An eco-friendly alternative to the huge bonfires that light up the skies across the North during the summer marching season was tested today.

An Indian company has announced plans to create 1,000 jobs in the North over the next two years.

AN elderly woman confined to a wheelchair yesterday became the victim of the sixth robbery against senior citizens in the North since Friday.

AN investigation is under way into how up to five lorry loads of domestic rubbish thought to have come from Wexford and other parts of the South East ended up dumped on land almost 200 miles away in the North.