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still trapped. We | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
More than 30 years on, one man's conviction linked to | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
the RUC's so-called shoot-to-kill policy could be overturned. | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
A power company tells how the thousands of eels heading to | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
I've been joining the crowds at Day One of the Balmoral Show and a | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
Royal visitor was one of the first to arrive to sample the atmosphere. | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
The organisers of the North West 200 are unveiling an award in memory | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
The rain stayed away from the Balmoral show we would like more | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
sunshine, a full forecast later. -- but we would like. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
Martin McCauley was seriously injured and | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
his 17-year-old friend was killed in one of the most controversial | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
He also came to prominence when he was convicted | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
of being a member of an IRA team training rebel forces in Colombia. | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
Today, the 52 year old from Lurgan is back in | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
the news over that fatal shooting, a so-called RUC shoot-to-kill | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
In its aftermath, Martin McCauley was found guilty of having weapons. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
It has since emerged that a secret MI5 recording of the incident wasn't | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
Today, the Prosecution Service said it would not oppose his appeal. | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney has the story. | :01:32. | :01:45. | |
Police claimed Martin McCauley confronted them with a rival in | :01:46. | :01:53. | |
October 1982. He was seriously injured and his friend was killed | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
when officers opened fire. This is him leaving court in 1985 after | :02:00. | :02:05. | |
being given a two year suspended sentence for possession of three | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
rifles. He insisted he and his friend were not armed and police did | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
not issue any warnings before they were shot. It was a claim he | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
repeated in a BBC interview at the scene of the shooting. There were | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
two shots. I saw a guy with a rifle moving across the door and once he | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
disappear, the place exploded with gunfire -- disappeared. I moved to | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
get cover and in doing so I was hit. Police insist the Ben Watt armed and | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
had been given three warnings. Years later, it was revealed MI5 had a | :02:41. | :02:47. | |
listening device inside the shed at the time of the shooting that | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
recorded what happened. That recording could have a stab wished | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
if police shouted warnings or made reference to Martin McCauley being | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
bombed before they opened fire -- established. The recording was not | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
made known to the court at the time of the trial. It was discovered by | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester who invested | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
allegations of a shoot-to-kill policy and to established the | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
recording was later destroyed. Last year, the criminal cases review | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
commission group -- referred the case to the Court of Appeal on the | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
basis evidence had with -- had been withheld. A QC told the court he had | :03:30. | :03:35. | |
been instructed to read a statement on behalf of the Crown Prosecution | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Service. It said relevant material had been withheld at the time, from | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
the court and from the defence in the trial. The statement said this | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
undermined public confidence in the criminal justice system and it wrote | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
it into disrepute. The lawyer told the three Appeals Court judges the | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
prosecution service would not make submissions to uphold the conviction | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
and invited them to use their discretion. There will be a hearing | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
next week to decide whether to do so. The lawyers of Martin McCauley | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
will argue the conviction should be quashed on the basis title evidence | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
was not made available to the judge's trial. The contents of the | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
investigation have never been made public and the lawyers hope that | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
will change during next week's hearing. He was tried in public and | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
he was convicted in public and it is his fundamental right these | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
documents be opened in a court so he and the general public are aware of | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
what happened. Martin McCauley was not in court to hear the prosecution | :04:43. | :04:47. | |
statements today as he faces extradition to South America if he | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
returns to Northern Ireland. He was one of three men arrested in | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Colombia three years ago accused of training rebel forces in the | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
country. Initially cleared off the charge, they were later convicted on | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
appeal and sentenced to 17 years in jail but sentenced -- but fled to | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
the Republic to avoid jail. Police are investigating an arson | :05:09. | :05:31. | |
attack on an errant all attack. They claim there was a similar attack. | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
Survivors and relatives of those killed in the Dublin Monaghan | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
bombings 40 years ago this week are to sue the British Government. | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
They claim the attacks were carried out by Loyalists, | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
with government collusion, and that there was a cover-up. | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
Thirty three people, including a pregnant woman, | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
A tenth man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in connection with | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
the death of a Catholic community worker in Coleraine five years ago. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
He had been charged with manslaughter and attempted murder. | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
Kevin McDaid died after he was attacked near his home. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
Two defendants still face the more serious charges. | :06:02. | :06:09. | |
Still ahead, Northwest 200 unveils a new prize in the -- in honour of a | :06:10. | :06:16. | |
The number of people claiming unemployment | :06:17. | :06:30. | |
benefit is continuing to drop, with claims down by 800 in April. | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
This is the 15th monthly fall in a row. | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
The total number of claimants in April stood at 56,100. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
That compares to more than 64,000 in the same month last year. | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
But the total is still well above the lowest ever level | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
An update now on a story we brought you yesterday on the deaths of | :06:46. | :06:58. | |
hundreds of thousands of endangered baby eels, called elvers. | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
Over Easter, they got caught in traps that were meant to help them | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
get past a hydro-electric dam in County Donegal and into Lough Erne. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
Today, the firm that runs the power station | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
said the traps were being checked every day, but they had experienced | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
Julian Fowler reports from Ballyshannon. | :07:13. | :07:23. | |
The dam stands in the way of the tiny young eels making their way to | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
Lough Erne. They are supposed to be given a helping hand into a tank | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
where they are collected and transported around the dam to be | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
released. The remarkable journey of the eels against thousands of miles | :07:43. | :07:50. | |
away in a part of the Atlantic. The love I drift slowly across the ocean | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
and when they reach shallow waters, they transform into elvers and make | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
their way to the freshwater is Lough Erne. Some will stay here for up to | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
25 years before a game making their way to the Open ocean and back to | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
the Sargasso Sea to breed. As we know, the hydroelectric plant at | :08:11. | :08:18. | |
Ballyshannon broke this cycle. Around 300,000 eels died in the | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
traps here last month. One night over Easter, there was a large | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
increase in elvers into one trap and we estimate about 150 kilograms of | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
elvers, which represents 90% of the entire run last year, entered in one | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
night into one trap. These were not detected until the following morning | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
and unfortunately, 112 kilograms of elvers were lost at that stage. One | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
expert said because elvers run at night, traps should be checked at | :08:53. | :08:59. | |
night. He said there was far too casual and approached are critically | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
endangered space you. Power company says it has transported 480 | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
kilograms of elvers this year, more than double the total of last year. | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
An investigation is being carried out into the kill which could result | :09:16. | :09:16. | |
in a prosecution. The leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, | :09:17. | :09:22. | |
has said he can't understand why one of its most prominent Asian | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
supporters has accused the party The claim was made by the chair | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
of the party's youth wing, Nigel Farage was speaking in Belfast | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
today, With more is our political reporter, | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
Stephen Walker. The UKIP leader arrived in Belfast | :09:39. | :09:55. | |
city centre for the infamous -- Ford and for the infamous Eurosceptic, | :09:56. | :10:01. | |
the venue was appropriate. Headlines follow Nigel Farage and a prominent | :10:02. | :10:06. | |
Asians supporter has announced her resignation, saying the party was | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
racist. This young lady, this time last week, appeared on national | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
television in a debate to say our policy on immigration was right and | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
the least racist because we do not want to discriminate against the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
Commonwealth in favour of Eastern and Southern Europe, so we have not | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
changed in a week. I suspect peer pressure has made her change her | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
position. UKIP are running 23 candidates in next week's | :10:34. | :10:36. | |
collections and one European candidate but with just three | :10:37. | :10:40. | |
collected representatives here, the challenge is obvious. Northern | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
Ireland's election marketplace is crowded so UKIP will have to come up | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
with something different to tempt voters away from the more | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
established parties. Later this month, we will discover if the | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
appeal of Nigel Farage has been successful. | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
Thousands of people have gone along to the first day of our biggest | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
There were some traffic delays, but not as many as last year. | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
Nicola Weir is there for us this evening. | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
The weather had been so good, here on the opening day of the Balmoral | :11:21. | :11:31. | |
Show. 3,000 rosette is given out by the hard-working 93 judges. There | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
was traffic disruption at the start of the day but that did not hamper | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
the numbers coming this morning. Final preparations and Showtime. | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
Thousands flocked to the opening day of the show for the sights, sounds | :11:46. | :11:52. | |
and smells. The Princess Royal officially opens the three-day | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
event, making sure she had a look at some of the 4,000 animals on show. | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
Princess Anne gave us an award and she asked is how many animals we had | :12:04. | :12:09. | |
and we said, 46. -- she asked us. She said we had the biggest number | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
in the class, so happy at that bit. I am really nervous, making sure | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
everything is right. It is a big day, a big showcase and you want to | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
make sure everything is right. We are showing Aberdeen Angus. I hope | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
they do well, we will see. If they do, we might get some sales. It must | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
be a lot of work. On the go from four o'clock this morning getting | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
them clean. So I am looking forward to tomorrow. Food was a big draw, | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
with producers pulling out all the stops. It has become very popular, a | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
lot of people trying it, but we do it on the spit so it is special. You | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
can see what you are eating. We always get a fantastic response, | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
half the effort is convincing people to try it, and they love it. Goat is | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
going crazy in Northern Ireland. The rain stayed away and visitors were | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
treated to prime livestock, a couple of Heron using Bowmans and unusual | :13:13. | :13:18. | |
visitors. -- hair raising moments. It has been good and they take you | :13:19. | :13:24. | |
three things you did not know. What did you not know? I did not know | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
they gave you free samples. It is good for the first morning, a good | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
crowd. Traffic was bad but it is good. We have seen the horses and | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
the cows, it is very good, a good day out for the kids. It is not all | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
about animals, this will set you back nearly half ?1 million. I will | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
take two! If farmers are making money, they will spend money, they | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
are progressive and we want to help them. We enjoyed working with the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
farming industry, they are great people, resilient, they have been | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
through hard times and good times and they are consistent, | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
hard-working and honest. A successful opening day and even the | :14:10. | :14:11. | |
youngest found something to keep them happy. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
I am joined by the Chief Executive of the Royal Ulster agricultural | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
Society Colin McDonald, and a show winner, Graham Davidson. A good | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
day? We could not have hoped for better. They would. , perfect | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
weather. Slow getting in this morning. -- the weather was perfect. | :14:33. | :14:43. | |
As you can see, the numbers are good today. What are exhibitors telling | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
Q? Most of them like the bigger show and they have had a good time. They | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
cannot see everything here and that is pleasing to me. Everybody wants | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
to do different things and I am delighted they are having a good | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
time, that is what it is about. Anything to highlight? The highlight | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
was the Royal visits because the Princess Royal has been interested | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
in the society since 2007 and she came to see what she liked. She | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
loved it and she saw so many things and said we do things really well | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
here and others should take a lesson from us. You did talk about traffic | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
disruption and people found it difficult to get in, did you make | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
the proper plans? I think so, it was a bit slow this morning. Those who | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
came during the rush hour were caught up in that but the exhibitors | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
were in and the rush hour ended and everything happened all right. I was | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
pleased to be incontinent -- in constant contact with the travel | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Centre who kept me up to date. The best way to get here is public | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
transport. And you are a show winner, can we see your trophy and | :15:59. | :16:04. | |
how did you get it? It is the young farmers award. The best point score | :16:05. | :16:12. | |
overall. What does this mean to you, it is a major award? You just | :16:13. | :16:18. | |
have to look at the name on the trophy to see who they were, it is a | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
proud moment to win the award and to get my name on the trophy. | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
Congratulations, and plenty more judging tomorrow and hopefully more | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
winners. I will be here all day. And we will return to the show in a | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
couple of minutes for the weather forecast. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
Today was a Down day at the Northwest 200, but yesterday, fans | :16:45. | :16:47. | |
were reminded of just how dangerous the sport of road racing can be. | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
A French rider had a high-speed crash. He was airlifted to the Royal | :16:52. | :17:08. | |
Victoria Hospital and the latest on his condition is that he remains | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
critical. One family who knows about the dangers of road racing is the | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
Dunlop family. Robert and Joey lost their lives by competing in this | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
dangerous sport. Robert is the most successful rider in the history of | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
the competition and his sons are here this week to keep the Dunlop | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
name going. Brotherly love at Northwest 200, the | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
new generation of the Dunlop family are helping to prolong the famous | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
surname of their Father Robert and on-call Joey. John McGuinness knew | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
them better than most, his former team-mate and family friend paid a | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
special visit to their hometown of Ballymoney this afternoon. They will | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
never be forgotten in my eyes and in a lot of other people's. I have | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
raced around the world and as far as Japan and Australia, we were | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
instantly talking about Joey and Robert and Michael and William, so | :18:13. | :18:19. | |
Ballymoney is on the map! Joey and Robert won an amazing 28 titles | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
between them. A friendly on track rivalry which has similarities | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
today. And if Michael is to beat William, he will have to overcome an | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
injury as the brothers battle it out to win a new trophy named after | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
their Father. It is a good thing to have. It will be nice for one of us | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
to come home with it, something different. When it comes to | :18:42. | :18:46. | |
motorbikes, family comes first and we get on well we have ups and | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
downs. It is good you can have a chat about it afterwards. It is | :18:53. | :18:58. | |
funny, we do it all the time. Famously, Michael won his first | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
Northwest 200 in 2008. Days after the death of his Father on the same | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
circuit. John McGuinness finished third on that race -- in that race. | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
There's no way I could have eaten Michael and a lot of people were | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
willing him to win. -- eaten. It was like a Mexican wave all round the | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
track and it was a special moment. And there could be more memories for | :19:27. | :19:33. | |
the Dunlop dynasty this week. And that trophy will be unveiled | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
this Saturday after the racing for the best rider of the meeting and we | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
will have more special reports this week. | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
He used to captain his hometown club and now he is set to manage them. | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
Derry City, who sacked Roddy Collins over the | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
weekend, have confirmed that Peter Hutton is the new Brandywell boss. | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
All smiles in his first training session but many macro knows he has | :19:59. | :20:11. | |
to get results to claim the table. He was widely respect it as a | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
player, turning out almost 700 times. He won a league title and he | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
now stepped up from being assistant to play a macro. Unfortunately, it | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
did not work out for him. We have to move on and we have to focus for the | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
campaign. Some players have become disillusioned so it is important to | :20:35. | :20:38. | |
instil confidence in them and give them the freedom to express | :20:39. | :20:41. | |
themselves. The club's top scorer last season has been in and out of | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
the team were denied a row with Roddy Collins. I read the media | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
reports saying we were arguing, I never had a cross word with the man. | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
When he came in, I act him. This is not the first time Peter Hutton has | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
been in the hot seat, he has been caretaker three times in the past. | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
At this time, he is the confirmed boss of the team and he has until | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
the end of the season to make an impression. | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
That is it from the North Coast. Before you go, porch to it is | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
relatively quiet. -- Port Stewart. What can we expect tomorrow, more | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
prep is all racing? Roads will be closed tomorrow at | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
quarter past nine. Thousands of people will descend on the North | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
coast for the second qualifying session and the roads will open | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
again for a couple of hours in the afternoon but close at quarter past | :21:45. | :21:47. | |
five for the first races. These grandstands hold thousands and they | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
will be full tomorrow. And I can tell you there are literally | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
thousands of people around the country, motorcycle fans, keeping a | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
close eye on the weather forecasts and keeping their fingers crossed | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
for sunshine tomorrow and Saturday! We hope to provide that, thank you. | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
The racing is really dependent on the weather. | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
The Balmoral Show keeps going on, whatever the conditions. | :22:19. | :22:20. | |
Cecilia is there to bring us the forecast. | :22:21. | :22:29. | |
It has been good all day but you have reigned around at the moment. | :22:30. | :22:35. | |
Stephen is looking for sunshine tomorrow. -- you have reigned | :22:36. | :22:46. | |
around. -- rain around. The show is on until the end of the week and it | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
is great and we have sampled the food tent. There was a smell of food | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
and the last time I had the treacle was when I was a child as a family. | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
This is the forecast. It will get warmer and drier and brighter. | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
Ladies Day is on Friday. A breeze is picking up and temperatures could | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
hit 18, 19 degrees. It is damp and places tonight, Cloud will stay | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
through the night and it will stay mild. Considerably milder across | :23:24. | :23:31. | |
County Armagh. Lows of eight, 9 degrees. Tomorrow will be a fine and | :23:32. | :23:38. | |
warm day. Through the morning, it will be quite cloudy to begin with | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
and there could be some drizzle around. Thursday will largely be dry | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
and it will brighten through the morning, with sunshine. Not | :23:48. | :23:51. | |
wall-to-wall sunshine, but temperatures will respond to light | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
winds, highs of 18, 19, 20 degrees. A light feel to the day tomorrow. | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
Friday, dry and bright weather around. Some rain moving into Danny | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
call later in the day. That is the sign of this weekend. -- bunny goal. | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
Clearing on Sunday to leave a breezy day with showers. For the race day | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
on Saturday, rain at Northwest 200 but it is not a wash-out. We are | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
hoping for dry spells in the afternoon. And it is not a wash-out | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
here at Balmoral! Our late summary is at 10:25.You can | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
also keep in contact with us via Facebook and Twitter. From BBC | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
Newsline, goodnight. Check out a report on the | :24:38. | :24:44. | |
preparations involved in getting ready with the livestock for the | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
competitions at the Balmoral Show, shampoo and a hairdryer! Good night. | :24:51. | :25:16. | |
Amazing changes happen to our lives | :25:17. | :25:19. |