The National Emergency Response team has spent the day rehearsing their response to a potential nuclear fall-out to prepare themselves if the event should ever happen.

The Government has pledged to step up a legal challenge to the planned new reprocessing facility at Sellafield.

The Junior Public Enterprise Minister, Joe Jacobs has signed a £70m contract this evening as part of a major new infrastructure project that will eventually supply natural gas to the midlands and the west of Ireland.