28/12/2011 BBC Newsline


28/12/2011

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Good evening. A man's been in court charged with the attempted murder

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of a man in Ballymena. The court heard the victim is still

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unconscious after being found at a petrol station yesterday morning.

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Chris Page reports. Melvin Bamber, who is 23 and from

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Clonavon Road... The prosecution believed the attack command in the

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forecourt of this pest crustacean in the North Road area of Ballymena

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yesterday. CCTV pictures showed Melvin Bamber with the victim

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shortly before the attack happened. The detective said the victim got a

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severe kicking. He is still unconscious in hospital. The

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detective told the court that Melvin Bamber matched the

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description of the attacker given by two witnesses. The court heard

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that Melvin Bamber admitted to police that he was the man in the

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CCTV footage but he said he was so drunk he could not remember what

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happened for stop the accused claimed he did not believe he had

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carried out the attack because he would not do that to a friend. The

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district judge refused bail. A 22-year-old man has been arrested

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after an attempted armed robbery in Belfast city centre. Eyewitnesses

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said a man who appeared to be carrying a rifle threatened staff

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at a perfume counter in the Debenhams store at Castlecourt

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before being arrested by the police. A spokesman for the police

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ombudsman said the officers had their Taser weapons drawn, but they

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were not used. The police are investigating the

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cause of a blaze which badly damaged a GAA club in Londonderry.

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Members of the Sean Dolan club in the Creggan area say they can't

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believe what has happened. Natasha Sayee reports.

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The entrance to the club car park has been cordoned off by police and

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this is as close as our camera could get. Even at a distance, the

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damage is clear. The club is at the heart of the Creggan community and

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its members looked on in disbelief. We do not know where we stand up

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the present time. I am shocked, I cannot give you an answer to this

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here. Everybody is shattered. route has burned and collapsed and

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what is left inside his chart. The fire service believe the play

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started on the first floor but at this stage does not know what

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caused it. It is very windy here at the moment and he was just like

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this at 4AM when fire crews arrived. They said the strong winds fanned

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the flames throughout the building, making spread easily and making it

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a dangerous rescue operation for them. When we arrived, the fire was

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coming out of the rift. We brought in appliances from two stations to

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tackle the blaze. We were hampered with a high bounce and it took 25

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firefighters two-and-a-half hours to bring the fire under control.

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The lease are trying to establish how the fire started and say they

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will be examining the club's CCTV footage as part of that examination.

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The Irish Football Association have confirmed that Michael O'Neill has

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been appointed as the Northern Ireland manager. O'Neill succeeds

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Nigel Worthington and will take up the post in February, initially on

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a two-year contract. He was capped 33 times for Northern Ireland as a

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player. In management he has made his reputation with Shamrock Rovers,

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guiding the Dublin club to successive League of Ireland titles

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and into the group stages of this season's Europa League. O'Neill's

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first game in charge will be a friendly international in February,

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when Norway visit Windsor Park. 17 years after starting the Shine A

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Light charity to help children with cancer, Billy McCrory has decided

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to retire. Last year he received an MBE for his charity work. But one

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of the families he's helped says that his work is too important to

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end and so they have set up a charity to make sure it continues.

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Julian Fowler has been to Irvinestown to meet them.

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When Gina McCusker was diagnosed with cancer, the Shine A Light

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charity make sure she would have something to look forward to him

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between the many hospital appointments. Bily McCrory arranged

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a visit to a West End show and a backstage pass to meet the stars.

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With Billy, he just turned her life around. Stuck in the doldrums, in

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and out of hospital all of the time. Giving us a bit of a life. Memory

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is an amazing thing. Unlike cancer, memories cannot be taken away. They

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will be there forever. Gina pass to wait two years ago on her 12 but

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they put on a trip to London she told Billy off her dream. She said

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it would be her dream which grow up to help are the children just like

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her. I thought of as a lovely thing to hear from a child. It came about

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by one conversation, the title Tina's dream is just act. A few

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weeks ago, the charity took several families on the trip of a lifetime

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to Lapland. We saw Santa claws and got a present. She was diagnosed

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with leukaemia and it was a dream for her to meet Santa this

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Christmas. They had a husky dogs and I'm really loved it. It has

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been a hard year for us with our son going through the treatment he

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has been going through and to have such a dream like this, I think I

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was actually more excited at the start! The charity is now helping

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other children fulfil their dreams. It has been a very stormy day.

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These pictures show a walk along the beach was not for the faint-

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Good evening. It was a much colder feeling day today. Temperatures

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between six and eight degrees and the chill was emphasised by

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blustery winds. If we had a gust just short of 80 mph reported. The

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highest wins have passed. But the amber warning remains in place for

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this evening. Still the potential for some disruption and the odd

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damaging cast, particularly towards the north coast. The gales 10 to

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ease down through the course of the evening and through the night. It

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is still going to be windy. Quite what tonight with lows of four or

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five degrees. Eventually it turns drier tomorrow but still breezy.

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Quite where to begin with before the rain clears out of the way. The

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odd shower but drier for much of the day. More cloud than sunshine

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and highs of around eight degrees. Temperatures creep up towards New

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