BRENDAN RODGERS believes the gods were with his Swansea City after the Swans sealed their place in the Premier League following a 4-2 win over Reading at Wembley yesterday.

A water safety warning affecting 220,000 households across the North is likely to last throughout today, officials confirmed.

Ecologists are warning that the wet summer has left some of the North's best-known beaches polluted with raw sewage and other waste sludge.

Downpours near a premium beach resort have caused rising levels of pollution, environmentalists warned today.

A 79-year-old man has died after the car he was travelling in collided with another vehicle on the Carnlough to Brusheen road in Co Antrim yesterday evening.

A sectarian attack on a minibus full of junior soccer players in which four boys were injured was condemned by a police chief today.

The 32-year-old driver of a car that crashed into the wall of a house in Co Antrim early this morning has been arrested in connection with the accident and released on bail.

Two teenage boys have died after the car they were travelling in crashed into the wall of a house in Co Antrim early this morning.

A landslide of large rocks tonight forced the closure of a section of coast road in Co Antrim.