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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Thompson The headlines this Wednesday evening. | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
New searches begin for Arlene Arkinson - the police say they want | :00:22. | :00:32. | |
to end her family's torment. You have her face in your head | :00:32. | :00:39. | |
every day. She would be 32 now, but she is still 15. She will always be | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Caring for elderly people - a call for the cumbersome complaints | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
process to be changed. A football fan is acquitted of this | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
attack on Celtic's Neil Lennon - we have the latest from Scotland. | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
Paying a premium - the price of car insurance is to be put under the | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
spotlight. On the road to recovery - an update | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
on Johnny the Donkey. And the sun has been rather elusive | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
lately, but we might just get a few The police have started a new | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
search for the body of the Castlederg teenager Arlene Arkinson, | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
who disappeared after a night out in 1994. It is believed she was | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
abducted and murdered. The detective leading the investigation | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
says they will be looking at 48 sites over the next two weeks in | :01:22. | :01:29. | |
the hope of finding her remains and bringing some relief to her family. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
This morning police and specialist dogs were at Scraghy Road between | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
Castlederg and Ederney where she was last seen. Here's our North- | :01:39. | :01:47. | |
West reporter, Keiron Tourish. Emotional scenes as members of the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
family gathered at the start of the late deserters to find her sister. | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
It is 17 years since fifteen-year- old Arlene Parkinson disappeared | :01:57. | :02:03. | |
after a night out in Donegal. have your face in her - - your face | :02:03. | :02:10. | |
in you're - - her face in your head every day. Should be 32 now, but | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
she will always be 15. She was last seen in the company of Robert | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
Howard, who gave her a lift home. Howard, who is now 67, was charged | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
with her murder but acquitted in 2005. At the time the jury did not | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
know that he was already serving life for rating and killing a 14- | :02:30. | :02:38. | |
year-old girl in south London. Over the years there have been a series | :02:38. | :02:42. | |
of searches in and around the Castlederg area, but no trace has | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
ever been found of the schoolgirl. Today specialist search teams, | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
using two dogs specially trained for these operations, began a fresh | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
attempt to find her body. Police also said they want to trace the | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
movements of the vehicle from 1994. Arlene was last seen in this area, | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
in the lane way that we're standing in at the moment on the Scraghy | :03:06. | :03:13. | |
Road in the early hours of 14th August 1994. She was seen leaving a | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
farmhouse in at blue Metro car. I would appeal to anybody he has any | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
knowledge of that last sighting or the blue Metro car, or any | :03:24. | :03:29. | |
suspicious activity in this area to talk to us. The family continue to | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
pray and wait for a breakthrough. hope to God that it comes to some | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
kind of closure, but I'll keep my fingers crossed. I hope so, anyway. | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
I hope that she can get a decent burial. The police say that since | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
her disappearance in August 1994 there have been around 80 searches. | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
In this latest operation 48 locations have been identified. But | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
operation is likely to take several weeks, if not months. The it is | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
unbearable even to think about it. 17 years we have lived with this. | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
Hopefully we can bury her and bring her home and bury her with her | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
mother and father and her sister. That is all we ask for. The family | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
paid tribute to all who have supported them. | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
There are calls today for more openness in the way complaints are | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
handled against workers who look after vulnerable adults in nursing | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
or residential care. The current system is described as cumbersome | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
and there are fears of retribution. In the past year the number of | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
complaints against workers has increased and there have been 14 | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
confirmed cases of misconduct. Residents were physically abused, | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
left unclothed or unsupervised. Our health correspondent, Marie-Louise | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
Connolly, reports. Packing away a lifetime of memories. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
This woman's parents are now being cared for in separate nursing homes. | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
But she acknowledges his is a tough job, she says that any concerns | :04:58. | :05:05. | |
raised about their care have been ignored. The system is very | :05:05. | :05:10. | |
complicated and I have tried everybody under the sun and | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
everybody passes due on to somebody else. But some believe it is not | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
obvious where people can go to seek help and even if it was, many are | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
too afraid for fear of retribution. It is the same thing you had so | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
when you're at school boy you didn't want your money to go to | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
school to complain in case something happened to you. I think | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
people are afraid that if they complain it will have an adverse | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
effect on the way in which their loved one is being looked after. | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
But the most recent figures from the Northern Ireland Social Care | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Council show that some people are making their voices heard. In the | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
past 12 months there were 95 complaints against those working in | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
social care, a figure that is almost triple what it was two years | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
ago. The BBC has found that as a result of those complaints 14 | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
people have appeared before the misconduct committee. The figures | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
that have been revealed today are only the tip of the iceberg because | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
someone he has a lot on in a care home would be very reticent to | :06:14. | :06:18. | |
complain. I think we need a more open, transparent and accessible | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
system, but those carers though exactly where to complain if they | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
feel that their loved one has been badly treated. This nursing home | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
was at the centre of the latest misconduct hearing. A care | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
assistant who physically and verbally abused to residents was | :06:32. | :06:37. | |
dismissed from his job in 2010 and suspended from practising for six | :06:37. | :06:47. | |
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months. In a statement his former According to the council, a care | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
home owners are proving to be more responsible about reporting cases. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
Right relation in the industry is very important and has improved | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
significantly. I think the recent incidences were rogue staff members | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
across different care environments have been identified as evidence of | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
the fact that the regulation is working. We are the number of 75- | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
year-old expected to grow by 40 % in 10 years, how we improve the | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
system that cares for them is becoming a priority. | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
It is the job of the Northern Ireland Social Care Council to | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
monitor and regulate the conduct of home care workers. The council is | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
chaired by Lily Kerr. The number of complaints that we | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
were referring to there, not 0.6 % of the workforce in the sector. But | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
do you believe that the system in regard to making complaints needs | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
to be changed? I believe that the council has a very robust system | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
for dealing with complaints, but after listening to what John Harden | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
son said I have written to her and said I am happy to meet with you if | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
you believe that there are changes that we can make to the system, | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
happy to do so, because I am concerned that hearing reports that | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
people are passed from one person to another. It is not acceptable | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
that people go from trust to board to council, so I'm happy to meet to | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
see if we can streamline our processes. If there is not a one- | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
stop shop, if the system is by a cumbersome, does that mean that we | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
are seeing the tip of the iceberg in regards to cases of neglect. But | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
there may be cases of abuse and misconduct that are going | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
unpunished? We would appeal to workers to come forward. We would | :08:46. | :08:53. | |
appeal to carers, to users. No one should suffer in silence. Since I | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
have taken the chair of the council myself and the chief-executive have | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
gone out and engaged with politicians and explain to them | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
what it is we do. We have asked them to take our codes of practice | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
both for the workers and for the employer - - employers into the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
centres so that people know. I have spent a lifetime fighting for the | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
vulnerable and I have always said to staff come if you have got an | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
issue about someone's poor practice you report it to your trade union | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
or to anyone else. We have had people on this programme who were | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
afraid to tell us who they were he worked in that industry and wanted | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
to expose neglect and abuse. How do you encourage them and their | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
employers have to report that? Employers are coming forward in | :09:44. | :09:51. | |
larger numbers now. I believe that we have all got a responsibility to | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
report poor practice. We should not stand over it because they are from | :09:57. | :10:03. | |
noble people that we deal with. If there is any worker out there that | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
is concerned that there is poor practice going on. If they want to | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
approach the council in the first instance we will pass them to the | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
appropriate a authority. We will deal with that attitude process. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
What we can take his anonymous complaints. Our systems must be | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
robust and fair. People must complain. | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
A Scottish football fan has been acquitted of carrying out a | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
sectarian attack on the Celtic manager Neil Lennon. 26-year-old | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
John Wilson was found guilty of breaching the peace by running onto | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
the pitch during a game at Hearts last May and shouting and swearing | :10:42. | :10:52. | |
at Lennon. BBC Scotland reporter Morag Kinniburgh was in court. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
The jury here at Edinburgh Sheriff Court to tea and a have bars to | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
find the case against John Wells and other sulking Neil Lennon not | :11:00. | :11:06. | |
proven. He had been charged with making sectarian remarks against | :11:07. | :11:10. | |
the Celtic manager. He had admitted invading the pitch and found guilty | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
of a lesser charge of breach of the piece, but back in May he invaded - | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
- admitted invading the pitch shouting and swearing at Neil | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
Lennon. He admitted in court that he had assaulted Neil Lennon by | :11:25. | :11:30. | |
striking him on the head. When the jury returned a verdict ruled that | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
the assault case was not proven, not enough evidence of that to | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
convict him despite his admission. They did find him guilty on the | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
lesser charge of breach of the pits, but they deleted any reference to | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
any sectarian comments made or any religious hatred there may have | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
been shouted. Now John Watson has been remanded in custody at his | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
sentence has been deferred until 14th September. | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
Still to come on the programme: Lucky to be alive - we hear from | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
the biker who broke almost every bone in his body. | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
We have more on the story of Johnny the donkey whose hooves were once a | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
long queue struggled to walk. Now he has had his toenails cut and is | :12:14. | :12:24. | |
:12:24. | :12:25. | ||
So Fair Trading to investigate the high cost of car insurance and stop | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
Northern Ireland drivers can pay 84 per cent more than the rest of the | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
UK. Our Business and Economics Editor Jim Fitzpatrick has more. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
Making a living driving a cab is hard enough these days. Spiralling | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
insurance costs don't help. It is very hard because the premiums have | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
been going up every year. It is money we have defined and we are | :12:48. | :12:54. | |
not earning. We are being discriminated against, probably, in | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
Northern Ireland. Those who make their living selling insurance say | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
the problem in Northern Ireland has been overstated. I am not disputing | :13:03. | :13:13. | |
the higher costs, but I do think it is not as high as stated. Why is | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
insurance in Northern Ireland so expensive? Is it lack of | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
competition, because legal costs or to hire forcing up premiums -- are | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
too high, or is it because we pay too much in compensation? Is it the | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
fact that there are too many and insured drivers for whom the | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
insured must pick up the tab? Whatever the reason, the figures | :13:31. | :13:38. | |
are startling. According to the Consumer Council people here are | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
paying premiums of �282 higher than the rest of the UK, �82 -- 84 per | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
cent higher. Consumers also have left -- less choice with a maximum | :13:48. | :13:52. | |
of 15 insurers, with up to 51 competing companies in the UK | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
mainland. It is not as dormant and the Office of Fair Trading. The | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Consumer Council things they have the clout to solve the problem. | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
have been relentless in relation to this for some time but we hope by | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
taking the range of initiatives we have taken this morning, this will | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
make a difference and help keep money in the pockets of Northern | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
Ireland drivers. To date the OFT said it wouldn't necessarily | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
investigate. It is an issue that has been driving consumers mad for | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
years. A solution may yet be on the distant horizon. | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
Speaking of money, finance will be very much on the minds of students | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
as they prepare for college or university this year. Some banks | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
are offering overdrafts of as much as �3,000. | :14:36. | :14:41. | |
There are strings attached, though. Kevin Sharkey asks if these are | :14:41. | :14:47. | |
good deal for a student or a temptation to go deeper into debt. | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
Some students are already here for an early look around. There are a | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
number of ways for students to look at this offer of an interest-free | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
overdraft facility. Is it an easy way for student to get at their | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
hands on much needed money to help them through college, or is it a | :15:04. | :15:08. | |
case of the bank's encouraging yet more student debt? At the students' | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
union across the road, there is caution. It is an issue at the | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
moment because students are finding it difficult to get part-time jobs, | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
so the temptation will be to get an overdraft. My advice would be to | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
read the small print, talk to the students' union first, and try to | :15:24. | :15:31. | |
find other ways before you get an overdraft. What about the small | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
print? The banks that are lending up to �3,000 are only allowing for | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
four cheque withdrawals within any given month, and four cash | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
withdrawals within any given month. Over and above that, they are | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
charging 70p per item. Bear that in mind every time you are taking out | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
�20 or �30. So are the banks the big winners with these offers? | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
like anything else, if you go beyond what they have agreed there | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
are potential for additional sums. Generally, if it is managed in the | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
right way, it is fine. For all this student, the message is clear: | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
Don't. I would advise students to stay away from overdrafts. They | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
seem appealing but when it comes to paying them back it is a nightmare. | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
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As the new academic year looms, Now to the race for the job of | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
president of Ireland. For the first time in its history, Fianna Fail | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
will not put up a candidate. The party's last nominee was Mary | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
McAleese, whose two terms in office end in November. Jennifer O'Leary | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
joins us now. What is happening with the Fianna Fail party? | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
Monday, a sub-committee of the party recommended that Fianna Fail | :16:54. | :16:59. | |
did not put forward an internal candidate. Today's three amenity | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
and put out rubber stamp on that decision. -- a three hour meeting. | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
There was a dominant political force in Ireland since the 1930s, | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
and for the first time in its history, it won't be in the | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
presidential election. The Fianna Fail leader explained the reason | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
behind the decision. A we need to rebuild and strengthen the capacity | :17:22. | :17:28. | |
of the party in the months and years ahead to ensure we are a | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
vital force in Irish political life. Michael Martin asked broadcaster | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
Gay Byrne to put his name forward. He said no. Could anybody else have | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
been a possibility? The popular -- a popular sports commentator said | :17:44. | :17:49. | |
he was considering a bid before he also ruled himself out, but let's | :17:49. | :17:58. | |
not forget, Diana Rosemary Scallon is said to be considering a | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
nomination but has been coy about her intentions. Not putting a | :18:04. | :18:08. | |
candidate for it leaves it open to the other parties, surely, and | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
those that have been confirmed. There are four definite candidates | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
confirmed so far. The Labour Party nominee has topped the most recent | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
polls of the declared candidates. He is a long-time politician and a | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
published poet. He is followed by Gay Mitchell, the MEP for Dublin. | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
There are two independence, Shaun Gallagher, and Mary Davies, who is | :18:33. | :18:43. | |
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best known for running the Special Olympics in Ireland. I spoke with a | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
representative of another party saying they should run an internal | :18:47. | :18:54. | |
candidate, but Sinn Fein will formally confirmed its stance in | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
the coming weeks. Coming up in tomorrow's BBC Newsline, even the | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
most is and outings can run into danger. Will Leitch is with the | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
rescue services as they stop trouble from turning to tragedy. | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
has already been a busy are some of unusual for rescuers just like this | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
one. I will find out how the coastguard save lives. With the | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
deaths of two top motorcycle racers, Adrian McFarland and Wayne Hamilton, | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
this week, many people are again asking why racers risk their lives | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
competing in the sport they love. Steve and Watson has been to speak | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
to write a recovering from a life- threatening cash -- crash -- to a | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
rider. John Laverty told me today he is | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
lucky to be alive. He survived a high speed crash in the British | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
Superbike -- Superbike Championship at Oulton Park, but broke almost | :19:47. | :19:52. | |
every bet -- bone in his body. He has been transferred to the Royal | :19:52. | :20:00. | |
Victoria Hospital in Belfast to start his long road to recovery. | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
John Laverty faces months of intensive physiotherapy and | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
Rehabilitation after sustaining life-threatening injuries. He | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
smashed his ankles and his feet, broke his knees, his pelvis, ribs | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
and both shoulders, and almost lost the use of his arms. I feel I am a | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
very lucky in the way I cheated death at that speed. I hit a wall | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
at 100 and their demise an hour, to walk out of it was a big surprise. | :20:27. | :20:33. | |
I checked I was still alive at the time and I couldn't believe it. -- | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
120 mph. As a top motorcycle racer, he understands the risks. Last | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
weekend's tragedy is when stop him returning to the sport. I think | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
somebody was looking down on me. It was amazing what I came out of. I | :20:49. | :20:58. | |
have to be thankful for that and move on. Hopefully people realise | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
that people love what they are doing, and they can come to grips | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
with that. There is a higher risk factor in our sport because you can | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
get knocked down walking -- but you can get knocked down walking across | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
the road, so you just get on with it. It is what we are brought up | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
doing and it doesn't affect us in that way. I put it down to being a | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
bit like a boxer. When he is knocked out he goes back into the | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
ring and does his job. As soon as we are fit we are back on the bike | :21:28. | :21:34. | |
again. He plans to be racing again next year. | :21:34. | :21:37. | |
Let's hope we see him in action. Northern Ireland footballers have a | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
vital game at Windsor Park on Friday night in the Euro 2012 | :21:41. | :21:44. | |
qualifiers, but if Nigel Worthington's team is to win and | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
stay on course for the finals they may have to do it without two other | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
star performers, one of him stole the show in the last game. Thomas | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
Niblock reports. When two of your better players are | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
casually strolling along while everyone else is training, you know | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
something is not quite right. Northern Ireland trained this | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
morning ahead of Serbia's arrival in Belfast, but Pat mid-court and | :22:06. | :22:12. | |
Kyle Lafferty are injured, and may miss Friday's game. We have two | :22:12. | :22:18. | |
doubts. Pat record has a calf problem and could be struggling for | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
Friday. The other is Kyle Lafferty, who has again a calf problem. We | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
think he will probably have a more realistic chance of maybe being | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
able to be available for Friday night. Pat no court litter up | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
Windsor Park against the Faeroe Islands last week and will be | :22:42. | :22:52. | |
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You can not do anything about it for a stock it is there. He started | :22:54. | :23:02. | |
to fillet of Friday morning. -- feel it on Friday morning. Come | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
Friday, the game could be a little bit too early for him. Manchester | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
United and Serbia captain no money but it is also injured and would | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
play on Friday, helping Northern Ireland's cause. A win is a must | :23:18. | :23:26. | |
for qualifying for Euro 2012. We have highlights on BBC One. | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
Linfield continue to lead the way at the top of football's Carling | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
Premiership. Rory Patterson scored two goals for the champions in | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
their 3-2 win against Lisburn Distillery last night. Jamie | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
Mulgrew's strike for Linfield was arguably the goal of the game. | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
There was a late consolation free- kick, but it still ended 3-2. At | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
Glentoran Stephen Carson scored his first goal for his new club against | :23:52. | :23:57. | |
his old one. They picked up a point at the oval with this Curtis Allen | :23:57. | :24:03. | |
header. Glenavon are still winless, having lost 5-32 Cliftonville at | :24:03. | :24:10. | |
Solitude. -- 53 against Cliftonville. Cliftonville moved to | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
third in the table. Portadown and Linfield are joint top. | :24:16. | :24:22. | |
Road racer Ryan Farquhar was a winner today at the Manx Grand Prix | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
on the Isle of Man. An update on Johnny the Donkey from | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
yesterday's programme. His hooves had grown so long he could hardly | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
walk. It was reckoned he had endured two | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
years of neglect. How is he doing now? | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
Settling into his surroundings and showing no signs of the neglect | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
that brought him here, Johnny the Donkey, on the left, was enjoying | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
his new found fame this afternoon. He was a much sorrier sight when he | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
arrived at the shelter just over a week ago. He had been rescued from | :24:52. | :24:57. | |
the Mourne Mountains after two years of unchecked growth had left | :24:57. | :25:02. | |
his hooves so deformed he could hardly walk. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
But now, after a visit by the farrier, he is much more | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
comfortable and is responding well to treatment. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
My we got a call from a photographer lady who had been on | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
the Mourne Mountains. She took a photograph and Johnny Donkey | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
appeared from the hedges. She knew the feet went right so she found us. | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
We think he survived on the mountain because he used a derelict | :25:28. | :25:33. | |
cottage as a shelter. There is a steady stream of donkey's coming to | :25:33. | :25:39. | |
the century. They had over 100 at Christmas. Four more arrive from | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
Antrim earlier today, where they had been handed back for -- by | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
people who no longer wanted them. The �600 the cost of keeping an | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
animal like this is a big factor -- �600 per year. A couple of years | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
ago during the boom it was considered fashionable by some to | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
have a donkey. Mayors were around 1200 pounds and stallions around | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
�500. Everything has changed now and animals are being abandoned. | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
These two were turned out into a field near Armagh last week and | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
rescued from there. The charity will try to the Home Johnny here, | :26:15. | :26:21. | |
but if not, they will send him to England with a care for 2500 such | :26:21. | :26:31. | |
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Happy as Larry, or Johnny! Let's get the latest on the weather | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
We have the remnants of Hurricane Irene heading our way but don't | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
panic too much, it would just bring a way to spell. Until we get there | :26:42. | :26:47. | |
it is largely dry, the statistics for August saying it has been a dry | :26:47. | :26:50. | |
month, below average rainfall, believe it or not. It has been | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
quite cold and cloudy as well. We have had sunshine this morning | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
across Fermanagh but it didn't take long for the cloud to fill in, and | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
that is how we end the day. Generally a lot of cloud. Through | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
the night, more or less the same sort of story. Maybe the odd spot | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
of drizzle over the holes butis continuing drive. Beneath a cloud, | :27:11. | :27:20. | |
not to Chile -- most places continuing dry. It could get to six | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
degrees in some parts of the countryside, with patches of mist. | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
Tomorrow, the dryness continues, then cloud but hopefully we will | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
see something brighter developing as we head to the afternoon. Don't | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
expect much sunshine first thing in the morning, though, with the odd | :27:35. | :27:39. | |
patch of mist and a good deal of cloud, but it should lift up a bit | :27:39. | :27:42. | |
with more brightness come the afternoon, particularly across | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
parts of Antrim, Down and Armagh. Sunshine is a possibility, even in | :27:47. | :27:53. | |
the West, something brighter. Also a bit warmer tomorrow, a southerly | :27:53. | :27:57. | |
breeze bringing temperatures up to 17 or 18 Celsius. At least a couple | :27:57. | :28:02. | |
of degrees better than today. Into Friday, this area of low pressure, | :28:02. | :28:07. | |
what is left of hurricane Irene is driving the weather front east. | :28:07. | :28:11. | |
After a dry start on Friday, rain lingering into Friday night with | :28:11. | :28:15. |