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A Belfast Telegraph photographer has been set upon by two males while covering scenes of public disorder in an interface area in west Belfast. Kevin Scott was jumped from behind by the perpetrators while covering public disorder at Cupar Way on Wednesday around 6pm. The incident, which took place as crowds gathered at Lanark Way, has been condemned by Amnesty International NI. A bus was hijacked and set alight, while earlier tyres and bins were been set on fire near interface gates. The PSNI appealed to community leaders to help restore calm in the area. Mr Scott explained he was also verball...

Volunteers at a food bank targeted in a racist arson attack have said they were overwhelmed after being handed a cheque for more than £70,000 raised in a crowdfunding appeal. The Belfast Multicultural Association centre in Belfast was badly damaged in last month’s blaze, with large sections of the roof of the historic listed building destroyed. Police are treating the attack on the property in Donegall Pass in the south of the city as a hate crime. In the wake of the fire, an online funding page was set up to help the association continue its work distributing food and clothes packages to ...

There has been condemnation over threatening graffiti in Belfast targeting Ireland’s deputy premier Leo Varadkar. The message scrawled on a wall in the Belvoir area of south Belfast has since been painted over. First Minster Arlene Foster and deputy First Minister Michelle O’Neill have both spoken out against the warning to the Tanaiste to not cross the Irish border. Violence or the threat of violence has no place in democracy. I condemn those behind this. The NI Protocol needs replaced but violence or its threat will not achieve the change Northern Ireland needs. https://t.co/7cmlSJ0Yg7�...

Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey at the scene of the fire at the Belfast Multicultural Association last week (Sinn Fein/PA) The building was being used as a food bank, with volunteers distributing packages to vulnerable people during the Covid-19 pandemic. Ms Hargey told the Stormont Assembly her priority was to get the association back in the building as soon as possible. She said she was working with Belfast City Council to find a temporary home for the association and its work. She said the council had offered the use of the Waterfront Hall. “With this attack there’s obviously been ...