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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are. | :00:00. | :00:13. | |
An MLA calls for the Attorney General | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
to resign over his interventions in abortion law. | :00:19. | :00:26. | |
It seems to me that this is a question of abuse of the office of | :00:27. | :00:33. | |
Attorney General. I think that Mr Larkin ought to resign. | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
A man has been jailed after stabbing an asylum seeker | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
Three men have appeared in court in connection with the murder | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Questions over the money Stormont has spent | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
to save the Belfast to New York air route. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
It may or may not be a good deal but frankly it doesn't sound like a good | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
deal. And have you spotted | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
the latest addition We'll be revealing all | :00:58. | :00:58. | |
later in the programme. Unprecedented success in the pool | :00:59. | :01:14. | |
for para- Olympian Beverley fret. Two goals. It's been another warm | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
day with temperatures in the 20s. Something a little fresher to come | :01:19. | :01:19. | |
tomorrow. First tonight, police searching | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
for missing Castlederg teenager Arlene Arkinson have | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
brought in specialist teams They sealed of an area | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
in a field yesterday Enda McClafferty is at | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
the scene and joins us live. It was found by a farmer who then | :01:36. | :01:48. | |
alerted police. It is about a mile from the place she was last seen | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
alive in a car with Robert Howard, the main suspect in her killing. The | :01:53. | :01:56. | |
family of the 15-year-olds have been informed of the development and we | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
will have more on this breaking story shortly. | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
The People Before Profit MLA Eamonn McCann has called | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
for the Attorney General John Larkin to consider his position. | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
It comes after paediatric pathologist Dr Caroline Gannon | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
resigned over interventions by Mr Larkin on abortion | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
laws surrounding fatal foetal abnormality. | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
When John Larkin first stepped into the job of Attorney General six | :02:16. | :02:27. | |
years ago, he was determined to do things his way. I think it's very | :02:28. | :02:32. | |
important and I am committed to try to explain law and explain the | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
process of justice. As often as I can and I look forward to working | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
with you in that process. That promise to help the public | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
understand the better has landed him in trouble. Not least this week when | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
a paediatric pathologist resigned over his interventions around fatal | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
fatal abnormality. The eternal general, his rulings have made my | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
professional life your untenable and I do not consider that I can work | :02:58. | :03:03. | |
under those guidelines and those rulings any longer. So what were | :03:04. | :03:10. | |
those interventions? In 2012, he offered to assist an investigation | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
into a Belfast abortion clinic. Three years later, he appealed a | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
High Court judgment that Northern Ireland's abortion ban breaches | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
human rights law. And earlier this year, in a response to a letter from | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
the TUV Jim Allister, he questioned whether the move to allow abortion | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
in the cases of fatal fatal abnormality was compatible with | :03:35. | :03:40. | |
international human rights law. Today, this MLA said it was trying | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
for John Larkin to consider his condition. This is a questionable | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
use of the office of Attorney General. I think that Mr Larkin | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
ought to resign and if Mr Larkin does not resign, I think the people | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
who appointed him, the first and Deputy First Ministers, should say | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
publicly whether they approve of his interventions which have resulted, | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
for example, the resignation of Doctor Gannon. I'm sure he will hear | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
those calls and react in the way he finds appropriate. It is a matter | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
for the Attorney General. We appropriate him to do a job. He | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
should make his complaint to the Attorney General. So was John Larkin | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
right to speak out when he did? This barrister thinks he was. He had a | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
duty to intervene. Even if he was pro-abortion, he would have to | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
intervene in this case. The reason being that the case was a complex | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
one, the law was not clear. You needed certainty and the judges' | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
initial judgment did not grant that certainty, so it was right and | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
proper for this case to go through the Court of Appeal. He had a duty | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
to do that. The lark in cases of fatal abnormalities in foetuses is | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
currently being considered by the Court of Appeal. As yet there is no | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
indication as to when that ruling will be delivered. | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
A man has been jailed for at least six years for what's been described | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
as the barbaric killing of one of his friends. | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Ahmed Noor, who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
claimed he was "Allah's assassin" after he killed a man from Pakistan | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
This man was originally from Pakistan. He came to Belfast seeking | :05:22. | :05:36. | |
asylum. He lived in a flat off this busy street and died on the street. | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
Today, relatives from Pakistan came to court to listen to graphic | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
details about the killing. Ahmed Noor broke into his friend's home | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
and chased his victim down this street. He was armed with two knives | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
and he start his friends repeatedly in the chest, on the back, in the | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
neck and in the abdomen. It was 5am and the victim managed to dial 999, | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
asking for the police. He was screaming down the phone but it was | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
too late. Shortly afterwards, he was dead. The Ahmed Noor, originally | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
from Somalia, later told police that Allah sent him to kill his friend. | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
He described himself as Alaa's assassin. The court heard today he | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
has paranoid schizophrenia and used drugs. Ahmed Noor has a long history | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
of cannabis abuse including on the day before and the morning of the | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
killing. In court today, a judge described the killing as a truly | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
horrific, unprovoked and brutal attack on a vulnerable man. The | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
judge considered a victim impact report from the victim's family and | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
friends and said his killer had to go to jail. Madame Justice McBride | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
said she is satisfied that Ahmed Noor is a dangerous man. She said he | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
should serve six years in prison and should only be released then when | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Burrell Commissioners are satisfied that he is no longer a risk to the | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
safety of the public. Kevin Sharkey at the Crown Court in Belfast. | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
Back to our top story. Lee is looking for Arlene Arkinson have | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
brought in specialist teams to examine a new site. They sealed off | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
an area in a field yesterday near Castlederg. Edson MacLaverty has | :07:25. | :07:26. | |
just sent this report from the scene. | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
As you can see, police remain at the scene. They have cordoned off part | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
of if you'll just be on us with this new site has been discovered. It is | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
outside Kinlen which is a short distance from Castlederg. The police | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
were alerted to this site by a farmer who noticed a start. He was | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
concerned and cold in the PS and I. The police decided they wanted | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
specialist teams from England to have a look at the ground here to | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
understand they flew into Northern this morning and are heading towards | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
this particular site. The interesting thing about this | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
development is that this site is about one mile from the house where | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Arlene Arkinson was last seen alive. It is also along the same road where | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
she was spotted in a car with the man suspected of killing her, Robert | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Howard. The police have been in contact with her family. They have | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
been kept up-to-date with this latest development, but they also | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
say that that is purely as a precautionary measure because the | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
last thing they want to do is raise expectation of the family. They plan | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
to carry out some tests at this site and the police say there could take | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
some time before they are ready to establish exactly what they have | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
here. But for that it from Killen, Castlederg. | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
Two Belfast men and another from Ayrshire in Scotland have been | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
in court on charges linked to the murder of leading loyalist | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
John Boreland in the north of the city last month. | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
All three were charged with perverting the | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
John borderlands was a leading easy a figure in North Belfast. He | :08:51. | :09:01. | |
survived a previous attempt on his life two years ago and in recent | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
months had been warned by the police about his safety. Last month, as the | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
46-year-old loyalist was getting out of a car in his flat he was shot | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
dead. The victim's plus friend and prominent loyalist Andre Shipperley | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
was in the public gallery today for the brief hearing at Belfast Crown | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
Court. Three men appeared on charges list with the Boreland murder. Two | :09:26. | :09:29. | |
were from the city and a third was from Scotland. In the dock, flanked | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
by security officers, were 33-year-old and a 61-year-old in the | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
city. They were there along with 2023 -year-old from Kilbirnie in | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
Ayrshire. They were all charged with perverting the course of justice by | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
destroying a Renault car being sought by detectives investigating | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
the killing. They spoke only to confirm their dates of birth before | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
being remanded in custody to appear in court again via video link next | :10:00. | :10:00. | |
month. Stormont Ministers have defended | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
going ahead with a multi-million pound rescue package | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
to save the Belfast flight to New York, in spite of concerns | :10:07. | :10:08. | |
raised by a senior civil servant. They say it's good value for money, | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
but a member of the Assembly's Public Accounts Committee has | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
described the deal as "madness." The flight from Belfast to New York | :10:16. | :10:29. | |
has been saved, at least for the next three years. But not everyone | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
is happy about how the deal was done. United have operated that | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
airline correctly for ten years and all of a sudden, in a matter of | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
weeks, they threatened to close it down unless they received a very | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
handsome subsidy and it was rushed through without proper scrutiny. I | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
believe that the permanent Secretary to the department was not happy | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
about it. Between the Minister for the economy and others, the decision | :10:54. | :11:00. | |
was made to give the money. It may or may not be a good deal, but | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
frankly, it does not have a good deal. So what is the deal? Well, to | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
keep the fight going over the next two years, the executive will | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
contribute ?6 million and the International Airport will pay 3 | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
million. The direct flight to New York is good for the airport. It's | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
good for the economic reputation of Northern Ireland. But for the | :11:23. | :11:31. | |
Stormont executive, is it a price worth paying? A senior civil servant | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
was not convinced, but Stormont ministers made up their own minds. I | :11:35. | :11:37. | |
took on board what was said and we looked at the recommendation of the | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
economy minister. I listen to what businesspeople had to say to me and | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
what travellers had to say to me. Officials advise, politicians | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
decide. And another decision may have made is to give money to the | :11:50. | :11:52. | |
city of Derry airport which is about to lose flights to London. The | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
agreement has been reached that a multi-million pound project. It is | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
about saving the airport. But not receiving the airport, we believe | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
that with what we are trying to do and of course, we have not disclosed | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
for plans for the airport and the plans are greater than just getting | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
air links to London. A lot of public money is being invested. Politicians | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
from all parties will be watching closely to see whether it is worth | :12:22. | :12:22. | |
it. A Sinn Fein councillor who resigned | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
from the party over how its former MLA Daithi McKay was | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
treated claims others He also claims Mr McKay was forced | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
by the party to stand down from Stormont after it emerged | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
he had been coaching the loyalist Jamie Bryson on how to give evidence | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
to a Stormont committee. The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams | :12:38. | :12:41. | |
has told the BBC the party intends engaging with the former members | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
in the hope they will return. Here's our political | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
correspondent Gareth Gordon. The Mackay affair has a consequence | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
for Stormont and especially for Sinn Fein. 18 members of the party left | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
in protest at the way he was treated. One of them is Paul | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
Maguire, an elected councillor and for three years chairman of the | :13:11. | :13:14. | |
party in North Antrim. In his first interview podcast since the split, | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
he claims that more members are considering their position. They | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
know that 18 people who resigned were significant in North Antrim and | :13:23. | :13:32. | |
there are people left, that there would be more card carrying members | :13:33. | :13:36. | |
and activists and I know that there have been one further resignation | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
and from what I can hear, or frauds I'm told, there will be more to | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
follow. This affair has undoubtedly been damaging for Sinn Fein. In | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
North Antrim especially. But now the party president has appeared to hold | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
as an olive branch to those who have left. It is always an agony when | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
people leave the party. We are going to engage with every single one of | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
those former members. We hope that they will reflect and that they will | :14:10. | :14:13. | |
come back into the party. At least one has already done so. I hope | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
others will do so. What Mr Mackay did was wrong. The fact that he | :14:19. | :14:22. | |
resigned and did the right thing was his acknowledgement of that. Paul | :14:23. | :14:29. | |
Maguire says Sinn Fein forced Mr Mackay to resign as an MLA and claim | :14:30. | :14:38. | |
that Sinn Fein denies. I'm aware of communication between the party and | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
Mr Mackay since and it has not been at all pleasant. Mr Mackay has not | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
commented since resigning from Stormont. | :14:52. | :14:52. | |
You can see more on that story on The View tonight just | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
The Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, has been meeting opposition leaders | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
to discuss what form an enquiry into Nama should take. | :15:02. | :15:03. | |
Nama is the Irish state agency set up take control of bad loans | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
north and south that were damaging the banks. | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
Yesterday, a report from a public spending watchdog body that said | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
more money could have been made from the sale | :15:17. | :15:18. | |
of Nama's Northern Ireland property portfilio. | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison has been | :15:21. | :15:21. | |
Shane, what do we know about the meeting? | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
Well, this afternoon and Cagney and the opposition leaders met and | :15:26. | :15:33. | |
discussed how an enquiry might work into the sale of Project Eagle which | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
was once valued at about ?4.5 billion but which was sold two years | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
ago for 1.2 billion. Other than agreeing that there was a need for a | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
statutory diary, a commission of investigation, nothing else was | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
agreed and now ideas will fall between politicians as to the terms | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
of reference for the enquiry and the Dail will ultimately decide. There | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
will be problems, not least the ongoing criminal investigation in | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
the United States and the United Kingdom into whether there was | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
corruption and insider information used in the sale. Then there is the | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
trouble of two jurisdictions, two sets of laws and of course the | :16:14. | :16:19. | |
compatibility of witnesses. The chairman of the Dail has suggested | :16:20. | :16:28. | |
that one committee and Stormont committee should share information | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
and maybe suggest questions to potential witnesses. Nama is due | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
before his committee this month. Is the desire for some form | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
of investigation being fed Yes, the report yesterday was by the | :16:37. | :16:47. | |
controller and auditor general whose sole job is to make sure that | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
taxpayers get value for money and he found that Nama could have made as | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
much of ?190 million more from the sale ban is dead and also found that | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Nama was slow to act once it became aware that its Northern Ireland or | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
former Northern Ireland adviser was going to receive money from the | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
sale. Nama has categorically denied any wrongdoing and says that it | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
finds those findings are unstable and unsound and it also says that | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
those findings cannot go unchallenged. Chain in Dublin. Thank | :17:21. | :17:21. | |
you. Fermanagh's Marble Arch Caves | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
is an unusual setting for a cinema. But that's the venue chosen | :17:25. | :17:26. | |
by Northern Ireland Screen Our south west reporter | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
Julian Fowler headed A strange and beautiful world of | :17:30. | :17:41. | |
ancient rock formations and underground rivers. The marble Arch | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Caves provide an atmospheric backdrop to a showcase of films. We | :17:47. | :17:51. | |
wanted to celebrate the Royal archives in Northern Ireland as part | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
of BSI Britain on film projects and one of the things I found, because I | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
work with the archive, going through attics and Museum store rooms, what | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
we found was beautiful and bizarre footage and we thought, where better | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
than the marble arch Caves to show that? It has been a challenging | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
location to set up a cinema in. The caves were flooded after a weekend | :18:14. | :18:22. | |
of heavy rain. Two complements the footage, musician Phil will perform | :18:23. | :18:30. | |
a newly commissioned piece called Till They Came Into A Cave. It's | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
similar to singing in a church, except better. The acoustics are | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
unbelievable. In each space you move through, the sound changes so you | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
get lots of Eckel, to a much more intimate feel, and it is just very | :18:48. | :18:56. | |
very special. Northern Ireland screen's free online archive | :18:57. | :18:59. | |
contains more than 100 hours of footage of local life and make the | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
venue, some of the films are rather quirky. It ranges from someone | :19:03. | :19:10. | |
making a home movie of the Ulster Grand Prix. We have great footage of | :19:11. | :19:16. | |
rats racing where people are in a pub is surrounded by drainpipes and | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
people are cheating by racing durables against rats, things like | :19:21. | :19:26. | |
that. The underground's cinematic and musical journey takes place | :19:27. | :19:27. | |
tomorrow. A new sculpture more than 35 feet | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
high has been unveiled in the hills It's called Origin and portrays | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
a huge raindrop at the source of the River Farset which flows | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
right through the city. Built with a ?100,000 | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
of lottery money, it will be lit up at night, | :19:44. | :19:45. | |
making it visible across Belfast. Close up on a misty morning, it | :19:46. | :19:59. | |
makes its mark. When the sun comes out, the new sculpture called | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Origin, starts to come into its own. Wherever you stand, it changes | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
colour. The artist who conceived the raindrop, all 12 metres of it, | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
placed it at this mouth of the River that gave Belfast its name. They | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
wanted to float at night, eliminated in the sky. From the sky as water | :20:18. | :20:24. | |
and we thought it very much described the origin of the source | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
of the River Farset. We have stainless steel as the structural | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
shape of the raindrop and inside, nestled inside that, we have a fine | :20:34. | :20:39. | |
film of glass, a specific class to give an ethereal effect and then on | :20:40. | :20:47. | |
the outline of the drop, we have a fine LED light which will eliminate | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
the peace and night. Built with ?100,000 of lottery money, it is the | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
work of Belfast City Council and the arts Council and local communities. | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
This piece of art can be seen across the city, the East and the West. It | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
is also a combination of work between many different community | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
centres so I love the kind of collectivity of it. When the sun | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
shines on Origin, this huge raindrop, the idea is that it will | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
look very striking from here or from here or from locations across | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
Belfast. Look for it, fully lit up, tomorrow as part of culture night. | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
Bethany Firth continues to add to her impressive medal haul | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
The Northern Ireland swimmer has had an outstanding Paralympic games | :21:34. | :21:44. | |
As of today, the 20-year-old from Seaforde is top of Team GB's | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
She has two golds, one silver and counting. | :21:50. | :21:55. | |
Bethany Firth coming up now... It was considered the weakest of her | :21:56. | :22:08. | |
four categories and she had referred to this race as her fun event. Yet | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
it is a measure of how far she has come that in a field of 100 metres | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
breaststroke specialists, she was right there at the turn. When | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
uprating her performance in the pool, it is difficult to reconcile | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
the effortless dialling race with the fact that because of the fear of | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
water in her formative years, she only took up swimming as a teenager. | :22:28. | :22:44. | |
It has been an absolute pleasure watching Bethany race. Every time | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
she gets in the pool, she does something very special. Winning gold | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
in a world record time and then gold again with a Brits just behind her | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
as well and then a silver, is silver in the 100 meter breaststroke, it | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
has been a memorable games. She has become one of the most decorated | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
swimmers on the team already with a race still to come, which she is | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
favourite in. When she gets in that role, she is in tremendous form. | :23:09. | :23:11. | |
Anything can happen and I think that is credited to the work she has been | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
doing at all. The support she has been getting. She came here hungry | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
for medals and she has been rewarded. Category four with | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
learning difficulties is ultracompetitive. Just taken a | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
category on her own and decided, I'm going to push this ever done ever | :23:28. | :23:31. | |
before and has left the other athletes behind. She is doing it on | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
her own and I think she loves that. She is comfortable being in France, | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
leading the pack and being on top of that podium. One more pics bash on | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
Saturday and the homecoming should be fun. -- one more big splash. | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
Staying in Rio, Ballymena athlete Katie Morrow was part of the Team GB | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
women's basketball squad which was chasing a first Paralympic | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
medal of any colour today but Team GB lost out to gold medal favourites | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
USA going down 89-78 in todays semifinal. | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
But all is not yet lost and Team GB will be back in third versus fourth | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
play off action tomorrow with a bronze medal up for grabs | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
against the losers of Germany and the Netherlands, | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
Irish international Paddy Jackson will make his first appearance | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
of the season for Ulster in tomorrows Pro12 game | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
Craig Gilroy is back after missing Saturday's victory over Treviso | :24:23. | :24:28. | |
in Italy and also returns in the back line | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
I think it showed towards the end of last season when we just had to push | :24:32. | :24:43. | |
an forgetting 24 points at the last 25. We did not even make the | :24:44. | :24:46. | |
play-offs or have we can rack up the points now, it does not matter when | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
you get them. To get them now and have them in the bank, that's always | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
helpful coming into the six Nations where we lose a lot of players and | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
you don't know what injuries will happen, so it's good to have points | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
now and hopefully secure that early. The game tomorrow night is live on | :25:03. | :25:04. | |
BBC Two from 7pm. Finally in the latest Fifa world | :25:05. | :25:06. | |
football rankings released today, Michael O'Neill's Northern Ireland | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
are down two places to 30th overall, Let's get the weather now and Jeff | :25:10. | :25:23. | |
is here. What's in store for the rest of the week? It has been a | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
really warm and muggy day today. Again, temperatures above 20 | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
degrees. As we go over 90 nights, we start the transition towards | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
something a little bit fresher. That France that has brought all the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
cloud and rain today will gradually move out to the east and once it | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
does, we are into clearer and cooler conditions as we go through this | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
evening. That will drop down to single figures in some places | :25:50. | :25:52. | |
tonight and it sets us up a day which is going to feel rather | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
different tomorrow. A mix of sunshine and showers but something | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
altogether a bit fresher so this is the picture as we go into tomorrow. | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
The showers, I don't think, will amount to very much. Plenty of | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
brightness in between them. The temperatures are going to be down | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
five or 6 degrees on today's values so high is at best of 17 or 18 | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
degrees. Still pleasant, especially if you can be in some sunshine and | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
out of the breeze. Certainly not bad for the middle of September. Showers | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
fizzling out which is good news for the middle of September. Showers | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
you are heading out for culture night ought to the rugby tomorrow | :26:31. | :26:31. | |
night. It big evening but wrap up because it will be getting a little | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
cool overnight. What's happening is this ridge of high pressure is | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
building in and that is going to settle down our weather certainly | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
through the first-half of the weekend before this next weather | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
front arrives and dampens things down on Sunday. Bad news coming up | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
for half marathon competitors. Saturday is not looking like a bad | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
day. More clout than we will see tomorrow but temperatures holding up | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
quite well. Well it is more cloudy, it is dry as well so a perfectly | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
usable date with temperature stuck in the middle teens. The picture on | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
Sunday though is not nearly so pretty. That rain is moving very | :27:08. | :27:14. | |
slowly across Northern Ireland. It will be pretty heavy for a time to | :27:15. | :27:17. | |
sell if you are taking part in the half marathon or more particularly | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
if you are a watching it, I'm very sorry. Those threatening clouds are | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
on the way and the rain is coming down. Make the most of Saturday for | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
any outside jobs because Sunday will be a day to be inside. | :27:29. | :27:30. | |
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