:00:00. > :00:00.that parliamentary debate and vote tomorrow. Here on BBC One it's
:00:00. > :00:08.This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor.
:00:09. > :00:12.Three people were injured in a crash involving two vehicles
:00:13. > :00:17.on the main road between Belfast and Newry at teatime this evening.
:00:18. > :00:26.Both carriageways of the A1 between Loughbrickland and Newry are closed.
:00:27. > :00:29.One of the injured who was taken to Royal Victoria Hospital is said
:00:30. > :00:33.Another who was taken to Daisy Hill Hospital has been discharged.
:00:34. > :00:36.The condition of the third person hasn't been made public.
:00:37. > :00:39.The DUP says its MPs will be backing tomorrow's
:00:40. > :00:45.Conservative government motion supporting UK air strikes in Syria.
:00:46. > :00:49.But the new SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, says it's not
:00:50. > :00:52.the way to deal with the threat from the so-called Islamic State.
:00:53. > :00:54.The normal Prime Minister's Question Time has
:00:55. > :00:58.been abandoned to allow MPs to spend the whole day debating the issue.
:00:59. > :01:01.The vast majority of Conservative MPs are set to support
:01:02. > :01:06.the motion supporting air strikes, along with a number of Labour MPs
:01:07. > :01:13.The victim of an overnight pipe-bombing says he
:01:14. > :01:20.The device was left on the doorstep of the family home in Dungiven.
:01:21. > :01:23.His partner and their two-year-old daughter were inside at the time.
:01:24. > :01:34.With more details, here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.
:01:35. > :01:37.It's understood that a pipe bomb was left on the doorstep of this family
:01:38. > :01:40.home at Ard Na Smoll in Dungiven sometime yesterday evening.
:01:41. > :01:42.The alert was raised when a neighbour noticed two wheelie
:01:43. > :01:44.bins on fire and called the emergency services.
:01:45. > :01:46.The victim of the attack says his partner
:01:47. > :01:49.and their two-year-old daughter were in the house at the time.
:01:50. > :01:52.It is terrifying, even thinking the thought of what could have happened.
:01:53. > :02:01.I have been standing here a shell of a person at the minute.
:02:02. > :02:04.It really hit me this morning, what could have happened.
:02:05. > :02:12.The police say the lives of the local fire fighters were also
:02:13. > :02:14.put at risk when they arrived to deal with the fire.
:02:15. > :02:17.A sister of the victim says those who carried
:02:18. > :02:19.it out could have killed a mother and her two-year-old daughter.
:02:20. > :02:25.My family lives in that house and somebody's trying to kill them.
:02:26. > :02:29.I think they are really terrified and scared, like anyone else would
:02:30. > :02:31.be if someone was setting a bomb outside your house.
:02:32. > :02:41.The police are still investigating a motive for this latest attack.
:02:42. > :02:45.Two other incidents where devices were found in the Dungiven area this
:02:46. > :02:48.month have been blamed on dissident republicans.
:02:49. > :02:52.I am saying to these groups, sit down and try and analyse what they
:02:53. > :02:59.I ask everybody in this estate do they support this type of activity?
:03:00. > :03:03.Ask the people in these houses what they think of it,
:03:04. > :03:05.Police have praised the patience of local people,
:03:06. > :03:08.on what they describe as a night of disruption for them, and have
:03:09. > :03:12.They want to hear from anyone who noticed any suspicious activity
:03:13. > :03:22.in and around this area last night to get in touch.
:03:23. > :03:24.The Gardai in County Monaghan have been carrying out searches relating
:03:25. > :03:26.to dissident republicans, and have recovered assault rifles,
:03:27. > :03:31.Officers say it was a "significant find" just outside Scotstown.
:03:32. > :03:34.The searches follow the arrest of a 43-year-old man last week.
:03:35. > :03:37.He was later charged with IRA membership.
:03:38. > :03:42.It's expected the searches will resume in the morning.
:03:43. > :03:45.Parents at four schools in Bangor have been warned that some
:03:46. > :03:50.of the students are being sold drugs in the town centre.
:03:51. > :03:52.Letters have been sent out by the school principals.
:03:53. > :03:56.Here's our Education Correspondent, Robbie Meredith.
:03:57. > :04:00.It's a place used by hundreds of pupils every day to get to
:04:01. > :04:03.and from school, but it is also a place where children as young
:04:04. > :04:08.In a letter sent out to parents yesterday
:04:09. > :04:11.and published this morning in the Belfast Telegraph, the headteacher
:04:12. > :04:15.said drug abuse was becoming a growing and serious problem.
:04:16. > :04:17.They said the PSNI had recently received
:04:18. > :04:21.reports that Year Eight pupils had been approached by older boys not
:04:22. > :04:24.in school uniform looking to sell them drugs at the town's bus station
:04:25. > :04:30.We took the decision based on the fact that this is a community issue.
:04:31. > :04:33.We are stronger when we work together.
:04:34. > :04:36.There's four schools, approximately 4000 pupils across these schools.
:04:37. > :04:39.Beyond the schools, at the bus station, a lot of pupils
:04:40. > :04:45.It is important to help the parents, the community to actually start to
:04:46. > :04:48.work on this problem and hopefully solve it.
:04:49. > :04:51.It was parents of pupils at Bangor Grammar School who first told
:04:52. > :04:53.the principal there about what was happening.
:04:54. > :04:55.What has startled us the most has been the approach
:04:56. > :05:02.We are talking about an 11 and 12-year-old.
:05:03. > :05:04.But that, certainly for myself and my principal colleagues,
:05:05. > :05:09.Now she wants more action from the police.
:05:10. > :05:13.Realistically PSNI funds have been cut and possibly this is one
:05:14. > :05:20.I'd like to see much more visibility.
:05:21. > :05:23.The bus station is very busy first thing in the morning,
:05:24. > :05:28.late afternoon, servicing our four schools and the wider area.
:05:29. > :05:33.That basic visibility would be a necessity.
:05:34. > :05:37.PSNI officers won't have to go far to try and stop schoolchildren
:05:38. > :05:40.being offered drugs here because it has been happening right across the
:05:41. > :05:49.I understand the concerns that led to this letter and I ask people to
:05:50. > :05:53.contact us and the schools to help us with our resources,
:05:54. > :05:57.Will you be mounting more patrols in the area?
:05:58. > :06:00.We keep all operations under constant review based
:06:01. > :06:04.on the threat on harm and the risk to the public, and how
:06:05. > :06:07.we can best target our resources intelligently to keep people safe.
:06:08. > :06:12.While it is shocking that drugs are being dealt to such young children,
:06:13. > :06:14.schools hope that by highlighting this, it will make pupils, parents,
:06:15. > :06:26.Thirteen members of a loyalist flute band have
:06:27. > :06:30.successfully appealed convictions for provocatively playing
:06:31. > :06:34.a sectarian tune outside a Catholic church in North Belfast in 2012.
:06:35. > :06:36.Charges had been brought against members of the Young Conway
:06:37. > :06:39.Volunteers following an incident during a 12th of July parade.
:06:40. > :06:46.This is the incident which led to the 13 men being
:06:47. > :06:50.accused of a provocative act likely to cause public disorder.
:06:51. > :06:53.They denied playing a rendition of the Famine Song.
:06:54. > :06:55.Instead, they claimed to have been performing
:06:56. > :07:01.The band leader on the day of the parade was the only one
:07:02. > :07:05.He said they'd been forced to stop outside the church because
:07:06. > :07:19.He said they started up the Beach Boys tune to ward off lethargy.
:07:20. > :07:21.In April, the 13 defendants were all convicted.
:07:22. > :07:23.Three of them receiving five-month suspended prison sentences.
:07:24. > :07:26.A challenge to the convictions was due to be heard in court today.
:07:27. > :07:28.Prosecutors did not oppose the band members' challenge to
:07:29. > :07:32.That was because they agreed to keep the peace for two years.
:07:33. > :07:34.If they don't abide by that, they could be jailed
:07:35. > :07:39.Scams cost the Northern Ireland economy an estimated ?100 million
:07:40. > :07:47.Tonight, Spotlight has a report on a 75-year-old pensioner scammed
:07:48. > :07:50.That's straight after this news bulletin.
:07:51. > :07:52.Looking ahead to tomorrow, the Good Morning Ulster radio
:07:53. > :07:55.programme hears from Mary Robinson, the UN Secretary General's Special
:07:56. > :08:00.That's in the morning on BBC Radio Ulster starting at 6.30pm.
:08:01. > :08:03.Ballymena are through to the final of the County Antrim Shield.
:08:04. > :08:06.They had a 3-2 extra time victory over Larne at Inver Park tonight.
:08:07. > :08:10.David Cushlee scored the match winner a minute from the end.
:08:11. > :08:13.The weather forecast with Cecilia Daly.
:08:14. > :08:16.It's been an incredibly mild start to December.
:08:17. > :08:21.Officially, we are now in winter but yet one of our weather watchers
:08:22. > :08:25.spotted this rose in full bloom in a garden in South Belfast.
:08:26. > :08:31.Still quite blustery, and we'll see more rain sweeping in from the west,
:08:32. > :08:36.That means a damp end to the night, and a damp start to Wednesday.
:08:37. > :08:41.Temperatures are likely to be at their highest in the morning.
:08:42. > :08:43.The rain doesn't last too long either.
:08:44. > :08:45.It moves away quite quickly, clearing the East Coast
:08:46. > :08:50.The rest of the UK is looking pretty nice.
:08:51. > :08:55.That area of rain will become slow-moving over parts of northern
:08:56. > :08:57.England, southern Scotland, Wales and eventually the West Country.
:08:58. > :08:59.Slowly clearing away from the South East of Ireland.
:09:00. > :09:02.There is a weather warning in force for Wales with that rain piling up.
:09:03. > :09:04.Ahead of it, it's dry but fairly cloudy.
:09:05. > :09:08.Behind it, it starts to cool off, but also some brighter skies
:09:09. > :09:10.pushing in with some sunshine for Northern Ireland.
:09:11. > :09:15.Even though it will be a little bit cooler as the afternoon goes on,
:09:16. > :09:19.Tomorrow night, clearing skies will mean a chilly night.
:09:20. > :09:21.Some frost around on Thursday morning.
:09:22. > :09:24.Temperatures on Thursday right back to single figures.
:09:25. > :09:27.More or less close to the average for this time of year.
:09:28. > :09:29.But again, Thursday is looking reasonably dry.
:09:30. > :09:34.Cold on Thursday night, but then the rain gradually comes
:09:35. > :09:36.back again during the course of Friday, especially later on.
:09:37. > :09:40.It looks at the moment as though the rain will be on and