:00:31. > :00:37.Newsline: over 200 new jobs at a big pharmaceutical company. The pop-up
:00:37. > :00:41.prison ready for use if G8 protests turn violent.
:00:41. > :00:42.Another critical report into performance at the Northern health
:00:42. > :00:45.trust. Graeme McDowell tells us how the
:00:45. > :00:49.rain in Philadelphia could help him regain the US Open title.
:00:49. > :00:55.And the rain is back with a very big splash tonight but there is some dry
:00:55. > :00:58.weather to be had tomorrow. I'll be back shortly with the full forecast.
:00:58. > :01:02.One of Northern Ireland's top companies has announced the creation
:01:02. > :01:07.of 229 jobs. Almac, the pharmaceuticals manufacturer, is
:01:07. > :01:17.based in Craigavon. It's spending �14 million on two big expansion
:01:17. > :01:24.
:01:24. > :01:30.projects. Almac is a local success story, a
:01:30. > :01:38.kind of pinup poster for the northern island economy. All the
:01:38. > :01:45.right boxes ticked. It gives me great pleasure, the fact it is a
:01:45. > :01:49.local company, but also a company exporting globally. This is a very
:01:49. > :01:57.good news story. It is a mixture of jobs, for graduates and
:01:57. > :02:03.non-graduates. This is part of the business which is expanding,
:02:03. > :02:10.production of a laxative drug is being stepped up. Almac has 600
:02:10. > :02:15.planned companies. The vast majority of our sales are outside the UK.
:02:15. > :02:20.really see our main market is being Europe, the US and the rest of the
:02:20. > :02:25.world. Other jobs included are in a newly opened product development
:02:25. > :02:31.facility. One third of these jobs are in fact in place. They are part
:02:31. > :02:37.of a 2000 strong workforce here. The company also has a facility in the
:02:37. > :02:44.United States which employs 1000. Despite Almac making a �40 million
:02:44. > :02:52.profit last year, invest is helping this expansion. Why does a company
:02:52. > :02:56.of this profile needs help? Because we make things happen. In terms of
:02:56. > :03:00.projects and the scale of the project. Sometimes, it is in terms
:03:00. > :03:05.of how quickly it can be implemented. The amount of money we
:03:05. > :03:12.need to put in here was needed to make this project happen. There has
:03:12. > :03:17.been a steady stream of job announcements in late. The economy
:03:17. > :03:19.has seen slight growth but is still struggling outside the gates of
:03:19. > :03:22.Almac. Four companies, whose names were
:03:22. > :03:26.linked to an overpayment scandal in Housing Executive contracts, have
:03:27. > :03:34.rejected any wrongdoing. The Social Development Minister Nelson
:03:34. > :03:37.McCausland said some �18 million had been overpaid to them. But in a
:03:37. > :03:44.joint statement, the companies say they are "upset and dismayed by the
:03:44. > :03:50.allegations" and will mount a challenge. They describe them as
:03:50. > :03:53."outrageous" and very damaging to their reputation and business.
:03:53. > :03:58.The G8 summit in County Fermanagh may be less than a week away but
:03:58. > :04:00.protests have already begun in London. More than 30 people have
:04:00. > :04:05.been arrested for a range of offences, including violent
:04:05. > :04:08.disorder. The trouble began after the police surrounded a building in
:04:08. > :04:14.Soho where a group called Stop G8 were holding what they called a
:04:14. > :04:17.Carnival Against Capitalism. Our home affairs correspondent Vincent
:04:17. > :04:22.Kearney has been looking at the preparations to deal with any
:04:22. > :04:28.violent protests here. In place will be a pop-up prison, special courts
:04:28. > :04:34.and a fleet of prison vans brought over from England. All of that means
:04:34. > :04:36.the police can deal with up to 260 arrests a day if needed. BBC
:04:36. > :04:46.Newsline was given exclusive access to a temporary custody centre in
:04:46. > :04:46.
:04:46. > :04:51.Omagh. Prepared for the worst: Six
:04:51. > :05:00.temporary cell blocks have been built on the side of a former Army
:05:00. > :05:05.base. Each can hold 16. This is where anyone arrested will be
:05:05. > :05:09.brought. After having their details taken and being questioned and
:05:09. > :05:14.fingerprinted, suspects will be taken to one of the cells. They will
:05:14. > :05:18.be held there by staff from the Public prosecution service and
:05:18. > :05:24.police officers to get them into court as quickly as possible. What
:05:24. > :05:28.this will enable us to do is have a detained person process, interviewed
:05:28. > :05:35.if required, charged and peer before the court in a very short period of
:05:35. > :05:41.time. There is capacity to cope with many more arrests if there is any
:05:41. > :05:47.serious trouble. There are also 50 cells at this police station in
:05:47. > :05:54.Belfast, but the PSI hopes they will not be needed. In a worst-case
:05:54. > :06:02.scenario, we could processed up to 260 detained persons. But that is
:06:02. > :06:09.the worst-case scenario and those plans can scaled back. 16 judges are
:06:09. > :06:14.on stand-by to preside over special court sittings. The prison service
:06:14. > :06:18.is also prepared for the worst. A fleet of prison vans and additional
:06:18. > :06:23.officers have been brought in from England and hundreds of cells have
:06:23. > :06:29.been set aside to hold protesters charged with criminal offences. The
:06:29. > :06:33.vans will be based here and then deployed if needed to take arrested
:06:33. > :06:37.protesters from custody centres to court and then from court to prison
:06:37. > :06:46.if they are remanded in custody while awaiting trial. Local trade
:06:46. > :06:51.unions unveiled Art of their G8 plans. Afterwards, the police were
:06:51. > :06:59.accused of overstating the threat of violence to put people of taking
:06:59. > :07:07.part in peaceful protests. One might be forgiven to think that we are
:07:07. > :07:11.being reduced. Non-violent protests is essential. The PS and I says it
:07:11. > :07:15.respects the right to peaceful protest and will facilitate those
:07:15. > :07:17.who wish to take part but it says resources and plans are in place to
:07:17. > :07:21.deal with anyone who turns to violence.
:07:21. > :07:24.The Northern Health Trust is no stranger to bad news. Covering an
:07:24. > :07:29.area from Antrim to Coleraine and with major hospitals in each
:07:29. > :07:34.location, it's been the subject of much criticism. Today there was more
:07:34. > :07:39.in the shape of yet another review. It says the Trust's in a poor
:07:39. > :07:43.position and requires intensive support to improve. The review team,
:07:43. > :07:45.brought in from England last year, has made several recommendations.
:07:45. > :07:55.Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly can tell us
:07:55. > :07:55.
:07:55. > :08:00.more. Yet another review. What's different about this one? It feels
:08:00. > :08:09.like Groundhog Day. There have been several reviews into this
:08:09. > :08:14.beleaguered trust. Following that, we had the chairman being sacked by
:08:14. > :08:19.the Health Minister before Christmas, and later, the chief
:08:19. > :08:25.executive stepped aside. It has been turmoil. Why should this one make
:08:25. > :08:30.any sort of difference? Well, it's not being rushed like the others.
:08:30. > :08:36.Instead of making changes very quickly, they are suggesting they go
:08:36. > :08:41.in in stages. It will happen in three stages, firstly in Antrim, the
:08:41. > :08:46.causeway and out in the community. Instead of running a marathon, those
:08:46. > :08:53.who have been charged with leading this changed will be running more
:08:53. > :08:58.like five and ten K runs, doing it very short term because they cannot
:08:58. > :09:04.get this one wrong. To directors have been so Condit to lead that.
:09:04. > :09:09.Some say that as a poisoned chalice. At least with Mary, the woman
:09:09. > :09:14.charged with leading this changed, her chalice will always be half
:09:14. > :09:19.full. She is a very positive person. This is what this trust needs at the
:09:19. > :09:24.moment. That will make a difference. She isn't new to the trust,
:09:24. > :09:28.however. She has been their 18 months so is very familiar with what
:09:28. > :09:38.needs to be done and she will not be afforded the time to make any
:09:38. > :09:40.
:09:40. > :09:43.mistakes. She said, among her priorities, is to support staff.
:09:43. > :09:46.focus is on the future, on everybody in this organisation working in the
:09:46. > :09:52.interests of patient care. You mattered to patients and we care
:09:52. > :09:57.about you and we will help you do your job even better than before.
:09:57. > :10:00.She described herself as an old-fashioned girl. Staff will be
:10:00. > :10:03.wanting to see some old-fashioned practices such as empowering nurses
:10:03. > :10:06.back on the wards. You're watching BBC Newsline. Still
:10:06. > :10:13.to come on the programme: We hear about a claim that the Government
:10:13. > :10:16.tried to bury the truth about the real dangers of rubber bullets.
:10:16. > :10:19.Two Belfast brothers, who got a heavily-reduced prison sentence for
:10:19. > :10:26.agreeing to give evidence in a UVF murder trial, will NOT be sent back
:10:26. > :10:30.to jail, even though they lied in court. No action will be taken
:10:30. > :10:32.against Robert and Ian Stewart by the Public Prosecution Service. But
:10:32. > :10:42.another so-called loyalist "supergrass" Neil Hyde is being sent
:10:42. > :10:45.
:10:45. > :10:49.back to court. They got out of jail early after
:10:49. > :10:54.promising to tell the truth, but even though Robert and Ian Stewart
:10:54. > :10:59.lied in court, they would be going back to prison. The brothers were
:10:59. > :11:03.involved in the UVF killing of Tommy English 13 years ago. The brothers
:11:04. > :11:09.later handed themselves into the police and offered to give evidence
:11:09. > :11:14.against nine other men they said were involved. In return, Robert
:11:15. > :11:19.Stewart and his brother served only three years of a 22 year sentence.
:11:19. > :11:25.The so-called supergrass trial more than �11 million, but all the men
:11:25. > :11:29.accused of murder were found not guilty. When the Public prosecution
:11:29. > :11:33.service examined the case, they found seven different occasions on
:11:33. > :11:38.which the brothers lied, but today, they announced the lies were not
:11:38. > :11:42.serious enough to send them back to court. The relevance of the lies in
:11:42. > :11:46.the context of the case as a whole, particularly because they did not
:11:46. > :11:51.implicate anybody in crime, would not have led to the conviction of
:11:52. > :12:01.any of the accused in the trial. that reason, I find that very
:12:02. > :12:10.
:12:10. > :12:12.persuasive. The trial which the brothers gave evidence lasted three
:12:12. > :12:15.months. It took the Public prosecution service more than a year
:12:15. > :12:17.to decide whether to take any action against them. The PPS also announced
:12:17. > :12:19.their decision on a different case, that of another so-called
:12:19. > :12:22.supergrass. He admitted his part in the killing of a Sunday world
:12:22. > :12:27.reporter and agreed to give information about others in return
:12:27. > :12:31.for a reduced sentence. But now the authorities are sending him back to
:12:31. > :12:36.court. After his sentencing hearing, material was made available
:12:36. > :12:41.to us which has led us to the belief that he was not telling us the full
:12:41. > :12:46.truth. I need to be very careful what I say here because this is now
:12:46. > :12:54.the subject of a court process. Hyde is expected back in court later this
:12:54. > :12:58.year. Last summer, a new parading flashpoint emerged at a Catholic
:12:58. > :13:00.Church in Belfast. With just over a month to go until the Twelfth, the
:13:00. > :13:04.Orange Order has published a plan aimed at easing tensions around
:13:04. > :13:07.parades which pass St Patrick's Church in Donegall Street.
:13:07. > :13:17.Nationalists say the next step must be dialogue with residents. Chris
:13:17. > :13:19.
:13:19. > :13:26.Page reports. August last year and please try to deal with Northern
:13:26. > :13:33.Ireland's biggest headache dispute. Seven police officers were heart"
:13:33. > :13:42.she is whether nationalist residents after the date went through. --
:13:42. > :13:51.after the parade went through. In July as Sinn Fein member filmed the
:13:51. > :13:58.band circling outside the church, playing a circadian song. The Orange
:13:58. > :14:03.order has now made a move which it says is a sign of goodwill. We are
:14:04. > :14:08.trying to break out of the recrimination of broken
:14:08. > :14:13.determination and that will get us over to the next key and the all
:14:13. > :14:22.thing repeats itself. We are trying to delete that cycle and get some
:14:22. > :14:31.stability. The Orange order has given some commitments. It says no
:14:31. > :14:40.parades. Outside and Patrick's church. The bands will play him is
:14:40. > :14:45.only and supporters will walk on the other side of the street. Sinn Fein
:14:45. > :14:50.has given this reaction. There may be good points in this. Appealing
:14:50. > :14:56.Fortran is a good point but talking to local groups is what will sort
:14:56. > :15:04.this out. And this representative group of local nationalists say it
:15:04. > :15:11.is up to the loyal orders to convince them not to view the league
:15:11. > :15:15.is as sick TV in. All sides say they are hopeful this summer can be
:15:15. > :15:18.peaceful and that violence is not inevitable. Next there's been what
:15:18. > :15:22.is being seen as a major breakthrough in the ambitious plan
:15:22. > :15:32.to create a shared school campus in Omagh at a former army barracks. Our
:15:32. > :15:40.education correspondent Maggie Taggart has more on this. Unexpected
:15:41. > :15:46.news today. Yes because this school we are talking about has always set
:15:46. > :15:52.its mind against going to this. It was so incensed at not being given a
:15:52. > :15:58.new �50 million school that it took them to court for a judicial review
:15:58. > :16:06.and the judge voted in favour. Then it says it will be actively
:16:06. > :16:10.participating in plans and hopefully leading the plans. Why the change?
:16:10. > :16:16.He would rather have a school. seems there is no upper show in
:16:16. > :16:21.town. There have been talks with the trustees, board of governors and
:16:21. > :16:25.Department of education and there have been assurances on retaining
:16:25. > :16:31.its own ethos. It also says the changes in education planning might
:16:31. > :16:38.mean that the original site is not big enough. It has also requested a
:16:38. > :16:46.payback of �1 million to do remedial works, health and safety linked, on
:16:46. > :16:56.its own school in the meantime. important is its inclusion in this
:16:56. > :17:03.shared plan? It is essential. It is one of six and it has been healed as
:17:03. > :17:13.a milestone. The government say they should be no problem with that and
:17:13. > :17:16.the first stage is due to be in place by March 2013. Thank you for
:17:16. > :17:22.that update. Still to come before seven: We check out familiar weather
:17:23. > :17:25.for our golfers preparing for the US Open in Pennsylvannia. A human
:17:25. > :17:28.rights campaigner, blinded by a rubber bullet during the Troubles,
:17:28. > :17:33.says he believes the Government tried to bury the truth about the
:17:33. > :17:38.potential dangers of the weapon. The claim came after the Pat Finucane
:17:38. > :17:42.Centre unearthed documents. Richard Moore from Londonderry was struck by
:17:42. > :17:45.a rubber bullet while going home from primary school. The Ministry of
:17:45. > :17:55.Defence said it regretted his injuries and that lessons had been
:17:55. > :18:14.
:18:14. > :18:19.learned. Keiron Tourish reports. Apologies, it seems as if we have
:18:19. > :18:24.lost the sound on that report. We will try to get it later in the
:18:24. > :18:29.programme. The weather in just a few minutes but before that we have
:18:29. > :18:39.sport and it's not just here that our weather has taken a turn for the
:18:39. > :18:41.
:18:41. > :18:47.worst. Also in the United States. Our reporter is you to explain. --
:18:47. > :18:50.our reporter is here to explain. Torrential rainfall has disrupted
:18:50. > :18:54.preparations for golf's US Open which starts on Thursday. The Merion
:18:54. > :18:57.Golf Club, west of Philadelphia has had three inches of rain on what was
:18:57. > :19:05.supposed to be a practice day. But the weather hasn't put off one
:19:05. > :19:10.Northern Ireland golfer as Stephen Watson reports. Record brain in
:19:10. > :19:14.Philadelphia produced a washout on day one. There were many unwelcome
:19:14. > :19:21.water features flowing down the middle of the manicured fairways.
:19:21. > :19:30.But leaving the elements was this man, the Portrush golf is no
:19:30. > :19:36.stranger to bad weather and he was the last golfer out on the course.
:19:36. > :19:40.Mother nature is not really Kuopio and right now. You can see behind me
:19:40. > :19:47.the flooding and how wet the golf course is going to be. Logistically
:19:47. > :19:52.getting there is around and on and off the golf course is why the
:19:52. > :19:55.practice round last Wednesday is worth its weight in gold. They will
:19:55. > :20:00.be running around trying to get a look at this golf course now which
:20:01. > :20:08.is going to be saturated. Thankfully I am able to bank that practice
:20:08. > :20:16.round. He might be tiptoeing through the mud but he arrives in a rich
:20:16. > :20:22.bean of form. To tournament wins this season and three in the last
:20:22. > :20:32.six months makes him one of the favourites to land the title this
:20:32. > :20:32.
:20:32. > :20:37.week. Yes the season has gone nicely and I am playing well. My US open
:20:37. > :20:42.form has been solid the last couple of years but did at 150 guys out
:20:42. > :20:48.here trying to do the same thing. When the gun goes off I will be as
:20:49. > :20:57.ready as any of them but we will do our best. Organisers are working
:20:57. > :21:06.hard to make sure this course is ready and thankfully the walk up to
:21:06. > :21:12.sunshine today. With Roni Mackle Roy's victory in 2011, expectations
:21:12. > :21:21.are high for some more Northern Ireland major success. -- broadly
:21:21. > :21:25.Mackle Roy. Maureen is forecast for tomorrow afternoon. So we will see.
:21:25. > :21:28.With 11 days to go before the first test against Australia, the British
:21:28. > :21:30.and Irish Lions continued their tour with a warm-up game against a
:21:30. > :21:39.combined country VX. The match was high-scoring. Thomas Kane was
:21:39. > :21:44.keeping count. This had been expected to be a last glimpse of
:21:44. > :21:51.some test starters before the showdown with the Wallabies. They
:21:51. > :21:55.seemed to show little mercy against their opponents. The two lists
:21:55. > :21:59.seemed to manage almost one point para minute during the first half.
:21:59. > :22:04.The captain of the day showed glimpses of billions as he played
:22:04. > :22:10.the full 80 minutes and weighed in with a try of his own. While their
:22:10. > :22:18.opponents battle briefly the class between the sides was obvious as the
:22:18. > :22:24.scoreboard continued to take over. Driscoll played a big part in the
:22:24. > :22:29.final try, the 10th of the match for the Lions. He is said to be wrapped
:22:29. > :22:35.in cotton wool before Warren Gatland's side take on Australia.
:22:35. > :22:38.Their final warmup game is on Tuesday. Matt McGovern and Ryan
:22:38. > :22:42.Seaton, the Irish sailing pair we featured recently here on BBC
:22:42. > :22:46.Newsline, have had a brilliant day in Weymouth. On the Olympic course
:22:46. > :22:52.in the 49er class, they were placed second, first, second and third in
:22:52. > :22:57.today's four races. That moves them up to move up to second place
:22:57. > :23:04.overall in the fleet at the Sail For Gold regatta. Racing finishes on
:23:04. > :23:10.Thursday. Former Carrick Rangers boss Kenny Shiels has left the
:23:10. > :23:15.Scottish side Kilmarnock by mutual consent. He was dismissed as manager
:23:15. > :23:17.after the club finished ninth in the SPL last season. A four-match ban
:23:17. > :23:27.for outspoken media comments, two suspended, was also taken into
:23:27. > :23:30.
:23:30. > :23:33.consideration. Fans have gathered outside Rugby Park in protest.
:23:33. > :23:36.Finally, the Belfast Giants made a big signing today. Evan Cheverie,
:23:36. > :23:41.the Canadian forward who scored the penalty that won the play-off final
:23:42. > :23:48.in 2010, is coming back to the Odyssey for next season. We have
:23:48. > :23:53.just learned they'd is a new chief executive of Northern Ireland. It is
:23:53. > :24:01.the first woman to read the agency for the development of sport in this
:24:01. > :24:06.part of the world. Thank you for that. We saw the dreadful weather
:24:06. > :24:11.they are having a head of the U.S. Open. Our weather has taken a turn
:24:11. > :24:15.for the worst. We had all that lovely sunshine for the last week or
:24:15. > :24:23.so and now we have got the rain, what is actually our usual summer
:24:23. > :24:28.weather? Some people would say normal service has resumed! When I
:24:28. > :24:34.was out at lunchtime today it was a different ban it, people had their
:24:35. > :24:44.arms covered, some with green courts. Temperatures are about
:24:45. > :24:52.
:24:53. > :24:57.normal? -- some covered with green courts. -- raincoats. The rain that
:24:57. > :25:02.has been affecting the US open is down to a tropical storm. We can
:25:02. > :25:08.blame the Atlantic on what is coming our way through the rest of this
:25:08. > :25:12.week. I am going to start with the big Atlantic chart which shows
:25:12. > :25:18.several areas of low pressure coming out of the United States heading
:25:18. > :25:24.along the jet stream and running up towards Ireland. We have been
:25:24. > :25:28.developing this afternoon which is coming our way through this evening.
:25:28. > :25:33.Heading out tonight, be prepared for some very wet weather, some sudden
:25:33. > :25:40.worst of rain and wind which could be blustery in places towards
:25:40. > :25:45.midnight. It will dry up by the early hours. Just a few drips of
:25:45. > :25:48.rain around the coast. Some feelings guys moving into the west by the end
:25:48. > :25:53.of the night and some brightness around tomorrow morning with a few
:25:54. > :25:58.bright spells out the second half of the day will become increasingly wet
:25:58. > :26:03.from the south. If you are doing something outside tomorrow to attend
:26:03. > :26:13.the morning. There will be some sunshine around. It looks like we
:26:13. > :26:14.
:26:14. > :26:19.will have a north-west /Southeast split during the afternoon. Up to
:26:19. > :26:29.the North there will be sunshine until well into the afternoon but
:26:29. > :26:34.
:26:35. > :26:39.much cloudier skies towards Down and Ahmad. -- County Armagh. As we moved
:26:39. > :26:45.into Thursday a cloudy and damp start with the overnight rain still
:26:45. > :26:49.hanging around. It will brighten up with some sunshine in the afternoon.
:26:49. > :26:56.It will be nice to feel from June sunshine again in our faces but
:26:56. > :27:00.temperatures will be cooler. It is a very unsettled picture I'm afraid
:27:00. > :27:10.through the rest of the week. Some sunshine and some dry weather on
:27:10. > :27:11.