Two men are due in court in the North this morning charged with a serious sexual assault in the Portadown area of Co Armagh.

Double killer John Gallagher has been arrested on charges of making threats to kill and harassment.

An Englishman wanted in connection with the murder of a man whose body was found in a London flat has appeared before the High Court in Dublin.

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has today reappeared before a court to face allegations of plotting to rape a very young child.

Dappy was told off twice by a judge in court yesterday.

A man has been arrested in connection with alleged racist chanting by a group of Chelsea football fans on a train back from the club’s 0-0 draw against Norwich City.

CHELSEA’S progress into the fourth round of the FA Cup was anything but serene, no matter what the scoreline might suggest, and the rewards were most certainly mixed.

A former Irish priest facing allegations of child sex abuse from the 1960s to the 1980s is due in court in London today.

A woman has been charged with harassment of Manchester United star Rio Ferdinand, police sources confirmed.

Police in the North have charged a man following a drug seizure in Belfast.

Former England football star Paul Gascoigne will go on trial today accused of drink driving.

A 19-year-old is due to appear in court in the North later, charged with riotous assembly in Belfast.

Police searching for two missing prostitutes believe they have discovered more human body parts.

A 35-year-old man will appear in court today charged with murdering a pensioner.

A 39-year-old man was charged tonight with child abduction hours after a teenage boy missing for nearly two months was found by police.

A MAGISTRATES court in Créteil in France has imposed suspended prison sentences on the managers of a dairy company found guilty of selling products manufactured using adulterated butter.

Four men and a woman have been arrested by drugs squad officers in a planned raid on a house in Co Derry.

A “fighting drunk” today admitted punching Alex Ferguson in the groin and head butting a police community support officer.

TWO men were last night charged with attempting to murder the English couple who were dragged from their camper van and subjected to a vicious hatchet attack near the Northern border in Co Louth.

Delays in bringing cases before the North’s Crown Courts must be slashed by a third within the next three years, the Attorney General said today.

THE Muslim radical who barracked British Home Secretary John Reid was released on conditional bail yesterday after being charged with a terrorism offence.

A man was appearing in court today charged in connection with the murder of a woman in Belfast last weekend.

A 55-year-old man is to appear in court tomorrow in connection with a road rage incident which left a woman with a fractured skull.

British police are continuing today to question nine suspects held in custody over the alleged airline bomb plot.

Singer Pete Doherty has been freed without charge after being detained at a Spanish airport today, police said.

Two men appeared today at a magistrates court in Northern Ireland over the seizure of £450,000 (€649,000) worth of cannabis resin in Lurgan, Co Armagh.

Eleven men are due to appear in court today charged in connection with an alleged loyalist "show of strength" in Belfast.

A teenager was charged with attempted murder today after a house fire in Co Antrim.

A man was charged with attempted murder tonight following a samurai sword attack at a seaside amusement arcade.

A RETIRED businesswoman who was fined £100 (€146.55) for “hacking” back her neighbour’s clematis plant said she believed a series of actions against her have wasted nearly £1 million (€1.47m) of public money.

A British al-Qaida suspect appeared in court today accused of trying to set up a terrorist training camp in the United States.

So Solid Crew star Michael Junior Harvey has been sentenced to 150 hours of community service for violently attacking a police officer in January.

An Australian man accused of trying to murder his wife has lost a legal battle for the right to decide whether to keep her on life support, in a case that has drawn comparisons with the drawn out US court battle over the final days of Terri Schiavo.

The leader of the British National Party was today bailed after appearing in court charged with four race hate offences.

A suspect accused of involvement in the Madrid bombings was detained by Scotland Yard anti-terrorist detectives today.

A charge against glamour model Jordan who was accused of smashing a photographer’s camera has been dropped, the Crown Prosecution Service in England said today.

A 31-year-old Co Antrim man was today charged with causing the death of another man killed in a hit and run accident in Larne.

A mechanic was ordered today to stand trial for the alleged murder of British backpacker Peter Falconio in the Australian Outback three years ago.

A man was tonight charged with attempting to murder a police officer in Derry.

A CIRCUIT court judge in Britain who stepped down after he was arrested earlier this month, admitted yesterday to making and possessing dozens of pornographic images of children.

Five men suspected of being involved in an alleged terrorist bomb plot in Britain were appearing in court today.

Five men arrested in a series of anti-terror raids are appearing in court tomorrow, charged in connection with a suspected bomb plot.

I’m A Celebrity star Alex Best was standing by her new lover today amid claims that he indecently assaulted a child.

EastEnders actress Jessie Wallace has abandoned an appeal against a three-year drink-drive ban, it was announced today.