Leckagh Drive News Today

Police are appealing for information an and witnesses following an arson attack which left a home with “significant damage” in Magherafelt.

A Co Londonderry security alert was causing “significant disruption” with a number of homes evacuated on Friday morning.

Road users are asked to avoid the area

A number of older people were among those who had to leave their homes, a local MLA says.

Police have declared an object at the centre of a security alert in Co Londonderry to have been a “viable device”.

Police said the device had been removed for forensic examination.

A viable device has been discovered following a security alert which led to homes being evacuated in a town in Co Londonderry.

A man and woman and two teenage boys have escaped injury after cars were set alight in an arson attack in Ballymoney on Saturday.

A wheelie bin has been pushed against the door of a house in Magherafelt and set alight

The incident occurred in the early hours of Friday morning.