One thousand people are expected to mark the murders of two Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) soldiers in a 1998 IRA bomb attack during a rally in Belfast city centre on Saturday.

A UK discount retailer has announced plans to create 210 jobs at a chain of stores in the North.

Ambitious plans to transform a rundown part of Belfast city centre were unveiled today.

Parts of Belfast city centre were sealed off today as police negotiated with a man on the roof of a building who claimed to be protesting at the prison conditions at Maghaberry jail.

Two security alerts which caused major traffic disruption in Belfast this morning have now ended.