31/12/2015 BBC Newsline

Almost 80 people in Northern Ireland feature

The most prestigious award is a knighthood for the jockey

AP McCoy and there were also honours for charity volunteers,

security staff, civil servants and teachers.

Anthony Peter McCoy, known as AP, now Sir Anthony,

recently retired after a long and successful career

He describes as knighthood as a huge honour.

I had a very successful career, a lucky career, but I really do

think that this is the highest honour that anybody can get.

Boxer Carl Frampton gets an MBE for his services for boxing.

He is the current IBF super-bantamweight champion.

The actor and Chancellor of Ulster University,

James Nesbitt, has an OBE for services to drama

He is the star of numerous films and TV programmes.

And the veteran journalist and broadcaster Anne Hailes is now

an MBE for her work over the last 55 years.

I was very touched because my family were there in the room at the same

time and it was their delight that made me think this

Volunteers for youth and charity organisations were also featured.

Some minor roads in Northern Ireland are still impassable

because of the floods caused by storm Frank.

At one stage, nearly 300 roads were reported

as blocked by water or fallen trees.

motorists to drive with caution and be prepared for debris

A full list of roads still closed is available on our

A 24-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with attempted

murder relating to a stabbing in Ballymena two months ago.

A 30-year-old man was injured during the attack in a flat

Kyle Joseph Rainey, of Rossdale in Tullygarley denies the charge.

Detectives investigating the murder of the West Belfast man

Christopher Meli are continuing to question two 17-year-olds.

The 20-year-old was killed near houses

at Glasvey Close in Twinbrook, in Belfast earlier this month.

The teenagers were arrested in the west of the city yesterday.

It's been a year when political division has made plenty

But a piece of legislation proposed by a backbencher has made it

Professionals who work with children say it'll make a real difference.

Here's our political correspondent Chris Page.

Children may not be very interested in what happens at Stormont but the

decisions of government agencies deeply affect young people. This

social worker who helps children in care was involved in a case with a

disabled child who needed his home to be adapted. Unfortunately, health

and housing were in conflict about whose responsibility it was to

provide the service. As a consequence, the child remained in

hospital much longer than necessary. This act aims to stop such

bureaucratic problems. Government agencies now have a legal duty to

cooperate and work together. They will pool resources and not wrangle

over who pays for. The legislation was proposed by the Green Party's

only MLA. All parties eventually supported it. We need to make sure

that the resources we put in children's services get to children.

It is about making good practice common practice. The legislation

became law before Christmas. The New Year will show what impact it has on

children services. Andrew Trimble will make his 200th

appearance for the Ulster rugby He lines out against Munster

in the Pro12 in Belfast. Since his debut in 2005

he has scored 67 tries. Rory Best returns to captain

the side which shows four changes to the one which beat

Connacht last weekend. Now let's have a look at the weather

forecast here's Geoff Maskell. Good afternoon. There is a nip in

the air over the next few days. Temperatures markedly cooler. If you

are heading out for New Year, to wrap up. This is the picture with a

band of rain working its way from west to east. Behind it, more

showery conditions. Those showers will turn wintry over the highest

ground. The downward trend in the temperatures continues over the next

few days. Tonight is going to be quite chilly indeed. Temperatures

close to freezing tonight. Showers containing a wintry element. At

least it means that 1st of January will feel like a winter morning. It

is going to be cleared before the clouds come in and rain moves in

from the west later. You can see that we are getting the first rain

as it moves in across the eastern half of Scotland and England it is

much drier and brighter. They are in the cooler rain. With the rain comes

a recovery with temperatures. We are in for some unsettled weather over

the next few days. As this front moves in from the Atlantic. It means

that as we move to the weekend we could see some rain. We could do

with a few weeks of drier weather to try out the ground but no sign of

that as yet. More rain and difficult times for many people.

Our next local television news is at ten to seven this evening.