An alleged drug trafficker’s property empire and luxury cars worth nearly £3m (€4.3m) have been frozen by crimefighters in Belfast, it was revealed tonight.

The bad weather affecting all parts of the country today wreaked havoc across the North overnight, with four men, including a father and son, killed in two separate road accidents.

A motorcyclist has died from the injuries he sustained in a road accident in Co Antrim last week.

A man killed in a road accident in the North was a Scottish soldier, police confirmed today.

There has been an explosion at a house outside Lisburn in Co Antrim.