The five-year-old boy shot in the head in the playground of a Northern Ireland school week ago has shown signs of improvement, it was revealed tonight.

A school in the North where a five-year-old boy was shot and injured in the playground was reopened today.

POLICE are testing legally-held guns they have seized in a bid to find the person who shot a five-year-old Fermanagh boy in the head as he played in a school playground.

THE agony continued yesterday for the parents of a five-year-old boy shot in the head in a primary school playground in the North.

The parents of a five-year-old boy shot in the head in a County Fermanagh schoolyard are continuing their vigil at his hospital bedside.