Police in the North are investigating suspected sectarian attacks on a house and a van in Co Antrim early today.

A pair of rare Peregrine Falcons was today feared to have been shot dead in Northern Ireland.

A pipe bomb thrown at a Co Antrim house was made safe tonight when army bomb experts carried out a controlled explosion.

Gun and pipe bomb attacks were launched on a number of homes in Northern Ireland, police said today.

A north Antrim family has escaped unharmed after the latest in a series of pipe-bomb attacks in the North.

Three children escaped injury in an overnight gun attack on their family home in Co Antrim.

There has been another pipe bomb find in the North this morning.