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