Pressure on officer numbers has broken PSNI workforce, says Jon Boutcher
The region’s top police officer said he wants to see PSNI numbers rise to 8,000 over the next five years.
Northern Ireland
Urgent improvement needed to improve skills base in north, auditor says
Dorinnia Carville said skills shortages are having a ‘detrimental impact on business and economic growth’.
Smaller, more compact Casement Park, with around 25,000 capacity, a better fit and far less costly: event expert
Ulster GAA moving forward with plan for 34,500 capacity stadium in west Belfast
Condemnation after loyalist band filmed playing offensive anti-Catholic tunes at parade promoted by DUP MP Carla Lockhart
PSNI fail to brand playing of anti-Catholic tune a hate crime
£50m Royal Hospitals power plant plan scrapped amid rising costs and long delays to new facilities
Work on the energy centre first began five years ago, but Belfast Trust has now halted the tender process
Wildlife charity declares ‘butterfly emergency’ amid concerning decline
A leading scientist says the figures indicate nature is sounding an ‘alarm call’
Security alert at East Belfast GAA playing fields condemned
It is the latest in a series of incidents which have taken place at the Henry Jones pitches
Titanic Quarter: Belfast’s largest student accommodation scheme granted planning permission
Lacuna Developments/Watkin Jones venture will include more than 1,000 units
Searches for Co Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson’s remains ends
Police confirmed on Tuesday that “no further searches are taking place” at this time, for the body of County Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson
Co Tyrone priest facing historic sex offences: charges linked to three more complainants added
Dungannon Crown Court was informed that further charges involving three other males has been added
West Belfast woman who ‘snatched’ one-year child in Park Centre given probation order
The judge said: ‘This could only be described as any parent’s worst nightmare’