Nelson Mandela was the glowing beacon of hope, shining across South Africa and the world, whose 27 years in jail left him without a trace of bitterness or hatred against those who practised the evil of apartheid.

DETECTIVES yesterday brought in a translator to help question a group of Lithuanians who have been targeted twice at their Northern Ireland home in 24 hours.

A man badly beaten by a gang of seven at his home in the North may have been the latest victim of racist attacks, it emerged today.