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Two, 11 o'clock in Scotland. That is it from us, now on | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
The Irish President has pulled out of attending a dinner | :00:09. | :00:11. | |
at Belfast City Hall to mark the centenary of the Easter Rising. | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
Michael D Higgins said he didn't want to become 'embroiled | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
This is a copy of the invitation that was sent out for the event | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
from the Belfast Lord Mayor and City Council | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
with President Higgins as the guest of honour. | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
The DUP has been accused of scuppering the dinner | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
The party says it has no objection to the event going ahead | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson has more. | :00:37. | :00:48. | |
Michael D Higgins was at the centre of Easter raising, directions at | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
Dublin at the weekend. Next we can convert the Irish President was due | :00:56. | :00:58. | |
to come to Belfast as guest of honour at a City Hall dinner to mark | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
the rising. Unionists and oppose the idea of the dinner on it was | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
included in a cross-party agreement which allowed events like the Ulster | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
covenant and battle of the Somme centenary is to go ahead to. But the | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
DUP recently announced they would not be attending next week's Easter | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
Rising dinner and today, Michael D Higgins pulled out. The SDLP and the | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Alliance party accused the DUP of breaking a cross-party agreement. | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
All parties agreed to support, even if one councillor, for none of them | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
to attend is a snob and it is disrespectful to the significant | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
proportion of the population have Belfast. I think it is very | :01:44. | :01:50. | |
disappointing for the city and I think it is unfortunate that of the | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
party politics coming up to the election is very much the case of | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
this age. It is disappointing. In a statement this afternoon, a | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
spokesperson for Michael D Higgins said that the President accepted the | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
invitation... The President has no option other than to withdraw. So | :02:13. | :02:21. | |
what do the DUP say? The accusation is that you have backed up in a | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
cross-party deal. Did you? No, we did not. There was agreement that | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
this event could take place but there was no obligation on people to | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
go to the event, you can't force people to go to an event they don't | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
want to. Do you blame the DUP for the Irish President pulling out? I | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
think Michael D Higgins has made his own decision. I did it is clear. I | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
think it is varied disappointing. This is the room where next week's | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
dinner is supposed to take place. In spite of the controversy over who is | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
going and who is not going, organisers say it will still go | :02:57. | :02:57. | |
ahead. There have been calls for an inquiry | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
looking at child sexual abuse to consider the case of a doctor | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
who worked in Belfast in the 1970s. Dr Morris Fraser was the senior | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
psychiatric registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
at the time and continued to practice despite convictions | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
for abusing children. A new study says failures | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
by the authorities should be investigated by the Goddard inquiry | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
which is looking at sex abuse cases David Maxwell's report begins | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
with a recording of I think one must look at the way | :03:22. | :03:36. | |
these children have grown up and the way they have grown up into separate | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
communities. Born and socialised into two different nationalists or | :03:43. | :03:48. | |
Protestant ideologies. Doctor Morris Fraser enjoyed a high profile. He | :03:49. | :03:57. | |
was along the way back an expert. He was flexing his own lifelong damage. | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
One of his victims now lives in the darts Texas. He had a camera, he | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
started taking shots. He said not to worry, he's a doctor. I see no | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
psychoactive registrar, Fraser was based at the Royal Victoria | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
Hospital. In 1972, he was convicted of abusing a 13-year-old boy from | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
Belfast in London. But the conviction was not reported to his | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
employees by police. Allowing Fraser to continue working with children at | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
the Royal. A year later, he was arrested in New York and convicted | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
and abusing several children in America. This time, the casemate | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
headlights and Fraser was suspended from his Belfast post. The new study | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
published today called into question why it took so long for the | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
authorities to act. Doctor Morris Fraser was left imposed freehold | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
year after he is convicted of various serious offence. They did | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
not inform the Royal Victoria Hospital but they were employing a | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
child abuser. I charred bees are who had abused children to a number of | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
different issues. He was a serial paedophile and this is well known to | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
the authorities. Today, a law firm says it plans to use the information | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
in the new study as part of its action against the authorities over | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
the notorious East Belfast institution. The General medical | :05:28. | :05:36. | |
Council investigated Fraser between 1973 and 1975. Despite the publicity | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
around his conviction, it allowed him to continue practising with no | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
stated restrictions. Today, the General medical Council said that 40 | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
years ago, the GMC was a very different organisation. The key | :05:49. | :05:57. | |
question in all of this is why was this doctor are allowed to continue | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
practising here at the Royal? Even though he had been convicted of | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
child abuse. Was he being protected by the authorities for some reason? | :06:06. | :06:10. | |
This new study suggests the case of Doctor Morris Fraser requires | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
further examination, if they call backed by others. Even at this | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
stage, after a long time, we would appeal for victims of sexual abuse | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
to come forward and seek the help they need. They will have suffered | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
over many years in silence but help is still available and we would urge | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
them to come forward. If they continue to practice medicine for | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
several decades. In 1994, he featured in a BBC documentary about | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
abuse. The past is behind me and I'm saying absolutely nothing more. In | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
1992, he was convicted of having a distributing child pornography. He | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
was jailed for a year. He was last believed to have been living in | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
Europe. The BBC hasn't been able to contact him today. | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
40 people are set to lose their jobs in Antrim. | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
The IT firm Fujitsu says it is closing its maintenance | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
The Japanese firm employs more than 800 people in Northern Ireland. | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
It says the work in Antrim will transfer to Belfast | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
and Solihull in England and that it will offer relocation | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
and redeployment opportunities to the workers. | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
Thousands of fans of the pop group Little Mix were left disappointed | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
today when their two concerts in Belfast were cancelled | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
Organisers said one of the band was too ill to perform. | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
The group was due to play a matinee and an evening show at the SSE Arena | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
and the cancellation was announced after the doors had opened | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
When news broke, it spread quickly. Some had travelled quite the | :07:30. | :07:45. | |
distance to see the girl band. The little ones are all devastated. How | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
much are you out of pocket? Properly a couple of hundred pounds. So they | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
are crying all day. What has management said to you about this? | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Got a text at quarter past two to save them cancelled. Too late to | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
cancel the hotel, no option to stay in Belfast. The reason for the | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
cancellation? Jesy was sick. Where you angry when you heard? Yes, I was | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
upset because it is my first concert. This is what they are | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
missing. Here is Jesy. I couldn't stop crying earlier on, I was | :08:26. | :08:32. | |
devastated. It is your 16th birthday, what are you going to do | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
this evening? All of our plans were to come down and see Little Mix and | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
stay in a hotel so, that was fun to be for my birthday so now, | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
basically, it's not going to happen. Because Jesy is sick. I think they | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
could have announced earlier than 1:20pm that the consul wasn't going | :08:52. | :08:57. | |
to go ahead and not only Stacey, but there were thousands of other fans | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
standing outside today and every single one of them were devastated | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
and very angry parents. There must be something in the water, it is not | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
the first time a band has cancelled at the last minute. Who can forget | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
the scenes when one direction pulled the plug when one of them fell ill | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
last year? The organising of the Little Mix Giggs is asking people to | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
hang onto that it is because they hope to make a further announcement | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
on possible we said to them. Last month, | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
Northern Ireland has failed to meet its target times | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
for treating patients urgently referred for suspected cancer. | :09:33. | :09:33. | |
The target is for 95% of patients to be seen within 62 days. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
But Department of Health figures for the final quarter of last year | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
show just over 70% of patients started treatment | :09:40. | :09:41. | |
A cancer charity says the system here needs reformed. | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
Northern Ireland requires a comprehensive Cancer plan, with the | :09:48. | :09:57. | |
only part of the United Kingdom that hasn't got one doesn't plan to | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
release one over the next 60 days or so. We believe other compounds | :10:01. | :10:06. | |
Cancer plan would allow the Department, the board, etc, to | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
define the specifics that they want to tackle, identify how to go about | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
doing that, put money against that and have all of that laid out | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
clearly over a five-year period, rather than just reacting to things | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
when there is a problem. The chairman and vice chairman | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
of Sport NI stood down today. Chairman Brian Henning resigned | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
after just over three The Sports Minister Caral Ni Chuilin | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
has appointed their interim replacements in Brian Delaney | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
and Dr Catherine O'Mullan. The move comes following an internal | :10:37. | :10:37. | |
investigation of Sport NI after concerns were | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
raised by its employees. A third of staff said they had | :10:41. | :10:41. | |
been subjected to bullying, Last year, nine members of the board | :10:42. | :10:44. | |
resigned, and the chief executive Antoinette McKeown remains | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
suspended. And there will be more on this story | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
on tomorrow's Good Morning Ulster where they'll be speaking | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
to the minister as well as her predecessor, | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
Nelson McCausland. That's on BBC Radio | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
Ulster from 6.30am. On tomorrow's BBC Newsline we take | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
a trip down memory lane with one of the world's most | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
famous motorcycle racers. 15 times world champion | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
Italian Giacomo Agostini gets the opportunity to watch | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
some rare archive of his victory at the Ulster Grand Prix | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
almost 50 years ago. Now here's Geoff Maskell | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
with the weather forecast The international trio of reverse, | :11:24. | :11:37. | |
Andrew Trimble and also starting is Craig Gilroy who is expecting a | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
difficult game. Now here's Geoff Maskell | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
with the weather forecast Well, if the story of the last | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
few days has been of sunshine and showers, | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
all that is set to change overnight We have an area of low pressure out | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
in the Atlantic and the associated weather front means that tonight | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
the winds will build, the skies will cloud | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
over and eventually, The last few days, it's been perfect | :12:00. | :12:01. | |
conditions for seeing rainbows. Tomorrow is going to be a good bit | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
more dull with that rain sitting over us right the way | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
through the daylight hours. If we take the wider | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
view across Britain and Ireland, you can see | :12:11. | :12:12. | |
the contrasting fortunes Across Ireland and | :12:13. | :12:14. | |
Scotland, that front sits there pretty much | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
throughout the day. The further east you come, | :12:18. | :12:18. | |
the brighter and warmer it gets. But for us, it is a wet | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
and a windy day. A real contrast | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
to the last few days. Now, eventually, that band | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
of rain will move away. It will gradually sink south | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
and east but the respite So overnight, we will see | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
the skies over Ireland start to clear as that front | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
moves across into Wales. But by the time we get to Saturday, | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
the rain is on its way back. We'll get off to a dry start | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
on Saturday morning but it won't take long for that | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
front to start to push up The west staying driest | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
for longer as we go through the day but it is going | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
to be a pretty unpleasant feel Things do improve | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
by the time we get to Sunday, the temperatures | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
are on the up just a little bit. We are going to see some drier | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
conditions too and that is the way things stay into the | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
start of next week. But I'm afraid the next | :13:11. | :13:12. | |
couple of days are going Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25am | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
during Breakfast here on BBC One. You can also keep updated | :13:15. | :13:23. | |
with news online. | :13:24. | :13:26. |