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The sight of hundreds of people on the streets of west Belfast last | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
night underlined the fear pensioners say they feel after a number | :00:09. | :00:12. | |
One woman who suffered a broken wrist in an attack is still too | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
And today the Police reacted to criticism of their response | :00:19. | :00:23. | |
It is a weekly lunch club in Saint Peter's Parish Hall. | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
A serious matter is under discussion. | :00:32. | :00:37. | |
The safety officers from the City Council giving advice | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
It is all because of two violent muggings of senior citizens | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
and several house burglaries in recent weeks. | :00:48. | :00:59. | |
In the first incident, 78-year-old Florence suffered | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
She was pushed to the ground cheering a mugging. | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
Her best friends say she cannot talk about what happened without crying. | :01:05. | :01:06. | |
She is scared to go out unless somebody is with her, | :01:07. | :01:09. | |
Just last Friday, 76-year-old Maureen Shepherd | :01:10. | :01:17. | |
was left with the broken jaw after being attacked | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
The two incidents have left pensioners feeling vulnerable. | :01:23. | :01:30. | |
Our neighbours have all agreed that if we going anywhere, | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
one will keep an eye on the house and we will have each other's phone | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
numbers just in case of an emergency. | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Last night several hundred people attended a rally | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
to show their support for victims of crime. | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
And while people are undoubtedly worried, the police say | :01:46. | :01:47. | |
it is important to keep the incidents in perspective. | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
What we want to do is reassure the community that both those | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
incidents are under investigation those investigations remain alive | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
and we are taking them very seriously. | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
But they are only a small number of incidents, not in any way | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
to downplay their seriousness, but we don't greater fear | :02:10. | :02:17. | |
Back in Saint Peter's, and it's a full house for the bingo. | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
A determination in the face of fear to live life as normal. | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
Volunteers have mounted a mercy mission to save horses stranded | :02:28. | :02:29. | |
They brought hay and feed to the animals stuck on an island | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
This report by our agriculture and environment correspondent | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
Conor Macauley contains some images which you may find upsetting. | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
The distress call had come in after locals became aware | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
of the stranded horses, laden down with hay and feed, | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
volunteers from the community rescue service that off on a mercy mission | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
It is a wide and shallow lake with lots of little Islands. | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
It took us a while to locate the one we wanted. | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
There were 13 horses there, three of them were dead, | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
lying out in the open under heavy plastic. | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
The ground was cut to ribbons and there was no grazing. | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
The conditions are not ideal, the horses are friendly enough | :03:24. | :03:26. | |
and approachable enough, but they're certainly not starving. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
They definitely need to be moved on soon as possible. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
They need shifting to a better location, somewhere where there | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
First examination, the horses do not seem to be in to buy | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
The ground on which they were marooned is in a shocking state. | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
We do not know who owns these horses and we're not sure how | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
One theory is that they may have forded across a causeway | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
at low water in the autumn. | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
By the time they had grazed the island down, | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
the winter floods had raised the levels, marooning them. | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
We would hope that someone will come out and do something a bit more | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
substantial, I know the water has cut everything off here and it has | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
certainly created a dilemma for the owner of the horses as well. | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
Some hay had been left before we arrived, but these animals | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
need moving to dry ground if they are not | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
The welfare of horses in all the responsibility | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
of councils, in this case, the Mid Ulster Council. | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
receive the conflict and worth investigating kits. | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
An investigation's underway into how a train collided with construction | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
equipment on the line between Lisburn and Portadown this morning. | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
The railway line has been closed all day. | :04:47. | :04:55. | |
They say they hope the service will be running as normal in the morning. | :04:56. | :05:03. | |
This is the spot just outside Lisburn, where the 625 Belfast | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
to Portadown train hit a large piece of excavation machinery | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
After hitting the machinery, the train then travelled around | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
250 metres to where it came to a stop, right here. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
Then, the driver, conductor and seven passengers on board had | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
to make their way off the train in the dark and walk around | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
the kilometres to the next level crossing. | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
Shattered windows, shocked and shaken passengers and staff, | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
Thankfully it stayed on the tracks and we are looking at something less | :05:30. | :05:50. | |
Health and Safety Executive, Translink and the PSNI | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
are all involved in trying to find exactly how and why such a large | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
piece of equipment ended up on the tracks. | :05:57. | :06:07. | |
It appears it was a bucket of a digger on the line, | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
the train struck at at around 6:55am. | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
We are not clear how it arrived on the line and it | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
And because of that ongoing investigation, the line | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
between Lisburn and Portadown will remain closed. | :06:18. | :06:30. | |
Almost ?1 million of public money is needed to repair a landmark art | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
building which opened less than four years ago. The figure was revealed | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
in a letter to MLAs that were also told a small part of the roof of | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
three in Belfast had fallen off at the weekend. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
It is an award-winning building but little can currently be seen of it | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
and repairing the damage to three will come at a cost. A letter said | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
that... They were told this was because | :07:01. | :07:14. | |
pursuing liability for the work is likely to be lengthy. Many MLAs are | :07:15. | :07:21. | |
not happy. Another ?1 million of public money is going to be spilt on | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
what is a new building that has turned out to be not fit for | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
purpose. I absolutely and totally against forking out money, nearly ?1 | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
million, for something that they had literally no fault in. The letter | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
also said that an aluminium panel was dislodged from the roof and | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
blown into Sid and Square during high winds last Friday. One question | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
is why do we have to pay this million pounds. If it wasn't urgent, | :07:52. | :07:59. | |
we could pay it now, but the big winds last week and you have to be | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
sure of this building is safe and that is our paramount concern. No | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
one from three was available for interview this afternoon but in a | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
statement they said they would find a full and final solution to the | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
problem and remain open for business as usual. | :08:16. | :08:16. | |
A former Chief Constable has called on politicians to find a way | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
of breaking the deadlock on dealing with the past. | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
In an interview on the political programme The View Sir Hugh Orde | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
said it was time to revisit the proposals made by | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
And he said Politicians must demonstrate collective leadership. | :08:28. | :08:37. | |
Politicians from all sides who represent all the communities need | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
to sit on the table and come up with a solution. It is certainly not | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
going to happen without clear of joined up political leadership. | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
And you can see more on that story on The View on BBC one | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
The First Minister says she supports Shankill bomb victims | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
in their search for the truth after an allegation the RUC had | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
Arlene Foster said she would back the families in their quest to get | :08:58. | :09:03. | |
the Police Ombudsman to carry out an inquiry. | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
Of course I have been and continue to be a long-term supporter | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
of the RUC and the police service of Northern Ireland, | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
that doesn't take away from the fact there were a few bad apples around | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Therefore we need to get to the truth of this. | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
I hear what the Chief Constable has to say in relation to | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
the allegation, but when you listen to the families and how they have | :09:24. | :09:31. | |
been traumatised, we have to give them | :09:32. | :09:33. | |
beyond a reasonable doubt the certainty that did not happen. | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
If it did, we need to find out that as well. | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Legendary local musician Van Morrison was knighted | :09:39. | :09:39. | |
by the Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
The 70-year-old was recognised for his services to the music | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
industry and tourism in Northern Ireland. | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
He described the honour as exhilarating. | :09:49. | :09:49. | |
To receive the honour of knighthood, Sir Ivan Morrison, for services to | :09:50. | :10:11. | |
the music industry and tourism in Northern Ireland. He will not have | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
had many days like this. During the five decades in between he has | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
filled music fans and sold millions of records but despite his fame he | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
has often shied away from interviews. Today he made an | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
exception. It was very different for me, quite exciting and exhilarating. | :10:33. | :10:39. | |
You must have read my mind because I am working on new staff and I said I | :10:40. | :10:47. | |
would keep performing and I said I will keep performing while I can! | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
Has knighthood was announced in the Queen's birthday honours last year | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
just a few months before he celebrated his 70th birthday with a | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
concert on Cyprus Avenue. It not only recognises his music but his | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
positive promotion of Northern Ireland. His album released in 1980 | :11:06. | :11:18. | |
was called Common One, but 35 years later he is a night of the realm. | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
It's been a tough few months for Ballymena with the news | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
of Gallaghers and Michelin shutting down. | :11:27. | :11:30. | |
Tomorrow's Good Morning Ulster will be looking ahead to a rally | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
being held to support local traders and backed by none other | :11:34. | :11:35. | |
than the town's most famous son Liam Neeson. | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
And now just time for the weather prospects with Geoff Maskell. | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
It's been a pretty grey and dumped me today and overnight we hold onto | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
that cloud cover and we get strengthening winds ahead of this | :11:58. | :12:00. | |
weather front that comes in the wee small hours. That front sets the | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
tone for Fraley's weather and just about everyone is going to be waking | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
up to some rain on Friday morning. The cold front is moving its way | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
slowly east and then through thick gets a little bit stalled, so the | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
rain could take a good while to clear out. Taking the wider view, we | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
have stronger winds in front of the weather front and then the rain with | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
the weather warning in place across south-east Scotland and North East | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
England. Behind the front we have clear out and cooler conditions so | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
we do get a slot of brighter weather to end the day on Friday, clear | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
skies meaning that overnight the temperature will drop away. Economic | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
to come than it will be tonight, the temperature down to around two | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
Celsius before the next band of rain starts to work its way in for the | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
beginning of the weekend. Saturday I am a flavour will be a bit of a damp | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
and personally a free with babies kicking up as we go through the day, | :12:58. | :13:02. | |
so really not the nicest day and if you're looking for an opportunity to | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
get out and about, Sunday is looking like the best day of the weekend and | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
it should be dry and bright and I am afraid it is certainly not going to | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
be any warmer. Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25 | :13:15. | :13:16. | |
in the morning during Breakfast You can keep updated | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
with News Online. | :13:20. | :13:23. |