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The DUP says it spent a donation of over ?400,000 in last | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The party, which has been under pressure to name its donor, | :00:07. | :00:13. | |
today disclosed where it got the money from. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
The cash came from a little known group of pro-union business people | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
led by a Scottish Conservative, Richard Cook. | :00:19. | :00:19. | |
The money from the 'Constitutional Research Council' was spent mainly | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
The donors' identity was revealed at the same time | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
as the Electoral Commission published how much parties spent | :00:27. | :00:27. | |
Our Political Correspondent Stephen Walker reports. | :00:28. | :00:47. | |
Scottish Conservative Richard Cook is the man behind | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
the Constitutional Research Council - a group that has attracted little | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
A former Tory parliamentary candidate, he has a pro-union | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
This organisation made a decision that it thought that Brexit would be | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
better for the union and because of that it decided it | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
wanted to invest in the Brexit campaign, it had a lot | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
of money, more than ?400,000, and it started to look at where it could | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
The breakdown of the DUP's spending provided by the Electoral Commission | :01:10. | :01:21. | |
shows that the party spent a total of ?425,621. | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Of that, ?10,823 was spent in Northern Ireland - | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
more than half of that with Belfast Telegraph owners, | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
The biggest single spend was the ?282,000, which went | :01:33. | :01:41. | |
on the advertising pages in the Metro - a freesheet | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
Almost ?100,000 was spent with a Cambridgeshire company | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
supplying promotional and advertising material. | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
A further ?32,750 went to a Canadian IT and consultancy company. | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
The DUP say they were given more by the group than they actually | :02:04. | :02:06. | |
spent and the remainder - some ?9000 - was used by the party. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
We received ?435,000 and we spent over ?425,000 in the EU referendum | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
campaign and we had around ?9,000 left | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
and we transferred that to the | :02:18. | :02:18. | |
normal funds for prounion campaigning and so we're giving | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
So does this donation raise any questions? | :02:21. | :02:34. | |
Who are these people and why are they getting | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
Why did they decide that in order to help support Brexit, they | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
wanted to give money to the Democratic unionists in Northern | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
The DUP say they have been transparent and say the issue | :02:47. | :02:54. | |
of party funding needs to be addressed. | :02:55. | :02:55. | |
We have revealed the details of the dollar | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
ball is in the Court of the other parties, | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
The only other parties to spend money in | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
the campaign by the SDLP and the TV, who spent under ?10,000. | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
The issue of wider political funding has been | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
raised on the campaign trail, some parties keeping their donations | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
All parties say they support transparency. | :03:19. | :03:33. | |
After the election we will see if words and actions match up. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
A lorry driver, who was driving on the wrong side of the road | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
when he crashed into a van, killing the driver, has been | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
51-year-old Albertas Daskevicius is originally from Lithuania and now | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
Sean McElwee was driving between Strabane and, around ten | :03:49. | :04:04. | |
o'clock on a per night in 2015 when he was suddenly confronted | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
by every driver's nightmare, an articulated | :04:08. | :04:08. | |
lorry bearing down on him on the wrong side of the road. | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
There was just time for his father, a | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
passenger, to shout, where is that man going? | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
Before the terrible impact took his life. | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
His father survived and was in court today to | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
Albertas Daskevicius is 51 and originally | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
from Lithuania but with an address at Bawn Court in Ballykelly. | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
He was jailed for nine months for causing | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
With a further nine months on licence. | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
He had been initially caused with causing death by dangerous | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
driving but later pleaded guilty to the | :04:44. | :04:44. | |
The defence said there was no evidence his client had | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
been speeding are using a mobile phone, he had not been drinking and | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
He said his client had not taken a calculated risk but that it was | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
simply a terrible error of judgment with tragic consequences. | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
At the time of the accident, Albertas | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
Daskevicius had no insurance and he was given a separate nine-month | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
sentence for that and banned from driving for ten years. | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
Several members of Sean McElwee's family | :05:15. | :05:15. | |
sobbed quietly in the public gallery as a prison | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
officer put handcuffs on | :05:18. | :05:18. | |
Albertas Daskevicius and led him away. | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
The family declined to say anything as they left court. | :05:21. | :05:31. | |
A man has been arrested in connection with the death | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
The 48-year-old is accused of having and supplying drugs. | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
The woman, who was in her 30s, was found in the Orior Park area. | :05:39. | :05:47. | |
The loss of another tree at the dark hedges in County Antrim has led | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
to renewed calls for more to be done to protect them. | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
The trees near Armoy have been made famous by the television | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
And another victim felled at the Dark Hedges. | :05:57. | :06:06. | |
These trees have been here for more than 200 years, | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
but just a few seconds on Game of Thrones saw them become | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
More tourists means more vehicles and traffic is thought | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
to be weakening the roots of the aging trees. | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
These tourists agree something should be done. | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
It is mother nature as well, something you need to look after. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
Protection is important to see this in the future. | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
It is something we have to look after. | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
He would not see this shutdown as a tourist | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
destination but you have to take into account looking after the | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
There are proposals to close the road to traffic - | :06:43. | :06:48. | |
Those who love this place say only an immediate change will guarantee | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
These are our natural heritage and we must protect them, | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
and building would have listed status, and these | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
trees need to be listed and we must do all our power to ensure they are | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
preserved and that should include restricting along this road. | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
There are just two seasons lefts of Game of Thrones, | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
but it's very much hoped the Dark Hedges will survive long | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
after the programme that made them famous ends. | :07:19. | :07:29. | |
Rory McIlroy has defended playing golf with President Trump | :07:30. | :07:31. | |
In a statement on his Twitter account he said it wasn't | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
an endorsement or political statement of any kind. | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
In football, Derry City made a impressive start | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
to the Premier Division season with a comfortable 4-1 | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
Aaron McEneff scored a penalty and substitute Nathan Boyle made it | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
Boyle added a third with a low strike early in the second half | :07:59. | :08:02. | |
with Lukas Schubert scoring the fourth. | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
Now here's Geoff with the weekend weather. | :08:06. | :08:14. | |
Good evening. After a brief pause this evening to rain we saw through | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
the second half of today will return overnight. Showers being driven in | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
on that freshening south-westerly breeze. We could see some gusts | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
around the North West tonight. We get off to a wet and windy start to | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
the weekend. It is a picture that will improve through the day. The | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
band of rain gradually tracking east. We will see our warmest | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
temperatures through the first half of the day with highs of ten or 11 | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
degrees. Once the rain clears temperatures will drop off. Just | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
before dusk we will see temperatures of around six or 7 degrees. The rain | :08:52. | :09:00. | |
will continue its path east. Always a bit warmer in front of the rain. | :09:01. | :09:02. | |
Temperatures in the clearing skies will drop away in Scotland and | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
Northern Ireland. Overnight on Saturday, relatively cold. Integral | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
spots, temperatures just above freezing. A chilly stop berry-macro | :09:12. | :09:19. | |
start to Sunday. The rain comes in from the south and south-west. | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Temperatures coming up to nine, maybe 10 degrees. Lots of whether | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
heading in our direction at the moment. Active systems in the | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
Atlantic and these tightly packed isobars are a sign of the wind | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
heading in our direction. By the time we start next week, cooler air | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
and temperatures will drop away. It's not until the middle of next | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
week that we will see more subtle conditions. | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 5.20pm tomorrow evening. | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
In the meantime, you can keep updated with News Online. | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
From all of us here on the programme, goodnight | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
What she's been doing, you think that's normal? | :09:54. | :10:02. |