A school group have been rescued from the Mourne Mountains after a number of them developed hypothermia when the weather deteriorated.

A young man who went missing on the Mourne Mountains in Co Down yesterday has been found safe and well.

A climber believed killed by lightning on a Co Down mountain top was a sergeant in the Royal Signals, it emerged today.

A MAN who was seriously injured on a Norwegian fishing vessel more than 150 miles off the west coast had to be rescued by helicopter yesterday.