Sacked workers at the shut-down Visteon car components factory in Belfast are due to end a seven-week sit-in today after winning an improved pay-off deal.

Redundant car workers at a plant in the North will end a seven-week sit in on Monday, it was announced today.

Police in the North are investigating a serious sexual assault on a teenager in Belfast in the early hours of this morning.

A woman has been beaten with hammers by two youths who stole her jeep in south Belfast.

A funeral was delayed today after vandals broke into a west Belfast church and smeared excrement over the altar.