:00:00. > :00:07.Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline.
:00:08. > :00:10.The Chief Constable of the PSNI has dismissed claims that the RUC had
:00:11. > :00:12.advance warning of the 1993 Shankill bombing.
:00:13. > :00:14.Yesterday, the Police Ombudsman confirmed it had received
:00:15. > :00:16.a complaint alleging the RUC had information which would have allowed
:00:17. > :00:30.George Hamilton was speaking at an event at Queen's University.
:00:31. > :00:37.As I sit here tonight, I am 100% convinced that the police service at
:00:38. > :00:43.the time had no knowledge of the Shankill bombing that could have
:00:44. > :00:47.prevented it from happening. And that statement will be tested,
:00:48. > :00:48.investigated and found to be right or otherwise by the Police
:00:49. > :00:49.Ombudsman. The chief constable also told
:00:50. > :00:52.the event that he wasn't sure that his officers will be able
:00:53. > :00:55.to deliver justice to the victims A legal review is being carried out
:00:56. > :00:58.into almost one hundred legacy killings and the police have been
:00:59. > :01:01.criticised for taking too long to hand over classified
:01:02. > :01:03.files to the courts. He said the current infrastructure
:01:04. > :01:06.is inadequate to deal with the sheer weight of material
:01:07. > :01:21.under examination. When you get a Zune Army of requests
:01:22. > :01:25.coming in from the court through judicial reviews, and other
:01:26. > :01:29.challenges, and every single one of those is a compelling case and it
:01:30. > :01:34.has legal weight behind it and judicial authority for us to do
:01:35. > :01:41.this, actually the whole organisation is going to grind to a
:01:42. > :01:44.halt and that is the mess that we are in around this.
:01:45. > :01:48.A family whose home was badly damaged by fire say it was caused
:01:49. > :01:49.by a hoverboard while it was charging.
:01:50. > :01:52.Last month some of the major retailers recalled the popular toy
:01:53. > :01:59.Our Reporter Louise Cullen has been to the house in East Belfast.
:02:00. > :02:04.It is really only as you come into the house here that you can see the
:02:05. > :02:08.extent of the damage that was caused when the fire started shortly before
:02:09. > :02:13.seven o'clock last night. The ladies in the house say that this
:02:14. > :02:19.hoverboard exploded and caused huge amounts of damage. Sitting here in
:02:20. > :02:21.the living room where Sharon Massey and her daughters and her
:02:22. > :02:29.nine-month-old granddaughter, what happened? I was sitting on the sofa
:02:30. > :02:36.feeding my granddaughter and Summer and Courtney were on the sofa on
:02:37. > :02:39.their phones and I was feeding her and we heard this almighty bang and
:02:40. > :02:45.it completely burst into flames and in a matter of seconds, everything
:02:46. > :02:49.was on fire. I just threw the dinner and grabbed the tried and got out
:02:50. > :02:54.the door as quick as possible. How long have you had the hoverboard? It
:02:55. > :02:58.has been charged a few times since December, it was a Christmas
:02:59. > :03:04.present. I have been very careful with it. I would not have charged
:03:05. > :03:10.that if there was not someone in the house to watch it. You are starting
:03:11. > :03:15.dialysis tomorrow. I have been attending the City Hospital for over
:03:16. > :03:20.years and years but I have been on the kidney transplant list for over
:03:21. > :03:25.a year and I have an appointment tomorrow, I am receiving dialysis.
:03:26. > :03:29.In the middle of it, you need to find somewhere new to live and
:03:30. > :03:33.replace belongings. Yes, as if I do not have enough stress. The remains
:03:34. > :03:38.of the hoverboard are still in the corner of the living room, you can
:03:39. > :03:45.see the damage that has been caused, the entire house is covered in soot
:03:46. > :03:47.and Sharon and her family are looking for a new home.
:03:48. > :03:49.In a world first, 3D printing technology has enabled
:03:50. > :03:51.and County Antrim toddler to get a life-saving kidney transplant.
:03:52. > :03:53.The organ was donated by Lucy Boucher's father.
:03:54. > :03:55.The printing technology allowed surgeons to build a paper model
:03:56. > :03:58.and then work out exactly how they could fit his adult kidney
:03:59. > :04:01.Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly met
:04:02. > :04:21.Chris Boucher reading his daughter her favourite book. These two have
:04:22. > :04:25.their own unique story. Lucy's health complications began when she
:04:26. > :04:30.was four weeks old, suffering heart failure which impacted on her bowel
:04:31. > :04:34.and kidneys. While it is common for children to receive dialysis,
:04:35. > :04:39.surgeons in London felt a kidney transplant was her best option. With
:04:40. > :04:46.her father a perfect match, a 3-D printer enabled the team to build a
:04:47. > :04:48.replica of his kidney and her stomach so they could best
:04:49. > :04:52.understand how to proceed with the complex operation. It is strange. If
:04:53. > :04:55.you think about it too much it becomes a bit hard to get your head
:04:56. > :05:03.around and a bit overwhelming that there is now part of you that is
:05:04. > :05:06.inside your daughter giving her all this energy and growth and
:05:07. > :05:14.visibility to do things that she could not do before. It means she
:05:15. > :05:17.does not have to on dialysis. It really... You can get quite
:05:18. > :05:22.emotional thinking about it. The pioneering technique made it onto
:05:23. > :05:26.the Victoria Derbyshire programme. The family who spoke from the County
:05:27. > :05:32.Antrim home linked up with the surgeon in London. This is Chris's
:05:33. > :05:37.kidney, you can see the size discrepancy, it is trying to place
:05:38. > :05:41.that in the appropriate position inside Lucy's abdomen. It helps us
:05:42. > :05:45.with not only planning that approach but thinking about our incision, how
:05:46. > :05:56.we are going to approach the vessels and the best light of the kidney
:05:57. > :06:00.inside the abdomen. Lucy turned three last week, it is a milestone
:06:01. > :06:06.the family thought they would never see. The prognosis is good, we are
:06:07. > :06:13.hoping that his kidney will last for more than 20 years, hopefully into
:06:14. > :06:15.adult hood. By then, who knows what will happen. While your story
:06:16. > :06:21.highlights the health challenges some children have to face, it also
:06:22. > :06:32.shows how technology and the health service are constantly saving lives.
:06:33. > :06:36.A happy little girl after her life-saving surgery.
:06:37. > :06:38.The Assistant Chief Constable has offered to meet the family
:06:39. > :06:41.of Gerard Hampson from Londonderry to apologise over the police
:06:42. > :06:42.investigation into his disappearance and subsequent death.
:06:43. > :06:45.The Ombudsman said there were serious failings in how
:06:46. > :06:47.officers reacted to the case and recommended that ten
:06:48. > :06:54.Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.
:06:55. > :06:59.53-year-old Gerard Hampson, a former Republican prisoner disappeared in
:07:00. > :07:03.November 2000 seven. At the time he was wanted by the police in
:07:04. > :07:07.connection with an alleged kidnapping in the Republic. Six
:07:08. > :07:13.weeks later his naked body was found washed up on the shore of Loch Nate
:07:14. > :07:16.Newton Bridge. A postmortem was inconclusive, but a pathologist
:07:17. > :07:20.concluded that there must be considerable suspicions around the
:07:21. > :07:26.death. It is still unclear how he died. After a complaint from the
:07:27. > :07:30.family, the Police Ombudsman identified what he described as
:07:31. > :07:34.serious failings in the police investigation. We found that the
:07:35. > :07:38.investigation into the disappearance of Gerard Hampson was inconsistent,
:07:39. > :07:42.actions that should have been taken were not taken, people did not take
:07:43. > :07:45.responsibility for actions that they should have completed and no one
:07:46. > :07:50.gripped those initial import and first apps of the enquiry. As a
:07:51. > :07:57.consequence of that, the family were left none the wiser as to what had
:07:58. > :08:03.happened to him. It was disgraceful. They would not treat a dog in the
:08:04. > :08:07.street like they treated my family. Just because he was from a
:08:08. > :08:12.Republican background. They cast him off. Doctor McGuire said it was a
:08:13. > :08:16.bad investigation that failed the family. He said that these failings
:08:17. > :08:21.had not been motivated by a desire from police to cover up a crime. I
:08:22. > :08:26.think the failings were because we wanted to speak to Gerard Hampson
:08:27. > :08:30.and he was being treated as a wanted person as opposed to a missing
:08:31. > :08:35.person. That was wrong, the failings arose from that and we are sorry
:08:36. > :08:36.about that. The police say the case of Gerard Hampson remains under
:08:37. > :08:54.active investigation and they have pointed to the fact that there has
:08:55. > :08:55.been a recent arrest, but they acknowledge and accept that lessons
:08:56. > :08:56.need to be learned. There's been strong unionist
:08:57. > :08:58.reaction to remarks by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny
:08:59. > :09:00.about the UK's possible exit from the European Union
:09:01. > :09:02.after a referendum. He said such a move would be bad not
:09:03. > :09:05.just for the Republic Our Political Correspondent Stephen
:09:06. > :09:13.Walker asked Mrs Foster Of course he is entitled to a view
:09:14. > :09:17.but I do not think he is entitled to interfere in terms of the referendum
:09:18. > :09:21.and encourage people to vote in a particular way. It is at the end of
:09:22. > :09:25.the day and matter that we will have to take under consideration and look
:09:26. > :09:29.at the package we end up with in terms of the prime Minster's
:09:30. > :09:32.negotiations, we will look at that and decide in the interests of
:09:33. > :09:36.Northern Ireland and in the interests of the United Kingdom as
:09:37. > :09:47.to whether we should leave the European Union or stay. Do you
:09:48. > :09:49.interpret these remarks as interfering? Well, you could
:09:50. > :09:51.interpret them as interfering but I preferred to say that he is
:09:52. > :09:52.expressing his views. We will take Carol Council on these matters.
:09:53. > :09:55.The worldwide cargo handling business Swissport is creating 100
:09:56. > :09:56.jobs at Belfast International Airport.
:09:57. > :09:58.Swissport says the jobs will include positions in passenger check-in,
:09:59. > :10:01.The expansion will bring its workforce at the International
:10:02. > :10:04.to around 350, making it the biggest employer at the airport.
:10:05. > :10:07.Swissport says its expansion was based on planned airline growth
:10:08. > :10:09.at Aldergrove, with Ryanair due to begin operating a new hub
:10:10. > :10:29.Last year at the airport grew, passenger numbers by around 10%
:10:30. > :10:35.across the year. During that year, there were some increases in
:10:36. > :10:39.operations with increased traffic with easyJet and now this year, we
:10:40. > :10:44.have the announcement of the establishment of a large Ryan are
:10:45. > :10:48.based here at Belfast International and that is generating a lot of
:10:49. > :10:52.additional jobs right across the business.
:10:53. > :10:55.Ice Hockey and the Belfast Giants are through to the semi finals
:10:56. > :10:58.They beat Manchester Storm 6-2 tonight.
:10:59. > :11:03.That's a quarter final victory of 11-4 on aggregate.
:11:04. > :11:11.The Republic's football fans have been given an extra 6500 tickets for
:11:12. > :11:14.the games in France after talks between the Football Association of
:11:15. > :11:19.Ireland, the officials say the new tickets will go a little way to
:11:20. > :11:26.satisfying the huge demand. Fans applied for more than 275,000
:11:27. > :11:29.tickets. The total allocation now is just over 32,000 500.
:11:30. > :11:32.Tomorrow the Good Morning Ulster programme talks to a County Down man
:11:33. > :11:35.who it's emerged was tested to see if he was a toddler reported missing
:11:36. > :11:41.That's tomorrow on BBC Radio Ulster starting at 6:30am.
:11:42. > :11:47.The weather is next with Angie Phillips.
:11:48. > :11:54.Good evening. We certainly had some very lightly gusty winds today.
:11:55. > :11:57.Thankfully the winds are not as strong tomorrow but before we get
:11:58. > :12:01.there, they will pick up again through the night and we have some
:12:02. > :12:06.wet weather on the way as well, some persistent and heavy bursts of rain
:12:07. > :12:10.could linger in the north and west tonight, quite likely cars,
:12:11. > :12:13.gale-force in places and we have arranged warning in place,
:12:14. > :12:17.particularly for the north-west, there is likely to be disruption,
:12:18. > :12:22.difficult conditions on the road with surface water and spray
:12:23. > :12:37.tomorrow morning. A Sharon Lee day and it
:12:38. > :12:41.will be cooling down after what will be a relatively mild start, seven to
:12:42. > :12:43.9 degrees, the winds easing, bright spells, most of the showers in the
:12:44. > :12:46.north and west. Further south, more persistent rain, in the Republic and
:12:47. > :12:48.parts of England and Wales. Brisk winds and we have warnings in place,
:12:49. > :12:52.there could be disruption but it is mild. In the north and west we have
:12:53. > :12:57.cooler temperatures, starting to edge in as well as showers, snow
:12:58. > :13:00.over the Scottish mountains and in Northern Ireland as the showers
:13:01. > :13:04.moving, those temperatures will start to fall back through the
:13:05. > :13:08.afternoon and we could see showers turning wintry over the hills. More
:13:09. > :13:13.of those wintry showers to come tomorrow night possibly at low
:13:14. > :13:17.levels, possibly frost and ice but only temporarily, mild and windy
:13:18. > :13:18.conditions returning on Thursday and into Friday with spells of rain.
:13:19. > :13:22.Our next BBC Newsline is at six twenty five in the morning
:13:23. > :13:27.You can also keep updated with News Online.