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perhaps 48 hours of drier weather for many of us. But between now and

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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline. The DUP's response to the

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Haass proposals. More work needed but they're not giving up. A

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suspended sentence for Marian McGlinchey - security cameras show

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her buying the phone used by the Real IRA to claim a double murder. A

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man gets jail for raping his cousin when she was a child. She says other

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victims of sex abuse should report it. You have to come forward. During

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the lives, your own family. The bitter dispute that's split one of

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our rescue charities. Back to his best. Will Rory be ready for Ulster

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Rugby's big game this Friday? And some quieter weather on the way at

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last! But not before some overnight The day after the Ulster Unionist

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party rejected the Haass proposals, the DUP gave its reaction, deciding

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to keep its options open. Peter Robinson said it was a case of not

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yet - adding more work was required on the package to tackle problems

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over flags, parading and the past. Our political correspondent Martina

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Purdy has the latest. 40 years ago today the Ulster Unionist leader

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resigned after his party rejected the Sunningdale power-sharing deal.

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This was seen as a slap in the face and the mediator quit. Fast forward

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to 2014 and the Ulster Unionist party and leader stand together over

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its rejection of the Haass Proposals on flags, parading and the past,

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branding them on file and unacceptable. It is up to the First

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Minister and the giddy First Minister. They commissioned it. They

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have the report. It is up to them and not us to tell the people of

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Northern Ireland what they intend to do, and I don't think the people of

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Northern Ireland who have seen in decision after indecision, will

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accept Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness being indecisive about

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how they deal with this. Others involved in the talks process were

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scathing about the Ulster Unionist position. This is Mike Nesbitt's

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Pontius Pilate moment. He has washed his hands of Richard Haass and

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O'Sullivan, and the rest of us have to get on with it. With the

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implementation of it, with the two governments and the other parties.

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That is the way to go. Whether he was being disingenuous or heat is

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the captive of extreme elements in the society. According to this

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victim campaigner who kept a close eye on the Richard Haass talks, the

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Ulster Unionists made the right decision. There is very little in it

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for the Unionist, Protestant, loyalist people, whatever you want

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to call us, so the fact that they have now listen to the victims, this

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is what it has all been about, the past, and who is affected most? The

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victims. As for the EU period and his team, they announced they were

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not yet ready to ditch the Haass Proposals just yet. We are not

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afraid to say no that -- when we get proposals put forward that we do not

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agree with and we are not going to go belly up just because somebody

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lands a paper on our desk and says this is the final version. There are

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many things within the document that we can support, and others that we

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cannot and we want to work on the ones that we cannot agree to CF

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there is a way forward that is acceptable to other political

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parties. The largest nationalist party wants to implement the

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proposals, not more ago she ages. The negotiations are over, they have

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been going on for 4-6 months, right up until Christmas. Who's going to

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ask Richard Haass back? He has made it clear, and he was right. That is

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why he put a time frame on it. The split between the DUP and the Ulster

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Unionist party is not as serious as the difference between Peter

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Robinson and Martin McGuinness about how to proceed. But the DUP saying

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that negotiations must continue and Sinn Fein insisting that they are

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over. Expect stalemate on the horizon.

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The veteran republican Marian McGlinchey has been given a

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suspended sentence for helping dissident republicans. In November,

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the 59-year-old from Stockman's Avenue in Belfast, admitted

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providing a mobile phone which was used by the Real IRA to claim

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responsibility for the murders of two soldiers at Massereene Army

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barracks. Our reporter Will Leitch was in the court. March 2009 in

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Tesco, Newtownabbey, and security cameras capture Marian McGlinchey

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buying a mobile phone. In November she admitted she knew it would be

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used by a terrorist group. Someone else used it to ring media

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organisations and claim responsibilities for the murders of

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two soldiers at in Antrim, the day before. Two years later and she is

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on camera again, this time holding a speech at an Easter time

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commemoration by dissident republicans in Londonderry. Her

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trial was due to have taken place but the guilty plea made that

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unnecessary. Today, sentencing took place instead. For providing

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property for the purposes of terrorism, 12 months, for

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encouraging support for a prescribed organisation, the Real IRA, nine

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months, running concurrently and suspended for three years. The

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judge's reasons for that included what he called her deteriorating

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health. The judge said she had arthritis and had been undergoing

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intense psychiatric treatment and suffering from severe depression

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especially when in prison. He indicated that, given the

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significant medical problems he would not be returning her to

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custody. The Old Bailey bombings of 1973, for which she received two

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light sentences. She was later released on licence. The judge said

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he was aware of this and her imprisonment in 2011 by breaking

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that licence, and along with her medical reports, consider that the

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risk of reoffending was low. Throughout sentencing, Marian

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McGlinchey stood impassively in the dock between two prison officers.

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She nodded once to indicate she understood when the judge told her

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not to be involved in any further criminality, and then telling her

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that she was free to go. She left court some hours later, seen here in

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the brown coat surrounded by supporters. The court heard that she

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told Doctor Sheena longer has any wish to be involved in politics.

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Despite today's sentencing and previous fiddles, the investigations

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into the Massereene Army barracks murders remains open. -- previous

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acquittals. A woman who was repeatedly raped and

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physically abused by her cousin when she was a child has welcomed the

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man's 11-year prison sentence. Frankie McFadden from the Shantallow

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area started the ten years of abuse when his cousin was six years old.

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Martina Johnston has waived her right to anonymity to expose

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McFadden's crimes and has encouraged others suffering abuse to report it.

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This report from to our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish. Martina

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Johnston said her childhood was ruined after she was abused and

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tormented over a 10-year period. It began when she was just six years of

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age. The abuser was her cousin who was meant to be baby-sitting her at

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a house in the bogside. I was six and then I was seven for the first

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one. Horrendous, horrendous. The people around me that I loved, that

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was the worst, everyone that was hurt by it. The man who carried out

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the abuse was Frankie McFadden, 54, from Shantallow. He was seen at an

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earlier court appearance. He admitted a series of offences which

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included indecent assault, gross indecency and threats to kill. It

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began in 1975 when he was 16. The abuse had a devastating effect on

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his victim. Paranoid. Depression. And just literally scared.

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Always looking over my shoulder now. The judge said that Frankie McFadden

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knew that what he was doing was wrong, and that the victim, Martina

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Johnston, was young when the abuse started and within 12 months,

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McFadden was raping her on a regular basis over a three-year period. The

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judge said it was clear there was a degree of planning and premeditation

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in his offending and he gave a and lollipops. He also used violence

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against her by pushing her downstairs and giving her a black

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eye. This was done, said the judge, to make sure that she did not

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disclose the abuse. To be honest with you I did not think anything of

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him. I'm just glad now that he cannot touch anybody else. If there

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are any people, there is so much help out there that they have to

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come forward. They have to get these people off the streets. They have

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ruined families, they have ruined lives. And still to come on the

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programme before seven o'clock. Our car parked near Belfast city airport

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has been operating for more than two years, but now it has been refused

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planning permission. I will have the story. The bankrupt billionaire Sean

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Quinn has condemned the latest attack on property which used to be

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part of his business empire. A bus was set on fire at the entrance to

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factories near Ballyconnell between Counties Cavan and Fermanagh. Mr

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Quinn said those carrying out the attacks were not acting in his name.

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Here's our south-west reporter Julian Fowler. The bus was set on

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fire, blocking the entrance to the Quinn thermal installation and

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packaging plant at about half past five this morning. No damage was

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caused to company property and the bus was moved to one side to allow

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business to continue whilst Gardai carried out an investigation. Four

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weeks ago that you'll tanker was driven into the company's

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headquarters and set on fire. The Company said it believed these

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attacks were part of a campaign to reinstate Sean Quinn, but said this

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makes no sense and will not happen and called on the former owner to

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condemn these latest incidents. In response, Sean Quinn issued a

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statement in which he said he wished to reiterate in the most categorical

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terms that he condemns these are lawful act and that those

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responsible for not acting in his name. -- these unlawful acts. Sean

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Quinn has a great deal of support in his community. There is concern

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about the impact these attacks could have on jobs, and fears that if they

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continue, then someone could be seriously hurt or killed. The local

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MP says it is time for these attacks to stop. People should listen to

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Sean and desist from carrying out these criminal activities and help

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us to protect and strengthen jobs in the area. The response to the

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attacks has sparked a war of words over the role of Anglo Irish bank

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and the collapse of the Quinn Empire. Sean Quinn claims the bank

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operated a covert, underhand takeover of his companies. AVentas

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Says that the bank has no hand in the running of the business. The

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dispute goes back to the Marshall Court in Dublin in the coming

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months. -- the commercial court. A police officer has been given an

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informed warning after an incident during a contentious Orange parade

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last summer. The officer was the driver of a landrover in the Carrick

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Hill area of Belfast. The Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly was carried on the

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front of it for a time, after trying to speak to police. Yesterday,

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because of his actions, the MLA was also given an informed warning which

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is a formal reprimand by the police. It's not a conviction but remains on

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record for 12 months. Over 1100 people have contacted a

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helpline set up by the Belfast Health Trust following a patient

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recall in December. Those affected had attended the Belfast City

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Hospital for a bladder camera test during 2012 and 2013. The Trust said

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they were treating the matter as serious after three patients

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received a late cancer diagnosis. An independent review is underway into

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why patients had to be recalled. The number of new cars sold here

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rose by more than ten per cent in 2013, according to industry figures.

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More than 52,000 cars were sold in 2013 compared to less than 48,000 in

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2012. New car registrations are seen as an important measure of consumer

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spending here. In the first case of its kind five

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members of the Lough Neagh lifeboat crew have been expelled by the

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charity watchdog and accused of trying to scupper the rescue

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service. As our investigations reporter Kevin Magee discovered, the

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charity is in the middle of an internal row that has split the

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organisation. With almost 80 miles of coastline Lough Neagh is the

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largest freshwater lake in the British Isles. It can also be

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dangerous for those who use it but the Lough Neagh rescue is always on

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hand. On its bases it and heard more than 20 distress calls last year.

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But under the surface, the charity is in the grip of a bitter dispute.

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It got so bad at one stage that locks were changed at one of the

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life of stations and funds were frozen in the bank account. Before

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that began with accusations that the number -- a number of crew members

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were attempting to form a breakaway group to take over the running of

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this proposed new station in Antrim. That breakaway group went to the

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Charity commission with a list of grievances but cause the allegations

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they made were considered to be unfounded, they themselves became

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the focus of an investigation. They now stand accused of trying to bring

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the charity down. Five crew members, some of them seem here attending a

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meeting about the keys, have been expelled by the dirty watchdog after

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its initial enquiries accused them of working to undermine the

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lifeboat. We at no time have posed any risk to the charity and we are

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the charity. The charity is not odds and equipment, the charity is

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membership and with 450 years experience of this is being excluded

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from the charity at the minute. The commission is not giving the members

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access to the charity and how they want to serve it. According to the

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commission, among the false claims made work that electricity bills for

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the station were higher than it should have them. After

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investigation, this allegation was not upheld. All those expelled have

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been given a list or the removal. One must choose -- told his

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judgement had been coloured over the commission called a nefarious

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organisation. Querymac I am a Mason and I am proud being a Mason because

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of all the charity work that we do. For that allegation to be made to me

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without an investigation, and looking at the evidence they

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provided, I think it is nonsense. Charity regulator confirmed its

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investigation is ongoing. Throughout the investigation, the main charity

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has kept up its life-saving work and has declined to be interviewed but

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said it continues to operate to high standards. The fallout is not over.

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The group are now appealing the decision and hope to be reinstated

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as members of the lifeboat service they are accused of trying to

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scupper. Planners have decided that a car

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park, which runs a shuttle bus to and from Belfast City Airport, can

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no longer operate and they have reversed their planning permission

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decision. The car park has been in existence for more than two years.

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The Environment Minister has backed the planners' action but the chair

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of the Assembly's Environment Committee is amazed at the decision.

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Chris Page reports. The store has a huge car parked next to Belfast City

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Airport and the businessmen saw the opportunity and least the top floor.

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It is cheaper than the nearby airport car parking. Planners

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initially approved the owner has not been told planning permission has

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been refused and he cannot understand why. The problem is that

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planners tell me you must prove there is a need and I would have

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thought with all the business we are having, hundreds of cars each day,

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that there is a demand and there is a need for an alternative car park.

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The planners change of course happened after the issue went to

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Belfast City Council. DUP councillor asked for it to be deferred so

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planners could meet with airport officials. The DUP has said that the

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council did not lodge an objection against the planning application. In

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a statement, the report said while we welcome competition it must

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adhere to the same planning restrictions at the airport operates

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within. Car parking in Belfast city airport is competitively priced with

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significant savings were booking online. The environment and Mr said

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he was conscience how this looked from the outside but he backed the

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planners saying they must make decisions based on planning policy.

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However the chair of the Environment Committee said she was very

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surprised by what happened. I think this was enterprising, using this

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top floor of the car park. It is always empty. I thought it was good

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to make use of it. I find it really amazing that planners have now

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turned this down. By the time being, the car park stays open

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because the owner is appealing against the decision. But if he

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loses the appeal, it will eventually close.

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Ulster have been handed a huge boost ahead of a crunch European Cup game

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this weekend. Stephen is here with more.

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He broke his arm during Ireland's narrow loss to New Zealand during

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the November rugby internationals. The day afterwards Rory Best told

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this programme he was determined to battle his way back from injury to

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be fit for Ulster's crunch European double bill over the next two weeks.

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And six weeks later he was true to his word. Remarkably Best is back in

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contention to make his return and could be involved against

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Montpellier this Friday. Thomas Kane reports. It is fair to say that most

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people took it easy over Christmas but that festive period was all

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about intensive rehabilitation by this man. The hard work was worth

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it. He was cleared by the specialist and that has healed. We are loading

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some work on it and seeing how it goes and he is progressing so we

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will see how that goes. There is a possibility he could play this

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weekend. He will not be rushed and Ulster will manage his comeback. All

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good players, if you get the best out of them and monitor them, we

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will do what is best for him. If we are going to get full value out of

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him we must look after him in moments like this. We will make sure

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we do the right thing. With the six Nations approaching and the top

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clubs battling it out for knockout places in the European Cup, the

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return of one of the world's best hookers comes at an ideal time for

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Ireland and Ulster. He's one of our most talented Gaelic

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footballers who also has become a goal scoring sensation in the Irish

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League. Owen Bradley is wanted by both his county Derry to play gaelic

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and by his club Coleraine to play soccer. But the seasons of the two

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sports overlap so he had a tough decision to make. And Bradley, by

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signing a contract extension with Coleraine, has picked the

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professional game. He's spoken exclusively to Thomas Niblock.

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Owen Bradley is a player who defines the free is marquee forward. --

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defines the phrase. One of the top Gillett footballers and Ulster for a

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decade, he has recently switched his attention to soccer with Coleraine.

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He has had a devastating effect. And with a choice to make, he has chosen

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Coleraine. I have got a chance to play for Coleraine in the Irish

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League last year and I am enjoying it. I am contracted to the end of

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April, the start of May and I will follow that. -- Gaelic speakers. --

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footballers. I will not be playing for Derry this year. The first round

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of the championship is against Donegal. Is that possible? I think

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it is. I chatted with Brian last night. The way it was left is we

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will chat whenever the Irish League is over. If you are playing well in

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the club and there is no soccer, I do not see any problem. If I asked,

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I would play. Simple economics play a factor. He is a father and

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plasterer by trade and he is hoping to build a house next year. For

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Coleraine committee gets paid, for Derry, he does not. When you are

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playing soccer, it is nice and there is an amateur ethos in GAA. That is

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good enough, I am happy enough. But it is nice to get recognised and get

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some money for playing sport and soccer on Saturday. I am enjoying

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it. This top scorer has admitted he would give serious consideration of

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a longer contract was presented so for the short term at least,

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Derry's loss is Coleraine's game. Crusaders have moved up to second in

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the Irish Premiership table after an emphatic win over Dungannon Swifts

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last night at Seaview. The North Belfast side scored twice in the

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first half through Jordan Owens and Paul Heatley. They were always in

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control thereafter, as they eventually ran out as five-one

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winners. The victory moved them back up to within six points of the

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league leaders Linfield, who they play in their next league game a

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week today. May be if we lost today, we were out of running for the

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league. But we know would be needed to do and tonight was a big step. We

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will turn our attention to the next game and try and narrow the gap. We

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gave away bad goals. We cannot do that and it is difficult coming

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here, trying to compete. When you make the mistakes we made, you are

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going to get what has happened. Crusaders thoroughly deserved

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victory. We help them along the way. Cliftonville could leapfrog their

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North Belfast rivals tonight and go back to second. They're away to

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Glenavon and we'll have the result on the late bulletin. Probably a lot

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of standing water around tonight but the worst is out of the way. Here is

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the weather chart. It shows how this weather front is progressing. There

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is an indication that the winds are easing but because there is little

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pressure, we still have some showers. The first lot of showers

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have already pushed their way from west to east but they had eased off

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in intensity. Hopefully for all the stargazers out there tonight, it it

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will be clear skies. Another batch of rain coming in later in the

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night. Showers are edging their way eastwards towards Belfast and Antrim

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through the second part of the night. Towards the end of the night,

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most of the showers have faded and it will become drier. Temperatures

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will fall accordingly and there could be the possibility of some

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ground frost and icy patches. Tomorrow is a much more cheery day

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and for many of us there will be dry and brighter weather. There may be

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one or two showers along the North Coast but those will ease. With

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lighter winds, temperatures will rise to about seven degrees.

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Tomorrow night, it becomes misty and murky and it will be cold with the

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possibility of some frost and ice. Mainly dry conditions with some

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coastal showers on Thursday. Another batch of wind and rain moves in on

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Friday and that could be followed by dry spells.

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