24/02/2017 BBC Newsline


24/02/2017

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The DUP says it spent a donation of over ?400,000 in last

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The party, which has been under pressure to name its donor,

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today disclosed where it got the money from.

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The cash came from a little known group of pro-union business people

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led by a Scottish Conservative, Richard Cook.

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The money from the 'Constitutional Research Council' was spent mainly

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The donors' identity was revealed at the same time

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as the Electoral Commission published how much parties spent

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Our Political Correspondent Stephen Walker reports.

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Scottish Conservative Richard Cook is the man behind

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the Constitutional Research Council - a group that has attracted little

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A former Tory parliamentary candidate, he has a pro-union

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This organisation made a decision that it thought that Brexit would be

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better for the union and because of that it decided it

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wanted to invest in the Brexit campaign, it had a lot

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of money, more than ?400,000, and it started to look at where it could

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The breakdown of the DUP's spending provided by the Electoral Commission

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shows that the party spent a total of ?425,621.

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Of that, ?10,823 was spent in Northern Ireland -

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more than half of that with Belfast Telegraph owners,

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The biggest single spend was the ?282,000, which went

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on the advertising pages in the Metro - a freesheet

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Almost ?100,000 was spent with a Cambridgeshire company

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supplying promotional and advertising material.

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A further ?32,750 went to a Canadian IT and consultancy company.

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The DUP say they were given more by the group than they actually

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spent and the remainder - some ?9000 - was used by the party.

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We received ?435,000 and we spent over ?425,000 in the EU referendum

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campaign and we had around ?9,000 left

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and we transferred that to the

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normal funds for prounion campaigning and so we're giving

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So does this donation raise any questions?

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Who are these people and why are they getting

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Why did they decide that in order to help support Brexit, they

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wanted to give money to the Democratic unionists in Northern

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The DUP say they have been transparent and say the issue

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of party funding needs to be addressed.

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We have revealed the details of the dollar

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ball is in the Court of the other parties,

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The only other parties to spend money in

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the campaign by the SDLP and the TV, who spent under ?10,000.

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The issue of wider political funding has been

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raised on the campaign trail, some parties keeping their donations

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All parties say they support transparency.

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After the election we will see if words and actions match up.

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A lorry driver, who was driving on the wrong side of the road

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when he crashed into a van, killing the driver, has been

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51-year-old Albertas Daskevicius is originally from Lithuania and now

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Sean McElwee was driving between Strabane and, around ten

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o'clock on a per night in 2015 when he was suddenly confronted

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by every driver's nightmare, an articulated

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lorry bearing down on him on the wrong side of the road.

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There was just time for his father, a

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passenger, to shout, where is that man going?

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Before the terrible impact took his life.

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His father survived and was in court today to

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Albertas Daskevicius is 51 and originally

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from Lithuania but with an address at Bawn Court in Ballykelly.

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He was jailed for nine months for causing

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With a further nine months on licence.

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He had been initially caused with causing death by dangerous

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driving but later pleaded guilty to the

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The defence said there was no evidence his client had

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been speeding are using a mobile phone, he had not been drinking and

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He said his client had not taken a calculated risk but that it was

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simply a terrible error of judgment with tragic consequences.

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At the time of the accident, Albertas

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Daskevicius had no insurance and he was given a separate nine-month

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sentence for that and banned from driving for ten years.

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Several members of Sean McElwee's family

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sobbed quietly in the public gallery as a prison

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officer put handcuffs on

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Albertas Daskevicius and led him away.

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The family declined to say anything as they left court.

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A man has been arrested in connection with the death

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The 48-year-old is accused of having and supplying drugs.

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The woman, who was in her 30s, was found in the Orior Park area.

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The loss of another tree at the dark hedges in County Antrim has led

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to renewed calls for more to be done to protect them.

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The trees near Armoy have been made famous by the television

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And another victim felled at the Dark Hedges.

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These trees have been here for more than 200 years,

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but just a few seconds on Game of Thrones saw them become

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More tourists means more vehicles and traffic is thought

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to be weakening the roots of the aging trees.

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These tourists agree something should be done.

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It is mother nature as well, something you need to look after.

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Protection is important to see this in the future.

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It is something we have to look after.

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He would not see this shutdown as a tourist

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destination but you have to take into account looking after the

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There are proposals to close the road to traffic -

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Those who love this place say only an immediate change will guarantee

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These are our natural heritage and we must protect them,

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and building would have listed status, and these

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trees need to be listed and we must do all our power to ensure they are

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preserved and that should include restricting along this road.

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There are just two seasons lefts of Game of Thrones,

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but it's very much hoped the Dark Hedges will survive long

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after the programme that made them famous ends.

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Rory McIlroy has defended playing golf with President Trump

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In a statement on his Twitter account he said it wasn't

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an endorsement or political statement of any kind.

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In football, Derry City made a impressive start

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to the Premier Division season with a comfortable 4-1

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Aaron McEneff scored a penalty and substitute Nathan Boyle made it

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Boyle added a third with a low strike early in the second half

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with Lukas Schubert scoring the fourth.

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Now here's Geoff with the weekend weather.

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Good evening. After a brief pause this evening to rain we saw through

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the second half of today will return overnight. Showers being driven in

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on that freshening south-westerly breeze. We could see some gusts

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around the North West tonight. We get off to a wet and windy start to

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the weekend. It is a picture that will improve through the day. The

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band of rain gradually tracking east. We will see our warmest

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temperatures through the first half of the day with highs of ten or 11

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degrees. Once the rain clears temperatures will drop off. Just

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before dusk we will see temperatures of around six or 7 degrees. The rain

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will continue its path east. Always a bit warmer in front of the rain.

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Temperatures in the clearing skies will drop away in Scotland and

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Northern Ireland. Overnight on Saturday, relatively cold. Integral

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spots, temperatures just above freezing. A chilly stop berry-macro

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start to Sunday. The rain comes in from the south and south-west.

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Temperatures coming up to nine, maybe 10 degrees. Lots of whether

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heading in our direction at the moment. Active systems in the

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Atlantic and these tightly packed isobars are a sign of the wind

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heading in our direction. By the time we start next week, cooler air

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and temperatures will drop away. It's not until the middle of next

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week that we will see more subtle conditions.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at 5.20pm tomorrow evening.

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In the meantime, you can keep updated with News Online.

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From all of us here on the programme, goodnight

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