A man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after a teenager became trapped under a car in north Belfast.

Loyalist rioters who attacked and injured police in a night of disorder at a sectarian interface in Belfast came prepared for violence, the officers' representative body has said.

Police and the North's Orange orders have said they hope the annual Twelfth of July celebrations will pass off peacefully.

Orange Order leaders have expressed both relief and disappointment at the decision of President Michael D Higgins not to attend the Republic’s only Orange march, in Donegal, next week.

Police are treating a fire which destroyed an Orange Hall as arson.