With “bird numbers plummeting”, “the insect Armageddon”, and “climate catastrophe only 12 years away”, there’s doom and gloom on the wildlife front.

 

A seven-year-old boy died and 17 people, including his parents and police officers, were taken to hospital after falling ill in a flood-hit town.

A rare 3,000-year-old piece of gold jewellery unearthed in bogland by an amateur treasure hunter has been unveiled to the public at its new home — the Ulster Museum in Belfast.

THE native red squirrel, once a common animal in many parts of the country, is under threat from the American grey squirrel which came here about 100 years ago.