A taskforce had suggested new legal requirements could help promote dog control and reduce attacks.

It says redundancy notices will be withdrawn if the three unions agree to ballot their members on the pay offer.

Recorded incidents of violence and harassment against passengers and rail workers showed a sharp increase in the year to March.

They believed the King "would have consented to their rescue" due to being an "environmentalist".

Gary Anderson had been serving life in prison for the murder of Karol Kelly in Londonderry in 2018.

The proposals would also see benefits cut for people who are able to work but have failed to hold down a job.