An 87-year-old man has died after being knocked down by a car in west Belfast, it has emerged today.

Two people have been killed overnight in separate road crashes in the North.

Police in the North have arrested two youths in connection with the sexual assault of a teenage girl in Belfast in the early hours of this morning.

Detectives in south Belfast appealed for information tonight after armed robbers crashed into two cars when trying to make their getaway.