The Latest Breaking News from Ballymena

Police are investigating the burning of six cars in Ballymena on Sunday.

Recent protests at asylum hotels in Epping, Essex, have prompted calls from the hotel’s residents for something rare in UK migration debates: understanding. This is something that has been clearly lacking in the conversations fuelling anti-immigrant protests, from Southport in summer 2024 to Ballymena in Northern Ireland and Essex this…

Isaac Adams, of Lislaban Road, Cloughmills, appeared before Coleraine Magistrates Court on Monday charged with a number of offences.

Isaac Adams admitted he’d been spreading the manure over the surrounding roads in order to disrupt the Ballymena Pride parade

History tells us attacks on migrants are a predictable result of political failings, distorted media coverage and far-right opportunism, says Lanre Bakare, an arts and culture correspondent for the Guardian

Some 23 people, including a 13-year-girl and her mother, have been charged in connection with the disorder.

Stormont Education Minister Paul Givan said children have been coming to schools traumatised.

The latest arrests include a man, aged in his 20s, who has been detained in relation to an arson attack on Larne Leisure Centre.

The violence followed an alleged sex attack on a teenage girl in Ballymena.