:00:00. > 3:59:59rain. A reminder of our
:00:00. > :00:24.Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline. Another attack on the
:00:25. > :00:31.office of mail me long in East Belfast but the MPs says she is not
:00:32. > :00:33.moving. -- Naomi Long. A senior lawyer says On The Run letters sent
:00:34. > :00:38.in error can be withdrawn. A new campaign to highlight the dangers of
:00:39. > :00:46.head injuries in sport. I've been speaking to Jamie Dornan, who is
:00:47. > :00:51.filming again in his native Belfast. You approach the city differently
:00:52. > :00:56.and you get more from it, I think, than just being at school and
:00:57. > :01:02.drinking and doing whatever I did growing up in Belfast. And tomorrow
:01:03. > :01:05.is the first day of May but in some places temperatures will be more
:01:06. > :01:11.typical of March. I'll be back with the details.
:01:12. > :01:16.The Alliance MP Naomi Long has insisted her party will not be
:01:17. > :01:22.driven out of East Belfast and will not be bullied or intimidated. Four
:01:23. > :01:27.people threw seven petrol bombs at her constituency office last night.
:01:28. > :01:33.It was the latest in a series of attacks, as Newsline's Mark Simpson
:01:34. > :01:40.reports. Under attack again. Naomi Long has seen it all before. She has
:01:41. > :01:43.lost count of the number of times this office in East Belfast has been
:01:44. > :01:52.attacked. There have also been death threats. But this office is staying
:01:53. > :01:55.and so is she. I will not be driven out and I will not be bullied
:01:56. > :01:58.because I have stood up to bullies my entire life and I will not give
:01:59. > :02:04.up on that night. Last night's attack was captured on CCTV. There
:02:05. > :02:10.were also eyewitnesses. It happened just before 11pm. I have seen some
:02:11. > :02:15.of the CCTV recorded last night and it is in the hands of the police. It
:02:16. > :02:18.shows the attackers in the middle of the road, first throwing stones at
:02:19. > :02:25.the upstairs windows and when they break the glass, they produce petrol
:02:26. > :02:29.bombs. But the upstairs windows are double glazed and the petrol bombs
:02:30. > :02:36.could not break through the second pane of glass. As these pictures,
:02:37. > :02:39.posted on social media, show, most of the petrol bombs simply bounced
:02:40. > :02:44.off the building and landed on the pavement. There were four
:02:45. > :02:49.individuals involved, for youths wearing black food and clothing and
:02:50. > :02:53.we have some eyewitnesses who have come forward with information.
:02:54. > :02:58.Parties on all sides have called for these repeated attacks to stop. SDLP
:02:59. > :03:04.and Sinn Fein all editions called at the office to seek Naomi Long, as
:03:05. > :03:08.did a number of unionists. On the streets of East Belfast, people gave
:03:09. > :03:13.their view. It is unbelievable and should not happen. People in this
:03:14. > :03:18.community do not want it, it does not lead to anything. Past
:03:19. > :03:23.experience tells us. That is not democracy. But what anybody thinks
:03:24. > :03:30.of them, they are allowed their point of view. The clean-up has been
:03:31. > :03:36.completed but the police investigation is only just
:03:37. > :03:41.beginning. Had it not been for the attack, Naomi Long would have been
:03:42. > :03:46.at the Northern Ireland Select Committee at Westminster today. It
:03:47. > :03:52.heard from a senior lawyer who played a key role in the
:03:53. > :03:59.controversial on the run scheme. He said if letters were sent in error
:04:00. > :04:02.they could be withdrawn. A judge ruled that John Downey could not
:04:03. > :04:06.stand trial for the murders of four soldiers in the Hyde Park bombing
:04:07. > :04:11.because he was sent a letter as part of on the run scheme telling him he
:04:12. > :04:15.was not wanted by police. Although the letter was sent by mistake, the
:04:16. > :04:20.judge said it was legally binding. A senior lawyer for the Attorney
:04:21. > :04:24.General, who played a central role in the scheme, today said he
:04:25. > :04:29.believes any other letters sent by mistake could now be withdrawn.
:04:30. > :04:35.Kevin Magee and he gave evidence to the Northern Ireland affairs
:04:36. > :04:40.committee at Westminster. If the position is the case of John Downey,
:04:41. > :04:46.and we suddenly become aware of the fact that the letter was a mistake,
:04:47. > :04:50.and is sufficient evidence and always was evidence to prosecute, I
:04:51. > :04:55.think we would withdraw the letter. There have been problems but we
:04:56. > :04:59.would withdraw the letter. He said the person sent the letter would
:05:00. > :05:02.have to be told it was being withdrawn and would be given the
:05:03. > :05:07.opportunity to leave Northern Ireland to avoid arrest. You would
:05:08. > :05:13.have to tell the person that the U got was in error and you will be
:05:14. > :05:20.arrested and I think you have to give them some time to absent
:05:21. > :05:24.themselves and becomes bizarre. If you did not do that, you would be in
:05:25. > :05:27.the same position as a John Downey and you know you would lose that
:05:28. > :05:31.case. The lawyer said number of Attorney Generals had warned the
:05:32. > :05:36.government they opposed the scheme were told it was central to the
:05:37. > :05:41.political negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement.
:05:42. > :05:45.Successive Attorney Generals made it clear in a series of letters that
:05:46. > :05:51.the prosecution process could never give any answer to the problem of On
:05:52. > :05:56.the Runs. And to do so, the process they asked, to check the evidence
:05:57. > :06:02.status of each of these individuals, would damage the criminal justice
:06:03. > :06:08.system. Nevertheless, they asked us to do that. Earlier, so money
:06:09. > :06:13.Flannigan told the committee he opposed tipping people of that they
:06:14. > :06:16.were wanted by police. But he didn't have any problem giving assurances
:06:17. > :06:20.that those who were not. We were given the name of an individual and
:06:21. > :06:25.we considered all of the intelligence, if there was any, that
:06:26. > :06:31.was held on that individual, whether there was any evidence, fingerprint,
:06:32. > :06:36.DNA, which is or anything, and if after an examination of all of that
:06:37. > :06:43.we had no grounds for arresting the person, whatever, in other words, we
:06:44. > :06:48.almost had been unlawful to arrest the person and a few came to that
:06:49. > :06:53.conclusion, I would have no objection to such a person being
:06:54. > :06:56.told. He insisted the letters were not amnesty and those who received
:06:57. > :07:05.them could still be charged with criminal offences if new evidence
:07:06. > :07:07.emerges. Nuns who staffed two children's home in Londonderry have
:07:08. > :07:10.denied allegations of physical, emotional and psychological abuse of
:07:11. > :07:14.boys and girls in their care. The nuns asked for their right to remain
:07:15. > :07:17.anonymous, which is offered under the terms of the historical abuse
:07:18. > :07:25.inquiry. Dan Stanton reports from Banbridge. The first none to give
:07:26. > :07:30.evidence told the enquiry that she had no formal training but work at
:07:31. > :07:35.the children's home in Londonderry for 12 years. Statements by seven
:07:36. > :07:39.residents were read to the court, claiming she was involved in
:07:40. > :07:43.physical and mental abuse. In reply she said a number of occasions she
:07:44. > :07:47.would never had children and in response to a claim by one that she
:07:48. > :07:52.had her and her two sisters were wetting the bed, she said no. The
:07:53. > :07:58.nun told the enquiry but in the 1950s, just her and one other member
:07:59. > :08:03.of the order were in charge of 60 children at the boys home. Another
:08:04. > :08:11.nun who appeared worked at Nazareth at -- Nazareth house -- Nazareth
:08:12. > :08:14.house and she was asked about bedwetting and hires some children
:08:15. > :08:18.felt humiliated. She said she had no knowledge of that and did not recall
:08:19. > :08:24.any children being asked to wash their own bed linen. She was asked
:08:25. > :08:28.about hitting children and also not giving medical attention to a child
:08:29. > :08:33.who had a leg injury. She denied all of these allegations. The enquiry,
:08:34. > :08:39.which is examining abuse at children's homes in the 1920s until
:08:40. > :08:46.1995, will be hearing from nuns from other orders in the coming days.
:08:47. > :08:49.Assembly members are calling for more information from the health
:08:50. > :08:51.authorities about cases involving children with heart problems.
:08:52. > :08:54.Members of the Stormont Health Committee claim they're not
:08:55. > :08:56.receiving the full picture about the extent of treatment some children
:08:57. > :08:59.have received in Belfast before being transferred to Dublin for
:09:00. > :09:04.heart surgery. The Health Board has rejected any allegations that it has
:09:05. > :09:17.not been transparent. Marie-Louise Connolly reports. This boy was born
:09:18. > :09:22.with a heart defect last year. Critically ill, he was rushed from:
:09:23. > :09:27.Hospital to Belfast ambulance for what the family was told was
:09:28. > :09:32.emergency treatment. He had the treatment is done and order to
:09:33. > :09:40.travel he had to have that. Without that, his oxygen would have got
:09:41. > :09:42.quite low. He would have been brain-damaged or would not survive.
:09:43. > :09:47.The Health Committee today questioned whether briefings they
:09:48. > :09:50.received from officials have provided the full picture of the
:09:51. > :09:55.extent of surgical procedure is being performed in Belfast. We were
:09:56. > :09:59.given an impression that there was very little need for emergency
:10:00. > :10:03.intervention and there have been none during the past number of
:10:04. > :10:06.months prior to that meeting, yet from what we have learned from
:10:07. > :10:11.families and those involved in this area, there has been a number of
:10:12. > :10:15.surgical interventions that have been essential to save the lives of
:10:16. > :10:16.children. The health board rejected allegations that officials were not
:10:17. > :10:33.being transparent and it said... The board said this was consistent
:10:34. > :10:37.with the evidence given to the Health Committee in May last year
:10:38. > :10:41.but campaigners remain critical of how this issue has been handled.
:10:42. > :10:47.Campaigners and parents affected by this issue believe that health
:10:48. > :10:50.officials have pre-judged that heart surgery should cease in Belfast and
:10:51. > :10:55.this case highlights how important it is to keep children's heart
:10:56. > :10:59.surgery in Belfast I would -- I would not like to be the one telling
:11:00. > :11:05.a parent that a child who requires attention is not an emergency. The
:11:06. > :11:09.BBC can also reveal that the Department of paediatric cardiology
:11:10. > :11:14.in Belfast road to the health board last year stressing the importance
:11:15. > :11:19.of retaining surgery in Belfast. The letter detailed one case, saying
:11:20. > :11:23.that it crystallised how any decision regarding the future of
:11:24. > :11:28.paediatric cardiac services in Belfast could impact on individual
:11:29. > :11:31.patients. The doctor said the minister decided to stop cardiac
:11:32. > :11:37.surgery, transferring assets child in an unstable condition to another
:11:38. > :11:42.unit would see surgeons faced with a deteriorating situation and a
:11:43. > :11:47.hazardous intervention. The future of children's heart services will
:11:48. > :11:50.become clearer when the independent panel presents its findings to the
:11:51. > :11:58.Health Minister. He is then expected to make his decision public at the
:11:59. > :12:01.start of July. There has been condemnation of an attack on a
:12:02. > :12:13.Romanian man in East Belfast this morning. There has been widespread
:12:14. > :12:16.condemnation of the attack. The victim of cycling along the stretch
:12:17. > :12:22.when an unknown man assaulted him. Bring a bag containing excrement in
:12:23. > :12:26.his face. The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to his eyes.
:12:27. > :12:31.Locals say they are shocked at the horrific nature of this incident.
:12:32. > :12:36.The victim is still in the area and it is. He has been attacked before.
:12:37. > :12:38.The incident happened outside St Patrick's Church of Ireland on the
:12:39. > :12:43.Lord Newtownards Road and the Reverend John cunning ham is the
:12:44. > :12:52.Minister. There is no need for violence at any time and I think
:12:53. > :12:54.that perhaps the effect on this gentleman might be dramatic and it
:12:55. > :13:01.might disturb him for some years to come. And for other immigrants, that
:13:02. > :13:06.is bound to be a problem in the back of their minds. It will unsettle
:13:07. > :13:12.them. And we have quite a few in this area. Police say they are truly
:13:13. > :13:20.-- treating this as a hate crime and appealed for anyone with information
:13:21. > :13:24.to contact them. Recognise and remove is a slogan we'll hear more
:13:25. > :13:27.and more often with the campaign to recognise the dangers of concussion
:13:28. > :13:29.in sport. Adding their backing to the awareness and education
:13:30. > :13:33.programme today were Government departments and the parents of a
:13:34. > :13:37.teenage rugby player who died after a concussion. This report from
:13:38. > :13:40.Thomas Niblock. A Government initiative recognising the dangers
:13:41. > :13:48.of concussion was launched today at Queen's University. Governing bodies
:13:49. > :13:51.representing the GAA, The Irish Football Association and players
:13:52. > :13:53.from Ulster rugby were all in attendance, as was the family of
:13:54. > :14:05.Benjamin Robinson, the 14-year-old schoolboy who died in 2011 because
:14:06. > :14:09.of a concussion. The message is recognised and removed. And the
:14:10. > :14:15.children you have to err on the side of caution. Asking the child if he
:14:16. > :14:19.is OK after concussion, which is brain injury, is not good enough and
:14:20. > :14:26.it is like asking a drunk driver if they are OK to drive. You have to
:14:27. > :14:29.just remove them and that is it. Easier said than done. Welsh
:14:30. > :14:32.international Jamie Roberts is a qualified doctor yet he decided to
:14:33. > :14:35.play on for 18 minutes after fracturing his skull against
:14:36. > :14:38.Australia. When he was walking off he could hear his head squeak. In
:14:39. > :14:41.last year's All-Ireland final, Ross O'Carroll admitted he played on
:14:42. > :14:44.after receiving a concussion. Medics say don't play but the reality is
:14:45. > :14:53.players and management are more difficult to convince. There is a
:14:54. > :14:57.National League game when a lad came off and I put him back into the
:14:58. > :15:04.fray. My call would have back in, but the doctor said no. I would have
:15:05. > :15:07.argued but there is no point in having a professional there and not
:15:08. > :15:12.going on what he says so we luckily pulled him out and he had concussion
:15:13. > :15:16.and was out for two weeks. Sport is a serious business and the pressure
:15:17. > :15:27.to perform and win is clear for all to see. But failing to identify a
:15:28. > :15:30.concussion can be a fatal mistake. The SDLP says David Cameron's
:15:31. > :15:34.decision to commit to a referendum on EU membership by 2017 was a
:15:35. > :15:37.strategic error. In its European and local government manifesto, which
:15:38. > :15:40.was launched today, the SDLP says it supports reform of the European
:15:41. > :15:45.Union but its strong advice in any referendum would be to vote yes to
:15:46. > :15:53.EU membership. Here's Mark Devenport. The SDLP welcomed German
:15:54. > :15:57.politician Martin Schulz to Belfast today - he's the socialist candidate
:15:58. > :16:03.for the top job at the European Commission. The SDLP says Northern
:16:04. > :16:12.Ireland has spent too long on the margins of Europe with EU sceptic
:16:13. > :16:16.MEPs failing to deliver. The North has lost influence in Europe since
:16:17. > :16:20.John Hume stepped down and there is a gathering opportunity to change
:16:21. > :16:25.fundamentally politics here at home and elect a strong, decisive,
:16:26. > :16:28.effective voice to the European Parliament. The SDLP manifesto says
:16:29. > :16:36.EU membership is worth ?3000 every year to every household here. It
:16:37. > :16:39.says the party aims to increase employment by 10% over six years,
:16:40. > :16:41.The manifesto criticises the Agriculture Department's handling of
:16:42. > :16:46.European payments, claiming the department has become removed from
:16:47. > :16:48.the farming community. On local government, the SDLP promises to
:16:49. > :16:54.ensure business and domestic rates do not rise above inflation. Alex
:16:55. > :17:10.Attwood and his young family were given an enthusiastic reception by
:17:11. > :17:14.SDLP supporters. BBC Newsline can reveal that another feature film is
:17:15. > :17:17.to be shot in Northern Ireland. It's called High Rise, will star English
:17:18. > :17:21.actor Tom Hiddleston and will be partly filmed in County Down. Over
:17:22. > :17:24.the next two weeks we're taking a closer look at our blossoming film
:17:25. > :17:27.industry and how this entertainment economy is pumping in millions of
:17:28. > :17:30.pounds and employing hundreds of people. For this evening's programme
:17:31. > :17:39.I visited a particular BBC production that's making headlines.
:17:40. > :17:41.Here in a corner of Belfast they are in the middle of recording the
:17:42. > :17:46.second series of the highly acclaimed drama The Fall. This area
:17:47. > :17:50.is where you will find the costume trucks, make-up and trailers were
:17:51. > :17:56.the actors, Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan, have come back to be
:17:57. > :18:00.fed between takes. BBC Northern Ireland has seen a marked resurgence
:18:01. > :18:04.in television drama over the past couple of years, with millions of
:18:05. > :18:09.pounds of Northern Ireland money being pumped into those Burtons.
:18:10. > :18:13.Recently you might have seen Jamaica Inn, but that was not filmed in
:18:14. > :18:18.Cornwall, the setting of the novel, but here. So was a police drama line
:18:19. > :18:25.of duty, that has been highly successful. I am here at The Fall to
:18:26. > :18:29.talk to one of the stars, Jamie Dornan, and the writer. You will
:18:30. > :18:40.find out why this drama has also been highly successful. You cannot
:18:41. > :18:44.predict that people will enjoy any show or feel it is compelling or
:18:45. > :18:51.captures the imagination. It is gratifying when it happens but it is
:18:52. > :18:55.hard to know quite why. Suddenly, if you cast Gillian and Jamie Dornan,
:18:56. > :19:01.the orange strong territory. Because your character is a killer, he also
:19:02. > :19:12.seems to be very caring and has a family, how difficult is it to play
:19:13. > :19:20.that? It is not a breeze! But I relish and love it. And I have said
:19:21. > :19:23.in the past that I approached the character as two different
:19:24. > :19:26.characters because that makes the most sense, it made it easier for me
:19:27. > :19:37.to relate to what I was doing in either mode, killing or family. Both
:19:38. > :19:43.equally difficult. I have come to beg you to give me another chance.
:19:44. > :19:47.What difference does it make to you that you are filming in your home
:19:48. > :19:51.place? It is lovely to be her. I have a different sense of Belfast
:19:52. > :19:56.and idea and when I lived here previously, growing up and at
:19:57. > :20:04.school. I have a huge appreciation for it, not that they did not before
:20:05. > :20:09.but you come back slightly more adult and you approached the city
:20:10. > :20:16.differently and you get more from it than just being at school and
:20:17. > :20:27.drinking and doing whatever I did growing up. I am appreciating it
:20:28. > :20:34.more as a city and I love it. It is what you believe that matters. Let
:20:35. > :20:39.me go. I think a lot of the successful dramas have a very strong
:20:40. > :20:44.sense of place, to use a cliche, the city in which they take place
:20:45. > :20:50.becomes a character. The idea of a small city, whether reverberations
:20:51. > :20:56.might be more keenly felt, a city where crimes like that have not
:20:57. > :21:02.traditionally taken place and I am glad to say so far have not taken
:21:03. > :21:06.place, also was appealing. And I am fascinated by the history of the
:21:07. > :21:12.place so I allowed some of that to feed through. The senior police
:21:13. > :21:16.officer, played by John Lynch, his career will have spanned some of
:21:17. > :21:22.those years of the Troubles and that will help the mindset with his
:21:23. > :21:27.thinking. And it is a great city to live and work in as well. The first
:21:28. > :21:31.series ended on a cliffhanger so without giving anything away, can
:21:32. > :21:39.you tell us a little bit about what the second series has in store? Not
:21:40. > :21:49.really, no! It scares me, to! Don't be scared. Scary series! And Allen
:21:50. > :21:52.has not ruled out a third series. On tomorrow's programme, Maggie Taggart
:21:53. > :21:55.will be meeting some of the tourists who are following in the footsteps
:21:56. > :22:02.of the hugely successful Game of Thrones series. It was not until I
:22:03. > :22:05.got to Northern Ireland yesterday that they saw the advertisement for
:22:06. > :22:09.the tourism and I realised so much of it was done here. And it is
:22:10. > :22:17.beautiful here! I can understand why. That is tomorrow. While the
:22:18. > :22:20.number of red squirrels has dwindled for many years because of the
:22:21. > :22:22.dominant American greys, there are some areas where the native species
:22:23. > :22:25.thrives. Scientists from Queen's University have set up cameras in
:22:26. > :22:28.red squirrel hotspots in County Fermanagh to try to survey the
:22:29. > :22:31.populations, but to their surprise they've captured more images of
:22:32. > :22:37.another rare and secretive mammal - the pine marten. Julian Fowler tells
:22:38. > :22:43.us more. Bright eyed and bushy tailed - red squirrels can be hard
:22:44. > :22:46.to spot. Volunteers have been placing cameras in the woods to help
:22:47. > :22:55.scientists to establish where they are living. It is part of a project
:22:56. > :22:58.looking at the distribution of squirrels in County Fermanagh with
:22:59. > :23:07.the aim of conserving the red squirrel. How unusual is to capture
:23:08. > :23:12.squirrels on camera? Very unusual. You do not get many people doing
:23:13. > :23:15.that. Normally camera traps are used to record the presence of more
:23:16. > :23:21.enigmatic species like tigers or leopards. We decided to try this for
:23:22. > :23:24.the squirrels. But when they looked at the footage they found almost
:23:25. > :23:29.twice as many pictures of something even more elusive and rare. The pine
:23:30. > :23:32.marten. With a reputation for being vicious killers of hens and
:23:33. > :23:36.chickens, pine martens are now thought to number just a few
:23:37. > :23:45.thousand. The cameras at Crom even captured a pine marten watching an
:23:46. > :23:49.Irish hare race by. It was an unexpected surprise but also a good
:23:50. > :23:52.one because the pine marten is also protected in Northern Ireland so the
:23:53. > :23:56.more information we can get on them, the better. Because you have them
:23:57. > :24:02.involved in the squirrel Project, have you have to change the way he
:24:03. > :24:07.must carry out the study? No, it has made us think this might be a better
:24:08. > :24:11.method for monitoring pine martens of the project is ongoing and we
:24:12. > :24:13.will persevere and hopefully will pick up more red squirrels from
:24:14. > :24:20.across the county but the information we get on pine martens
:24:21. > :24:23.is very useful as well. Researchers will continue to record sightings of
:24:24. > :24:31.red squirrels and pine martens to try and ensure their survival. The
:24:32. > :24:39.guy behind you! The weather is next with Cecilia.
:24:40. > :24:46.We have not had much rate this month, it has been pretty dry and in
:24:47. > :24:51.fact, up in Derry today they were caught spraying the grass. You can
:24:52. > :24:56.catch those sprays of water. Thank you for that. We have plenty of a
:24:57. > :25:01.natural stuff tonight, some could be quite heavy, particularly in the
:25:02. > :25:06.West and South and that means a very mild night. Tomorrow is the start of
:25:07. > :25:10.May, it will not feel mild, especially after today, towards the
:25:11. > :25:20.North coast, quite a truly feel to the day. -- cool field. Quite a keen
:25:21. > :25:24.breeze also. Gradually, the rain will become more patchy as the room
:25:25. > :25:29.goes on. Tomorrow afternoon, dry spells, plenty of cloud and
:25:30. > :25:33.temperatures across the North of Derry and North Antrim, ten, maybe
:25:34. > :25:38.not even reaching double figures in some spots. That is about six
:25:39. > :25:41.degrees down on today. It'll be cool with temperatures of around 11 or 12
:25:42. > :25:46.and with dampness the air but by tomorrow, the rainbow cleared many
:25:47. > :25:51.places, except haps the far South-East. You can see that chilly
:25:52. > :25:59.are over North Antrim gradually coming southwards. Maybe a touch of
:26:00. > :26:05.frost on the grass in some places on Friday. Otherwise, better, drier and
:26:06. > :26:08.brighter, especially in the East and temperatures will slowly recover but
:26:09. > :26:13.there will still be a chill in the air and into the weekend,
:26:14. > :26:17.temperatures continue to rise. It looks like it will be quite cloudy,
:26:18. > :26:23.generally dry some drizzle on Saturday night. Our late summary is
:26:24. > :26:25.at 10.25pm. You can also keep in contact with us via Facebook and
:26:26. > :26:29.Twitter. Goodnight.