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Newsline: a man is found guilty of murdering two County Down women. We | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
have the latest from Turkey. Gerry Adams faces questions after his | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
brother's conviction for child sex abuse. | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
Do not punish the people dash the First Minister's message to Sinn | :00:42. | :00:48. | |
Fein. Anger in the North West that plans | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
to merge two special-needs schools. Listen to the people telling you | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
that these proposals are wrong. The local girl who went from casualties | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
in a Slovakian hospital to the winners' podium, all in a matter of | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
hours. ?NEWLINE In the weather, a very wet | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
hours. 48 hours ahead. We have a Met Office | :01:10. | :01:15. | |
warning for rain in place. The worst is due to arrive during rush hour | :01:15. | :01:21. | |
tomorrow. A man has been found guilty of | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
murdering two women from Northern Ireland who were stabbed to death on | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
holiday in Turkey. The bodies of Marion Graham and Cathy Dinsmore | :01:30. | :01:36. | |
were found in woodland on the outskirts of the city of Izmir in | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
August 2011. They were staying at a nearby resort. Recep Cetin, the | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
former boyfriend of Miss Graham's nearby resort. Recep Cetin, the | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
teenage daughter has been given a life sentence for both murders. His | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
father was acquitted. This has been a long trial for the | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
families of Marion Graham and Cathy Dinsmore but today, after more than | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
18 months of hearings, they saw the case end with Recep Cetin being even | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
the toughest possible jail sentence. Just being in this country is | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
difficult for these families. The court room experience is very | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
difficult for these families. The intense but they came out this | :02:14. | :02:20. | |
afternoon feeling relieved. It was justice we came here to get today | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
and we can go home very satisfied. Be conviction of Recep Cetin has | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
and we can go home very satisfied. brought them a degree of closure but | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
it has been an incredibly tough journey since their relatives were | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
murdered just over two years ago. Despite the 40 degrees heat, this | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
resort can feel like an Irish village. Holiday-makers from | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
Ireland's north and south travel here time after time. These beaches | :02:43. | :02:50. | |
draw thousands of visitors to the coast every year. Marion Graham and | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Cathy Dinsmore loved coming to this resort. They could never have | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
imagined that their holiday here in the summer of 2011 would be their | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
last. Darien Graham's daughter, Shannon, 15 at the time, was in a | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
relationship with Recep Cetin. He worked in a restaurant nearby. Recep | :03:09. | :03:18. | |
Cetin offered to take the two women on a shopping trip while Shannon was | :03:18. | :03:25. | |
on a cruise. This forest on the outskirts of the city is where the | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
two women from County Down were outskirts of the city is where the | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
killed in a frenzied knife attack. Darien Graham was stabbed 17 times. | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
Cathy Dinsmore was stabbed 35 times. Shannon raised the alarm when she | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
could not get in touch with her mother. After the police found the | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
women's wadis, they arrested Recep Cetin and charged him with the | :03:45. | :03:53. | |
killings. -- bodies. This journalist reported on the story. Many people | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
come here from around the world so this is about our image. The | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
killings created a lot of reaction. Four months later, prosecutors | :04:05. | :04:10. | |
brought another charge of murder, this time against Recep Cetin's | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
father, here in the handcuffs. The trial began with hearings held | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
several weeks apart. In June of last year, Shannon travelled to Turkey to | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
give evidence. She said media reports that Recep Cetin had asked | :04:22. | :04:29. | |
her to marry him were not true. Her former boyfriend lied about his age | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
to try to get a more lenient sentence. He claimed to be | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
psychiatrically ill but doctors said he was not. It has taken until now | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
for those legal issues to be sorted out. Today Shannon returned with | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
for those legal issues to be sorted other relatives to see her former | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
boyfriend convicted. The relatives of Marion Graham and Cathy Dinsmore | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
leaned forward in their seats as the judges announced their verdicts. All | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
the judges agreed Recep Cetin was guilty. They sentenced him to spend | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
the rest of his life in prison with no prospect of parole. But the | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
judges decided the circumstantial no prospect of parole. But the | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
evidence against Recep Cetin's father was not enough. He was | :05:08. | :05:16. | |
acquitted. Cathy Dinsmorespoke in court to ask for the toughest | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
sentence possible. I was not sure what was going to happen. I and very | :05:22. | :05:31. | |
relieved we have got a verdict. Shannon said she was happy with the | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
verdict. Just satisfied at the results. She was asked what she | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
thought of Recep Cetin. Horrendous. He has torn us apart. Be families | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
now have justice but they say they will never stop | :05:47. | :05:47. | |
whose holiday to Turkey ended in unimaginable terror. | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
Our reporter joins me live from Turkey. I imagine there is a real | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
sense of relief for the families today. | :05:59. | :06:07. | |
There certainly was. Marion Graham from Newry and Cathy Dinsmore from | :06:07. | :06:17. | |
Warren Point's families have made several journeys here now. One | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
question has remained unanswered and that is the question of why Recep | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
question has remained unanswered and Cetin killed the women. The motive | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
still is not clear. Recep Cetin Cetin killed the women. The motive | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
might appeal against his conviction. Prosecutors might appeal against the | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
acquittal of the father of Recep Cetin, but the families of the | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
victims say they are just going to move on with their lives. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams is move on with their lives. | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
facing further questions about why it took him years to tell police his | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
brother had confessed to abusing a daughter. Yesterday Liam Adams was | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
convicted of the rape and sexual abuse of his daughter, Aine, from | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
the age of four. She told Gerry Adams in 1987 but three years later | :06:59. | :07:05. | |
Liam Adams confessed to his brother. But it was 2009 before Gerry Adams | :07:05. | :07:11. | |
told police about that confession. He did not testify at the trial, | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
which finished yesterday, but Gerry Adams did give evidence to the first | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
collapsed case at which his brother, Liam, faced those child abuse | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
charges. He was asked how much he had known, when he had known it and | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
who he had told. During cross-examination, lawyers drew on | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
what he had said to this man, a journalist, who had done a | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
television documentary on the case journalist, who had done a | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
in 2009. One of the claims Gerry Adams made was that he had become | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
estranged from his brother for 15 years. One of the journalists | :07:45. | :07:48. | |
involved showed that that was not the case will stop she had a | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
photograph of the two brothers. Adams said he had been estranged | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
from his brother for 15 years after first burning of the abuse. Gerry | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
Adams was handed a succession of photographs of himself and his | :08:04. | :08:10. | |
mother taken at various events in 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 2003. | :08:10. | :08:17. | |
Under oath, he said he was out of my life for a time. I never denied | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
being in contact with him. But the more serious question is when Gerry | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
being in contact with him. But the Adams told police his brother had | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
confessed the abuse to him. That confession happened in the year | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
2000. When police interviewed Mr Adams in 2007, he did not mention | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
it. But in 2009, around the same time the television channel was | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
preparing the documentary, he made a second statement to the police in | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
which he said Liam Adams had admitted what he had done. He was | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
which he said Liam Adams had asked several times about this this | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
afternoon. Another thing that popped up in court was that your brother | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
had told you about the abuse in 2000 but you told police in 2009. I have | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
answered that question in detail and you seem to be just ignoring... You | :09:08. | :09:14. | |
say there is a lot of disinformation... Let me finish the | :09:14. | :09:23. | |
point. The point I am making is that this is a traumatic ordeal for Aine | :09:23. | :09:29. | |
but for all of my family, and we do need the space to deal with all of | :09:29. | :09:36. | |
these matters. And that is what I respectfully ask you to do. But his | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
political opponents insist he could bring greater clarity about his role | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
in all of this, drawing comparisons with the abuse scandal in the | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
Paffett touch. Storl I do not see the difference. I think... -- | :09:50. | :09:59. | |
drawing comparisons with the abuse scandal in the Catholic Church. I do | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
not see the difference. Anyone who knows anything about child abuse and | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
sex abuse need to come forward and tell the authorities so people are | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
brought to court and charged such as Liam Adams was yesterday. Liam Adams | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
also said the police had been aware of the abuse since 1987. A huge | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
amount of what he called this of the abuse since 1987. A huge | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
information was being flung about other he said. He said he was not | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
prepared to talk about the issues beyond what he had already said. | :10:27. | :10:34. | |
The Parades Commission has refused an application by the Orange Order | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
to be allowed to complete it parade passed certain shops in Belfast this | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
Saturday. The group were prevented from finishing their return march on | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
the 12th of July. Violent scenes resulted. Reacting to the ruling | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
today the order said it was dismayed and that a campaign to complete the | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
parade would continue, along with a loyalist civil rights camp. | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
The First Minister has warned Sinn Fein not to be cruel in their | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
response to put -- image of their response to his decision to put a | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
peace centre at the site of the former Maze jail on hold. Earlier | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
this week, Martin McGuinness told the Assembly that if the peace | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
centre does not go ahead, neither will any other economic development | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
at the Maze. But speaking today during a visit to Coleraine, Peter | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
Robinson insisted that would punish the people of Northern Ireland by | :11:25. | :11:32. | |
endangering much-needed jobs. Open for business but it is feared | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
as many as 500 jobs could be at stake if the Westminster Government | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
goes ahead with its plan to close the Coleraine driver and vehicle | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
agency and shift its work to Wales. Visiting the agency, the First | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
Minister pledged to raise the campaign against closure at the | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
highest level. The Prime Minister is coming to Northern Ireland in the | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
next few days for the conference. I can guarantee you I will raise this | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
issue with the Prime Minister when he comes to Northern Ireland. But | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Coleraine is not the only place where jobs are at stake. The | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
executive had hoped to create as many as 5000 jobs on the site of the | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
former Maze jail. This week the Deputy First Minister told MLAs that | :12:16. | :12:24. | |
if they do not honour a deal to build the peace centre, there will | :12:24. | :12:34. | |
be no economic aid on the case. We are talking about potentially 5000 | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
jobs and it would be very cruel for Sinn Fein to say that this peace | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
centre was so important to us that we are going to punish the people of | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
Northern Ireland. The row over the Maze has left his former Sinn Fein | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
publicity director leaving despondent. He says he hopes he is | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
wrong but suspects the Assembly could collapse. You could see | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
business can be to a grinding halt and frustration. These things can be | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
triggered by something out of the and frustration. These things can be | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
blue, leading to a crisis. It has and frustration. These things can be | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
happened before. All I was hoping to do was alert people not to be | :13:08. | :13:15. | |
sleepwalking into that situation. With the talks still continuing and | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
the Prime Minister G2 attend an investment conference here next week | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
come no one is expecting the Stormont settlement to crumble in | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
the near future but there is no doubt that the political rhetoric | :13:26. | :13:34. | |
has been ratcheted up another level. Coming up on the programme before | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
7pm: Could we be about to see more of this on our streets? | :13:38. | :13:43. | |
Parents say they will fight plans by the Education Minister to merge two | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
special-needs schools and close a speech and language unit in | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
Londonderry. But John O'Dowd insists the decision is in the best | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
interests of the children. The plans will cost £7.5 million and have been | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
described as the most significant investment in special-needs | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
education in the city. This report from our North West reporter | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
contains flash photography. The parents of this 15-year-old have | :14:14. | :14:18. | |
serious concerns about their child's future educational needs | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
being met. She is among 132 pupils who attend Belmont Hi special | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
school. But her father thinks she who attend Belmont Hi special | :14:28. | :14:36. | |
will not get the attention she deserves in future. They will be fed | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
into mainstream schools and forgotten about. They will be left | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
at back of the class or be in a forgotten about. They will be left | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
class with so many children it just will not work. It was all smiles | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
this week as the Commons Speaker, will not work. It was all smiles | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
John Bercow, and his Assembly counterpart, visited a special | :14:53. | :15:00. | |
school. It is being amalgamated with Belmont House to form a new £7.5 | :15:00. | :15:06. | |
million school. The Commons Speaker, whose nine-year-old son is autistic, | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
says while he is not aware of the background to the merger, he hopes | :15:10. | :15:14. | |
it is not just about finance. If it is about better providing for | :15:14. | :15:21. | |
vulnerable and needy children, and there is no detriment to them in the | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
process, then three cheers. If it is just about saving money or | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
bureaucratic imagination of somebody sitting in an office who does not | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
really understand the needs at the coal face, that is a pity. These | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
decisions always have to be about what is right for the children. The | :15:38. | :15:51. | |
Woodlands Speech And Language Unit is also closing and its work will be | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
moved to three separate schools. A petition has been signed amazing the | :15:57. | :16:05. | |
-- opposing the plan. These parents have signed. She is using a | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
combination of sign language and it just to communicate. She is only | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
starting to speak. He had speech and Nantwich difficulties from birth. He | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
has been their four weeks now and we have noticed a big improvement. -- | :16:23. | :16:30. | |
speech and language the cold is. They are playing politics with our | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
children's lives and future and it is wrong. The education minister | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
says he is carefully considering the issues before making any decision. | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
The two existing special-needs schools are expected to close by | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
August next year. The Woodlands Speech And Language Unit is also due | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
to move within that time frame. Though the minister has now made his | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
decision, parents say they will fight to keep the facilities open. | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
Now to news which will strike fear in the hearts of some motorists. The | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
clamping of vehicles illegally parked on Northern Ireland's roads | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
is to be extended. You can already be clamped if your car is unlicensed | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
or untaxed, but now there are plans to tackle those parked on bus lanes | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
and other key routes. Our reporter is in Belfast city centre for BBC | :17:18. | :17:27. | |
Newsline. These streets can be busy enough at | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
rush hour. All the more complicated in the last years or so with the new | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
bus lanes. This one operates until about 7pm tonight, 12 hours a day. | :17:36. | :17:42. | |
But now the prospect of clapping for anyone who box on it illegally and | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
holds up the traffic. No driver wants to see it when they | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
return to their vehicle, but it could be a growing occupational | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
hazard of the 21st-century motorist. could be a growing occupational | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
The Department for regional development is working on plans to | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
The Department for regional clamp vehicles parked illegally on | :17:58. | :18:02. | |
main routes all bus lanes. Clamping happens already here by private | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
contractors on private land or car parks but also when vehicles are | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
unlicensed or taxed. From September last year until the end of August | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
this year, 1600 vehicles were clamped for nonpayment of vehicle | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
excise duty. The year before it was well over 2000 vehicles. One roads | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
expert knows how much of a tailback one parked car can cause, and | :18:27. | :18:34. | |
supports further clamping. The objective is always to have traffic | :18:34. | :18:41. | |
moving as freely as possible. The clamping should not happen until the | :18:41. | :18:47. | |
towing vehicle arrives though because the motorist could come | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
back. There is also some support in taxi ranks. Madness. You cannot get | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
your work done. Motorists are sitting all over the shop. I would | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
clamp them all. It is still unclear when this change in clamping policy | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
will actually come in, possibly not until next year. | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
So more clamping and towing of vehicles in prospect on street like | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
these which are increasingly busy and on which it is increasingly | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
difficult to keep traffic running freely. | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
£250,000. It is a lot of money but that is how much the health service | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
could be losing out on as a result of fraud by the public, and health | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
care workers. While that figure is based on independent research, | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
officials are taking the threat seriously and are launching a number | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
of initiatives to target those who are at fault. Fraud can range from | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
false claims for travel expenses and hours worked to bribery. Our health | :19:42. | :19:53. | |
correspondent reports. Fraud is draining health service | :19:53. | :19:54. | |
resources of hundreds of millions of Fraud is draining health service | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
pounds a year. In a system that is already strapped for cash, those | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
holding the purse strings believe appropriately punished. It is a | :20:01. | :20:11. | |
criminal act, so you would bring the full force of the law. We have | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
instances where people are getting jail sentences for committing fraud. | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
The problem is being dealt with lightly -- is not being dealt with | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
lightly and for the first time in the health service, a large-scale | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
programme is being activated. So just how can people defraud the | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
system? When it comes to staff, the team are examining those who are | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
full see claiming travel expenses and those who live about how many | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
hours they have worked, and others who fraudulently claim for | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
allowances such as nursing bursaries. Focusing on the public, | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
investigators will look at those who gave false information when claiming | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
social care benefits. Foreign nationals who claim to be living | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
here in order to secure free health care. And those claiming | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
prescription medicines which are not required. | :21:04. | :21:09. | |
But for this operation to be successful, it is relying on | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
whistle-blowers. Within the system there are people defrauding and we | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
can provide detection to our staff. The public will also be protected | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
can provide detection to our staff. through the relevant authorities. | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
There is a hotline number. We ask people to step forward. Last year | :21:27. | :21:33. | |
over 100 people were arrested in the Republic of Ireland for claiming | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
health care in the North of Ireland. While £250,000 a year is being | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
recorded, that is the worst-case scenario. But even at the other end | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
of the scale, say £40,000, that would still pay for thousands of | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
heart operations and kidney transplants a year in the new wing | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
of the hospital. The Secretary of State has told the | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
Conservative Party conference in Manchester that it will be difficult | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
for the Northern Ireland economy to succeed while violence and | :22:06. | :22:07. | |
sectarianism continue. Theresa Villiers also condemned those who | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
use violence against the police. From Manchester, here is our | :22:11. | :22:18. | |
political reporter. Theresa Villiers gave a speech in a | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
hole away from the main conference arena and it did not get off to a | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
great start. Ladies and gentlemen, please give a very welcome to the | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
Secretary of State for Scotland who has demonstrated... The Secretary of | :22:31. | :22:37. | |
State use her address to attack those who continued to carry out | :22:37. | :22:43. | |
violence. Let me be clear on this. The idea that British identity and | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
culture can be defended by people who wrap themselves in the Union | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
flag and attack police officers with who wrap themselves in the Union | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
bricks and blast arms and ceremonial swords is grotesque. | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
APPLAUSE . On the going -- on the ongoing | :22:57. | :23:07. | |
talks that are considering issues such as flags and parades, the | :23:07. | :23:10. | |
talks that are considering issues Secretary of State told members that | :23:10. | :23:12. | |
what was needed now was political leadership. I would urge Northern | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
Ireland's political leadership again leadership. I would urge Northern | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
to rise to the challenge as they have done on so many occasions since | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
the signing of the Belfast Agreement 15 years ago. On the economy, she | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
told the conference that business activity in Northern Ireland is up. | :23:29. | :23:34. | |
The Secretary of State's speech may have struck a chord here but the | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
Labour Party were not impressed. A spokesman said the speech was sound | :23:38. | :23:43. | |
and no vision. He said the very fact her speech took place in an almost | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
empty side room showed how little the Tories care. | :23:47. | :23:56. | |
Ulster Rugby was given a timely boost to date with confirmation that | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
Kiwi Nick Williams has signed a new contract. | :24:00. | :24:08. | |
Yes, the cuddly number eight, you might say, will be playing his club | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
but the here until at least 2016. The big beaming smile says it all. | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
The fans are happy. Nick Williams is happy and so too are his clubmates. | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
COMMENTATOR: He is unstoppable! Nick happy and so too are his clubmates. | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
Williams has been an inspiration since arriving in Belfast. The fact | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
that he was quoted as PRO12's Player of the Year last season demonstrates | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
how important he is to Ulster Rugby. Today he signed a two-year contract | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
extension. It pleased Williams and his team-mates. He had a smile on | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
his face this morning. He is obviously very happy. He is a huge | :24:50. | :24:57. | |
personality, a huge player for us and to have him signed up is really | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
exciting and we are delighted. Williams, yes! He's a gentle giant. | :25:03. | :25:13. | |
When he gets into the game, he changes, he switches. He goes to | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
work when he goes onto the and plays. I am delighted he has signed. | :25:19. | :25:28. | |
Ulster's next game is on Friday away to the ospreys before games away to | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
Leicester and Montpelier. She is just 21, she is from Northern | :25:32. | :25:47. | |
Ireland and she is one of the world's top dirt bikers and she is | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
tough. Just a few hours after a nasty fall in Slovakia, Natalie came | :25:53. | :25:58. | |
checked herself out of hospital and rushed to victory. | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
Natalie Kane say she has lost count of how many bones she has broken | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
through the years. But a link to stay in the running for the World | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
Championship, the rider lost control of her bike as she approached a jump | :26:11. | :26:20. | |
in practice. I went off and I was in the air and it was like slow motion. | :26:20. | :26:27. | |
I decided to push the bike away from me with my feet which was lucky, | :26:27. | :26:32. | |
because the handlebars were broken out of the bike and everything. I | :26:32. | :26:40. | |
was lucky I had no major injury. The medical officer insisted Natalie was | :26:40. | :26:41. | |
brought to hospital. I was saying, medical officer insisted Natalie was | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
please can you just let me go will stop just get the x-ray. I only got | :26:46. | :26:56. | |
the x-ray at 12:15pm and the race was at 12:30pm. I was so gutted and | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
upset but I was determined to get was at 12:30pm. I was so gutted and | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
back for the second race and prove that I deserved to be where I was. | :27:03. | :27:09. | |
That victory left Natalie fourth overall in the World Championship, | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
but it is testament to her toughness that she feels she should have | :27:12. | :27:16. | |
finished second, having missed out on points during the hospital stay. | :27:16. | :27:22. | |
Finally, he is quick with his speed and with his fingers. Sammy What | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
about this for a story of determination? Is back for the World | :27:29. | :27:37. | |
Cup qualifiers. -- Sammy Clingan is back for the World Cup qualifiers. | :27:37. | :27:45. | |
The weather has been bad but if anything it will be worse tomorrow. | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
A horrid day today and that is why we have a weather warning in place | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
for this evening and for all day into tomorrow as well. There is | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
plenty of rain around as we head into this evening and overnight | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
tonight. The worst of it will because in traded along the east | :28:03. | :28:06. | |
coast but there will be plenty to share around overnight tonight. -- | :28:06. | :28:11. | |
the worst of it will be concentrated. By tomorrow night it | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
will be tricky indeed. Stay tuned to the BBC radio stations for all the | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
latest information for your journey to work and do take extra care. This | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
is why. There is going to be plenty of rain around everywhere from the | :28:24. | :28:34. | |
West to the East. The western areas will miss out on the worst of the | :28:34. | :28:39. | |
rain but for the rest of the country, it is very unpleasant. That | :28:39. | :28:42. | |
rain but for the rest of the slow moving band of rain is | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
gradually working its way out to the North East. It sticks around for | :28:45. | :28:48. | |
most of the day. We get a bit of North East. It sticks around for | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
respite for the early part of the night but there is more rain for | :28:52. | :28:55. | |
respite for the early part of the Thursday night going into Friday. So | :28:55. | :28:59. | |
perhaps Thursday is a good day to state inside looking out, even if | :28:59. | :29:04. | |
the view is a little skewed by the raindrops. Friday is going to be a | :29:04. | :29:09. | |
horrible day, let's be honest. It will be grey and unpleasant, but by | :29:09. | :29:14. | |
comparison there will be far less intensity in those showers so not at | :29:14. | :29:19. | |
all as bad as Thursday. You can keep up to day with the developing | :29:19. | :29:25. | |
weather situation on the website. You might want to cast your eye | :29:25. | :29:28. | |
towards the forecast for Saturday because the one bright spot is the | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
weekend when things are looking just because the one bright spot is the | :29:31. | :29:32. | |
a little better. | :29:32. | :29:33. |