400 children without classrooms after arson attack

Authorities in the North were meeting today to try to find alternative arrangements for 400 children whose school was destroyed in an arson attack on Saturday.

Whitehouse Primary School in Newtownabbey was badly damaged in the blaze.

It is the fourth school to be targeted by arsonists in the greater Belfast area in the past few days.

Sectarian graffiti was also painted on one of the buildings.