Homes have been boarded up at a number of huge bonfire sites in the North amid concerns around safety and risk to property.

Eight people have been arrested for public order offences in north and west Belfast overnight.

THREE victims of republican paramilitary punishment shootings are the main suspects for a savage sectarian murder in Belfast a year ago.

The RUC were tonight still seeking a motive for the murder of a man found dead in a street in Belfast today.

The RUC has launched a murder investigation following the discovery of a man’s body on a footpath in west Belfast this morning.