71.   A man has been arrested.

72.   Three men were arrested following a police operation in Birtley, near Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, on Saturday night.

73.   Police officers from Chester-le-Street arrested the men at a house in the Barley Mow area of the town but have released no further details of the incident.

74.   Police in Ripon are trying to trace the owners of stolen washing recovered after four men were arrested.

75.   A spokesman for Cleveland police said the men were arrested after a joint operation with Tyneside police early yesterday and brought to Teesside for questioning.

76.   A police spokesman said the man was arrested last Thursday and appeared before Darlington magistrates on a drink-driving charge.

77.   It is understood a number of weapons were recovered when the men were arrested in the Shankill Road area soon after the shootings.

78.   TWO men were arrested yesterday in connection with a proposed bare knuckle prize-fight in Worcestershire.

79.   Eventually the police got into the house and a man was arrested.

80.   Police confirmed yesterday a man has been arrested in connection with the killing and a report was being prepared for the procurator-fiscal.