05/03/2016

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:00:08. > :00:10.Two men, aged 66 and 19, have been arrested after a stolen

:00:11. > :00:15.fire engine crashed into houses and cars in Larne.

:00:16. > :00:19.It ended up wedged against a house on the Glenarm Road in the town

:00:20. > :00:37.Surreal, the set of a disaster movie, totally unbelievable. The

:00:38. > :00:41.words residents of the road used to describe the scene outside their

:00:42. > :00:46.front doors. They woken shortly after four this morning by a series

:00:47. > :00:52.of loud bangs, it took some time to work out exactly what it happened on

:00:53. > :00:56.their street. I looked out, I can believe my eyes. There was a fire

:00:57. > :01:02.engine in my front garden. It was dark, I looked over at the carnage

:01:03. > :01:10.of the cars that were littered on the road. Smashed. Pulled my

:01:11. > :01:20.dressing gown, came downstairs and it's hard to take in. Stolen and

:01:21. > :01:24.driven out of all Larne, it went on the career of this road tossing cars

:01:25. > :01:28.out of its way before ending up in a garden jammed against the front

:01:29. > :01:32.door. In the dark of night, the situation was difficult to work out.

:01:33. > :01:37.I thought somebody was trying to break in and then I saw the fire

:01:38. > :01:42.engine. The lights were pulsing. I thought, crikey, there's an

:01:43. > :01:47.explosion because... How do they get here so quickly? You survey the

:01:48. > :01:53.scene and eating goodness me, what has happened? That's your car on its

:01:54. > :01:58.roof. Perfectly nice car and ready for the MOT next week. That's it. It

:01:59. > :02:03.won't be passing the MOT. For some people living at the far end of the

:02:04. > :02:06.street, they've been told they can't return home until a structural

:02:07. > :02:10.engineer assesses the damage. For many others living on the street,

:02:11. > :02:13.they've been on the telephone this morning to their insurance companies

:02:14. > :02:18.wondering who will pay for what happened here last night. Priced

:02:19. > :02:22.from the side of the house and taken away, the fire engine may be gone

:02:23. > :02:25.but the memories of what happened here last night will live long in

:02:26. > :02:27.the minds of the residents of the road.

:02:28. > :02:29.The priest at the funeral of murdered Belfast man

:02:30. > :02:32.Stephen Carson says his family have had their lives torn

:02:33. > :02:37.Father Brendan Smyth was speaking at Requiem Mass at Holy Trinity

:02:38. > :02:43.Mr Carson, who was 28, died after he was shot in the head

:02:44. > :02:47.at a house at Walmer Street in south Belfast last month.

:02:48. > :02:50.His fiancee and two sons were among the mourners.

:02:51. > :02:54.The main line of inquiry for police is that Mr Carson was shot as part

:02:55. > :02:58.of a criminal feud but a detective said he had been trying

:02:59. > :03:05.The Ulster Unionist Party has voted to remain in the European Union.

:03:06. > :03:09.The party's policy-making body voted overwhelmingly to stay in Europe

:03:10. > :03:11.at a special meeting of its executive committee

:03:12. > :03:14.in Templepatrick, though party leader Mike Nesbitt said individual

:03:15. > :03:24.members can vote as they see fit on the issue.

:03:25. > :03:28.The Ulster Unionist Party thinks it is in Northern Ireland's best

:03:29. > :03:32.interest to in Europe but with United Kingdom government pressing

:03:33. > :03:36.for more reform returning to the founding principle of free trade and

:03:37. > :03:39.getting away from this idea of further political union and that's

:03:40. > :03:41.the proposition that we debated and agreed upon today.

:03:42. > :03:43.The Alliance leader David Ford says it's time for other parties

:03:44. > :03:46.at Stormont to end what he calls their delay, fudge and waffle

:03:47. > :03:48.and to move faster towards building a united community.

:03:49. > :03:51.Mr Ford was addressing his party's annual conference,

:03:52. > :04:00.from where our Political Editor Mark Devenport now reports.

:04:01. > :04:06.Last year, Naomi Long lost alliances on the Westminster seat but instead

:04:07. > :04:11.of engaging in a postmortem, delegates applauded for increasing

:04:12. > :04:16.her vote the place of the unionist pact. She criticises slow pace of

:04:17. > :04:19.change at Stormont. One step forward, two steps back. It's finals

:04:20. > :04:24.to strict we come dancing but is no way to run a country. David Ford

:04:25. > :04:28.pointed out some entitled to vote in May went even born when the Good

:04:29. > :04:33.Friday agreement was reached 18 years ago. A generation that has

:04:34. > :04:37.grown up while political leaders squabble and squander their chances.

:04:38. > :04:42.The agreement is no longer fragile young child or a teenager, it is

:04:43. > :04:46.about to reach its majority and it's long past time that politicians in

:04:47. > :04:52.Northern Ireland step forward and letters all move forward and faster.

:04:53. > :04:55.With Naomi Long likely to return to Stormont, alliance will have no

:04:56. > :04:59.difficulty in making its voice heard in the assembly in the future.

:05:00. > :05:03.Whether it get any more MLAs and has the moment is more open to question.

:05:04. > :05:06.The Met Office have issued an early warning for ice in untreated areas

:05:07. > :05:15.Here's Barra with a full forecast for you.

:05:16. > :05:22.Hello. It hasn't been too bad they start of the weekend but it will

:05:23. > :05:26.turn chilly so if you're heading out tonight you will want to wrap up

:05:27. > :05:31.warm. Clear sky will love the bridge is the fault of freezing fray while,

:05:32. > :05:35.perhaps blowing sunspots allowing a widespread frost to develop. A

:05:36. > :05:40.chilly start to the Sunday but not a bad one. They will be dry, some

:05:41. > :05:44.sunshine but through the day it will turn unsettled from the West. To

:05:45. > :05:48.begin with, there will be a frost out there. Quite chilly, sunshine by

:05:49. > :05:53.cloud will thicken from the rest by mid-morning and that cloud will

:05:54. > :05:57.bring wet weather to western areas. Across Britain it is dry foremost,

:05:58. > :06:00.sunshine coming and going and it looks set to stay largely dry

:06:01. > :06:06.through the day. Violent, as that wet weather nudges eastwards meeting

:06:07. > :06:10.cold air, some will fall asleep than snow especially for the hills and

:06:11. > :06:13.mountains. For Northern Ireland it looks like eastern areas will fare

:06:14. > :06:20.best on Sunday staying largely dry the temperatures for 5 degrees, a

:06:21. > :06:23.chilly northerly breeze. As we go into Monday, it there will be more

:06:24. > :06:27.low pressure in control. There will be unsettled at times with damp

:06:28. > :06:33.weather staying grey, and the north-westerly wind, temperatures up

:06:34. > :06:37.to six or 7 degrees. They will stay cloudy overnight into Tuesday and

:06:38. > :06:40.for Tuesday and enter the middle of next week more low-pressure in

:06:41. > :06:43.control so it will be unsettled times but it won't be as cold as it

:06:44. > :06:50.has been recently. Keep you up-to-date.

:06:51. > :06:55.You can keep up to date with local news on BBC Radio Ulster

:06:56. > :07:00.From everyone on the BBC Newsline team, goodbye.