12/09/2011 BBC Newsline

Good evening. The headlines: A couple are found

dead in a burned-out car. Health officials are owed -- investigate.

A woman is taken to hospital after a murky collapses on a film set in

County Antrim. I am live with the latest on the tail end of Hurricane

Katia. I have spent the day it monitoring

the wind. Join me to find out how long it will last.

Also tonight... Higher fees for stings coming from

Britain, but at what cost? Belfast side seemed buses are in

the firing line. -- site seeing.

An exclusive tour of the Maze. Rory McIlroy made a flying visit to

Northern Ireland today and he had plenty to say today.

A Health Trust says it will carry out a review after a woman who was

receiving psychiatric care was found dead in a burned-out car. The

woman, in her 50s, was found alongside the body of her husband

at Ravernet near Lisburn, not far from their home. Police do not

suspect a crime was committed. Forensic officers spent much of the

day examining the burnt out car in which the couple were found. They

had left their home at teatime on Sunday, driving the short distance

to this field, before positioning a car well away from the road. They

appear to have used a gas cylinder to burn the vehicle while they sat

in it. A woman who lives nearby said she was watching television on

Sunday night when she heard a loud explosion and a blue flash lit up

the sky. The emergency services came but because the car was over

at the Hill, they had difficulty locating it. By the time they got

it there was little that could be done.

The couple were in the 50s and well known locally. The woman had been

receiving psychiatric care with the South Eastern Health and Social

Care Trust. In a statement, they said that the woman was known to

its services and expressed its condolences to the family. It said

a multi-disciplinary review would be undertaken. The more information

comes to light, but sadder the story gets. The whole community in

the area is shocked by the situation that occurred last night.

Police do not believe the deaths are suspicious but they want to

speak to anyone who sold a couple's red Ford Focus between 6:30pm and

9:45pm, when the couple was found on fire.

It tail-end of Hurricane Katia arrived with plenty of staying.

Plenty of people were injured when a film set marquee collapsed in

high winds. There have been difficult conditions for cars,

berries and planes. -- ferries. Tell us about the film set.

I am here in a very windy Portrush, not fire -- not far from where the

marquee collapsed in Ballintoy. I am -- a couple who were inside at

the time said there were up to 250 members of crew and extras inside

it. I have been told that filming had been called off for the day,

presumably because of the terrible weather and that people were inside

the marquee, having lunch. One person told me the marquee

literally collapsed in one second. They said they thought they were

going to die. They said people were climbing under tables. We know that

11 man was taken to hospital with back injuries and others were

treated at the scene. -- one woman was taken to hospital. No one was

seriously injured. You can see how much damage had been done, and all

of the things floating in the air or costumes that are now lost.

What has been the worst of the weather around Northern Ireland?

You can get a fair idea of where the worst of the weather is. Here

on the north coast, we are being battered. Earlier today, at 11

o'clock this morning in County Tyrone, a gust of 74 mph was

recorded. In Londonderry city itself, one park was closed to the

public because of falling trees and one of the Bridges was closed to

high-sided vehicles and other vehicles had to drive at 40 mph. No

doubt, the worst of the weather, definitely in northern and western

parts of Northern Ireland. further down? I would say that the

worst of the destruction has definitely been travelling. --

disruption. Ferries have been cancelled all day. On the roads,

the big problem will have been the trees falling. We should be able to

see pictures of a tree that fell in East Belfast earlier today. The

airports have been operating pretty much as normal, but we took some 30

age earlier of a plane landing at Belfast City Airport. -- we took

some stage. Here in Port rich, but fishermen are worried about the

tide later this evening. -- Portrush. Apologies for the bad

sound quality. You can understand how difficult things are there.

Strong winds along the north coast and the West. Because the hurricane

was coming from that Atlantic? -- the Atlantic?

It was the North West but took the brunt of the wins, costs in excess

of 70 mph. We have seen the worst of the winds but we are not out of

the words. We still have an amber warning in place for this evening.

We could see some damaging and destructive gusts.

Stephen Farry says freezing tuition fees will require pain and risk.

Even so, he has told the Assembly heeled can find the money without

cutting frontline services. -- he can. There are concerns about the

long time costs and that he is robbing Peter to pay Paul.

Students like these will pay much more for an education than their

parents or or elder siblings. Their tuition fees, if they stay in

Northern Ireland, will be frozen until 2015. Students coming here

from England, Scotland and Wales will face higher fees for the same

courses and it will only covered a fraction of the cost. The minister

says it is a good deal. It is a demonstration of the Executive

delivering for Northern Ireland. This is also a good deal for my

department. To freeze the fees for local students, the Executive has

to come up with �40 million, without hitting the universities.

The minister's department is contributing 22 million. Higher

fees for Great Britain students will bring in �5 million. The

minister claims the remaining 70 million will be found from internal

Department savings, which will not hit front line services. The other

18 million will come from savings in other Executive departments.

This student leader commended the minister, but has concerns BMA, a

scheme to help cash strapped students, will suffer. -- EMA.

are delighted with the privatisation of higher education,

however we are concerned for those who are in receipt of education

maintenance allowance and we want to make sure we are not robbing

Peter to pay Paul. Local students going to universities in GB can

still get loans of up to �9,000 a year, but this will be balloted for

demand. The chairman of the employment and learning committee

is not convinced it will stick. are going to have trouble. I do not

think we will get the money we are going to get. Sooner, rather than

later, we will have to revisit the issue of fees. The Assembly will

charge extra fees to students from -- GB.

Mark Haddock has been warned by a judge after shouting at a witness

in court. This is the 4th day of the biggest criminal trial here for

decades. Mark Haddock and 13 others are facing charges based on the

evidence of two brothers, then sells former UVF members.

-- are themselves. It was the same explanation he has

used in court already. Asked to explain the discrepancy in his

evidence, Robert Stewart told a defence barrister that in police

interviews he was nervous and under pressure. Across the courtroom,

that was clearly too much for Mark Haddock, sitting apart from his 13

co-defendants. He swore it out loud and shouted at Mr Stewart, change

the record. The judge told him that if he spoke again, he would have

him taken outside the court. Earlier defence counsels had asked

Mark Haddock's defence counsel is just one of many to examine Robert

Stewart. He has taken three days so far and he is not finished yet.

Their exchanges have been tense, especially about whether evidence

is made up or is a partial version of the truth. Either concocted, or

a very small part of it, Stewart replied, what I have said is the

truth. Robert Stewart will be cross-examined tomorrow before

other defence barristers have had their turn.

Still to come... BBC Newsline has exclusive access to the first

public tour of the former Maze prison.

And the only way it is actually up. Rory Maghera gives his reaction to

being number three in the world. -- Rory McIlroy.

The Presbyterian minister who woke -- spoke at the Sinn Fein's RDS

says he has no regrets. Dr David Latimer says he did what he set out

to do. Some Unionists say he is naive or even a traitor.

Dr David Latimer said it was a privilege to speak at the Sinn Fein

Ard Fheis. He believed he had received a genuine welcome and he

had no regrets about attending. see you as one of the true great

leaders of modern times. The first Derry Presbyterian minister's

decision to attend the Ard Fheis provoked mixed reactions. I didn't

mind him addressing it as to what he said. He could have said, we

need to reach out a hand of friendship, I wasn't impressed with

what he said about my Magennis. think he did the right thing. If

everybody else had the same way of thinking it would be good for his

all. It is a step forward. It is good. We need to talk to each other.

I think it is a bad idea, really, for him to do it. Some Unionist

politicians have remained critical. If it was not serious, this would

be the sort of thing that comedians are make fun of. A lot of people

would take grave exception to this, given the past of Martin

McGuinness's movement. Dr David Latimer rejected any notion that he

had betrayed anyone. I am a Protestant, proud to be a

Protestant. I am a Christian minister, I am Presbyterian and I

am British. I went into my audience with those credentials and I

emerged from my audience with those credentials and I was respected

with those credentials. Dr David Latimer said he had import --

believed he had started an Bus operators in Belfast have

denied giving visitors the hard sell on a terse but the tourist

board says there has been an increase in people reporting an

aggressive sales pitch. They have now been calls for an end to this

practice. There has been a rapid growth in

sightseeing tours in Belfast and competition among the different

operators can be intense. Teams of running agents pushing the tours

are a familiar sight in the city centre. According to the council

and police, they have become concerned about the hard sales

pitch some staff may use when touting for business. The tourist

board says it has received Annan. Over what has been described as

aggressive, competitive behaviour between some of the tour operators.

Engaging in aggressive behaviour, it is something that all the

companies tonight. I have seen two boys talking to customers, trying

to get the sale but I have never seen anybody being aggressive to

the tourists. Someone regulations put in place to stop any hard

selling. There is a problem and we have a responsibility to try and

improve the situation. We don't have the regulations at the moment

but we will be raising it with other departments to see if we can

regulate this more appropriately. Rules governing the operations is

something the company would be in favour of. The whole business is

calling out for regulation with regards to Street staff and

promotion. However it is regulated, I don't know. Possibly, the council

should step in and be given some sort of power to regulate the

amount of staff that is on the street. That the council were to

provide us with a booth that he would see in London, if we had some

of those around the town, of course, the other companies as well, that

would be a great idea. Following a meeting of the licensing committee

today, it was agreed that the issue would be investigated further.

The weekend saw the first public tours of the Maze prison. The doors

were opened for one day only as part of the European heritage

project. A journey behind barbed wire and

bars. Into one of the most controversial places in Northern

Ireland. For the first time, members of the public were taken on

a tour of what is left of the Maze prison. Few buildings remain at the

site and the visit took in three of them. The only H-block still

standing, the hospital wing where hunger strikers died and the prison

chapel. This is where a very famous escape took place. Our cameras were

not allowed to follow that we can show you the sort of site that the

visitors saw. These pictures were shot a few years ago. When they

came in here, they were treated as criminals. Eventually, they went on

hunger strike. Whether the inmates were criminals or prisoners of war

is still disputed but it is that controversy which makes the

hospital wing historically significant. People from different

backgrounds will have varying reactions to the story. These

visitors all agreed the tour was fascinating. It is so barren, there

was the most striking thing. It is quite brittle, the architecture of

the place. There is a very strange, the eerie feeling to parts of it

and it is very claustrophobic. is quite bleak when you do the tour

and they do you walk inside the chapel and you have this lovely

wooden ceiling and prisoners got married there. It was such a

contrast. The names has had its first taste of tourism. 11 years

after it closed. The site's future is almost as contentious as its

past. The First and Deputy First Ministers are thought to be close

to deciding what is going to be built here. And whether there will

be more to us. Darren Clarke tweeted today that he

had to abandon his plans to practise on the north coast. He is

good but not that good to play in gale-force winds. Another of our

major winners this year has just gone up in the world rankings and

he is with Stephen Watson. Rory McIlory it choked with me

today, he didn't fancy playing here today but he is here in County

Fermanagh to support the Nick Faldo series that brings together some of

the best young boys and girls from the province. Today, he world --

worked up to world No. 3. That was just one of the things he spoke to

me about in a special interview for BBC Newsline.

I have a couple of weeks off now, which is nice. Coming of a decent

two weeks, especially after having the wrist injury, I didn't know how

I was going to come back and play but to play good, solid golf was

great and up to third night in the world, is quite an achievement.

Living closer to the number one spot, is that in your sights next

season? Next season, definitely. Look still has a quite a healthy

lead but as long as I can get closer to the top two guys but the

end of the year and give myself a good platform to attack it next

year, that is the main goal for the rest of the season. A flying visit

to Northern Ireland, there has been much written about you buying a

house in America, are you going to leave out in Ireland for good?

Surely that is not the case and your roots are still firmly here?

Of course, I've got a very busy schedule coming up for the next few

weeks until the end of the season but obviously I will be home for

Christmas to spend time with the family. It will do the same thing

at and this year, except instead of coming over to the three weeks in

March and April, I would just stay in America and have a base there.

Most of our golf, April, May, June and July it is played in Europe.

Northern Ireland is my home and it will never be any different.

and agreed to build that fantastic course at your home and then leave

it! I will never leave it and it will always be there for me. I try

to get home as much as I can. Sometimes that is not possible with

schedules and playing so many tournaments but my friends are here

and I am a big Ulster rugby supporter and a try to get too few

games when I am home. I love getting home, it is my favourite

place in the world. He also told me he was delighted to

see that Great Britain and Ireland won at the Walker Cup.. There was a

major contribution from the pair of young Northern Irish golfers in the

team. Paul Cutler of Portstewart and Rathmore's Alan Dunbar forged a

formidable partnership in the foursomes, winning both their

matches of the weekend. Ireland's Rugby World Cup squad is looking

for improvements as they prepare to tackle one of the tournament

favourites, Australia. Declan Kidney's side looked far from

convincing in labouring to 22-10 win against the United States in

their opening pool game in New Zealand.

A few kinks are always expected in the first match of a tournament but

when Tommy Bowe wriggled his past at half-time, it seemed Ireland's

were being and out. Two more tries followed, Rory Best surging over

the line. Brian O'Driscoll's perfectly timed pass to set up

another but this was a performance that raised more concerned about

Ireland's form as they toiled for a 4th try to earn a bonus point. They

coughed up and intercept. Muted reaction on the final whistle

showed this was not a clinical display it requires a week before

facing champions, Australia. guys know that they didn't execute

some of the movements yesterday and didn't finish of some of the tries

but they have played against Australia before and there is a

level of confidence that on our day, we can beat them. On the provincial

front, Ulster recorded their second win of the campaign with a hard-

fought 25-19 victory over the Italian side. Ian Humphreys was on

target from long range, converting this penalty from halfway line.

Paul McCloskey believes he deserves another shot at a world title after

his latest victory on Saturday. The Dungiven boxer has already spoken

to Marcos Maidana about the possibility of a WBA light-

welterweight title showdown in Belfast.

He may have been battered and bruised but Paul McCloskey's dream

of being a world champion is still alive. It was an night when not

everything went to plan. In what he described as one of the toughest

fights of his career. It went the distance but the Dungiven man edged

it on pounds. He started off good, I took a few rounds after that and

then he took a few but from the 7th round, I controlled the fight. I

put him on the back foot and when I do that, he didn't know what to do.

I won the last round so I felt I won the fight, yes. Things were

more straightforward for or this boxer who recorded his the 11th

straight victory. I've got this title now and whoever wants to come

and try to to get off me, they're welcome. We have to sit down and

talk but I want pick fights. Big- time boxing is back in Belfast and

if these two have their way, it is here to stay.

The remnants of Hurricane Katia rush by to the north of us. Now an

area of low pressure is really the isobars are tucked into the south

of it there have been causing the problems today with those strong,

stormy winds. The Isa doors that open up a little bit in the next 24

hours and it will still be pretty windy for most of us. Hopefully not

as windy as it was today. 75 miles an hour recorded. The sea was

really rough up there in the north coast as we have seen already. Even

down in Carling could lock, this was the scene. The sea coming over

the wall and completely drenching the vehicles there. Things are

easing attacked this evening but we are not out of the woods. We still

have that amber warning which means we still need to be prepared for

some damaging gusts and destruction, maybe some trees still to come down

and the worst areas his where we see this amber suede coming in. The

ferries, of course, still affected. If that concerns you, here is the

number. It is still very windy out there tonight, even though the

winds have eased a little bit. Very gusty and some storm gusts towards

the north coast. They will he's a little bit after midnight but still

gale-force gusts throughout the night. For many of us, and try

night and not too cool with temperatures no law as 10 or 11

degrees. Tomorrow, not as windy as yesterday and today but the winds

are still a feature. Tomorrow morning, although it is a windy

start, apart from the odd shower, many of us will have a dry start to

the day. It is as we head into the afternoon, the cloud starts to

gather to bring more persistent rain towards the West and the North,

edging its way into the north coast. Be aware, some severe gale force

gusts. Still very gusty in the south, the rain perhaps not getting

down here to watch the evening. It looks like a damp start on

Wednesday but as the rain clears away, the winds will ease down.

Thursday, not looking like a bad day.

A couple in their fifties have been found dead in a burned-out car

outside Lisburn. Three people were injured when a

marquee on a film set collapsed on the north coast this afternoon in