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Following the attempted murder of one of its officers, | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
the prison service has asked an updated security assessment | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
The prison officer was seriously injured in a bomb explosion in east | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
The dissident republican organisation that describes itself | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
as the IRA has told the BBC it was responsible. | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
The Police believe the discovery of a small arms dump near Larne | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
at the weekend may have disrupted plans for further attacks. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports. | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
The 52-year-old prison officer targeted in last week's attack | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
is said to be making a good recovery after surgery | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
It is understood a bomb planted under his van partially exploded | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
after being dislodged when he drove over a speed | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
In a statement to the BBC, the group said the attack | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
of an ongoing dispute between dissidents and the prison | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
authorities about their treatment in Maghaberry prison near Lisburn. | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
It said the officer was targeted because he was responsible | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
for training prison officers who work in Roe House, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
a wing housing dissident Republicans at Maghaberry. | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
The same dissident organisation shot dead | :01:24. | :01:24. | |
prison officer David Black as he drove to work at the prison | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
At the time it was said he was killed because of the dispute | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
The statement said the prison officer who was attacked last week | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
was one of a number on a list of potential targets. | :01:41. | :01:42. | |
The prison service has now asked the police and updated assessment | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
on the level of threat against its staff. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
The Assembly opened business today with | :01:52. | :01:53. | |
words of support to the officer and condemnation for those | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
There can be no justification whatsoever for this despicable act | :01:56. | :02:03. | |
of these people who want to take us back to the days of the past. | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
This attack on an individual is part of | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
the ongoing campaign by Republican terrorists in Roe prison to get | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
greater control, greater movement and to have the Maghaberry prison | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
return to the way it was during the Maze. | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
They have no support within the community. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
We have to send them a message that that is no place for this | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
The police last week expressed deep concern that dissident | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
Republicans will attempt to escalate the activities to mark the centenary | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
When I say I am deeply concerned, I believe there are people | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
within dissident Republicans | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
groups who want to mark this centenary | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
by killing police officers, | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
prison officers or soldiers. Police believe the discovery | :02:55. | :02:56. | |
of a small arms dump near Larne may have disrupted | :02:57. | :03:06. | |
dissident Republicans The PSNI today | :03:07. | :03:08. | |
released images of They included component parts | :03:09. | :03:10. | |
that could have been used to make under car | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
booby-trapped bombs. Three men and a woman arrested | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
yesterday by detectives investigating the attack | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
are still being questioned. The police say they believe | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
an attack on a house in Londonderry A device, thought to be a pipe bomb, | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
was found at the property The police say it isn't linked | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
to recent attacks in other parts The Arlene Arkinson inquest has been | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
told that the child cooler -- child killer Robert Howard | :03:38. | :03:57. | |
was haunted by the face of a girl Howard who died in prison last year | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
was always the main suspect Today's information came | :04:01. | :04:05. | |
from a detective who spoke Arlene Arkinson's body was never | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
found, a jury cleared Robert They had not known he | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
already had a record But one police officer | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
has told the inquest that after investigating | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
Arlene's disappearance, he encountered Howard | :04:19. | :04:20. | |
again a few years later. Trevor Stephenson told | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
the court he had met Robert Howard in 1999 | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
in Deptford on another case. He says Howard told | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
him the Castlederg years were a very dark time for him, | :04:29. | :04:37. | |
that he was a coward, scared of what happened to him | :04:38. | :04:40. | |
if he ever told what had done. Mr Stevenson told the court more | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
of what Robert Howard Who was Howard talking about? | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
A barrister asked. I believe it was Arlene | :04:47. | :05:04. | |
the officer said. If you haunt someone, | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
you need to be dead and he added that Robert Howard was one | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
of the most evil men Stevenson said he kept | :05:10. | :05:11. | |
the conversation going, he hoped Howard would reveal | :05:12. | :05:20. | |
the location of the body Howard said the body would not have | :05:21. | :05:22. | |
lasted all those years in water. He agreed in court | :05:23. | :05:34. | |
that he could have Later a retired Detective Inspector | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
explained how a complaint to the police ombudsman | :05:37. | :05:48. | |
that officers had tried to induce Howard to cooperate | :05:49. | :05:49. | |
by offering an easier prison regime Two men have been in court charged | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
with the theft of a fire engine The pair face dozens | :05:53. | :06:04. | |
of charges between them. That is what the residents | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
of the Glenarm Road awoke to in the early hours | :06:08. | :06:17. | |
of Saturday morning. A stolen fire engine | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
smashed eight cars in its path before coming to rest | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
on the front garden of a house, There was a long continuous, crash, | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
bang, culminating in a final big I jumped out of bed | :06:26. | :06:32. | |
and looked out the window. There was a fire engine | :06:33. | :06:40. | |
in my front garden. in custody at Coleraine magistrates | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
Court over this theft. Robert Duffin, 66, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
and from Green Link in Larne, Faced five charges | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
linked to the incident. 19-year-old Ross Clarke | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
from Fairway in the town They include burglary, | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
aggravated vehicle taking, causing damage | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
and various motoring offences. The pair will appear in court | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
in Ballymena on Thursday when it is expected | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
they will apply for bail. The trail of destruction | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
began here at Larne fire The damage caused to this building | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
during the theft was so severe Today's structural engineers | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
are assessing repairs but the fire and rescue service | :07:27. | :07:32. | |
have no idea how much it will cost to fix | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
or when the station will be The stolen fire engine | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
is also being examined to establish whether it can be | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
repaired or needs to be written off. The fire service said the appliance | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
has been replaced and the crew are working out of | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
the building at Larne From our point of view, | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
of service delivery, we have moved | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
into We are still out there protecting | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
the out of their homes as | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
the clean-up work continues. But the consequences | :08:10. | :08:15. | |
of what happened here on Saturday ?30 million has been allocated | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
to try to tackle hospital In November 40 million was announced | :08:18. | :08:25. | |
to tackle the problem. Currently about 400,000 | :08:26. | :08:44. | |
people are in a queue. Critics have said that knee jerk | :08:45. | :08:46. | |
cash injections are no way Our Health Correspondent | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
Marie-Louise Connolly reports. For some this is how it feels | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
being on a waiting list. Eugene Kennedy has been | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
waiting two years for surgery on his shoulders and 12 | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
months for a knee operation. He has written to the | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
health minister about November's announcement of money | :09:00. | :09:01. | |
being allocated to waiting lists. We have not felt the benefit | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
of ?40 million, it has not It needs somebody to run | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
this like a business. Stop this wasting, wasting, | :09:07. | :09:20. | |
fix the damn thing once and for all. Somebody have the guts | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
to sort this thing out. The BBC understands that while most | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
of the ?40 million is being spent on patients, less than two | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
thirds has actually gone We are already seeing it in part | :09:34. | :09:35. | |
on Initial figures show there has | :09:36. | :09:46. | |
been a decrease in those waiting longer than | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
the target times. Despite spending ?80 | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
million in 2014, 12 months For those on the front line, | :09:52. | :10:06. | |
the solution requires leadership including less | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
political interference. An operational chief can be | :10:12. | :10:18. | |
questioned or be sacked. There are too many people | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
sticking their some regard them as knee jerk | :10:22. | :10:24. | |
reactions which failed to offer We have eroded the value | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
of the NHS over the years. Now is the time for | :10:32. | :10:43. | |
a careful delivery. Considering some of the reaction, | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
the health minister may well feel he is dammed | :10:52. | :10:58. | |
if he does and dammed if he doesn't. Most of the critics | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
are arguing for a But instead of having up | :11:02. | :11:03. | |
to three years to spend this money David Jeffrey is the new manager | :11:04. | :11:09. | |
of Ballymena United. The former Linfield boss has been | :11:10. | :11:16. | |
given a three year contract and takes charge for the first time | :11:17. | :11:19. | |
in Saturday's league game A look ahead to tomorrow's | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
Good Morning Ulster programme. It will hear from a woman | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
who says her father's funeral was made all the more upsetting | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
because of the state of his burial plot at Roselawn | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
Cemetery in Belfast. That's on air tomorrow | :11:34. | :11:34. | |
on BBC Radio Ulster Now for the weather. Good evening. | :11:35. | :11:55. | |
Last night conditions were perfect for the aurora borealis. It was a | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
magnificent display. Tonight not so good, rain moving in from the West | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
so that is a lot of cloud and snow on high ground. Most places will dry | :12:06. | :12:12. | |
up by tomorrow. Not too cold wintry tomorrow morning. Some bright | :12:13. | :12:20. | |
spells. Dry weather for a while. Lots of snow showers moving across | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
Scotland in north-west England. Quite icy. Sunshine for East Anglia | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
and the South of England but cloudy weather and patchy rain will arrive | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
later in the day. There will also be early sunshine across the Republic | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
before cloudy skies move in, bringing showers in the West. | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
Showers on and off tomorrow afternoon. Cold in the breeze and by | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
the end of the day longer spells of reading. Wet on Tuesday night. Some | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
of their heavy rain could turn to snow over high ground. Not expected | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
to be disruptive, most places will be dry by the end of the night. Cold | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
to begin with on Wednesday although A dry day. More rain on Thursday. | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
Things should warm up towards the end of the week. Temperatures in | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
double figures. On Wednesday, cold and bright. A cold gusty wind. By | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
the end of the week 11 degrees is lately. | :13:23. | :13:23. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25am during Breakfast here on BBC One. | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
You can also keep updated with News Online. | :13:28. | :13:30. |