THE judge hearing an action related to the privacy of the home of singer Van Morrison and his wife yesterday urged efforts be made over the weekend to move on the case which is set to go into its fifth day even though it was scheduled to take just two.

A JUDGE said it might be a case of not being able to see the woods for the trees when lawyers for Michelle Rocca and her neighbours squabbled over the legal definition of what was a shrub or a tree.

Negotiations have failed to settle a High Court privacy action taken by Van Morrison's wife Michelle Rocca.

The High Court has heard negotiations are now underway in a bid to settle a privacy action initiated by Van Morrison's wife.

Police in the North are appealing for witnesses to a serious assault in west Belfast in the early hours of Friday morning.