A DUP MP has expressed concern that Northern Ireland could become reliant on the Republic of Ireland for electricity, amid growing scrutiny of the all-island energy market.
The attorney general has made an unusual intervention into the Stormont decision-making crisis by asking the Supreme Court to examine a constraint on Stormont civil servants which they had been prepared to accept.
A Sinn Fein MP's claim that proposed new stop and search powers at the Irish border will "politicise" the PSNI have been rejected as "far-fetched nonsense" by a former senior RUC officer.