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Northern Ireland riots: Bus hijacked and set on fire in Belfast Sam Hancock A bus has been hijacked and set on fire in Belfast, police have said. Stones were thrown at officers and a press photographer was assaulted while working on Wednesday evening, as crowds gathered and violence flared in the Northern Ireland capital for the sixth consecutive night. Attackers torched the bus at the junction of Lanark Way and Shankhill Road in west Belfast, said the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI). First minister Arlene Foster condemned the attack on Twitter, saying: “There is n...

Boris Johnson condemns Belfast violence after petrol bomb thrown onto bus Telegraph reporters © REUTERS The bus was attacked in west Belfast - REUTERS Boris Johnson has condemned violence that again broke out on the streets of Northern Ireland, after a bus was hijacked and set on fire. The bus was set alight after being pelted with petrol bombs at the junction of Lanark Way and Shankill Road in west Belfast, the PSNI said. It was one of a number of incidents on Wednesday evening that took place on the peace line street that links the loyalist Shankill Road with the nationa...

The Government has published its action plan to better protect journalists from threats of violence and intimidation, which includes every UK police force being given access to a designated journalist safety liaison officer. Abuse aimed at UK journalists going about their work has included them being punched, threatened with knives, forcibly detained and subjected to rape and death threats, the Government said. In the past year two men have been jailed for threatening regional journalist Amy Fenton on Facebook while two female journalists in Belfast, Patricia Devlin and Allison Morris, ha...

Euronews correspondent Shona Murray spoke to Sunday World reporter Patricia Devlin who has been targeted for her work in Northern Ireland.View on euronews

Sinn Féin's deputy leader has branded threats against public figures in Northern Ireland as unacceptable.