A bitter row erupted between nationalist parties in the North tonight as Tony Blair tried to nudge Sinn Féin towards supporting the North's police service.

THE suspension of the Stormont Assembly in 2002 took on an extraordinary series of Machiavellian twists yesterday with revelations that Sinn Féin’s head of administration at the Assembly has been a British spy for two decades.

A LIFE on the run, hiding from angry republicans, faced Denis Donaldson last night.