Police in the North are on high alert tonight after dissident republicans attempted to murder an officer with a car bomb and a second explosive device was discovered close to a police station.

A foiled attempt to murder a police officer in Northern Ireland was carried out by dissident republicans who could also have killed his family, police said.

A fireworks display at a rugby club is at the centre of the investigation into a crash which killed seven people on the M5 in Britain on Friday.

Two young English boys featured on the YouTube website being goaded into fighting each other have been identified and are safe and well, police said today.

Investigators in England are looking into claims by a tanker driver that he triggered the Buncefield oil blast by flicking his engine cut-out switch while there was a vapour leak from the plant.