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A woman's in a critical condition after being hit by a scrambler | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
motorbike in a country park on the outskirts of Belfast. | :00:12. | :00:15. | |
The incident happened at the Colin Glen Forest | :00:16. | :00:20. | |
Our reporter Martin Cassidy has been to the scene. | :00:21. | :00:29. | |
This lake is a popular spot for dog walkers in West Belfast. The woman, | :00:30. | :00:37. | |
who is believed to be a mother, was walking along the pathway by the | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
lake earlier this evening. A number of people on the motorcycles were | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
also in the area at the time. The Ambulance Service said they received | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
a call just before 545 this evening and a woman in her 40s had been | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
struck by a motorbike here in Colin Glen Forest Park. The police arrived | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
shortly after. This evening, two men are in custody. Our thoughts and | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
prayers are with this woman and her family. I think that from what we | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
are hearing, she is a local woman, a mother of young children, so it is | :01:15. | :01:19. | |
really, really tragic this has happened. Community workers say this | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
is not the first serious incident involving Qantas and motorcycles in | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
the park. There's a problem, but it is widespread. It is all over West | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Belfast. There was a young lad last year who fell off a scramble and was | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
critically ill about a mile away from here. We've done a number of | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
initiatives with the community and the PSNI to try and get these | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
things. They are killing machines. The woman this evening is undergoing | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
surgery on the Royal Victoria Hospital. -- in the Royal Victoria | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
Hospital. A cyclist in his sixties has died | :01:56. | :01:56. | |
in a crash in County Down. His bike was in collision | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
with a car at around half It happened on the main road | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
between Bangor and Holywood. Another cyclist was slightly | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
injured. Unionists have dismissed | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
a suggestion by the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, that a border poll | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
could be considered in the wake Sinn Fein have called for such | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
a move after a majority of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
in the European Union. Here's our political | :02:20. | :02:21. | |
correspondent, Stephen Walker. Enda Kenny made his remarks at | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
the annual summer school in County Donegal, where he delivered a speech | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
about the implications of the UK's Discussions and negotiations that | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
take place over the next few weeks should take into account the | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
possibility, however far-fetched it might be, that the clause in | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
the Good Friday Agreement might be triggered if there's clear evidence | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
of a majority of people wishing to leave the United Kingdom | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
and join the Republic, that that should be catered | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
for in the discussions that Unsurprisingly, Sinn Fein have | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
welcomed the Taoiseach's Now we have incredible uncertainty | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
and alarm within key People are asking | :03:03. | :03:09. | |
serious questions about what the future holds and I think | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
people are beginning to ask themselves the question, | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
are we not better off in Ireland that's in Europe | :03:20. | :03:21. | |
than the United Kingdom, The say calling for | :03:22. | :03:23. | |
a border poll is only It is in the Good Friday | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
Agreement and it has to be discussed, but calling a referendum | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
and a border poll is easy, but you need to put in hard work to ensure | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
that the detail is there and most importantly, persuade people | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
of the benefits of it. The new Secretary of State made | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
it clear on his first trip to Northern Ireland | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
yesterday that there were no grounds | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
to call a border poll There is no need for | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
a referendum or a border poll. There is not the evidence | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
to substantially allow the Secretary | :04:01. | :04:01. | |
of State to action one. The Unionists say a border | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
poll at this time is a We do not want to destabilise | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
our communities, our economy, our businesses, by yet | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
another distraction of going away from what needs to happen | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
in the course of the next two years. The Secretary of State | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
and the Prime Minister have said that, and the people | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
have said it too. Whilst Enda Kenny's comments | :04:26. | :04:35. | |
are seen as significant to give a border poll political | :04:36. | :04:37. | |
prominence, such a vote can only be called by the Secretary | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
of State if there is evidence of a shift in public | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
opinion towards Irish unity. The Secretary of State | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
said that has not The Northern Ireland Executive has | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
published an action plan aimed at tackling paramilitary activity | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
and organised crime. ?50 million will be spent | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
over the next five years half the money coming from Stormont | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
and the rest from Westminster. An independent review commission | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
will be set up by the British and Irish governments | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
to monitor progress. The Ulster Unionist leader | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Mike Nesbitt has dismissed the plan as a wish list without any concrete | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
actions. The consultancy firm PwC has | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
predicted that the Brexit vote will lead to a slowdown | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
in the economy over It thinks that locally | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
it will grow by 0.2% Our Economics and Business Editor | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
John Campbell told me more produce a forecast to give us | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
an idea about what they think will happen to the UK economy | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
in the short term. They also provide a breakdown | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
for Northern Ireland. And they've said over | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
the last 12-18 months, the UK economy has shown | :05:51. | :05:52. | |
a gentle slowdown. But they think Brexit | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
will exacerbate that. If we take a look at | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
the figures, we can see at the start of this year, PwC | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
thought growth in Northern Ireland would be 1.4%, they can | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
revise that to 1.0%. They had thought it would be 1.5%, | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
but now they are expecting They think there will be a slowdown | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
in business investment, because there's so much economic | :06:16. | :06:26. | |
and political uncertainty. Foreign companies | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
investing in the UK may decide to wait until the dust | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
settles before they commit money to big projects, although PwC | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
thinks by the time it gets to the end of next year, | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
most of that effect will have been factored out and | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
the economy will grow again. We need to emphasise that | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
at the moment, we have no real hard facts about what impact Brexit has | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
had on the behaviour of consumers or Now, we're looking at forecasts | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
and surveys, but the hard data is not | :06:59. | :07:06. | |
there and I won't have it, nobody will, until the autumn | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
or maybe later before we get a really solid sense of how Brexit | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
is or isn't effecting the economy. We did get news today | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
about the rate of inflation? It has eased up to half of 1%, | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
still miles away from But many analysts predict as we go | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
into next year, we will see inflation take up, | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
because the pound has fallen quite distinctly because of | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
Brexit and that makes imports more expensive and could force | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
prices up early next year. When inflation rises, | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
interest rates go up, but what the Bank of England is | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
signalling is they will probably cut interest rates down | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
to a quarter of 1% next month. Again, that is not solid, | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
it could happen, let us wait and The tobacco firm JTI is setting up | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
a ?5 million trust fund to help job The company will end production | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
in the town next year The fund, which will be chaired | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
by the local MP Ian Paisley, will dispense about ?300,000 | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
a year to projects and initiatives over | :08:17. | :08:18. | |
the next 20 years. We'll never replace almost | :08:19. | :08:28. | |
a thousand jobs with a fund That is not the point though, | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
the point is to stimulate the climate through training | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
and assisting adults with needs and hopefully, starting to rejuvenate | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
the employment in an area that has faced such a kicking | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
from unemployment. Well, it's still a pretty warm | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
evening at the end of a very hot day, when temperatures got as high | :08:46. | :08:49. | |
as the late twenties. Many people headed to | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
the beach or to the park and our reporter Rick | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Faragher joined them. Blue skies, red-hot temperatures, | :08:55. | :09:02. | |
this really is Northern Ireland. The working day | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
didn't seem so bad in People full of cheer | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
and in fine voice. Seeing Belfast in the sunshine, | :09:07. | :09:18. | |
you think you are under I feel more vibrant | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
and everybody is in great form, just enjoying | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
life and we're not normally able to sit out | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
in the sunshine like this. Ireland's recent cricket match | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
against Afghanistan was called Enjoying the weather | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
and it's my day off. It's not often we get | :09:38. | :09:47. | |
this, so best to make Suncream was also the order | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
of the day and the weather here was a welcome sight | :09:58. | :10:11. | |
for children on school holidays and Just down the road in | :10:12. | :10:13. | |
a Crawfordsburn Beach, thousands made their | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
way to the seafront. At lunchtime, the car park gates | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
were closed because of Those who made it through | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
were treated to this. A perfect setting on what was | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
a glorious afternoon. And of course in the summer, | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
big crowds means big Days like this don't tend to come | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
along very often in And when they do, people tend | :10:35. | :10:42. | |
to make the most of it. And today, people | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
needed no encouragement A look ahead to a story we'll have | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
on BBC Newsline tomorrow, And we'll be examining how people | :10:50. | :11:01. | |
in the Republic, including business leaders, are viewing the the UK | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
Brexit referendum result, We are inundated with questions from | :11:04. | :11:18. | |
UK firms who are saying, we need to know we can with certain to have a | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
base in a EU country that can trade with the EU without tariffs all | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
other costs and with certainty and we need to know where working with a | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
country with the same language and legal system and 100% commitment | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
from a culture for being in the EU and that's why Ireland's getting so | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
many enquirers are right now. -- enquiry. | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
In football, Crusaders have lost tonight's Champions League qualifier | :11:42. | :11:43. | |
6-0 at FC Copenhagen, going down 9-0 on aggregate. | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
The weather forecast now, with Angie Philips. | :11:46. | :11:53. | |
The hottest day of the year so far today. 20 degrees maximum and that | :11:54. | :12:02. | |
heat and humidity is about to break and an approaching weather front is | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
sparking off thunderstorms implies that night. Some heavy downpours | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
which could lead to localised flooding on warnings remain in | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
place. Not all parts will catch those and there will be dry spells, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
but increasingly cloudy through the night. Still feeling humid. 15-16d, | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
uncomfortable for sleeping. Tomorrow is looking fresh and cloudier. There | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
will be showers to begin with, trickling away toward the east and | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
will become scattered with time. Dry weather across the Republic of | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Ireland follows, as there will be across Wales and southern England, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
where it will still be warm, humid and sunny. Not as hot as today, but | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
still 30 Celsius. Further north, northern England and Scotland, | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
severe thunderstorms, lightning and hail and heavy downpours and there | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
is likely to be disruption. Towards the northern and western areas, we | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
find the fresh air. Temperatures well down in places tomorrow | :13:02. | :13:04. | |
compared to today, particularly in the West. Showers largely dying off, | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
the second half of the day is dry and there will be breaks in the | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
cloud and some bright, sunny intervals. Temperatures are well | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
down on today, particularly in the West, 18-20d. Similar values on the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
weekend, showery outbreaks, and dry gaps in between. | :13:24. | :13:25. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am in the morning | :13:26. | :13:30. |