A domestic abuser was remanded in custody today after a judge told him he will receive a "significant'' prison sentence for threatening to kill his ex.

A man and woman are to stand trial accused of having sex within the grounds of a church in Belfast city centre, a judge ordered today. Karol Piotr Biernacik, 43, and Adrienne Surgenor, 34, face prosecution over an alleged incident at High Street on November 6 last year.

Gillian Portis (50) and 37-year old Adrian Matthew Reid were jointly charged with engaging in a sexual act last August

A man and woman are to stand trial accused of having sex within the grounds of a church in Belfast city centre, a judge ordered today.

These communities fought a deadly fight over a mix of religion and politics until the so-called Good Friday Agreement of 1998 led to a calming of the violence and new government policies.

Tim Hortons has issued a statement after a teenage girl suffered facial injuries following a serious assault in its Belfast City Centre restaurant.

A busy route to Belfast that’s to shut next week to repair a storm-damaged wood will be kept open at rush hour, roads chiefs have pledged.

The 28-year-old PhD student, who has been convicted of ­drugging and raping 10 women, is believed to have attacked dozens more victims he met online and lured to his flat

It’s a homecoming like no other as Primark rolls out the welcome mat today, Thursday 6th March, to invite shoppers into its first-ever standalone Primark Home

Staff and passengers on the Belfast to Fuerteventura flight on March 1 could be seen trying to calm down a man who was yelling unintelligibly while "kids were beside him"

Editions of the Belfast News Letter from the 18th to the 20th centuries are to be digitised as part of a new project. Contemporary reports of events, such as the Irish Parliament winning legislative independence from Britain in 1782 and the formation of the Orange Order in 1795, will be available.

Penneys, which operates as Primark outside of the Republic of Ireland, has today opened its first-ever standalone Primark Home store, located on Donegall Place in Belfast.