An explosion in a remote forest area of Scotland was being investigated by counter-terrorism officers today.

The people behind a booby-trap bomb attack on a police officer in the North are wedded to the politics of the dinosaur, a senior member of Sinn Féin claimed today.

A fire that ripped through a disused factory in south Belfast was the worst in the city for years, experts said today.

The son of loyalist terrorist Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was arrested today on suspicion of drugs offences.