The Olympic torch shone a light on the North’s dramatic north coast today on the second day of its journey around the region.

Police in the North have been given an extra 36 hours to question a 26-year-old man after a Ballymena man drowned in the River Bann at the weekend.

Search teams looking for a man last seen entering the River Bann have found a body.

Police in Derry say a man seen getting into difficulty in the River Bann near Kilrea at about 6pm yesterday, is a 21-year-old from the Ballymena area.

Six divers had to be rescued after their boat capsized in rough sea conditions.

A man was hailed as a hero today after he plunged into the cold waters of the River Bann in Co Derry to save the life of a teenage girl who had fallen from a bridge.

Search teams looking for a 14-year-old boy in Co Antrim have today recovered a body from the river Bush.

Counselling was being offered tonight to the school friends of a 10-year-old boy who was rescued from a river but died later in hospital.

A 10-year-old boy who was rescued from a river in the North has died in hospital, police said today.

The organisers of a loyalist band parade have voluntarily re-routed the event away from the area where a Catholic man was murdered in Coleraine, Co Derry, on Sunday.

A police investigation was launched today after the body of a missing Co Derry woman was recovered from the River Bann.

A river diverted to make way for a new multi-million pound underpass on a main Belfast thoroughfare was today believed to have been responsible for the flooding of the new roads scheme.

THE earliest human settlement in the south-west of Ireland has been discovered in a huge archaeological find on the Lakes of Killarney.

IRELAND was today on heightened alert for an outbreak of bird flu as Taoiseach Bertie Ahern moved to calm rising public fears over the deadly virus.

Sinn Féin has claimed that certain Catholic areas in the North are not receiving a fair share of British Government funding designed to encourage investment.

Three young people have been praised by the PSNI after rescuing a man from the River Bann in Co Down.

Officials in the North are believed to have chosen Cookstown as the site for a proposed new PSNI training college.

Sinn Féin was today deciding who its Northern Ireland candidate will be for next year’s European Parliament elections.

Police in the North have identified the body of a man that was retrieved from the River Bann.