Shoppers injured in stampede for cut-price TVs

A woman was taken to hospital with a suspected broken arm after a stampede at a shopping centre over cut-price televisions.

There were also claims that a heavily pregnant woman was shoved and pensioners knocked to the ground by shoppers battling to get their hands on deals at the Asda store in Belfast.

A spokesman for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service confirmed they were called to the Westwood Centre at about 8.30am and took a woman with an arm injury to the Royal Victoria Hospital.