractured skull in a vicious paramilitary-style attack.

IT was the horror and embarrassment of having to buy maternity wear for her 18th birthday party that made Nicola Bleakley realise that she had to change.

A 30-year-old man is recovering this morning after being shot in the leg in a paramilitary-style punishment attack in the North last night.

Detectives were today questioning a man about a murder in Northern Ireland.

A self-confessed murderer on the loose after a daring courthouse break-out with another man was captured tonight.

A 15-year-old boy is recovering this morning after being shot in the legs during a paramilitary-style punishment attack in the North last night.

Three men were being treated in hospital in Northern Ireland today after being injured in paramilitary-style attacks.

GANGLAND battles for supremacy among rival terror organisations who control Protestant areas of the city have left 14 men dead in the last two-and-a-half years.

Two men were being treated in hospital today after being shot in separate paramilitary-style attacks in Northern Ireland.

A 55-year-old man was shot in the leg in a paramilitary-style attack while walking his dog.

A 22-year-old woman was being questioned by police in Northern Ireland last night following the grim discovery of the body of a new-born baby in a burning bag on a country roadside.

A 22-year-old woman was being questioned by police in Co Antrim tonight following the grim discovery of the body of a new born baby in a burning bag on a country roadside.

A notorious loyalist paramilitary unit is crumbling amid new talks to end a violent feud among rival organisations in Northern Ireland, it was claimed tonight.

A 22-year-old man tonight became the third victim of a bloody feud between loyalist paramilitaries.

New talks to end a savage feud between rival loyalist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland have begun, it emerged tonight.

A man is critically ill in hospital today after he was shot in what was thought to be part of an escalating loyalist paramilitary feud.

A bitter loyalist paramilitary feud tonight erupted into new violence in a gun attack in east Belfast.

Bitter divisions within the Ulster Defence Association deepened tonight with the expulsion of leading loyalist John White.

FEARED loyalist chief Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair has been dumped by the leadership of the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association, it was claimed last night.

Feared loyalist chief Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair has been dumped by the leadership of the paramilitary Ulster Defence Association, it was claimed tonight.

Feared loyalist paramilitary boss Johnny Adair today showed his support for a close associate who appeared in court on gun charges.

One of the top loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast was today charged with gun offences following a major security operation.

Loyalist paramilitaries have met in Belfast in an effort to prevent a bloody feud, it emerged tonight.

The shooting of a top loyalist paramilitary in Belfast is linked to a fall-out over drugs, police claimed today.

A senior loyalist has been shot in the face in east Belfast.

A FOUR-YEAR-OLD girl had a miraculous escape when drive-by gunmen in Northern Ireland sprayed the car she was a passenger in with bullets, killing prominent loyalist Stephen Warnock.

A man has been killed in an apparent drive-by shooting in the North.

Four people were tonight being questioned about the brutal murder of a 51-year-old man who was found stabbed to death.

Two men were stabbed to death in separate attacks early today, police in Northern Ireland said.

Police were today hunting a man who attacked and robbed a pregnant woman in Northern Ireland.

A man shot in a Northern Ireland pub had served a prison sentence following the murder of a young Catholic mother nine years ago, it emerged today.

A man has been shot dead at a bar in the North.