Their motorcade then weaved through streets lined with Chinese and North Korean flags to Pyongyang’s main square, where Kim threw a grand welcome ceremony — a 21-gun salute, a military band, and children waving flags and balloons, according to official videos released by Xinhua. Beyond the pomp and pageantry being lavished on Xi, the North…

Organisers said a counter-protest in Scarva, County Down, was “racist, xenophobic, sectarian”.

Malcolm Phillips, 93, is given an absolute discharge, while Linda Brunning is jailed for 25 years.

The bereaved families of the victims of Valdo Calocane speak at a press conference in London.