20/02/2016 BBC Newsline

The Secretary of State Theresa Villiers is one of six government

ministers to join the campaign for the UK to leave

And this afternoon the DUP leader Arlene Foster said her party

The Prime Minister announced today that the referendum on EU

membership would take place on the 23rd of June.

Theresa Villiers is one of several senior Cabinet ministers who will be

voting to leave the EU. It follows two days of negotiations in

Brussels, and a deal the Prime Minister hopes will convince people

not to wave goodbye to Europe. The wheeling and dealing in Brussels

is over, it is now up to the people to decide whether we should stay in

or leave the EU. That opportunity will come on June 23.

Leave. The money it is costing to keep in there, would be better put

to use in health and education. Stay, it is a brilliant place and we

are all one. I haven't fully explored it, but

overall opinion is to stay in. We give more than we get back.

Companies like this one export all over the world. But the business

community is also divided on the UK's future membership.

25% of the exports from the mainland European union actually come to the

United Kingdom, they exported ?90 billion more than we got from them

last year. Are they going to stop that cross back so all of the fear

is complete nonsense. If we were to leave we would be

outside the largest single market in the world. But is going to have

consequences. Those who are campaigning for out on to explain

their alternative. Where is all the money for infrastructure and peace

funding, where is that going to come from?

Questions like this will be key in the referendum campaign. Despite

objections it will run alongside local elections, due in May. The STL

P, Sinn Fein and the Alliance will campaign to stay in Europe. The DUP

said today it will recommend a vote to leave. The UUP is still

considering their position. Two men have been charged

with raping a woman in west Belfast. The attack happened in the Glen Road

area early yesterday morning. The men will appear

in court on Monday. A woman says she's been left

terrified after a gang of masked men forced their way into her

home in west Belfast. It happened in Moyard Parade last

night, as Sara Girvin reports. Shortly after eight o'clock, four

masked men carrying Hamas forced their way into the house on Moyard

Parade. The woman who lives there was too frightened to appear on

camera, but she allowed us to photograph the serious damage the

gang caused to their home -- her home. She says the men claimed to be

from the IRA and told her she had 24 hours to leave her property. At one

stage she said a man pinned her to the fridge and put a hammer through

the appliance by her head. The family word injured but the woman

says she doesn't want to stay in her home with no idea why she was

targeted. -- the family word injured. On

Tuesday night windows were smashed with hammers at this nearby

operative. Representatives for the area say such attacks must stop the

matter who is responsible. It doesn't matter whether it is

paramilitaries or criminals who break into somebody's home, it is

wrong. This is a young family, and they did the support of everybody.

Nobody has the right to break into their home and terrorise them.

With two such incidents taking place within one week, these attacks have

left a community in shock and one young family looking for a new home.

Graffiti has been daubed on the walls of an Orange hall

The damage to the building in Main Street was discovered

The police say they're treating it as a hate crime.

Let's get the forecast for the rest of the weekend, here's Geoff.

It's been a pretty miserable day with rain continuing, it is off this

afternoon but it never really stopped and overnight showers

continue, driven in on that stiff westerly breeze.

It means we at least avoid the chance of a frost overnight. The

second half of the week sees more of the same, wet and windy conditions,

as we go through Sunday that rain continues to be driven in from the

Atlantic. Top temperatures seven, maybe 8 degrees. Through the day the

showers will is, they will remain prevalent all along the north coast

in particular. -- label is. So much warmer air across the southern half

of the British Isles. -- some much warmer air. We are in the cool zone

of whether, and that sets the tone for the start of next week as well.

But that is an upside. As we go into the start of the working week we

have this ridge of high pressure building in. While that means

temperatures will not be much to write home about, it does mean we

should see brighter conditions. So a good chance to wake up to a frost on

Monday morning, but once that clears, some showers around, also

some brighter spells. Feeling a little on the chilly side, but

certainly much more chance of getting out and about and making the

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