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That is all the sport, back to you. That is it from us,

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Good evening. The Sinn Fein President, Gerry Adams, has been

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released from custody this evening without charge and a file will be

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sent to the Public Prosecution Service. Mr Adams has been

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questioned in Antrim PSNI Station since last Wednesday evening after

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he was arrested in connection with the murder of Jean McConville, who

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was abducted and shot by the IRA in 1972. We now go live to our

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reporter, Claire Savage, who is at Antrim Police Station. I can confirm

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that Gerry Adams has been released from police custody but he remains

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in the police station here in Antrim behind me. A file has been sent to

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the Public Prosecution Service and it will be up to them to decide to

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choose to take any action against Mr Adams. Within the past few minutes,

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I can report that the head of the PPS, he will step aside and will not

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be looking at this. He will give it to his deputy because at one point,

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he was the solicitor for Gerry Adams. Earlier, he got a visit from

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Gerry Kelly, who said that Mr Adams had been well looked after I custody

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staff and Mr Adams felt his arrest was politically motivated. As Mervyn

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Jess reports, the political debate continues. This morning on the

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Sunday Politics programme, the allegation of political policing was

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the subject of debate, with all the main parties slugging it out. Gerry

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Kelly visited him at Antrim Police Station and afterwards he reaffirmed

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his position on the arrest. Like myself and other members of Sinn

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Fein, who believe this was political, the extension of this was

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political and we're worried about the damage this might be doing to

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the image of policing. It has been mishandled in that fashion. The

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other main parties have been giving their views on the circumstances of

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the arrest. Of course people have the right to criticise if they think

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the police have got something wrong but to then make that mighty leap

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from criticism, and there are ways of dealing with that through the

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Policing Board, to suggesting that you might withdraw support for the

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police, that is a very serious matter indeed and that is something

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that the DUP would not contemplate going and I hope Sinn Fein will not.

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This round of default institutions following St Andrews in 2006, that

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was based on Sinn Fein buying into support for policing and if they are

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in anyway moving off at ground, we are in crisis. Proper crisis? Proper

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crisis. The SDLP Alliance say there is no evidence of political

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interference around the detention of the Sinn Fein President. I see the

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fact that Gerry Adams presented himself to the police timing, and

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the timing was his, so I find it hard to justify when there would be

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any appropriate time to arrest a political leader. What would be

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political is that they felt they were in a position to arrest Gerry

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Adams and they were unable to do so. It is very clear that Gerry Adams

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offered to help the police with their enquiries and it is steadily

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rich for Sinn Fein to complain that the police have taken them up on

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that offer. A decision on whether Gerry Adams will face further action

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rests with the Public Prosecution Service. We are expecting Gerry

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Adams to leave through these gates at any moment, there are a number of

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loyalist protesters present so we are not expecting him to come and

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speak to the media. We have been told there will be a press

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conference, probably in one hour, organised by Sinn Fein and we expect

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to hear from the Sinn Fein leader at that. I should point out that the

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family of Jean McConville are also planning their own press conference

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in the next couple of hours. Thank you. Fire crews have dealt with an

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overnight blaze at retail premises in County Antrim. A bingo hall in

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Laharna Retail Park on the Circular Road in Larne was damaged in the

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blaze, which broke out just before 4am this morning. At its height,

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around 50 firefighters were at the scene and eight pumping appliances

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had to be used. Those dealing with the fire said it had the potential

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to be much worse. Luckily, this place did not develop. That would

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have been due to the initial actions of the crew in attendance. They had

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a heightened and sustained of the crew in attendance. They had

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problems. There are innovations at the back of this building that are

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impacted by the thermal shock, glass was broken but thankfully the fire

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did not spread into those premises. Nature of the premises, the retail

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park, means they have premises are joining with significant fire

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loading within these premises. A car has been damaged in an arson attack

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in North Belfast. Fire crews were called to the Hallidays Road area

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shortly before 4:20am this morning after reports that a silver Toyota

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Aygo was on fire. Police would like any witnesses to contact them. A

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42-year-old man has been stabbed in Coleraine. It happened close to a

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car park in the Strand Road area just after midnight. He was taken to

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hospital with injuries to his back, which aren't thought to be serious.

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A 26-year-old woman has been arrested. Now the Bank

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it has been a drizzly day-to-day and the chance of rain continues

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overnight tonight. Plenty of cloud cover meaning it will be quite mild

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tonight with the chant of the odd shower going through the night.

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Those of 10 degrees. Before a more organised band of rain arrives by

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dawn tomorrow. Tomorrow will start quite cloudy and rain will arrive

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through the day. That is because we have this mass of warm, moist air.

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What does that mean for even so the Belfast marathon tomorrow? -- events

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like. It was reasonable dry but for the later finishers, there will

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certainly be some blame for the second half of the course. Rain is

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spreading in from the West as we go through the morning, and there could

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be some heavy showers mixed in amongst that. There is a North,

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West, South, East spit. For Scotland and Northern Ireland and West Wales,

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plenty of rain. For England, much brighter. Certainly much drier also.

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Through the afternoon it will not feel cold, still temperatures of 13

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degrees but that chance of showers is ever present. Into next week, it

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is quite unsettled and quite blustery and that will be one of the

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key features of next week. Our next Newsline bulletin is at 10:15pm this

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evening. That will be specially extended. Until then you can keep

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up-to-date with local news on BBC Radio Ulster or on the local news

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online service. From everyone on the BBC Newsline team

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