ARDS: A 57-year-old man with a Newtownabbey address, who had previously served ten years in prison for similar offending, had a charge of breaching a Sexual Offences Prevention Order withdrawn to proceed by way of report at Ards Magistrates' Court.

BALLYMENA: A roofer from Antrim, Barry Kevin McLarnon, who is awaiting sentencing on seven fraud charges totalling £38,300, appeared in Ballymena Magistrates' Court charged with harassing a woman between 6 and 9 February this year - the case was adjourned to 9 April, with sentencing on the fraud charges listed for 24 March.