Up to 50 schoolchildren have been taken to hospital after a bus crash.

Six people have been stabbed in Newtownabbey, Co Antrim.

Fourteen people have been taken to hospital after a double-decker bus carrying a party of wedding guests overturned in the North.

Team mates of a young rugby star killed in a farming tragedy alongside his brother and his father in Northern Ireland have said he was a wonderful sportsman and a wonderful person.

Nevin Spence’s management company have expressed their “deep regret” after the Ulster centre’s death in a farming accident.

Ulster rugby star Nevin Spence was killed alongside his brother and their father in a farming tragedy which also injured their sister in the North.

Three men died and a woman was injured after they fell into a slurry tank at a farm at Hillsborough in Northern Ireland.

An ambulance crew which left a neo-natal patient to hospital was kept waiting there for six and a half hours before she was moved elsewhere, it was revealed today.

Up to 60 new ambulances are to be bought over the next three years as part of a major upgrade of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS), it was announced today.