Sinn Féin is accusing loyalists of threatening hospital workers and attempting to raise sectarian tensions.

THE brutal murder of David Caldwell will only strengthen the resolve of the community to resist the evils of terrorism, it was claimed yesterday.

A republican group today threatened to kill staff at two Belfast hospitals.

There is considerable concern in the nationalist community at the lack of action by the security forces to deal with loyalist violence in North Belfast, a Sinn Fein Assembly member said tonight.

Police in the North are investigating a republican threat to protestant workers.

A republican threat to Protestant workers in west Belfast was today being investigated by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

Hardline Catholics have reportedly sent hate mail to some of the loyalist protestors involved in the six-week-old dispute outside Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast.

A pipe bomb thrown at a Co Antrim house was made safe tonight when army bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion.

A fresh bomb attack was launched in flashpoint north Belfast tonight as five Protestant families were forced to flee their homes in the troubled area.