Mears, which provides services in Northern Ireland, Scotland and the north of England, made more profit than its contracts allow.

Families who lost loved ones in the 1994 Chinook helicopter crash will meet government ministers for the first time in London.

Four people have now died in separate house fires over three days - which the fire service says is highly unusual.

Unlike similar postgraduate medical students elsewhere they cannot apply for a tuition fee loan from the Department for the Economy.

The offences carried out by William Ball date back to the late 1970s and early 1980s.