A man has appeared in court charged with murdering a prison officer in the North.

A 39-year-old man has been arrested in Lurgan, Co Armagh, on suspicion of involvement in dissident republican activity.

A man has been charged in connection with the serious sexual assault of a special needs woman in Dublin on June 12.

Gardaí in Dublin are appealing for witnesses in relation to the serious sexual assault of a special needs woman on Wednesday.

As the first Catholic organist at Westminister Abbey, James O’Donnell led the music for the royal wedding and Obama’s visit, writesMick Duggan

Gordon Brown will tomorrow call the UK general election for May 6 – and warn voters that a Conservative government would lead the country back into recession.

Sir Alan Sugar today said he had accepted his peerage and new role as the British government’s enterprise tsar for “the need of the country”.

A machete-wielding bank robber escaped with a large amount of euros in a raid of a Belfast city centre bank today.

At least six workmen were injured in Belfast today when a building under construction collapsed.

In the North a 29-year-old man is to appear in court later this morning charged in connection with the murder of a homeless man in Belfast earlier this month.

THE man who helpedto establish the BritishSecret Service and provided the inspiration for James Bond’s boss in Ian Fleming’s books is at last being honoured in the county of his birth.

A GALWAY student who suffered horrific injuries when she was hit by a traffic cone thrown from a bridge in Edinburgh has asked a judge not to jail the Australian man responsible.

A FEMALE employee at the company which runs London’s congestion charge was being treated in hospital last night after a letter bomb exploded in her hands.

A woman was taken to hospital with minor injuries today after a letter bomb exploded at an office in central London.

A high risk convicted sex offender was back behind bars today after being hunted down by police in the North.

A MOTORIST could hold the key to solving the murder of Robert McCartney.

A man is in a critical condition in a Belfast hospital after he was found unconscious in the city centre.

Richard O’Brien’s much-loved Rocky Horror Picture Show character Riff Raff is to be immortalised on the other side of the world, it emerged today.

Former soap star Jennifer Ellison and her boyfriend have been subjected to a terrifying gang attack, it was revealed today.

A 21-year-old college student was killed when an Algerian chip shop owner knocked him down in his jeep after the vicitm threatened to report him for assaulting his friend, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

A gunman was arrested today after holding three women hostage at a bank just a few hundred yards from Buckingham Palace.

A sectarian gang has been blamed for damaging more than 20 cars in a nationalist area of Co Armagh in Northern Ireland today.