UK government 'shortchanging North's murder probes'

The British government was accused today of failing to deliver on a pledge to fund an investigative unit re-examining murders from the North’s Troubles.

Dave Cox, head of the Historical Enquiries Team, revealed that last year’s funding, worth £4m, had to come out of Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) chief constable Hugh Orde’s policing budget, even though the British government promised two years ago that it would provide £32m for the work over six years.