Three people have been stabbed in Belfast as the city prepares for annual Twelfth of July celebrations.

Eight people have been arrested for public order offences in north and west Belfast overnight.

Four people, including a teenager and an eight-year-old girl, were killed in a string of separate accidents on Northern Ireland’s roads today, police said.

A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE property developer allegedly threatened to drown his ex-lover after abducting her in a frenzied fit of jealousy, a court heard yesterday.

A man was knifed in the back up to eight times in an attempted abduction in Northern Ireland, the PSNI revealed today.