A teenager who drowned in a river in the North after fleeing police was “disaffected” with his life, a community worker claimed today.

Community leaders appealed today for a swift investigation into how a teenager apparently fleeing police drowned in a river in Northern Ireland.

A 'plot' to ignite a new shooting war between Northern Ireland’s two main loyalist paramilitary organisations has been halted, they declared tonight.

A Protestant community worker in Derry was warned by police today about a loyalist threat to his security after he gave public support to a visit by the Irish President to a loyalist heartland yesterday.