The UUP confirmed the former senior police officer is the only contender to replace Mike Nesbitt later this month.

First Minister Michelle O’Neill also pressed Secretary of State Hilary Benn over legacy proposals during a meeting in Belfast on Wednesday.

First Minister Michelle O’Neill said she will not support any preferential treatment for military veterans.

Two cars were involved in the collision close to Nutts Corner in Co Antrim on Sunday.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns has called for criminal investigations into the production of distributions of child abuse images.

The store, located in the Victoria Square shopping centre in Belfast city centre, will open on February 12.

Naomi Long said in one week of the Criminal Bar Association strike, 10 trials, 57 arraignments and 22 sentencing hearings were directly affected.

DUP leader Gavin Robinson was speaking after Helen McEntee said any significant changes to the Bill should have the agreement of both governments.

Mr Quinn was killed in a ‘callous and merciless attack’ at his home in Carrickfergus on January 4 2020.

The 14-year-old was found dead in a storm drain in north Belfast in June 2020, six days after he went missing as he cycled to meet friends.

Nature conservation charity Ulster Wildlife was behind the move to restore oyster reefs in Belfast Lough.

The former senior police officer is currently the only confirmed candidate to succeed Mike Nesbitt as UUP leader.

Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Diana Armstrong said she will run to become the next deputy leader of the party.

Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has claimed the proposed budget is ‘not sufficient’.

The site in the Wicklow mountains is also Ireland’s earliest proto-town according to Queen’s University Belfast researchers.

Current Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt announced earlier this month that he intends to stand down.

Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins paid tribute to gritting teams working on the road network.

Scores of events took place across the island, including some which raised money for charity.

It comes as officer numbers dropped to 6,190 last summer.

Ten Protestant workmen were shot dead at the side of a road in Co Armagh by republican terrorists in the atrocity in 1976.