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.

Report forces North's Police Ombudsman into climbdown

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.

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