The PSNI has been granted a further 48 hours by a judge to question Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams.

Five men were arrested today by detectives investigating the murder of a policeman who was blown up by dissident republicans in the North earlier this year.

Police in the North have launched a murder inquiry after a man blasted in the chest with a shotgun died in hospital.

Four men and one woman have been arrested by police probing organised crime in east Belfast.