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:00:00. > :00:00.Wollaston, the MP who first brought to the attention of parliamentary

:00:00. > :00:38.authorities the allegations The environment minister says he

:00:39. > :00:41.will introduce legislation to ban election posters along the route of

:00:42. > :00:43.next month's Giro D'Italia cycle race. Political parties have been

:00:44. > :00:47.discussing a voluntary agreement, but Mark H Durkan says it will be

:00:48. > :00:49.enforced. Mark Simpson reports. The authorities are not taking any

:00:50. > :00:55.chances. The environment minister will introduce an election poster

:00:56. > :01:01.ban covering every mile that the cyclists will cover. Some will

:01:02. > :01:05.choose to put posters up along the route before that but if they do not

:01:06. > :01:12.have them down by the eighth, we will be bringing them down. Will

:01:13. > :01:16.there be any penalty for those who keep their posters up? I hope we

:01:17. > :01:25.will not need to sanction anyone and no-one flights this law. The

:01:26. > :01:31.reaction to the temporary ban is generally positive. Yeah, why not. I

:01:32. > :01:38.think banning is the right way to go. I think with so many viewers

:01:39. > :01:47.worldwide we want to keep the place nice and clean and tidy so it is

:01:48. > :01:53.good. The countdown has now begun for that big weekend of racing.

:01:54. > :02:01.There will still be by all accounts the party atmosphere. In Belfast, a

:02:02. > :02:06.week-long festival is being planned. We are asking people to come down,

:02:07. > :02:13.have a good time in your own city and best of all be majority of it is

:02:14. > :02:23.free. We are dressing buildings, painting buildings pent, -- pink.

:02:24. > :02:28.I'd much there are still 25 days to go until the big race starts but it

:02:29. > :02:32.is already clear that Northern Ireland is getting into the mood and

:02:33. > :02:36.more and more people are getting on their bikes. The jury in the trial

:02:37. > :02:39.of three former directors of the failed Anglo Irish Bank has been

:02:40. > :02:42.sent home for the night. The Former chairman Sean FitzPatrick, William

:02:43. > :02:44.McAteer and Pat Whelan deny providing unlawful financial

:02:45. > :02:49.assistance to some clients to buy shares in Anglo six years ago. The

:02:50. > :02:52.jury began deliberating on Friday afternoon after hearing ten weeks of

:02:53. > :02:58.evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court. Ireland's tallest building -

:02:59. > :03:02.the Obel in Belfast - has been sold to a New York based property fund

:03:03. > :03:08.which is reported to have paid "significantly more" than the ?20

:03:09. > :03:11.million guide price. The 28 storey development on Donegall Quay

:03:12. > :03:18.contains offices and 280 apartments and was effectively repossessed in

:03:19. > :03:22.November 2012. It had only been on the market for a month when it was

:03:23. > :03:31.purchased by the new owner whose name has not, as yet, been made

:03:32. > :03:37.public. It is a sign of what has been going on for 12 months now. The

:03:38. > :03:41.market is moving. People are coming in, taking the place of the old

:03:42. > :03:45.Irish banks that have been in difficulty, that old debt is being

:03:46. > :03:50.paid off and we are getting fresh money into the markets. It is a good

:03:51. > :03:53.sign. A man who was being questioned about a dissident republican bomb

:03:54. > :03:56.attack on a police Land Rover in Belfast has been released

:03:57. > :04:07.unconditionally. A device exploded as the patrol travelled along the

:04:08. > :04:10.Falls Road last month. Work was due to begin on the redevelopment of

:04:11. > :04:13.Casement Park this morning but was held up when members of a social

:04:14. > :04:16.club in its grounds threatened a sit-in. The situation was later

:04:17. > :04:19.resolved after talks with the GAA, as Conor Macauley reports. The

:04:20. > :04:23.renovation of Casement Park and the fate of the social club which has

:04:24. > :04:34.been there for many years had caused former friends in the football

:04:35. > :04:38.Association to fall out. On Friday there was a solicitor 's letter

:04:39. > :04:47.telling them to be out by today when work was due to start. That led to a

:04:48. > :04:52.sit in. We have been at Casement Park for over 45 years. It was a

:04:53. > :05:03.place for the eels to meet and socialise. All the profits from the

:05:04. > :05:11.club went to the County board. -- Gales. It now appears the letter was

:05:12. > :05:15.a misunderstanding and should not have been issued. This afternoon

:05:16. > :05:21.after the meeting things have been sorted out to satisfaction. Some

:05:22. > :05:24.parents have criticised prices charged for merchandise at the

:05:25. > :05:35.Disney on Ice show at the Odyssey in Belfast over the past few days.

:05:36. > :05:40.Louise Cullen reports. The date with Donald and Mickey. This father spent

:05:41. > :05:47.?60 on tickets and looked forward to the big day. He had not planned on

:05:48. > :05:52.being big prices for popcorn. Another 60 or ?70 could easily have

:05:53. > :05:57.been spent. The difficulty came when the children saw the merchandise and

:05:58. > :06:02.gifts that was there for them. Five-year-old son three-year-old, it

:06:03. > :06:11.is difficult to tell them no. It put a bit of read-out on it. At ?9 for a

:06:12. > :06:16.frozen ice drink and ?8 for popcorn, if you had brought two children,

:06:17. > :06:22.paid for refreshments and parking you would have spent nearly ?100 for

:06:23. > :06:27.a day out. Many agreed on Facebook but some thought it was only to be

:06:28. > :06:34.expected. The arena would not comment and Disney have not

:06:35. > :06:40.responded to enquiries but the prices are set by Disney as part of

:06:41. > :06:43.their overall merchandising. 70 years after he was killed in action,

:06:44. > :06:46.an RAF man from Aghadowey has been posthumously awarded three war

:06:47. > :06:48.medals. Howard McQuigg's wartime service was never officially

:06:49. > :06:56.recognised until a few weeks ago when his sister got a package from

:06:57. > :07:02.the Ministry of Defence. Our North-East reporter David Maxwell

:07:03. > :07:07.has the story. New medals for a life lost decades ago. They belong to

:07:08. > :07:13.this man who left his family home in 1937 to join their force. Two years

:07:14. > :07:20.later, with the outbreak of war, he took on the role of the there gunner

:07:21. > :07:31.on bombing raids. In 1941 he ordered one of these aircraft to cripple the

:07:32. > :07:42.NAT seat War machine in Germany. -- Nazi. All on board were lost. We got

:07:43. > :07:56.a telegram that said he was missing. Then we did not here for another six

:07:57. > :08:00.months. Then he was killed. His service was not recognised until

:08:01. > :08:05.this package arrived one month ago. It was from the Ministry of defence

:08:06. > :08:11.which are family contacted after hearing a programme on BBC Radio

:08:12. > :08:16.Ulster last year. For Nancy, they are a precious reminder of her

:08:17. > :08:24.brother who paid the ultimate price. Now the weather. Good evening. It

:08:25. > :08:28.has been a fine start to the new week and tomorrow does not look like

:08:29. > :08:35.a bad day at with clear spells at night it will feel quite cool with

:08:36. > :08:39.some ground frost. " Comeback in in the second half of the week. It will

:08:40. > :08:48.be threatening rain on Wednesday. The dry night coming up tonight. It

:08:49. > :08:55.will be freezing in the rural areas. The touch of brass frost in places.

:08:56. > :08:59.By the end of the night the wind will shift around to the south or

:09:00. > :09:03.south-east lifting temperatures higher tomorrow when there will be

:09:04. > :09:16.more sunshine. It will be fairly sunny from the word go but there

:09:17. > :09:21.will be a chilly start. The breeze will be quite brisk in the

:09:22. > :09:25.south-west as it will be for north-west Scotland, a bit more

:09:26. > :09:30.cloud here coming in off of the North Sea into the east coast of

:09:31. > :09:33.England and the Pennines. It will also be a cooler day in the far

:09:34. > :09:40.south of England. For Northern Ireland it could be the east coast

:09:41. > :09:47.that is a little fresher tomorrow. Inland temperatures will be writing

:09:48. > :09:52.to the high of 17 Celsius. Into Wheddon state we do get the spell of

:09:53. > :09:57.rain for a time particularly in the north and west. Other than that it

:09:58. > :09:59.will stay dry for the rest of the week but cooler. That is all fought

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