Flanagan and Villiers to meet delegations from some of North’s parties on Wednesday

Secretary of State Teresa Villiers places responsibility back where it should lie - on the shoulders of the political parties

Robinson and Foster raise doubts about whether substantive negotiations can start

New IMC body and British crime agency would judge status of paramilitary groups

Reassuring DUP without alienating Sinn Féin is task facing Northern Secretary

Unionist parties indicate they will not participate in talks unless preconditions are met

New monitoring body a ‘credible’ solution to Stormont crisis, Villiers says

Commissioner says too early to say if former head of force wrong to shred personal papers

Minister sees no benefit to not participating in talks that will end in ‘matter of weeks’

PSNI and unionists support establishing new organisation similar to IMC

PSNI say they would support an independent assessment of paramilitary groups in NI

British and Irish governments set for comprehensive talks in bid to avert collapse

McGuinness calls for urgent talks with Kenny and Cameron in bid to resolve crisis

Sinn Féin will have to deliver something for Robinson if power-sharing is to survive

Robinson says republicans not unionists should pay price for IRA misbehaviour

First Minister calls decision ‘dishonest’ and says Sinn Féin living in ‘utter denial’

British and Irish governments anxious to hear Robinson’s views on new proposals

Party’s ruling executive unanimously endorses Mike Nesbitt’s recommendation

Group could assess alleged IRA activity, says former IMC observer Dick Kerr

Sinn Féin people should stop saying the IRA has gone away when self-evidently it hasn’t