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This is BBC Newsline and these are the headlines. | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
The Taoiseach's idea of an all-Ireland forum to deal | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
with Brexit hits the buffers as the First Minister says | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
This man is sentenced to at least 12 years in jail for murdering his | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
In what is and discuss with me at any stage. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
This man is sentenced to at least 12 years in jail for murdering his | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Volunteers are drafted in as the ambulance service says it | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
will be months before it can provide full cover at weekends. | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
Concerns are raised about the safety of an 11th Night | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
And the drier weather returns for Tuesday but how long will it last? | :00:50. | :01:00. | |
I'll tell you later. It was proposed by the Taoiseach | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
as a body on which parties north and south could discuss a way | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
forward after the UK voted to leave the European Union but no sooner had | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
the All-Ireland Forum been proposed over the weekend than the idea | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
disappeared when the First Minister and DUP leader Arlene Foster said | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
she hadn't been consulted after a meeting of Executive | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
and Irish Government ministers in Dublin, from where our | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
political correspondent The first North-South meeting after | :01:27. | :01:41. | |
Brexit, time to agree a way forward. I think the important thing is that | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
the Taoiseach has agreed to establish a forum to deal with the | :01:45. | :01:51. | |
massive challenges that face all the buzz on this island in the time and | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
that's a good thing. The Taoiseach may have agreed it but it neglected | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
to mention it to the First Minister and the DUP did not want another | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
North-South body so when the ministers re-emerged the forum did | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
not feature as one of the points agreed on. It wasn't discussed with | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
me at any stage at the weekend before and it wasn't discussed today | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
but what was discussed was the fact that we do intend to continue to use | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
all of those different mechanisms which end there's talked about, the | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
Irish council, the ministerial council and and all of our | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
continuing talks between the different ministers, they take place | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
on an ongoing basis in any event. That wasn't what her partner in | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
government wanted to hear. I still think that the forum suggestion is a | :02:45. | :02:51. | |
good suggestion. I don't believe that there should be a veto. I | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
believe there many people throughout the island, many say: is an business | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
groups and Fireman associations, many others in the North who would | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
gladly accept the opportunity to participate in a conversation which | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
is about facing up to the huge challenges which this decision that | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
has been made posers for all abuzz on the island. All rather | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
embarrassing for the Irish government. That imitation is open | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
to everybody but obviously it couldn't function effectively as | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
unless you are buying from everybody. Wherever we go from here, | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
it won't be via an All-Ireland Forum. The Irish government 's | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
handling of this forum idea has been described as cack-handed, it's not a | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
good beginning to a period where everybody will have to be | :03:45. | :03:45. | |
sure-footed. The Northern Ireland | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
Executive is sticking to its key economic policy - | :03:48. | :03:48. | |
a plan to cut the tax companies Arlene Foster says there's nothing | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
to fear from the UK government planning another big reduction | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
in its corporation tax rate. Our business correspondent | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
Julian O'Neill is here. The Chancellor, is he stealing | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
the Executive's clothes on this one? He is looking to do exactly what the | :04:07. | :04:21. | |
executive wants to do and that is to the rain foreign direct investment | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
with the prospect of lower taxes. In the case of Northern Ireland, it | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
wanted to do this to take as away from reliance on the public sector | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
and rebalance the economy and George Osborne wants to attract Company to | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
may be convened twice about investing in the UK because of a | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
Brexit. George Osborne used the Financial Times today to talk about | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
taking the corporation tax rate below 15%, currently has 20% and it | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
will be going to 17% by 2020 but the outcome of the referendum looks like | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
taking the UK ever closer to the Northern Ireland rate of 12.5% which | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
is to be introduced in 2018. The upside of this would be it would | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
cost Stormont less, the narrow the gap between the UK rate and the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Northern Ireland rate, the less the hit the grand takes, those are the | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
rules at the moment. The downside would be it would lessen Northern | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
Ireland 's attractiveness compared to other parts of the UK, it would | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
bridge use our competitiveness. What would it mean for the jobs which the | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
executive hopes to create for us benefiting from the lower | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
corporation tax? It would almost certainly mean a revision of the | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
jobs benefits of corporation tax. The executive has fought a long and | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
hard battle to get to this point and all through this time the ground has | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
shifted needs its feet. When it started in this journey, the | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
corporation tax rate in the UK was but cut after cut has reduced it, | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
reduces selling point that 12.5% and the jobs dividend has been reduced | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
accordingly. It was 58,000 jobs, it's now 32,000, that before 17% in | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
2020, before taking it below 15% and that below a Brexit referendum | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
result so UK collisions are needed, new costs as well as the benefits, | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
Arlene Foster said we have nothing to fear from this move by the UK, | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
Northern Ireland is a cheaper place to do business in other parts of the | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
UK, our wages are lower, office cost lower and we have a talented | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
workforce but no two ways about it when it comes to launching this | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
flagship Aussie in 2018 the executive will do it in a much more | :06:35. | :06:35. | |
challenging environment. Thank you. Meanwhile, health ministers on both | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
sides of the border have opened a new specialist cardiac facility | :06:39. | :06:41. | |
in Dublin that will be used to treat children on both | :06:42. | :06:43. | |
sides of the border. The aim is to carry out all child | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
heart surgery at the facility in Our Lady's Children's Hospital | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
by 2018. The two governments have committed | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
?42 million to the service. Stormont's health minister | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
Michelle O'Neill has also announced ?1 million to enhance facilities | :06:54. | :06:54. | |
at the Royal Belfast Hospital for Sick Children, where | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
children will receive pre- A care worker who murdered his | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
friend by stabbing him about 200 times at a house in Comber in April | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
last year has been sentenced Wesley Harry Vance admitted | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
murdering 23-year-old Kyle Neil Rick Faragher was at Belfast Crown | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
Court. This is Kyle Neil, a father of one | :07:19. | :07:32. | |
from Belfast to have been living in Banga. He was stabbed 200 times | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
including 50 times to the head and face. Following a house party in | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
combat in April last year. The police have called it a brutal act | :07:44. | :07:49. | |
of violence. This is his killer. 20 age old Wesley Harry Barnes, here | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
previously completed guilty to murder at the Churchgate Studios | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
address he was living at the time. He will spend a minimum of 12 years | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
in prison. The court approves the heard that both men were drunk when | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
a heated argument happened after the other guests have left the party. | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
His governor the time Stephanie Todd from Russell court in Belfast | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
admitted obstructing police of the murder. The 26 rolled also admitted | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
driving under excessive alcohol. She arrived in court today to be handed | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
a 12 month conditional discharge and a three month driving ban. She was | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
asleep during the time of the attack and later drove vans and the body to | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
her mother 's home in Windsor Avenue with the police were called and her | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
vamps were arrested. In conclusion, the judge said he took into | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
consideration the guilty plea and that the attack was not premeditated | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
although he was fully aware of the deeply tragic impact on the victim | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
's family. In a statement, Kyle Mills mother said her family were | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
experiencing an incredibly difficult time. She said her son was a loyal | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
friend but above all an amazing daddy to Sophie. Just been robbed of | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
his love and he will never see the milestones throughout her life. She | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
said the family are disappointed with the sentence and are exploring | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
the option of an appeal. After the sentence was passed, there were | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
heckles from the public gallery as vans was led away in handcuffs. | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
The Ambulance Service says it will be months before it can provide | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
It had 24 fewer staff than required on Saturday and so ambulances | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
from the voluntary sector had to be drafted in to handle | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
It's a vital part of the health service. Carrying patients to care. | :09:32. | :09:51. | |
But staffing problems meant that on Saturday night 12 ambulances were | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
which should been on the road couldn't operate. It meant less | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
serious call-outs had to wait. I don't want to scaremonger or create | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
a situation that is in there but there is a concern that had there | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
been a crisis of the weekend the Amundsen 's would've been under | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
pressure cause me concern. The reason for the problems and | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
multiple. The services to recruit 60 emergency medical technicians, they | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
assist paramedics. There are 80 staff of sake, that's 10% of the | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
workforce. Some are on annual leave and on Saturday the ongoing problems | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
were as updated by some staff counselling over time they'd agree | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
to cover. It's well documented are from buying staff are unhappy and we | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
try to work with them as best as we can to find resolutions. It is | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
difficult but we will continue to work at it. The one thing I can | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
assure you is that staff on the front line all want to make sure | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
that the people they serve are protected at all times. These | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
problems aren't We we can staffing has been a problem for two years. | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
Unions say staff welfare needs to be taken seriously. Their working day | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
is very difficult, they're not getting their breaks, working past | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
that ours, relying on overtime to run the service and I think staff | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
are tired. There are also morale, they're demoralised. There are staff | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
issues within the service which they are working to rectify, we are | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
recruiting for the Ambulance Service and we are looking at trainees. We | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
can improve things in terms staff morale but I think over the weekend | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
the service the right measure. The current recruitment drive may help | :11:29. | :11:34. | |
but training will take time. For now, the service will continue to | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
rely on the support of crews from St John's ambulance and the British Red | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Cross. The Ambulance Service is that that despite the ongoing problems | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
with staffing the average response time is here are still better than | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
those in great Britain. It says that anyone with a life-threatening | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
condition should have no concerns that the level of cover will affect | :11:55. | :11:56. | |
their careful Now a brief look at | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
today's other news. Animal welfare charity the USPCA has | :12:04. | :12:05. | |
sacked its chief executive The charity says Stephen Philpott's | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
dismissal relates to his management An airport car park business | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
near Belfast International Airport has announced that it is to close | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
at the end of July. Karl Airport Parking, | :12:21. | :12:23. | |
based in Muckamore, has been involved in a long-running dispute | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
about its planning status. In a statement, it said remaining | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
open risked further Customers who have had their parking | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
cancelled will get a refund. The Secretary of State Theresa | :12:31. | :12:38. | |
Villiers has given her backing to Andrea Leadsom as new leader | :12:39. | :12:40. | |
of the Conservatives. Ms Villiers says the Foreign | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
Secretary and leading Leave campaigner is the right | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
person for the job. She says Ms Leadsom has the dynamism | :12:47. | :12:48. | |
needed to make a success Talks are continuing | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
to try to resolve an issue around an 11th Night bonfire in East | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
Belfast. The city council are involved | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
in discussions along with community representatives and the bonfire | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
builders after safety this was the scene last year when | :13:02. | :13:16. | |
the bonfire near the Hollywood arches was late. Nearby homes had to | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
have windows boarded up and fire tried train hoses on the properties | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
to prevent them from catching fire. At one point the huge bonfire fell | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
over narrowly missing the properties. Since then, this part of | :13:29. | :13:37. | |
the Cumber Greenway between the upper Falls Road and rivers cross at | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
the new has seen community development including children's | :13:43. | :13:44. | |
play park. While the bonfire is moved away from the homes of last | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
year 's site, it is now close the new park and the counsellor said | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
that preparing to remove the play a greater is -- play apparatus. | :13:54. | :13:57. | |
They're still concerned about how high this will be eventually lead | :13:58. | :14:02. | |
the 11th night. We are really concerned because after last year | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
there would not be a bonfire again on that side, that's not the case. | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
This lot are property including old people and flats and they have made | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
representation tours, there's a number of houses, there's also a car | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
wash so they are worried about their premises and the last thing we want | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
to see is property being destroyed and stop the catcher mind back | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
almost four months, we had houses blocked off, people leaving, you | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
can't live in a society like that so what we are saying to those involved | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
with the bonfire, we want to work with you, we want to consult with | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
you but at the end of the day if there's going to be danger to life | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
and property you have to do is say it's going to be scaled down | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
otherwise it'll have to take action. Talks are continuing to try to reach | :14:50. | :14:52. | |
a sad is that the outcome to this 11th night bonfire problem. -- | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
satisfactory outcome. The Ulster council today confirmed | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
this year's Ulster final will take place at Clones and what a game | :15:00. | :15:02. | |
it should be. Donegal dethroned the current Ulster | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
champions Monaghan over the weekend and Tyrone eased past Cavan to earn | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
a spot in this year's showpiece. There's an old expression in Gaelic | :15:10. | :15:24. | |
football that goals win games. When you hit five, you're pretty much | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
secured victory. Tyrone were at the very best yesterday against Cavan | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
and speaking of the very best their number seven scored six times to | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
secure a first Ulster final football in six years. It was a good win. | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
Could be back in the final. We've achieved it and put on a good score | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
but we conceded 17, if we can see that as Donegal then it'll be a | :15:54. | :15:55. | |
different result. I don't think we have ever been involved in as many | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
goals while the bin involved, it very un-Cavan. We didn't take a | :16:03. | :16:09. | |
chance in the first half and that's where the pendulum swung. It's a | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
good day but we conceded 217 so we wouldn't be happy with what we | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
conceded, jabbing chip the ball to 17 is a serious score the ship. | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
Tyrone will need to improve if they concede to 17 against this Donegal | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
team then it's pretty much guarantee they won't win. Donegal 's margin of | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
victory was just a single point against the defending champions | :16:32. | :16:34. | |
Monaghan but in truth they were much better than the scoreline suggested. | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
Something Tyrone will be very much aware of. But relishing the final, | :16:38. | :16:43. | |
Donegal are the big kingpins of Ulster and between themselves and | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
Monaghan they have shed the last five titles, we know what we're up | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
against. They beat us on the way to those titles. It's a challenge but | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
grade B in the position. The Ulster final take place in clonus a | :16:56. | :16:56. | |
fortnight. Now, some of road racing's biggest | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
names and brightest young talent To officially launch | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
the 2016 Ulster Grand Prix. The racing doesn't take place | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
until next month but the countdown to a great day's racing | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
is already on. The world's fastest road race is | :17:10. | :17:21. | |
just around the corner. That's how fast it is at the Ulster Grand Prix. | :17:22. | :17:34. | |
New race leader! It's unique. It's fast and flowing, it suits my style | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
to down to the ground. I enjoy it. It's an enjoyable circuit to ride | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
and eight is pretty safe as well. It just make it so good to ride. This | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
years event will see the engine option of a new super pole session | :17:50. | :17:53. | |
with the fastest 12 riders in the Superbike practice session racing | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
against the clock individually to find out their final grid position | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
on race day. Good for riders and spectators because the riders will | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
have clear road ahead of them, the 12 fastest in qualifying will be out | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
on the track on their own and with no traffic so they should be good | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
plus will have all the timing for the spectators so it's good for | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
both. There will be interesting to see how it pans out. You might even | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
see people putting qualifiers in Bray lap and who ultimately ends up | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
fast as other that will be interesting to see. It will be | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
strange doing that round such a big tracks and measure how that will | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
work but it's something new and we are up for dries up the new and it | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
will make it more exciting. One thing is the shore, fans are | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
guaranteed an exhilarating day at the draw. -- at the track. | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
We've a shorter programme because of the tennis coverage so, | :18:55. | :18:57. | |
if you were waiting for our report on an old Plantation | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
of Ulster document, we will try to have that tomorrow. | :19:01. | :19:02. | |
Barra Best has the unenviable task of telling us | :19:03. | :19:04. | |
It was grey. This is the picture across Northern Ireland. There is | :19:05. | :19:18. | |
good news, blue sky is coming into the West just in time for this | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
evening as that rain cleared us the way. Overnight tonight, largely dry. | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
Cool in some places where this guide is clear. Temperatures dipping to | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
the single figures but not a bad night to come. Tomorrow will be a | :19:30. | :19:35. | |
much better day. Largely dry, lots of cloud but that cloud will break | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
at times and will be sunny gaps coming out. That said, it will be | :19:40. | :19:42. | |
thick enough time to give off the odd isolated shower but the emphasis | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
tomorrow is on the dry conditions. Temperatures at best towards the | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
north coast with 1415 degrees, inland if we do manage to get | :19:53. | :19:55. | |
sunnier gaps were looking at 16 or 17 degrees. About normal for the | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
time of year. As it make way towards the second part of the day tomorrow | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
into the evening, it is a fine one. A lot of cloud but if you others | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
will get to see some sunshine to end the day. Tomorrow night there will | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
be a lot of clear skies. That means they'll will be cooler the badgers, | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
they will dip to just seven or 8 degrees so the low average for the | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
time of year but not too bad. If you are behind me, you'll see the next | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
wave of rain ready to come in just in time for Wednesday. It returns, | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
it would be widespread and it could be on the heavy side as well. | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
Temperatures 15 or six in degrees but the winds start to change | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
direction from the South, they were dragged in milder air for Thursday | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
and Friday. Maybe touching 19 or 20 degrees but there will be some | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
further spells of rain but on the upside at least the rain would be as | :20:46. | :20:46. | |
cold as it was today. You can also keep in contact with us | :20:47. | :20:49. | |
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