Motorists across the North are being warned of road restrictions as security arrangements are in place ahead of tomorrow's G8 Summit.

In the North, two rival football teams, Crusaders and Seaview, have cancelled a match in Belfast after violence erupted at a loyalist flag protest outside the ground.

A suspect device, later confirmed to be a hoax, was discovered at a Catholic church in Co Antrim today.

A 39-year-old man has been killed in a motorbike crash in Co. Mayo.

An 81-year old man was beaten around the face and head during a raid at his home today.

Police in the North are investigating another attack on a Catholic primary school in north Belfast overnight.

A policewoman was forced to jump to safety when a car sped through a checkpoint in the North, it emerged today.

A Belfast teenager who drowned under the wheels of a police vehicle in a Co Antrim river after a car chase was nearly twice over the drink-drive limit and had been sniffing butane gas, an inquest was told today.

Up to 46,000 properties in the North are at risk of being flooded, it was revealed today.

Bomb disposal experts have carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious device found in Co Antrim in the early hours of this morning.

A taxi driver and two police officers were amongst five people injured when youths went on the rampage in North Belfast today.

Supermarket group Asda unveiled plans today for its first stores in Northern Ireland after agreeing to buy 12 Safeway sites from Morrisons for £73m (€108.3m).

A 26-year-old man is in a stable condition in Belfast after being shot just before midnight last night.

The distraught father of a woman who went missing after a caravan site party nearly a week ago has pleaded for her to come home.

THREE men and a juvenile appeared before Belfast Magistrates Court yesterday charged in connection with the stabbing of two loyalist bandsmen.

Ten years ago Lisa Stewart cradled her newborn baby in her arms and prayed on the first day of the IRA ceasefire that her son would have a very different world to grow up in.

Four men were today charged with stabbing two loyalist bandsmen in north Belfast.

Two loyalist bandsmen were stabbed and seriously injured in an attack in Belfast early today.

Police in Northern Ireland tonight named a 47-year-old man who died in a fire in a North Belfast block of flats.

A bomb was defused today outside the north Belfast office of hardline Democratic Unionist MP Nigel Dodds.

More than £100,000 (€155,000) worth of counterfeit goods destined for the Christmas market have been seized in Belfast, police said last night.

More than £100,000 worth of counterfeit goods destined for the Christmas market have been seized in Belfast, police said tonight.

A leading UDA man has been arrested in north Belfast. He is being questioned by police after a gun was found in his car.

Police in the North are investigating a bomb attack on the car of a Northern Ireland Labour Party councillor on the outskirts of north Belfast this morning.

Concern is growing for the safety of two 15-year-old Co Antrim girls who have now been missing since Thursday August 22.

Police in the North are seeking two 15-year-old girls who are reported missing in Carrickfergus.

A Protestant Church was gutted in an arson attack in north Belfast today.

A man was recovering in hospital today after being shot three times in the thigh in an apparent paramilitary-style shooting, police said.

Rioting has erupted on the streets of north Belfast as angry mobs threw petrol bombs and blast bombs at police.

There is a security alert in the Shore Road area of Belfast.

The RUC is investigating a hit-and-run in north Belfast which left a 19-year-old man with head injuries, broken bones and bruises.

A television chef and her partner were held hostage and their home ransacked early today.

There has been another pipe bomb attack in the North.