Four police personnel were injured today when a helicopter overturned as it took off from the scene of last week’s fatal helicopter crash in the North.

There are fears tonight that up to four people may have been killed in a helicopter crash in the North

THE family of a boy who died after being hit by a speed boat in the North last night said they were devastated.

AMMUNITION, a firearm and balaclavas have been seized in an anti-dissident operation by armed gardaí which led to the arrest of five men.

An independent republican councillor whose police officer niece was the target of a suspected car bomb attack in the North tonight refused to condemn the incident.

A security alert in Derry, which caused the evacuated of 10 homes, has ended.

Drugs worth more than £1m (€1.56m) were seized and nine people arrested in a major police operation in the North and England.

Two people were injured when a light aircraft plummeted into a field in the North.

THE numerically strong Irish contingent collapsed in disappointing fashion during yesterday’s second day of the Ireland Ryder Cup Challenge tournament over the Lackabane course at Killarney, leaving 25-year-old Scot Peter Whiteford clear at the top of the leaderboard with a highly impressive total of 12 under par 132.

A family escaped injury when a gunman opened fire on their home in the North today.

Ulster Unionist Party dissident Jeffrey Donaldson has launched yet another attack on the policies of party leader David Trimble.

The search for the bodies of three generations of the same family lost off the Irish coast was suspended today after a police diver was taken to hospital suffering from the bends.

Marine accident investigators were tonight studying the first video footage of a fishing boat which mysteriously went down off the Northern Ireland coast with the loss of three generations of the same family.

An Irish and British naval search for a missing trawler which disappeared in the Irish Sea with three members of the same family, is to be called off.

A naval search for three members of the same family missing in the Irish Sea was today set to enter a new stage.

Gales today threatened to disrupt a joint Irish and British naval search for the bodies of three members of the same family who drowned during a fishing trip.

The search for three generations of a family feared drowned in the Irish Sea was today concentrating on an oil slick four miles off the Northern Ireland coast.