15/11/2011 BBC Newsline

Good evening. This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Tuesday: The

first minister threatens to quit, if Prison Service symbols are

changed. This is a matter... If they do this,

I will resign. MoT tests are to get tougher. New

checks from next year. 40 years on, families welcome new

inquests into the Ballymurphy shootings.

The experiment wits back -- which backs the ban on smoking in cars.

The Republic of Ireland are just 1 game away from the Euro 2012

football finals. Join me in Dublin. And changes on the way with the

weather. Join me short cliff. -- shortly.

It is a storm of controversy at Stormont, over suggested changes to

the emblem of the Northern Ireland Prison Service. The First Minister

has threatened to resign. Sinn Fein have told him to come down and

focus on the reform needed. It has been suggested that the crown

symbol and the title her Majesty's Prison could be dropped. We will

talk to the justice minister and an moment.

This prison holds young offenders and women as inmates. It is

officially one of her Majesty's Prisons, like other jails in

Northern Ireland, but how long all that remained the case?

Is the Minister saying that he anticipates an end to our prisons

being called her Majesty's prisons? That he anticipates an end to the

Crown as the symbol of the Prison Service? Could he be clear on that?

We're looking at a process of fundamental reform. That will

affect every part of the Prison Service and its culture. In those

circumstances, whilst these issues are operational issues for the

Prison Service, those are issues that have to be considered by the

Prison Service, as it looks to the appropriate way it will be run in

the years ahead. So what is the big deal? Didn't the

police changed their name and uniform a decade ago? Today, the

First Minister says a similar change for the Prison Service was

unacceptable. It will not happen on my watch, let's make that clear. If

they attempt to bring this by some circuitous route, I will resign and

take the matter to the electorate, who will have their say.

Those feelings are echoed by the families of the prison officers who

lost their lives during the Troubles. This lady's husband was

murdered as he left St Patrick's Cathedral.

There is more than just a name change. How will change in any

major move on? They fail to see it. It is all we have left.

But the Deputy First Minister thinks Unionist politicians are

going over the top about the Prison Service emblems. There should be no

knee-jerk reaction. People need to recognise that fundamental change

within the prison system is absolutely vital for.

One thing to bear in mind is that in political terms, David Ford are

still on probation -- is still on probation. A minister who depends

on Unionist and nationalist support is now at the centre of a

Unionist/nationalist tug-of-war over the emblem.

The Justice Minister David Ford as we three.

The most recent report had 40 recommendations, and it did not

mention symbols like the crown on the badge, or changing HMP. Where

did the idea come from? It was about a fundamental end-to-end

reform of the prison system. That is what has been highlighted. The

team I set-up has brought this together. In the first report, the

need for cultural reform was mentioned, so it has not come out

of nowhere. It is part of the overall issue. Do you have over all

proposals to drop the HM p and the Crown from the badge? There are no

proposals on my desk, but there are clearly issues that have to be

discussed, as we have to look at this reform. Given the response

from Peter Robinson, will you drop such proposal? You played a clip

from the assembly last night, but the last contribution I made, I

stated clearly there were issues that were operational from the

Prison Service, and there are cross-cutting issues regarding the

executive as a whole. Issues like major changes to the symbols on

emblems would be an issue that I would have to talk to other

ministers about. You would be unlikely to push it through? I have

highlighted they are other issues which I have already written two

other ministers about the need for work on a cross-departmental basis.

The executive will have to determine what it sees about an

overall reform package that is needed. Do you accept that for some

people, changing the name would not change anything? Clearly the name

change would be painful for some people. Having been to the Prison

Service Memorial on Friday, for the Remembrance service their... I have

to ensure that the whole justice system is reshaped for the job that

is required for the years ahead. The prison service is part of that.

Do you also have said you are dependent on Unionist support for

your continuing in this role? have known from day one that I

could be removed at any time through a vote in the assembly.

Will that inflow ensure decisions? I will do what I believed to be

best for the people of Northern Ireland. If I judged serious issues

on the basis of whether or not they were politically acceptable to one

section of society, I would do nothing. I am determined to get the

reforms that the society needs. Putting your car through the MoT

can be a nerve-racking and expensive business. It is about to

get tougher. 22 new checks are being proposed to comply with the

EU regulations. With more details, here is Martin Cassidy.

Local MoT centres have never been busier. Thanks to the recession,

many motorists keep their cars longer. For the first time, more

than one million vehicles will be entered for a Test this year, which

has changed little since its introduction in 1975.

These are requirements of the European Union, of which Northern

Ireland is part. For the majority of drivers, this will not be

significant. Brakes will be tested, and warning lights will be tested,

to see if there is some deeper warning with the safety of the car.

The MoT inspectors will add 22 new items to the a checklist. Most

changes will revolve around the electronics of the car, and the

dashboard warning indicators, to make sure they are functioning

properly. Others would be the brakes, where they would be an

increase in efficiency, to 58%. And cars with high-intensity lights,

there will be a test to make sure they have a system that is

functioning proper live. For a new carriages, the MoT test may mean

more business, but owners with plenty of fancy features may think

-- need to think about the implications of a more thorough MOT.

You need to have equipment to diagnose while lights come on to

the dashboard, for instance. will be made before vehicles will

be refused an MoT certificate for failing to meet the new standards.

The price of an MoT will remain unchanged at �30.

There has been a big response to that on the Facebook page. Most

people are not at all happy with the tougher testing. You can join

the discussion on face the. There are to be new inquests into

the deaths of 10 people who were shot dead by the army in west

Belfast 40 years ago. A priest was one of those killed.

In a rare interview, Father Hugh Mullan's brother says he hopes the

new inquest will get to the truth. A August 1971 was one of the

bloodiest months in the Troubles. Violence was widespread after the

security forces began to imprisoned terrorist suspects without trial.

Here is how a BBC correspondent reported what happened in

Ballymurphy. The Bullets turned night into one

of the most dangerous and frightening that I have known.

Among those who died was a woman standing outside her burning house,

and a Roman Catholic priest who was administering the last rites to a

dying man. That priest was Father Hugh Mullan.

Today his brother told me about the events of 40 years ago. He said I

am going to try to get help. Stay where you are. As he got up, he was

shot, then he was shot again. you thought about him a lot over

the last 40 years? Yes. You do. It is natural. He was a good man.

other people were shot dead by the army in Ballymurphy over three days.

Their families have always argued the investigation was a sham. Now

the Attorney-General has decided the inquests into Wall 10 deaths

will be reopened. The Army have always claimed they

opened fire after being shot at by republican paramilitaries. But the

families of those who died dispute that. They say everyone who was

killed was unarmed. -- unarmed civilians. The truth will come, and

that is what it is all about. People said he was a con man, he

was not. The Ministry of Defence says it will -- co-operate with the

Still to come: Join me in Dublin, where I will be talking to the

Shamrock Rovers manager Michael O'Neill, ahead of the Republic of

Ireland's Euro 2012 Corps of fire. All wrapped up for the Christmas

light switch on, Mr Tumble is coming to town.

A stark reminder of how difficult it is for people to find work. It

has emerged that more than 4,000 people went for 150 jobs on offer

at a new company that has set up in Belfast.

The international law firm has moved in to a new office block on

Belfast Waterfront with one of the best views in the city. What the

company did not see coming was the huge demand for the jobs it is

bringing. It has recruited over 150 people, with many more trying to

get a start. 4,500 people applied for the first 150 jobs on offer. On

average, that is the equivalent of 30 people for every single job.

The company offered to hand the grants it will receive to his

London employees to relocate here. The offer was worth �8,000 per head,

but only five opted to leave London for Belfast. It is purely for

personal reasons, it does not have anything to do if the quality of

life in Belfast, which is fantastic. But I think people are personally

to committed to London, in terms of family life, and mortgages, I guess

the stop the low take-up means most of the jobs will go to people from

here who answered -- who answered local job but there since --

answered local advertisements. I sent my CV, hoping for the best.

I was invited to come to the assessment centre, and it was very

tough. But out of all the applications, it is a privilege.

Pupils, parents and staff from Dunmurry High School have

demonstrated outside an education board headquarters in the hopes of

stopping a plan to close their school. Unlike other boards, this

one, the south eastern, has no public representatives and refused

the BBC and members of the public access to the meeting today. Our

education correspondent, Maggie Taggart, was outside.

Dunmurry High School is getting extra support for its teaching and

is predicting a large deficit in a few years, but politicians joined

the school to protest about plans to close it. It special needs

pupils are particularly concerned. Well, to try to find the right

school that handles conditions like, for example, I have autism, so we

will have to find a school I can take care of me. The school was

judged to have too few pupils and following the closure proposal, 17

more have gone since the win. knew that would happen, but we hope

the commissioners will open ears and hearts and listen to what we

have to say. The chief executive of the board met the protesters and

said the decision would be made tomorrow before he went into the

meeting. Since 2006, major decisions for the south-east and

Education and Library Board have been made by a set of commissioners

appointed by the Department of Education. They are in a special

room at the moment discussing the future of those schools that are at

risk. We asked to Widnes that meeting but were refused. The

Minister of Education's has decided to keep the commissioners for the

time being but said any decision made would go to him and then be

open for media scrutiny. Yesterday, the health minister told

us he would consider banning smoking in cars and not just when

children are on board. Tonight ,we look closer at the health dangers.

BBC Newsline's Julian O'Neill talks to campaigners for a ban who have

measured the damage tobacco smoke could be in the confines of a car.

This doctor works for the British Lung Foundation. With a doll as a

property is getting ready to measure the impact of just one

cigarette with a monitor. This measures tiny particles that do

exist in the background atmosphere but they are much more prevalent

when there is second-hand smoke or fumes a range. Joe is our smoker,

who has agreed to take the wheel. The machine gets to work. Smoking

in cars could soon be banned by Stormont. This doctor would welcome

it. Every day he sees children with breathing problems. Particularly

during the winter season we see a lot of bronchitis and asthma and

tobacco smoke is a big factor in a mission to the Children's Hospital.

Back in our car, the experiment is almost over, and even driving with

the windows slightly down, the experts as the reading on the meter

is still high. We have had one driver tried around for a few

minutes and even in that shop bit of time, the levels of already

reached dangerously high levels. It gives us a snap shot into the kind

of exposed that children in Northern Ireland have on a day-to-

day basis and highlights the damage they can potentially take place.

will want is said to launch a public consultation on the issue --

Stormont. The If you're a civil engineer, you may want to go and do

something else for the next few minutes. Today, a scientist told an

international engineering conference in Belfast that

engineers are responsible for the widespread destruction of beaches

and coasts. Professor Andres Cooper says their solutions are short term

and just make the situation worse. Our environment correspondent Mike

McKimm has been investigating the coastal protection game.

There are days when it seemed we do not have enough coastal protection.

But in actual fact, mile upon mile of our coastline is other concrete

or man-made armoury. Hundreds of thousands of tons of it. Often we

drive along blissfully aware of what is keeping the road up and the

sea Ed. Some coastal race cost as much as a motorway per mile. It is

a standing and cheering problem to keeping the sea at bay. But this

man claims that engineers are destroying our coast on a global

scale. They minute there is some land at risk, people get concerned

and theirs was an engineer ready to build a ball. When you pulled a

wall like that you have destroyed and nationally functioning, healthy

ecosystem. It cost money, you have to maintain it for ever and ever,

it destroys the grade between the land and sea. There is no beach to

speak of in places. This is a popular spot in the summer but the

backdrop is rather brutal. But when the engineering is there to protect

a radar houses, you cannot just remove it. Sometimes you are faced

with this choice. You can protect infrastructure and lose a beach or

you can move the infrastructure or relocated and preserve the beach.

We would argue that is a far more sustainable way of looking at

things. Preserve the functioning ecosystem and move the

infrastructure. So we have to decide what sort of a coastline it

is, do we want a natural one, or one like this? One like this costs

a lot of money. The Euro 2012 finals beckon for the Republic of

Ireland. They beat Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the play-offs.

It's the second leg tonight in Dublin - Stephen Watson is there

for us. Is it just a walk in the park?

It should be a formality. I don't think you'll find anyone arriving

here at the Aviva Stadium to think the Republic of Ireland will slip

up. The only way Estonia can spoil this party is if they did to the

Republic what they did to Northern Ireland, and score for my goals

against them, which is very unlikely against a team with the

great defensive record, unbeaten in 10 games. It is a full house and

everybody expecting to see the Republic qualify for their first

major finals in 10 years. They are not hoping, they expect.

It has been 23 years since these Republic of Ireland fans watched

the Irish at the European finals, in a famous win over England.

fortunate enough to score the goal and was my first international goal,

believe it or not. Probably the cameraman did not believe it

either! He would traipsing over John Aldridge, thinking he's got it.

It was a fabulous day. But if you had said to me, way back in 1988,

that Ireland would not control -- qualify for another European tie-up

meant until 2012 I would have thought you were crazy. We were not

given a chance, and the more we were written off, the more we fight

back. That was a fabulous result. I cannot remember a more significant

one or more enjoyable one after that. The last man to lead Ireland

into a major finals believes that Giovanni Trapattoni should continue.

The qualifying campaign has not been the easiest, it was a tough

group, and they have come through it. When you come through you

should be rewarded. I think he will. I do know what will happen with all

the players, there is talk that some of them will retire. He has

done fantastic, a great job. job is not quite compete just yet

but it will be at around 9:30pm tonight. By -- complete.

Joining me is a former international Michael O'Neill.

Surely reported a violin cannot blow this opportunity? The book be

a major design and a rage a surprise if there was to happen.

cannot see them losing by four goals. The team will be well

drilled. They had done the hard work out in Tallinn and tonight is

a formality. Is this the night when Northern Ireland fans look, that

bit of envy and think about what might have been, having lost to

Estonia twice in the group stages? Yes, I can understand that. Two

disappointing results against Estonia. Estonia had the chance in

the play-off but Northern Ireland were particularly poor in one lake.

But it is hopefully something that the Northern Ireland team can learn

from. The job for Northern Ireland is up for grabs. Have you would

yourself out? I have not ruled myself in or Ed. I had my current

job with Shamrock Rovers. My contract ends surely alarming

discussion for my new contract. My future is up in the air and the

Northern Ireland job is very attractive. Whether it is too soon

in my career, some people are so bad. Thanks very much. Northern

Ireland's Under-21 side, which included Newcastle United's Shane

Ferguson in the starting lineup, were in action this afternoon

against Serbia in a Euro qualifier in Coleraine. The Serbs won the

match 2-0, with both goals coming late - in the last ten minutes of

the match. That visit from the Aviva Stadium,

I will be backed by that 10:25pm. Some of the wet and windy weather

is on the way. For the time being, as you saw in Dublin, it is like

that here in Northern Ireland. It is rather cloudy but it is dry.

Tonight temperatures will drop to three or maybe for my degrees for

parts of the West. It will stay dry into tomorrow but eventually as we

go through Wednesday it is the game to become more unsettled. He should

be relatively bright at times. A few spells are drizzle in parts of

the West. But generally speaking, a dry start. Rather cloudy but the

cloud break at times. Perhaps the odd spell of sunshine. Temperatures

staying above average for the time of year at around 11 or 12 degrees.

It is not until the second part of the day there we begin to see a

weather front pushing him from the Atlantic. Overnight he will meet

another one pushing up from the south and it will bring some heavy

rain and especially to parts of the North. Away 90 come as we go into

Thursday but he will not be quite as cold. Thursday gets off to a

fairly decent start. But then the blue is showing you that eventually

it is going to change as we go through to the second part of the

Forget the celebrities of MTV fame - true superstars are arriving in

Belfast this weekend! Justin Fletcher, the actor who plays Mr

Tumble, plus Postman Pat and Fireman Sam! They'll be turning on

the Christmas tree lights outside the City Hall on Saturday. And

they're getting Santa to take a break from working on his Christmas

letters to pay a visit. Natasha Sayee reports.

By now we are unused to the rich and famous from around the world

dropping into Belfast. We have had presidents and superstar switching

on the a Christmas tree lights, but how many of you know this guy? Yes,

if it is Mr Tumble, described to me today as the lady gaga of the told

the world. To be honest, I had not heard of him, but this lot love him.

He makes me laugh. Do your mummy and daddy watching? Mummy thinks

he's so funny. What is the best thing Mr Tumble does? He makes me

laugh. So, he tumbles and he is good for a laugh, but what of the

Lord Mayor know about him. I know he is very popular. I think I've

had more requests for tickets to the Christmas tree switch-on then I

did for the other events. There is enthusiasm amongst the younger

citizens to get down and see Justin Fletcher. I feel now that I know

this children's superstar. But can I hear the song one more time.