Onlookers said children were playing close to the section of rock when it started to crumble.

Tourists have been wedging coins into cracks in the iconic basalt rock columns of the Giant’s Causeway.

Sinn Fein has emerged for the first time as the party in Northern Ireland with the largest representation at Westminster.

The Reform UK leader said his endorsement of the two DUP candidates is a ‘personal thing not a party thing’.