Three children injured in a bomb attack in the North had a miraculous escape, police said today.

Democratic Unionist MEP Jim Allister was accused of shameless opportunism today after he attacked rival Ulster Unionists for joining forces at Stormont with a loyalist politician.

Almost half of complaints lodged with Northern Ireland’s Police Ombudsman over the past five years came from the Protestant community, figures revealed today.

A senior member of the Democratic Unionists today denounced the appointment of former Assembly member Monica McWilliams as the chief human rights commissioner in Northern Ireland as crass.