Pair questioned about kidnapping

Police investigating a kidnapping and robbery last week have arrested two people in Belfast city centre.

A 40-year-old woman and a 64-year-old man were arrested, as police examined a vehicle at Adelaide Street thought to have been used by the armed robbers.

The gang woke up a mother and her two children at their Hannahstown home last Thursday and forced them into a van.

Her partner, a Sprucefield Marks & Spencer employee, was told to take tens of thousands of pounds from a safe.

The street was cordoned off for much of Christmas Eve while the Army examined the vehicle, which had been left in a car park beneath Tyrone House apartment block.

Appealing for information, a police spokeswoman said detectives wanted to speak to anyone who may have seen who left the car there.