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This is BBC Newsline. Our main news.

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At patient's death is linked to the outbreak of a dangerous infection

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in the Northern Trust. Also on the programme.

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The Inshops complex in Belfast is to close, with the loss of 60 jobs.

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A senior Chinese politician pledges her country's commitment to

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Northern Ireland. The man vilified for his role in

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the Titanic tragedy, and now the family of the just a breeze is may

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have their say. The MS Balmoral sales ever closer to the spot with

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the Titanic sank and today relatives of the victims have

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gathered on board. Jockey Tony McCoy is hoping to

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record a famous horseracing double tomorrow. Join me live in his home

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town of Moneyglass. And this weekend, it is all about

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sunshine and frost, find out how chilly it will be in your garden.

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An elderly patient who contracted the bacterial infection listeria

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has died at Antrim Area Hospital. The Northern Health Trust has

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declared and a break, because two other patients have been diagnosed

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with it in recent days. One is in Antrim and the other is in the

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Causeway Hospital. Both are said to be recovering well. Elderly people,

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pregnant women and newborn babies are most vulnerable to listeria.

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Our district journalist is in Antrim for us. What more can you

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tell us? What we know is that all three cases have been detected in

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the last seven days and that has caused quite a lot of concern. I am

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told there are normally around five cases of this per year, so the fact

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that there have been so many has raised alarm bells and that is why

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this outbreak has been declared. One elderly person has died and the

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trust says that listeria contributed to that death, but did

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not cause it. We also know that listeria is the food born bacteria,

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often found in cold first -- cold foods. Sometimes it occurs because

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the things have not been properly refrigerated, but it develops

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because there has been a breakdown in food hygiene. People will be

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frightened to hear the news, both patients in hospitals and also

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their relatives. You have been talking to trust officials. What

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reassurance have been giving you? have been speaking to the trust

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this afternoon and they have been keen it to allay fears. It is only

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those who are immunocompromised, people who are pregnant, who are

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elderly, who are taking some form of medication that would be

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affected by this. They were keen to say they are doing all they can to

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detect the source of the outbreak. I have been in the catering

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department myself, all of the wards, I have inspected all of the

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fridges... We are satisfied that our processes are robust, however

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this will be a long and complex process. We are moving on now to

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get the people who supply our food to make sure that that situation is

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OK. The reason why it is complicated is that so many people

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supply the third. People supply Derry products, sandwiches, and

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they will have to check food hygiene practices to get to the

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bottom of why this outbreak has occurred. Thank you.

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The Inshops complex on Belfast's High Street is to close. It houses

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25 shops, employing 60 people. It is due to shut at the end of June.

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For more than 25 years, Inshops has offered a selection of stores in

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the heart of Belfast. People working here learned yesterday that

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it is to close at the end of June, seen the loss of 25 stores and

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around 60 jobs. Many of the 97 units are lying empty. One owner

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had only moved in at the beginning of March. In it has been here for a

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long time. It is like a cultural centre. For a lot of the businesses,

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things are going to be very difficult. They will not

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necessarily be able to compete with the rates or rent you would have to

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pay in other premises. It is very sad to be losing these businesses.

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It's is owned and run by a company that has headquarters in Liverpool.

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It operates a network of 50 centres across the UK, but has confirmed

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that only the Belfast centre is currently earmarked for closure.

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The family of a woman murdered by the IRA in 1981 have offered a

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reward of �20,000 for information leading to the conviction of the

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killers. Joanne Mathers was shot dead as she collected census forms

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in the Gobnascale area of Londonderry. Her husband is

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offering the reward through the independent charity Crimestoppers

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UK. Her son was just two years old when she was killed.

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The most senior woman in the Chinese government says her country

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is committed to Northern Ireland. The second day of Liu Yandong's

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visit focused on education. She opened the Confucius Institute

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Institute at the University of Ulster and visited Queen's, which

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has announced it is to open a college in China. You usually have

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to be a president or an Oscar- winner to get a welcome like this.

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A representative of the world's fastest-growing economy, exceptions

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can be made. Liu Yandong was there to officially open the University

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of Ulster's Confucius Institute. Trade links between Northern

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of the visit. If we truly want to reach out to the rest of the world

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and to create opportunities for business, we need to have a

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positive relationship with one of the world's strongest economic and

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cultural powerhouses. I choose Northern Ireland as the first stop

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of my visit to the EU. It for least demonstrates China's commitment to

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Northern Ireland. This is the most senior politician to ever visit to

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Northern Ireland. If it helped bring about peace, they're hoping

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that the government will bring about prosperity. Next stop, was

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Queen's University which is establishing a college in China.

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have two excellent universities here they can now boast of having a

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strong friendship and professional relationship with China and we want

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to build on this. In the west, we do business and then we build

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relationships, was in the east, particularly in China, they only do

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business after they have built a relationship and what today was

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about was building a relationship foundation of which I know,

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significant investment will follow. The First and Deputy First

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ministers go to China in the autumn. Jonathan Bell the MLA there. Still

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to come. He was vilified for his role in the

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Titanic tragedy, now the family of just a breeze is may have their say.

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Can jockey Tony McCoy when one of the biggest sporting event of the

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year, the Grand National? Join me live in his home town.

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A busy schedule of events is planned for the centenary of the

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sinking of the Titanic this weekend. Memorial services will be held at

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Belfast City Hall and on the Atlantic, at the spot with the

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liner went down. Our reporter Chris Buckler is on the ship which is

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retracing the Titanic's rate. He joins us live now. Good evening. I

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have got a GPS device that tells me we're now 463 nautical miles away

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from the site where the Titanic sank and we are travelling at speed

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of just under 16 knots. That means we will reach the spot in the

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Atlantic where the Titanic's wreckage still lies in time for the

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memorial service. That is deeply important to all the passengers on

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board, but particularly those who have close family ties. Side by

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side, together in tribute. Descendants of the victims and

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survivors of the type of -- Titanic disaster. This was a photograph to

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mark history, as they remember an event from 100 years ago, that

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shaped all their families. Tommy Miller died on board the Titanic

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when it sank in the middle of the Atlantic. This weekend, his great

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granddaughter will be at that very spot, alongside the relatives she

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has met on this journey. The it is the first time I have shed at here

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since I came on board. I have been focused on lectures, meeting people

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and talking to them, that the emotional side of it has not hit me,

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until we were sitting in that room. Another lady was talking about how

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she wanted to see the Statue of Liberty and complete the journey in

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the same way that I wanted to. Yet, it makes a real. On board the MS

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Balmoral, every part of that history matters, right down to the

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fine details. Tonight, in the dining rooms, they even Ana to

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faithfully recreate the final dinner held on the Titanic. His has

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been re created according to the recipes we have now. The recipes I

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have now from the Titanic books that we have researched are all

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basic. We have salmon for an appetiser, we have quail's eggs, we

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have a fillet steak tonight, which is done at the way that they served

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it. Make no mistake, the focus remains on this weekend's memorial

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service. On this deck, more often used for relaxation and fun and

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games, people will fall silent in sombre reflection, marking exactly

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100 years since the tragedy. Some bodies were never found, including

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a man whose family say going to the point in the ocean were at the

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wreckage is is as close as they will come to visiting his grave.

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is important that we think enough of him to actually make this trip.

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We are doing it for the family. Read this in honour of all those

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who died are being prepared on board the ship and in the early

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hours of Sunday morning, a century after the sinking, they will be

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placed in the waters were the victims drowned. The Titanic sank

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at 2:20am and it will be entirely dark in the middle of the Atlantic

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at that time, but it will be 6:45pm - at 6:45am back in Northern

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Ireland. In honour of that, Bishop is turning its clocks back tonight,

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a very unusual think so that at exactly 2:20am, they will be able

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to remember what happened in the Atlantic in April 1912.

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As well as the memorial service at sea, Belfast City Council is

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hosting a commemorative event on Sunday morning and we will be

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showing you all of those events live during a special Titanic

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programme on BBC Two, which starts at 6:20am in the morning on Sunday.

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Mark Simpson will be at the City Hall, were a new memorial garden

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will be opened. He was there earlier to find out more. The

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waiting is nearly over. On Sunday morning, these hoardings will

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finally be taken down and we will all get to see the new Titanic

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memorial garden here in the grounds of Belfast City Hall. All day today,

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people have been trying to get a sneak preview by peering through a

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gap in the hoardings, but you cannot see much. We are told that

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it is colourful and also very dignified. Let us get an insight

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into the creation of the new garden from two of those involved. The

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landscape architect Joy Hutchinson is here and Kelly Frizell from

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Belfast City Council. You looked into putting the names of the

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victims of the Titanic into the garden, what exactly have you done

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that those names? Were have displayed them in five bronze

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plaques, which set upon and granite plinth. They span nine metres in

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length and the names are displayed in alphabetical order. Flowers.

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What have you done? Of garden has been designed around the existing

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monument as and is on two levels. We have tried to get a colour

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scheme, reflecting water and ice and also to try and encourage a

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sense of peace and contemplation. We have included seats in the

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garden and it is in a sunny part of the City Hall. We hope people will

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come down and enjoy it and remember all those who died on Titanic.

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Thank you. It is Sunday morning that the memorial garden will be

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open for the first time. The public are welcome to come down. The

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service begins at 9am. If you cannot make it down, the service

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James Cameron's film, Titanic, drew a new generation to the events of

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1912 and to the key people on board and the roles they played on the

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sinking ship. One of those was Joseph Bruce Ismay, the owner. He

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has been vilified for taking a place in a partially filled

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lifeboat when others perished. A decision, his family say, haunted

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him for ever. Sarah Travers has spoken exclusively to two of his

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descendants to hear the other side of the story.

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Newspaper headlines announced to the world that the unthinkable has

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happened. For the American press in particular, there was one man from

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whom they wanted answers. Joseph Bruce Ismay. The chairman of the

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White Star Line was branded a coward for his decision to leave

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the sinking ship in one of the last lifeboats. At the American and

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British inquiries which followed, he faced tough questions over the

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speed the ship was travelling over ice warnings and over the shortage

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of lifeboats. He was eventually cleared of any personal wrongdoing

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but his decision not to go down that the ship and public reaction

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to the disaster would haunt him for ever. Now his family want justice.

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Although he never knew his great grandfather, the maritime links are

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of this. Malcolm reveals a passion for the sea and the ships and a

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great pride in his family history. I think if you imagine he had died

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and been a hero, that is high me and the rest of the family see him.

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Because what happened afterwards was not the truth and he was

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victimised very much. Malcolm has chosen the centenary of the sinking

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of the Titanic to speak out for the first time to defend his ancestor.

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He has thousands of documents, all revealing a very different side to

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Joseph Bruce Ismay. Exhausted by events and the two inquiries, he

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had retreated to Scotland to await the outcome of the British inquiry.

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A telegram arrived with the result. This is the telegram and probably

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the first time he heard about the result of the inquest and inquiry.

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Which congratulate you, it finds excessive speed, captain not

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negligent, your presence London to do with speed and navigation States

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does not agree with those who criticised your conduct. There's

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also a moving letter of thanks from the husband of an estranged --

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Australian Stuart S he was saved by Joseph Bruce Ismay. You were all

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women are there, which is what he said to her when they were getting

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onto the boat, because she thought as a member of crew, she would be

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restricted from getting on. Malcolm was taken to see him. He barely

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remembers him but he does remember his grandmother, Joseph Bruce

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Ismay's wife, Florence. When the family talked at length about many

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things, one subject was always out of bounds. My grandfather, after

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the disaster, she would hardly speak about it. Her mother didn't

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say a great deal either. But I do know that what she did say was that

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it absolutely shattered his life. Joseph Bruce Ismay died at the age

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of 74. His work starting over, his reputation in tatters. But a

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century on, his descendants feel the time has come to right the

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wrongs. We as a family are immensely proud of the White Star

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Line and what the family did to build it. Without Joseph Bruce

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Ismay and his father before him, the tens of thousands of jobs

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created in Belfast simply wouldn't have existed, a fact this maritime

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historian feels has been forgotten. With this anniversary, there is a

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great opportunity to recognise the great influence that he was and is

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in the Titanic story. Is not just about a disaster, it is about one

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man was an achievement. The Titanic was an extraordinary engineering

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enterprise. No other shipping company have attempted such a

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gigantic project and Joseph Bruce Ismay brought it off and I think

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the time is right for us to properly memorialise the man.

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Belfast's Waterfront Hall will be hosting a Titanic concert tomorrow

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night. Local choirs and musicians will be joined by stars such as

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Bryan Ferry, Katie Melua, Alfie Boe and the Ulster Orchestra with the

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world premier of Titanic Drums composed by John Anderson. If you

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don't have a ticket, the show will be live on BBC Two.

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You can sense a real magic and a sense of energy in the City and I

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hope we can convert some of that into the show tomorrow night. I

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think to be here in Belfast when the eyes of the world, really, are

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on the city, 100 years to the day with a live event to commemorate

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this incredible story, it is a really, really poignant place to be

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and I am incredibly excited. I am told the drums will be very

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loud! We have lots more about On Sunday when the Titanic sank, we

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will have a special commemorative programme on BBC Two starting at

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6:20am. We'll bring you memorial services from the Atlantic and

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Belfast. That programme will be streamed on the Titanic website and

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BBC Radio Ulster will also be on air from 6:20am.

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Tomorrow the attention of the horse racing world will be on the Grand

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National. But what are the chances that the jockey from the village of

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Moneyglass in County Antrim will make it two wins in a row? Stephen

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Watson is in Moneyglass. Moneyglass has seen many

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celebrations through the years because Tony McCoy has won every

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major race in National Hunt racing. 16 times a champion and tomorrow,

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he hopes to add the Grand National to the Gold Cup he won last month

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on the same horse. I am joined by his two sisters. What chances to

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give your brother of this famous double which was last done 78 years

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ago? If the bookies or anything to go by, the chances are

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exceptionally good. History would say, probably not that good. We

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would be hopeful that they would get round in one piece. It is a

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huge task for the horse,... Clearly, the link to Moneyglass is

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breaking up. We will try to get back to them.

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At one point this afternoon it looked like tomorrow's Irish

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heavyweight fight between Martin Rogan and Tyson Fury might be off.

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Today's weigh in at the Old Titanic drawing room descended into chaos.

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The fight began as soon as the boxers stepped up the skills.

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Martin Rogan alleged he had been asked to sign a new contract there

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and then but he refused and stormed out. When the fight go ahead?

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are trying to force me to sign a contract. The Irish title, it is at

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10 round fight. It always has been a. This is a big international

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fight and is going to be made a 12 rounder. Martin Rogan is saying he

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will not box for the Irish title if it is for 12 rounds. Said and two

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years younger and over a stone heavier than his opponent, Tyson

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Fury is not concerned about how many rounds he has to fight. I am

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happy to put a masterclass in boxing display on and there are

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leaving the building so it shows how much pressure they added under.

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He will return but whether it will be for the Irish title remains

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unfinished business. Stephen was going to tell you that

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the semi-final of the Irish Cup, that is Newry and Linfield. The

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winner gets going to meet Crusaders. If you check the BBC sport website.

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We have a lot of dry weather to look forward to this weekend. There

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will be some pretty low temperatures and gardeners, please

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take note. We still have some lively show us around. Some of

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those showers still could have a little bit of a heel next end. This

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swing, that is not snow but ice from a hail shower earlier today.

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This action and there were some two further west. Most of the shares

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are starting to ease away now. Last night, temperatures fell very low.

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Tonight and the next night could be just as cold in some rural areas.

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We have the last of the rain easing away. Otherwise, fairly clear skies

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to come to mind. Temperatures could be a couple of degrees lower than

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you see on the map. Frosty nights will be a theme of the weather this

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weekend. Lots of layers required if you are going to be out and about

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because it will get cold at night time and first thing in the morning.

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A fair bit of sunshine to come tomorrow. There is the chance of

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Shah in the afternoon. -- being in the afternoon. The breeze will be

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quite noticeable as well. If you can stay out of the breeze and in

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the sunshine, that is how to enjoy the best of the day. Nice sunshine

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followed by clear skies tomorrow night. Then as we move into Sunday,

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it looks like it will be much lighter winds, some sunshine before

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the rain is back on Monday. A cold start for the memorial

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service on Sunday, you will need your coat!

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A reminder of the stories making the headlines: An elderly patient

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who contracted the bacterial infection wisteria has died at

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Antrim Hospital. Two other patients have also been diagnosed, one of

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them at the Causeway hospital in Coleraine.

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The in shops complex and Belfast's High Street is to close. It

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currently houses 50 shops and is due to close at the end of June.

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Connacht play Ulster in the pro 12 competition and there is live

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coverage on BBC Two tomorrow at 5pm will stop a late summary is at

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