:00:06. > :00:10.Good evening. A man's been in court charged with the attempted murder
:00:10. > :00:13.of a man in Ballymena. The court heard the victim is still
:00:13. > :00:23.unconscious after being found at a petrol station yesterday morning.
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:00:23. > :00:33.Chris Page reports. Melvin Bamber, who is 23 and from
:00:33. > :00:38.Clonavon Road... The prosecution believed the attack command in the
:00:38. > :00:43.forecourt of this pest crustacean in the North Road area of Ballymena
:00:43. > :00:47.yesterday. CCTV pictures showed Melvin Bamber with the victim
:00:47. > :00:52.shortly before the attack happened. The detective said the victim got a
:00:52. > :00:55.severe kicking. He is still unconscious in hospital. The
:00:55. > :00:59.detective told the court that Melvin Bamber matched the
:00:59. > :01:02.description of the attacker given by two witnesses. The court heard
:01:02. > :01:07.that Melvin Bamber admitted to police that he was the man in the
:01:07. > :01:10.CCTV footage but he said he was so drunk he could not remember what
:01:10. > :01:14.happened for stop the accused claimed he did not believe he had
:01:14. > :01:19.carried out the attack because he would not do that to a friend. The
:01:19. > :01:22.district judge refused bail. A 22-year-old man has been arrested
:01:22. > :01:25.after an attempted armed robbery in Belfast city centre. Eyewitnesses
:01:25. > :01:28.said a man who appeared to be carrying a rifle threatened staff
:01:28. > :01:32.at a perfume counter in the Debenhams store at Castlecourt
:01:32. > :01:35.before being arrested by the police. A spokesman for the police
:01:35. > :01:43.ombudsman said the officers had their Taser weapons drawn, but they
:01:43. > :01:47.were not used. The police are investigating the
:01:47. > :01:51.cause of a blaze which badly damaged a GAA club in Londonderry.
:01:51. > :01:59.Members of the Sean Dolan club in the Creggan area say they can't
:01:59. > :02:04.believe what has happened. Natasha Sayee reports.
:02:04. > :02:09.The entrance to the club car park has been cordoned off by police and
:02:09. > :02:16.this is as close as our camera could get. Even at a distance, the
:02:16. > :02:19.damage is clear. The club is at the heart of the Creggan community and
:02:19. > :02:25.its members looked on in disbelief. We do not know where we stand up
:02:25. > :02:32.the present time. I am shocked, I cannot give you an answer to this
:02:32. > :02:37.here. Everybody is shattered. route has burned and collapsed and
:02:37. > :02:40.what is left inside his chart. The fire service believe the play
:02:40. > :02:44.started on the first floor but at this stage does not know what
:02:44. > :02:51.caused it. It is very windy here at the moment and he was just like
:02:52. > :02:56.this at 4AM when fire crews arrived. They said the strong winds fanned
:02:56. > :03:01.the flames throughout the building, making spread easily and making it
:03:01. > :03:06.a dangerous rescue operation for them. When we arrived, the fire was
:03:06. > :03:13.coming out of the rift. We brought in appliances from two stations to
:03:13. > :03:17.tackle the blaze. We were hampered with a high bounce and it took 25
:03:17. > :03:20.firefighters two-and-a-half hours to bring the fire under control.
:03:20. > :03:26.The lease are trying to establish how the fire started and say they
:03:26. > :03:29.will be examining the club's CCTV footage as part of that examination.
:03:29. > :03:32.The Irish Football Association have confirmed that Michael O'Neill has
:03:32. > :03:35.been appointed as the Northern Ireland manager. O'Neill succeeds
:03:35. > :03:40.Nigel Worthington and will take up the post in February, initially on
:03:40. > :03:45.a two-year contract. He was capped 33 times for Northern Ireland as a
:03:45. > :03:48.player. In management he has made his reputation with Shamrock Rovers,
:03:48. > :03:52.guiding the Dublin club to successive League of Ireland titles
:03:52. > :03:55.and into the group stages of this season's Europa League. O'Neill's
:03:55. > :04:03.first game in charge will be a friendly international in February,
:04:03. > :04:07.when Norway visit Windsor Park. 17 years after starting the Shine A
:04:07. > :04:14.Light charity to help children with cancer, Billy McCrory has decided
:04:14. > :04:17.to retire. Last year he received an MBE for his charity work. But one
:04:17. > :04:22.of the families he's helped says that his work is too important to
:04:22. > :04:32.end and so they have set up a charity to make sure it continues.
:04:32. > :04:36.
:04:37. > :04:40.Julian Fowler has been to Irvinestown to meet them.
:04:40. > :04:45.When Gina McCusker was diagnosed with cancer, the Shine A Light
:04:45. > :04:47.charity make sure she would have something to look forward to him
:04:47. > :04:55.between the many hospital appointments. Bily McCrory arranged
:04:56. > :05:02.a visit to a West End show and a backstage pass to meet the stars.
:05:02. > :05:09.With Billy, he just turned her life around. Stuck in the doldrums, in
:05:09. > :05:14.and out of hospital all of the time. Giving us a bit of a life. Memory
:05:14. > :05:22.is an amazing thing. Unlike cancer, memories cannot be taken away. They
:05:22. > :05:27.will be there forever. Gina pass to wait two years ago on her 12 but
:05:27. > :05:32.they put on a trip to London she told Billy off her dream. She said
:05:32. > :05:40.it would be her dream which grow up to help are the children just like
:05:40. > :05:46.her. I thought of as a lovely thing to hear from a child. It came about
:05:46. > :05:51.by one conversation, the title Tina's dream is just act. A few
:05:51. > :05:59.weeks ago, the charity took several families on the trip of a lifetime
:05:59. > :06:03.to Lapland. We saw Santa claws and got a present. She was diagnosed
:06:04. > :06:09.with leukaemia and it was a dream for her to meet Santa this
:06:09. > :06:12.Christmas. They had a husky dogs and I'm really loved it. It has
:06:12. > :06:17.been a hard year for us with our son going through the treatment he
:06:17. > :06:24.has been going through and to have such a dream like this, I think I
:06:24. > :06:31.was actually more excited at the start! The charity is now helping
:06:31. > :06:35.other children fulfil their dreams. It has been a very stormy day.
:06:36. > :06:45.These pictures show a walk along the beach was not for the faint-
:06:46. > :06:50.
:06:50. > :06:54.Good evening. It was a much colder feeling day today. Temperatures
:06:54. > :07:00.between six and eight degrees and the chill was emphasised by
:07:00. > :07:05.blustery winds. If we had a gust just short of 80 mph reported. The
:07:05. > :07:10.highest wins have passed. But the amber warning remains in place for
:07:10. > :07:14.this evening. Still the potential for some disruption and the odd
:07:14. > :07:18.damaging cast, particularly towards the north coast. The gales 10 to
:07:18. > :07:24.ease down through the course of the evening and through the night. It
:07:24. > :07:30.is still going to be windy. Quite what tonight with lows of four or
:07:30. > :07:34.five degrees. Eventually it turns drier tomorrow but still breezy.
:07:34. > :07:39.Quite where to begin with before the rain clears out of the way. The
:07:39. > :07:44.odd shower but drier for much of the day. More cloud than sunshine
:07:44. > :07:49.and highs of around eight degrees. Temperatures creep up towards New