Latest: Murder probe launched after prominent loyalist shot in neck dies

Latest: A man shot in the neck in a street full of families and older people has died, police in the North have said.

Update 1.08pm: A man shot in the neck in a street full of families and older people has died, police in the North have said.

Detectives launched a murder investigation after George Gilmore, 44, was targeted while he was driving his car on Pinewood Avenue in Carrickfergus in Co Antrim on Monday afternoon. He was taken to hospital, where he died today.