Elaine Mitchell

Cyber criminals stole thousands from Rathlin’s Co-Op Shop, putting its future in doubt.

The move is likely to stall planning for farm sheds, animal houses and slurry stores.

It comes as bTB incidents on farms in Northern Ireland are at their highest level in over 20 years.

The light needs to be right for this red star of Christmas and they don’t like draughts.

It is one of a number of proposals by a Stormont department to deal with the illness in cattle.

Infectious laryngotracheitis (ILT), described as a “nasty, viral disease”, breaks out on 16 farms.

The proposed site is at the former Lovell and Christmas bacon factory in Ballymoney.

A safety inspector says there has been a spike in the number of incidents that ‘could have ended in tragedy’.

The calf, a Simmental bull named Sam, can no longer feed off his mother.

A new farm safety action plan is published, aimed at reducing the numbers of incidents on farms.

A Donegal farmer pays a record sum for his “once in a lifetime” lamb