A young boy from South Belfast almost missed his first day of primary school due to a transport issue with the Education Authority.
Thomas Currie was ready and excited for his first day of P1 at Brookfield Special School in Moira when the taxi bus, organised through the EA, didn't arrive despite assurances it would be there to drop him to school and bring him home.
After a similar issue last year that took three weeks to resolve, Thomas' parents are worried they may have to miss time at work and pay extra fuel costs to bring him on the 40 minute-each-way trip. The reason Thomas goes to a school so far away, they said, was due to not being able to get space at a special school near their Belfast home.
