Attacks disrupting special school

There has been a series of attacks at Sandleford Special School in Coleraine, it has emerged.

Pupils at the school have regularly been unable to attend classes because of damage caused to buses and property by vandals.

Siobhan Holmes, whose son Reece has autism, said the attacks have made her son's life a "nightmare".

"When he doesn't get to school, he hurts himself and gets really agitated," she said.

"He has no speech, so you can't explain to him why he's not going to school."