A man from Londonderry is suing the Western Health Trust for damages because he alleges he was beaten and kicked by his now-dead foster parents.

THE Western Health and Social Care Trust has announced the start of a transformation of services to offer a new Integrated Sexual Health Service to operate in the Waterside.

Fermanagh got a £24m boost this week with the announcement that health services in the border region are set to benefit from a welcome injection of cash from the European Union.

Social workers in Derry have never been in as high demand as the service currently faces. The Journal has learned that Children’s Services have over 260 families or children who have been identified as ‘at risk’ yet no social worker has been allocated.

Racists who forced Romanians to flee their homes threatened to cut a baby’s throat, it emerged today. Over 100 men, women and children were this morning taken to the Ozone complex in Belfast after they spent the night in a church hall following sustained attacks by a racist mob claiming to be from the fascist group Combat 18.

A hundred Romanians have had to spend the night in a church hall after suffering a series of racist attacks in Northern Ireland. The group consisted of 20 different families and included a five-year-old girl.

A NEW hard-hitting campaign to drive home the serious consequences of underage drinking has been unveiled by Antrim police.

Doctors have treated 125 cases of sexually transmitted infections in under 16s in the past six years, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.

A new free service for adults with learning disabilities has been launched by the Western Health and Social Care Trust. The aim is to support people with a learning disability to make decisions which affect their lives and to provide independent information about the options available.

Glenn Houston, Chief Executive of RQIA – Northern Ireland’s independent regulator of health and social care services – today welcomed the findings of a Queen’s University study on MRSA rates in nursing homes in the Northern Trust area, which includes Coleraine.