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That's all from the BBC News at Six. And on | :00:00. | :00:16. | |
Good evening. The headlines: A gas fitter admits causing the death of | :00:17. | :00:26. | |
two teenagers by carbon monoxide poisoning. Distressing detail from | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
the first witnesses to give evidence to the institutional abuse enquiry. | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
A controversial play looks set for a full house after a council | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
climb-down. David Ford stands by his decision to | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
change the rules for those applying to be Chief Constable. And there is | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
more rain in the forecast as well as a slight fall in the temperature. | :00:50. | :00:58. | |
I will have more shortly. A gas fitter from Coleraine has | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
admitted causing the deaths of two teenagers on the north coast. In the | :01:03. | :01:09. | |
summer of 2010, Neil McFerran and Aaron Davidson were overcome by | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
carbon monoxide gas in an apartment in Castlerock. George Brown was due | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
to go on trial next week accused of killing the teenagers by incorrectly | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
installing a boiler. Today, he pleaded guilty to manslaughter. | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
There is flash photography in this report. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Three and a half years on, the families of two teenagers killed in | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
a holiday tragedy today heard a gas fitter as accepted it was his fault. | :01:39. | :01:44. | |
This is 52-year-old George Brown seen here at an earlier court | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
hearing. The tragedy happened in this seaside apartment in August | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
2010. Aaron Davidson and Neil McFerran and another teenager came | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
here for a weekend break and were waiting for exam results. The | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
holiday at the apartment was to end in tragedy. Unable to make contact | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
with the 18-year-olds, their parents came to the village. Inside, a scene | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
of horror. Aaron and meal were dead and their friend was seriously ill. | :02:16. | :02:21. | |
The teenagers had been poisoned by carbon monoxide gas. In the days | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
that followed, George Brown's name was made public. The Health | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
Secretary -- the Health and Safety Executive advised him to turn them | :02:33. | :02:42. | |
off. He was charged with health and see the breaches at properties | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
across the north coast. He was set to contest those charges. -- he was | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
charged with health and safety breaches at properties across the | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
north coast. This case sparked the biggest hub and saved the | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
investigation of its kind in Northern Ireland. This is the first | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
case of its kind. Manslaughter has been proven. It is a tragic event in | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
relation to the deaths of Aaron and meal. After the short hearing, the | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
families hugged one another but were too emotional to speak. Brian was | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
granted continuing bail and will be sentenced on the 14th of March. | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
People who were abused in children's homes have been recalling the | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
traumatic details of how they were treated. One former resident said | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
the behaviour of nuns at a Sisters of Nazareth home in Derry was | :03:46. | :03:51. | |
bordering on psychotic and lighter couldn't -- likened them to a | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
concentration camp. They will hear evidence from those who lived in C | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
-- 13 institutions from 1922 to 1995. You may be upset by some of | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
the details in our next report. Life at the children's home tells a | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
different story from the photographs at the time. Three former residents | :04:15. | :04:19. | |
were the first to give accounts. One described their home is a hellhole | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
saying the Sisters of Nazareth regularly kicked and punched them. | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
The behaviour of the nuns was bordering on the psychotic. The | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
judge said their presence was ominous and that fear of what was | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
going to happen next. He described the damage done as permanent and | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
said some of the former residents are still the boys who left. They | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
are sad, lonely and broken even though they are in their 60s. One | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
person was sexually abused by an older resident at the home. He said | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
he screamed and a nun came in and when he tried to explain what | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
happened, she slapped him and said he was evil and was going to hell. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
The man who is now 74 said the boys acted as a gang beating him in he | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
blacked out. There were times when he thought he was going to die. He | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
said he was aware that some of the younger nuns were not happy with | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
what was going on but beatings with bamboo sticks and canes were regular | :05:19. | :05:25. | |
occurrence. Two of today's former residents said they used Jeyes | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
fluid. He regularly wet the bed and was forced to be stripped naked and | :05:31. | :05:33. | |
bathed with others. The enquiry is protecting the | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
identity of witnesses but one waved that protection today to allow his | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
voice to be heard. Such places should not have existed. There is no | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
excuse for those times. They were kind people burn. People knew about | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
children and could care for them properly even back in the 50s. There | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
is no excuse. The Enquirer will hear from more people who stayed in the | :06:05. | :06:12. | |
homes late in the week. To another distressing case and a court in | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
Coleraine has been told that an alleged victim of sexual abuse | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
originally told the police she had been raped 2000 times. It was | :06:19. | :06:26. | |
between age of 16 -- six and 13. The woman's father, and a friend denies | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
sexually abusing her and brother during the 1990s. A police officer | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
told the trial that the women gave details of the attack. The officer | :06:38. | :06:46. | |
said she had been wrong in her original statement. | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
The funeral has taken place in Limavady of Simon Chase who died in | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
a suicide bombing in Afghanistan. Several hundred people attended the | :06:55. | :07:00. | |
service at Christ -- at Christ Church. Some businesses closed their | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
doors as a mark of respect. He had been living in Limavady with his | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
partner and two sons. He had been working with an EU mission in Kabul | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
when he was killed ten days ago. The search for a new Chief Constable | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
has barely started but it is already the subject of a sheeted political | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
dispute. The DP and Sinn Fein have reacted furiously to a decision by | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
the Justice Minister to change the rule of governing the appointment. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
The first and Deputy First Minister 's have intervened telling the | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Alliance minister, David Ford, that the issue must go to the executive | :07:36. | :07:43. | |
as a whole. Matt Baggott announced he will | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
retire when his contract ends in September. They have held talks | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
about the process to appoint his successor and for replacing his | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
deputy, Judith Gillespie, who is retiring in March. David Ford he | :07:56. | :08:02. | |
announced -- David Vaughan -- David Vaughan 's -- David Ford said he was | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
changing the rules. He says they have to have served a minimum of two | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
years as an assistant Chief Constable outside of Northern | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
Ireland. They said they were surprised by the announcement. A | :08:17. | :08:24. | |
number of members told me they believe David Ford overstepped a | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
mark and has undermined their authority. The board had discussed | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
changing the two Gable but decided nothing would be done until after | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
Matt Baggott's successor was appointed. -- two-year rule. Here we | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
have a board in the middle of a process of appointing both a new | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
deputy Chief Constable Andy Chief Constable. In the middle of that, | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
the Minister decides to change the fundamental rules on how to actually | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
recruit that individual. It is absolutely unforgivable. It is | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
unforgivable after the starting pistol has been fired. It is | :09:05. | :09:12. | |
unheard-of that the Minister should interfere in this way. Be deputy and | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
-- the first and Deputy First Minister has said is that his | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
decision is significant and controversial and want to be | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
discussed by the executive. The Justice Minister said they were | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
wrong. What I am certain of is my decision was the correct decision. | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
He signalled he doesn't plan to withdraw his proposal. I will be | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
happy to go to the executive meeting and explain for the benefit of | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
ministers that I will be putting in a paper in the next few days. I will | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
explain why it has been appropriate to carry that out. The SDLP have | :09:52. | :09:57. | |
joined in the criticism. They have hit out at Peter Robinson and | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
marking McGuinness, accusing them of political interference and send the | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
recruiting poster should be left to the policing board alone. | :10:05. | :10:11. | |
Police say they have spoken to a 12-year-old boy in relation to car | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
crime is on New Year's Eve. They say they are continuing to investigate a | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
series of incidents where cars were driven erratically and at speed in a | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
west Belfast area. The boy is to take part in the youth conferencing | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
where young offenders get the chance to understand the impact of their | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
actions and to make amends. A report has found the probable cause of a | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
plane crash in Cork that killed six people was a loss of control during | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
an aborted landing. The Manx2 plane crashed on approach to Cork airport | :10:45. | :10:52. | |
from Belfast. The flight was February 2011. What | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
happened that day, Shane? A month after the plane crash which was | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
fatal, investigators reported on what happened. The final report is | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
about why. The Manx2 plane was on its third and final attempt to land | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
at Cork airport in thick fog. The captain was less than 30 metres from | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
the ground but already it was too late. The right wing of the blame | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
tipped the runway, the plaintiff Dover and crash landed. Both engines | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
caught fire. Six people died, four passengers and two crew members. Six | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
passengers survived. The initial report found there was a power | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
mismatch between the two engines and that the crew had made a number of | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
bad decisions including underestimating the severity of the | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
weather. What does the report say? Today's report reiterates those | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
points. It finds that the crew was very tired and they continued with | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
their dissent even though they couldn't see where they were trying | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
to land. It finds that the captain reversed engine thrust in flight | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
which is prohibited and it also says the crew had been mis-paired. The | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
Spanish captain had been promoted by a few days and is English copilot | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
had only joined the company a few weeks earlier. There was inadequate | :12:21. | :12:27. | |
command training and also inadequate supervision and oversight of the | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
Spanish chartered operation by the Spanish authorities. Still to come: | :12:31. | :12:39. | |
We are on board HMS Caroline as restoration work begins on that | :12:40. | :12:55. | |
famous piece of maritime history. There is a saying that there is no | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
such thing as bad publicity. But is that true about this play? The Bible | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
abridged has been given the go-ahead. There were claims amidst | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
some unionist councillors that it was blasphemous. Today, the heater | :13:19. | :13:25. | |
box office was very busy and virtually all enquiries were from | :13:26. | :13:31. | |
people wishing to buy tickets. -- theatre. 100 and tickets had been | :13:32. | :13:40. | |
sold for the two performances for today but now it looks like they | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
will be sold out. -- 150. We were told it was not very popular so I am | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
not quite sure why everybody was making the fuss. Now we are almost | :13:52. | :14:03. | |
sold out. The last time we had controversy like this was The Life | :14:04. | :14:12. | |
Of Brian I had to support them because I do not like being told | :14:13. | :14:20. | |
what I can and cannot go to. All the gossip about it made me want to come | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
and see it. It just goes to show the publicity you get trying to have a | :14:27. | :14:34. | |
play band. If you tell people not to do something they are more likely to | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
do it. This applies to all parts of our community. The DUP said people | :14:41. | :14:46. | |
had contacted them with genuine concerns. They also said they | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
believe elected representatives should have a say about what kind of | :14:51. | :14:55. | |
play is put on. If you are a pavement or teacher you must be fed | :14:56. | :15:08. | |
up telling pupils they have to work hard. A County Antrim grammar school | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
has taken a different approach and created a parallel universe. It has | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
pretended this is GCSEs results day and has put students through the joy | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
and trauma they can expect in August. Our reporter was there. | :15:31. | :15:39. | |
Almost 200 GCSEs students are getting their results seven months | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
in advance. This is a novel idea to concentrate their minds. Instead of | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
just handing out results of the mock exams informally this is the full | :15:52. | :15:59. | |
dress rehearsal. They get a pep talk from the rentable and are | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
interviewed by teachers. Have they got good enough grades to stay on or | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
will they have to leave school? This is a dry run but it is a glimpse of | :16:08. | :16:15. | |
reality. For some of the pupils be grades showed they are on track. I | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
got three A stars five Es and to bees, it shows I have done well with | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
my revision. For others it was a rude awakening. I was not too | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
pleased with my results, I know I can do you want better and this has | :16:36. | :16:41. | |
given me the motivation. Why didn't you do better? Not enough revision. | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
There was a significant improvement in percentage terms when we tried | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
this last year. We were delighted with that and felt the sense of | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
motivation. Many parents must be post is telling the teenagers to up | :17:01. | :17:06. | |
their game. This could be the way to get results. It has given my son the | :17:07. | :17:14. | |
blue she needed. The aim is to get them studying hard. No train travel | :17:15. | :17:25. | |
hit a modern-day record last year with almost 13 million journeys. | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
More carriages are being put on at peak times of low it can be a case | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
of standing room only for some passengers. Here is our business | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
correspondent. The train network has never been busier. Significant | :17:43. | :17:48. | |
passenger growth in 2013, some rush-hour trains now six carriages | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
long, twice the normal length, even then, it can be standing room only. | :17:54. | :18:00. | |
I am on the express and not for too long so it is not too bad. There has | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
been a huge difference in terms of comfort. Things like Wi-Fi are very | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
popular. I come from the countryside in. This is how journey numbers | :18:15. | :18:24. | |
stack up. In 2012 the were just over 11 million and last year that | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
increased to just short of 13 million. 20 new trains have gone | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
into service over the past two years and that investment has paid | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
dividends. We now have record levels and it is impressive. It would not | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
compare with what happens in the south of England, decoding, here is | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
some standing but we are we have additional capacity we will put it | :18:55. | :19:02. | |
in place. Enterprise servers also saw some increased passenger use | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
last year and there should be a multi-million pound refurbishment | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
programme for trains secured. Local train fears have been frozen for | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
2014 which, says Stormont, is mainly down to this increase in numbers. | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
Restoration work has finally started to turn the famous World War I | :19:26. | :19:33. | |
fighting ship, HMS Caroline, into a floating museum in Belfast. Millions | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
of pounds will be spent on the conversion. Our reporter has been on | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
board the ship. HMS Caroline is famous because of its involvement in | :19:47. | :19:56. | |
the battle of Jutland in 1914. It has been in Belfast since the 1920s | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
and since then its engines have been taken out and it has been used as a | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
training ship. It has fallen into poor repair since then but it | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
secured money to start fix it up today. The captain is here to tell | :20:14. | :20:24. | |
me more. I is the ship so special? She is the last floating survivor | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
from all those ships that fought in the battle of Jutland almost 100 | :20:30. | :20:36. | |
years ago. Tell me about the money and what it will be used for. It | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
will come in different parts, we effectively have the title which is | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
1.1 million from the Memorial fund to save this chip in Belfast. That | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
package is to prevent further wind and water ingress -- ship. We are | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
getting water into some areas of the ship. How confident are you that you | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
will get the 10 million plus that will turn this ship into a fitting | :21:12. | :21:19. | |
museum? I am confident we will get it. You have to be mindful that the | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
lottery expects the quality submission. If we do the work | :21:26. | :21:30. | |
properly I believe we could have a compelling submission to release the | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
money. It is full steam ahead here for this little piece of our | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
maritime history. Last year's Ulster hurling final will at last be played | :21:43. | :21:45. | |
this weekend, six months later than originally scheduled. Here's | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
Stephen. The final between Down and Antrim was meant to be played last | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
July. It's the showpiece occasion of the local hurling season. But | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
rearranging the match has proved to be PR disaster for the sports | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
governing body, the Ulster Council. And it's still not straightforward. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
In a fixtures farce, Downs players were originally scheduled to be in | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
places for two different matches at the one time. Now they must play | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
twice in 24 hours this weekend. Mark Sidebottom has the story. Hurling in | :22:16. | :22:26. | |
Ulster is stuck in the mud and it is a matter of some conjecture as to | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
whether the sport is sinking or surviving. The 2013 final was to be | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
played last July it was rescheduled for November but that is during the | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
close season and it did not happen. February 22, 2014 was then agreed | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
but County Down had been double booked for that day. It has been | :22:52. | :22:59. | |
devalued almost to the point that it does not matter if it is not played, | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
what does that say to you? If they had played it on the original date | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
this would not have arisen. We need to take a step back now, see what | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
happened and learn from it in the future. It has turned into the | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
ultimate nightmare, the Ulster Council is accused of neglecting the | :23:23. | :23:32. | |
game. The Gaelic players Association has starkly warned this is not good | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
enough. They have to be held accountable here, in the modern era | :23:40. | :23:47. | |
it is not good enough. The games are pivotal to the overall success of | :23:48. | :23:54. | |
the association. That is why we are here today and why we do what we do. | :23:55. | :24:04. | |
The gloss has been taken off this Ulster final. Hopefully the interest | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
generated through the game not being played can be used proactively to | :24:09. | :24:16. | |
ensure this does not happen again. The 2013 and 2014 provincial finals | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
will now be played in the one calendar year and County Down will | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
be forced to play twice in the one weekend. Five years ago this week | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
Rory McIlroy recorded his first ever win as a professional golfer at the | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
Desert Classic. This week he's back at the venue in Dubai with former | :24:34. | :24:36. | |
champions of the tournament to celebrate the events 25th | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
anniversary. This tournament has always been good to me. I had a | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
couple of invites when I was an amateur. I always enjoyed watching | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
it on TV. I will always remember my first win, it is always there shall, | :24:56. | :25:04. | |
first official when, your first is always going to stay with you for | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
the rest of your life. I can basically remember every shot that I | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
plead. Jimmy Callacher has completed his move from Glentoran to Linfield. | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
The defender had signed a pre-contract with Linfield, but the | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
two clubs have now reached a financial agreement, which leaves | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
the 22-year-old free to play for David Jeffrey's side. -- played. | :25:24. | :25:34. | |
Good luck to the Belfast Giants for tonight. Now the weather. It was a | :25:35. | :25:44. | |
case of West was best today. We had some dry weather and sunshine with a | :25:45. | :25:52. | |
picture here of Londonderry. It was a different picture in the east, the | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
rain might not have been so heavy but the fields were sodden. This is | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
how one field in County Antrim looked this morning after another | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
inch of rain fell last night. Eastern counties are closer to the | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
low area. Not too much rain around at the moment but it is likely to | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
get wetter as the night goes on. After midnight and during the early | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
hours the rain in the east will extend further west. They could be a | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
few breaks in the cloud allowing temperatures to get close to two | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
degrees. Generally frost free. Tomorrow morning we will start in | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
the West, there will be some dry weather. Some chilly temperatures | :26:42. | :26:49. | |
for a while. Over towards Belfast, Antrim, down and armour the | :26:50. | :26:54. | |
temperature will pick up. Lots of splashes and water lying around on | :26:55. | :27:02. | |
the roads. It will stay wet through the morning but gradually drying up | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
in a lot of places through the afternoon. County Down perhaps | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
holding onto damp weather for much of the day. A breeze will pick up | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
from the East. Friday night will see the showers die out and temperatures | :27:19. | :27:24. | |
could drop close to freezing. The weather fronts will stay away from | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
us for one day on Thursday, we should see some dry weather but it | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
will feel cold. Writer on Thursday, the rain back for Friday and the | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
weekend and the is already an early warning for that wool stop that's | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
all for now, goodbye. | :27:45. | :27:46. |