Detectives investigating rioting that surrounded the Orange Order’s July 12 parades in the North today said they have arrested a woman after officers found a gun.

Police officers came under attack again last night during further rioting by nationalist youths in the Ardoyne area of north Belfast.

Ten people remained in custody today regarding the loyalist mob murder of a Catholic community worker.

Twelve people were being questioned tonight about the loyalist mob murder of a Catholic community worker as it was revealed he had been working with police to calm community tensions before he died.

Another man has been charged with the murder of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll.

Police in the North are questioning a 28-year-old man in connection with the murder of Kenneth Nicholl in Co Antrim over the weekend.

Four men and two women were questioned today about a double murder believed to be linked to a fall-out over guns among dissident republicans.

Three men being held over a suspected terrorism bomb-making plot tonight won the right to challenge police refusal to give assurances that their conversations with solicitors were not being secretly taped.

Six people were being questioned today about the murder of ousted loyalist terror boss Jim Gray.