The non-jury Special Criminal Court in Dublin has asked for permission to hear evidence in Northern Ireland in the trial of a Belfast man accused of shooting dead a man in the city last year.

Police hunting the murderers of two men in Belfast have recovered four guns, they said today.

A woman escaped injury when her home was targeted in a petrol bomb attack in the North early today.

An investigation was being mounted today to discover the cause of a major fire at a fuel depot.