Down County, Northern Ireland News

By Ben Lowry ONE of Britain's leading educationalists has spoken of his despair at "the tragedy" of Northern Ireland giving up its grammar schools.

The UK government must not allow unionists in the North to block a deal on devolving policing and justice powers to the region's Assembly, Sinn FA©in said today.

A cross-border drugs ring has been smashed by police with cannabis with a street value of A 500,000 seized.

A report published on Tuesday by Northern Ireland's Independent Monitoring Commission , which reviews paramilitary activity, is expected to focus on an upsurge in dissident republican attacks.

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Ok, I've just spent the last couple of days in meetings in London. One of the things I noticed was the amount of people wearing poppies this year.

NORTHERN Ireland, together with the Republic, downs more cups of tea per capita per day than the rest of Europe.

Passing the buck for delays to key projects has become too easy for members of the Northern Ireland Executive, a business leader has warned.

A mother who killed her child and then took her own life had given her 9-year- old daughter a sleeping tablet before smothering her, an inquest has heard.

A grotesque lapse in taste by the Irish tabloid, the Sunday World , has resulted in 50 complaints to the Press Complaints Commission .

More than 30 people have been arrested during a major police operation against burglaries across Northern Ireland.

There is to be a by-election in Craigavon after councillors failed to agree on a replacement for a councillor who resigned earlier this year.

Politicians who went to Libya to press for compensation for IRA victims have arrived back in the UK, hailing their mission a success.

Two Beefeaters have been suspended over allegations of bullying against the Tower of London's first female yeoman warder, it has been reported.

Four intrepid Co Down adventurers who set sail across the Irish Sea in a modified Renault Laguna car have arrived safely in Scotland.

It remains one of the most shocking cycles of murders to have taken place in Irish history.

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Plans to redevelop Belfast's Belvoir Park Hospital site and build 300 new homes have been welcomed by Castlereagh borough councillors.

Prominent loyalist Mark Harbinson has been remanded in custody after being charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl.

Two men have had to be taken to hospital following a fire aboard a fishing boat in Co Down.