A MOVE to discontinue legal action brought by families who blame an epilepsy drug for causing defects in their children suffered a delay yesterday.

Investors in ailing Carter & Carter will be left with nothing after the training firm’s fall into administration, the company said today.

BRITISH Government funding to help the Omagh families take civil action against those they believe were responsible for the Omagh bombing has been stopped following an action by Real IRA man Michael McKevitt.

British government funding to help the Omagh families take civil action against those they believe were responsible for the Real IRA bomb which killed 29 people has been put on hold, a court was told today.

Campaigners in England seeking justice for children believed to have been damaged by the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine today condemned a decision to withdraw legal aid for a court battle with the drug companies.