Police in the North are investigating a bomb hoax in Portrush, Co Antrim last night.

A man appeared in court today charged with abducting two schoolgirls from a children’s home in Northern Ireland.

Alan Erwin

A loyalist paramilitary chief was under protection tonight after rival gunmen in Belfast murdered a teenager and left a man fighting for his life.

A MAN who was seriously injured on a Norwegian fishing vessel more than 150 miles off the west coast had to be rescued by helicopter yesterday.