A Democratic Unionist mayor today defended his response to racial attacks in his area after he was urged to take a stronger line.

Members of the Portuguese community in Northern Ireland are being bullied into paying protection money to a loyalist paramilitary organisation, it was claimed today.

People will be killed if the series of racist attacks in the North continues, campaigners warned today.

Two Portuguese families were moved from their homes in Armagh today following an early-morning attack.