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Voting in Northern Ireland's Assembly election ended just | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The electoral authorities believe that turnout will be up | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
on last year's figure, which was slightly below 55%. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
It was the election and no unexpected. But for the second time | :00:17. | :00:31. | |
in a year, but said at polling stations across Northern Ireland. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
They opened at 7am and closed at 10pm. The future of devolved | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Government here may be uncertain, but if and when the new Assembly | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
sets, it will look very different. That's because the number of seats | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
has been reduced to save costs. There was 108 previously, but that's | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
990. The number of candidates is Dan too, 228 people stood. -- that's | :00:58. | :01:07. | |
down to 90. The leaders of the parties were among the early voters. | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
The Ulster unionist leader and the Alliance we don't know me long both | :01:12. | :01:17. | |
voted in Belfast, while the SDLP leader Colum Eastwood voted in the | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
north west. Today's bad weather doesn't seem to have put people off | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
heading to the polls. In fact, indications are that turnout may be | :01:26. | :01:31. | |
up. Some sources say by as much as five percentage points. A lateral | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
authorities say staff had been busy in all areas. Now that the polling | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
stations how close, ballot boxes are being moved to counting centres such | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
as this one right across Northern Ireland. They will stay open | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
overnight and counting will begin at 8am tomorrow. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
There'll be more on the election on The View just after this programme. | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Yes, Tara - and with me tonight are the former DUP | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
and Sinn Fein MLAs David McIlveen and Daithi McKay, and they - along | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
with three expert commentators - will give us their best judgments | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
And the mentalist David Meade gives his verdict on how | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
the parties have fared at maximising their messages. | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
That's all coming up in a few minutes here on BBC1. | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
And Mark and I will be here with the results | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
as they come in during a special election programme tomorrow. | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
A man wanted in connection with the murder of prisoner officer | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
David Black in 2012 has been arrested in the Republic as part | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
of a joint operation involving the PSNI and the Gardai. | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
40-year-old Damien McLaughlin, from Ardboe in County Tyrone, | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
He was on bail on charges connected to Mr Black's killing and had been | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
He was detained in Donegal under a European Arrest Warrant | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
and is expected to appear at Dublin's | :02:51. | :02:52. | |
A 59-year-old man was also arrested in Donegal and a 47-year-old woman | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
Northern Ireland's Government has failed to pro-actively lead | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
the planning, development and growth of integrated education. | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
That is one of the findings of a report commissioned and just | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
published by the Department for Education. | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
Earlier, I asked our education correspondent Robbie Meredith why | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
It was originally commissioned by John O'Dowd back in January last | :03:21. | :03:32. | |
year, then it was delivered to his successor as Education Minister, | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
Peter Weir, in November. Peter Weir was going to publish it, but the | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
election complicated things. Protocol said he couldn't publish it | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
during the campaign, said he's waited right until the end of | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
polling day. This is essentially his final act in his term of office. | :03:52. | :03:56. | |
What is the report what the cricketer to commit to? | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
It is a big reports, it was the departments to committing to | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
promoting integrated education in many ways. Tackling what it calls | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
the issue of Aricept and costly schooling. This is the should be | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
commitment to increase the number of pupils and integrated schools and | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
suggests a number of ways to do this. It says, interestingly, that | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
teachers should no longer be exempt from employment regulations. It says | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
this would end the situation where Protestant and Catholic teachers end | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
up teaching in respect of domination all schools. A lot of people say | :04:37. | :04:45. | |
they want integrated education, but only 7%pupils are educated and | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
integrated schools. Some number of people who spoke to the first said | :04:50. | :04:53. | |
that when they were registering the child's birth, they should say then | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
whatever school they want the child to go to, as this would show that we | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
need more integrated schools, and then we could plan for that. But the | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
authors said there could be difficult to administer, wouldn't be | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
feasible to make school planning decisions based on preferences | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
stated 45 years back. -- four or five years back. | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
The Foods Standard Agency has warned of the risks posed | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
by venison from deer which has been illegally hunted. | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
A carcass can be worth up to ?200 to the poachers if they can get it | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
The police are stepping up patrols to counter | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
Our agriculture and environment correspondent Conor Macauley joined | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
And we've joined a PSNI patrol on the lookout for poachers. | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
They're using the engine of the vehicle to power strong lamps. | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
The animal is almost paralysed in the beam of light and then | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
99% of the time through the head, because they are mindful | :05:47. | :05:57. | |
that they want to protect the meat, which will affect the price. | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
All that cover where they'll be, and that's | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
It happens at night in isolated areas, often close to the border. | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
In our area, they would get it right away and take it south. | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
And that reduces the opportunity for us to detect them. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
As an illustration of the danger of firing blindly into the dark, | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
this is a metal plate into which a couple of rounds have | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
been fired, similar to those used to take down a deer. | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
This is 1/8 inch of solid steel, and the rounds have | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
If you miss, you really don't know what's behind that animal and how | :06:42. | :06:51. | |
What I can tell you it can go another mile and a half. | :06:52. | :06:59. | |
In that line of fire, how many victims could there be. | :07:00. | :07:03. | |
Other animals or, even worse, human beings? | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
In order not to be caught with the rifle and the deer | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
together, poachers will sometimes gut the animal and string | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
it up in a tree to be returned for the next day. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
And that has implications for human health. | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
There are strict legislation and rules, legitimate suppliers | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
of meat in the industry know how do that. | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
These guys who were out shooting deer aren't doing that. | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
They are looking to make a quick buck, get it into the | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
food chain and our concern is, because they're doing it that way, | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
You see them at the edge of darkness. | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Dusk would be one of the most likely times to see deer around. | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Anecdotally, there are far fewer now than during the Troubles. | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
Then, the risks involved in taking even a legally held firearm out | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
It seems that deer are an unwitting victim of the political process. | :07:57. | :08:09. | |
Now with the weather forecast, here's Geoff Maskell. | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
Good evening. We had sunshine this morning, a commodity in short supply | :08:16. | :08:24. | |
over the next couple of days it's all down to this developing area of | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
low pressure that will spend the next few days tracking north along | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
the Irish Sea. It means for us some wet and windy | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
weather. That started overnight tonight, gradually pushing away, | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
leaving clearer skies in the north and west. A chance of frost there in | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
the morning. Actually start to the day on Friday before more rain moves | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
in, spreading to all parts as we go through the day. That's being driven | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
by this area of low pressure, gradually through the day we will | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
see that rain pushing end. It will be wet and cold, six to Greece, also | :08:58. | :09:04. | |
a breeze from the east too. The wind is swirling around, the best | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
brightness to be found across the north of Scotland. For the rest of | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
the British Isles, that wind swirling around. The warmest | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
temperatures to be found below that weather front. For us, that rain | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
moves then, continuing overnight, Friday into Saturday morning, a bit | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
of a soggy start to the weekend. It will brighten up a little bit as we | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
go through the day on Saturday. If the low follows the course we're | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
expecting over the next few days. Again, not very warm, 6 degrees the | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
temperature. On Sunday, sunshine winning out over the showers, but | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
and unsettled picture for the next few days. | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am during Breakfast, here on BBC One. | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | :09:54. | :09:55. |