"The families of the Lynx crew are being informed now," said Lorraine Coulton, a spokeswoman for the Royal Navy. "We can confirm the helicopter is thought to have crashed into the sea."The Lynx helicopter was dispatched by Falmouth Coast Guard at 5.45pm after two Royal Navy ratings on board the frigate HMS Montrose heard cries for help. Three Sea King helicopters and a French Falcon aircraft scrambled to search the area A Falmouth all-weather lifeboat was also launched. A Royal Navy helicopter with four people on board crashed off the coast of Cornwall last night while taking part in a sea rescue operation. The journalist, Nick Curtis, of the London Evening Standard, said: "I don't want to rub it in, but it really was remarkable."Zafferano staff have chosen to return the truffle whence it came by burying it in Mr Needham's garden in Fulham, west London. Mr Cassini said: "It died a very happy truffle - back in the ground, unsliced We piled some stones on top, like a tomb Hopefully next year it will spawn some little truffles.". We had obviously wished to be able to present the proposals in the context of full agreement before we came here - but that is not possible."We are not quite at that point of total success.

Our work must therefore continue to secure agreement and closure and what - by any standards - is a huge, impressive, indeed a landmark package."Mr Paisley declared: "The IRA can't have a veto in Northern Ireland and they are not going to have a veto in Northern Ireland. Had agreement been reached, the IRA would have committed itself to full decommissioning, while Sinn Fein would have moved towards involving itself in policing arrangements.The DUP would meanwhile have accepted republicans as proper partners in a new administration which would have a DUP first minister working with a Sinn Fein deputy. Policing would be eventually devolved to the new government, which would come into operation by next spring.Mr Blair said: "I think there is an inevitability about this process which is locked in. I can't see this process going backward but I do know that it's going to require extra effort to finish the journey."This is a transformed landscape in which we operate today but it won't be properly transformed until we have the devolved institutions back up and working again."Mr Ahern added: "Today is truly different - I don't think it, I know it. The two governments refrained yesterday from getting involved in a blame game. The key question now is whether this substantial but tentative agreement can be held together without unravelling in the weeks ahead.The document set out an intricate choreography for the next few months. But Mr Blair listed its achievements as "an end to paramilitary activity, powersharing, the setting up of an executive, and all the changes you need for the DUP to sit in the executive with Sinn Fein".

Mr Blair said there was "a sense of inevitability" about an eventual breakthrough.Mr Ahern said they had achieved "a dramatic surge towards final closure," adding: "I would like to see it finished before Christmas and I still believe that's possible."Most observers doubt such a quick turnaround is possible, and some believe a breakthrough may have to wait until after the next general election.The document released yesterday lacks full and formal agreement from the two parties, especially on the photography point. They explained to us there was no other way of getting the DUP to look at this."The breakdown of the talks following months of intensive negotiations was followed by verbal recriminations, but it was noted that neither Mr Paisley nor Sinn Fein had slammed any doors on doing business in the future.This gave credibility to the statements from both prime ministers that an agreement remains within reach. In fact we asked the governments to take it out of their draft outlines. But Sinn Fein insisted the Government had been informed months ago it was "an impossible and unrealisable demand".Mr Adams said Sinn Fein had been surprised when mention of photography was made in a draft report on 17 November "We made it clear then that this wasn't a runner. The Democratic Unionist Party leader maintained photographic evidence of decommissioning had not been ruled out until the last moment.

A hugely ambitious blueprint for a new era in Northern Ireland - in which Irish republicans would sit in government with the Rev Ian Paisley - was put on show in Belfast yesterday as the deal that almost was. The comprehensive new deal was presented by Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart, Bertie Ahern, as tantalisingly close, but temporarily stalled on the issue of arms decommissioning.The two prime ministers pointed to the IRA's refusal to permit photographs of its arsenal being decommissioned as the remaining obstacle to a breakthrough that would remove the guns and install a new coalition government.Different versions of the negotiations came from the two sides. But Hare misses the vulgar point about Dench, which is that she operates on different levels with different directors and writers, all of whom she admires, all of whom delude themselves into thinking they own her. She is special to all of them, and special as well to her audience. We all claim ownership.She was just as amazing in performances of plays by Hugh Whitemore and Keith Waterhouse as she was in the rarefied Hare air of Amy's View.