A man is due in court today charged with threatening to kill the North's First Minister Peter Robinson.

The captain of a cargo ship involved in a collision with a passenger ferry in Belfast Lough could face two years in jail, a court has heard.

The captain of a cargo ship has pleaded guilty to being over the alcohol limit after his vessel and a ferry were in collision recently.

A 35-year-old Polish man appeared in court in the North today charged with murdering a fellow countryman earlier this week.