A 37-year old man is due before a special sitting of Ballymena Magistrates Court this morning, charged in connection with the murder of John Henry McCormack in Coleraine two weeks ago.

Police in Northern Ireland were today hunting for the killers of a 26-year-old Catholic man in a loyalist housing estate in Co Derry.

It has been revealed that the man shot dead at his home in Coleraine Co Derry last night had been involved in giving evidence in a case of a girl killed during a loyalist feud.

Loyalist paramilitaries are being blamed for the murder of a 26-year old Catholic in his house at Coleraine, Co Derry.