Councillor gets 'threat warning'

Billy Leonard said he believed the threat was from loyalists

A Sinn Fein councillor on Coleraine Borough Council has said he has received a death threat.

Billy Leonard said the police told him of the threat on Friday morning, and he assumed it was from loyalists.

He said loyalism in the Coleraine area "has declared its own version of independence from other loyalists, who are trying to move on".

"They do their own thing here so the battle for change will definitely be greater here," he said.

Mr Leonard said the threat "was made in a certain context of my work as a councillor".

He added that he would not be deterred from his work.