Huge police operation to allow children to school in Belfast

Catholic children walked to Holy Cross primary school in north Belfast today amid the biggest security operation mounted since the crisis began.

Four hundred riot police are being employed to keep loyalist protestors off the road, so parents and pupils can use the disputed route.

Tensions are running high in the city after a 16-year-old Protestant youth was killed last night by a blast bomb he was about to throw during sectarian rioting.