A 24-year-old woman was recovering from stab wounds after she was attacked in a car park in a rural village.

Police in Belfast confirmed tonight they were treating as murder the discovery of a man’s body in a house in the east of the city.

Two elderly women in Belfast and Derry were recovering from the ordeals of becoming the latest senior citizens to be targeted by robbers.

Officers were attacked with paint early today after a car was abandoned outside Northern Ireland’s police training college.