01/01/2016 BBC Newsline

Now, on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor.

A man's been injured in the face in an attack in north Belfast.

Shortly after five o'clock this morning the 24-year-old was found

in an entry off Glencairn Way with slash-type wounds.

It's understood his injuries aren't life-threatening.

74 people were killed on Northern Ireland's

According to police figures that's five fewer than in 2014.

Almost half of those who were killed were drivers.

19 pedestrians and four motorcyclists died.

Two men have been in court accused of multiple raids on shops

Conor Allen, 26, from Ormiston Drive and 31 year old Andrew Aparicio

from Russell Court in the city, are jointly charged with a series

A judge was told police believe the pair are part of a bigger gang.

Hundreds of people have braved icy waters today for a New Year's dip.

There were organised swims in Newscastle,

and Helen's Bay, but Colletta Smith was in Islandmagee.

Between the rain clouds, lots of people got out for a bracing

For some, it was very bracing indeed.

This was the ninth annual New Year's Day dip.

Around 100 people of all ages braved the Irish Sea to raise

This is a day when most others are glad to be warm and dry.

Plenty of people today are mad enough or man enough to brave it in.

It has cleared the head from last night.

Don't think I will make it an annual thing but thoroughly enjoyable.

We're going to go home and have a nice relaxing bath,

Hundreds stayed watching on the sidelines, holding the warm

clothes for those mad enough to take a dip.

But I'm told, it gets easier the longer you spend in.

That certainly seemed to be the case for some.

Good to see so many people here today.

With a big splash here, one or two little seals did get

In football Linfield moved into second place

They beat Crusaders 2-0 at Windsor Park to cut the champions

Stephen Watson rounds up all the New Year's Day action.

Crusaders haven't been beaten in 20 league games.

Linfield were determined to change that.

Persistence from Andy Waterworth secured the opening goal.

Then keeper Sean O'Neill turned the ball into his own net

Rodney Brown scored a tapping winner in this game.

Paul Michael Roy scored the first goal of the season after seven

The game of the day was a seven goal thriller at Shamrock Park.

Portadown had a 3-2 advantage but Ballymena battled

In the last minute of the game, they produced a winner by Alan

Jenkins. His second.

4-3 and a happy start to the New Year for Ballymena.

The weather now and looking ahead to the next few days,

The. The Aurora borealis Britain in an appearance along the coast but

tonight is a different story. Rain all this evening and it continues

overnight. An early warning is in place tomorrow for heavy rain across

the eastern half of Northern Ireland. Through this evening and

overnight we can see the rain continuing off and on what the

south-easterly breeze developing and all the cloud cover means the

night-time temperature is similar to today. Into the weekend, it is a

pretty chilly day and we have yellow warning coming in at noon. That is

particularly enforced across the eastern half of Northern Ireland.

That is where the lane will be heaviest and most persistent. We

have an APR of low pressure that has become stalled across south-west

England. The winds whip around it and the rain is hitting Scotland and

North West England and feeding and across the Irish Sea meaning many

counties at risk. The rest of Ireland enjoying a reasonably dry

day, at least through daylight hours and by the time we get to the

overnight period we start to see some rain is working its way in from

the south-west. The old system works its way out eventually only to be

replaced by the next Atlantic low and that means we will see a very

wet day on Sunday. That could cause problems given the high river levels

and the saturated ground that we have at the moment and as we go

through Sunday, the rain will be much more widespread soul western

counties also seeing their share of the rain through the day. What we

really need at the moment is two to three weeks of dry weather to help

dry out the ground but at the moment there is no sign of that arriving

any time soon.