WHEN the dust settled after the festival there had been 90 arrests, including a large number for assault and theft, 308 drug seizures, 28 cases of alleged drug dealing, and multiple teenagers had been stabbed — no, not the Swedish House mafia gig, but last year’s Oxegen festival.

A £50 (€61.05) penalty may have to be paid by parents of young cyclists in the North who do not wear safety headgear, it was revealed today.

DOCTORS on both sides of the Irish border have joined forces to call for an EU-wide approach to defuse the obesity “time-bomb” facing the continent.

Matthew Elderfield has been appointed as head of financial supervision in the new Central Bank of Ireland, it was announced today.

More than 1,500 men die from heart disease in the North each year, the British Medical Association warned today.

Women considering an abortion must be offered counselling, it was claimed today.

Supermarket giant Tesco today said it wanted to work with the British government on new laws to ensure the “responsible pricing” of alcohol.

The British government does not believe there is enough evidence to back changing the law on abortion, a health minister said today.

Participants in the Enterprise Ireland Trade Mission to South Africa, BMA GeoServices today have agreed a €2m contract with NuCoal to provide specialist geologically related services to

THUGS preying on NHS staff in the North carried out more than 5,000 attacks last year, it emerged yesterday.

EXACTLY 30 minutes after the first bomb blast at Edgware Road, a bomb tore the roof off a red number 30 double decker bus packed with commuters forced above ground after the Tube network had been shut down.

Doctors at the British Medical Association helped treat casualties after today’s bus explosion outside their headquarters.

Doctors were today stepping up pressure on the British government to ban tobacco in public places after a study showed the dangers of passive smoking could be even greater than previously estimated.

THE country’s 1,000-plus pharmacists are making a concerted effort in the week ahead to help smokers kick the habit.

SMOKING has a damaging effect on almost all aspects of sexual, reproductive and child health, doctors warned yesterday.

A new contract for consultants and specialist registrars in Northern Ireland was tonight hailed as the first major change in their working conditions for more than 50 years.

THE next generation will be the most infertile and the most obese in the history of mankind, British medical leaders warned yesterday.

UK doctors today attacked ‘‘chattering class’’ parents who refuse to have their children immunised with the triple MMR vaccine.