12/11/2015 BBC Newsline

Within the last half an hour, four of the six people arrested in

Ballymena by police investigating child sexual exploitation have been

Three men, aged 23, 42 and 56, and a 48-year-old woman were arrested this

Three men, aged 23, 42 and 56, and a 48-year-old woman, were arrested

this morning, along with a 27-year-old man who

A 19-year-old man who was also being questioned has been released pending

a report to the Public Proscution Service.

Police say that although all the arrests took place

in Ballymena, the suspects are not all linked to each other.

The Police Ombudsman has found no evidence that officers didn't

intervene to stop a sectarian attack in Coleraine

Kevin McDaid, who was a Catholic, was beaten

by a loyalist gang close to his home on the Heights estate in 2009.

Kevin McDaid, a father of four, died in what was later described in

His wife was also beaten and neighbour Damien Fleming was

It happened the day Rangers Football Club won

Local people raised concerns that on the day policing was not robust,

that some officers texted loyalists to encourage violenceand that they

then did not intervene to stop the attack.

But the Police Ombudsman Doctor Michael Maguire says

a detailed investigation found no evidence to support those claims.

The responsibility for Mr McDaid in my view rests only with those

We found no evidence the police inflamed the incident

and looking at the incident over the course of the day we found the

police did respond appropriately.

Investigators interviewed 120 witnesses, look at CCTV footage

Investigators interviewed 120 witnesses, looked at CCTV footage

and listened to police radio transmissions from the day.

They also recovered and examined a number of mobile phones.

But some are still questioning the police response on that day.

This was a very serious attack on a Catholic area that was left

defenceless and the police presence on the ground at that moment

in time was completely inadequate and that is not mentioned in the

Last year Mr McDaid's family were in court as nine men were jailed

The Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan has returned to

Stormont tonight for more talks with the Secretary

Earlier the First and Deputy First Ministers said that

a north-south meeting due to take place in Armagh tomorrow had been

postponed, to allow the political talks to reach a conclusion.

It's fuelled speculation that a deal might be announced

Speaking at Stormont earlier today, Charlie Flanagan was upbeat

It is possible to carve a breakthrough and I am encouraging

all parties round the table to gear themselves towards finally reaching

a conclusion on these most important matters.

The Royal British legion say the singing of the national anthem

is not compulsory at Remembrance Day services, in spite of

complaints from some Unionists that it wasn't sung at Stormont yesterday

BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson has been talking to politicians

on both sides of the divide about the anthem issue.

Just when everyone thought the service of remembrance was

The SDLP say steps now must be taken to ensure it doesn't happen again.

Yesterday was bad for the Assembly, for our politics,

our community relations and we learned

the lesson we don't try and impose something on the other side.

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them.

Looking back at the footage today, this former soldier

turned politician says what happened yesterday was highly significant.

You can argue whether or not the national anthem should or

shouldn't have been on the order of service, but if people really

look at this, Mitchel McLaughlin of Sinn Fein did the exortation.

When would we ever believe that somebody from Sinn Fein would

When they started singing the national anthem, Martin McGuinness

Should the national anthem have been on the official order of service?

In a statement today, the Royal British Legion said:

But the man who started the singing yesterday said it has

been sung before at Stormont and should be sang again.

If Sinn Fein want to attend the event that is up to them, but there

should be absolutely no change to the format in order to accommodate

Any regrets about what you did yesterday?

They may have been divided over the anthem but there was common

ground between all parties when it came to remembrance.

There will be more on that story in the few right after bulletin. -- in

The View. One of Northern Ireland's biggest

employers is asking Workers at the Canadian-owned

aerospace giant Bombardier have been told that savings are critical to

its survival. It has five factories

in greater Belfast and Newtownards. Our business correspondent

Julian O'Neill reports Worrying times at one of our oldest

and most significant employers. The 500 staff members have been told

they will have to work an extra hour on Friday. They are over budget and

struggling to win orders. Around 700 jobs mostly among contract workers

have been lost at local operations here in the past year or so and what

is contained in this pay offer is hardly likely to soothe any anxiety

felt among the remaining workforce. The rationale for the pay deal has

been set out in the bleakest of terms. Workers have been told the

firm is in serious financial crisis. Costs must be reduced by 20%

in Belfast by 2017, and savings are critical to its survival. Our senior

stewards in the past week have been in discussions with the company. We

know the company has been struggling for some time in terms of finance.

This issue has been put before the workforce and they will be left to

decide how they want to go with it, yes or no mac. Bath at -- back at

Bombardier a ballot on pay will be held in the coming weeks. The mood

of staff is said to be darkening with no assurances given on job

security even if the deal goes through.

Christian Aid has been marking its 70th anniversary with a special

The charity, which was set up after World War Two to help

refugees, organised an evening of music in the Ulster Hall to say

thank you to the people here who have supported them over the years.

The reality is that, 70 years on, there are some many refugees and

crises across the world. A lot of conflict, as well as natural

disasters caused by climate change, and people do have to flee their

countries and they do have to seek livelihoods elsewhere, so, yes, we

are as relevant now, more relevant now, than we were 70 years ago.

Now here's Barra Best with the weather forecast.

Quite a stormy night and it will turn quite chilly, a shock to the

system after a relatively mild spell. Across Northern Ireland it

will be quite gusty tonight, with costs around 70 miles an hour, and

temperatures down close to freezing so quite a chilly start tomorrow and

overall it will feel quite cold especially when you factor in the

scattered showers and strong westerly winds. Over the hills there

could be a touch of sleet which will not amount to very much. This is the

picture across much of Britain and Ireland, strong gusty winds,

scattered showers but spells of sunshine in between. Across the

board temperatures are falling back to what they could be for this time

of year. Keep the courts, scarves and gloves handy as it will feel

colder with those bitterly cold winds. Tomorrow afternoon, gusts of

60 miles an hour so quite blustery and some big waves. As that clears

out of the way, into the weekend, we have the old Harry Kane Kate coming

our way, temperatures at 12 or 13 degrees -- hurricane. That weather

stays through the weekend but it will stay windy at times with

further spells of rain and in fact it will stay unsettled right through

until next week. Stay tuned for that. That is it for now. Have a

very good night.