Video of the vehicle's smouldering wreck in Newtownabbey, County Antrim went viral on social media

by dangerous driving. The 32-year-old, from Doonbeg Drive, Newtownabbey, is alleged to have driven a

Church Road is currently closed and diversions are in place and police would ask members of the public to avoid the area," the Police Service of Northern Ireland said in a statement. Bus operator Translink said the driver and a small number of passengers safely disembarked.... We utterly condemn this behaviour and will be working closely with the PSNI to investigate this incident," the statement said.... Last week, two masked and armed men hijacked and set fire to another bus in an attack that

Court proceedings have commenced against eight people charged in relation to allegations of abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital. Following a lengthy police investigation into claims of patient abuse at the Co Antrim facility, which is operated by the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, it was announced in April that a number of people were to be prosecuted for alleged mistreatment of patients. Seven cases were heard in the first instance on Tuesday before District Judge Broderick, with a legal r

Coronavirus cases have been falling across the UK since the middle of October, with the seven-day average number of new infections down almost 15, 000.... However, as the temperature starts to drop, infection rates have started to creep up again. Covid is expected to become rifer and rifer throughout the winter, as people head indoors to avoid the freeze. But meeting large groups of people indoors increases the risk of virus transmission.As it stands, there are already 18 parts of the country w

Here is Tuesday’s update of Covid-19 case rates for every local authority area in the UK. The figures, for the seven days to January 14, are based on the number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in a lab-reported test, plus: – in England, positive rapid lateral flow tests that do not have a negative confirmatory lab-based polymerase chain reaction( PCR) test within 72 hours.– in Northern Ireland positive rapid lateral flow tests. The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per

Here is Friday’s update of Covid-19 case rates for every local authority area in the UK. The figures, for the seven days to January 3, are based on the number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in a lab-reported test, plus, in England, positive rapid lateral flow tests that do not have a negative confirmatory lab-based polymerase chain reaction( PCR) test within 72 hours. The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100, 000 people. Data for the most recent four days( Januar

Here is Tuesday’s update of Covid-19 case rates for every local authority area in the UK. The figures, for the seven days to December 17, are based on the number of people who have tested positive for Covid-19 in a lab-reported test plus, in England, positive rapid lateral flow tests that do not have a negative confirmatory lab-based polymerase chain reaction( PCR) test within 72 hours. The rate is expressed as the number of new cases per 100, 000 people. Data for the most recent four days( Dece