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acquitted last week of murdering PC Blakelock. Here on One we can now | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello, and welcome to BBC Newsline. There's relief for many families | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
tonight as a number of residential care homes which had been earmarked | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
for closure have been told they'll remain open. Health minister Edwin | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
Poots delivered the news today, as our health correspondent | :00:18. | :00:18. | |
Marie-Louise Connolly reports. On a whistle-stop tour this | :00:19. | :00:30. | |
afternoon Edwin Poots visited four residential care homes. They were | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
wet lands, Thackeray, Rose Dale and Pine Wood. In each of the homes the | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
Health Minister told residents that it is his wish they should continue | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
living there, so long as they are physically capable of staying within | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
that home. He also told staff that it is his wish they should retain | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
their jobs. There was a public outcry last year, | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
when it emerged that some of the Health Trusts had visited the care | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
homes, telling residents and their families that there was a very | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
strong possibility that the care homes were earmarked for closure. At | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
that time we spoke to families such as Josie McCann, whose mother turned | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
100 last week, in Thackeray care home and today she has told BBC | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Newsline that she and other families and staff are totally elated by what | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
the Health Minister has told them. While the future of other | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
residential care homes is still uncertain, at least for many | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
families tonight, in Northern Ireland, this is good new, news that | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
is very much welcomed. Two men who were arrested during a | :01:35. | :01:43. | |
major security operation in County Tyrone yesterday have been charged | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
with theft and going equipped for theft. They are to appear in court | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
in Omagh next month. A political debate has started | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
following the Secretary of State's comments on dealing with the past. | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
Teresa Villiers said there's too much focus on killings carried out | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
by the state, and not enough on paramilitaries. Unionists have | :01:59. | :02:00. | |
reacted favourably, but nationalists have accused her of interfering. | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. Northern Ireland's | :02:03. | :02:14. | |
past continues to infect its present. Putting pressure on | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
policing and justice, and making it harder for politicians to agree. So | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
the Secretary of State says it is time for a new approach. More focus | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
on the role of paramilitary, less on that of state forces. It was meant | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
to provide some reassurance for those who are anxious about process, | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
potentially really being one-sided, to say that actually, this is a real | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
opportunity to create a process which is objective, which is | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
balanced, transparent, which is accountable, which is historically | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
accurate. She outlined her ideas for an audience that included the four | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
church leaders, but news had got out and waiting for her were some people | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
whose relatives were shot dead in 1971. An incident known as the | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
Ballymurphy massacre. Why should she signal -- single anybody out, it has | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
to go across the board? Her view found favour with unionists. I think | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
what you do is you make all innocent victims equal. At the moment those | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
victims are paramilitary groups feel they are forgotten and ignored. | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
Among nationalists there is concern. I found it extraordinary, if I could | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
say this, that she would interfere in such a way, as to say not look at | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
the past in an objective way, not look at victims and survives as | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
individuals, but she is instructing from her point of view, that they | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
must have a bigger emphasis on what she would call paramilitary killings | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
as opposed to state killings. The Secretary of State says this is her | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
attempt to move politics in Northern Ireland on, but what respects | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
progress for one side, in this case unionist is seen as a step backwards | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
by nationalists. Meanwhile, it has emerged that the | :04:02. | :04:11. | |
Victims Commissioner, Kathryn Stone, is stepping down after 18 months to | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
take up a new post in England. She said the work she has been doing | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
would carry on. There is a lot of work to do. The Commission is | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
supported by the victims forum, there is a three year work programme | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
in place and that will continue. With a new commissioner in due | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
course. This has been a very challenging | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
role but a very important role, and row role I feel uniquely privileged | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
to have prayed a small part in. Responding to the announcement, Mark | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
Thompson of the victims' group Relatives for Justice said she'd | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
done much to improve services for those families who'd been bereaved | :04:49. | :04:54. | |
and those who were injured. If we can't have Governments and | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
politicians get to grips this this, it was unfair to act the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
Commissioner to do it. Her legacy was round the services and it is | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
good. We are sorry to see her go and we wish her well. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
A court in Dublin has acquitted the former chairman of the Anglo-Irish | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
Bank Sean Fitzpatrick of illegally supporting the bank's share price. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
The jury will continue its deliberations on charges faced by | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
two other former executives of the bank in the morning. Speaking after | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
the verdict, Mr Fitzpatrick appealed for privacy for himself and his | :05:21. | :05:30. | |
family. I now simply ask that the courtesy extended to me, and my | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
family, during this trial, by the media, will be maintained, and the | :05:38. | :05:47. | |
privacy of my family, which has been intruded on over the past six years | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
will now cease. A high-profile republican accused of | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
murdering 29 people in the Omagh bombing has been refused bail. | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
During a high court hearing today, a judge was told information regarding | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
Seamus Daly's alleged involvement wasn't new, but police had been | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
trying to find him for five years. Prosecutors claimed Daly had been | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
living "under the radar", close to the border, before being arrested | :06:08. | :06:21. | |
last week. Ho cede in the last 14 years the evidence had been analysed | :06:22. | :06:26. | |
an conclusions reached previously that it was | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
In football, Linfield have warned their fans that all variations of | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
The Billy Boys song are now deemed unacceptable. Insufficient. The club | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
said that if the song is aired at matches in the future, it would lead | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
to severe penalties, including having to play games behind closed | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
doors. Mervyn Jess reports. The Billy Boys has long been a song sung | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
by sport es after football matches involving Lynn feed. Now, the club | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
says it has to stop. The move follows Linfield and Cliftonville | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
successfully appealing punishments handed out by the Irish FA our | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
sectarian chanting at the County Antrim shield final last October. It | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
was found the associations disciplinary committee breached its | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
own procedure. In a statement Linfield said all variations of The | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
Billy Boys are now deemed unacceptable. And warned that they | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
could lead to severe punitive sanctions against the club. A former | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
player, who is now a director in a new company has welcomed the club's | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
statement. Probably it Linfield will find it is very difficult to | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
enforce. If the message goes out, and the crowd are properly stewarded | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
for example, then I would certainly hope and my fellow directors would | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
hope there would be less and less of it, particularly at win son park. | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Linfield has warned any sports founded singing The Billy Boys could | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
face a lifetime ban as well as being reported to the police. | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
And just before we have a look at the weather, Belfast Zoo is | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
celebrating the birth of a second baby gorilla. Although this little | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
bundle was born on Mother's Day, it's not yet known whether it's a | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
boy or a girl, as mum Kamili has been holding her baby close. Both | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
mother and the new arrival are doing well, and big brother Baako is happy | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
too at the prospect of a new playmate. Now let us get the | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
weather. Hello. Good evening. It has been as | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
cheery today with the cloud rolling in it. Will stay with us tonight. A | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
few showers at first, although they will tend to taper away and it | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
should dry up for the second half of the night it will be mild with lows | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
of six to eight degrees, into tomorrow, we are left with that | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
legacy of cloud for much of the day, and again, there will be a few | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
showers appearing on the scene, mainly across parts of the north and | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
west tomorrow morning. Across the Republic of Ireland, well, a lot of | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
cloud but mainly dry here, as it will be across southern Scotland, | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
and much of England and Wales, but for the south and south-east of | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
England it stays fine, with warm spells of sunshine. Temperatures up | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
to 20 degrees. For central and northern Scotland, some sunshine | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
here too, but that I have cool winds blowing and there will be be a few | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
showers. For Northern Ireland in the afternoon we will find a few showers | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
drifting inland but many places avoiding them and staying dry. It | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
will feel cool in that north-westerly breeze, with highs of | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
11 or 12 degrees. At least there are signs of some brightness developing | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
as when he had to the evening. As with high pressure in charge for the | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
Easter weekend it is looking good. A lot of dry weather for Northern | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
Ireland. For England and Wales low pressure moves in, that is going to | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
bring wet and windy weather. There are uncertainties about it, but it | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
looks as though it isn't going to quite reach Northern Ireland. . So | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
it looks as though the fine weather will hold for much of the Easter | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
break. That rain perhaps not arriving until night-time on Easter | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Sunday. That is it for now, you can keep | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
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and Twitter. Good night. | :10:00. | :10:02. |