Restaurants closed amid gas probe

Two restaurants in the North were ordered to close tonight by health officials inspecting gas appliances around the area where two teenage friends died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

The owners of the premises in Portstewart, Co Derry, and Rasharkin, Co Antrim, pulled down the shutters as inspectors continued to question the gas fitter who installed the heater suspected of killing 18-year-old school pals Aaron Davidson and Neil McFerran in the nearby town of Castlerock.