Two PSNI officers were injured, one critically, during a major customs operation on the border today which ended with the seizure of almost 7.5 million smuggled cigarettes.

Two men were being questioned today as part of a cross-border inquiry into a camper van hijacking.

Three women killed in a car crash which also claimed the lives of a brother and sister had been on their way home from the Special Olympics in Dublin, it emerged tonight.

A livestock importer and dealer were being questioned today as sheep were destroyed amid heightening fears that foot-and-mouth disease could have spread to Northern Ireland.