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That is all from us. Newsnight is on BBC Two in a few moments, asking

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what lessons the flood have Good evening.

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The only survivor of what became known as the Kingsmills massacre

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believes State Agents may have been involved in the IRA attack when ten

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protestants were shot dead. The State involvement claim was made

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during a preliminary The claim was made during a

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preliminary hearing of the Coroners' Courtment

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Ten textile workers were shot dead after masked gunmen flagged down

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their minibus when they were travelling home from work. The only

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Catholic on board was ordered away from the scene before his workmates

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were begun gunned down. Alan Black survived the shooting, during the

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preliminary hearing, his lawyer claimed Mr Black believed that

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agents of the State may have been involved in the attack. Well, some

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18 months ago, Karen, Tanya and Mandy, the three sisters and I got

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involved to get the inquests reopened. In that year-and-a-half,

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this has been a giant stride forward. We feel at last we have got

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to this position now where there will be a search for the truth and

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that's what we want above all. The new inquests were announced last

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August by the Attorney-General, the coroner described the attack as one

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of the most horrific of the troubles and given the time scale, he said

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there was merit in having this case heard earlier rather than later.

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The families say their fight for justice goes on. Oh, until the end.

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Until my dying day. I am 87 now and I might not have long to live. I

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would like to get to the truth and have justice done.

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

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been a long time coming? Yes, but it will come in the end. We will know

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all about it before we die. For the families, some headway is

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being made on the road towards finding out what happened on that

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night in South Armagh. A County Down man has been sentenced

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to life for the murder of Philip Strickland. Jimmy Seales of

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Ballykeel Road in Hillsborough had denied the charge. Mr Strickland was

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found in a car near Comber in January 2012. The jury is still

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deliberating in the case of Seales' co-accused, 26-year-old Stephen

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McCaughey of Shackleton Walk in Newtownards. They will return

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tomorrow morning. A prison officer has admitted he

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didn't keep a proper watch on a suicidal prisoner who hanged himself

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at Maghaberry prison. Daniel Barclay will be sentenced next month for

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misconduct in public office. Colin Bell, a 34-year-old convicted

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murderer, took his own life in 2008. The Health Minister has ordered a

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report on the possible impact of a minimum price for alcohol to address

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excessive drinking. More than 100 young people were treated for the

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effects of alcohol at a music gig in Belfast earlier this month. Edwin

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Poots said many of them were already drunk when they arrived by coach, an

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issue he would also like to address. We can make it more difficult for

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them to drink on coaches for a start. It is illegal in the first

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place. But it is not very well enforced and we need to toughen the

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legislation and the department for environment and the Department of

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Justice are going off to look at that and they will come back to us.

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Hopefully in the next couple of months to identify a way forward on

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that. The time children spend on computer

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games is a concern for parents, but more worryingly is the money they

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could be spending. As Will Leitch reports some children have run up

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bills of over ?1,000. Kids, consoles and controllers, it looks like fun,

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but who is controlling the purse strings? With modern gaming

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consoles, smartphones and tablets, it is ridiculously easy to buy extra

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features for games and spend more than a parent might ever suspect.

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The games might be virtual, but the costs can be real enough. We have

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come across examples where children have clipped to buy extra features

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and upgrades and run up bills of hundreds of pounds without their

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parents knowing. We have found details of one family where things

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got more out of hand. In just three days, an 11-year-old boy from County

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Antrim ran up charges of over ?1,000 on his parents' K their bank

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statements showed dozens of payments to Google and Microsoft. The changes

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range from ?2.99 to ?18. In one day alone, there were 25 transactions of

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?6.99 and a further 19 payments of ?13.99. The total for that one day

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came to ?450. Microsoft told us: Sony consoles and other games offer

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similar settings. One expert in the use of this kind of technology says

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parents need to get informed and take control or they will pay for

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it. My advice to parents are to use parental accounts. Set up child

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accounts so the child accounts are not linked to the credit card. The

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parents would have to enter a pass code for the children to buy games.

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Parents be ware, only you should know the passwords or PIN numbers

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that could let your children spend serious amounts of your money.

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Last project on which the poet, Seamus Heaney, worked is an unlikely

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mix of 500-year-old morality tales, a world renowned pianist and a

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Scottish comedian. As our arts correspondent, Maggie Taggart

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reports, Billy Connolly was flabbergasted to be entrusted with

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the job of reading the stories for television. Well, well, Mr Sister

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said the country mouse, seeing that you are here, you are welcome to the

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free run of the house and food and drink. The five fables read by Billy

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Connolly were translated by Seamus Heaney and he was working on them

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until before he died last August. A County Down animation studio put

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pictures in the tales about animals and their adventures. Content

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yourself with a few possessions. Seamus Heaney was keen to have Billy

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Connolly after seeing him in the Mrs Brown movie. The actor told of his

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surprise. I was kind of flabbergasted that he asked me to do

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anything. I thought why would he choose me to do a thing like that?

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

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thought he could get an Irishman to do it! Seamus put his trust in a

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musician better known for performing than composing. I said Seamus it is

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not my day job to be a composer. He said, "I really think you can do

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this." I plunged in and hoped for the best. The noble laureate was

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closely involved in the recordings. His widow says he wasn't precious

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about making changes. Everyone was slightly nervous about giving

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instructions. He took them. That was the outstanding thing about it, that

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Seamus liked, he was open to suggestions. My Good Friday is

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better than your Easter. Marie has been unundated with 1,000 sympathy

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letters and poems. The series will be on BBC One, but there is no date

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for broadcast. Look ahead to a story we'll have on

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television, radio and online tomorrow. A warning from the

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families of two young people who died from eating disorders. I never

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bend issed to be this thin. That was never my intention and it was almost

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as though it just had roller coastered for her as well. Again,

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you know, I can't stress to people enough just how much your mind plays

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such a big part in this because it is almost as though you are taken

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over and you can't stop it. A news report for tomorrow. The

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weather for tomorrow. Hello there. It will stay pretty

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damp through the rest of the night. Some of the rain will be heavy and

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prolonged particularly over parts of Fermanagh, Armagh and maybe parts of

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Tyrone as well. So there is an area of rain. It will sit there for a

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while over the south-west in particular. Maybe lead in to

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localised flooding by the end of the night. Most places will have a damp

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night. Lots of mist and low cloudy specially on high level roads, but

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no frost or ice anywhere. Maybe some big puddles on the roads, areas of

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surface water as well to avoid and it will be damp to begin with

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tomorrow, but it should brighten up compared to Todd and it won't be as

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wet either. To begin with, there will be an area of rain working

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south-east wards. During the second half of the morning, we should see

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drier weather and brightness develop and it will be dry and brighter

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across the Republic of Ireland compared to today. Not as dull and

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in many places temperatures will sneak into double figures. The

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exception being the north of Scotland where heavy rain will fall

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as snow above 1,000 feet. For Northern Ireland, mild temperatures

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up to nine or ten Celsius. Dry gaps as well over Belfast, Armagh and

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County Down. Some showers scattered around elsewhere. But there will be

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dry gaps in between and Wednesday, will see drier weather for a time

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and it will feel mild, but late in the day on Wednesday, mainly through

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Wednesday night, the next weather system will move in and that will

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bring wet and windy weather on Thursday followed by blustery

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showers on Friday. And that was BBC Newsline. Good

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night. Sleep well.

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