Irish peace process body gets revived

A controversial peace process body that brings together the UK and Irish governments is to be revived amid efforts to restore powersharing in Northern Ireland.

The British Irish Inter-governmental Conference is to meet in London on 25 July.

The mechanism gives the Irish a consultative role on non-devolved issues affecting Northern Ireland. It last met in 2007.

Sinn Fein and the SDLP have long been calling for the reestablishment of the conference.