A 39-year-old man appeared in court today charged with kidnapping a mother and her young son for ransom.

A 39-year-old-man is due in court in Belfast later this morning, charged in connection with the kidnap of a mother and child in Co Down.

Police in the North are continuing to question a man and a woman about the kidnap of a mother and her child.

A man and woman have been arrested after the kidnap of a Co Down mother and her four-year-old child, police said today.

A man was arrested today by detectives investigating incendiary bomb attacks by dissident republicans in the North.

A YOUNG man who was robbed of his mobile phone and €40 in cash died yesterday from injuries sustained in the attack.

Two men being questioned by detectives about the murder of a man in a pub brawl were released unconditionally today.

SEARCHERS yesterday found a body believed to be that of a teenager swept into the Irish Sea three weeks ago.

Searchers today found a body believed to be that of a teenager swept into the Irish Sea three weeks ago in Co Down.

Three lifeboats and a Coastguard helicopter from Dublin were working with police divers, a mountain rescue squad and five land-based Coastguard teams in a major air and sea search for a 14-year-old boy swept into the Irish Sea from the Co Down coast.

A 17-year-old man was admitted to hospital in the North last night after a paramilitary punishment style attack.