Loyalist protesters attacked police with bottles and stones tonight in a new outbreak of violence after a decision to limit the flying of the Union flag above Belfast City Hall.

Twenty-five homes had to be evacuated after a building partially collapsed in Northern Ireland.

An Irish teenager has died on holiday in Scotland after a quad bike she was riding on a beach flipped over, police said today.

The British Government was expected today to face calls to urgently change the Northern Ireland Assembly’s voting system in a bid to avert a crisis in the peace process in 15 months’ time.