10/03/2014 BBC Newsline

into why some police forces in the UK are failing to

Hello and welcome to BBC Newsline. The police are continuing to

question a 23-year-old man about the death of a Co Antrim soldier at his

barracks in England at the weekend. The family of Corporal Geoffrey

McNeill of the Royal Irish Regiment, said he'd served with dedication and

honour. Conor Macauley reports. The key was found dead in his barracks

at the weekend. He was based in Shropshire with the 1st Battalion

the Royal Irish Regiment. The 1st Battalion who are conducting the

regiment arrested a 23-year-old soldier on suspicion of murder. This

death has come as a shock to the people living in the town where he

was born. When a young man joins the services he expects to be in places

where there is a danger but we never expect these circumstances to be the

danger that brings a life to an end. This community will have their

thoughts and prayers with the family as they believe that there is very

sad and tragic time. The family issued a statement this afternoon.

One of his brothers said he had dedicated his life to the regiment

and had served with dedication and honour. He said he was the marched

-- much loved brother, uncle and son who had touched the lives of

everybody who knew him. The Prime Minister has passed on his

congratulations to Kelly Gallagher from Bangor who earlier today won

Team GB's first ever Gold medal at the Winter Paralympic Games in

Sochi. The visually impaired skier along with her guide Charlotte

Evans, came first in the Super G event. I am just so excited. It

shows you do not have to be from Austria or the USA to be a gold

medallist. You can rain at home, quality training, you can just keep

on working hard. Such hard work with our ups and downs. She did it for

her daddy, we lost 1018 months ago. She did does all proud. So did

Charlotte bringing her down safe, I am just so happy. Well BBC

Newsline's Mervyn Jess has spent the day in Kelly's hometown of Bangor

getting reaction to her success. Training in the Alps at the end of

last year. Kelly Gallagher prepared well for the Winter Paralympics and

it paid off with the gold medal. In her home town this morning news of

her win was just beginning to sink in, especially at her old school.

This man had taught the golden girl chemistry a few years ago. She did

everything, from racing water boards to tooling through the new Forest,

she never backed out. The fact that someone who was like ours is now

achieving so much on the world stage is amazing. One idea of how to mark

this momentous occasion is to paint her local letterbox in gold. It is

brilliant news. One idea is to paint that letterbox cold. Smashing,

brilliant. I had not heard about it. You know more about it now. I do,

thanks for that! She is quite modest, does not push herself freely

but we all know she is the world-class champion and she

certainly proved that today. She is making headlines further afield

while drawing trees from all quarters including the Prime

Minister. I woke up this morning and heard that she had won. It is

fantastic. She is a great girl, her family and I am sure the whole of

anger are delighted for her. I would say the role of the civil services

cheering for her as well, it she used to work here. It is the real

honour to have an Olympic champion in the school and it was a terrific

start to Monday morning for all abuzz. When I had heard here ten

years ago I could tell she was going to do something special. She is a

fantastic girl, I take my hat off to heart. Charges linked to the Robert

Hamill murder investigation will be reinstated against three people

following a court ruling. Robert Hamill was killed by a loyalist gang

in Portadown in 1997. Former RUC officer Robert Cecil Atkinson and

his wife Eleanor, both from Brownstown Road in Portadown, and

Kenneth Hanvey from Derryanvil Road also in the town, face charges of

conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Two men have been arrested

in connection with pipe bomb attacks in Londonderry on Saturday. Police

say the devices were packed with nails and IP left that the homes of

two remaining families. One of the devices partially exploded, there

were no injuries. A priest who was acquitted in 2012 of sexual assault

charges against a teenage girl, is to return to his parish. Father

Eugene Boland, who was Parish Priest in Cappagh in the Derry Diocese

stepped aside four years ago while the allegations were investigated.

The Belfast schoolgirl who shared a stage with President Obama and the

First Lady ahead of the G8 summit last summer is attending the St

Patrick's day reception at the Whitehouse later this week. Hannah

Nelson, a pupil at Methodist college, made headlines around the

world with an impassioned speech about her desire for lasting peace.

I would not say particularly that my life has changed I was just the

young person giving across the message and that is all I wanted to

be. I did not want to stand up and be any different, I was just giving

the views of the young people and it was supported greatly as I find out

from social messaging responses. A wallaby and her joey have escaped

from privately owned land in County Down. They went missing on Friday

from the Knocksticken Road outside Clough on the road to Newcastle. The

police say they should not be approached. The mother is just over

two-feet high and her baby is white in colour. Football, and Glenavon

are through to the semi-finals of the Irish cup after they beat

Glentoran tonight, two goals to one at the Oval. Now tomorrow morning on

Good Morning Ulster: A professor at Queen's University tells the

programme he has evidence that older people are not getting the same

treatment for cancer as younger patients and so are less likely to

survive the disease. That's from 6:30 in the morning. There was

plenty of dry and sunny weather today but will there be more

tomorrow? Here's Barra Best with the forecast. It has been a cracking

start to the week. I pressure is in control and it is here to stay

through the week. It will give us good weather during the day but cold

weather by night. Tonight we will have frost away from the course as

temperatures drop below freezing. Pockets of mist and fog for tomorrow

morning. There may be visibility problems on some roads. It is going

to be a fine dry day weather-wise. The high pressure which is

controlling our weather will control the weather right across Britain and

Ireland throughout the day tomorrow. Noreen on the forecast for

anyone. The best of the sunshine will be in northern wheels, northern

England and up through Scotland. In the southern areas of England it

will be cloudy at times but it will still be bright. Temperatures for

hours in the afternoon will peak at around 12 Celsius. It will feel

pleasant out and about. A good day for hanging out the washing. It will

be another chilly night as we go into Wednesday. Today and tomorrow

the fog will left and it will be sunny. On Thursday there may be a

through spots of light rain -- a few spots of cloudy weather but it will

stay dry. That's all from me, good