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-- fellowship. That is it from me. Stay with us on

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Good evening. There's been an arson attack on a

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church in County Antrim. Intruders broke into Whiteabbey Methodist

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Church and started a fire around 11:00pm last night. Claire Savage

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reports. According to members of the

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congregation, arsonist smashed glass in the front door of the church and

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climbed through. They made their way into a new part of the building and

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tried to start three fires. The kitchen in the extension was gutted,

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but fire crews were able to stop the blaze from spreading. The front door

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was smashed. I would say it is young people. They were out for a night

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trying to cause some excitement. The whole church could have caught fire.

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It is old. There are wooden pews. If it had not been caught, it could

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have burned to the ground. A special service for children could not take

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place because of the fire and instead, the Presbyterian Church

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allowed the congregation to use their halls. Police say the exact

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cause of the fire has still to be established and want anyone who may

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have witnessed something to contact them.

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Two motorbike racers remain critically ill in hospital after

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crashing during the North West 200. English rider, Simon Andrews, who is

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29, came off close to the Metropole section of the circuit yesterday.

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He's being treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, along

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with French rider, Franck Petricola, who was hurt in a crash on Tuesday.

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The Church of Ireland Bishop of Cork has backed calls for civil marriage

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for same sex couples. Dr Paul Colton's intervention was welcomed

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by a church group which held a service this afternoon to mark

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'International Day against Homophobia'.

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We agree with what he said and we are delighted to hear it said so

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publicly and openly. He has a track record of having being sympathetic

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to gays in the church and he has come out of very strongly in favour

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of the church having some input into gay partnerships and gay marriages,

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equal marriage who prefer to call it.

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In sport, the first game of this year's GAA Ulster Championship has

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gone to a replay. Tyrone had to rely on captain, Sean Cavanagh to save

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them with a last-gasp free. A strong second half performance from Down

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saw them overturn a seven-point deficit with goals from Donal O'Hare

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and Conor Maginn to go into the closing minutes two points ahead.

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Tyrone dominated the game for a considerable period but had to call

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on Sean Cavanagh to save it with two frees, the second coming at the end

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of added time. The changes they made at half-time

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gave them a bit of control around the middle of the field they did not

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have in the first half. Their substitutions worked well. It is not

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good for us to be seven up and lose it as much as that. We're very lucky

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to be in this game. When the goal went in, it you were fearing the

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worst of the fact they showed character and got the goal back

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straightaway. It puts a bit of doubt into their head. Now a look ahead to

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a series of special reports on BBC Newsline this week. Have you ever

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considered what it would be like to be homeless? Our reporter, Andy

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West, has spent four nights living on the streets of Belfast to find

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out what life's like when you've hit rock bottom. What help is there and

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how do people react to you? I have just had a girl get very aggressive

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and was asking me if I was foreign. And then started trying to kick me

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in the face with her stiletto. You can see the first of Andy's reports

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on Tuesday here on BBC Newsline. Now the weather.

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It ended up a dismal Sunday for parts of Northern Ireland. Hopefully

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as we go through the rest of the week it won't be as dismal. But

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there will be showers around and they could be heavy. Equally, dry

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and bright spells and during the course of the week it could feel

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warm. Tonight, the spells of rain which pushed east will be returning

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west as we go through the night. A damp night but not cold, with

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temperatures no lower than six or seven degrees. Eventually tomorrow I

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think we will see something that are developing. Turning drier as we had

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through the day. But it is a dismal start. Spells of rain in the West.

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They will clear but showery rain to follow in the morning. It is similar

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for the Republic of Ireland. A lot of cloud with outbreaks of rain. A

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few of those in the far south-west. But for the rest of Britain it is

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looking like a decent day. Perhaps a bit more cloud than today. Again it

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is very warm. Temperatures of 24, maybe 25 degrees towards the

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south-east. For Northern Ireland things do improve in the afternoon.

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It should be drier and I think it will be brighter for a time in the

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at the noon. We should see temperatures may be 15 or 16 degrees

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before showers creep into the evening. Through the middle part of

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the week, it is a mess. Low pressure to the south-west dominating things

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with showers swinging around. The uncertainty is when and where they

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will show up. It looks like Tuesday in parts of Northern Ireland and

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Scotland may be not too bad. Elsewhere across the southern half

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of Britain it does look showery. Into Wednesday, a mixture of bright

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spells and showers, may be more persistent rain in the North and

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thundery showers moving into the south. On Thursday but Northern

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Ireland, hopefully bright and sunny spells but showers never too far

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away. Our next wallet and is at 6:25am.

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Until then you can keep up today with local news on radio Ulster or

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online. But from us tonight,

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