A wave of crime has hit west Belfast over the weekend with two armed robberies, a shooting and a hijacking.

A seriously ill patient has died after his ambulance was in a crash with a car on its way to hospital in Northern Ireland, police said.

Police have appealed for information after an attempted car-jacking in west Belfast.

The Grosvenor Road in Belfast has been partially closed this morning following reports of a suspicious object.

Police are appealing for witnesses following an attempted hijacking of a taxi in west Belfast last night.

A spate of car hijacking incidents in Belfast continued when a man attempted to drag a woman from her vehicle.

THE hidden story of a Tipperary man who was the first member of the then-RUC to be killed by the IRA is set to be aired on local radio at the weekend.

Car traffic around parts of Belfast’s City Hall will drop to two lanes to encourage motorists to bypass the city centre, it was revealed today.

A major new transport hub for buses and trains could be on the way for Belfast city centre.

A gun attack on a house in west Belfast was today being investigated by police.

Police in the North are investigating an assault on a man in Belfast.

Hostage takers ordered a woman to clear cash from a shop today while her husband and daughter were held captive.

Belfast tonight took another major step towards normality with the removal of the final security barriers within the city centre.

Police and civilians were injured as loyalist gunmen opened fire during ferocious rioting on the streets of Belfast today.

Police and army officers have come under a sustained barrage of petrol bombs in West Belfast as Orange Order marchers pass by the Springfield Road.

Detectives in England are tonight hunting a gang of 20 teenagers who attacked a man as he walked home with his two-year-old son.

A gang who forced a taxi driver to drive a large firebomb to a west Belfast police station put hundreds of lives at risk, a nationalist politician claimed today.

Police in the North are investigating an incident when two men forced a taxi driver to drive a suspect device to the Grosvenor Road police station on Saturday night.

A driver who left Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler with nine broken bones in a crash that could have ended his career is to be deported, it was revealed today.

Schoolchildren in Belfast were warned to be vigilant today following a number of attempted abductions across the city.

Four police officers were injured in west Belfast today when their Landrover was hit head-on by a car driving on the wrong side of the road.

A pregnant woman has been hospitalised after being attacked in Belfast.

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

Police officers were today shutting the gates of a station in the heart of republican west Belfast for the last time.

There has been serious traffic disruption in Belfast this afternoon following a bomb alert on the city’s Westlink Road.

Police in the North have closed the west-link motorway outside Belfast following the discovery of a suspicious vehicle.

British Army technical experts in Belfast defused a large incendiary device this afternoon.

Fresh trouble broke out in North Belfast last night when rival crowds clashed in the Limestone Road area for the third night running.

Fresh violence has broken out in North Belfast as rival crowds clashed in the Limestone Road area for the third night running.

Four people were shot, a man was injured with a machete and a gun fight took place between two gangs at a carnival.

A murder inquiry has been launched after a man's body was discovered in west Belfast.