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Good evening. The headlines this Friday evening: | :00:20. | :00:27. | |
Two bombs in Londonderry - one in a bicycle by a riverside walk. | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
were lucky today, that these mindless thugs did not kill an | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
innocent member of society. Should taxis get a green light to | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
use city centre bus lanes? Donegal is beautiful and its people | :00:40. | :00:49. | |
are lovely, but this weekend they will be anything but! | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
For one night only - the free arts events on offer - I'm live with the | :00:54. | :00:57. | |
details. We are in for a very chilly night | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
with temperatures close to freezing for some, but another fine day is | :01:00. | :01:07. | |
on the way tomorrow. More details shortly. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Reckless in the extreme is how the police have described an attempted | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
bombing along the River Foyle in Londonderry last night. One device | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
was a booby trap bomb attached to a bicycle which was chained to | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
railings on a public walkway popular with walkers and joggers. | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
The second device was a pipebomb, which had been left in a rucksack | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
nearby and was picked up by a member of Foyle Search and Rescue | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
out on patrol. The Mayor of Derry, Kevin Campbell, says people are | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
outraged and demanding that dissidents stop their campaign of | :01:35. | :01:42. | |
violence. Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish. | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Police say dissident republicans had deadly intent. The Diddy device | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
with the time or was attached to this bicycle that was covered by | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
forensic officers this morning. It was Jane to railings at the back of | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
Derry City council's offices. Police believe it was intended for | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
officers who would arrive at the scene, or for bomb disposal experts | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
who had gone to defuse a device, at a bomb, a close by. This pipe bomb | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
was left in a public place. This is freshers week with a lot of | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
students and the City. We are lucky today that these mindless thugs | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
have not killed him and -- an innocent member of society in the | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
city. The booby-trapped bomb was similar in size to the device which | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
went off inside the Santander Bank in the city centre last year. The | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
pipe bomb was discovered by a group of volunteers from false search and | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
rescue who were patrolling the river bank. One woman picked up the | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
rucksack, but put it down again when she noticed an object inside. | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
Nobody gets paid to do this. People give up their free time to help | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
people in distress. To think their lives are being put in danger by | :03:06. | :03:14. | |
somebody leaving a device like that, for a member of the public to lift. | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
200 staff to work at Derry City Council's administrative | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
headquarters were not able to get into day, and 100 employees at a | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
call centre near by were all so unfair -- were also affected. The | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
owner of this bed and read the City had visitors staying last night, | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
but the tourists had to move to the back of the house. It is a disaster | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
for the town. Any publicity like this is bad for the city. We had | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
people booked in for tonight, but we don't know if they will arrive. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Some of them were staying three nights. A lot of times when | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
something like this happens, believe that a one night. They're | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
frightened. Detectives investigating this incident are now | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
studying CCTV images and are appealing for the help of the | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
public. They want to hear from anyone who noticed any suspicious | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
activity last night to get in touch. Three men have been arrested in | :04:15. | :04:17. | |
Lurgan in a police operation against dissident Republican | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
activity. They were arrested when two cars were stopped at Kiln Road | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
last night and a gun was recovered by the police. Eyewitnesses have | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
said officers surrounded one of the cars and took two men out of it. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
A County Tyrone man who shot and killed his former girlfriend has | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
been sentenced to 16 years in prison. Fred McClenaghan, from | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
Broad Street in Magherafelt, murdered Marion Millican at a | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
laundrette in Portstewart, where she worked, in March last year. The | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
judge said there was evidence McClenaghan had planned the | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
shooting using an untraceable illegal shotgun. It also emerged | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
during the trial that he had attacked her in the past. Speaking | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
outside court today, the victim's daughter described him as an evil | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
man and a monster and described the 16-year jail sentence as too | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
lenient. More now on yesterday's news of a | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
massive multi-million pound order for the Ballymena firm Wrightbus. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
The company was awarded the contract to build 600 vehicles, | :05:12. | :05:19. | |
dubbed Boris Buses, by the operator of London's transport network. It's | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
not yet clear if the order will create any new jobs. The contract | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
is due to be signed next week and more details may emerge then. Today, | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
the news was welcomed by political representatives. | :05:32. | :05:39. | |
This clearly sustains over a 1000 people in this manufacturing plants, | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
and the subsidiary manufacturers. It is about building on that and | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
sustaining it. It is a boost for Northern Ireland. We saw a few days | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
ago the loss of hundreds of jobs at its F G Wilson. That was | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
devastating news for those people. This is really good news enjoy this | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
-- shows that Northern Ireland is open for business. | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
Two provincial teams will contest for the All-Ireland football crown | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
this Sunday in Dublin. Still to come on the programme: Thomas | :06:14. | :06:21. | |
Niblock is in the heartland of the Ulster support. | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
Rory Kavanagh will be playing midfield for Donegal this weekend | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
and we are here at his local primary school where he's in a | :06:29. | :06:36. | |
class of his owner. Now, if you've been driving in | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
Belfast city centre this week, you've probably noticed the new bus | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
lanes that have come into operation. They are designed to speed up | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
public transport, but should they be used by taxis, as well? The move | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
is part of a proposal by the Department of Regional Development | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
to overhaul taxi services in the City, but not everyone is happy | :06:51. | :06:57. | |
with the prospect, as Kevin Sharkey reports. | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
There are two types of taxi services in Belfast, the public | :07:04. | :07:07. | |
hire taxis queue for business and could be flagged down on the street. | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
There can also use bus lanes. Private hire taxis must be booked | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
over the phone and they can't use bus lanes. That could be about to | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
change. From next January they can be flagged down on the street like | :07:22. | :07:27. | |
black taxis. The department wants to let them use bus lanes as well. | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
Like the taxis, there are two types of bus lanes. Into the city they | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
operate at peak traffic times only, while in the city centre there and | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
used all day. This is one of a new number of bus lanes introduced | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
recently. It is meant to be used only by buses and black taxis. The | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
four other taxes are given permission to use it, there is a | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
problem that other motorists are using it illegally. Even though | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
proper policing of the new and old bus lanes remains an issue, the | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
private hire taxis went into this lane. We are looking forward to the | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
private higher taxes being able to use the bus lanes. We think it is a | :08:13. | :08:22. | |
discrimination against us. We hope it goes in our favour. Others, | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
noticeably cyclists, are resisting it. The department says that | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
traffic levels of in bus lanes will double. It makes it a much less | :08:32. | :08:39. | |
attractive place for cyclists to be. If the department is trying to make | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
cycling more attractive, these regulations will potentially be | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
damaging both to those targets. department's consultation closes | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
today, but it will be the end of the year before a final decision is | :08:52. | :09:02. | |
taken. The Next an issue highlighted by one of our viewers. | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
It concerns a scheme which is meant to address a crisis in training for | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
trades. Some employers say the Programme-Led Apprenticeship, or | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
PLA, has become a scourge on the electrical industry - that it leads | :09:11. | :09:17. | |
nowhere and young people aren't getting the qualification they need. | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
Our district journalist Louise Cullen reports. | :09:23. | :09:28. | |
On the way to becoming a fully qualified electrician. We are | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
working on site with an electrician. Be on site electrics tend to be a | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
little different from what you see on a piece of paper. He is on a | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
traditional apprenticeship working with an employer while studying. | :09:43. | :09:49. | |
Because the economic downturn made it harder to find an employer, the | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
department's introduced the programme led of a dish of Skene | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
three years ago. It is mostly classroom-based and leads to a | :09:55. | :10:01. | |
level to qualification, not a level three that the industry recognises. | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
It is an arrangement which allows young people to develop some | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
technical skills, some employability and some transferable | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
skills which will allow them to progress to an apprenticeship and | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
employment at a later date. young person is going through an | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
apprenticeship. That will not be the case. We are seeing signs are | :10:23. | :10:29. | |
that at the moment. It is not going to produce an electrician at the | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
end of the four-year term. With PLA students in the classroom 15 hours | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
week, employers say can be hard to get level three apprenticeships. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
haven't been able to recruit because there is no facility to the | :10:45. | :10:50. | |
employed people on at the traditional routes of the NVQ 3. | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
a statement, the department said it has reminded training suppliers | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
that the programme led apprenticeship shouldn't be | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
actively promoted, but it is a fall-back measure when all other | :11:03. | :11:13. | |
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attempts to get an apprenticeship It is Friday and for many people a | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
night to hit the town. Julie McCullough is in Belfast City | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
Centre. It is culture night. More than 200 | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
events to choose from at a host of strange venues, and it won't cost | :11:33. | :11:42. | |
The motto for the London Olympics was Inspire A Generation, and | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
there's no doubt the medal success of the Coleraine rowers has urged | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
young people in their hometown to follow in their footsteps. This | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
week one of those Olympians returned to his old school to show | :11:54. | :12:04. | |
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its rowing team how it's done. David Maxwell reports. It is cold, | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
wet and very early, but the roars of Coleraine Inst is getting ready | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
to take to the water. An Olympics civil -- this past pupil has | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
returned to give a masterclass. am going to Spain's the day | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
training. Throughout the day, we have got different things for them | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
to talk about. We'll be talking about drugs in sport, supplements, | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
higher approached the sport. It is straight onto the River Bann for a | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
paddle session. Sound easy? Think again. This is continuous rolling | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
for 100 minutes. These guys are getting a test of what it takes to | :12:54. | :13:00. | |
be an Olympian. They have done 10 miles on the water and now it is | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
time for breakfast. The respite does not last long. It is back on | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
the water again for an hour of sprint racing. This is a training | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
regime without mercy. He has to do 300 days a year for four years. | :13:17. | :13:27. | |
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I'll be ready for bed when I get home! 10 years ago he was draining | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
down here, and it just shows that anyone can do it if they have the | :13:36. | :13:43. | |
dedication. This is a school that has already produced a silver and | :13:43. | :13:48. | |
bronze Olympians and it doesn't intend to stop churning them out. | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
We currently have 100 boys participating in rowing. They have | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
picked up the training schedule that Olympians are engaged in an be | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
trained for five days a week. We have three boys could be identified | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
by us and rowing Ireland as potential international roars. | :14:06. | :14:14. | |
the school has high hopes of future success. How could the boys not be | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
inspired from the story of schoolboy amateur to world-class | :14:18. | :14:25. | |
athlete? I wasn't a typical make-up of a roar. I wasn't very strong! It | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
just shows you that it doesn't matter what size and shape you are, | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
if you work hard at its you can achieve something like going to the | :14:34. | :14:42. | |
Olympics. Donegal's Gaelic footballers, the | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
golfer Rory McIlroy and the boxer Carl Frampton are all chasing glory | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
this weekend. Stephen Watson is here. | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
It has been 20 years since Donegal's only All-Ireland victory. | :14:56. | :15:02. | |
They take on Mayo this Sunday in pursuit of Sam Maguire. Thomas | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
Niblock is live in Letterkenny. The question, is can the class of 2012 | :15:09. | :15:19. | |
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emulate that of 1992? It is funny you should mention that, | :15:21. | :15:28. | |
because we're at the primary-school where the teacher is Rory Kavanagh. | :15:28. | :15:34. | |
We're going to sneak in to his classroom. They are singing a | :15:34. | :15:44. | |
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They are normally a very quiet bunch. What has the buzz been like? | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
Fantastic. The only colours you would see in Donegal from a | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
satellite picture would be green and yellow. Having Rory Kavanagh on | :16:31. | :16:40. | |
the staff has been fantastic. is your name? She in. He will win | :16:40. | :16:49. | |
this weekend? Donegal. He is going to win? Donegal is going to win by | :16:49. | :16:58. | |
1000 miles. Others the Donegal is going to win. They have the best | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
team, and Rory Kavanagh. Begin his life from 3:15pm on BBC | :17:07. | :17:17. | |
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television. It is also on Radio Ulster. Who is going to win? ALL: | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
Donegal! It was all smiles between Rory | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
McIlroy and Tiger Woods last night as they went head to head in the | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
opening round of the Tour Championship in Atlanta last night. | :17:28. | :17:31. | |
World number one McIlroy finished three shots behind Woods, and four | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
behind the leader. He is still well in the hunt not just to win the | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
tournament, but the play-off series and a bonus of an amazing $10 | :17:38. | :17:40. | |
million. McIlroy rolled in some impressive putts in his opening | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
round, and has just started round two. | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
Next week he joins Graeme McDowell in the European team in the Ryder | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
Cup. Carl Frampton reckons he is now | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
just two fights away from emulating Rory McIlroy and becoming the best | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
in the world. The Belfast boxer takes on two-time world champion | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
Steve Molitor of Canada in the Odyssey. This afternoon the two | :18:00. | :18:10. | |
fighters went head-to-head. I spent a long time away from my family. My | :18:10. | :18:17. | |
daughter is starting to be aware of me being away edgy get sad. I am | :18:17. | :18:25. | |
going to knock this guy out. Anybody can steer you down and make | :18:25. | :18:31. | |
a mean fees, but in their ring it is the skill that reveals. | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Coleraine have made an impressive start to this year's Irish League | :18:34. | :18:37. | |
campaign. They are currently in second place under the guidance of | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
manager Oran Kearney. Tomorrow, he's up against his old club, and | :18:41. | :18:51. | |
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he's done his homework. The students cured know that their | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
teacher is a man he is used to coming up with the winning formula. | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
Under his guidance, Chorion reached the League Cup final and finished | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
4th in the league last year. He believes they could do better. | :19:10. | :19:15. | |
year I felt our side was a bit young and experienced. He probably | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
punched above her weight at times. To get to the Cup Final in get the | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
experience was great for the lads. I think it has whet the appetite at | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
the club and we would love to go a stage further. Coleraine have | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
fought hard for results on the pitch this season. On paper they | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
should be Ballymena tomorrow, but derby matches can be unpredictable. | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
Ballymena have done very well. They haven't conceded many goals. They | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
are going well. I can see it being the tightest derby game for a long | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
time. They will know tomorrow whether it is a pass or fail with | :19:53. | :20:03. | |
their teacher! That is the sport for tonight. I am | :20:03. | :20:12. | |
off to the Ryder Cup! Now to something that only happens | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
once a year and gives people all over Northern Ireland the chance to | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
sample some arts events for free. Yes, it's Culture Night and our | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
reporter Julie McCullough is live with one of the acts performing | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
later. Julie. We are in a very appropriate venue | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
for this evening's act. Northern Ireland opera is performing pieces | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
from Sweeney told. We will hear more from then it in a couple of | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
minutes. Let me go to the organiser of culture night. Adam, at the top | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
line tonight is that everything is free. For people who do come along, | :20:44. | :20:53. | |
what can they expect? 220 events. There is something for everyone. We | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
have a carnival, children workshops, opera, theatre, and loads of stuff | :20:58. | :21:04. | |
just happening on the streets, street artists, making people can - | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
- Making Belfast come alive. It is not just in Belfast. Where else can | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
people go to take part? There are events all over islands. In | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
Northern Ireland's in Derry and at antrum and Armagh, Strabane and | :21:23. | :21:30. | |
Holywood. Why just in one night and not over a week? That is the magic | :21:30. | :21:40. | |
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of it. If we had half as many We want so much stuff. We will have | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
to leave it there. For now I will leave you with a little taster of | :21:52. | :22:02. | |
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There is plenty happening outside this weekend's! The weather | :22:18. | :22:28. | |
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After sunset, it is going to turn cold, so do bring a coat. It will | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
stay dry. The temperatures will continue to fall. We are expecting | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
some frost to develop. It could drop below freezing in the | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
countryside. The North Coast will not be too bad but temperatures | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
around six degrees. We will get * Dr a cold start for the weekend. | :22:51. | :22:54. | |
Tomorrow will be dry and bright. To begin with there will be some mist | :22:54. | :23:01. | |
and fog, but that will burn away fairly quickly. Plenty of sunshine | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
to enjoy. There will be some clout from time to time. With the | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
sunshine, it will feel pretty pleasant for the time of year. The | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
temperature to see on the map are recorded in the sheered, so if | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
you're out and about in the sunshine, it will feel a bit warmer. | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
Towards the end of the day, we will still have the sunshine. Clear | :23:25. | :23:31. | |
skies again tomorrow night for some of us. They will be more cloud | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
around them tonight. For many towns and cities, not as cold as tonight | :23:35. | :23:44. | |
but you will still feel it. Sunday will get off to a cold start again. | :23:44. | :23:51. | |
We are looking at another dry and bright day. The sun will come out | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
from time to time. Temperatures will stay around 14 degrees. If | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
you're having to the All Ireland final, expected to be dry and | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
bright. It will change as you go towards next week. Low pressure | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
will pushing from the Atlantic and with that we can expect that to | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
turn much more unsettled. At least for the beginning of the week there | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
will be rain to come and the winds will pick up. Do enjoy the sunshine | :24:18. | :24:23. |