Seven people, including two young children, were injured when they were struck by a car during 11th Night festivities in the North, police said today.

Two children were treated in hospital in Belfast tonight after cars returning from a Protestant Orange Order parade in the east of the city was attacked by stone throwers.

Plans to build a Chinese community resource centre in a loyalist area of south Belfast are expected to be jettisoned because of the objections of local residents.

Loyalist paramilitaries in Belfast were today challenged to state what they knew about a series of attacks in the south of the city which have driven Protestants from their homes.

Former paramilitary member were today urged by the President Mary McAleese to do all they can to ensure that Northern Ireland has another quiet summer.

There is a row in Belfast over when the city’s annual Halloween fireworks display will take place later this year.

Eight police officers have come under gun attack in Belfast as a fresh outbreak of violence hit the city.