Councillor flees home after loyalist death threats

An Alliance Party councillor who spoke out during the union flag row at Belfast City Hall has been forced to leave her home.

Police told Laura McNamee, 27, she had been threatened by loyalists.

The council voted to fly the union flag 17 days a year rather than 365. Unionists had wanted no change to the policy while nationalists had called for the complete removal of the flag.