Search for four sailors missing after British cargo ship sank is called off

Lights scanning the water near to where the British cargo ship Verity sank (PA)

A search for four sailors missing after a British cargo ship sank in a collision with a vessel in the North Sea has been called off.

One man died and two others were hospitalised after British-flagged Verity hit a larger cargo ship, Polesie, about 14 miles (22.5km) south-west of the German island of Heligoland at around 5am on Tuesday.