13/03/2016 BBC Newsline

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A pipe bomb has exploded in Armagh, damaging a number of vehicles

Police received reports of an explosion at Cathedral Road

in the early hours of this morning, and a number of homes

were evacuated. Sara Girvin reports.

It was after midnight when a loud bang woke residents from their beds.

It was an awful bang, it woke me out of my sleep. So it did. I couldn't

sleep all night to be honest. There was a lot of police about, so I

didn't know what was happening until this morning. One young man was

driving home from a night out when the explosion occurred just yards

from his car. I heard the bang and looked in the mirror and there was a

bit of a... It wasn't a fire, it was like a light. I shot of light that

came up around us like. There are were two of our friends in the car,

and it may put me off from the driving, like. There was a Big Bang.

It was centred at a cost ales business behind me. It is understood

the car sales business had had cars damaged in the past week. Police say

the pipe bomb was placed at the dealership by someone carrying a

backpack at around 12:30am. Before it exploded, ten minutes later. Four

cars were damaged. As Army bomb experts and police carried out

investigations, disruption continued in the area. Those attending Sunday

morning Mass and church services found themselves stuck in unexpected

traffic some local businesses also had to close. But police say it's

lucky that no one was seriously injured. They have described those

behind the device as reckless. All roads have now reopened, and

evacuated residents have been returned to their homes.

The First Minister Arlene Foster says she hopes US firms will invest

in Northern Ireland, despite calls from both frontrunners

in the American presidential race to put America first for jobs.

Mrs Foster and the Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness

are in the United States as part of the St Patrick's Day celebrations.

The First Minister told BBC Radio Ulster's Inside Business

programme that a lower corporation tax here was a major advantage.

When Obama came into office that was a big element of what he wanted to

do to bring jobs back to America. We think we have a very strong

proposition, we always have had a strong proposition, but we have an

extra tool now, an extra tool in our toolkit, and we will be talking to

those companies that are perhaps in the past felt we didn't have a tax

offering that we have now, and that opens doors for us.

A 17-year-old boy has been charged with possession of a flare

A young toddler has been hit by a car by Torbett late. His injuries

are not life-threatening. In GAA, Tyrone have secured

promotion from Football League Division Two by beating Meath

1-17 to 1-11 at Navan. Derry scored five goals

against Laois at Portlaoise, The match between Armagh and Galway

also ended even, one goal And Antrim beat Waterford

in Division Four. Now with Northern Ireland's Euro

2016 opener in France just twelve weeks away, here's Mark Simpson

with a look ahead to some special I have been taking a closer look

at the cities where Northern Ireland are going to play during

the Euros this summer. And finally to Nice in the south

of France, where Northern Ireland play their first match

in just three months' time. What will it be like

for the fans A look at the weather

for the week ahead now, Hello. Good evening. We had a pretty

fine day today, not huge amount of sunshine, but it did brighten up in

places and we had temperatures into the low teens. Over the next few

days we will still see a lot of dry weather, a variable amount of cloud.

Meaning there should be some sunshine around, but of course clear

spells at night-time mean it will be a bit chilly. As there will be in

places last night, not as mild as last night. Les Bell developed, so

don't just drop back to four or 5 degrees, but some rural spots could

get down to one or two Celsius, and that could give them patchy fog and

mist and frog. Frost. Tomorrow should be dried, with some sunshine,

although the fog should lift into clouds before the sun wakes during

the morning. Dry everywhere through the day generally speaking, sunshine

around as well, I bit more cloud around the south-west, bitter breeze

here as well, and we also get some low clouds just lifting in over the

north sea into the east coast of England, pushing that further

inland. Feeling cool in these areas but present in the sunshine further

west. Through the afternoon, a fair amount of sunshine, lots of blue

sky, temperatures not quite as high, as they were today, but that

sunshine with just a light south-easterly breeze means just ten

or 11 degrees will be feeling very present in the west. High pressure

is in charge for the rest of the week, a flow coming east from

south-east. Eastern Scotland and eastern England could continue to

get some low cloud, some sea fog may be drifting in at times, and it will

feel quite cool. So the best of the sunshine for Tuesday, likely to be

towards the west and the north-west, and this is where we will see the

best of the temperatures as well, as indeed we will do on Wednesday. Best

sunshine here again, against a low cloud and see fog was the north sea

coast. That Kildare creates just a little bit further inland.

Essentially it is a fine and dry week coming up, and hopefully there

will be more sunshine around. Our next BBC Newsline bulletin

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