Crime

A man wearing a green-and-white striped football top who made rude comments to two young girls before driving away in a dark coloured car a fortnight ago is being sought by police.

A large sum of money has been stolen from a home in Co Armagh.

Police have issued a warning after up to 20 young people were involved in disturbances in Newtownabbey yesterday.

Family members of three Scottish soldiers murdered by the IRA in Belfast are to request that CCTV be installed to protect memorials to them.

The Met’s Counter-Terrorism Command is leading the investigation after a car crashed into security barriers outside the Houses of Parliament this morning, Scotland Yard said.

Two people were arrested after police seized £5,000 worth of cannabis in Carrickfergus yesterday (Monday) afternoon.

Attending the site of the Omagh bomb still makes the hair stand up on the neck of a man whose wife was killed in the atrocity.

Police have asked parents to speak to their children about online safety after a young boy in the Province was asked to send graphic photos of himself to a stranger in exchange for video game vouchers.

A car has been burnt out in an early morning attack in Portadown.

Detectives investigating an attempted armed robbery in the Dunluce Avenue area of south Belfast this afternoon have appealed for witnesses to come forward.

Lurgan has been described as ‘like the Wild West’ after another shooting in a residential area of the town.

A 50-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at business premises in Armagh on Sunday, August 12.

A pensioner threatened to assault a McDonald’s restaurant manager after “losing control” when drinks were spilt on him, a court has heard.

Former Celtic football youth coach Jim McCafferty, 72, has been sentenced to three years and nine months in prison at Belfast Crown Court after pleading guilty in May to eight counts of sexual assault.

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with a number of offences including firearm possession.

Shots have been fired through the living room window of a house in Lurgan.

Police are advising members of the public to be wary after the theft of thousands of pounds during scams in the region in recent days.

A man wielding a knife threatened a female assistant in a Belfast off licence before making off with cash and cigarettes, police have revealed.

Residents of the Ballycarry area have been left stunned by a triple stabbing in the village last night, a public representative has said.