:00:05. > :00:07.Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline. A child remains in a
:00:07. > :00:12.critical condition in hospital after being burned during an
:00:12. > :00:19.incident in Ballymena. The boy, who is believed to be four years old,
:00:19. > :00:22.was found on the Larne Road yesterday. It's understood his
:00:22. > :00:26.clothes may have caught fire from a candle at his home in the
:00:26. > :00:29.Harryville area of the town. A woman tried to help the child by
:00:29. > :00:32.beating out the flames with her bare hands. She was also taken to
:00:32. > :00:34.hospital for treatment for burns injuries. The boy was brought to
:00:34. > :00:38.Antrim Area Hospital, but he was later transferred to the Royal
:00:38. > :00:41.Victoria Hospital in Belfast. There were noisy scenes when three
:00:41. > :00:44.men and a woman were brought to court in Ballymena on charges
:00:44. > :00:47.arising from an attempted murder in Portrush early yesterday morning. A
:00:47. > :00:50.relative of one of the accused was warned by the magistrate to treat
:00:50. > :00:58.the court with respect after shouting out from the public
:00:58. > :01:03.gallery. Mervyn Jess reports from Ballymena.
:01:03. > :01:09.The commotion began when the defendants were brought to
:01:09. > :01:12.Ballymena court this morning. The magistrate had -- could hear
:01:12. > :01:18.shouting and banging on the walls. The magistrate asked what the
:01:18. > :01:24.commotion was about and was told by a defence lawyer that much of it
:01:24. > :01:29.was directed to his client, the female defendant. Shannon Bryant,
:01:29. > :01:39.15, was charged with having cocaine, incitement to murder and assisting
:01:39. > :01:40.
:01:40. > :01:44.offenders. She was released with an electronic tag any fine of �500. A
:01:44. > :01:49.ten-year-old Nathan hearken from Portrush who was charged with
:01:49. > :01:55.attempted murder was also at least on bail with similar restrictions.
:01:55. > :02:00.The other two defendants from Portrush were remanded in custody.
:02:00. > :02:04.One was charged with attempted murder, having an offensive weapon
:02:04. > :02:08.and making death threats, Arthur Hunt son was also accused of
:02:08. > :02:11.attempted murder. The defendants spoken only to acknowledge they
:02:11. > :02:17.understood what was being said to them. As one was being taken from
:02:17. > :02:23.the dock, his brother shouted to him from the public gallery, he was
:02:23. > :02:33.rebuked from the magistrate, he said had enough disruption. He said
:02:33. > :02:35.he was in a corporate, not a public bar. -- court room.
:02:35. > :02:39.Jim Allister has launched a scathing attack on the Deputy First
:02:39. > :02:41.Minister. Addressing his party's annual conference in Cookstown, the
:02:41. > :02:44.TUV leader called Sinn Fein hypocrites over their attitude to
:02:44. > :02:54.IRA dissidents and branded Martin McGuinness the personification of
:02:54. > :02:55.
:02:55. > :03:05.evil. This province is stained with
:03:05. > :03:06.
:03:06. > :03:14.innocent blood, and those to shed it, those who planned it and those
:03:14. > :03:20.who endorsed it. They rule over us. It is that evil, at the heart of
:03:20. > :03:25.government, and make no mistake about it, there is evil at the
:03:25. > :03:28.heart of the Stormont government! The BBC's annual Children in Need
:03:28. > :03:33.show in Northern Ireland has raised almost �800,000. Across the UK, the
:03:33. > :03:38.charity raised a record on-the- night total of nearly �26.8 million.
:03:38. > :03:40.The total here is one of the largest in recent years. A combined
:03:40. > :03:49.choir of pupils from local schools joined 2,000 others from throughout
:03:49. > :03:52.the UK in a live rendition of 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'.
:03:52. > :03:56.The highlight for me in Northern Ireland where the choir, who were
:03:56. > :03:59.magnificent, the best bit was that there were so many fund raisers
:04:00. > :04:09.coming into the BBC all day, children all day, fundraisers all
:04:10. > :04:13.
:04:13. > :04:18.evening, we got so much support, a It has been a cold day and we're
:04:18. > :04:23.expecting a cold at night, the globe behind the giving away the
:04:23. > :04:29.frost, that will be on the cards, it will be quite icy and places,
:04:29. > :04:34.particularly in the western counties. The showers will continue
:04:35. > :04:44.through the night but will gradually fail -- fade away.
:04:45. > :04:45.
:04:45. > :04:51.Temperatures will drop to minus tier degrees. Plenty of dry weather
:04:51. > :04:56.to come. Maybe icy in places, through it Sunday morning, bear
:04:56. > :05:01.that in mind. The frost will lift as the sun gets to work, plenty of
:05:01. > :05:05.sunshine through the morning, it will feel cold, wrap up warm, if
:05:05. > :05:15.you are headed out for a Sunday stroll. The sunshine will continue
:05:15. > :05:16.
:05:16. > :05:25.into the afternoon. Cloud and rain will pile in from the Atlantic,
:05:26. > :05:31.that is where our next weather system is coming from. On Sunday
:05:31. > :05:35.night, there will be rain and windy weather, it will also mean a return
:05:35. > :05:39.to a milder conditions for next week. The sunshine continues
:05:39. > :05:47.initially on Sunday afternoon, consider towards dusk, it has
:05:47. > :05:53.clouded over. The wet weather will become widespread tomorrow night.
:05:53. > :05:58.Lots of wet-weather. Localised flooding is possible. Quite a noisy
:05:58. > :06:06.night, with the strong wind. Frost- free. Monday morning will not be
:06:06. > :06:10.nice, wet and windy, it put dry up through the second half of the day.
:06:10. > :06:20.A poor start to the week. Sunshine and showers through Tuesday and
:06:20. > :06:22.