Police in the North are investigating the desecration of republican graves at Milltown Cemetery in Belfast.

Neo-Nazis have threatened to burn down the home of an outspoken Northern Ireland Assembly member, he claimed tonight.

Northern Ireland must be free from racism and other forms of bigotry, the North's new Secretary of State, Peter Hain, claimed today.

Civil rights campaigner the Rev Jesse Jackson will today take part in a Belfast awards ceremony recognising the city’s Filipino community following a spate of racial attacks in recent days.

The Progressive Unionist Party and the Ulster Political Research Group, the political wings of the UVF and UDA, have called on loyalists to halt racist attacks on minority groups in Belfast and other areas of the North.

THE Government has been urged to outlaw racist websites.

THE young neo-Nazi who tried to assassinate the French president warned of his plans to cohorts on a British extremist Internet site.

A former British soldier has been jailed for nine years in Belfast today after a court heard he had hidden guns and explosives for loyalist paramilitaries.