Police in the North were today trying to discover how a teenager suffered serious head injuries in Craigavon.

Two people have been taken to hospital after a light aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in a field in the North.

A ward at Craigavon Area Hospital in Co Armagh has been closed after an outbreak of the C. diff superbug.

Two new cases of children who died in hospital in the North are to be the subject of a public inquiry, it was revealed today.

A post mortem is due to be carried out today on the body of a six-year-old boy who died at school in the North yesterday.

Dissident republicans tonight threatened new attacks on police officers in the North.

SIX members of the security forces were injured in an Army helicopter crash in South Armagh last night.

The circumstances which led to a schoolboy being starved of oxygen after a routine operation should be included in the training of all anaesthetists, an inquest heard today.

A cross-border health group has saved the North’s only decompression chamber from closure.

A diver, thought to be in his early 30s and from Dublin, has died from decompression sickness after a dive off the coast of Co Antrim.

A post mortem was being carried out today on the body of a new-born boy found in Co Armagh.