Three swine flu-related deaths in the North were announced tonight – one of them a girl who attended the same special needs school as a teenager with the virus who died last week.

The North’s planned state-of-the-art police-training college will be shared with the fire and prison services in a bid to overcome a potential £40m (€59.3m) funding crisis, it was confirmed today.

A state-of-the-art police training college for Northern Ireland was given the green light by planning chiefs today.