Police in Belfast are appealing for information after a bomb was left outside a Catholic Church in Newtonabbey.

The PSNI says the device, described as 'small, crude but viable' was left outside the St Mary's on the Hill church on the Carnmoney Road last night. 

The road was closed for several hours while bomb disposal experts made the device safe.

Newtownabbey's Deputy Mayor Fraser Agnew said the attack is wrong and counterproductive: