A bomb found during an alert in north Belfast was a blatant attempt to kill police, a senior PSNI commander said today.

Police officers in the North have escaped injury after two pipe bombs were thrown at their patrol in north Belfast.

The shooting of two men in the North near dozens of onlookers has been condemned as reckless and callous.

A rottweiler dog has been tasered by police in Belfast after it attacked an officer, leaving her needing surgery.

An off-duty soldier’s vigilance saved his life when he spotted a bomb underneath the driver’s seat inside his car in Belfast.