A farm labourer accused of murdering retired librarian Attracta Harron today denied having any involvement with her.

Hundreds of mourners today gathered at the funeral of a woman whose body was found last week after she had been missing for four months.

THE family of a woman whose body was found by police after a four-month search had not given up hope of her safe return.

More people were employed in Northern Ireland last year than ever before, new figures released by the British government revealed today.

Police in the North have evacuated a number of houses in Sion Mills, Co Tyrone, following the discovery of a suspect package outside the home of a member of a local District Policing Partnership.

New evidence that dissident republican terrorists are in control of weapons once used by the IRA emerged tonight.

Police in the North have released a man arrested yesterday in connection with the murder of a construction worker in a bomb attack at a British Territorial Army base last week.

Dissident republicans were today being blamed for a booby trap device found under a car in a village in Northern Ireland.