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Page last updated at 12:44 GMT, Tuesday, 6 January 2009

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Arsonists blamed for city blaze
A fire at a block of flats in the city of Lisburn is believed by police to have been started by arsonists.

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A pipe bomb is discovered outside a house in the Fairyknowe Park area of Newtownabbey following a telephone warning.

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Four people are arrested over an armed robbery in which a couple and their two young children were threatened.


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