10/09/2014 BBC Newsline

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Unions and politicians have been expressing their shock after

East Belfast aerospace company Bombardier announced it's cutting

The job losses are part of a major reorganisation which will see the

Canadian-owned firm shedding 1,800 staff across its global operations.

Our economics and business editor John Campbell reports.

Bombardier is our biggest engineering employer.

Around 6,000 people work across its four factories in Greater Belfast.

It supports many more jobs through the supply chain.

But now it is getting a bit smaller as part of a cost-cutting exercise.

The job losses are equivalent to about 6.5%

300 of the jobs lost are among temporary or contract staff.

Over 90 will come from the permanent salaried workers.

My understanding is those 90 jobs are mainly management roles,

and the company hopes to lose them through voluntary redundancy.

The engineering union says there will be a knock-on effect.

It is horrible news for individuals who will lose jobs

A devastating blow for them and their families.

But for the economy, it is devastating also with the loss

It is organising the aerospace business to become

One local politician says the company still likes what it

We met with senior management in the company a number of weeks ago.

They indicated that it was an excellent plant and the type

But the company does have some big challenges, mainly to do with this,

This jet is supposed to take on Boeing and Airbus

but it has been hit with a series of expensive delays.

The uncertainty around Bombardier will continue until this aeroplane

goes into service and is ordered by more airlines.

The Assembly's Standards and Privileges Committee met

behind closed doors today to discuss a report into the conduct

of the First Minister Peter Robinson and his wife Iris.

The Standards Commissioner has been investigating issues raised in a

BBC Spotlight programme four years ago, which revealed Iris Robinson's

financial and personal relationship with a 19-year-old businessman.

Our political editor Mark Devenport has more.

Iris Robinson's actions with her teenage lover, Kirk McCambley.

This involved obtaining ?50,000 from property developers to assist Mr

McCambley in obtaining a cafe. Shortly afterwards, the Standards

Committee ordered an investigation into the conduct of both Iris

Robinson and her husband Peter. The report was delayed whilst police

investigated the matter before Last November,

the Assembly Standards Commissioner Its publication was delayed after

a lawyer acting for Iris Robinson raised concerns that publishing some

material might damage her health. My investigation was actually

finished last year, but publication of the report and submission

of the report to the committee been Earlier this week,

Standards Committee members were given a chance to examine the report

on condition they did not take Stormont sources indicate it clears

the DUP leader, Peter Robinson, of any breach of the MLA code

of conduct. However, it is suggested that

Iris Robinson was found to have a rule by not declaring receiving

the cash from developers and therefore risking a perception

of a conflict of interest. The Assembly Speaker Willie Hay says

he's suspended a member of staff pending the outcome

of a police investigation into alleged fraud at his

constituency office in Londonderry. In a statement,

Mr Hay said he contacted police last week to report the discovery

of possible fraud in his office. The Foyle MLA, who is to leave his

post for the House of Lords, said he had to take personal responsibility

for the fact that his management of affairs in the office did not

uncover what was happening earlier. The Scottish First Minister Alex

Salmond says a yes vote for independence next week wouldn't

diminish but only assist Speaking in Edinburgh,

Mr Salmond rejected suggestions that an independent Scotland could

destabilise Northern Ireland. An exemplar of peaceful change might

provide a good example for all societies, not just Northern

Ireland. Offer substantial has digital change can be -- can lead to

a peaceful process. Meanwhile,

speaking during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons

today, the DUP MP Willie McCrea said he believed the majority of people

here would be in favour of a no vote Can I support the visit of the Prime

Minister, Deputy Prime Minister and also the leader of the opposition,

speaking directly to the people of Scotland. My rate honourable friends

myself are speaking on behalf of of the vast majority of people in

Northern Ireland. We want the people of Scotland to stay in the UK. I

hope that some of the people crawling today might be disappointed

and now a friend. -- people shouting to date might be disappointed in the

referendum. A 41-year-old Londonderry man has

been jailed after admitting dissident republican-related charges

- including the possession Kevin Barry Concannon,

from Beechwood Avenue, was sentenced to eight years with half to be spent

in custody and half on licence. A judge described him

as a "storeman" Concannon admitted possessing

a deactivated submachine gun. He had pleaded guilty

in June this year at Belfast Crown The Historical Institutional Abuse

Inquiry has heard that the fallout from a

Child Migrant Scheme from Northern Ireland to Australia in the last

century could have repercussions for In the final testimony to

the inquiry from child migrants, a woman made an emotional plea for

help to trace her family's medical The woman told

the inquiry that her quest to find her past continues although she has

discovered some information. She was born in the 1950s and

at the age of eight months was taken At four and a half years of age,

she was put on a boat to Australia. The woman, now in her 60s,

was eventually given her mother's identity but has never been able to

trace her father. All her relatives told her was

he was a Protestant landowner. One of her daughters died

as a baby and a 26-year-old son died The woman said the scheme defined

her past and has potential to After losing two children, she said,

it is still important to find the medical records

for her children and grandchildren. The inquiry also heard more

about what the state knew The senior consul to

the enquiry presented details of the letter from 1955 from the Stormont

Department of Home Affairs. It was written

after a departmental inspector The inspector was told that another

children's home could not cope with The alternative,

according to the letter, Referring to children, she wrote,

this is how they will be disposed Now with the weather forecast,

here's Angie. It surely has been a beautiful day.

One sunshine. Tonight, it was a dry with clear spells. Temperatures

generally no more than 7-9dC but we are likely to get some mist and fog

in places. One or two cruel sports might get close to freezing, hinting

at the odd pocket of the last frost. -- of cruel. We have patches of mist

and fog tomorrow so we could have visibility issues tomorrow in the

rush hour. That mist and fog will lift and brighter spells will

develop. A fine and mainly bright day across the Republic of Ireland

and Britain as well. Best of sunshine across western parts of

England and Wales. Was the -- may be the threat of one or two spots of

rain in these areas and they will see bright spells. Temperatures not

quite as high as today but still quite reasonable in the low 20s.

Form of Ireland, come the afternoon, there will be sunshine around. --

for Northern Ireland. Patches of cloud around as well. Still quite

warm. The West is best with 21 Celsius. Again, maybe an onshore

breeze in the East. The dry weather continues into the weekend and

hopefully we will still be seeing some of that shone shine. --

sunshine.