One of two people stabbed to death in Belfast has been laid to rest.

The mother of a toddler who died after being beaten and blinded broke down in tears as she denied causing the fatal injuries.

A toddler was beaten so hard and so many times that he was left blinded just minutes before he died, a coroner’s court has heard.

A Northern Ireland Office minister tonight condemned those who planted a pipe bomb under a Sinn Féin member’s van.

Loyalists were blamed after a pipe bomb was found today under a car belonging to a member of Sinn Féin.