A hotel where the PSNI chief constable Hugh Orde was due to speak this evening has been at the centre of a security alert.

Belfast Lord Mayor Alex Maskey today vowed to defy a death threat he claims was sent to City Hall by the loyalist Orange Volunteer Force.

A republican group today threatened to kill staff at two Belfast hospitals.

Postal services in Derry have been suspended following a threat made against a staff member at a sorting office in Great James Street.