Queen Elizabeth will visit the North today for a two-day Diamond Jubilee tour and an historic meeting with Martin McGuinness.

Northern Ireland faces an imminent threat from a group of disorganised but dangerous dissident republican terrorists, Hugh Orde said today.

The North was put on terror alert by police last night just days after it was announced Queen Elizabeth would visit next month.

The Archbishop-elect of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams was today preaching in Dublin for the first time since his appointment to the top post in the Church of England was announced.