:00:00. > 3:59:59That's all from the BBC News at Six. So it's
:00:00. > :00:28.After 20 deaths are linked to a new drug, the family of one victim calls
:00:29. > :00:30.for action against the dealers. Detectives are questioning
:00:31. > :00:32.a man about the murder The Chief Constable Matt Baggott
:00:33. > :00:37.tells the Policing Board he's Would-be thieves use
:00:38. > :00:54.a bomb to try to steal cash Windsor Park looks more like a
:00:55. > :00:55.building site but they will be playing football here and 12 months
:00:56. > :00:58.time. Northern Ireland's footballers have
:00:59. > :01:01.benn playing a long way from home, But there's a warning
:01:02. > :01:12.of heavy rain over the weekend. The deaths of 20 people in Belfast
:01:13. > :01:15.have been linked to The family of 33-year-old
:01:16. > :01:19.James Owens, who died last year, have called on the police
:01:20. > :01:22.and politicians to do more to The coroner
:01:23. > :01:27.at his inquest today compared the drugs, known as speckled
:01:28. > :01:45.cherries or speckled crosses, Pills like these brought down to the
:01:46. > :01:51.streets of Belfast and other areas last year. Among those killed was
:01:52. > :01:57.James Owens, a 33-year-old father found unconscious on the Shankill.
:01:58. > :02:02.His was one in a chain of what has been described as sinister deaths.
:02:03. > :02:09.The inquest taking depth where James Owens, Alan McManus E, found dead at
:02:10. > :02:15.home in June, Neil Reeves who was found dead in July. Brian Mills and
:02:16. > :02:19.Kevin Doherty who died after a party. This morning during the
:02:20. > :02:25.inquest, it emerged the drug has been linked to 20 deaths, leaving 20
:02:26. > :02:30.families asking questions. We want to get the message out to parents to
:02:31. > :02:35.keep an eye on their children and stop them take the mess. It will
:02:36. > :02:42.ruin lives. There is 20 families, not just us. It needs to stop now.
:02:43. > :02:49.The politicians need to put a stop to it. The police know who these
:02:50. > :02:53.people are. As the number of deaths have increased, the coroner said it
:02:54. > :02:58.was comparable to a serial killer on the loose and that it was a
:02:59. > :03:03.horrifyingly high number, justifying the most rigorous scrutiny. This
:03:04. > :03:08.drug has been found in a number of different ecstasy tablets. Users
:03:09. > :03:15.should not think they are safe if they stay away from these speckled
:03:16. > :03:20.tablets. It has been found across a number of tablets. With the number
:03:21. > :03:24.of deaths now linked to the drug standing at 20, one family said they
:03:25. > :03:27.want those who are selling this drug to be caught before someone else
:03:28. > :03:28.dies. A man is being questioned
:03:29. > :03:31.about the murder of his mother The body of Margaret Evans,
:03:32. > :03:35.who was a retired businesswoman, Our North-east reporter
:03:36. > :03:46.David Maxwell has more. Still in shock, neighbours and
:03:47. > :03:51.friends brought tributes. Margaret Evans was found dead here yesterday.
:03:52. > :03:59.She had serious injuries. The 69-year-old was well known. She was
:04:00. > :04:06.an institution. She ran a very successful business until her
:04:07. > :04:10.retirement and number of years ago. This is their parents Salam that she
:04:11. > :04:22.opened and the reason why she was well-known in the community -- hair
:04:23. > :04:27.salon. The current owner said she was devastated by the news. For
:04:28. > :04:31.many, she was a mother like figure. Police have appealed for
:04:32. > :04:36.information. Our enquiry is ongoing and we want to hear from anyone with
:04:37. > :04:40.any information who can assist in our understanding of what happened.
:04:41. > :04:45.We particularly want to hear from any family, friends or local people
:04:46. > :04:51.who had any contact with the family in the last number of days. The
:04:52. > :04:55.32-year-old man being questioned is believed to be one of Margaret
:04:56. > :05:15.Evans's sons. No one else has been sought in relation to the killing.
:05:16. > :05:19.There were some heated exchanges at what was the last public meeting of
:05:20. > :05:23.the Policing Board. Matt Baggot announced earlier that he was to
:05:24. > :05:29.retire, two months earlier than planned. Our Home Affairs
:05:30. > :05:39.correspondent reports. The new and the old. Matt I get let his
:05:40. > :05:45.successor lead the way. -- Matt Baggott. He outlined the challenges
:05:46. > :05:52.that George Hamilton will face. Dealing with the past is
:05:53. > :05:58.debilitating and toxic. It was not long before the past cast a shadow.
:05:59. > :06:02.The focus was on the revelation that the Police Ombudsman plans to take
:06:03. > :06:06.the Chief Constable to court. He says his investigators have been
:06:07. > :06:11.denied access to information may need to probe allegations of serious
:06:12. > :06:15.criminal behaviour and misconduct by police officers. The Police
:06:16. > :06:20.Ombudsman does not do investigations by negotiation. This is fundamental
:06:21. > :06:26.to the independence of the office. The Chief Constable and his deputy
:06:27. > :06:30.insist they did not intend to undermine his independence. There is
:06:31. > :06:35.nothing personal in this or any attempt to obstruct the work of his
:06:36. > :06:39.office. We are asking the ombudsman to explain the details of their
:06:40. > :06:44.powers and the necessity and requirement for the information. We
:06:45. > :06:52.are not seeking to obstruct certain parts. That did not satisfy a number
:06:53. > :06:56.of board members. Why do you think you can be trusted with this
:06:57. > :07:03.information and the Police Ombudsman cannot? If that becomes an issue as
:07:04. > :07:08.we go into the future, then it undermines the Police Ombudsman's
:07:09. > :07:14.offers and the PSNI as well. I am dismayed at this turn of events. I
:07:15. > :07:18.cannot understand how this row has been allowed to escalate. This issue
:07:19. > :07:25.has caused damage to confidence in policing and it looks like a
:07:26. > :07:30.cover-up. I think... I want to put that on the record and I am angry.
:07:31. > :07:36.There was also criticism of the pool -- of the Police Ombudsman. The
:07:37. > :07:40.thing that strikes me as very strange is the fact that the Police
:07:41. > :07:44.Ombudsman decided to go public on this issue, which definitely has
:07:45. > :07:50.undermined the confidence of those families out there. It was a matter
:07:51. > :07:55.of some surprise and regret that this all got played out earlier this
:07:56. > :07:56.week and became such an issue. Police say they hope the dispute can
:07:57. > :08:00.be resolved without going to court. Still to come on tonight's
:08:01. > :08:02.BBC Newsline. As the 70th anniversary
:08:03. > :08:05.of D-Day is remembered, we hear one An inquest into the death of a four
:08:06. > :08:18.year old girl who died from swelling of the brain has been stopped,
:08:19. > :08:21.after the coroner said he felt Adjourning the inquest Jim Kitson
:08:22. > :08:27.said he felt duty bound to write up his report and refer it to the PPS,
:08:28. > :08:42.in light of evidence which came to Lindsay Angela Alvarez whose parents
:08:43. > :08:49.are originally from the Philippines was four years old when she died. A
:08:50. > :08:57.doctor estimated she had ingested up to teaspoons of salt. A normal
:08:58. > :09:01.intake of salt for a child is two thirds of a teaspoon. Asked to
:09:02. > :09:06.explain this, he said it was forced upon her and he said I cannot accept
:09:07. > :09:11.the possibility she took it voluntarily. She died in the Royal
:09:12. > :09:16.Victoria Hospital on August the 4th 2009, a few weeks before her fifth
:09:17. > :09:22.birthday. The inquest was told that the child had fallen down stairs in
:09:23. > :09:27.her uncle's house. Consultant paediatrician gave evidence. He said
:09:28. > :09:30.that children who fall accidentally do not usually get serious injuries
:09:31. > :09:37.and he said he would have expected other injuries, like bruising and a
:09:38. > :09:41.cut lip, he said that his experience of autistic children is that they do
:09:42. > :09:44.not throw themselves down the stairs. He said he could not rule
:09:45. > :09:52.out it could have been accidental, but could not rule out his concerns.
:09:53. > :09:55.The police are investigating an attempt to steal a cash machine
:09:56. > :09:57.in Hamiltonsbawn in Co Armagh using an explosive device.
:09:58. > :10:00.The would-be thieves struck in the early hours of this morning.
:10:01. > :10:07.Our South east reporter Gordon Adair has been to the scene.
:10:08. > :10:14.At 1am this morning and a masked man checks out the security cameras at
:10:15. > :10:23.this service station. An hour and a half later, and just why becomes
:10:24. > :10:29.very clear. Daylight and debris from the ATM can be seen scattered across
:10:30. > :10:34.the forecourt of the shop. It is obviously an extension of what has
:10:35. > :10:40.been an ongoing campaign to wreck these cash machines right across the
:10:41. > :10:48.country and Europe. I understand this is a relatively new development
:10:49. > :10:52.insofar as creating an explosion to blow the cash machine out. That is
:10:53. > :10:57.what happened on this occasion. This part was blown across the road
:10:58. > :11:01.almost reaching bungalows facing the shop. The building which houses the
:11:02. > :11:07.machine appears intact and it seems the gang probably did not get away
:11:08. > :11:11.with any cash. This was a sophisticated attack, the gang used
:11:12. > :11:15.spray paint to black out security lights and the police are
:11:16. > :11:20.investigating whether two abandoned cars found are connected to the
:11:21. > :11:26.incident. A similar robbery happened close by last Friday. The thieves
:11:27. > :11:34.did escape with cash they are. Gas was forced into the machines in both
:11:35. > :11:40.attacks before it was ignited. The Republic's government is coming
:11:41. > :11:43.under pressure to hold a full historical enquiry into the deaths
:11:44. > :11:46.of almost 800 children at a mother It's believed
:11:47. > :11:49.the bodies were buried in an unmarked grave in a septic tank
:11:50. > :11:53.the grounds of the home run by the Here's our Dublin
:11:54. > :12:05.correspondent Shane Harrison. It is believed based on official
:12:06. > :12:10.records that 796 young children are buried in a septic tank beneath this
:12:11. > :12:17.field. Babies and infants who died between the 1920s and 1960s while in
:12:18. > :12:22.the care of the Bon Secours nuns. The government is under pressure to
:12:23. > :12:26.hold an enquiry. What the government is doing is establishing the facts
:12:27. > :12:31.with a view to ensuring that we can get to the bottom of this harrowing
:12:32. > :12:36.issue. It is a matter of great public disquiet and upset. Not only
:12:37. > :12:42.for the families involved, but for local communities. What we will have
:12:43. > :12:45.is a report to government before the end of this month and then advance
:12:46. > :12:52.matters further. One independent TD once more. If this was found
:12:53. > :12:56.anywhere else, other than beside a religious institution, it would have
:12:57. > :13:03.been declared a crime scene. We know that in previous cases, there were
:13:04. > :13:08.drug trials took place. Did it happen in this location. That needs
:13:09. > :13:13.to be part of the enquiry. Could it have accounted for the high
:13:14. > :13:18.mortality rates? The Catholic archbishop has called on the nuns to
:13:19. > :13:21.act on their responsibilities while another order of nuns who ran three
:13:22. > :13:27.other mother and baby homes in the Republic said it will welcome an
:13:28. > :13:33.independent enquiry. This is not just an issue that affected Catholic
:13:34. > :13:40.run institutions. The remains of 219 infants from this home were
:13:41. > :13:45.discovered in South Dublin, between 1922 and 1949, a child died there
:13:46. > :13:50.every six weeks. They were difficult times and it is clear that there was
:13:51. > :13:56.a reliance by both state and society on these institutions to hide what
:13:57. > :13:59.was deemed to be a problem. All of these revelations are an indictment
:14:00. > :14:14.of Ireland and those with powerful responsibilities at the time.
:14:15. > :14:17.A prominent traditional Irish musician has been giving evidence
:14:18. > :14:22.Francis McPeake, who's 72, and formerly of Eliza Street Close
:14:23. > :14:38.Francis McPeake faces 12 charges of sexual abuse of a child. The abuse
:14:39. > :14:43.is alleged to have happened between June 2009 and May 2010. The court
:14:44. > :14:47.previously heard from a compliment to is now aged 20. This morning the
:14:48. > :14:52.prosecution finished presenting its case with the court hearing from the
:14:53. > :14:56.alleged victim was my father, stepfather, and a teacher from her
:14:57. > :15:02.former school. In the afternoon, Francis McPeake took the stand as
:15:03. > :15:06.the defence began its case. The case that Schumacher the court heard how
:15:07. > :15:09.the defendant had suffered from prostate cancer, the treatment or a
:15:10. > :15:15.wet had left him with difficulties having sex. He told the court he had
:15:16. > :15:19.tried to help the alleged victim because he thought that she had
:15:20. > :15:23.had, and full wrath of life. When a barrister asked him if he had ever
:15:24. > :15:29.had sex with the complainant, he replied, never in my life, no. The
:15:30. > :15:29.prosecution due to start their cross tomorrow
:15:30. > :15:36.The home of Ulster rugby, Ravenhill, is to be renamed as the
:15:37. > :15:39.A 10-year naming rights deal has been done with Kingspan,
:15:40. > :15:41.a Cavan-based building materials company.
:15:42. > :15:43.All this on the day our cameras got a first look
:15:44. > :15:47.With the latest on the stadium developments,
:15:48. > :16:06.By by Ravenhill, hello Kingspan Stadium. 90 years of history kicked
:16:07. > :16:12.into touch. In return, millions of pounds. Estimated at between three
:16:13. > :16:19.million and ?5 million. But Ulster will be expecting a backlash from
:16:20. > :16:24.the funds. Now, I don't think so. It is like a marriage. When my daughter
:16:25. > :16:29.gets married, her name will change. It is progress, it is critical that
:16:30. > :16:33.we get good quality investment into the stadium. I don't think we expect
:16:34. > :16:42.immediately everybody to get used to the name, but it does happen in
:16:43. > :16:47.time. There is no new name planned for the new Windsor Park, but work
:16:48. > :16:50.is well underway. The poll will still be possible while the building
:16:51. > :16:58.continues. A brand-new pitch is coming soon. It will happen next
:16:59. > :17:04.week, the back end of next week. There will be an eight to 12 grow in
:17:05. > :17:08.period, for the pitch to settle. In the middle of September, the first
:17:09. > :17:12.match will be played. You are telling me football will be played
:17:13. > :17:18.here in 12 weeks time? Yes, guaranteed. Some of the players are
:17:19. > :17:27.just back from Brazil, where they had helped to build World Cup
:17:28. > :17:31.stadiums -- builders. It can really only be hampered by the weather. It
:17:32. > :17:40.is all systems go here at Windsor Park. A legal challenge to the
:17:41. > :17:43.redevelopment is being taken by some residents, and the outcome want to
:17:44. > :17:46.be known until September at the earliest.
:17:47. > :17:48.Tomorrow is the 70th anniversary of D Day -
:17:49. > :17:52.the invasion of the north coast of France at Normandy, the turning
:17:53. > :17:57.To mark the commemorations Donna has been talking to two local veterans.
:17:58. > :18:02.This evening we hear from 91 year old Bill Eames, an RAF
:18:03. > :18:07.pilot honoured for his gallantry, who played a key role on D-Day.
:18:08. > :18:10.Her report begins with how newsreels of the time were marking
:18:11. > :18:36.We were to drop the British sixth airborne division, we were dropping
:18:37. > :18:42.the airborne Brigade, two battalions, one of them was the 1st
:18:43. > :18:51.Battalion. Their 2nd Battalion landed on the beaches, and the other
:18:52. > :18:58.Battalion was the infantry. It was not a good night at all. There was
:18:59. > :19:07.very low cloud. It took a very long time to get the thing ever born. It
:19:08. > :19:15.got to term -- turbulence. There was quite a lot of low air pressure.
:19:16. > :19:20.When we saw the canal, it linked in the moonlight, and with moonlight,
:19:21. > :19:26.you can see water. If there hadn't been that moonlight, we may not have
:19:27. > :19:32.seen it very well. We went along the canal, and eventually we work coming
:19:33. > :19:40.up to the right position, the glider pilot said, we've got it. He said
:19:41. > :19:50.good luck. They landed actually exactly where we had planned them to
:19:51. > :19:57.go. It was very successful. It was a dangerous mission, was it not? Given
:19:58. > :20:02.the anti-aircraft fire? All it was. It was dangerous, yes indeed. But
:20:03. > :20:12.certainly exciting. And it had to be done. There is no doubt about it. We
:20:13. > :20:16.were getting hit by flak, as I was on several occasions, and it was an
:20:17. > :20:22.unpleasant business. What was going through your head, when you know it
:20:23. > :20:27.was a very important mission and you were to bring those gliders over the
:20:28. > :20:33.French coast? We had no idea about the massive number of ships that
:20:34. > :20:40.were there. That was a very successful operation for us. Later
:20:41. > :20:49.on, when it came to the daylight operation, we were more or less cut
:20:50. > :20:59.in half. I was rather badly winded. I managed to get back to England, to
:21:00. > :21:04.Oxford. But that was bad. We lost the airborne division at that time.
:21:05. > :21:14.It was gone. Do you need to be a particular type of person to be a
:21:15. > :21:18.pilot in those situations? With a particular personality? I don't
:21:19. > :21:22.think so. I don't think I was any better than anybody else. You are
:21:23. > :21:34.just lucky, that is the thing. Your lock. But you did the right things?
:21:35. > :21:39.Well, I don't know if I did. How does it feel to be a war hero? I'm
:21:40. > :21:45.not a war hero, I am a survivor. Incredible story.
:21:46. > :21:48.Tomorrow evening on the programme Donna talks to John Leishman, who
:21:49. > :21:55.Manager Michael O'Neill has described Northern Ireland's South
:21:56. > :21:59.American tour as his best ten days as an international boss.
:22:00. > :22:02.After losing their opening tour match 1-0 to
:22:03. > :22:06.Uruguay, Northern Ireland were beaten 2-0 by Chile last night.
:22:07. > :22:09.But O'Neill has been enthused by the positive response
:22:10. > :22:18.Thomas Kane looks back at last night's action.
:22:19. > :22:31.There were very few goals in the first half. Conor MacLachlan went
:22:32. > :22:36.close. Oliver Norwood forced a good save from the Chilean goalkeeper. At
:22:37. > :22:42.the other end, Roy Carroll had the full threat, to tip this effort
:22:43. > :22:45.around the post. The home side went even closer shortly after, only to
:22:46. > :22:59.see this effort rebound off the woodwork. The deadlock was broken
:23:00. > :23:07.with just 12 minutes remaining. Barcelona finished well. The
:23:08. > :23:12.goal-scorer was marginally offside. There were no doubts about the home
:23:13. > :23:15.side's second form. They had found space behind the Northern Ireland
:23:16. > :23:25.For over 100 years motorcycle fans and riders from have been travelling
:23:26. > :23:27.to the Isle of Man for the TT races. We've unearthed some rare footage
:23:28. > :23:31.which has historical significance to this famous event. It comes in a
:23:32. > :23:33.week when Ballymoney rider Michael Dunlop booked his own place in the
:23:34. > :23:47.record books. Celebrating another record breaking
:23:48. > :23:52.Isle of Man win. Michael Dunlop delivered BMW their first TT success
:23:53. > :24:00.in exactly three quarters of a century. 1939 was the last time the
:24:01. > :24:08.German manufacturer won a race on the island. This never before seen
:24:09. > :24:17.footage shows George Meyer's success on the Sigma circuit. The Mac I have
:24:18. > :24:23.waited 75 years for BMW. It is a nice present. Dunlop has won a
:24:24. > :24:29.hat-trick of races so far this week, after contemplating quitting
:24:30. > :24:37.the sport earlier this year. I want to come back. Winning the TT is
:24:38. > :24:46.incredible. Especially the way I did it. I haven't had a lot of time on
:24:47. > :24:50.that bike. Tomorrow he will break the machine in the blue-ribbon
:24:51. > :24:51.senior race. Trying to create a little bit more motorcycle racing
:24:52. > :24:56.history. Great footage. Finally the Ireland fifteen to start
:24:57. > :24:59.against Argentina on Saturday Luke Marshall and Darren Cave are
:25:00. > :25:02.paired at centre, Robbie Diack gets his first start
:25:03. > :25:25.in a back row that includes The summer will certainly not make
:25:26. > :25:28.an appearance this weekend. As we go through this evening, not a bad end
:25:29. > :25:32.to the day, reasonably dry and bright. As we go through this
:25:33. > :25:38.evening, temperatures will fall away. We do have a few showers
:25:39. > :25:42.around, but as we go into the night, they will become increasingly
:25:43. > :25:46.isolated and clear away. As the skies clear, the temperatures will
:25:47. > :25:53.decrease. Those of five or six Celsius. Tomorrow, not looking like
:25:54. > :25:58.a bad day, at least to start with. A bright start, before the skies
:25:59. > :26:01.become more hazy later, and we have rain arriving toward evening. This
:26:02. > :26:06.is the picture you will be waking up to. Not bad. Certainly through the
:26:07. > :26:09.first half of the day, temperatures feeling quite pleasant. As we go
:26:10. > :26:15.through the day, those guys come more hazy, the cloud begins to
:26:16. > :26:20.picking up over the second half of the day, and the threat of rain
:26:21. > :26:26.becomes more acute. Highs of 15 or 16 Celsius. Not unpleasant in those
:26:27. > :26:32.sunny breaks. The rain is the real threat. 70 years ago today,
:26:33. > :26:36.meteorologist were poring over their charts anxiously looking at the
:26:37. > :26:42.D-Day weather. This is the chart, hand drawn from 1944. We have some
:26:43. > :26:46.low pressure systems there, I saw buyers indicating some strong winds
:26:47. > :26:51.for the invasion fleet. 70 years later, we have our own low-pressure
:26:52. > :26:56.system tracking over the next few days, and that will bring bring over
:26:57. > :27:01.this weekend. We have a yellow warning for rain in place across
:27:02. > :27:04.County Armagh and County Down. That is in force from the early hours of
:27:05. > :27:09.Saturday morning, because there is plenty of rain in the forecast on
:27:10. > :27:13.Saturday. Some of those downpours will be slow-moving and really quite
:27:14. > :27:17.intense. Other places will miss out, but a few catch one of them,
:27:18. > :27:29.you will know about it. Reasonably dry in terms of -- mild in terms of
:27:30. > :27:31.temptress. -- temperatures. Temperatures approaching 20 Celsius.
:27:32. > :27:35.Unsettled weather for the weekend. You can also keep in contact with
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