Top stories of the week

Two months into the first IRA ceasefire in 1994, Downing Street considered offering the IRA a weapons amnesty, declassified documents reveal.

A teenager died after falling from a bridge into oncoming traffic on a motorway, police said.

A leading gold broker and vault operator in the Republic has seen a huge rise in the number of people from Northern Ireland rushing to buy gold over fears of a collapse in sterling after Brexit.

One man has died and 23 people have been taken to hospital after a bus overturned in the Scottish Borders.

Northern Ireland’s first female firefighter is one of those recognised in the New Year Honours.

Margaret Thatcher claimed the Irish police were not a “highly professional police force” and that she had “failed” in a row over the border, Dublin state papers have revealed.

A local MLA has voiced safety fears for road and rail travellers after rocks fell onto the main road at Downhill near Castlerock on Friday.

An elderly pensioner suffered serious injuries in a road traffic collision in Kilrea, according to police in Limavady, who have issued an appeal for witnesses.