:00:00. > :00:00.a first look at the papers over on the BBC News Channel.
:00:00. > :00:10.The police Ombudsman is investigating whether the PSNI acted
:00:11. > :00:13.on information it was given - before a dissident republican bomb attack
:00:14. > :00:20.that seriously injured Constable Padar Heffron four years ago.
:00:21. > :00:23.Michael Maguire wants to find out if there was appropriate action
:00:24. > :00:26.after the tip-off, but so far the police haven't allowed
:00:27. > :00:37.Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.
:00:38. > :00:46.The As captain of the PSNI's football team, Padar Heffron, seen
:00:47. > :00:49.here on the left, was a high-profile target for dissident republicans
:00:50. > :00:54.aiming to deter Catholics from joining the police. Three and a half
:00:55. > :01:00.years ago, he was critically injured, when a bomb exploded in his
:01:01. > :01:04.car, as he was travelling to work. The police received a tip-off,
:01:05. > :01:10.claiming that weeks before the bombing, someone had warned the PSNI
:01:11. > :01:15.of a potential attack on a police officer. We don't know the nature of
:01:16. > :01:17.the information. It may be that it was so general or lacking in
:01:18. > :01:25.information that nothing could have been done to minimise the risk. The
:01:26. > :01:31.police ombudsman isn't any position to reach any conclusions. In effect,
:01:32. > :01:34.he is no whiter than the rest of us. The police have also refused to give
:01:35. > :01:38.information to ombudsman investigators probing the death of
:01:39. > :01:43.senior Sinn Fein official Denis Donaldson, who was also the police
:01:44. > :01:49.and MI5 informant. He was shot dead in Donegal in April 2006. He fled
:01:50. > :01:55.there, after being told by police that the media were going to expose
:01:56. > :01:58.his role as an informant. They are investigating investigations by his
:01:59. > :02:03.family that PSNI officers may have exposed him as an agent and
:02:04. > :02:08.contributed to his death. Yesterday, Michael McGuire told the
:02:09. > :02:12.BBC that his office is legally entitled to this information. This
:02:13. > :02:16.gets to the core of independence, it gets to the core of accountability.
:02:17. > :02:20.We cannot have the situation, where those are the subject of an
:02:21. > :02:25.investigation, determine what information is given to the
:02:26. > :02:29.investigation. The PSNI says it has an legal responsibility for all the
:02:30. > :02:34.information that it with holes, and it cannot release the information if
:02:35. > :02:43.it could potentially endanger life. But they all have top-level security
:02:44. > :02:47.clearance. That means they can have access to sensitive intelligence
:02:48. > :02:52.material. Make a liar says that, because of that, the PSNI has no
:02:53. > :02:58.legitimate reason to withhold the information that he has asked for.
:02:59. > :03:03.The judge says he hopes it is not too late for the two sides to come
:03:04. > :03:06.to an agreement. It is really important that they both get
:03:07. > :03:11.together and start to resolve these issues, rather than having to have
:03:12. > :03:16.the judge decide for them. A consolatory letter has gone back
:03:17. > :03:20.from the police to the ombudsman. We hope that means the discussion will
:03:21. > :03:23.happen. The PSNI will be questioned tomorrow.
:03:24. > :03:27.A man has been arrested following the death of a woman in Portstewart.
:03:28. > :03:29.Her body was found at around lunchtime in Knockancor Drive.
:03:30. > :03:32.The victim has been named locally as Margaret Evans, a well-known
:03:33. > :03:35.Officers say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding
:03:36. > :03:41.The Orange Order has again been told it can't parade along
:03:42. > :03:45.a contentious stretch of the Crumlin Road past Ardoyne in north Belfast.
:03:46. > :03:48.The Order had applied to the Parades Commission to walk along
:03:49. > :03:52.In a statement the Orange Order said it was
:03:53. > :04:06.The Orangemen have been trying to complete their parade copy Crumlin
:04:07. > :04:08.Road to their whole since last year. Today's decision, once again
:04:09. > :04:13.stopping them from doing that, came as little surprise to most people.
:04:14. > :04:17.The parade commission's decision means they will not get this far up
:04:18. > :04:23.the road. They will be stopped some distance back down there. Which
:04:24. > :04:29.means that the actual parade itself cannot come up past Ardoyne shops,
:04:30. > :04:38.or up this road onto the Orange Hall. Meanwhile, the loyalist
:04:39. > :04:42.protest camp continues. The Parades Commission stressed the level of
:04:43. > :04:48.tension filled in the area, since last year's march was stopped and
:04:49. > :04:50.the protest camp was set up. The commission says the sense of
:04:51. > :04:59.conflict centred on the stretch of road is wrong and apparent amongst
:05:00. > :05:03.supporters and objectors. It also noted the level of breaches of
:05:04. > :05:13.conditions in support of the Orangemen. We are disgusted. We are
:05:14. > :05:20.saddened. That the threat of extremism can stop us and our
:05:21. > :05:26.religious expression. These thing -- these things can be resolved if
:05:27. > :05:33.there is the urge to resolve it on both sides. I hope we can resolve
:05:34. > :05:36.it. I hope we can get beyond this. Getting beyond that is something
:05:37. > :05:39.mediators have been seeking, so far without success.
:05:40. > :05:41.The Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness says political
:05:42. > :05:44.and religious leaders here must make it clear that racist abuse
:05:45. > :05:46.and hate crimes will not be tolerated in Northern Ireland.
:05:47. > :05:49.Mr McGuinness was speaking earlier this evening after meeting with
:05:50. > :05:52.local Muslim leaders at the Belfast Islamic centre in Belfast.
:05:53. > :05:55.Last night, the first minister Peter Robinson used his visit to
:05:56. > :05:58.the centre to apologise publicly for controversial remarks he made
:05:59. > :06:01.about Islam last week defending a Belfast pastor who had called
:06:02. > :06:14.I am here out of a sense of duty, out of a sense of responsibility, to
:06:15. > :06:22.honour as a political leader, but to this community who have been treated
:06:23. > :06:26.disgracefully. Tonight is about looking to the future. Peter Kinnear
:06:27. > :06:31.last night, and he offered his apology, and that apology has been
:06:32. > :06:38.accepted. It is now time for us to move on, and it is a time for us
:06:39. > :06:43.to, as a government, identify what more we can do to ensure the comfort
:06:44. > :06:46.and safety of the ethnic minorities here in Belfast.
:06:47. > :06:49.A former head of the team of detectives set up to investigate
:06:50. > :06:52.unsolved killings - says he believes the Hyde Park bomb suspect
:06:53. > :06:57.Dave Cox, who stepped down from the Historical Enquiries Team last year,
:06:58. > :07:00.was giving evidence to a Westminster committee of MPs - investigating
:07:01. > :07:03.the Government's scheme for dealing with so-called on the runs.
:07:04. > :07:07.The scheme only came to light when the trial of Mr Downey for
:07:08. > :07:10.the 1982 bombing was halted - when it was revealed he had mistakenly
:07:11. > :07:14.received a letter saying he was not wanted by any UK police force.
:07:15. > :07:20.In your opinion, has Mr Downey, in both the EDR murders and the Hyde
:07:21. > :07:28.Park murders, in your opinion has he been very lucky and got away with
:07:29. > :07:32.murder? I might ask him what lottery numbers he picks.
:07:33. > :07:41.Friday marks the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy -
:07:42. > :07:43.an important battle in France during World War Two.
:07:44. > :07:46.On tomorrow and Friday evening's programme, Donna talks to two of
:07:47. > :07:52.the few local veterans still alive to recall the events of that day.
:07:53. > :07:55.Tomorrow we hear from Bill Eames who is 91 years old.
:07:56. > :08:11.He was an RAF pilot and honoured for his gallantry.
:08:12. > :08:18.Do you need to be a particular type of person? I don't think so. I don't
:08:19. > :08:20.think I was any better than anybody else. You are just lucky, that is
:08:21. > :08:23.the thing. More on that interview tomorrow
:08:24. > :08:26.at 6.30pm here on BBC One. Now with the weather forecast
:08:27. > :08:38.here's Geoff Maskell. Hello. As we go over night tonight,
:08:39. > :08:44.it is a cool and cloudy night. By dawn tomorrow, we could see a bit of
:08:45. > :08:48.rain. That is the edge of a low pressure system that is tracking its
:08:49. > :08:53.way up the British Isles. It was there today, and it is continuing
:08:54. > :08:56.into tomorrow. It will be a cloudy day across Northern Ireland, with
:08:57. > :09:00.the few showers. There will be more in the way of bright spells, and
:09:01. > :09:04.that will help the temperatures on the rise, feeling just a little bit
:09:05. > :09:07.warmer tomorrow than it has than today. We really are in the middle
:09:08. > :09:14.of a couple of whether events, between these two when systems, over
:09:15. > :09:18.the next 24 hours. This means we will see some better conditions, but
:09:19. > :09:22.some real mixed fortunes across the UK. Scotland will get plenty of
:09:23. > :09:27.rain, as will the East Coast of England. Elsewhere, a much brighter
:09:28. > :09:32.and warmer picture. As we go through the afternoon, we will see the odd
:09:33. > :09:36.shower popping up, some of those quite intense, but much more in the
:09:37. > :09:41.way of bright weather. As we head into Friday, we are really waiting
:09:42. > :09:48.for the next low-pressure system to arrive. We will escape in the main,
:09:49. > :09:53.and exhibitors will feel warmer. Not a bad day, before the rain starts to
:09:54. > :09:57.work its way in. Overnight Friday and into Saturday. The message is to
:09:58. > :10:01.make the most of the next couple of days, because more rain is forecast
:10:02. > :10:02.for the weekend. That is all for now. Goodbye.