News from Belfast
Husband on arson charge over fire
A man who allegedly set fire to his County Antrim home appears in court charged with arson....
Anti-fracking demo in Enniskillen
About 100 people gather in Enniskillen to demonstrate against the use of fracking to extract gas from shale rock in County Fermanagh....
Arrest follows cash van robbery
A 24-year-old man is arrested on suspicion of theft after a cash-in-transit robbery in west Belfast on Saturday....
Man kills himself in hairdressers
A man in his 20s who shot himself in a hairdressers in Dungannon, County Tyrone, is named locally as Patrick Hughes....
Firearms seized in house search
Ammunition and suspected firearms are seized from a house in County Antrim....
Royal mail van in armed hijack
A 25-year-old man is arrested after a Royal Mail vehicle was hijacked by a man armed with a knife in west Belfast....
Pupils transfer test results due
Pupils across Northern Ireland are this morning receiving their transfer test results for entry into grammar school ....
Carroll accused 'sought address'
A man accused of murdering Constable Stephen Carroll tried to collect information on another policeman for republicans, a court hears....
Ulster Bank staff reject pay-off
Ulster Bank staff are given details of redundancy terms on offer but they have been rejected by the finance union, the Irish Bank Officials' Association....
Jail for O'Hagan murder accused
A man previously accused of murdering the Sunday World journalist Martin O'Hagan has been jailed for three years....
£18m arts centre shows revealed
Belfast's new £18m Metropolitan Arts centre - MAC - is prepares to open its doors in the city's Cathedral Quarter....
Women charged over Comber murder
The daughter of a man charged with the murder of Philip Strickland in Comber appears in court charged with withholding information relating to the case....
Indian cricketer guilty of abuse
A former Indian international cricketer is convicted of sexually abusing a teenage boy more than 30 years ago....
Police try to identify 'flasher'
Police are trying to identify a man involved in a number of "flashing" incidents in the Poleglass area in recent months....
Tyrone man on drug import charges
A County Tyrone man is charged with trying to import £265,000 worth of drugs into Northern Ireland....
50 jobs go at Armagh haulage firm
A County Armagh haulage company closes with the loss of more than 50 jobs....
New taps infection free
Water sample results carried out on taps that have been replaced at Altnagelvin's neonatal unit have shown no trace of the bacteria infection pseudomonas....
PSNI call on paramilitary attacks
The Policing Board has urged the PSNI to do more to protect children and young people from paramilitary-style attacks....
Accused man has 225 convictions
A man with 225 previous convictions has been remanded in custody, accused of assaulting his partner on Thursday....
Refurbished court could close
The court service spent around £120,000 refurbishing Strabane courthouse, which has been earmarked for possible closure....
Solicitor accused over £42m fraud
A Dublin solicitor appears in court charged with a 50m euro (£42m) fraud....
Minister considers Bethany call
Irish justice minister Alan Shatter is considering calls for an investigation of the former Protestant-run Bethany Home in Dublin....
Quinn family bank case under way
The family of Fermanagh businessman Sean Quinn begin a legal challenge to a claim they owe the former Anglo Irish Bank over 2.3bn euros....
Facebook 'Beautiful Day' for Bono
An investment company closely associated with U2 singer Bono stands to make up to $800m (£506m) as a result of Facebook's stock market flotation....
Sheen 'proud' of uncle's IRA past
Hollywood actor Martin Sheen says he is proud of his uncle's IRA past....
Comber Greenway to run to Titanic
The Comber Greenway cycle route is to be extended through east Belfast to link up with the Titanic Quarter....
Maze no IRA shrine says Donaldson
A conflict resolution centre built on the site of the Maze prison will be no shrine to IRA, says DUP MP....
Fine sentences unacceptable: Ford
Justice Minister David Ford says the number of people going to prison for unpaid fines is "not acceptable"....
McNarry facing UUP discipline rap
Strangford assembly member David McNarry is set to face disciplinary action by the Ulster Unionist Party....
Pre-tax loss for Belfast hotelier
One of Northern Ireland's largest hotel groups reports a pre-tax loss of £229,000 for the financial year to April 2011....
Belfast gas prices to drop by 10%
Gas prices are set to fall for many households in Northern Ireland later this spring....
Belfast property firm owes £50m
Administrators of a failed Belfast property firm take control of antique paintings and a 500 acre Scottish estate....
Housebuilder confirms Nama move
A County Fermanagh housing developer, Fider Homes, confirms that its bank loans have been moved to Nama....
Linfield 5-0 Crusaders
Leaders Linfield stay four points clear at the top of the Premiership by hammering Crusaders 5-0 at Windor Park....
Down 1-10 1-9 Donegal
Down make a winning start to their NFL Division 1 campaign as they edge out Donegal in an entertaining clash....
Lisburn Distillery 0-2 Portadown
Portadown keep up the chase on leaders Linfield with a 2-0 win away to Lisburn Distillery....
VIDEO: Northern Ireland Assembly
Health Minister Edwin Poots gave an update on the pseudomonas bacterial infection in the neo-natal unit at Belfast's Royal Jubliee Maternity Hospital, on 31 January 2012....
VIDEO: Maze centre gets £18m
Eighteen million pounds of European funding is approved for building the contentious conflict transformation centre on the site of the former Maze prison....
VIDEO: Belfast to get £150m boost
Belfast City Council releases details of what it says amounts to a £150m investment programme in the city over the next three years....
VIDEO: Lord Saville 'gratified and pleased'
Lord Saville tells BBC Newsline that he is pleased his report into the events of Bloody Sunday seems to have advanced the cause of peace....
VIDEO: McNarry fallout
BBC Newsline's political correspondent Martina Purdy has been assessing the fallout at Stormont after Strangford MLA David McNarry walked away from the Ulster Unionist's assembly team....
Where the Titanic was born
A new photography exhibition immortalizes the drawing offices where the Titanic was designed....
BBC NI to show Billy plays again
BBC NI marks 30th anniversary of the Belfast drama...
HET report helps soldier's family
HET report helps shot soldier's family...
Armagh novelist celebrates first book
Darran McCann celebrates the highs and lows of his first novel....
Pardon on way for Irish 'deserters'
The Irish soldiers who fought for Britain during World War II...