Northern Ireland, United Kingdom News

Four men have been jailed over a blackmail plot in which a couple were threatened with paramilitary attack if they did not hand over A 15,000 in cash.

The trial of the man accused of murdering Coleraine pensioner Norman Moffatt has heard evidence from a woman who alleges he told her he had stabbed the 73-year-old. Martha Brown, who is a witness for the prosecution, told Antrim Crown Court that she didn't tell the police about the alleged confession because she wasn't an informer.

Talks due to take place in Belfast will address how to move NI's peace process forward, 15 years on from the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement.

The daughter of a pensioner who died after he was stabbed has told a court how she discovered her father was injured.

The second session at the all day PSA/Fellowship of Messines workshop - Has the Protestant Working Class lost out in the Peace Process? - looked back at some of the events and experiences that shaped loyalism.

A 'peace centre' will be built on the site of the prison where 10 IRA prisoners died during a hunger strike.

A man is held by police and weapons are seized after terrorists target a PSNI patrol, and talks aimed at easing tensions ahead of the marching season get underway in Cardiff.

All communities are reaping the benefit in the 2013 UK city of culture, as visitors pour in and a new generation of talent flourishes, with a little help from old hitmakers At the porch of St Augustine's Anglican church, wedged on Derry 's walls between the loyalist Fountain estate and the republican Bogside below, volunteers Elma and Ivan Taylor ... (more)

Kidney transplant campaigner Joe Brolly has been joined by the First and deputy First Ministers for an awareness-raising cycle ride in Belfast.

Over 100 pupils got to enjoy some tasty recipes created by Lidl's Chef Ambassador Chris Bell of the Galgorm Resort and Spa.

Double killer John Gallagher appeared in court in Strabane yesterday in connection with charges of alleged harassment and making threats to kill.

Four years ago he was a window fitter in Strabane, County Tryone, now Ryan Dolan is preparing to represent Ireland in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo in Sweden.

Stroud's Dan Cooper and the Cornwall-based Centurion Racing team enjoyed an excellent first day of racing at the Vauxhall International North West 200 road races on Thursday where the 25-year-old rider took an excellent eighth place in the opening Ballymoney Borough Council Supersport race on the Centurion Racing Triumph Daytona 675R.

Gwynedd councillor Chris O'Neal logged eight near misses in 24 minutes at the old Farrar Road site, while shoppers questioned were conflicted over which lane to take for ASDA when approaching from Deiniol Road.

A 24 year old man wanted in Northern Ireland on terrorism charges has appeared in the High Court.

Three brothers have denied the double murder of a couple who were savagely beaten with hammers and doused in petrol before being set alight.

The programme looks at an attempt to ambush the PSNI as three police officers escape injury in a shooting in west Belfast.

Police have revealed some details of the security operation to be put in place for the G8 economic summit to be held in County Fermanagh next month.

From the Northern Ireland Centre for Food and Health, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland ; Cardiac Unit, Antrim Area Hospital, Northern Health and Social Care Trust, Antrim, Northern Ireland ; School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland ; and DSM Nutritional Products Ltd, Kaiseraugst, Switzerland .

Hughie Fury won a four round decision over Moses Matovu at City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.