A teenage boy needed hospital treatment tonight after a garden shed fire threatened to rage out of control near Belfast.

Police in the North have arrested a man in connection with an incident in which a security guard was threatened with a gun yesterday morning.

A 32-year-old man was tonight charged in connection with a hit-and-run incident in which a man was killed in west Belfast.

Police have swooped on a loyalist estate on the outskirts of Belfast after a man was nailed to a fence in what looked like a crucifixion.