:00:00. > 3:59:59a night of Italian joy but Mancunian disappointment. Andy Swiss, BBC
:00:00. > :00:00.News. Tributes have been paid to two men
:00:07. > :00:11.from Northern Ireland who died in an accident
:00:12. > :00:14.on a building site in Australia. The victims were Joseph McDermott,
:00:15. > :00:16.from Omagh, and Gerard Bradley, from near Macosquin in
:00:17. > :00:20.County Londonderry. They were both in their 20s
:00:21. > :00:23.and had only recently arrived They died
:00:24. > :00:37.when a concrete slab fell on them Two towns in Northern Ireland
:00:38. > :00:42.devastated by news from the other side of the world. Like so many
:00:43. > :00:46.Irish nationals, the young men in their 20s were working on a
:00:47. > :00:50.construction site in Perth. Only a few weeks into their jobs, they were
:00:51. > :00:56.killed when a concrete slab fell from a crane. Joseph McDermott was
:00:57. > :01:01.from Omagh. Today, the sad news has rippled through the time. A young
:01:02. > :01:06.fellow turned down in the prime of his life. We went out to Australia
:01:07. > :01:12.just a few weeks ago for an adventure, to make a few blind. He
:01:13. > :01:17.is only a way five weeks tomorrow. The sense of grief in the town is
:01:18. > :01:21.palpable. It is unreal. His colleague, Gerard Bradley, lived
:01:22. > :01:25.outside cold rain but for years he worked in this pub. The night, his
:01:26. > :01:32.friends gathered in Portstewart stunned. Everybody is devastated.
:01:33. > :01:37.Terrible news. My phone has not stopped all day. Great guy, very
:01:38. > :01:41.popular. Nobody in the time but have a bad word to say about him. The
:01:42. > :01:46.life and soul of the party when he was out. A gentleman. Everybody is
:01:47. > :01:52.devastated. Gerry was a big Arsenal fan. He was -- was a sports fan in
:01:53. > :01:58.general, which is why he was often find here at the golf club. He was a
:01:59. > :02:04.very good golfer. He joined here in 2,000. He was 14 and had a 14
:02:05. > :02:10.handicap. He was very popular with the members. A really nice kid. It
:02:11. > :02:11.is just a tragedy. Questions are being raised about safety on the
:02:12. > :02:19.construct an site in Perth. The family of an autistic teenager
:02:20. > :02:22.who almost died in a brutal beating in 2012 have hit out at the sentence
:02:23. > :02:25.handed down to his attacker. Ryan Craig, who was originally
:02:26. > :02:27.charged with attempted murder, was jailed for five years after
:02:28. > :02:30.pleading guilty to causing grievous Scott Vineer was discovered with
:02:31. > :02:46.severe head injuries in Lisburn. The judge told Ryan Craig that his
:02:47. > :02:51.behaviour in the aftermath of the attack on Scott Vineer was not
:02:52. > :02:56.indicative of genuine remorse. Craig, seen here at an earlier
:02:57. > :03:00.hearing, attacked police with a petrol bomb. A year later, the
:03:01. > :03:05.20-year-old from Ashland Gardens and is burnt will spend five years in
:03:06. > :03:10.prison and five years on licence. Scott Vineer's had hoped for a
:03:11. > :03:16.longer sentence. He knew what he was doing. He knew it was wrong and he
:03:17. > :03:21.deliberately kept details away from anyone who could help Scott. He
:03:22. > :03:27.should have been given the maximum, as far as we are concerned. I reckon
:03:28. > :03:34.he should have got 15 years. Judge Lynch also told Craig that although
:03:35. > :03:37.he would be released from prison, Scott Vineer would never be released
:03:38. > :03:43.from the imprisonment he subjected him to. The Vineer family have been
:03:44. > :03:48.telling me how the attack left Scott with his life sentence. The judge
:03:49. > :03:58.came to see us first and prepared us by saying he did not think he would
:03:59. > :04:04.survive. -- the dock your. We were prepared to say our goodbyes. It was
:04:05. > :04:10.absolute horror. Seeing him laying there, knowing how bubbly and how
:04:11. > :04:14.strong he was, I just couldn't understand how anyone could have
:04:15. > :04:19.done that, such horrific injuries, to him. Scott was just 17 when he
:04:20. > :04:27.was attacked Ellie Watton from college. He has been left with
:04:28. > :04:33.permanent brain damage. In August, Scott was best man at his mum and
:04:34. > :04:40.stepdad's wedding. He fought back before and he is determined to live
:04:41. > :04:50.a normal life. I hope to eventually get my own place when I 25 or so. I
:04:51. > :04:55.don't want to go far away so I can see my friends, and all that. When
:04:56. > :04:59.Scott was found unconscious by hand this disused furniture store, his
:05:00. > :05:03.injuries were so severe that the police could not identify him from a
:05:04. > :05:09.photograph. Although his recovery has astounded medical experts, but
:05:10. > :05:10.he and his family will be dealing with the aftermath of this attack
:05:11. > :05:16.for the rest of their lives. Police have confirmed they've
:05:17. > :05:18.found a bomb near Dungiven. It was discovered this afternoon
:05:19. > :05:20.following a controlled explosion The security operation is expected
:05:21. > :05:23.to continue into tomorrow. It's the second alert in the area
:05:24. > :05:27.in recent weeks. The Chancellor, George Osborne, has
:05:28. > :05:30.scrapped plans to cut tax credits. The decision brings unexpected
:05:31. > :05:32.relief to one in six households in Northern Ireland which stood to
:05:33. > :05:35.lose hundreds of pounds a year. But there will still be tough times
:05:36. > :05:38.ahead in terms of Stormont spending. Here's our business
:05:39. > :06:07.correspondent Julian O'Neill. I would not be able to pay most of
:06:08. > :06:12.my bills of the tax credits. It sees you through the month when you're
:06:13. > :06:19.waiting for you we're just coming. So, it had looked like time was up
:06:20. > :06:24.for child and working tax credits, going into today's Autumn
:06:25. > :06:26.Statement, but then came a surprise announcement. Because I have been
:06:27. > :06:31.able to announce today an improvement in the public finances
:06:32. > :06:37.home of the most simple thing to do is not the phasing these changes but
:06:38. > :06:40.to avoid them altogether. As a result, Natasha is among tens of
:06:41. > :06:47.thousands of local people breathing a sigh of relief. We did expect him
:06:48. > :06:51.to make some kind of changes because things had not been well received,
:06:52. > :06:55.but I did not expect that to be a complete U-turn, which is great for
:06:56. > :07:00.parents, working parents and makes me feel a lot more secure. The
:07:01. > :07:05.outlook is not so good for Stormont generally. As the night of the wider
:07:06. > :07:06.Autumn Statement will see day-to-day public spending feeling the squeeze
:07:07. > :07:11.for years to come. The Stormont Executive had set
:07:12. > :07:14.aside ?245million to cope with the Earlier today,
:07:15. > :07:17.Finance Minister Arlene Foster told me they will now decide where that
:07:18. > :07:30.money should be spent. That is a matter that we will have
:07:31. > :07:34.to discuss. We thought there would be something on tax credits today
:07:35. > :07:36.but there has been a complete change of direction so we now have to
:07:37. > :07:41.decide what to do with that money. It is a ring fenced lot of money,
:07:42. > :07:47.there is money set aside for welfare to the tune of ?345 million, but the
:07:48. > :07:50.240 million that was set aside for tax credits we will have to discuss
:07:51. > :07:59.how we can help people with that money. Does go into health, in the
:08:00. > :08:02.welfare? I have to set a budget for 2016-17 based on the figures that
:08:03. > :08:05.have prompted today and I have to set up at the end of January, so
:08:06. > :08:17.there is not much time in which to have those discussions.
:08:18. > :08:24.We had a cold snap last weekend and we are heading for another one for
:08:25. > :08:28.this weekend. At the moment we are still in mild air begin with the
:08:29. > :08:31.night it will be mainly dry with the cloud closing in through the night
:08:32. > :08:36.to bring this down hill fog. Eventually, we will get its pieces
:08:37. > :08:40.of rain and drizzle. Temperature is no lower than six or seven. In the
:08:41. > :08:46.tomorrow, not a great deal of change. It will be dull and it will
:08:47. > :08:49.be turning wetter. Initially, just misty and murky with patchy drizzle
:08:50. > :08:52.with more persistent rain moving into the West Theatre in the
:08:53. > :08:59.morning. The rain is edging across parts of the Republic, in towards
:09:00. > :09:03.the West of Scotland. One or two showers for West Wales and the West
:09:04. > :09:07.of England, but generally speaking dry weather. Some bright spots along
:09:08. > :09:13.the east and south-east of England. Temperatures in double figures, some
:09:14. > :09:16.out for the time of year. Northern Ireland can the afternoon the
:09:17. > :09:25.rainbow trackers we were eastwards. Probably not clearing the East coast
:09:26. > :09:27.until dusk or afterwards. Misty and murky, but milder 1213 degrees.
:09:28. > :09:32.Enjoy them out weather because as we head into Friday this is the first
:09:33. > :09:37.sign of the change. A weather front moving in, bringing heavy spells of
:09:38. > :09:41.rain and some quite squally winds. It is the boundary between the mild
:09:42. > :09:44.air that we have an colder air coming in of the Atlantic. On Friday
:09:45. > :09:48.onwards it will turn cold, temperatures following with wintry
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