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acquitted last week of murdering PC Blakelock. Here on One we can now

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Hello, and welcome to BBC Newsline. There's relief for many families

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tonight as a number of residential care homes which had been earmarked

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for closure have been told they'll remain open. Health minister Edwin

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Poots delivered the news today, as our health correspondent

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Marie-Louise Connolly reports. On a whistle-stop tour this

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afternoon Edwin Poots visited four residential care homes. They were

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wet lands, Thackeray, Rose Dale and Pine Wood. In each of the homes the

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Health Minister told residents that it is his wish they should continue

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living there, so long as they are physically capable of staying within

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that home. He also told staff that it is his wish they should retain

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their jobs. There was a public outcry last year,

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when it emerged that some of the Health Trusts had visited the care

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homes, telling residents and their families that there was a very

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strong possibility that the care homes were earmarked for closure. At

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that time we spoke to families such as Josie McCann, whose mother turned

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100 last week, in Thackeray care home and today she has told BBC

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Newsline that she and other families and staff are totally elated by what

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the Health Minister has told them. While the future of other

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residential care homes is still uncertain, at least for many

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families tonight, in Northern Ireland, this is good new, news that

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is very much welcomed. Two men who were arrested during a

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major security operation in County Tyrone yesterday have been charged

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with theft and going equipped for theft. They are to appear in court

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in Omagh next month. A political debate has started

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following the Secretary of State's comments on dealing with the past.

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Teresa Villiers said there's too much focus on killings carried out

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by the state, and not enough on paramilitaries. Unionists have

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reacted favourably, but nationalists have accused her of interfering.

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Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. Northern Ireland's

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past continues to infect its present. Putting pressure on

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policing and justice, and making it harder for politicians to agree. So

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the Secretary of State says it is time for a new approach. More focus

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on the role of paramilitary, less on that of state forces. It was meant

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to provide some reassurance for those who are anxious about process,

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potentially really being one-sided, to say that actually, this is a real

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opportunity to create a process which is objective, which is

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balanced, transparent, which is accountable, which is historically

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accurate. She outlined her ideas for an audience that included the four

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church leaders, but news had got out and waiting for her were some people

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whose relatives were shot dead in 1971. An incident known as the

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Ballymurphy massacre. Why should she signal -- single anybody out, it has

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to go across the board? Her view found favour with unionists. I think

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what you do is you make all innocent victims equal. At the moment those

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victims are paramilitary groups feel they are forgotten and ignored.

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Among nationalists there is concern. I found it extraordinary, if I could

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say this, that she would interfere in such a way, as to say not look at

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the past in an objective way, not look at victims and survives as

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individuals, but she is instructing from her point of view, that they

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must have a bigger emphasis on what she would call paramilitary killings

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as opposed to state killings. The Secretary of State says this is her

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attempt to move politics in Northern Ireland on, but what respects

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progress for one side, in this case unionist is seen as a step backwards

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by nationalists. Meanwhile, it has emerged that the

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Victims Commissioner, Kathryn Stone, is stepping down after 18 months to

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take up a new post in England. She said the work she has been doing

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would carry on. There is a lot of work to do. The Commission is

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supported by the victims forum, there is a three year work programme

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in place and that will continue. With a new commissioner in due

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course. This has been a very challenging

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role but a very important role, and row role I feel uniquely privileged

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to have prayed a small part in. Responding to the announcement, Mark

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Thompson of the victims' group Relatives for Justice said she'd

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done much to improve services for those families who'd been bereaved

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and those who were injured. If we can't have Governments and

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politicians get to grips this this, it was unfair to act the

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Commissioner to do it. Her legacy was round the services and it is

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good. We are sorry to see her go and we wish her well.

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A court in Dublin has acquitted the former chairman of the Anglo-Irish

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Bank Sean Fitzpatrick of illegally supporting the bank's share price.

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The jury will continue its deliberations on charges faced by

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two other former executives of the bank in the morning. Speaking after

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the verdict, Mr Fitzpatrick appealed for privacy for himself and his

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family. I now simply ask that the courtesy extended to me, and my

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family, during this trial, by the media, will be maintained, and the

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privacy of my family, which has been intruded on over the past six years

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will now cease. A high-profile republican accused of

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murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing has been refused bail.

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During a high court hearing today, a judge was told information regarding

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Seamus Daly's alleged involvement wasn't new, but police had been

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trying to find him for five years. Prosecutors claimed Daly had been

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living "under the radar", close to the border, before being arrested

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last week. Ho cede in the last 14 years the evidence had been analysed

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an conclusions reached previously that it was

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In football, Linfield have warned their fans that all variations of

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The Billy Boys song are now deemed unacceptable. Insufficient. The club

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said that if the song is aired at matches in the future, it would lead

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to severe penalties, including having to play games behind closed

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doors. Mervyn Jess reports. The Billy Boys has long been a song sung

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by sport es after football matches involving Lynn feed. Now, the club

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says it has to stop. The move follows Linfield and Cliftonville

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successfully appealing punishments handed out by the Irish FA our

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sectarian chanting at the County Antrim shield final last October. It

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was found the associations disciplinary committee breached its

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own procedure. In a statement Linfield said all variations of The

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Billy Boys are now deemed unacceptable. And warned that they

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could lead to severe punitive sanctions against the club. A former

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player, who is now a director in a new company has welcomed the club's

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statement. Probably it Linfield will find it is very difficult to

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enforce. If the message goes out, and the crowd are properly stewarded

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for example, then I would certainly hope and my fellow directors would

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hope there would be less and less of it, particularly at win son park.

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Linfield has warned any sports founded singing The Billy Boys could

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face a lifetime ban as well as being reported to the police.

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And just before we have a look at the weather, Belfast Zoo is

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celebrating the birth of a second baby gorilla. Although this little

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bundle was born on Mother's Day, it's not yet known whether it's a

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boy or a girl, as mum Kamili has been holding her baby close. Both

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mother and the new arrival are doing well, and big brother Baako is happy

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too at the prospect of a new playmate. Now let us get the

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weather. Hello. Good evening. It has been as

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cheery today with the cloud rolling in it. Will stay with us tonight. A

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few showers at first, although they will tend to taper away and it

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should dry up for the second half of the night it will be mild with lows

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of six to eight degrees, into tomorrow, we are left with that

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legacy of cloud for much of the day, and again, there will be a few

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showers appearing on the scene, mainly across parts of the north and

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west tomorrow morning. Across the Republic of Ireland, well, a lot of

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cloud but mainly dry here, as it will be across southern Scotland,

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and much of England and Wales, but for the south and south-east of

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England it stays fine, with warm spells of sunshine. Temperatures up

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to 20 degrees. For central and northern Scotland, some sunshine

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here too, but that I have cool winds blowing and there will be be a few

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showers. For Northern Ireland in the afternoon we will find a few showers

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drifting inland but many places avoiding them and staying dry. It

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will feel cool in that north-westerly breeze, with highs of

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11 or 12 degrees. At least there are signs of some brightness developing

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as when he had to the evening. As with high pressure in charge for the

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Easter weekend it is looking good. A lot of dry weather for Northern

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Ireland. For England and Wales low pressure moves in, that is going to

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bring wet and windy weather. There are uncertainties about it, but it

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looks as though it isn't going to quite reach Northern Ireland. . So

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it looks as though the fine weather will hold for much of the Easter

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break. That rain perhaps not arriving until night-time on Easter

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Sunday. That is it for now, you can keep

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up-to-date with News Online and follow this programme on Facebook

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and Twitter. Good night.

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