Stormont will not pay for murder tribunals, warns Paisley

Stormont's power sharing executive will not pick up the tab for inquiries into some of the North's most controversial murders, First Minister Ian Paisley warned the British government today.

As Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government continued to press the Northern Ireland Executive to take over responsibility for policing and the courts, the First Minister said it was unrealistic to expect Stormont to foot the bill for the tribunals.