24/12/2015 BBC Newsline

Police divers have recovered the body of George Jamison

The 61-year-old went missing on Saturday.

The police say the death isn't being treated as suspicious.

The man who died when he was hit by a car in west Belfast yesterday

evening was Jim Maxwell, who was known as Maxi.

It happened on the Donegall Road close

The 71-year-old lived locally and it's believed

he was crossing the road when he was struck.

The name of a pedestrian hit by a lorry

on the Glenavy Road near the Moira Roundabout yesterday

There's been a small fire in a housing complex for older

The building was evacuated briefly and paramedics

were called to the premises in Main Street.

It's believed the fire started accidentally.

Over ?122,000 has been donated to the Black Santa annual collection

That total includes ?13,000 given today alone.

A popular feature of Christmas in the city, it attracts support

Hello, nice to see you. Thank you very much. That is great. It will

build up through January and then we have a cut-off point and then the

money is distributed at the end of February.

31 prisoners who are serving life sentences are among more than 100

who've been granted home leave over Christmas.

The inmates, who have been released until the 4th of January,

are from Maghaberry and Magilligan prisons and from Hydebank Wood.

The Prison Service said that all the prisoners granted leave have

been risk-assessed and have completed a home leave programme

or have undergone periods of unaccompanied testing

A vet in north Belfast has asked the public to leave extra food out

This is one of two that have already needed treatment in recent days,

but there are fears it could be an early sign of problems

that they faced in previous years when they had to take care

They are appealing to local people to continue to feed the birds,

if they can, over the Christmas and New Year period.

The Belfast Giants had a big win last night at the start

They beat league leaders the Cardiff Devils two-nil

The Giants took an early lead through Brandon Benedict,

before getting the clinching score in the dying seconds from Matt

The Giants stay fourth in the table but with games in hand can now catch

Christmas is a time for making memories

and a County Down museum has been compiling a collection of articles

that mean something special to local people at this time of year.

Among the finds is a rare Boer War tin, sent to the troops by Queen

Louise Cullen has been finding out more.

October 18 99. The Boer War began. It brought thousands of young men to

South Africa fighting the British Army, far from home and amid early

heavy losses in the campaign, morale by Christmas of that year was at

rock bottom. Queen Victoria decided to send a tin containing chocolate

each soldier on the front. The problem was it was Cadburys, and

that is who she wanted to give her warrants to. There were pacifists

and Quakers did not believe in the war, so they have this dilemma

should we give something to support people fighting? The Queen told them

to do so, so they believed they should. The three main chocolatiers

of the time were all pacifist Quakers and decided they would all

make chocolate for the tins. But that still didn't help. They'll

agreed they will put their names on the chocolate, but the Queen did not

want that, because Cadburys was hers. So the agreement was made that

they would all be labelled as Cadburys, but the chocolate inside

would bear the name of the Manufacturer. The chocolate in this

tip was eaten by a soldier who survived the Boer War only to die in

the last year of World War I, 1918. The lie many others, is tin became a

memento box and a reminder of the home he plonked to see at Christmas.

-- this, like many others. Here's Cecilia with

the all-important Christmas weather. Not longer now, just a few hours

until Christmas Day. If you on the road tonight, it will be icy in

places and I will be showers around with snow on some hills as well. It

could be tricky for a while. But as the night goes on, those showers

will ease off. The bitter wind will also drop, but with clear skies,

temperatures will get around freezing. Frost and ice to startle

and Christmas morning, but mostly dry. There is rain to come during

the afternoon, but the morning looks pretty decent and the winds will not

be as strong. Rappaport, enjoy the morning and the sunshine, maybe some

snow on the hills. The rain comes up from the south, it means a wet

Christmas Day for the Republic, Wales and England. Milder air will

come through eventually, but as it comes up against the cold, there

will be wet slow and in places. -- wet snow. Cold crisp over the North

and Scotland, cold and damp tent Christmas Day across Northern

Ireland. They will become milder on Christmas night and also dry as the

cold, wet weather moves northward. Winds will pick up on Christmas

night, so you will be windy and that's windy weather will continue

into boxing day. Not as cold, not as cold as today. Lots of dry weather

and sunshine in places, so not a bad day. He'll be milder still on Sunday

and Monday of next week. Happy Christmas.

Keep in touch with the news over the holiday with BBC Radio Ulster.