Bidder warns busbuilder faces liquidation as early as tomorrow if no deal approved

Jo Bamford specialises in providing hydrogen fuel for buses

Employees cheered asthey make their way back to work at historic shipyard in Belfast

Trade union hopeful of deal which would ‘save jobs’ at Ballymena bus manufacturer

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Unite says neither town nor Northern Ireland can afford loss of 1,200 jobs

Ballymena bus maker went into administration last week

Cornerstone gave over £16m to local church in the years before mass redundancies

A number of potential buyers walked away from sale discussions because of the way lease arrangements were structured

Questions are already being asked about charitable donations

Ballymena’s Wrights Group, one of NI’s biggest exporters, has been hit by uncertainty

‘We do have a raft of successful medium-sized ones and a huge amount of successful smaller companies’

Belfast firm's employees urge response from London as they battle to save their shipyard

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Concern mounts among 1,400-strong workforce and wider community, says union

Hydrogren buses will produce no pollution from exhausts

Ex-foreign secretary tells DUP conference North would be ‘economic semi-colony of EU’

RHI inquiry chairman incredulous that there was no written record of who decided not to pull the reins on the highly lucrative but disastrous scheme

Manufacturer cites downturn in orders as reason for job cuts

‘Very committed to maintaining free-moving border between NI and Republic of Ireland’