Disbelief at plans to axe hospital's A&E service

The hospital where survivors of the Omagh bomb outrage were treated could lose its accident and emergency services as part of proposed major changes to health care in Northern Ireland, it emerged today.

The A&E department at Tyrone County Hospital and four other hospitals would be axed, according to a report which recommends a massive overhaul of the health service over the next 10 years, costing an estimated £1bn.