Recruits still taught to check under their cars for explosive devices

Parties respond to new data showing a nationalist resistance to careers in policing

Medical staff despairing at North’s health crisis, says director of college of nursing

Senior officers not suspended or standing down during police ombudsman’s inquiry

Standard-bearers struggle to hold up their colours on windswept hillside

News, reaction, who was elected (and who wasn’t) from each of the 18 Northern Ireland areas

SF gained second seat in constituency last year at expense of SDLP, which was a big blow

Martin McGuinness blames loss of SF seat on instability and UK’s austerity policies

Minor shifts in North as smaller parties do well with SDLP and Alliance disappointed

Catherine Seeley, John O’Dowd and Doug Beattie all elected on Saturday evening

UUP and DUP in strong positions to hold their seats

Northern Irish parties parade new leaders as DUP stirs voting jitters ahead of May vote

Shooting occurred as pupils were leaving school in Craigavon

Colum Eastwood gives stirring speech as he takes party’s helm

The 32-year-old Assembly member defeated Dr Alasdair McDonnell for top post

Derry Assembly member defeats Dr Alasdair McDonnell to become sixth leader of party

Deputy leader tells party conference people in North are tired of ‘lack of progress’

Budget ‘first shot in class war’ against poor, says SDLP deputy leader Dolores Kelly

Democratic Unionist Party MP holds seat ahead of the UUP and Sinn Fein

Upper Bann constituency profile

SDLP leader will need to draw on all his combative resources

SDLP deputy chief calls on Sinn Féin to take its seats in House of Commons

Jennifer McCann rejects allegations as McGuinness accuses DUP of ‘gutter politics’

More than 900 killings of the Troubles remain to be investigated

DUP calls on Government to acknowledge ‘role played by Dublin during the Troubles’

Seamus Mallon and other party veterans reflect on period when party members were murdered

Twenty-four families have asked for inquiry into more than 70 loyalist killings

Plans to hold Miss Ulster competition at parliament buildings axed

Two Assembly member judges withdraw because of size restrictions on entrants

Some politicians criticise Miss Ulster contest due to limit on young women sized 8 to 12

Resignation is “like losing Lionel Messi,” says senior party stalwart