20/08/2012 BBC Newsline

Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor.

The University of Ulster creates 100 new places for students

affected by its admissions blunder. The we make a mistake, we take

responsibility or that mistake. Tributes paid to the teenager

killed in a horse riding accident. A warning against taking

potentially deadly risks at level crossings.

It is a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a very laid back paragliding

pooch. And yet another week of changeable

weather coming up - I'll be back later to advise on which

accessories - wellies or suncream? The University of Ulster says it

had a moral obligation to create extra places for students who were

affected by the mistake in its admission system. Last week, the

university mistakenly sent 370 emails offering places on

engineering courses. It later withdrew the offers, but in a

welcome U-turn for some students it now says there will be up to 100

extra spaces. Chris Page has the details.

Just hours after the results envelopes were opened on Thursday,

the University of Ulster send e- mails offering scores of courses to

its Engineering Faculty. It apologised. Now it is going to

honour them after all. When people applied for university, some were

given a far more for us. Others are rejected outright. A third group

are told no decision will be made until after exam results. When

rates are published, the university decides how many get places. The

University of Ulster was said to have sent acceptance to everyone in

this group. Not told them would have been awarded a place. 370

emails went out. Some applicants applied for more than one course.

Some mothers will have chosen to study elsewhere. The university

will be taken on a maximum of 100 per us -- students. We are

incredibly delighted that the university has prioritised students.

On Friday, after we came out of the shambolic episode, if we said they

needed to make a swift decision. As things have transpired over the

weekend, they have taken what we think is the right decision. While

students with lower grades be able to court with their courses?

Although all we will not have been able to take on the students this

year, if I went back two or three years, we would have been taking

students at this level. Our staff are used to it taking -- teaching

these students. To help students, the university will introducing it

-- foundation year. This man got the erroneous e-mail. He had given

up hope of getting to university. Now he is very pleased to have a

place on the foundation course. is brilliant. I feel I have to do

it. All the students are going back. It is a good thing. They don't have

to do it. Applying for university can bring delight and

disappointment. For the students caught up in this situation, they

have had bigger rocks and downs than usual. The university says it

will take steps to make sure this never happens again.

Earlier I spoke to the man who runs the university and asked him how

they were going to cope with the extra students. We have on earth

does offer us. Before we made this decision, we considered lots of

options. We made a mistake. We take responsibility for that mistake. We

want to do the best for our students. You said you had a moral

obligation. Do you have a legal obligation to honour those of us?

For me, this is not a legal issue. This is about taking responsibility

if I did not take legal advice. If I consider it pitting myself and

the position of those students. What is the best for those

students? It is about making wrong and right decisions. In doing that,

if it is important we have the resources to teach these students.

All what is up to 100, they are not all on the same course. The costs

are spread out. I discussed on Saturday with their head of the

school, binary -- by changing the timetable, could we do it? What

sort of thing questions are you getting from the Department?

think the Department and the minister has been understanding. He

accepts that this has been a mistake. It has been a computer

glitch. These things happen. It is important to pick these things

right. He is understanding but we are working together to fix things.

Tributes have been paid to a 13- year-old girl from County Tyrone,

who was killed in a horse-riding accident on Friday. At her school,

Hannah Wylie has been described her as a much loved and popular student.

Teresa Craig reports. A bright young student who excel at

sport and was loved by everyone who knew her. The death of Hannah Wylie

has been described as a tragic loss. She was taking part in a

showjumping event when the accident happened on Friday evening. Those

who know or her family say they are trying to come to terms with her

death. They are devastated. They are trying to come to terms with

that sense of loss. I suppose we're coming to this stage where they are

grateful for the short time they had her. How dare has come as a

shock. She was especially under a will. She was very talented. She

had a top results in maths and science. Exceptional horsewoman. G

was a special young girl. equestrian centre declined to

comment but in a cot -- in a statement, the council... For the

council extended sympathies to the family.

Two of the police's most senior officers have made a personal

apology to the Mayor of Derry for a search on his house last month.

Officers raided the home of Sinn Fein's Kevin Campbell on the 12th

of July during an anti-terrorist operation. The police now say they

are sorry for the trauma and embarrassment caused to the mayor

and his family. I think we must accept that we got it wrong. What

we are trying to do is to try to rebuild what has been was letting

down the people of Derry. We will work even harder to make sure we

can start to rebuild the damage caused by this.

The Police are investigating a shooting in Coleraine. A 25-year-

old woman and an 18-year-old man were in a house at the Crescent

Estate in the early hours of this morning when three shots were fired.

They are said to be unhurt, but shaken by the ordeal. A motive for

the attack has yet to be established.

This is BBC Newsline and still to come on the programme...

The Giant's Causeway, transformed into a giant art project.

The daring dog as happy to go flying as walkies.

Next a reminder that if you don't abide by the rules when using level

railway crossings, you are putting your life and the lives of others

at risk. To demonstrate the dangers, a collision involving a train and

car was staged in County Antrim earlier today. Our reporter Julie

McCullough was there. This is what can happen when a

level crossing is not used properly. Staged for the cameras, this

motorist nudged his car on to the real rail track and was hit by a

train. If it is not something that happens often have but in the last

five years, there have been three death that similar kinds of

crossings. Today was a vital opportunity or the emergency

services to be prepared should such an incident happen again.

trained for all sorts of scenarios. If we can simulate this. This is

the real deal. This is a real train on a track. This is first class.

There are currently just over 130 private level crossings throughout

Northern Ireland. Unlike public level crossings, they do not have

likes or barriers. The responsibility is on the driver.

Even when there are like sand barriers in place Dickie the public

say it, if it is not always enough. Take a let -- take a look at this

man. You can see the oncoming train on the left side of the screen. He

took a chance to run across the tracks seconds before it went

through the crossing. We have had a number of near misses. You can see

10 of those incidents every month. We do see it because we have CCTV

at these crossings. We see cars jumping red light sand jumping the

barriers. The penalties are steep F you do it nor the safety advice.

Not only can you be seriously injured or killed, but you could

end up in the courts. Last year, Does it make a difference when the

flags are erected in the name of art? Hans Peter Kuhn is behind a

giant art project near the Giant's Causeway which consists of 140

yellow and red flags, across Port Noffer bay. It is part of the

cultural Olympiad, linked to the London games. We went to look and

to get the views of some visitors. It is impossible to miss such is

the scale of this work. The project called simply Flags attempts to

give visitors a new experience within this landscape. The squares

which rotate are placed at random in the bay, beside the famous

stones. If I do something here, it has to do with nature, and so I

came one the flags which are reacting to the wind. -- came up.

The unpredictability with nature, where the wind goes. It is bold but

some have questioned if it could have a negative impact on this

protected environment The first people we met with was the

Environment Agency and the natural trust. We have considered nesting

seasons, all environmental impact assessments and everybody has been

all over this, to try and make it happen, because for everybody what

it allows is unus to engage in a different way. It cost �150,000.

Half provided by the London 2012 festival. The other half by the

Tourist Board. We are working with international artists and

showcasing what we have here to a global audience b, and giving

people new reasons to come and visit and to inspire them. So are

they inspired? I don't really know what it is supposed to tell me

about this. It fits into the landscape here? I do it like it.

thought they were some kind of signs saying keep off because it

was dangerous. It would have been better if there had been ten times

as many and up for two weeks so it had a bigger impact. It is like a

bit of Germany here, what do you make of it? That is not Germany at

all. Sorry, but at first we don't have landscapes like that, I think

just in the south regions and then we don't do, we put, don't put

yellow and red flags, that doesn't fit Germany. It is in the mind of

the artist. Nothing Germany. Modern art has a tendency to divide

opinion and this is no different. It is only here temporarily. Come

the start of November this landscape will return to its

natural state. Everyone had an opinion. Work is going on to clear

one of Bangor's largest derelict eyesore, the site of a former young

offender centre had been left untouched for year, and has been a

magnet for anti-social behaviour. We have this report. No-one locally

at rath gale it is finally being torn to the ground. This 65 acre

site has been blighted by problems. It has theft, vandalism, anti-

social behaviour, and dozens of deliberate fires. I think it is

something that will be welcomed. It will come as a relief to residents

as we have seen the site become a dumping ground and a magnet for

anti-social behaviour. Government sold to land to a

private developer in 2007, for reported �65 million. But plans for

850 new homes collapsed with the property crash and an outstanding

loan was tran -- transferred to the asset management age circumstances

so year of neglect the council ordered the company responsible for

the land, to address the the condition of the buildings. I think

the situation here has been hampered by some of the problems

with ownership, and the fact that this has been private land. It has

not been Government land for the last five years that has meant the

Department of Justice have a limited role they can play.

Councils are exercising their powers to force developers or banks

to clean under light or unsafe sites and buildings. The work is

due to be completed in the next three months. It may not have been

a great summer so far for camping but more and more young people are

spending a night under the canvas with the scouts. Record numbers of

teenagers have been joining up, and to reflect the popularity at the

weekend, a new �3 million campsite, on the Fermanagh-Cavan border was

opened by the Irish President. We have this report. Somewhere new for

scouts to pitch their tents. This is a magnificent estate of forests

and lakes on the Fermanagh-Cavan border. Once the grand home of the

Sandersons, including the man who founded the Ulster Unionist Party,

the castle now lies in ruins. After years of planning and setbacks,

including the builder going bust two years ago, at last on Saturday,

the international campsite was ready for a Presidential opening.

Although the President hadn't quite got the hang of the left handed

scout handshake. We have a 43 acre site, in normal terms it will camp

close on 1,000. For the jam bow re- type camp up to 2,000. It has a

fantastic facility,, it has a shelter where you could hold a

meeting. The scouts are impressed with the new site. I think the

scenery is beautiful. There is loads of space to do different

things. I think there has, it has a fantastic feel, lots of space.

is great the way it is in a big forest. There is loads of adventure

to do. If you thought today's young people prefer to spend life in

front of the telly think again. have record numbers of teenagers,

boys and girls, 13, 14, and 15, you would normally think would want to

be joining scouting, we have them joining in record number, a 25%

growth over the last couple of years, that is because we are able

to provided a venture rows activities, getting them out in

canoes and into the mountains and getting them out and doing

adventure. The site is one of scouting's five peace centres so as

well as bringing together young people from across Ireland, it is

hoped some of the 30 million scouts from round the world will also come

here. I was a Brownie and guide, what were you? BV. Gavin is here to

talk about football. There is an unusual look at the top of the

table. The newest club is setting the pace. Who is that?

Ballinamallard United. The new boys are in the Premiership for the

first time and already have made their mark, a McCartney hat-trick

in a 5-0 win was a big story on a weekend when all the other clubs

could only manage a point. Admission was free to the club was

those coming from Fermanagh would have paid. Ballinamallard United

have hit the ground running and demolished distillery to go top.

The home side's frustrations boiled over and Simpson was given a

straight red card for getting involved in this incident in the

second half. Then, the the floodgates opened. Jason McCartney

played a starring roesm he set up one goal and completed the first

hat-trick of the season. They have settled into life in the top flight.

We expected a tough game, so we know we have to play our best every

game to get points. Maybe they didn't play up to the way they can,

and we are going to play 100% no matter what, so maybe we got off

one, but you can't take away what we did. Portadown are second in the

table but it took a late equaliser to salvage a point at Donegal

Celtic courtesy of Gary Breen. Glentoran took the lead. Glenavon

bounced back. Matty Burrows volley worthy of a point. The come back of

the day came at Dungannon Swifts. Cliftonville took the lead through

an own goal. Then at the other end Steven O'Neill produced an early

contender for goal of the the season. It was scoreless in the

other two matches, Gary Thompson squandered the best chance of the

game when Ballymena visit ed. As for the Blues they have been off

colour. They are second from bottom -- Linfield are second from bottom.

And there is more from the weekend's games on Final Score 2.

It can be found on the website. On to rugby and the Rabo Direct Pro

kicks off. Ulster were back at Ravenhill for their latest warm-up

game and held Leicester Tigers to a draw. What a crucial time to bring

on a replacement. When that replacement is an All Black it is a

chance worth taking. The referee has given a penalty try. If all of

the coach'sicals pay off like this, Ulster could be in for quite a

season. While the home side was missing many of its mar quay

neckaches Leicester brought many internationals. It looked as if

their experience would tell. Two tries in quick succession put the

English Premiership side in control. That is a try. It looks like it is

Waldron. But in the closing stages Ulster carved out an opening for

Chris Cochrane to burst through the defence and level the scores.

a score. Chris Cochrane. We had a lot of young guys out there, the

second half, the last quarter of an hour, the back-line, they were only

at school two years ago, the way they handle it, they nearly got a

winning try at the end. It is something to be proud of,

encouraging we are getting that sort of thing. Mark has come in and

likes to train us hard. I think it has paid off. He is very

experienced. The guys listen to him and take it on. Ulster's final warm

up against is against the Newcastle Falcons on Friday. Then the hard

work begins in earnest with the The first game is at home to

Glasgow Warriors Friday week live on BBC Two. I don't have a dog but

you have two or three? Two regularly walk them?. I open the

back door and they run out and if that counts. Last Friday walkies

took on a new meaning. One man and a dog, well they were seen

paragliding down a mountain. Believe it or not it was Slieve

Donard. We met one the flying duo. Want to go flying? Harry barks with

excitement at the prospect of another flight. After a brief test

run, the ten-year-old collie cross took to the skies above Newcastle

for the first time last week. Paragliding in tandem with his

owner. What do you think Harry? Harry's first flight! We walked up

Slieve Donard, it was a bit of a test flight. Got him hooked in, off

we went. He looked very relaxed. At the beginning he thought it was

strange to be sitting on my knee. He never gets on my knee at home in

the house, he just sort of relaxed quickly and kept looking round. And

by the time we got over Newcastle he was looking down. I think he may

have seen cars and thought maybe they were flies or bees, he doesn't

like bees, birds or flies. You can see him turning his head watching,

following something on the ground. He was relaxed and he never made a

sound. Even when I landed he sat down on the beach and waited until

I unhooked him and away he went. Pilot and pet are just waiting for

the right weather conditions until they their next flight. Until then

it is six feet firmly on the ground. The dog seemed happy enough. I

don't know about that. His tail wagged at the end when he got out.

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weather. Thank you. Interesting weather coming up. There is a big

area of low pressure in the Atlantic. It probably will have

tropical air mixed in. It could bring some heavy rain and high wind

before the end of the week. In the meantime, we have had a bit of a

mix today, sunshine and showers. If you live in Armagh, County Down you

probably didn't see too many. That is because the heaviest ones were

over North Antrim. A lot of places now are dry. This is how Portrush

looked a couple of hours ago. There is a rainbow in the background and

further south, lovely sunny skies. So for a lot of places it is a fine

evening and it will stay dry. Quite clear. Possibly just a bit fresher

compared to recent nights but mild, with temperatures in double figure,

so a dry night means a dry start tomorrow. Unlike today, when the

showers were well scattered, tomorrow they will be frequent. It

is much less likely you will get away without any rain tomorrow. But

initially, when you set off to work it will be dry in a lot of places.

Mid-morning though, our weather warning kicks in. We are expecting

possibly ten to 15 mill meeters of rain. That is half an inch falling

in a short space of time. That could lead to localised flooding.

The greens and yellow are representing the heavy thundery

downpours. Not necessarily in these places, but they will be frequent

ones round and because of more cloud, it means that temperatures

will be that bit lower. They continue right through to the end

of the day and into the early evening. There will be some soggy

ground round, so perhaps an evening for the wellies. It will ease away

tomorrow night and we will have a break on Wednesday. One or two