A former Celtic Football Club youth coach and kitman charged with a child sex offence has been remanded in prison in the North for his own safety.

Loyalist leader Mark Haddock was kept apart from 13 co-accused as one of the biggest paramilitary murder trials in decades began in the North today.

A loyalist leader and 13 of his alleged associates are due in the dock today as one of the biggest paramilitary murder trials in decades begins in the North.

Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion on a device found in a van outside Laganside Courthouse in Belfast city centre last night.