sanctuary in europe. redford again. oh, what a goal! what a goal! radford the scorer, ronnie radford! and legendary football commentator john motson has died aged 77. he covered over 2000 games during his 50 year career. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news, good to have your company this hour. three men have been arrested after the shooting of a police officer in northern ireland. he is now in a critical condition in hsopital. detective chief inspectorjohn caldwell was shot multiple times in front of his son after coaching young people playing football in 0magh, county tyrone. he is well known in northern ireland not least his involvement in investigating organised crime. northern ireland s political leaders have issued a joint statement condemning the callous attack. the irish prime minister and northern ireland secretary have both condemned the attempt on his life. 0ur ireland correspondent chris page has this report. john caldwell is a father who was coaching football
the country s biggest children s short story competition 500 words is back for the first time in three years. it will be supported by camilla, the queen consort. welcome to the bbc news channel. a postmortem examination is to be carried today out on the body of a baby found by police searching for the missing child of constance marten and mark gordon. the couple disappeared in earlyjanuary and were arrested earlier this week. in earlyjanuary and were they are currently being held on suspicion of gross negligence manslaughter. the news comes after a days long search by police of a 90 square mile area near brighton, which ended with a baby s body being discovered near to where the couple was arrested on monday. vincent mcaviney has more. yesterday, at locations from newhaven to brighton, the search for the missing baby was in full swing over a 90 square mile area. officers from the sussex force were joined by those from the metropolitan police and volunteer experts in search an
been falling during friday s trading as investors weigh up what stresses and problems may lie within them. concerns were sparked at the beginning of this week when switzerland s biggest bank ubs was forced to rescue its rival credit suisse. but fears seemed to ease as policymakers and politicians offered their ressaurances that their were no wider problems after the recent failures of two us banks. as you can see here, stock markets across europe are down. other banks to suffer on friday include barclays and natwest here in the uk as well as germany s commerzbank and spain s banco de sabadell. so the german chancellor has again been trying to reassure investors. translation: the banking system is stable in europe and the european union has supervisory structures in various areas, including the euro area, which have enforced strict rules and it has now proved its worth and enables us all to say that european bank supervision and the financial system are robust and stable. patr