An air and sea search was under way off the coast of County Waterford in the Irish Republic last night after a trawler with a three-man crew sank without warning. Coastguard officials in Dublin said they had recovered the body of one of the Jenalisa's crew but two were still missing.

Capsized trawler: Court told fishing boat had no radio beacon and life-raft was lashed to railings after refit

French fishermen fire on Spanish trawler

Trawler held

Customs officials stopped a passenger ferry to arrest two men in connection with pounds 4.5m worth of cannabis resin found aboard an abandoned yacht drifting off the Devon coast, it was learned yesterday.

Drug yacht adrift

PHIL SHAW

THE CAMPAIGNERS

The skipper of a Spanish fishing trawler was fined £34,000 yesterday for breaching European fishing regulations. Luis Blanco Nosti was also ordered to pay £1,200 costs by Plymouth magistrates' chairman, Roger Meyrick, who also ordered the trawler Chimbote to be detained in Plymouth for three months, or until the fine was paid.

FROM ANDREW MARSHALL

LAST WEEK, a judge turned over a two-week verdict on Eric Cantona and an entire nation turned over the judgement of a lifetime on Jimmy Hill, thanks to This Is Your Life (BBC1, Wednesday). It's just typical: you think you've found someone you can reliably dislike without any feelings of remorse, and then Michael Aspel turns up and tells you how they're a quiet saint on the charity circuit and will even shave off their beard as long as there's thousands of pounds in it for the disadvantaged.

Fishing 1/ EU trawlers wipe out stocks

BY SIMON MIDGLEY

Spanish trawlers ceased fishing in disputed north Atlantic waters off the coast of Newfoundland yesterday, after Canadian fisheries officials took action against one of the vessels.