Top stories of the week

Tomorrow marks the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape, though it has perhaps escaped many people’s attention that a prominent Orangeman played a key role in the break out from German POW camp Stalag Luft III.

A recent upsurge in divisive Irish nationalist rhetoric has left a leading anti-sectarianism campaigner convinced “there’s no space in their Ireland” for even moderate unionists.

Four years ago, Sunder Katwala wrote in The New Statesman about “The Farage Paradox” – that the more media exposure the Ukip leader got, so there was a corresponding dip in support for leaving the EU.

Hundreds of quotations to replace biomass boilers with fossil fuel heating systems are being sought by RHI claimants, a figure from the biomass industry has said.

Four men arrested during a search by the Paramilitary Crime Task Force yesterday (Friday 22 March) in the Greater Belfast and Ards areas have been charged with a offences, including being concerned in the supply of a Class A controlled drug.

A young male has suffered second degree burns after being deliberately pushed into a fire in Belfast.

A burnt out van containing the remnants of a destroyed cash machine has been discovered in a field outside Belfast.

On Christmas Day after he had been drinking a 26-year-old man assaulted his father and brother which, a judge said, was disgraceful and contrary to the spirit of the day.