Police were hunting two men today following an alleged indecent assault in north Belfast.

Two men were arrested today by detectives investigating the murders of UDA boss John Gregg and another man in the docks area of Belfast, police said.

The Ulster Defence Association has been blamed for burning out a barber shop in north Belfast this morning and then firing shots at a nearby house believed to belong to the shop's owner.

The windows of two houses in north Belfast were smashed last night in an attack which police believe was related to an ongoing feud within the Ulster Defence Association.

POLICE in Northern Ireland were attacked with bottles and other missiles early yesterday after a crowd of youths went on the rampage through a town in Co Down.

A man was arrested today after eight police officers came under gun attack in Belfast during a fresh outbreak of violence in the city.

Eight police officers have come under gun attack in Belfast as a fresh outbreak of violence hit the city.

Police in the North have now launched an investigation into the attempted shooting of a family in Portadown overnight.

A family was lucky to escape a gun attack in their home in Co Armagh earlier today.

A major security operation was mounted again today to get young Catholic children to school past loyalist protesters in north Belfast.

Northern Ireland Security Minister Jane Kennedy will meet political leaders and community leaders in north Belfast today in a bid to end the loyalist protests at a Catholic primary school.

The two four-year-old boys who died in a house fire in Northern Ireland today were brothers, police said.

There has been a spate of shooting incidents in Portadown overnight