17/02/2014

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:00:00. > 3:59:59That is all from us. Newsnight is on BBC Two in a few moments, asking

:00:00. > :00:11.what lessons the flood have Good evening.

:00:12. > :00:14.The only survivor of what became known as the Kingsmills massacre

:00:15. > :00:18.believes State Agents may have been involved in the IRA attack when ten

:00:19. > :00:20.protestants were shot dead. The State involvement claim was made

:00:21. > :00:26.during a preliminary The claim was made during a

:00:27. > :00:29.preliminary hearing of the Coroners' Courtment

:00:30. > :00:34.Ten textile workers were shot dead after masked gunmen flagged down

:00:35. > :00:37.their minibus when they were travelling home from work. The only

:00:38. > :00:44.Catholic on board was ordered away from the scene before his workmates

:00:45. > :00:49.were begun gunned down. Alan Black survived the shooting, during the

:00:50. > :00:52.preliminary hearing, his lawyer claimed Mr Black believed that

:00:53. > :00:58.agents of the State may have been involved in the attack. Well, some

:00:59. > :01:03.18 months ago, Karen, Tanya and Mandy, the three sisters and I got

:01:04. > :01:07.involved to get the inquests reopened. In that year-and-a-half,

:01:08. > :01:11.this has been a giant stride forward. We feel at last we have got

:01:12. > :01:15.to this position now where there will be a search for the truth and

:01:16. > :01:20.that's what we want above all. The new inquests were announced last

:01:21. > :01:24.August by the Attorney-General, the coroner described the attack as one

:01:25. > :01:27.of the most horrific of the troubles and given the time scale, he said

:01:28. > :01:35.there was merit in having this case heard earlier rather than later.

:01:36. > :01:42.The families say their fight for justice goes on. Oh, until the end.

:01:43. > :01:47.Until my dying day. I am 87 now and I might not have long to live. I

:01:48. > :01:52.would like to get to the truth and have justice done.

:01:53. > :01:59.REPORTER: Do you think you will get to the truth? I hope we will. It has

:02:00. > :02:05.been a long time coming? Yes, but it will come in the end. We will know

:02:06. > :02:10.all about it before we die. For the families, some headway is

:02:11. > :02:13.being made on the road towards finding out what happened on that

:02:14. > :02:28.night in South Armagh. A County Down man has been sentenced

:02:29. > :02:34.to life for the murder of Philip Strickland. Jimmy Seales of

:02:35. > :02:41.Ballykeel Road in Hillsborough had denied the charge. Mr Strickland was

:02:42. > :02:45.found in a car near Comber in January 2012. The jury is still

:02:46. > :02:47.deliberating in the case of Seales' co-accused, 26-year-old Stephen

:02:48. > :02:49.McCaughey of Shackleton Walk in Newtownards. They will return

:02:50. > :02:52.tomorrow morning. A prison officer has admitted he

:02:53. > :02:54.didn't keep a proper watch on a suicidal prisoner who hanged himself

:02:55. > :02:58.at Maghaberry prison. Daniel Barclay will be sentenced next month for

:02:59. > :03:01.misconduct in public office. Colin Bell, a 34-year-old convicted

:03:02. > :03:04.murderer, took his own life in 2008. The Health Minister has ordered a

:03:05. > :03:08.report on the possible impact of a minimum price for alcohol to address

:03:09. > :03:12.excessive drinking. More than 100 young people were treated for the

:03:13. > :03:15.effects of alcohol at a music gig in Belfast earlier this month. Edwin

:03:16. > :03:19.Poots said many of them were already drunk when they arrived by coach, an

:03:20. > :03:22.issue he would also like to address. We can make it more difficult for

:03:23. > :03:25.them to drink on coaches for a start. It is illegal in the first

:03:26. > :03:29.place. But it is not very well enforced and we need to toughen the

:03:30. > :03:31.legislation and the department for environment and the Department of

:03:32. > :03:34.Justice are going off to look at that and they will come back to us.

:03:35. > :03:38.Hopefully in the next couple of months to identify a way forward on

:03:39. > :03:41.that. The time children spend on computer

:03:42. > :03:46.games is a concern for parents, but more worryingly is the money they

:03:47. > :03:53.could be spending. As Will Leitch reports some children have run up

:03:54. > :03:57.bills of over ?1,000. Kids, consoles and controllers, it looks like fun,

:03:58. > :04:01.but who is controlling the purse strings? With modern gaming

:04:02. > :04:05.consoles, smartphones and tablets, it is ridiculously easy to buy extra

:04:06. > :04:11.features for games and spend more than a parent might ever suspect.

:04:12. > :04:16.The games might be virtual, but the costs can be real enough. We have

:04:17. > :04:21.come across examples where children have clipped to buy extra features

:04:22. > :04:24.and upgrades and run up bills of hundreds of pounds without their

:04:25. > :04:29.parents knowing. We have found details of one family where things

:04:30. > :04:35.got more out of hand. In just three days, an 11-year-old boy from County

:04:36. > :04:40.Antrim ran up charges of over ?1,000 on his parents' K their bank

:04:41. > :04:48.statements showed dozens of payments to Google and Microsoft. The changes

:04:49. > :04:55.range from ?2.99 to ?18. In one day alone, there were 25 transactions of

:04:56. > :04:57.?6.99 and a further 19 payments of ?13.99. The total for that one day

:04:58. > :05:18.came to ?450. Microsoft told us: Sony consoles and other games offer

:05:19. > :05:25.similar settings. One expert in the use of this kind of technology says

:05:26. > :05:30.parents need to get informed and take control or they will pay for

:05:31. > :05:34.it. My advice to parents are to use parental accounts. Set up child

:05:35. > :05:42.accounts so the child accounts are not linked to the credit card. The

:05:43. > :05:46.parents would have to enter a pass code for the children to buy games.

:05:47. > :05:51.Parents be ware, only you should know the passwords or PIN numbers

:05:52. > :05:57.that could let your children spend serious amounts of your money.

:05:58. > :06:01.Last project on which the poet, Seamus Heaney, worked is an unlikely

:06:02. > :06:06.mix of 500-year-old morality tales, a world renowned pianist and a

:06:07. > :06:08.Scottish comedian. As our arts correspondent, Maggie Taggart

:06:09. > :06:12.reports, Billy Connolly was flabbergasted to be entrusted with

:06:13. > :06:18.the job of reading the stories for television. Well, well, Mr Sister

:06:19. > :06:25.said the country mouse, seeing that you are here, you are welcome to the

:06:26. > :06:30.free run of the house and food and drink. The five fables read by Billy

:06:31. > :06:34.Connolly were translated by Seamus Heaney and he was working on them

:06:35. > :06:38.until before he died last August. A County Down animation studio put

:06:39. > :06:44.pictures in the tales about animals and their adventures. Content

:06:45. > :06:50.yourself with a few possessions. Seamus Heaney was keen to have Billy

:06:51. > :06:56.Connolly after seeing him in the Mrs Brown movie. The actor told of his

:06:57. > :07:00.surprise. I was kind of flabbergasted that he asked me to do

:07:01. > :07:06.anything. I thought why would he choose me to do a thing like that?

:07:07. > :07:11.Not only is he a genius poet, but he is adored and loved in Ireland. I

:07:12. > :07:23.thought he could get an Irishman to do it! Seamus put his trust in a

:07:24. > :07:32.musician better known for performing than composing. I said Seamus it is

:07:33. > :07:38.not my day job to be a composer. He said, "I really think you can do

:07:39. > :07:46.this." I plunged in and hoped for the best. The noble laureate was

:07:47. > :07:51.closely involved in the recordings. His widow says he wasn't precious

:07:52. > :07:55.about making changes. Everyone was slightly nervous about giving

:07:56. > :08:00.instructions. He took them. That was the outstanding thing about it, that

:08:01. > :08:06.Seamus liked, he was open to suggestions. My Good Friday is

:08:07. > :08:12.better than your Easter. Marie has been unundated with 1,000 sympathy

:08:13. > :08:15.letters and poems. The series will be on BBC One, but there is no date

:08:16. > :08:24.for broadcast. Look ahead to a story we'll have on

:08:25. > :08:29.television, radio and online tomorrow. A warning from the

:08:30. > :08:34.families of two young people who died from eating disorders. I never

:08:35. > :08:38.bend issed to be this thin. That was never my intention and it was almost

:08:39. > :08:43.as though it just had roller coastered for her as well. Again,

:08:44. > :08:48.you know, I can't stress to people enough just how much your mind plays

:08:49. > :08:52.such a big part in this because it is almost as though you are taken

:08:53. > :08:57.over and you can't stop it. A news report for tomorrow. The

:08:58. > :09:00.weather for tomorrow. Hello there. It will stay pretty

:09:01. > :09:04.damp through the rest of the night. Some of the rain will be heavy and

:09:05. > :09:10.prolonged particularly over parts of Fermanagh, Armagh and maybe parts of

:09:11. > :09:13.Tyrone as well. So there is an area of rain. It will sit there for a

:09:14. > :09:16.while over the south-west in particular. Maybe lead in to

:09:17. > :09:21.localised flooding by the end of the night. Most places will have a damp

:09:22. > :09:26.night. Lots of mist and low cloudy specially on high level roads, but

:09:27. > :09:31.no frost or ice anywhere. Maybe some big puddles on the roads, areas of

:09:32. > :09:34.surface water as well to avoid and it will be damp to begin with

:09:35. > :09:38.tomorrow, but it should brighten up compared to Todd and it won't be as

:09:39. > :09:41.wet either. To begin with, there will be an area of rain working

:09:42. > :09:44.south-east wards. During the second half of the morning, we should see

:09:45. > :09:47.drier weather and brightness develop and it will be dry and brighter

:09:48. > :09:55.across the Republic of Ireland compared to today. Not as dull and

:09:56. > :09:59.in many places temperatures will sneak into double figures. The

:10:00. > :10:04.exception being the north of Scotland where heavy rain will fall

:10:05. > :10:07.as snow above 1,000 feet. For Northern Ireland, mild temperatures

:10:08. > :10:11.up to nine or ten Celsius. Dry gaps as well over Belfast, Armagh and

:10:12. > :10:15.County Down. Some showers scattered around elsewhere. But there will be

:10:16. > :10:19.dry gaps in between and Wednesday, will see drier weather for a time

:10:20. > :10:22.and it will feel mild, but late in the day on Wednesday, mainly through

:10:23. > :10:26.Wednesday night, the next weather system will move in and that will

:10:27. > :10:29.bring wet and windy weather on Thursday followed by blustery

:10:30. > :10:32.showers on Friday. And that was BBC Newsline. Good

:10:33. > :10:36.night. Sleep well.