Two men and a woman have admitted involvement in an attack on a man who was found naked, bruised and battered in a taped-up wheelie bin in Co Antrim.

PIT bull terriers have already been handed in and destroyed ahead of Northern Ireland’s first amnesty.

Four men and a woman were charged tonight with Real IRA membership after a firebombs find at a house in Northern Ireland.

A 16-year-old youth appeared in court today charged with the murder of Megan McAlorum, the Belfast teenager found dead on Easter Monday.

A policewoman attending the scene of a fatal stabbing in Derry was injured when her patrol was attacked by a mob, it emerged today.