Parents and pupils at a school closed for two weeks because of a strike by teachers called today for the North’s Education Minister to step in.

An attempt to murder a 41-year-old man in Northern Ireland today is believed to be the latest attack in a feud between loyalist paramilitary terror gangs, according to a senior police officer.

Ousted loyalist terror chief Johnny “Mad Dog” Adair was today further isolated after another paramilitary unit turned against him.