:00:00. > :00:10.The widow of a Tyrone man who drowned in a flood
:00:11. > :00:14.says she feels like she is in the middle of a bad dream.
:00:15. > :00:17.The former show band singer Ivan Vaughan, whose stage name was Simon
:00:18. > :00:23.Scott, had been travelling from Glaslough across the border to his
:00:24. > :00:28.According to Gardai, the 70-year-old was swept away as he tried to get
:00:29. > :00:42.It was Ivan Vaughan's understandable decision to abandon this car
:00:43. > :00:45.after it became trapped in flood water on Sunday night.
:00:46. > :00:47.That was to have such tragic consequences.
:00:48. > :00:50.Ivan had played a gig and was on his way home.
:00:51. > :00:57.The amount of flooding which has clearly taken place here
:00:58. > :01:04.Fields, fences and crucially the road are all still covered,
:01:05. > :01:08.one can only imagine the sheer force with which the water must have been
:01:09. > :01:10.pushing through at the height of the storm on Sunday night.
:01:11. > :01:14.Alone in the vehicle in the dark, in the pouring rain, it seems Ivan
:01:15. > :01:21.Ivan was also known by his stage name of Simon Scott.
:01:22. > :01:23.Yesterday, his wife reported him missing.
:01:24. > :01:30.his body was found ten metres from his car.
:01:31. > :01:32.Gardai believe he had been swept away by the sheer force
:01:33. > :01:47.He wasn't a great swimmer but he could swim.
:01:48. > :01:51.They found his coat floating on top of the water.
:01:52. > :01:54.So, he would have had that on, I would say,
:01:55. > :01:58.when he got out of the car, and took it off because it was hindering him,
:01:59. > :02:01.I don't know how deep the water was, I would say,
:02:02. > :02:20.Ivan performed with the Plattermen in the '60s and '70s and more
:02:21. > :02:24.Today, tributes flew in from the world of entertainment and beyond.
:02:25. > :02:27.All I can say is the man had great enthusiasm and knowledge for music.
:02:28. > :02:30.He loved it whether it was old country visit or modern pop music,
:02:31. > :02:34.A real tragedy, he is in our thoughts and prayers,
:02:35. > :02:39.For his friends, family and music colleagues,
:02:40. > :02:42.there is some consolation in the fact Ivan was doing what he loved,
:02:43. > :02:52.Five people have been rescued by firefighters from two cars trapped
:02:53. > :02:59.It happened on the Armagh Road in Moy just after 2.30 this afternoon.
:03:00. > :03:02.Crews from Belfast, Armagh, Portadown and Dungannon were
:03:03. > :03:09.There've been calls for the Environment Minister to explain
:03:10. > :03:13.why he's given the go-ahead for a big development on a flood plain.
:03:14. > :03:16.The company behind it insists it has addressed the concerns
:03:17. > :03:23.Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.
:03:24. > :03:26.It's called the Three Rivers Project because it's close to where
:03:27. > :03:30.the Finn, Mourne and Foyle all meet on the Strabane-Lifford border.
:03:31. > :03:33.But, from these aerial pictures of the weekend flooding,
:03:34. > :03:37.it's almost impossible to make out the rivers and where you'd normally
:03:38. > :03:43.It's here where there's a plan to build a ?50 million
:03:44. > :03:47.business and leisure complex, with the promise of 1,700 jobs.
:03:48. > :03:51.But the site's on an existing flood plain.
:03:52. > :03:55.We have employed one of the world's leading consultancy teams.
:03:56. > :03:58.They studied the area, modelled the flood patterns
:03:59. > :04:02.and have come up with a solution which will widen the river
:04:03. > :04:07.and increase capacity so water will convey down the river
:04:08. > :04:12.and won't be dumped on hundreds of acres of agricultural land.
:04:13. > :04:19.But the local Strabane Chamber Of Commerce has concerns.
:04:20. > :04:25.We have concerns over the level of the flood protection.
:04:26. > :04:32.While the wrangle continues over the development, local businesses
:04:33. > :04:34.who were forced to close at the weekend, say an adequate
:04:35. > :04:42.The weather is something that is very unpredictable
:04:43. > :04:50.The minister says he is fully aware that the development site
:04:51. > :04:56.He has made it clear to the development company
:04:57. > :04:58.that they must put in place adequate mitigation measures
:04:59. > :05:11.Tonight, a BBC Spotlight programme examines the Government's insistence
:05:12. > :05:14.that secret archives from the Troubles must be withheld
:05:15. > :05:20.It investigates the potential implications of this for alleged
:05:21. > :05:30.military killings, where soldiers are accused of shooting civilians.
:05:31. > :05:35.People will say how did your father died and I will say he is murdered
:05:36. > :05:40.in the troubles. Was he had policemen? No, they shot him, the
:05:41. > :05:44.Army. He was an innocent man shot dead by the army. And you can see
:05:45. > :05:48.them go, oh, really? You can see the kind of debt. -- doubt.
:05:49. > :05:51.And you can see Spotlight here on BBC One immediately
:05:52. > :05:54.On the eve of the deadline for nominations for leadership,
:05:55. > :05:57.Arlene Foster is the only person in the running to succeed
:05:58. > :06:00.The deputy leader Nigel Dodds pulled out yesterday
:06:01. > :06:05.She says she is humbled by the level of support.
:06:06. > :06:07.I have put my name in for leadership of the party.
:06:08. > :06:11.I have been humbled by the amount of support I have received in a
:06:12. > :06:14.short space of time and I very much look forward to leading the party
:06:15. > :06:19.I believe I have the ability and vision to take this party
:06:20. > :06:23.forward into the next 100 years of Northern Ireland.
:06:24. > :06:27.A man who is terminally ill says changes to the allocation
:06:28. > :06:30.of specialist cancer drugs in Northern Ireland will help many
:06:31. > :06:35.Allister Murphy from Newtownabbey was diagnosed with prostate cancer
:06:36. > :06:38.in 2008 and was refused drugs which would have been given
:06:39. > :06:46.The new rules will relax the criteria by which those
:06:47. > :06:49.decisions are made - but Mr Murphy says he believes the changes have
:06:50. > :07:00.It's a national health service, it's not a national health service, it's
:07:01. > :07:04.not original health service and I have taken part in a number of
:07:05. > :07:09.cancer drug trials which have kept me alive. The ironic bit about those
:07:10. > :07:16.trials is one in particular was based in Northern Ireland, this is
:07:17. > :07:19.the world Centre, is not available to men in Northern Ireland, even
:07:20. > :07:24.though Northern Ireland was the centre for the trial. My condition
:07:25. > :07:28.needed to be met earlier and in January this year, I would have met
:07:29. > :07:32.all the conditions for that drug, all the conditions for trial access
:07:33. > :07:37.and stuff, but I was turned down on the basis of cost, despite the fact
:07:38. > :07:38.that my current treatment costs more than the drug they turned me down
:07:39. > :07:40.for, which is crazy. Some outpatient clinics
:07:41. > :07:42.at the Ulster Hospital in Dundonald have been cancelled until Thursday
:07:43. > :07:45.because of what has been described as unprecedented pressure
:07:46. > :07:49.on the Emergency Department. Ambulances were diverted
:07:50. > :07:52.from the department for several hours today and three clinics were
:07:53. > :07:55.cancelled to free up staff. In a statement, the South Eastern
:07:56. > :07:57.Health and Social Care Trust appealed for people to consider
:07:58. > :08:00.other care options while the And Good Morning Ulster tomorrow
:08:01. > :08:09.will be looking at plans by the Health Minister to ban
:08:10. > :08:16.smoking in cars carrying children. The latest weather prospects now,
:08:17. > :08:28.with Geoff Maskell. Good evening. After a chilly start
:08:29. > :08:31.to the night, we are seeing cloudy start to fill in from the West and
:08:32. > :08:36.that heralds the arrival of some rain but the wee small hours of
:08:37. > :08:39.tomorrow. What you will notice is those temperatures starting to
:08:40. > :08:43.recover as we head towards dawn. This is the first band of rain, it
:08:44. > :08:47.should be out of the way by the time that most people are heading to work
:08:48. > :09:01.tomorrow but Wednesday is still wet and windy story. So this is the
:09:02. > :09:04.picture for your drive to work, rain clearing out to the east and then
:09:05. > :09:06.for rush-hour, in the main, it should be a reasonably dry picture
:09:07. > :09:09.but if we take the wider view across the whole of the British Isles, we
:09:10. > :09:12.see Ireland and Scotland having a very different day to England and
:09:13. > :09:14.Wales. The one common factor is a strong westerly breeze picking up
:09:15. > :09:17.through the day. For us, as we go through the afternoon, we have that
:09:18. > :09:24.band of rain coming in as the cold front sink slowly south. Keep an eye
:09:25. > :09:30.on the wind gauges, 24, 30 winds and behind it, into some cold air.
:09:31. > :09:34.Tomorrow, a high of ten or 11 degrees. By the time begetter
:09:35. > :09:38.Thursday rather different feel to the weather. Still the showers the
:09:39. > :09:42.showers continue but much more of a wintry element over the higher
:09:43. > :09:47.ground. The good news is between the showers, there will be brighter
:09:48. > :09:48.spells. As we had through this week, there is certainly an increasingly
:09:49. > :09:49.wintry note to our weather. Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25
:09:50. > :09:52.in the morning