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That is all the sport, back to you. That is it from us, | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
Good evening. The Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, has been | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
released from custody this evening without charge and a file will be | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
sent to the Public Prosecution Service. Mr Adams has been | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
questioned in Antrim PSNI Station since last Wednesday evening after | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
he was arrested in connection with the murder of Jean McConville, who | :00:22. | :00:25. | |
was abducted and shot by the IRA in 1972. We now go live to our | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
reporter, Claire Savage, who is at Antrim Police Station. I can confirm | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
that Gerry Adams has been released from police custody but he remains | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
in the police station here in Antrim behind me. A file has been sent to | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
the Public Prosecution Service and it will be up to them to decide to | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
choose to take any action against Mr Adams. Within the past few minutes, | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
I can report that the head of the PPS, he will step aside and will not | :01:00. | :01:05. | |
be looking at this. He will give it to his deputy because at one point, | :01:06. | :01:10. | |
he was the solicitor for Gerry Adams. Earlier, he got a visit from | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
Gerry Kelly, who said that Mr Adams had been well looked after I custody | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
staff and Mr Adams felt his arrest was politically motivated. As Mervyn | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Jess reports, the political debate continues. This morning on the | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
Sunday Politics programme, the allegation of political policing was | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
the subject of debate, with all the main parties slugging it out. Gerry | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
Kelly visited him at Antrim Police Station and afterwards he reaffirmed | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
his position on the arrest. Like myself and other members of Sinn | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
Fein, who believe this was political, the extension of this was | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
political and we're worried about the damage this might be doing to | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
the image of policing. It has been mishandled in that fashion. The | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
other main parties have been giving their views on the circumstances of | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
the arrest. Of course people have the right to criticise if they think | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
the police have got something wrong but to then make that mighty leap | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
from criticism, and there are ways of dealing with that through the | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
Policing Board, to suggesting that you might withdraw support for the | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
police, that is a very serious matter indeed and that is something | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
that the DUP would not contemplate going and I hope Sinn Fein will not. | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
This round of default institutions following St Andrews in 2006, that | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
was based on Sinn Fein buying into support for policing and if they are | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
in anyway moving off at ground, we are in crisis. Proper crisis? Proper | :02:46. | :02:54. | |
crisis. The SDLP Alliance say there is no evidence of political | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
interference around the detention of the Sinn Fein President. I see the | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
fact that Gerry Adams presented himself to the police timing, and | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
the timing was his, so I find it hard to justify when there would be | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
any appropriate time to arrest a political leader. What would be | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
political is that they felt they were in a position to arrest Gerry | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Adams and they were unable to do so. It is very clear that Gerry Adams | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
offered to help the police with their enquiries and it is steadily | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
rich for Sinn Fein to complain that the police have taken them up on | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
that offer. A decision on whether Gerry Adams will face further action | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
rests with the Public Prosecution Service. We are expecting Gerry | :03:36. | :03:42. | |
Adams to leave through these gates at any moment, there are a number of | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
loyalist protesters present so we are not expecting him to come and | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
speak to the media. We have been told there will be a press | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
conference, probably in one hour, organised by Sinn Fein and we expect | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
to hear from the Sinn Fein leader at that. I should point out that the | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
family of Jean McConville are also planning their own press conference | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
in the next couple of hours. Thank you. Fire crews have dealt with an | :04:07. | :04:14. | |
overnight blaze at retail premises in County Antrim. A bingo hall in | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
Laharna Retail Park on the Circular Road in Larne was damaged in the | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
blaze, which broke out just before 4am this morning. At its height, | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
around 50 firefighters were at the scene and eight pumping appliances | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
had to be used. Those dealing with the fire said it had the potential | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
to be much worse. Luckily, this place did not develop. That would | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
have been due to the initial actions of the crew in attendance. They had | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
a heightened and sustained of the crew in attendance. They had | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
problems. There are innovations at the back of this building that are | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
impacted by the thermal shock, glass was broken but thankfully the fire | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
did not spread into those premises. Nature of the premises, the retail | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
park, means they have premises are joining with significant fire | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
loading within these premises. A car has been damaged in an arson attack | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
in North Belfast. Fire crews were called to the Hallidays Road area | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
shortly before 4:20am this morning after reports that a silver Toyota | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
Aygo was on fire. Police would like any witnesses to contact them. A | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
42-year-old man has been stabbed in Coleraine. It happened close to a | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
car park in the Strand Road area just after midnight. He was taken to | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
hospital with injuries to his back, which aren't thought to be serious. | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
A 26-year-old woman has been arrested. Now the Bank | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
it has been a drizzly day-to-day and the chance of rain continues | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
overnight tonight. Plenty of cloud cover meaning it will be quite mild | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
tonight with the chant of the odd shower going through the night. | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
Those of 10 degrees. Before a more organised band of rain arrives by | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
dawn tomorrow. Tomorrow will start quite cloudy and rain will arrive | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
through the day. That is because we have this mass of warm, moist air. | :06:14. | :06:22. | |
What does that mean for even so the Belfast marathon tomorrow? -- events | :06:23. | :06:30. | |
like. It was reasonable dry but for the later finishers, there will | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
certainly be some blame for the second half of the course. Rain is | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
spreading in from the West as we go through the morning, and there could | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
be some heavy showers mixed in amongst that. There is a North, | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
West, South, East spit. For Scotland and Northern Ireland and West Wales, | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
plenty of rain. For England, much brighter. Certainly much drier also. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
Through the afternoon it will not feel cold, still temperatures of 13 | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
degrees but that chance of showers is ever present. Into next week, it | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
is quite unsettled and quite blustery and that will be one of the | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
key features of next week. Our next Newsline bulletin is at 10:15pm this | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
evening. That will be specially extended. Until then you can keep | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
up-to-date with local news on BBC Radio Ulster or on the local news | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
online service. From everyone on the BBC Newsline team | :07:28. | :07:29. |