Two members of police staff who twisted and grabbed the arms of a man in custody to make him answer questions have been ordered to pay him £100 in compensation.

Police have confirmed that a body found in a river is that of missing schoolboy Ian Bell.

A man has been charged in connection with a raid on a university museum where Chinese artefacts worth more than £2m were stolen.

Police scouring a swollen river for a missing eight-year-old boy said hopes of finding him alive were "fading" as the operation stretched into a fourth day.

An eight-year-old boy believed to have fallen into a rain-swollen river while playing with friends has been named by police.

Police divers were today helping in the continuing search for an eight-year-old boy who fell into a swollen river while playing with friends.

Middlesex 188 & 179 Durham 238 & 82-6 (Match drawn)

Middlesex 188 & 21-1 Durham 238 (Durham lead by 29 runs)

Five suspected far-right extremists were arrested by counter-terror detectives today after race-hate material was posted online.

A seventh-century book that lay buried in a saint's coffin for hundreds of years has been saved for the nation.

Thieves who broke into a museum to steal Chinese treasures worth £2m were in and out in less than two minutes, according to police.

Police released photographs tonight of two men wanted in connection with a well-planned raid on a museum in which treasures worth more than £2 million were stolen.

Durham yesterday confirmed that the Australia fast bowler Mitchell Johnson will be their second overseas player for the Friends Life t20, which takes place in June and July. The 30-year-old said: "I've heard brilliant things about Durham from Paul Collingwood when he played over in Perth."

Parents of a man whose body was returned from Greece with the wrong kidney have demanded answers eight months after the authorities put them through the horror of an exhumation.