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A large anti-immigration poster, which includes pictures of NI politicians, has been placed on a bonfire next to a playground in north Belfast.

The image, prominently positioned on a bonfire on Shore Crescent, depicts a herd of sheep walking through a gate to a group of masked men armed with knives.

The banner, draped from the bonfire, also includes images of small boats and depictions of political parties Sinn Féin, SDLP, Alliance Party and People Before Profit.

A number of other anti-immigration slogans and images have also been prominently displayed at other bonfire sites across the city.

The poster in north Belfast says: "Open gates open borders open season. Your sheep their feast."

Boarding used to protect homes from bonfires has been sprayed in anti-Islam graffiti in Carrickfergus.

The bonfire, in the Glenfield estate, is close to homes which have been boarded up as a preventative measure ahead of the pyre being lit.

Messages such as "Islam is heathen" were seen next to the site on Saturday night.

Next to the O'Neill Road bonfire in north Belfast, signs left said: "Islamic terror not wanted here" and "PSNI Islam lovers" with crosshairs also drawn on.

Bonfires are lit annually in some unionist areas across Northern Ireland in July to usher in the Twelfth of July, the main date in the parading season.

The majority are lit on 11 July, known as the Eleventh night.

The Twelfth commemorates the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 when the Protestant King William III defeated Catholic King James II.