Paisley colleague dies of human 'mad cow disease'

A member of Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party has become the second Northern Ireland person to die of the human form of mad cow disease, it emerged today.

Newtownabbey councillor Andrew Hunter, who was diagnosed with variant Cruetzfeldt Jakob Disease (vCJD) in January, died at his home at Rathcoole on the northern outskirts of Belfast on Friday.