A 13-year-old boy will today appear in court charged with an arson attack on a Catholic primary school in Ballymena.

Police are mounting undercover patrols to try to halt an escalating sectarian campaign of attacks on Catholic homes, schools and churches in north Antrim.

The local PSNI commander in north Antrim has called for additional resources to help crack down on sectarian attacks against Catholic property in the area.

The PSNI are warning that loyalists are planning a wave of attacks against migrant workers in Ballymena, Co Antrim.

A sectarian attack on a minibus full of junior soccer players in which four boys were injured was condemned by a police chief today.

Two people were being questioned by police today about what is believed to be the largest-ever seizure of amphetamines in Northern Ireland.

A massive drug consignment seized by police in Northern Ireland was shipped in from north Africa, it has been revealed.

Members of a mainstream loyalist paramilitary group supposed to be on ceasefire were today accused by police of being behind a recent spate of pipe bomb attacks.

Two men are being questioned by the RUC about a gun attack on a polling station in which two officers and a woman were injured.