21/01/2016 BBC Newsline

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A 29-year-old woman has been charged with

the murder of Eddie Girvan.

Two men in their 20s who were also arrested in connection

with the Greenisland pensioner's killing were released

The woman is due to appear in court in Belfast tomorrow.

Two teenagers have died in a crash in County Armagh.

The boys, who were both 17, were in a car which left

the road this morning between Newtownhamilton

A third student who was with them was injured.

They were on their way to their engineering course,

It was competition time today and the chance to show off hard-won

skills and an opportunity to celebrate, but for two

of the teenage competitors the day was not

to bring celebration but almost unbearable tragedy.

The two students were to participate in that skills

They were studying fabrication and welding and it is

We are deeply saddened by the news that broke this morning

and our severe condolences go out to both families and indeed

to the third student who thankfully survived the accident.

Just what happened will now be the subject of an exhaustive police

investigation but it is almost a carbon copy of a crash

which claimed the lives of two other college students last year.

Back last September we lost two other students from our Greenbank

It is a repeat of the tragedy that struck us then.

He says counselling will now be offered to the boys'

fellow students while the college will speak to the PSNI and look

again to see if there's anything they can do to protect the young

This is unforgiving country for any vehicle that leaves the road.

The fact third student apparently walked away seems like something

of a medical on this shocking tragedy and this afternoon

has condition was described as stable.

Tributes have been paid to the little boy knocked down

The accident happened on Scrabo Road, as children

He is survived by his mother cleared and his little sister.

He died at a busy time on his street just as children from the nearby

model school were leaving to go home.

The accident happened close to his home.

He had been trying to cross over to see goodbye to his grandmother.

The police have been appealing for witnesses to what happened.

Further house-to-house enquiries have been

carried out by officers throughout the day.

Joshua had been off school with a slight temperature

but usually attended primary school in the town.

Today his headmaster said he was a beautiful,

kind little boy who was very popular with his

He was a source and wellspring of joy in the context of his class.

I was asking many of the children today about

their memories of Joshua and everyone said he was happy,

fun, enjoyed chasing people around the playground,

a bit of a rascal in the best sense, so in his six years he certainly had

a major concentration of very good qualities which have undoubtedly

The residents Association has sent sympathy to the family and added it

has been arguing for traffic calming measures for

A security alert in east Belfast has ended.

from their homes on Medway Street, after a suspicious object was found.

The street was closed for a time which led to disruption

for motorists leaving Belfast on the Newtownards Road.

The Bangor railway line was also affected.

Passengers faced long delays to their journey.

The Unite union says that 65 jobs are to go at Camden Glass

because it is closing its Benburb plant.

The Camden group, which makes PVC doors, windows and conservatories,

received ?1.6 million from Invest NI nearly five years ago for creating

No one from the firm was available for comment.

Detectives investigating the murder of a 31-year-old man in

north Belfast two weeks ago have revisited

Conor McKee was found dead at his Glenpark Street home

Police want anyone who may have seen Conor in the Oldpark area between 6

and 6.15 on that evening to contact them.

The family of a man shot dead by a soldier in County Tyrone nearly

30 years ago has welcomed a review of a decision not

Aidan McAnespie, a 23-year-old Catholic,

was shot as he walked through a border checkpoint in 1988.

Here's our home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney:

This army checkpoint was the scene of one of the most controversial

Aidan McAnespie was shot dead as he what

He was hit by one of the bullets fired from an army machine gun.

His family claim he was deliberately targeted after sustained harassment.

The soldier who fired the shots claimed his fingers had been wet

He was initially charged with manslaughter.

He was later medically discharged from the Army.

Eight years ago the report by the historical enquiries team

questioned the soldier's account of what

It described his explanation as the least likely

The public prosecution service has now told the family it is reviewing

the decision not to prosecute the soldier.

We welcome that decision and fuel the original decision was wrong.

They left a lot of evidence that could

All we can do is just be hopeful that

something is going to come out of this.

We are more hopeful now than 20 years ago.

That confidence is shared by the family lawyers.

We are very confident that the families will get

the correct decision that they have been campaigning for for many years.

The evidence we have submitted simply makes it indisputable that

Aidan McAnespie was killed deliberately.

One year after the report challenged the soldier's

version of events the government apologised to the family describing

the shooting as a matter of deep regret.

The family would like to make it a point to the British Army

Nearly 30 years after the shooting, Aidan

McAnespie's family say they hope to have decision from the PPS

The Glennane gang was a notorious loyalist group thought to have

killed 120 people during the troubles.

But a senior judge warned today that the coroner's court may not be

the place to deal with such a complex case.

The gang was claimed to have recruited members not only

from the UVF but also the RUC and UDR.

40 years on and an inquest review hearing into the deaths of two

of their victims was told it may be up to the government to decide

The family of Betty McDonald want the truth established.

It should be a matter of time and it should be happening as a part of the

process. It is important not just for everyone else but everybody else

in the Glennane gang that it does come out. We have to get the RUC to

talk but they are hiding. They did not act on the night my wife was

murdered. The main parties at Stormont

and the British Ambassador in Dublin are to be invited to

the Irish Government's official ceremony to mark the centenary

of the Easter Rising. The DUP have already said they'll

not be attending the event, The Irish government has already

started remembering the 1916 rising with this ceremony on New Year's

Day. The next major event is the official commemoration in March and

all the party leaders at Stormont Committee to be invited. We will

have the normal invitations and it will go to the leaders of the

different parties here in Northern Ireland. The invitation will be

issued there. As far as heads of state are concerned, there was no

plans to invite heads of state but there will be the usual

representation in terms of ambassadors and all of that. She got

her own invitation today to address a Presbyterian conference in Belfast

which explored the legacy of this rising. She is at Presbyterian from

Monaghan and said she wanted the 1916 events to be inclusive but the

new DUP leader, Arlene Foster, has already said she would be at the

main commemoration. Is the Minister disappointed? I am pleased that

Arlene has said she will come to some event at some stage and perhaps

something like we have had today, like a conference around 1916. There

are different events happening right across the year and I am sure there

will be something that she will be able to attend. Here's one idea the

new First Minister might consider. There is a special event that is the

unveiling of a wall in which everyone who died, not just those

who were involved in the uprising, but members of the British Armed

Forces, civilians, everyone is involved and remembered and they are

listed in the better colour order. That is significant and there will

be special commemorative representatives. 2016 is turning

into a year and not just of commemorations but invitations.

A look ahead to something on tomorrow night's BBC Newsline,

and our Agriculture and Environment Correspondent Conor Macauley has

been on the trail of a majestic bird of prey.

The Red Kite was reintroduced to Co Down a couple

of years back and is slowly making a return.

Conor spent the evening with volunteers who monitor

the population to make sure the birds, which will soon be mating

and nesting, are thriving in the hills around the Mournes.

That's on BBC Newsline tomorrow night at 6.30.

We have some heavy rain on the way tonight. The Met office has issued a

severe weather warning for parts of County Down and Armagh. The rain is

in force from midnight until eight o'clock tomorrow morning. That rain

will be out of the way by the time we get to breakfast time and Friday

is looking like a decent day with a mixture of sunshine and showers. The

rain clearing a stand behind it we are into some more milder air and

some brighter conditions. You can see the band of rain that we have

seen through the night brushing off into the North Sea during the day.

Behind it, warmer air means double digit temperatures. The breeze is

quite strong pushing some showers in for western Scotland and Northern

Ireland through the afternoon. We keep some clear skies and

temperatures will be cooler than they were tonight. With that breeze,

there is no risk of any frost developing overnight. As we head

into Saturday, it will be another decent day and a mix of sunshine and

showers. The breeze will be a feature as we go through the day.

Write to begin with but the next band of rain is on its way, working

its way in from the south-west. Temperatures are holding up and buy

some days, we will see highs of 13 Celsius which is different to last

weekend when we had snow on the ground. That is it from us. Good

night. Patrick Kielty travels

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