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it's time for the news where you are.

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Good evening. There were heated exchanges during an emergency debate

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at the Assembly this afternoon. It was called in the wake of the On The

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Runs crisis. A motion of disgust was proposed by the First Minister,

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Peter Robinson, after nearly 200 letters were issued to republicans

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classified as on the run - assuring them that the police were not

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seeking to arrest them. Here's our Political Correspondent, Martina

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Purdy. Sinn Fein was on the sides of the dams who round in the party

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outside a news conference accusing republicans of running away. The

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innocent victims have been kicked to the curb. We made the ultimate

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sacrifice, our loved ones were murdered, these two girls had loved

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ones murdered. What more can the innocent victims give? Inside the

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chamber, the First Minister accused the Government of keeping him in the

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dark about the On the Run scheme and focused on the inquiry he had been

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promised. It is essential we get at the truth of all that went on in

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order to restore the public confidence that has been so damaged

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by this murky deal. Across the chamber, the Deputy First Minister

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attacked his power-sharing partner over his threat to quit. It is knee

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jerk politics. I believe we need to move quickly, we'd better start

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grappling with the new issues, not manufactured ones. As for the Ulster

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Unionist leader, he said he had little faith in the inquiry and it

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is time for others to tell the truth about what he called dirty deals. If

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there have been more dirty deals, tell us now. Tell us now, because we

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took risks for peace. Sinn Fein and others just took and continue to

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take and the Ulster Unionist Party says this in conclusion - enough is

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enough. The SDLP likened the First Minister to the Grand Old Duke of

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York, while another leader mocked his decision not to resign. -- the

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TUV reader. -- leader. It is a farce, it is a Whitewash, and as for

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the demand that the letters should be rescinded, well, Mrs Foster, I

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think she was on the run herself. After saying that rescinding was a

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resigning issue. Now we find all the Secretary of State had to do was

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repeat what is in the letters already. I find it beneath contempt

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that you are like me to and on the run. The second point, a victim of

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IRA violence is on the run, apparently. The DUP motion calling

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on the government to take swift action to read the old confidence

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was backed by 58 votes to 27 votes. A pipebomb has been found on the

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outskirts of Londonderry. The alert centred on the Braehead Road, close

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to the border with Donegal. A controlled explosion was carried out

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and a number of items taken away for further examination. A former bank

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manager, a solicitor and an estate agent have been jailed for their

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part in a mortgage fraud and money-laundering operation in South

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Armagh and County Louth which involved millions of pounds. Here's

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Gordon Adair. Damian Mallon, a crooked estate agent, Pater Brassil,

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a crooked solicitor with a cocaine habit and Peter Creegan, a crooked

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bank manager. -- Peter. They were the fraud of equivalent of a perfect

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storm. Damian Mallon was a financial adviser, Peter Creegan was manager

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of this bank in Newry and Peter Brassil worked for a law firm. They

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began to apply for and facilitate mortgages across the country. At a

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glance, all the necessary arrangements seem to be in place,

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but the mortgages were fake and the borrowers were either completely

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fictional or were unsuspecting innocents whose identification was

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stolen and used by the gang. This is the village of Omeath in County

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Louth and at the height of the boom, it was one of those places which had

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something about it, property prices seem to be going up day on day, new

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developments like this one were springing up at an incredible rate,

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and with all that money sloshing around, it was the sort of place

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where the trio operated. They arranged a mortgage, supposedly for

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a client in North America, to buy this end terrace house for 180,000

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euros. It was one of many properties bought which were fraudulent. This

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piece of land was mortgaged to the tune of one and a quarter million

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euros. Its actual value is around 40,000 euros. This is common in

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mortgage fraud. It gives the fraudsters an immediate surplus and

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allows them to launder more money in less time. The police have refused

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to speculate on just whose money the trio may have been laundering, but

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when I suggested it could have been the profits from oil or cigarette

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smuggling, a source close to the investigation said that seemed a

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reasonable proposition. There are two things. There is greed at the

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heart of this, a lot of greed. Secondly, these are money-laundering

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offences. These loans were fronted to launder money, it is criminal

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property and I think it is a good result today to show that you cannot

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get away with defrauding both the bank and victims. The Chief

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Inspector said he understood the bank had taken steps to prevent any

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repeat of this situation. A convicted paedophile who had been

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living in Lurgan has been sentenced to three years in prison. The man

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pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a young girl in Lurgan last year.

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Claire Savage reports. 42-year-old David Page, whose address was given

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in Belfast, but who had been living for some time in Albert Street in

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Lurgan, sexually assaulted a young girl. He also breached a sexual

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offences order and his probation. He refused to come out of his cell

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today, so we judge said he would sentence in his absence. The court

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heard his victim had been walking to a friends house when the attack

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happened one afternoon last May. Page stopped outside his home and

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brought inside. He started to kiss on the lips using his hand, he

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touched on the stomach, knee and back. When the six road wanted to

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leave, he shouted at her and warned her not to tell her parents. In

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court, a statement by the victim 's mother was referred to. She said her

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daughter had gone from being a happy-go-lucky to an angry girl. She

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blamed herself that she had gone into his house. Described as a

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persistent offender, the hearing heard he committed a string of sex

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offences since 1991. The most serious crime was raped, for which

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he was sentenced to seven years in 1987. Today, the judge sentenced him

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to three years in prison. In rugby, Tommy Bowe marked his return to the

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Ulster team tonight by crossing the line twice in a five-try victory

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over the Dragons. The Pro12 League clash finished 38-8 at Ravenhill.

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Ruan Pienaar and Sean Doyle also touched down. Paddy Jackson added

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the conversions while Pienaar also kicked a penalty, adding to the home

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side's total. Onto the weekend weather

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You will notice it is quite chilly at their and through the course of

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the night we are expecting some ice to form. We have had showers today

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because temperatures will fall to freezing and below in countryside

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areas and there will be frost and pockets of fog around first thing

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tomorrow. Overall, tomorrow will be disappointing to start the weekend,

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cloudy and fairly damp. Beginning the morning, the best chance of

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brighter weather is across Antrim and County Down but the cloud will

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not take long to reach here and elsewhere, very cloudy and damp. It

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is disappointing across Ireland, grey and damp and the best weather

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tomorrow across many areas of written. Brightening up nicely with

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good spells of sunshine, although it will be a chilly start. By the

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afternoon, temperatures into double figures in the South East. West of

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that will stay on settled and we have this band of rain stretching

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across Ulster and into contact. During the afternoon, that will will

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spread eastwards, not reaching the East Coast of Al fast until six

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o'clock but eventually it will do so, giving us a wet end to the day.

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Temperatures at six degrees, dine on what they should be. It will feel

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quite cold. That rim of clear and temperatures will fall back, so it

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chilly, frosty start for some of us on Sunday, it is the best in the

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morning and eventually it will cloud over once again through the day.

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More rain is on the way although that will clear into next week. We

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are expecting another unsettled outlook. That's it. You can keep

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and Twitter. Goodnight Nowadays we take the issue of

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to ask anybody's religion when I'm going to employ them

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as a sheet metal worker.

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