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Photographers in Cumbria turned their cameras to the sky as the Northern Lights made an appearance in the county during breaks in the cloud. Known as the Aurora Borealis, the bright colours are a result of solar eruptions sending particles towards the Earth and interacting with particles in the atmosphere. …

An Australian man took a dive into a flooded golf course on Sydney’s northern beaches as heavy rains and thunderstorms lashed coastal communities. Craig Finniss soaked up the opportunity by swimming a lap of the waterlogged course at Palm Beach. Residents in some nearby suburbs were ordered to evacuate their …

Wales captain Ben Davies left the field on a stretcher after suffering a serious-looking leg injury playing for Tottenham Hotspur. Defender Davies, 32, was given as he was carried off injured inside the opening 20 minutes of Saturday’s Premier League game against West Ham. The injury will be a major …

Incoming Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) leader Jon Burrows has been invited for talks with the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on unionist co-operation. The invitation from DUP leader Gavin Robinson comes as the former police officer was confirmed as the sole contender to replace Mike Nesbitt as UUP leader. In an …

Former Sinn Féin MP Mickey Brady has died, his party has confirmed. He served as MP for Newry and Armagh for almost a decade and was also a former member of the Northern Ireland Assembly. Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald described him as a “friend and comrade” and said …

A man in his 90s has died following a single-vehicle crash in Armagh. The incident in the Hamiltonsbawn Road area was reported to police shortly after 19:30 GMT on Thursday. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said the driver of the car, a man in his 90s, was taken …

[ A new study led by researchers at the University of Waterloo found that members of many Indigenous communities who eat certain types of locally harvested waterfowl, especially ducks with mixed or fish-based diets, may have higher levels of both mercury and healthy omega-3 fatty acids in their blood. Source …

A large fire has broken out at an industrial estate in Bangor, County Down. The Northern Ireland Fire Service (NIFRS) are at the scene of the fire at Balloo Industrial Estate. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) has advised the public to avoid the Balloo Way, in Bangor. Residents …

Police say two people have been taken to hospital following a “serious” crash in County Tyrone. Emergency services were called to the Annaghilla Road in Augher, shortly after 08:00 GMT on Wednesday. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) said it dispatched one emergency ambulance and the charity Air Ambulance to …

A man and a woman have escaped injury in an arson attack on a house in Londonderry. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) said a suspected petrol bomb was thrown through the window of the property at Circular Road in Creggan at around 18:45 GMT on Monday. The two …

BBC A number of schools in Northern Ireland are closed on Tuesday 6 January as a result of the weather. A full list of the affected schools are detailed below. Further closures will be added as and when BBC News NI is notified. Western Schools: St Columba’s Primary School, 86 …

A flight from Belfast to Egypt was cancelled on Saturday due to a “group of customers behaving disruptively onboard”, EasyJet has said. The airline said as a result, the plane was “attended by police prior to departure”. Flight EZY3077, from Belfast international Airport to Hurghada, had been due to depart …

A man charged with the murder of his mother has been transferred to a high-security state psychiatric hospital in South Lanarkshire. Nathan Simpson is accused of killing 43-year-old Rachel Simpson from east Belfast. Ms Simpson was discovered in a garage beside a property on the Castlereagh Road on 13 September …

Police are treating an attack on a house in north Belfast as arson. Just before midnight on Tuesday a bin was placed inside the kitchen of a house in Ceylon Street and set alight. The suspect ran through the house and left through an open bedroom window. No-one was at …

Rail passengers have been warned of delays and cancellations on New Year’s Eve morning after signalling cables were stolen in South Yorkshire. National Rail said several routes were disrupted following the theft between Doncaster and Sheffield, which it first reported shortly before 05:30 GMT on Wednesday. Northern services including those …

A police officer has appeared in court charged in connection with the alleged theft of thousands of bullets from a police training facility. The ammunition was allegedly taken from Steeple in Antrim where officers are trained in the use of firearms. On Tuesday Robert Charles Rodgers, whose address was given …

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[ Flu activity has surged in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere, driven primarily by a newly emerged H3N2 strain known as subclade K. Source link

About 45 firefighters have put out an overnight fire at a water treatment works in County Antrim. The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) said it started on the roof of an NI Water treatment facility on the Roselick Road at Portrush at 02:21 GMT on Tuesday morning. Firefighters …

The fourth T20 between India and South Africa was abandoned on Wednesday because of “excessive fog” at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. The toss was scheduled to take place at 13:00 GMT but did not even take place as the umpires called the match off at about 16:00 following a number …