AFRICAN nurses and their families who were forced by racist attacks to flee a housing estate in Co Antrim spent several weeks living in a disused hospital building, BBC Northern Ireland reported today.

The Spotlight programme said that the families had faced a number of racist attacks while living on the Ballycraigy estate in Antrim Town, leading them to seek shelter in a building tucked away in a corner of Whiteabbey Hospital in Newtownabbey.

The families have since found alternative accommodation.