Appeal made over brothers

AIRPORTS and ferry ports were alerted yesterday as police searched for a father and his two boys.

Ian Sharp, 41, of Cardiff, disappeared with his sons Andrew, eight, and Sam, six, after failing to return them to their mother in south Wales after a week-long trip to London. Police issued a nation- wide appeal to Mr Sharp to make contact.

The boys' mother, Nicola Saunders, 32, of Creigiau, near Cardiff, separated from Mr Sharp in October 1992. She said she had not heard from him since last Sunday and feared he had fled abroad. He had several thousand pounds from the sale of their home.