Top stories of the week

A victims’ campaigner has demanded Sinn Fein live up to its own rhetoric over the truth of the Troubles, after it emerged the man honoured by Michelle O’Neill last week had stood accused of an especially “cowardly” crime – the shooting of a man at his own wedding.

A sensor failure resulted in the pilot of a Flybe flight into Belfast City Airport burning fuel, diverting, and landing the plane on its nose at Belfast International Airport, according to a report by the Air Accident Investigation Branch published this morning.

Specialist sniffer dogs are being deployed as the PSNI steps up its search for the missing, believed murdered, County Down, father-of-four Pat McCormick, who was last seen in Comber on May 30.

Three people have been arrested after a balaclava-wearing gunman made an unsuccessful attempt to stick up a shop in the centre of Belfast on Friday.

An attempt to drown a beautiful Samoyed dog by chaining a concrete block around its neck and dumping it in a canal has been foiled by quick-acting dog enforcement officers.

CCTV footage of two cars used by the self-styled 'IRA' in an unsuccessful attempt to murder a PSNI officer in East Belfast on June 1 has been released by detectives.

Colarado has become the latest state in America to ban ‘gay conversion therapy’.

Members of Age NI’s consultative forum have pleaded with the Government to step in and stop moves towards means testing for free TV licences for over-75s.