A second man is due in court in the North today charged in connection with a dissident republican car bomb attack on a police station in Derry earlier this month.

The Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said the people responsible for three seperate bomb attacks in the last seven days will not derail the peace process.

An independent republican councillor whose police officer niece was the target of a suspected car bomb attack in the North tonight refused to condemn the incident.

Sinn Féin is to hold talks with the political representatives of the Real IRA dissident republican paramilitary group, it was confirmed today.

The Real IRA is being blamed for a number of security alerts in Derry.

Two houses have been destroyed and one family left homeless today after an arsonist set an oil tank ablaze in Derry.

A brother-in-law of the North's deputy first minister in waiting appeared in court today charged in connection with a cross border kidnapping and assault.

Dissident republicans were blamed today for a failed bomb attack on a police station in Derry.

Police in riot gear today used batons to clear a court as a man accused of murder was taken from the dock.

There were angry scenes outside Derry Magistrates Court today as three men were charged with two murders in the city.