Two men have been arrested following a shoot out with police in a county Fermanagh village. Last night officers were shot at in Garrison close to the border. They returned fire and no one was injured. The PSNI's blaming this and second attack last night on dissident republicans. In Belfast a car was driven through a barrier into the policing board headquarters complex at Clarendon Dock. Two men abandoned the car that burst into flames a short time later. Police have said no serious damage was caused.

Dissident republicans are being blamed for two attacks on police last night. Officers were shot at in the County Fermanagh village of Garrison close to the border. They returned fire and no one was injured. And later in Belfast a car was driven through a barrier into the policing board headquarters complex at Clarendon Dock. Two men abandoned the car that burst into flames a short time later. Police have said no serious damage was caused.

Two males aged 17 and 18 have been charged with public order offences following a disturbance in Ballymena last night. Both have been charged with possession of an offensive weapon, disorderly behaviour, assault on police and resisting arrest. The 17 year-old will appear before the Youth Court on 15 December. The 18 year-old is due before the Magistrates' Court on 17 December.

A post-mortem examination is to take place after a man was found murdered at an east Belfast house. It is believed the dead man is a Polish national, his body was found in Ardenvohr Street yesterday evening at about twenty to six. A murder inquiry was launched earlier, and police say they are linking the murder to a sudden death in South Belfast. The body of the murdered man's housemate was found on a building site in south Belfast yesterday. This death is not being treated as suspicious.

A 200m exclusion zone has been put in place around a mechanical engineering works at Mallusk after a fire. Firefighters say the area will be cordoned off until 11 o'clock tonight because of the presence of gas cylinders on the site . Eight lorries were badly damaged in the fire

The four main church leaders have taken their concern about levels of crime here to the First and Deputy First ministers. They wrote to OFDFM following the latest IMC report that puts the dissident republican threat at the highest for six years, and also records a sharp rise in loyalist paramilitary beatings. Roman Catholic Cardinal Seán Brady, Presbyterian Moderator Stafford Carson, Church of Ireland Archbishop Alan Harper and Methodist President Donald Kerr are asking all politicians to exercise leadership.

An Electoral Registration event is taking place in Coleraine. The Electoral Office for Northern Ireland is helping people to get on the Electoral Register, and obtain an Electoral Identity Card at the town hall between half three and 7 o clock. East Londonderry MP Gregory Campbell says many did not have the correct ID at the last election.

The assets of a leading South Armagh republican have been frozen by the Serious Organised Crime Agency. A court order has allowed the agency to take control of properties and bank accounts belonging to Sean Gerard Hughes. They claim the assets are linked to laundering the proceeds of mortgage fraud, tax evasion and benefit fraud. Eight houses in south Armagh, an apartment in South Belfast, the proceeds of the sale of three other houses in South Armagh and a number of bank accounts have all been frozen. The agency has also taken control of assets belonging to 10 other people in the South Armagh area, including six members of the extended Hughes family, among them Mr Hughes' wife Annette. Two years ago, Ulster Unionist peer Lord Laird used parliamentary privilege in the House of Lords to allege that Hughes was involved in the murder of Paul Quinn. In 2002 Mr. Hughes was accused of being a member of the IRA Army Council, while last year he gave an oration at the funeral of veteran republican Brian Keenan.

People in the North-East will get the chance to question new Chief Constable Matt Baggott, on current and future policing issues. The NI Policing Board is holding what it calls a "Public Engagement Meeting" at Ballymena's Tullyglass Hotel this evening at 7o'clock.

A local Assembly member says the time isn't right to devolve policing and justice powers to Stormont. East Londonderry Ulster Unionist MLA David McClarty joins the ever-growing ranks of unionist politicians wanting the issue put on the back burner. Yesterday DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson said the DUP would not agree to devolution if the reserve is disbanded, which Chief Constable Matt Baggott has pledged will happen by 2011. Sinn Fein says devolution should happen without further preconditions.