An ambulance and a council recycling van were in collision today on the main Derry to Belfast road.

Community leaders appealed today for a swift investigation into how a teenager apparently fleeing police drowned in a river in Northern Ireland.

A pensioner has died in hospital from injuries sustained in a three-vehicle crash involving a police car, the PSNI said tonight.

Police in Co Derry are questioning a man following the alleged abduction of a teenage girl in the town of Dungiven earlier this week.

A man has died and another is seriously injured following a car crash in Co Derry this morning.

Four men have been arrested in the North after an incident in Derry last night, during which police fired shots into the air.

Three men were being questioned today about a seizure of cannabis resin worth £300,000 (€435,500) on the streets of Derry.