Hundreds of children across Northern Ireland have tried the potentially deadly drug cocaine before they are 16-years-old, a survey has revealed today.

Haystacks dot the fields around the village of Tileagd, roses climb up walls, and traffic thunders past its outskirts. The centre of the village is quiet, except for the clip-clop of a horse and cart, and the squeals of children in a playground. Set among lush cornfields and gentle green hills in one of the more prosperous parts of Romania, it seems like a nice, if sleepy place to live.

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.