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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor. The headlines | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
this Thursday evening. The red carpet rolled out for the most | :00:24. | :00:29. | |
powerful woman in China. What does it mean for trade and jobs you? A | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
man living in England is in court charged with the murder of a | :00:32. | :00:38. | |
Coleraine pensioner 11 years ago. A search of the River Foyle discovers | :00:38. | :00:43. | |
what might be a submarine and it could be declared a war grave. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Banned for an illegal tackle - Ulster rugby is a key player ahead | :00:48. | :00:54. | |
of the European Cup semi-final. I am live on the MS Balmoral as it | :00:54. | :00:59. | |
continues its voyage to remember and we will catch up with Belfast's | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
own titanic honeymooners. And the sun worked hard for us today but | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
another clear night means frost for some of us. I'll have all the | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
weather for you later. The most powerful woman in the Chinese | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
government has just arrived in Northern Ireland for a three day | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
visit. Liu Yandong was met by the First and Deputy First Minister. | :01:22. | :01:26. | |
She will attend a reception at Stormont later. We'll hear from one | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
of the guests attending that shortly. But first, our political | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
correspondent, Gareth Gordon, joins me live from Belfast International | :01:31. | :01:41. | |
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Airport. What's happening there? The Air plane carrying Madam Liu | :01:42. | :01:48. | |
touched down at 5:45pm and among those to meet her were the First | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
and Deputy First Minister. And also here was the DUP Junior Minister | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
Jonathan Bell, who has close connections with China and his | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
children were here to present Madam Liu with a bouquet of flowers and | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
she stepped onto the tarmac. Explain why it all this fuss is | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
being made. That is a good question. I suspect that her name isn't known | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
to many Newsline viewers but this is one very powerful politician. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
She is the most senior female politician in China and a member of | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
the ruling 22 member bureau and she is hotly tipped for promotion in | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
the near future. To give an example of how important this visit is | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
viewed, it's the first time that the red carpet has been officially | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
used at the airport since 1998, when President Clinton touched down. | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
He is among those who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland and there | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
are many people in the administration who hope that Madam | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
Liu and her government will help bring prosperity. It's not about | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
peace but business? Absolutely. China is the world's fastest- | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
growing economy. Everybody in the world wants the peace of the action | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
and we are no different. Madam Liu and her large team is on its way by | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
a convoy and cavalcade to Belfast and it will go to Stormont to hold | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
talks with Martin McGuinness and Peter Robinson and I am sure that | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
trade will be number one on the agenda and also a visit that they | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
plan to make to China in the autumn. Lots to talk about. Another subject | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
many people would like to see on that agenda is Amnesty | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
International wanting the issue of human rights in China to be raised. | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
What I can read up from these news releases, that has not been | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
included? Patrick Corrigan from Amnesty International says that | :03:45. | :03:49. | |
China has an atrocious human-rights record and he suspects Peter | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
Robinson and Martin McGuinness to raise the issue of human rights and | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
he says it is a matter of values and we must not trade human-rights. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Whether or not they intend to do that, it is just conjecture, | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
because we have not been able to ask that question of them. For now, | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
thank you. Part of Liu Yandong's visit will be to encourage trade | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
links with Northern Ireland. Our largest dairy company, United Dairy | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Farmers, already exports products to China. Its chief executive, | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
David Dobbin, is at Stormont, where he'll be attending tonight's | :04:20. | :04:28. | |
reception. What value is that current business to Northern | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
Ireland? For our company alone, we do at least �5 million each year | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
and that is growing by 40% per annum. We are seeing significant | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
growth and good business. Some people might be confused. What do | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
we have that China does not have in regard to business? And dairy | :04:50. | :04:56. | |
products? With 1.3 billion people, they need to import significant | :04:56. | :05:04. | |
amounts of food. And their diet is very much vegetarian and they are | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
in need of protein products from dairy products and as they become | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
more wealthy, they can afford better food and they have been | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
importing larger amounts of dairy product over the last 10 years. | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
What potential do you think we could have across the Northern | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
Ireland economy was stronger links with China? We will see china | :05:24. | :05:30. | |
interested in universities and the technology coming out of that, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
especially in specialist areas. They have environmental challenges, | :05:34. | :05:39. | |
water purification and FG Wilson locally do lots of business on that. | :05:39. | :05:46. | |
Water treatment, infrastructure, IT. Lots of services and goods that the | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
Chinese economy requires because it is growing rapidly and they are | :05:50. | :05:56. | |
still investing heavily. What is your view about the Chinese | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
government and their reputation regarding human rights. Does | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
business mean that is ignored? worked in China for five years and | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
if you meet the Chinese people, they are very friendly and open and | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
I find a Chinese very welcoming. From their viewpoint, they have | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
never had things so that, they're seeing their best standard of | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
living and a more open society and freedom to travel so in many ways | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
it has made significant progress. Perhaps by Western standards there | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
is more way to go but they are in the right direction. Thank you for | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
joining us. A 42-year-old man has been in court charged with the | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
murder of a Coleraine pensioner 11 years ago. Norman Moffatt died in | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
hospital two months after being stabbed. David Maxwell was at this | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
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morning's hearing. James Alexander Matt Cooke, with an address as | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
given at stone-built terrace in Stockport, was arrested earlier | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
this week. He was brought back for questioning and this morning at | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Ballymena Magistrates Court he faced the charge of murdering a | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Norman Moffatt over one decade ago. The pensioner was walking home | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
early in the morning after buying a newspaper. He was between Railway | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Road and Circular Road in Coleraine when stabbed. Mr Moffatt manage to | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
make it back to his house and he was rushed to hospital but he died | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
two months later. Police believe he may simply have been in the wrong | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
place at the wrong time. During the brief appearance, James McCook | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
spoke only to say that he understood the charge and the | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
police officer told the court that he believed he could connect him to | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
the charge. Members of Mr Moffatt's family were at the court and absent | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
was his wife, who died last year without seeing anybody convicted | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
for her husband's murder. James Maggot was remanded in custody to | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
appear at Coleraine caught via videolink on Monday for the bail | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
application. There has been a huge seizure of smuggled cigarettes and | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
Dublin, including 38 million cigarettes with a retail value of | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
nearly 15 million euros. The branded cigarettes were in for 40 | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
ft maritime containers which arrived in Dublin port via | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
Rotterdam. They represent a potential lost to the Exchequer of | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
around 30 million euros. Customs officials say several people have | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
been interviewed and an investigation is going on. It's not | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
clear whether any Mothercare stores in Northern Ireland will be among | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
dozens of shops the firm is closing across the UK. Mothercare, which | :08:31. | :08:36. | |
also runs the Early Learning Centre, has seven local stores. The firm | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
plans to shut 111 shops over the next three years because of falling | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
sales. But Mothercare has said it is not ready to announce which | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
stores are to close. You're watching Newsline. Still to come on | :08:45. | :08:51. | |
the programme. The poignant story of a family at the centre of the | :08:51. | :08:58. | |
Titanic tragedy. And a rare chance to buy a piece of our industrial | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
With the centenary of the Titanic disaster this weekend, we are | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
reporting each night this week from the memorial cruise ship that's | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
sailing the same route. Chris Buckler is on board the Balmoral | :09:12. | :09:22. | |
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and joins us live from the Atlantic Ocean. If you look around, you will | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
see nothing but the sea. We are in the middle of the Atlantic on our | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
way to that memorial site. And we have not seen land for days. Not | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
even one ship. You have to key people entertained and we thought | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
we would bring you a little slice of life. For some it is very | :09:42. | :09:46. | |
serious. Talking about Irish emigration and the history of the | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
Titanic but for others, they are enjoying the Jacuzzi. People | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
learning about things like fruit and vegetable carving and even at | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
Disco. The Balmoral is making good progress and it sails into the | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
Atlantic. Coping With the wind perhaps better than some of the | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
passengers. But there is no doubting the better weather and | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
people are making the most of it. Although a traditional game of | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
shuffle board is only a brief distraction. The talk is of the | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
Titanic on every deck. I really like Star Trek for adults. It is | :10:20. | :10:30. | |
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like a convention. All these people know so much! Lots of things going | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
on is quite serious, like lectures on the history of the Titanic. At | :10:35. | :10:45. | |
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the other side of the ship... Well, you can see for yourself. There has | :10:45. | :10:55. | |
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been line dancing. Ballroom dancing. Irish dancing. As you can tell, | :10:56. | :11:03. | |
lots of dancing! But away from the traditional activities, there is a | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
focus on the Titanic. Particularly when it comes to shopping. Their | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
shared love of the ship means a lot, particularly to Derek and Glyn | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
Chambers. They married in Belfast on Friday in a themed wedding. And | :11:21. | :11:28. | |
this is their honeymoon. This is ideal, this is our dream. You could | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
not ask for anything better. Fantastic telling everybody about | :11:32. | :11:41. | |
Titanic and Belfast. Once we get this over, it is business as usual. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
There are reminders of the reason for this voyage everywhere, even | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
playing movies into all of the cabins. Outside, the seating area... | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
For some of the first class passengers, the accommodation | :11:54. | :12:00. | |
includes 25 ft balconies. He had the world's largest royal suites on | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
cruise liners and we enjoy the luxury. Like a lot of people, we | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
like to love and comfort as well. The there was luxury in 1912 but it | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
would have been very different in that time of the unsinkable Molly | :12:12. | :12:18. | |
Brown. Up and down and up and down... This might be an | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
impersonation of one of the most famous passengers on board the | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
Titanic but this voyage and everything on it is intended to be | :12:24. | :12:30. | |
nothing less than a tribute. And the memorial services are on Sunday. | :12:30. | :12:40. | |
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How far away are you? We are around 900 nautical miles away from the | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
site were the Titanic sank and with the wreckage still lying there. | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
There is plenty of fun on board the screws, people enjoying themselves. | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
But make no mistake - this is a journey for so many passengers and | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
when you walk around, you get a sense of growing reflection as they | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
make their way towards the spot on Sunday and you have little groups | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
of people gathering, often the people whose relatives were on | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
board the Titanic, particularly those who died on board, and they | :13:07. | :13:13. | |
are just having chats, people want to discuss, informally and formally, | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
and to get a sense of those shared pieces of history, and together | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
they want to find some trace of connection between each other as | :13:21. | :13:29. | |
they come together. Thank you. More from Chris Buckler tomorrow. The | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
Thomas Andrews, who helped designed the Titanic, lost his life on the | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
ship. He's remembered as a hero as he helped others get into lifeboats. | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
The naval architect left behind a young wife and child. In an | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
exclusive interview for Newsline, a daughter of his widow gives us an | :13:44. | :13:50. | |
insight into the private life of the famous the shipbuilder. She | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
spoke to Sarah Travers. The -- the famous shipbuilder. He became the | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
hero of all the heroes on board the Titanic. Gallant to the end. Once | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
he realised the ship was done, Thomas Andrews met his fate bravely, | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
giving up his own life to save other men's wives and children. | :14:12. | :14:18. | |
That night, his own wife, Helen, or Nellie, slept, oblivious to the | :14:18. | :14:26. | |
horrors unfolding. She never really spoke about it. And she never | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
mentioned the tragedy but on one occasion, I was talking to her. And | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
she said that she hoped that the wreck would be left as a memorial | :14:37. | :14:43. | |
to all of the people who died on the ship. 100 years on and I have | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
come to meet nellies youngest child. Now in her late 80s, Vera Morrison | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
can reveal for the first time wonderful memories and stories | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
about the woman who captured not only the heart of Thomas Andrews | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
but also her father us. Another giant in the world of shipbuilding. | :15:02. | :15:06. | |
Henry Harland, from Harland and Wolff. Andrews and Highland would | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
have known each other well. They both courted Nellie, who came from | :15:11. | :15:15. | |
another prosperous family, the barbers. The story passed down is | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
that many could not decide on which man to marry until her mother made | :15:19. | :15:27. | |
virtues. She picked Thomas. On Friday 24th March, 1906, Thomas | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
proposed. By all accounts, she was stunned into silence and did not | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
given the answer she was hoping for. My idea nelly... I cannot tell you | :15:38. | :15:44. | |
how much it grieves me to give you any annoyance last at the point You | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
acted wisely when you had any doubt. I am alone to blame. You are ever | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
affectionate and loving friend, Thomas Andrews. Eventually, she got | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
over her shock and agreed to marry Thomas. This is my mother's | :16:03. | :16:11. | |
engagement ring. A goodness, and this is priceless when it comes to | :16:11. | :16:16. | |
sentimental value? I think so. The two years after the wedding, they | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
had a baby daughter, L Bale. However, little did I do know that | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
they're happy world would soon come to an end. Shattered by Titanic and | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
the loss of Thomas. Nellie was heartbroken but chose not to focus | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
on her own grief but on the grief of others. She was totally | :16:36. | :16:44. | |
devastated. She was very fond of the parents of an Armagh and | :16:44. | :16:52. | |
describe them as being like a second set of parents. And she was | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
trying to just console them. When she herself must have been | :16:57. | :17:03. | |
devastated. The story does not end there. Despite a broken heart, five | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
years after the death of Thomas, many would marry again. To none | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
other than her old suitor, Henry hardened. They went on to have four | :17:12. | :17:17. | |
children, including the Vieira. But it was only as an adult that Vera | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
began to realise important connection to Titanic and her | :17:21. | :17:28. | |
mother's first husband, Thomas Andrews. He told an LA that when | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
they were driving out of the shipyard of one-day together, the | :17:33. | :17:40. | |
workers were coming out and he said, these are my mates. The that he was | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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And you can hear more from Vera Morrison in our commemorative | :17:52. | :17:59. | |
Titanic programme this Sunday on BBC Two, it starts at 6:20am. We | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
will take you to the memorial services in the North Atlantic and | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
Belfast. The programme will also be shown on the big screen at Belfast | :18:08. | :18:13. | |
City Hall and the Guildhall in Londonderry. It will also be | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
screened live on our special Titanic website. Don't forget, we | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
are on Twitter. You can follow those at cache. -- hash?. -- | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
@bbctitanic100. There is another chance to bid for | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
some of our industrial heritage. A DeLorean, built in Cavan, is up for | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
auction. It means there has been plenty of interest. | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
It looks fine in the spring sunshine and it is in great | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
condition. The DeLorean DMC-12 still has that magic. This product | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
of the short-lived 80s dream of a local car industry. Although it was | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
built with great effort and fierce pride, it rolled off the production | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
line to mixed reviews and very quickly into history. It had a much | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
longer life as a collector's item. Auctioneers are delighted when one | :19:09. | :19:16. | |
turns up for sale. This one has only covered 16,500 miles. That's | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
the big attraction for people. It has never been out of Northern | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
Ireland and it's an original car, it hasn't had anything done to it | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
after market. There has been interest from all over the world. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
Some overseas hopefuls will be bidding online. It is expected to | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
sell for around �20,000. The auction started just as BBC | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
Newsline came on air. They expect the car to go under the hammer at | :19:41. | :19:51. | |
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about 7 o'clock. That is just after Back to the Future! The award- | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
winning television series game of thrones will be returning to | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
Northern Ireland. The American television company HBO have | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
commissioned a third series, which will be recorded and produced in | :20:11. | :20:18. | |
studios in Belfast and Bambridge. Ulster rugby says it will not be | :20:18. | :20:23. | |
appealing the four week suspension handed down to John Earth Hour. It | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
follows a dangerous tackle in the quarter-final against Munster. It | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
means he will miss the semi-final against Edinburgh at the end of the | :20:31. | :20:37. | |
month. -- John Afoa. Here's the World Cup winner who has | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
been instrumental in Ulster's success. So, a month on the | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
sidelines for John FOM is a big setback. He attended a disciplinary | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
hearing in Dublin today, accompanied by David Humphreys. It | :20:52. | :20:57. | |
was to explain this tackle on Felix Jones. Competition officials | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
decided it was dangerous play and they initially handed down a seven- | :21:01. | :21:06. | |
week ban. However, they took into account his disciplinary record as | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
a professional rugby player. He has never been sighted or sent off in | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
his career before. The ban was reduced to four weeks. It's still | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
rules him out of the Edinburgh game. It's not just about the scrummage, | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
he brings other aspects to the game. His distribution, his ball-handling | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
skills, his general open field play sets him apart from anything else | :21:28. | :21:33. | |
out there at the moment. He would be a major loss. The suspension | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
also means that he will miss Ulster's next two games against | :21:40. | :21:50. | |
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Cavan's young footballers have retained their title, but the win | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
has been overshadowed by the resignation of their senior manager, | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
Val Andrews. It follows a meeting by senior players on Tuesday. They | :21:59. | :22:05. | |
called for his dismissal. This was a Val Andrews's second | :22:05. | :22:10. | |
spell in charge of Cavan. Having worked alongside Terry Highland | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
last year, the Dubliner took sole control this season. There was | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
little to celebrate during his tenure. They were heavily defeated | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
in the Ulster championship. Last weekend they narrowly avoided | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
relegation to Division Four of the National League. With just over a | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
month to go until their opening championship game against Donegal, | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
the timing of his departure is far from ideal. Even more peculiar, the | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
announcement comes less than 24 hours after the county lifted back- | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
to-back Under 21 provincial titles. Nobody can predict what the future | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
holds. If we keep up the hard work and effort, hopefully it will come | :22:52. | :23:00. | |
our way. They are going to have to be patient and allow Cavan to build | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
for the future. They have enjoyed unprecedented under-age success | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
over the past 12 months. The challenge for the next county | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
manager is to translate that winning form on to the senior stage. | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
It is thought a wreck discovered at the bottom of the River Foyle could | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
be a submarine dating back to the Second World War. The environment | :23:22. | :23:25. | |
minister has called for work to be carried out urgently to see if it | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
is a war grave. In case there are unexploded munitions, divers have | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
been asked to avoid the area. So far it has only been seen on sonar | :23:35. | :23:44. | |
Could this stretch of water on the River Foyle hide a secret that has | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
been submerged for decades? These are the images that sparked an | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
investigation after divers discovered what they beat a | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
submarine -- what may be a submarine dating back to the Second | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
World War. The City was a major base in the back of the Atlantic. | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
Images from a sonar scan indicate that some sort of vessel lies | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
beneath. That discovery was made a fortnight ago. We initially started | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
the scan and the boys came down from Cork to view the images. It | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
was a pleasant surprise to find there is something down there that | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
looks like a submarine. We could have a Titanic on the River Foyle. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
Nobody knows yet. We are almost sure it is a submersible of some | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
sort. What kind and he won't do it, when did it go down, how did it go | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
down? Until further investigations are carried out, the Northern | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
Ireland Environment Agency has recommended no diving takes place. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
If it is a submarine, then we do not want a Wacky Races scenario | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
where everybody is going down and having a look, maybe taking bits | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
from it. If they could hold back until it has been determined what | :24:56. | :25:03. | |
it is and whether it is. Next week it is hoped that the mystery of | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
what lies beneath the River Foyle Now, champion golfer Darren Clarke | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
has married his fiancee, Alison Campbell, who runs a model agency | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
business in Belfast. The wedding was at a beach in the Bahamas, | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
where the couple have a holiday home. According to his website, the | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
ceremony was a private affair attended by family and friends, | :25:29. | :25:33. | |
including Portrush called star grey McDowell, who introduced the couple | :25:33. | :25:38. | |
three years ago. -- Graham McDowell. But a lot of people have been | :25:38. | :25:48. | |
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commenting on our Facebook page. We may not have weather like the | :25:51. | :26:01. | |
Bahamas today, but it was pretty No difference, really. Adjust the | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
temperature! About 20 degrees, that's all. We did have lots of | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
lovely sunshine today. A lovely evening out there at the moment. | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
Temperatures today get up to about 20 degrees. They are going to drop | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
a little bit. Well, actually quite a lot over the course of the | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
evening. If we look at the satellite picture you can see that | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
Northern Ireland is sitting in the sunshine. Many parts of central and | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
southern Ireland, many parts of Britain, had showers today. But we | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
stayed shower free. Clearer skies will continue into the evening. We | :26:33. | :26:38. | |
had a couple of nice tweets. Bush Mills looking lovely in the | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
sunshine. It is sunny at the moment, the temperatures are going to fall | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
quite quickly. Most places will stay dry and clear. The frost, as | :26:46. | :26:53. | |
you can see, minus one or minus two could be on the cards. As well as | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
having a chilly start with some frost around tomorrow, the showers | :26:56. | :27:00. | |
will be back as well. Because it will be told they could even be a | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
little bit of iciness first thing. So, these are the kinds of clouds | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
we will be getting tomorrow again, these towering clouds called QBE | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
load members. They can bring a bit of hail and thunder. There will be | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
some showers initially in the east. Take your umbrella with you. | :27:21. | :27:27. | |
Elsewhere, sunshine before off the showers pushed across western areas. | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
One or two of them could be on the sharp side during the early | :27:31. | :27:36. | |
afternoon. Temperatures a little bit down today, nine or ten degrees. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
With some showers overhead it will feel colder than today with a more | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
noticeable breeze. We should see the showers gradually fading away | :27:43. | :27:47. | |
again late in the afternoon with some sunshine returning. It will be | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
another chilly a night tomorrow night. Bear that in mind if you are | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
out and about. Cold, frosty nights to come. Most of Saturday will be | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
dry. Sunday looks like being pretty decent. Light wind and horrible on | :28:00. | :28:08. | |
A reminder of the stories making the headlines: The most powerful | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
woman in China has arrived here, a short time ago, for a three-day | :28:13. | :28:18. | |
visit. Liu Yandong will be entertained at a reception at | :28:18. | :28:22. | |
Parliament Buildings in Stormont. A man who has been living in | :28:22. | :28:26. | |
England has appeared in court charged with the murderer of the | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
Coleraine pensioner Norman Moffatt 11 years ago. | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
Our late summary is on BBC One at 10.25. Just a reminder that our | :28:36. | :28:40. |