Search for UK navy crew member under way off north-west coast of Ireland

A Coast Guard helicopter (Niall Carson/PA)

A multi-agency search is under way off the north-west coast of Ireland for a missing UK navy crew member.

The Irish Coast Guard’s Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Malin Head is coordinating a search for the missing crew member following a distress alert from a UK Naval support vessel just before 9am this morning.