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tax relief on your pension contributions? Join me now on BBC | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Two, Good evening and welcome | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
to the programme. There was anger today from senior | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
medics over the lack of progress on abortion, specifically in cases | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
of fatal foetal abnormality. The Health Minister said | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
he would set up a working group to look at guidelines | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
for practitioners by the end of February, | :00:24. | :00:24. | |
but as yet, that hasn't happened. Meanwhile, Sarah Ewart, | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
the woman who brought this issue to the public's attention, | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
says she believes it was all Our Health Correspondent | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Marie-Louise Connolly reports. OK, well, this is the letter | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
we sent out to all 108 MLAs. Sarah Ewart continues to lobby | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
politicians around the issue of Northern Ireland's | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
abortion guidelines. It's just asking, really, have | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
they set up their working group? It's almost two and a half years | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
since Sarah went public about travelling to England | :00:54. | :00:55. | |
for an abortion after being told her baby had severe brain malformation | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
and no chance of survival. She says she's frustrated | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
about the lack of progress in setting up a working group | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
on the issue of fatal foetal abnormalities, which was | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
announced last month by the DUP. It was all really to make them look | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
good, but they are not actually In the letter, I said | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
that the treatment That the scaremongering that had | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
gone on before the vote, it was just vile | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
how we were treated. But Sarah isn't the only one | :01:30. | :01:37. | |
putting pen to paper. I think that this is a way | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
of fobbing off women, because every single day | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
that the Northern Ireland Executive and the wider Assembly deliberate, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
consider, think, work their way through this issue, a woman | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
somewhere in Northern Ireland Other medical professionals who work | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
at the very heart of this issue say they too await contact | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
from the Department. We have been in touch | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
with the Minister over the past six I have him to be most | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
engaging on the issue, but now there is a sense | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
of urgency about that. But the Health Minister | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
has defended his actions. In a statement to the BBC, | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
Simon Hamilton said... It added that the working group | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
will also consult with interested And the Minister said | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
that he remains fully determined... In another development, | :02:31. | :02:43. | |
MLAs could receive advice from academics from the local | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
universities, as they too plan to set up their own working | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
group on abortion. It's understood | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
they're also frustrated The Assembly Standards Commissioner | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
has dismissed all complaints brought against the Lagan Valley | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
MLA Basil McCrea. The complaints alleged he had | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
engaged in inappropriate behaviour or sexual misconduct | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
towards his staff. Douglas Bain found the the MLA | :03:09. | :03:09. | |
was not guilty of breaking any On tonight's The View programme, | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
Mr McCrea was asked did he agree with the Standards and | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Privileges Committee, which said there were serious | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
shortcomings on his part in terms Not really, to be honest. I think | :03:25. | :03:36. | |
the committee have maybe missed the point that a lot of the allegations | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
were signed at a matter of fact by the Commissioner to be falsified, | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
and the honesty of the people making the statements was not correct. It | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
is not that I wouldn't take advice from them but they have missed the | :03:49. | :03:55. | |
point that there is a conspiracy and in fact their attention has been | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
drawn to that. And you can see that interview | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
in full on The View, immediately after this | :04:00. | :04:01. | |
programme on BBC One. The Arlene Arkinson inquest has been | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
told that the child killer Robert Howard was like a pied piper | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
to young people in Castlederg. The claim was made by Heather Moore, | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
a former district nurse, who said there was a constant stream | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
of them to Howard's flat. He was acquitted of | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
the 15-year-old's murder, but was always the main suspect. | :04:15. | :04:16. | |
Will Leitch reports. Arlene Arkinson was | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
well-known to Heather Moore. A district nurse, she knew | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
most of the young people in the Castlederg area. | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
She lived next door to Robert Howard's flat | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
on Main Street. Heather Moore told the inquest | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
that there was a constant stream of young people entering the flat, | :04:34. | :04:35. | |
especially at weekends. and her slightly older friend | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
Donna Quinn. It was almost always | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
children in groups - although she did see one | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
teenaged girl enter alone - a girl whom Howard was later | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
charged with assaulting. Of the groups of | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
youngsters, she said... This is Patricia Quinn arriving | :04:54. | :05:01. | |
for the inquest recently. Heather Moore said she once saw | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
Mrs Quinn arrive at Howard's flat early one morning, only | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
to discover her daughter Donna already there, and dragged | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
her off the premises. Patricia Quinn denies | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
being Howard's girlfriend. Other witnesses | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
have insisted she was. Later, three first cousins | :05:20. | :05:29. | |
of Arlene Arkinson also told the inquest about being | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
in Howard's flat with others. One called him a | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
"strange creepy sort of man". Another said that Arlene had | :05:38. | :05:39. | |
confessed to her that she'd fallen pregnant and then had a miscarriage | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
in the summer of 1994, but she said added that | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
she'd never really believed her. Meanwhile, the Arkinson's legal team | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
has expressed dismay that key documents have still not been | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
disclosed to them by the PSNI. Will Leitch, BBC Newsline, | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
at Belfast Coroner's Court. The Culture Arts and Leisure | :05:57. | :06:09. | |
Minister, Caral Ni Chuilin, has walked out of an Assembly | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
committee hearing where over the Casement Park | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
redevelopment project. The Minister objected | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
to being questioned under oath while other's hadn't been | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
sworn in before doing so. Mervyn Jess' report begins | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
with the moment the Minister finished her 80 minute-long | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
reading of a prepared text. I look forward to hearing | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
from the committee. Thank you very much. | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
Thank you. Is the Minister | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
to answer any questions? Do you want me to read | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
the statement out again? Sorry, sorry! | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
Minister! That was how the minister | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
brought her appearance in front of the Stormont | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
committee to a close. More than an hour after she began | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
reading out her opening statement. Some may have expected it, | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
but others where left dumbfounded. -- Some may have expected it, | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
but others were left dumbfounded. The Culture Arts and Leisure | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Minister took exception to being sworn on oath to answer | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
questions on safety issues at the Casement Park | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
development in West Belfast, I swear by Almighty God | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
that the evidence I shall give... After taking an oath, | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
she went ahead with her opening statement, while questioning | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
the committee's fairness. ..and I would be happy to take | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
questions in the future, but only after the committee has | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
decided that all the witnesses will be questioned on oath, | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
or that no witnesses will be It is only then that I will return | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
to this committee to answer questions, as soon as clarity | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
has been achieved. I look forward to hearing | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
from the committee. Thank you very much. | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
Thank you. Is the Minister to | :07:32. | :07:34. | |
answer any questions? Do you want me to read | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
the statement out again? Sorry, sorry! | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
Minister! Minister, can you please sit down | :07:41. | :07:41. | |
and answer questions? I think I've made it clear, | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
I'm not coming back to this committee to answer questions | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
unless you've clarified the position of oath. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
The Minister leaves this committee and refuses to answer questions. | :07:51. | :07:59. | |
I think it's unprecedented, from what I understand. | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
I think it's discourteous, it's elitist, in a string | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
of discourtesy extended to this committee. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
The ongoing sage over Casement Park continues. | :08:08. | :08:08. | |
The last of Stormont's double jobbing politicians is | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
The DUP's Gregory Campbell says he won't be fighting | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
Instead he will concentrate on his role as MP for East Londonderry, | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
Ballycastle and its surrounding area was left without ambulance cover | :08:24. | :08:36. | |
for several hours early this morning, after a paramedic | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
was assaulted by a man he was trying to treat. | :08:39. | :08:51. | |
The victim needed hospital treatment for a bite. | :08:52. | :08:53. | |
An 18-year-old man was arrested and bailed following the attack. | :08:54. | :08:55. | |
The Ambulance service wants tougher sentences for people who assault | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
He had physical trauma and emotional trauma. We want custodial sentences | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
for people carrying out these acts on our cruise. Ballycastle is one | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
fatal station. Could be eight, nine, ten on is call anywhere else, but | :09:14. | :09:21. | |
that is only one in Ballycastle. We cannot bring cruise out then air, so | :09:22. | :09:34. | |
Ballycastle was left without one. -- -- crews out of thin air. | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
A court has allowed the Attorney General to become | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
involved in the Ashers Bakery's appeal against a discrimination | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
It was ordered to pay ?500 for refusing to make a cake | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
John Larkin raised an issue with the lawfulness | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
of the legislation at the centre of the case. | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
Football and one of Northern Ireland's key players had been ruled | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
out of this summer's European Championships in France. | :09:53. | :09:54. | |
Chris Brunt requires knee surgery and will now miss the tournament. | :09:55. | :09:57. | |
Scans had shown that Brunt ruptured the anterior cruciate ligament | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
in his right knee, and so he underwent surgery | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
in France today to repair the damage. | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
But he will now miss the rest of the season, | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
as well as this summer's European Championships. | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
That robs Northern Ireland manager Michael O'Neill of the services | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
of one of his most experienced players. | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
of Northern Ireland's Euro qualifying matches | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
and has amassed 54 caps during his international career. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
The news also completes a miserable fortnight for the player, | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
after he was hit by a coin thrown from one of his club's | :10:29. | :10:31. | |
own supporters during West Brom's 3-1 FA Cup defeat at Reading. | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
Filming for the next Star Wars movie is set to return to County Kerry. | :10:36. | :10:45. | |
Some scenes for the last movie took place on Skellig Michael off | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
Now, for the next film in the franchise, contractors | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
are carrying out the groundwork at the western end of | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
Filming is expected to take place over a two-week period in May. | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
Tourism groups have welcomed the development. | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
People are still coming in, after 50 years, since the filming of Ryan's | :11:07. | :11:18. | |
Daughter, asking where Ryan's Daughter was filmed, so we are | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
hoping, with this huge, huge franchise, people will come and ask, | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
we was Star Wars films? -- where was? | :11:32. | :11:32. | |
Looking ahead to a story we're bringing you tomorrow. | :11:33. | :11:34. | |
We find out about the County Armagh school which has doubled the amount | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
of GCSE passes among boys in just two years. | :11:38. | :11:39. | |
Staff have introduced a series of measures, | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
including insisting that male relatives attend parents meetings. | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
That's tomorrow night on BBC Newsline and on Good Morning Ulster | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
Now, with the weather forecast, here's Cecilia Daly. | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Good evening, more wintry weather in the forecast tonight, warnings in | :11:54. | :12:03. | |
force for snow and ice. It is currently dry after earlier rain, | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
some showers dotted around, but rain, sleet and snow heading | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
southwards during the early hours, lying snow likely especially over | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
higher ground, and temperatures around freezing, so watch out for | :12:18. | :12:24. | |
ice. That rain and snow will move southwards early morning, dropping | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
snow in its part, snow possible anywhere but most of the disruptive | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
snow is likely above 600 feet. They are prepared for rain, sleet and | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
snow tomorrow morning, quite nasty on some roads, it will become | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
slow-moving over northern England, Wales and parts of Dublin and the | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
Republic, lots of snow over higher ground because it is very slow and | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
heavy at times. A bitter wind to the north, not so bad to worse London | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
and the South East, with some sunshine. Dry and brighter weather | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
tomorrow afternoon, feeling cold in the wind, some showers but also dry | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
weather. Some wintry showers on Saturday, snow on the hills, most | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
places dry with sunshine but cold in the wind. The wind will drop by | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
Sunday, possibly a sharp frost in the morning, some sunshine but also | :13:22. | :13:24. | |
rain to come later in the day. Our next BBC Newsline is at | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
6.25 in the morning during | :13:30. | :13:32. |