Loyalist and republican community leaders have appealed for calm in Belfast following disturbances overnight.

ARMED police were yesterday called to a Belfast court as relatives and friends of a dead teenager shouted abuse at a woman jailed for his manslaughter.

ANGRY relatives screamed abuse at a woman who knocked a teenager off his bicycle at a sectarian flashpoint in north Belfast when she was cleared of murder yesterday.

The target of a failed loyalist gun attack on Sunday night has revealed that he is thinking of leaving the North following the death of his friend in a similar attack on the same night.

THE mother of the Catholic man shot dead by loyalists in north Belfast yesterday appealed for no retaliation and said she would pray for his killers.

Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly has blamed the Ulster Defence Association for the murder of a Catholic civilian in north Belfast last night.

The mother of the Catholic man shot dead by loyalists in north Belfast today appealed for no retaliation.

Three people were shot last night as sectarian rioting erupted around the nationalist enclave of Short Strand in east Belfast last night.

The British government has agreed to install 45 new surveillance cameras at sectarian flashpoints areas in north Belfast in an effort to identify those responsible for almost nightly violence in the area.

A family escaped injury today after blast bombs exploded in their home during a sectarian attack in strife-torn north Belfast. Loyalists are being blamed for hurling two devices through the window of the house on the Whitewell Road.

A family escaped injury today after blast bombs exploded in their home during a sectarian attack in strife-torn north Belfast.

Two people have been arrested following early morning disturbances in North Belfast.

Three police officers and two soldiers were hurt in a blast bomb attack in north Belfast today, police said.

An elderly man has had a lucky escape after his bungalow was targeted in a petrol bomb attack in north Belfast.

Holy Cross girls primary school is reopening today despite a second night of serious violence across north Belfast which left over 30 police and troops injured.

Several police officers and soldiers have been injured during hours of rioting in north Belfast.

An eight-year-old girl has been injured after the car she was travelling in was attacked by rioters in north Belfast.

There will be death on the streets if the sectarian violence in north Belfast does not end, an Ulster Assembly member warned today.

A woman accused of murdering a teenage boy in North Belfast by knocking him off his bicycle with her car was today remanded on bail.

A 32-year-old woman is due back in court in Belfast this morning after being charged with the murder of a 16-year-old youth in the city on Tuesday.

A 32-year-old woman was today charged with murder following the death of Protestant teenager in north Belfast.

Pupils at a north Belfast Catholic primary school were expected to return to school today despite the violence which plagued the start of the new term.