Man for court over festival bombing attempt

A man is due in court today on charges connected with a planned car bomb attack at Northern Ireland's biggest street festival…

A man is due in court today on charges connected with a planned car bomb attack at Northern Ireland's biggest street festival last year.

Detectives looking for those who abandoned a huge device at the Auld Lammas Fair last night charged a 30-year-old from Coleraine, Co Derry.

British army explosives experts defused the primed incendiary device found during the annual event in Ballycastle, Co Antrim last August.

Loyalists were blamed for leaving the bomb in the seaside town where up to 100,000 people had gathered.

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Police have confirmed the accused faces charges of possessing explosives and placing an explosive device.

He is expected to appear before North Antrim Magistrates' Court, sitting in Coleraine later today.

It is understood the charges relate to the bomb uncovered in a white Ford Sierra car by a routine police patrol, just as the second day of the fair was getting under way.