Report forces North's Police Ombudsman into climbdown

Closing the Tullamore bypass is one option being considered by Offaly Council Council after the stretch failed skid safety tests.

Anger over a controversial report into one of the worst atrocities of the Troubles today forced the North's Police Ombudsman into a damaging climbdown.

Al Hutchinson's office monitors police conduct, but had to shelve its review of the bombing of a north Belfast bar in 1971 which killed 15 people, after criticism of its decision to largely exonerate police handling of the case.