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Good evening. Tributes have been paid to the road racer Simon Andrews | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
who crashed at the NorthWest 200 and died today. The 31-year-old from | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
Worcestershire in England crashed during the Superstock race on | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Saturday and was airlifted to hospital. Tonight his family said | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
"Racing was in his blood." Martin Cassidy reports. | :00:25. | :00:33. | |
Simon Andrews had only recently returned to top-class competition | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
following a serious injury well taking place in another | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
international motorcycling event. His BMW machine is pictured here at | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
the start of the Superstock race at the North West 200 on Saturday. The | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
31 euros from Worcestershire crashed on the approach to this corner on | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
lap four of the race. No other riders were involved. After medical | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
care at the track-side, the rider was airlifted to the intensive care | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital, where he died today with his | :01:05. | :01:09. | |
parents, girlfriend, and best friend by his bed. We are devastated. Our | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
hearts are broken, they are shattered. Simon loved his racing. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
You love the North West, he loved racing over a year. He wouldn't have | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
changed anything. If we had tried to stop him, he wouldn't have stopped | :01:25. | :01:28. | |
racing. He loved the people, he loved the atmosphere, he loved every | :01:29. | :01:33. | |
single moment. Tonight the world of motorcycle racing has been paying | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
tribute to Simon Andrews. Veteran racer Jeremy McWilliams has tweeted | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
he is very sorry to hear the terrible news. World Superbike racer | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
Jonathan Bray said such sad news hearing that Simon Andrews has | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
passed away. Gone away too soon. Mervyn Whyte says the circumstances | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
of the crash will be fully investigated. We have worked and | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
worked and worked on safety over the years, and we will continue to do | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
that. That is uppermost in our minds. Safety is a priority for your | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
competitors and your spectators. We will certainly look and see what | :02:17. | :02:18. | |
happened at that particular occasion, but now is not the time to | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
look at where we are, but to move forward and see what we do in the | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
future his parents said Simon was fully aware of the dangers involved, | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
but loved the challenge of rogue racing. You never expect you're | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
going to lose your son, watch you can't stop a grown man doing what he | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
wants. It seems to be in the blood, it is an adrenaline race, and they | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
just love being on motorcycles. But they know the risks, and we paid the | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
price. Another racer at the North West 200, Franck Petricola is still | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
critically ill in hospital. The Frenchman was hurt during a practice | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
session last Tuesday. The County Down rider Michael | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Pearson is seriously injured after a crash in the Czech Republic | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
yesterday. The Ballygowan man was taking part in a superbike event. | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
And many BBC Newsline viewers have been logging onto our Facebook Page | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
with some adding messages of sympathy following the death of | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Simon Andrews. The fisherman who was rescued off | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
the coast in County Donegal yesterday has been released from | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
hospital. A man on land half a mile away heard him cry for help as he | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
held onto a lobster buoy and the emergency services were alerted. He | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
was picked up by an RNLI crew and brought ashore. Earlier today Our | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
North West reporter Keiron Tourish went to Tullagh Bay. | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
By any stretch of the imagination, this was quite a remarkable turn of | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
events yesterday afternoon about 2pm. A local fisherman was out | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
tending his lobster pots, when he got into difficulty. This story | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
could easily have turned to tragedy, but for the heroics of one local | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
family. John Grant, what actually happened? We were on the house | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
working with sheep, and we thought we could somebody shouting for | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
help. We couldn't really make it out, it was really think. My mum | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
told me to come down on the quad and have a look. I came down and I | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
couldn't see anything, and I asked a couple people if they had heard | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
anything and they said no. I looked again and scanned across the water, | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
and I could see a black dot echoing the distance, and I could see an arm | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
waving, and I knew there was somebody in trouble out there, and I | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
had no phone with me so I came back up and said to my mum, there is | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
somebody out there in trouble. And that is where you came into play. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
What happened next? , well, when John gave me the signal, I rang | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
because guard and the doctor need to everything. They dispatched to | :05:05. | :05:07. | |
lifeboats and a helicopter from Sligo, and luckily enough, there was | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
a bolt out on a fishing trip, and the responded straightaway. I stood | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
up on the quad and I guided the boat to where the man was in the water. | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
We were on scene about three or four minutes later and cruel -- crew had | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
boarded the vessel. Then we were treating him for first aid, for | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
hypothermia. And the helicopter had landed on scene. The helicopter | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
paramedic had then come down and we had already transferred because of | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
the two-hour board. It could have gone to ways, but thankfully it went | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
in our favour. Quite a dramatic operation, and quicker magic that is | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
we have seen today. It was, but at the time you did not think of | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
dramatics at all, you were just glad that the man in the water was being | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
saved. Thank God it had a happy outcome. There is a wife and four | :06:05. | :06:13. | |
children who still have a father. The US financial services firm, | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
Citigroup, is set to announce a significant investment in its | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
Belfast operation. Industry sources have told the BBC that the firm is | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
expected to shortly announce at least one hundred new jobs. The | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
company employs about thirteen hundred people at two offices in the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Titanic Quarter, working mainly in technology and compliance. | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
The police have set up a dedicated phone line for reporting hate crime. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
The recent spate of racist attacks has led to the move. The police will | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
be able to translate calls into almost 50 languages. The new service | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
can be contacted through the non emergency 101 number. We are trying | :06:46. | :06:56. | |
to encourage as many victims as possible to feel comfortable enough | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
to contact the police service and tellers of these incidents so that | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
we can deal with them effectively. We are not going to arrest anybody, | :07:04. | :07:09. | |
because we know that this is an issue that a new Northern Ireland is | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
going to have to get to grips with. I think this is good for anybody who | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
has witnessed hate crime, it is good to encourage anybody who has been a | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
witness to contact the police, although we can't lose concentration | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
on the fact that this has been an ongoing issue for many years, and it | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
needs to be an issue that is looked at any very strategic and joined up | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
way. We can't rely on the helpline to solve the problem or the issue. | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
Looking ahead to some special reports starting tomorrow on BBC | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
News. Our reporter Andy West spent four days and nights living rough on | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
the streets of Belfast to discover a little of what it's like to be | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
homeless. That first report is on BBC Newsline tomorrow evening at | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
6.30pm. Funny how different the world looks from down here. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Completely different view on the world is passing by. It's also funny | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
how people, almost all people, do exactly the same thing when they | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
walk past. They look at you and then instantly look away. Andy will also | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
be talking about his experience on the radio on Good Morning Ulster and | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
his diary is on our News Online site. | :08:17. | :08:17. | |
The weather is next with Barra Best. It got quite exciting earlier as we | :08:18. | :08:29. | |
have the thunderstorms moving in. We may get some more thunderstorms in | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
the next few hours. But generally it will come down over the course of | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
the night, and we will have a lot of cloud around, so not so-called. | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Temperatures of 11 or 12 Celsius. Low pressure is in control, and that | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
means it will be quite unsettled. A rather Bray and cloudy day | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
tomorrow. Not raining all day, but we will see some outbreaks coming in | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
from the Irish Sea. There will be the odd rumble of thunder too, and | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
some quite heavy downpours, so do prepare yourself a few are out and | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
about. It will be an unsettled night across the Northern Ireland, and | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
also into Wales to. Any unsettled weather for eastern areas of England | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
will gradually die away, and here we have temperatures getting up into | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
the low 20s, and not a bad day for Scotland as well. Although generally | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
cooler. Some of the showers we get across Britain tomorrow may well be | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
heavy with some thunder too, so something to bear in mind. Out and | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
about tomorrow, it will not be raining all day, there will be some | :09:34. | :09:36. | |
drier weather too, and it will be a bit mitre -- milder. We will see | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
tempter is nudging up to 17 Celsius. Some good news as we head towards | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
the middle of the week, things will settle down, especially for central | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
and eastern areas. We will keep you updated the and on twitter. That's | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
all for now. Good night. Let's look at the history | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
of BBC TWO with me, Simon Schama. 'Harry And Paul's | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
Story Of The 2s - part of 'the Big Bumper Bank Holiday | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
Comedy 50th Birthday Weekend.' | :10:11. | :10:14. |