Latest: Police in Belfast have conducted an extensive search of wasteland in the Ballygomartin Road area and have recovered no human remains.

A bomb discovered by police in Co. Down was more powerful than the device used by the Real IRA in the Omagh bombing in 1998.

A bomb found near the border contained 500lbs of explosives and was aimed at killing security forces, a politician for the area has said.

Police in the North are investigating an overnight bombing and arson attack that are believed to be linked to the on-going feud between rival loyalists in Belfast.

A woman and a four-year-old girl needed hospital treatment for cuts and shock after a device was thrown into the living room of a prison officer’s home in North Belfast, police said.