:00:00. > :00:18.Good evening. The trial of three men charged with sexually abusing two
:00:19. > :00:21.children during the 1990s has begun hearing closing arguments. The
:00:22. > :00:26.alleged victims are a brother and sister. The accused are their
:00:27. > :00:30.father, uncle and a family friend. As David Maxwell reports, the jury
:00:31. > :00:36.was reminded of detailed and at times distressing evidence. This
:00:37. > :00:39.trial is now in its third week and today the Judy were told they will
:00:40. > :00:56.not be presented with any more evidence. The lawyers summed up the
:00:57. > :01:04.case reminding the Judy of details. The prosecution lawyer asked the
:01:05. > :01:10.Judy live with the alleged victims wait for years and then concoct
:01:11. > :01:15.wicked lies? Why would the submit themselves to open court and in one
:01:16. > :01:22.case an intimate examination if none of this was true. The court were
:01:23. > :01:28.called to the men admitted an offence against their own sister in
:01:29. > :01:33.the 70s and 80s. A defence barrister for the man described as a family
:01:34. > :01:38.friend then summed up our client is accused of offences connected to the
:01:39. > :01:44.alleged female victim. It was asked why she had made no mention of his
:01:45. > :01:49.client or the parties when first reporting this to the police. He
:01:50. > :01:55.said the logical explanation was that these people did not exist and
:01:56. > :01:59.the parties did not happen. There have been appeals for an end to
:02:00. > :02:03.internet drinking contests after the death of a teenager in the Republic.
:02:04. > :02:07.The new craze is called Neknominations. People consume a
:02:08. > :02:13.concoction of alcohol drinks and then nominate or dare someone to go
:02:14. > :02:16.one better. BBC Newsline's Tara Mills reports on a local web page
:02:17. > :02:26.that's decided to change what it posts. We are going to try the
:02:27. > :02:33.challenge. I will kick it off and go first. One of the local challenges.
:02:34. > :02:39.This concoction only contained the alias types of drinks but nail
:02:40. > :02:48.polish remover is just one of the things added to others. The father
:02:49. > :02:52.of this 19-year-old said he fell into the water while carrying out a
:02:53. > :02:57.stunt connected to one of these sites based in the Republic. I am
:02:58. > :03:04.appealing to every youngster to think of what they are doing, it has
:03:05. > :03:10.caused my son his life. The whole family is devastated and our lives
:03:11. > :03:15.will never be the same again. It has prompted those running a similar
:03:16. > :03:19.site north of the border to rethink. By the weekend it had 11,000
:03:20. > :03:24.followers, over the weekend those running the site debated whether or
:03:25. > :03:28.not to keep it going but this morning they decided to shut it
:03:29. > :03:42.down. The site now promotes safe drinking.
:03:43. > :03:48.The fact that people are often drinking alone and the potentially
:03:49. > :03:57.toxic mixture is they are consuming has been ringing alarm bells. We saw
:03:58. > :04:03.a full bottle of tequila being drank whiskey bottle of milk. We saw motor
:04:04. > :04:09.oil being added to a concoction. People need to be aware that these
:04:10. > :04:17.can be very toxic substances not for consumption by humans. This pup
:04:18. > :04:25.called as they have now removed this video from their Facebook age and
:04:26. > :04:30.will not be repeating this prank. They do not tolerate anything which
:04:31. > :04:33.is directly harmful. A 36-year-old man has been found not guilty of the
:04:34. > :04:36.manslaughter of a nightclub bouncer in Portrush. Colin McLeister died
:04:37. > :04:39.after falling down stairs at the Playhouse complex while escorting
:04:40. > :04:41.the accused from the premises. The prosecution had alleged Murdock
:04:42. > :04:46.Martin Doherty, from Hawthorn Crescent in Dunloy, had pushed the
:04:47. > :04:51.doorman. But he said he had accidentally stumbled into him. An
:04:52. > :04:54.investigation has concluded that an Ulster Unionist MLA's wife was
:04:55. > :05:00.accidentally hit by her husband and not by the police during a protest.
:05:01. > :05:05.Michael Copeland had accused a police officer of hitting his wife
:05:06. > :05:14.with a baton last August. Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent
:05:15. > :05:22.Kearney reports. 26 officers were hurt when loyalists attacked police
:05:23. > :05:26.in the city centre last August. They gathered to demonstrate against the
:05:27. > :05:32.republican parade which had been due to March. Please came under
:05:33. > :05:36.sustained attack. The Ulster Unionist MLE Michael Copeland later
:05:37. > :05:42.claimed his wife, daughter and himself had been attacked by a
:05:43. > :05:46.police officer. I was kicked underneath a police shield, pushed
:05:47. > :05:50.by a police shield, my daughter was struck by the edge of the police
:05:51. > :05:57.shield and my wife was struck as well. The politician made a
:05:58. > :06:04.complaint and video footage was asked for. The footage shows Michael
:06:05. > :06:09.Cope and standing with his back turned to the line of pleas officers
:06:10. > :06:12.comic he appears to be urging members of the crowd to start
:06:13. > :06:21.attacking police when a protest lunges forward. A police officer is
:06:22. > :06:28.seen to strike out with his bat on. The MLA docs and swings his elbow
:06:29. > :06:34.accidentally hitting his wife on the back of the head, neither appears to
:06:35. > :06:43.realise what happened. Michael Cope and was in the Assembly today but
:06:44. > :06:48.said he did not want to comment. The PSNI also declined to comment. One
:06:49. > :06:50.of two soldiers killed in a car crash in North Yorkshire at the
:06:51. > :06:54.weekend was from Northern Ireland. 23-year-old Mark McKeen died when
:06:55. > :06:57.their car hit a tree near Catterick Garrison. Both men served with The
:06:58. > :07:00.Royal Dragoon Guards. The combination of wind, high tides and
:07:01. > :07:03.driving rain caused problems on some coastal roads in County Down today.
:07:04. > :07:14.But properties were spared any serious flooding. Helen Jones
:07:15. > :07:18.reports. High tide in Newcastle and the surge gathers momentum, huge
:07:19. > :07:26.waves crash over the seafront claiming the promenade and closing
:07:27. > :07:35.it for a while this afternoon. Further up the coast and the most of
:07:36. > :07:41.the harbour gets a battering. This is the course will road, it seems
:07:42. > :07:51.like only four vehicles were able to pass. Others tried anyway. And an
:07:52. > :07:54.already flooded Ards Peninsula gets another soaking. Attempts to
:07:55. > :08:01.reinforce the sea wall are abandoned. Workers downed tools
:08:02. > :08:05.because conditions are just too dangerous. Not long after these
:08:06. > :08:10.pictures were taken this section of the coastal road was closed to
:08:11. > :08:16.traffic. Damage is being assessed but it could be sometime before the
:08:17. > :08:22.full cost of repair is known. And the weather forecast now. Good
:08:23. > :08:30.evening. We have more wet and windy weather to come. It will be quite
:08:31. > :08:41.chilly with the odd shower in the West. Tomorrow the car windscreens
:08:42. > :08:46.may need scraping. It will be an improvement on today. Pockets of fog
:08:47. > :08:51.but the sun should come through in most places as the morning
:08:52. > :08:56.progresses. A few showers scattered around over western areas. The last
:08:57. > :09:02.of the rain clearing away from north-east Scotland. Another area of
:09:03. > :09:04.stormy weather will bring heavy rain to the Republic of Ireland and
:09:05. > :09:10.southwestern Britain later in the day. The wet and when the weather
:09:11. > :09:16.will come forward for Tuesday night into Wednesday. A few showers in the
:09:17. > :09:23.East on Tuesday but a lot of places will stay dry. And early warning is
:09:24. > :09:27.out for yet more stormy weather to develop through Tuesday night and
:09:28. > :09:34.into Wednesday. It is another area of low pressure in the South West of
:09:35. > :09:40.Ireland. Rain and gusts are expected. We are the is the high
:09:41. > :09:47.tide and all those things come together they will be a risk of
:09:48. > :09:57.flooding again. It will quieten down again later in the week. And a
:09:58. > :10:00.football result just in tonight, Glenavon have beaten Ards three -
:10:01. > :10:02.one in their Danske Bank Premiership match at