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The Ulster Unionist leader has called for an end to street protests after loyalists threw a petrol bomb into a car as a policewoman sat inside.
Police are treating the attack close to Alliance Party MP Naomi Long's east Belfast office as attempted murder.
It follows loyalist protests about last week's decision by Belfast City Council to fly the union flag at city hall on designated days, not daily.
The violence is to be raised in the House of Commons later on Tuesday.
On Monday at 19:35 GMT, a gang of six men smashed the back window of the policewoman's car, which was parked on the Upper Newtownards Road, and threw in the bomb. The woman escaped unhurt.
In the past week, as trouble flared across Northern Ireland, 29 police officers were injured and 38 people arrested
BBC News - Police car petrol-bombed near MP Naomi Long's office
New violence in Nothern Ireland sparked by the Loyalists, hopefully the peace that had decended on the area can be restored. But the Loyalists seem determined to bring the troubles back as these are not the first acts of violence they have undertaken.