04/08/2014 BBC Newsline

There's a call for cool heads after a worker's home is petrol bombed.

A new search for the body of a teenage murder victim 25 years on.

100 years after the start of the First World War,

Belfast remembers with a special service at St Anne's Cathedral.

The Northern Ireland team has arrived home from the

Join me live with some of the medal winners in Belfast.

The dramatic pictures of one of the landslides that caused havoc after

And we avoided similar downpours today but be warned, the Met Office

Petrol bombs have been thrown at the home of a man working

for a shale gas exploration company in County Fermanagh.

The Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster says people need to look with

cool heads at the facts and the scientific evidence around fracking.

She says the process is new, novel and contentious, and it will

be up to the entire Executive to decide if it will ever take place.

Here's our south west reporter Julian Fowler.

Two weeks ago, they secured this quarry, where it wants to drill a

borehole. non-negotiable. It is the way we

want to protest. The environment minister has seven more days to

decide if it can go ahead. It will not involve fracking. There have

been misleading statements made recently, some ignorant statements

made. I hope people recognise this is not just a matter for me or for

the Minister of the environment. It's a matter for the entire

Executive to discuss and decide on. The issue threatens to deepen

divisions in the local community. They are ordinary people from the

community who have major concerns from all sections of the community.

I know there have been some isolated incidents about the quarry itself

and at the site. It has had some sectarian aspects to it. We need

people to come together, regardless of their affiliations. People in the

West need to fight fracking. We need to ensure the protests are kept

peaceful, that we say on the right side of the law and that would

protest in a way which doesn't impact on anyone's health and

safety. Police want to speak to the driver of a dark coloured Audi

estate car seen in the area of Station Road

Specially trained victim recovery dogs are being used

in a fresh search for a murdered teenager in Portadown.

Caroline Graham went missing in the town 25 years ago.

The police have launched a new search at a house in Hanover Street

where the 19-year-old was living when she disappeared in March 1989.

Our south east reporter Gordon Adair has more.

These are specially trained victim recovery dogs. Today, they are

searching for a bill that police believe became a victim 25 years

ago. It is almost two years since the police began re-examining the

murder of Caroline Graham. In that time, they've carried out a number

of searches, the most extensive of which concentrated on waste ground

not far from where I am standing. This, however, is the first officers

have used specialist dogs to search the flat where Caroline lived. It

was new information from the public which prompted the search but the

police believe there are people out there who have yet to come forward

and who might hold the key to catching Caroline's killer. Whoever

is responsible for this crime, whoever they are, I believe they

have may have discussed this over the last 25 years. If that is the

case, and you have information, I'll appealing directly to you to provide

that information to my team. Detective Chief Inspector Montgomery

also appealed directly to Caroline's killer. Search your

conscience. Search your conscience and end this anguish for Caroline's

family. Chief Inspector Montgomery also renewed his recent appeal for

two soldiers who gave that she believes gave Caroline a lift home

on a night of her murder to come forward.

A 31-year-old man has been arrested after a series of hate crimes

Paint was thrown over a car and another vehicle had its windscreen

One of the cars belonged to a Polish family and the police believe

A short time later another windscreen was smashed

Enquiries into the attacks are continuing.

Commemoration events are taking place across Northern Ireland to

mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War.

A candlelit vigil will be held at Belfast City Hall later and

a special service will get underway at St Anne's Cathedral shortly.

Mark Simpson is there for BBC Newsline.

The service begins here at seven o'clock but already the congregation

is building, including politicians from both sides of the border.

Of course, the War took place before partition and people from across

First, an extraordinary story from just up the road in North Belfast. A

family who had a leak in their roof and when they went up to inspect the

leak in their attic, they had a look and found a little tin box. A piece

of history long forgotten about. John Craig and his wife find this

tin tucked away in their erratic. It was a gift from King

tin tucked away in their erratic. It daughter, Queen Mary... Probably, is

held in suites of tobacco. 100 years on and inside, hidden treasures from

an arm: Dead, Andrew Craig. There was some German money and also a

small book with his was some German money and also a

Andrew Craig, and his number, Army number. Various other things. There

was a poem in it which is hard to make out but most of it was written

in pencil. This is from an Irishman, fighting out in France, sitting in

the trenches, waiting for his chance. Here he sits at thinking,

his thoughts are far away... And to's role in World War I wasn't

for the family expected. In fact, it was only a small part of the story.

Is this war experts discovered. Does that mean there are

Is this war experts discovered. Does together? There were three others.

They all came from the one family in Ballymena, they all are listed on

the one day, that they had sequential numbers and it has been a

wonderful story. Unlike his brothers, Andrew Craig never made it

to the trenches, falling ill. He was medically discharged. His brothers,

Thomas and John, fought side by side with the 36th Ulster division. Both

were wounded and while Thomas was promoted, John was awarded two

medals. This tin, found 99 years after it was gifted, has given the

Craig family a war story that otherwise may never have been told.

So many stories, so many tragic stories. Let's hear more about that

period with historian, they were two private armies in

Ireland at the time. Suddenly, things moved with amazing speed on

the continent of Europe. On this Day 100 years ago, Britain declared war

on Germany. That propelled both armies to commit their forces to the

war effort. Suddenly, the UVF were transformed into the Ulster

division. Men were filtered into two Irish divisions. A call from the

Irish Brigade, the 16th Irish and the 10th Irish. The horrors of the

Battle of the Somme and the Dardanelles for those men lay

beyond. Something like 200,000 Irishmen joined up of both

traditions. At least 40,000 died between 1914 and 1918, in that war

of attrition. In spite of Ireland's own problems at the time, there was

no problem with men signing up. There wasn't. They were

patriotically motives, for Ireland and home rule but also because of

poverty in inner cities and other towns. The Anglo-Irish aristocracy

joined up out of service as well. Ireland committed to Britain's war

effort in 1914. This service is about to take place in 20 minutes.

Let's have a word with one of the clergy taking part, the dean of the

cathedral. What can we expect this evening? It is a service that is

based around our ordinary service of evening prayer. There are special

elements and we have thought long and hard about how we should mark

this occasion. It is a strange occasion to commemorate the outbreak

of war. We are very conscience of how easy it is to move into a war

situation and how difficult it is to get out of that. We are very

conscious of what is happening in the world today. There is an act of

remembrance. One of the key things will be the lighting of candles.

There are five young people who will be lighting a candle for each of the

calendar years of the war. The book of the Irish war dead will be

carried down from the altar and placed on electing a that the Duke

of York will send light. At that time, there are some plans for very

moving music to be sung. It will recall just what the suffering and

sacrifice that was involved in this war brought about. I will let you

get back in but thank you for joining us. At the dean of the

Cathedral mentioned, the Duke of York, Prince Andrew, is a Queen's

It looks like a lava flow made out of mud.

But it's just another symptom of our summer weather.

We hear how landslides like this have been causing havoc.

Five people were killed on our roads over the weekend,

bringing the total number of road deaths so far this year to 48.

In Newry on Saturday, 67-year-old Joan Connor and 19-year-old Niall

Meanwhile, the army has been paying tribute to

the two soldiers who died in a crash in county Antrim on Friday night.

They were Lance Corporal David Gwilt and Rifleman Dale Harris.

Also on Friday Andrius Liberis, originally from Lithuania,

died in hospital following a crash on Wednesday.

The Northern Ireland Commonwealth Games team has arrived home to

We can join Stephen Watson who is there live.

As you can see, the Northern Ireland team has just arrived back from

Glasgow at a very successful games. 12 medals in all, nine of those came

from our boxers and, in a moment, I will speak to a couple of our medal

winners. We have been following team Northern Ireland every step of the

way for the last fortnight, and we were with them on their final leg of

the journey today. Gold-medallists Paddy Barnes and Michael Conlan at

the controls and they returned from Glasgow after the most successful

games since 1986. Defending champion, it's only four years.

There are different disciplines. You see how they get ready to comp it

is. 14-year-old swimmer Daniel Hill, heated for the first time. She is

looking forward to the Gold Coast. I can't wait. Obviously, there is

loads of training to get in to be the best. Hopefully I will be the

best. I can't wait, I'll work hard and see what I can do. For the

bowlers, it was their fifth and final games. Both got medals, proud

to have represented Northern Ireland for so long. the boxes are a great

inspiration. It was a fantastic atmosphere and it is good for sports

in Northern Ireland. As long as we keep bringing medals back we can

push up the table next time. My first was in 1994 in Vancouver

Island. When you walk into that stadium for the ceremony, you feel a

foot taller than your normal height. It is an amazing experience.

It was the headlines. Some real class athletes. They

It was the headlines. Some real plate, that is

It was the headlines. Some real like about. Everybody worked at

their best. like about. Everybody worked at

will be many memorable moments to look back on. I have managed to find

Michaela Walsh and gold winner Michael Conlan. It must be great to

be home. definitely. We have been away for a long time and just to

come home with medals is a brilliant achievements. I'm looking for to the

future. Michael, show us your gold and tell us what it means to you. it

means the world to me. I've worked hard for it. I was in training all

year, it is all I have thought all year. I had to go to Glasgow and do

the job. Turning professional how? Or do you have your sights set on

real question mark I don't know which I'm going to choose yet, it

could be Rio or I could go professional. No decisions yet,

there is no point because you don't say things you don't mean. I'll take

a month off first. Michaela, I'm sure you are looking forward to a

rest. As it sunk in that that you are the first ever woman boxer to

win at the Commonwealth Games? It has not sunk in yet. I feel a bit

disappointed, still. I was cheated, not defeated. But that is the way it

goes. My main focus now is Rio and I can't wait to see what the future

holds. Michael, apart your dad who was the coach of the team, what is

the rest of this success down to? It is hard work and determination. And

solve belief. Michaela was one of my favourites to win a gold, and I

really do believe she was hard done by. She did a great job for the

first major games. She got a brilliant performance in every

single fight. brilliant performance in every

champion. Olympic champion in the future hopefully?

champion. Olympic champion in the all the way. The future is bright

for women in boxing. I'm looking all the way. The future is bright

forward to the rest. You will find arguments from me. Well done to you

both. Great to have a medallist home.

Rory is back on top after landing his second title win

in a row and he tells us he's in the best form of his life.

A 27-year-old man has been arrested after a pipe bomb attack

The device was thrown at a parked car in Duncairn Gardens at

A number of homes and buildings were evacuated,

Police and army technical officers were at the scene and the area was

This is not part of the new Belfast, all Northern Ireland. This is

something which we hoped to have overcome and which we hope to

overcome. Torrential rain over the weekend

caused landslides in County Antrim, as around 50 millimetres

of rain fell in just a few hours. The downpours brought havoc to

farmers, as Louise Cullen reports. Are rolling, rumbling torrent of

peat, muck and stones. The heavy rain on Saturday dislodged the land

here leaving scars on the mountainside and a swathe of mud

across the road. we were coming back on Saturday and we looked up and saw

the ground looking funny. We saw there was a landslide and we'll came

rushing to see it. It was dramatic. The force of the water was powerful.

It was the first time people here and seen anything like it. There

were big clumps of mud beside of cars sliding across. It was quite

amazing to see. Once the road is cleared and opened to traffic again,

this is a very rural area. There were no properties under threat. But

it was a different story in one of the other glens. The rain also calls

for landslides in the mountains. They crashed down the slopes,

bringing stones, trees and destruction that this farm and

guesthouse. the stream has broken out and I ran out thinking I needed

something to stop the flow of water. But within ten minutes, as you can

see here, several hundred tonnes of rocks came right down, right down to

the farmyard. And the mode as you can see, came right up to the door.

Livestock and pets had to be let loose at the water came through. we

have animals ready to go to the plants this morning. They are in the

sheds here, I don't know where some of the mark. I have never seen

anything like this, I did see the stream trickle out, but, as you can

see, this is unbelievable. With the clear up and away and the sun is

shining, the suddenness of Saturday's landslips seems a distant

memory. People here will be hoping it stays

Rory McIlroy is back at World Number One, right in time

Rory McIlroy is very much back. March 2013 will be last time he held

that coveted number one spot. And after claiming his first world golf

Championship in Bridgestone, he was in Ohio yesterday. He now heads to

Louisville Kentucky and has declared he is in the farm that I quote form

of his life. The macro another week, another title. Having shown in the

past that he can lead from the front, this was an example of the

25-year-old's batting qualities. Biased quality.

As Rory McIlroy produced a flawless display. While also holding his

nerve on the Green. I'm feeling good. I've been saying I'm playing

as good as I ever have. When I needed to hit a couple of good ones

down the last couple of holes, I was able to pull them out of the bag.

I'm heading to Valhalla with huge confidence, going there are other

will's number one player is a bonus, but, I've got a couple of big days

ahead of me just to learn the course and get to know it's a little bit,

so when IT up next Thursday, I'm ready to go. Is first world golf

Championship in this form, Rory McIlroy looks

The eighth round of the world rally championship has

produced a third podium finish for Northern Ireland's Kris Meeke.

The Dungannon driver in his lively Citroen DS 3 was impressive in the

Rally of Finland, finishing third behind runner-up, Sebastien Ogier of

Meeke, who lies sixth overall in the drivers? standings, will race

The ball was a bar of soap, there was one almighty deluge, and,

at the end of it all, one player's prayers were answered.

Monaghan are back in the All-Ireland Quarter Finals thanks to a first

championship win in Croke Park for some eight-and-a-half decades.

Armagh's win over Meath sets up an All-Ulster clash with Donegal this

Saturday, by which time the players will have just about dried out.

Floodlights, floods of rain and a not insignificant trickle of fans

were treated to a right old rumble in Croke Park. a blinding finish!

Won and it got better. it would take extra time and Christopher

McGuinness to get Monaghan over the line. The dubious prize: Dublin at

Croke Park this Saturday. Armagh will be there too, compliments of a

composter win over Meath. Winning does bring it some amends and that

the momentum and a Green shoots of recovery are very much in evidence.

Congratulations to Armagh and Monaghan. Conor McManus earlier this

year thought his season was over but accommodation of lotions, potions

and prayer has got of his knees. We had quite a wash-out across many

places. We did have more rain than was expected, but thankfully,

today's forecast has was expected, but thankfully,

Plenty of dry and bright weather. was expected, but thankfully,

Some evening sunshine danger, as well. Just if you showers.

the night, the cloud will come in, bringing some outbreaks of rain.

Another mild bringing some outbreaks of rain.

temperatures up to bringing some outbreaks of rain.

Tomorrow, we are bringing some outbreaks of rain.

scattering showers, especially in the east. Some of those will be

heavy. The Met office has issued a weather warning for the showers.

There is potential for some thundering downpours, so there may

be some localised flooding problems with surface water on the roads.

Bear in mind. A fairly cloudy start, some wet weather drifting up across

eastern counties, and, again, some wet weather drifting up across

will be heavy. Showers will be spaced out, so it will be raining

all day. There will be some bright weather and sunshine, too. But if

you do catch showers, you will certainly know about it. There may

even be some hail. Winds will be light, and temperatures will get up

to 19 or 20 degrees. Insert tomorrow evening, showers will continue to

drift across. They should become much light as we go into the

evening, and some bright weather before nightfall. Tomorrow night it

will turn wet again. This mixed band of rain pushes up, during the course

of Tuesday into Wednesday. It will be a warm night with some temp

wishes to be no lower than 15 degrees. Some of our wet weather

will be out there on Wednesday, not a great start to the day. The good

news is that the latest data we have shows that it should brighten up as

we make our way into the afternoon. Some sunshine beginning to develop

and a much better enter the day. We hold onto the temperatures, despite

a cloud and wet styles, 19, maybe 20 degrees. Thursday looks as though it

will be the best of the week before more unsettled weather comes in on

Friday. Low pressure brings some stronger winds and outbreaks of

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