14/04/2014 BBC Newsline

Wollaston, the MP who first brought to the attention of parliamentary

authorities the allegations The environment minister says he

will introduce legislation to ban election posters along the route of

next month's Giro D'Italia cycle race. Political parties have been

discussing a voluntary agreement, but Mark H Durkan says it will be

enforced. Mark Simpson reports. The authorities are not taking any

chances. The environment minister will introduce an election poster

ban covering every mile that the cyclists will cover. Some will

choose to put posters up along the route before that but if they do not

have them down by the eighth, we will be bringing them down. Will

there be any penalty for those who keep their posters up? I hope we

will not need to sanction anyone and no-one flights this law. The

reaction to the temporary ban is generally positive. Yeah, why not. I

think banning is the right way to go. I think with so many viewers

worldwide we want to keep the place nice and clean and tidy so it is

good. The countdown has now begun for that big weekend of racing.

There will still be by all accounts the party atmosphere. In Belfast, a

week-long festival is being planned. We are asking people to come down,

have a good time in your own city and best of all be majority of it is

free. We are dressing buildings, painting buildings pent, -- pink.

I'd much there are still 25 days to go until the big race starts but it

is already clear that Northern Ireland is getting into the mood and

more and more people are getting on their bikes. The jury in the trial

of three former directors of the failed Anglo Irish Bank has been

sent home for the night. The Former chairman Sean FitzPatrick, William

McAteer and Pat Whelan deny providing unlawful financial

assistance to some clients to buy shares in Anglo six years ago. The

jury began deliberating on Friday afternoon after hearing ten weeks of

evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Ireland's tallest building -

the Obel in Belfast - has been sold to a New York based property fund

which is reported to have paid "significantly more" than the ?20

million guide price. The 28 storey development on Donegall Quay

contains offices and 280 apartments and was effectively repossessed in

November 2012. It had only been on the market for a month when it was

purchased by the new owner whose name has not, as yet, been made

public. It is a sign of what has been going on for 12 months now. The

market is moving. People are coming in, taking the place of the old

Irish banks that have been in difficulty, that old debt is being

paid off and we are getting fresh money into the markets. It is a good

sign. A man who was being questioned about a dissident republican bomb

attack on a police Land Rover in Belfast has been released

unconditionally. A device exploded as the patrol travelled along the

Falls Road last month. Work was due to begin on the redevelopment of

Casement Park this morning but was held up when members of a social

club in its grounds threatened a sit-in. The situation was later

resolved after talks with the GAA, as Conor Macauley reports. The

renovation of Casement Park and the fate of the social club which has

been there for many years had caused former friends in the football

Association to fall out. On Friday there was a solicitor 's letter

telling them to be out by today when work was due to start. That led to a

sit in. We have been at Casement Park for over 45 years. It was a

place for the eels to meet and socialise. All the profits from the

club went to the County board. -- Gales. It now appears the letter was

a misunderstanding and should not have been issued. This afternoon

after the meeting things have been sorted out to satisfaction. Some

parents have criticised prices charged for merchandise at the

Disney on Ice show at the Odyssey in Belfast over the past few days.

Louise Cullen reports. The date with Donald and Mickey. This father spent

?60 on tickets and looked forward to the big day. He had not planned on

being big prices for popcorn. Another 60 or ?70 could easily have

been spent. The difficulty came when the children saw the merchandise and

gifts that was there for them. Five-year-old son three-year-old, it

is difficult to tell them no. It put a bit of read-out on it. At ?9 for a

frozen ice drink and ?8 for popcorn, if you had brought two children,

paid for refreshments and parking you would have spent nearly ?100 for

a day out. Many agreed on Facebook but some thought it was only to be

expected. The arena would not comment and Disney have not

responded to enquiries but the prices are set by Disney as part of

their overall merchandising. 70 years after he was killed in action,

an RAF man from Aghadowey has been posthumously awarded three war

medals. Howard McQuigg's wartime service was never officially

recognised until a few weeks ago when his sister got a package from

the Ministry of Defence. Our North-East reporter David Maxwell

has the story. New medals for a life lost decades ago. They belong to

this man who left his family home in 1937 to join their force. Two years

later, with the outbreak of war, he took on the role of the there gunner

on bombing raids. In 1941 he ordered one of these aircraft to cripple the

NAT seat War machine in Germany. -- Nazi. All on board were lost. We got

a telegram that said he was missing. Then we did not here for another six

months. Then he was killed. His service was not recognised until

this package arrived one month ago. It was from the Ministry of defence

which are family contacted after hearing a programme on BBC Radio

Ulster last year. For Nancy, they are a precious reminder of her

brother who paid the ultimate price. Now the weather. Good evening. It

has been a fine start to the new week and tomorrow does not look like

a bad day at with clear spells at night it will feel quite cool with

some ground frost. " Comeback in in the second half of the week. It will

be threatening rain on Wednesday. The dry night coming up tonight. It

will be freezing in the rural areas. The touch of brass frost in places.

By the end of the night the wind will shift around to the south or

south-east lifting temperatures higher tomorrow when there will be

more sunshine. It will be fairly sunny from the word go but there

will be a chilly start. The breeze will be quite brisk in the

south-west as it will be for north-west Scotland, a bit more

cloud here coming in off of the North Sea into the east coast of

England and the Pennines. It will also be a cooler day in the far

south of England. For Northern Ireland it could be the east coast

that is a little fresher tomorrow. Inland temperatures will be writing

to the high of 17 Celsius. Into Wheddon state we do get the spell of

rain for a time particularly in the north and west. Other than that it

will stay dry for the rest of the week but cooler. That is all fought

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