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a first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel.

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The police Ombudsman is investigating whether the PSNI acted

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on information it was given - before a dissident republican bomb attack

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that seriously injured Constable Padar Heffron four years ago.

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Michael Maguire wants to find out if there was appropriate action

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after the tip-off, but so far the police haven't allowed

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Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.

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The As captain of the PSNI's football team, Padar Heffron, seen

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here on the left, was a high-profile target for dissident republicans

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aiming to deter Catholics from joining the police. Three and a half

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years ago, he was critically injured, when a bomb exploded in his

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car, as he was travelling to work. The police received a tip-off,

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claiming that weeks before the bombing, someone had warned the PSNI

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of a potential attack on a police officer. We don't know the nature of

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the information. It may be that it was so general or lacking in

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information that nothing could have been done to minimise the risk. The

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police ombudsman isn't any position to reach any conclusions. In effect,

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he is no whiter than the rest of us. The police have also refused to give

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information to ombudsman investigators probing the death of

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senior Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson, who was also the police

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and MI5 informant. He was shot dead in Donegal in April 2006. He fled

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there, after being told by police that the media were going to expose

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his role as an informant. They are investigating investigations by his

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family that PSNI officers may have exposed him as an agent and

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contributed to his death. Yesterday, Michael McGuire told the

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BBC that his office is legally entitled to this information. This

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gets to the core of independence, it gets to the core of accountability.

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We cannot have the situation, where those are the subject of an

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investigation, determine what information is given to the

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investigation. The PSNI says it has an legal responsibility for all the

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information that it with holes, and it cannot release the information if

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it could potentially endanger life. But they all have top-level security

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clearance. That means they can have access to sensitive intelligence

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material. Make a liar says that, because of that, the PSNI has no

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legitimate reason to withhold the information that he has asked for.

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The judge says he hopes it is not too late for the two sides to come

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to an agreement. It is really important that they both get

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together and start to resolve these issues, rather than having to have

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the judge decide for them. A consolatory letter has gone back

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from the police to the ombudsman. We hope that means the discussion will

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happen. The PSNI will be questioned tomorrow.

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A man has been arrested following the death of a woman in Portstewart.

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Her body was found at around lunchtime in Knockancor Drive.

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The victim has been named locally as Margaret Evans, a well-known

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Officers say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding

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The Orange Order has again been told it can't parade along

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a contentious stretch of the Crumlin Road past Ardoyne in north Belfast.

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The Order had applied to the Parades Commission to walk along

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In a statement the Orange Order said it was

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The Orangemen have been trying to complete their parade copy Crumlin

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Road to their whole since last year. Today's decision, once again

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stopping them from doing that, came as little surprise to most people.

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The parade commission's decision means they will not get this far up

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the road. They will be stopped some distance back down there. Which

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means that the actual parade itself cannot come up past Ardoyne shops,

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or up this road onto the Orange Hall. Meanwhile, the loyalist

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protest camp continues. The Parades Commission stressed the level of

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tension filled in the area, since last year's march was stopped and

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the protest camp was set up. The commission says the sense of

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conflict centred on the stretch of road is wrong and apparent amongst

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supporters and objectors. It also noted the level of breaches of

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conditions in support of the Orangemen. We are disgusted. We are

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saddened. That the threat of extremism can stop us and our

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religious expression. These thing -- these things can be resolved if

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there is the urge to resolve it on both sides. I hope we can resolve

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it. I hope we can get beyond this. Getting beyond that is something

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mediators have been seeking, so far without success.

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The Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness says political

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and religious leaders here must make it clear that racist abuse

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and hate crimes will not be tolerated in Northern Ireland.

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Mr McGuinness was speaking earlier this evening after meeting with

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local Muslim leaders at the Belfast Islamic centre in Belfast.

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Last night, the first minister Peter Robinson used his visit to

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the centre to apologise publicly for controversial remarks he made

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about Islam last week defending a Belfast pastor who had called

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I am here out of a sense of duty, out of a sense of responsibility, to

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honour as a political leader, but to this community who have been treated

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disgracefully. Tonight is about looking to the future. Peter Kinnear

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last night, and he offered his apology, and that apology has been

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accepted. It is now time for us to move on, and it is a time for us

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to, as a government, identify what more we can do to ensure the comfort

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and safety of the ethnic minorities here in Belfast.

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A former head of the team of detectives set up to investigate

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unsolved killings - says he believes the Hyde Park bomb suspect

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Dave Cox, who stepped down from the Historical Enquiries Team last year,

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was giving evidence to a Westminster committee of MPs - investigating

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the Government's scheme for dealing with so-called on the runs.

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The scheme only came to light when the trial of Mr Downey for

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the 1982 bombing was halted - when it was revealed he had mistakenly

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received a letter saying he was not wanted by any UK police force.

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In your opinion, has Mr Downey, in both the EDR murders and the Hyde

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Park murders, in your opinion has he been very lucky and got away with

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murder? I might ask him what lottery numbers he picks.

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Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy -

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an important battle in France during World War Two.

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On tomorrow and Friday evening's programme, Donna talks to two of

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the few local veterans still alive to recall the events of that day.

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Tomorrow we hear from Bill Eames who is 91 years old.

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He was an RAF pilot and honoured for his gallantry.

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Do you need to be a particular type of person? I don't think so. I don't

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think I was any better than anybody else. You are just lucky, that is

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the thing. More on that interview tomorrow

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at 6.30pm here on BBC One. Now with the weather forecast

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here's Geoff Maskell. Hello. As we go over night tonight,

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it is a cool and cloudy night. By dawn tomorrow, we could see a bit of

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rain. That is the edge of a low pressure system that is tracking its

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way up the British Isles. It was there today, and it is continuing

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into tomorrow. It will be a cloudy day across Northern Ireland, with

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the few showers. There will be more in the way of bright spells, and

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that will help the temperatures on the rise, feeling just a little bit

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warmer tomorrow than it has than today. We really are in the middle

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of a couple of whether events, between these two when systems, over

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the next 24 hours. This means we will see some better conditions, but

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some real mixed fortunes across the UK. Scotland will get plenty of

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rain, as will the East Coast of England. Elsewhere, a much brighter

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and warmer picture. As we go through the afternoon, we will see the odd

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shower popping up, some of those quite intense, but much more in the

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way of bright weather. As we head into Friday, we are really waiting

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for the next low-pressure system to arrive. We will escape in the main,

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and exhibitors will feel warmer. Not a bad day, before the rain starts to

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work its way in. Overnight Friday and into Saturday. The message is to

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make the most of the next couple of days, because more rain is forecast

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for the weekend. That is all for now. Goodbye.

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