Detectives were today hunting a man who held up an off-licence armed with a knife.

More than 60 people were forced to evacuate their homes for the night while firefighters battled a major blaze at a derelict factory in the North.

Democratic Unionist leader Ian Paisley today had to battle his way through a media scrum to cast his vote in the North’s Assembly Election.

A youth was shot in both legs in what police believe was a paramilitary-style attack in a loyalist area of east Belfast.

A man was treated in hospital tonight after a paramilitary style shooting in Belfast.

A man was treated in hospital tonight after a paramilitary style shooting in Belfast.

A bomb attack on a house in east Belfast – blamed locally on the Ulster Volunteer Force – was condemned tonight by Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy.

A man was shot in a paramilitary-style attack tonight in front of his six-year-old daughter.

A bitter loyalist paramilitary feud tonight erupted into new violence in a gun attack in east Belfast.

A leading loyalist godfather was tonight being questioned by police in Belfast following a raid on a bar in the east of the city.

Police in Belfast have named the man shot dead in the east of the city last night. He was 41-year-old Geoffrey Thomas Grey.