The government knew that privatising power stations in Northern Ireland would lead to huge increases in consumer bills â but sought to hide that fact by delaying the increases until several years down the line, newly-declassified documents reveal.
The Police Ombudsman is due to publish its report on the murder of Robert McCartney in the Markets area of Belfast some 13 years after his brutal death.
This week marked the 45th anniversary of a symbolically charged IRA bomb attack that destroyed a monument held dearly by the unionist community - a nine-foot statue of one of the heroes of the Siege of Derry.
A former special branch officer has accused the Human Rights Commission of supporting proposed legacy mechanisms which would violate the right to a fair trial.
