:00:08. > :00:11.A court has heard distressing details of how a mother of two
:00:12. > :00:14.killed her five-month-old son while she was suffering
:00:15. > :00:19.The 32-year-old had originally been charged with murder,
:00:20. > :00:22.but a prosecuting lawyer said all medical and legal experts agreed
:00:23. > :00:26.that the appropriate charge was one of infanticide.
:00:27. > :00:32.The woman, who can't be named, wept through most of the proceedings.
:00:33. > :00:35.The court was told she suffered postnatal depression
:00:36. > :00:40.after the birth of her first child and how she had become ill again
:00:41. > :00:43.three months after the birth of her second child.
:00:44. > :00:47.Psychiatrists for both the prosecution and defence say she
:00:48. > :01:00.Police received a 999 call from the mother-of-two
:01:01. > :01:03.She said, "I've just killed my baby."
:01:04. > :01:06.When police and paramedics arrived at the flat, they found her
:01:07. > :01:13.Paramedics managed to get the baby to hospital
:01:14. > :01:20.When police spoke to the woman she said, "I've killed my baby.
:01:21. > :01:28.She was examined by a doctor and admitted to
:01:29. > :01:33.The defence said the woman is aware of the gravity of what she had done
:01:34. > :01:36.and is living with guilt and self-blame.
:01:37. > :01:43.She will be sentenced later this month.
:01:44. > :01:46.A Methodist church in South Belfast has been badly smoke damaged
:01:47. > :01:51.A number of fires were started following an overnight break-in
:01:52. > :01:53.and they were only discovered when the building was
:01:54. > :02:02.Cairnshill Methodist Church, off the Saintfield Road.
:02:03. > :02:05.On the outside, nothing untoward, but inside it's a different story.
:02:06. > :02:08.This is what greeted people who arrived to open up
:02:09. > :02:13.A number of fires had apparently burnt themselves out but fire
:02:14. > :02:20.and smoke damage had affected several of the meeting rooms.
:02:21. > :02:27.We were very fortunate the building itself hasn't undergone on-farm but
:02:28. > :02:31.we have extensive smoke damage throughout and it will take a while
:02:32. > :02:36.to put right and the church activities and different community
:02:37. > :02:41.things that happened during the week will be inconvenienced. A fire like
:02:42. > :02:46.this doesn't just affect church services, it also affects group
:02:47. > :02:50.using the halls. Behind me are leaders of eight youth club which
:02:51. > :02:52.will not be happened tonight after this attack.
:02:53. > :02:56.It was left up to the youth leaders to break the bad news
:02:57. > :02:58.to the young people arriving for their club meeting.
:02:59. > :03:06.It's totally random. We don't understand why somebody would want
:03:07. > :03:10.to target this church in this area, good community relations, good
:03:11. > :03:13.relationships with the other churches and the local community.
:03:14. > :03:15.The President of the Methodist church in Ireland,
:03:16. > :03:17.the Rev Brian Anderson, says he utterly condemns such
:03:18. > :03:20.an unwarranted attack on a church whose only desire is to serve
:03:21. > :03:26.The use of food banks in Northern Ireland
:03:27. > :03:32.The Trussell Trust charity says it provided more than 25,000 emergency
:03:33. > :03:40.Open for business and busier than ever.
:03:41. > :03:44.The Trussell Trust says demand for emergency everyday food items
:03:45. > :03:50.like bread and cereal is up by nearly 50% on last year.
:03:51. > :03:54.Of the 25,000 food packages distributed by the Trussell Trust
:03:55. > :03:59.across Northern Ireland, 2230 of those are from
:04:00. > :04:02.here in Newtownards - and half of those go to children.
:04:03. > :04:08.99% of these donations are made by members of the public.
:04:09. > :04:11.But why do people find themselves turning to food banks?
:04:12. > :04:15.The Trust says low income remains the single biggest reason,
:04:16. > :04:18.followed by benefit delays and unemployment.
:04:19. > :04:20.But as for a typical user - well, the charity says
:04:21. > :04:27.Especially with people losing jobs with local businesses closing down
:04:28. > :04:30.and where people have been working their whole lives
:04:31. > :04:33.and are coming in and that is what they say,
:04:34. > :04:35."I never thought I would see myself in a food bank",
:04:36. > :04:39.so professional people working full-time and then that stops
:04:40. > :04:45.That was the case for IT professional Alwyn Van Niekerk,
:04:46. > :04:48.who used a food bank for six months when he first
:04:49. > :04:51.moved to Northern Ireland from South Africa after it
:04:52. > :04:55.took him and his wife longer to find work than expected.
:04:56. > :05:00.The first time I walked into a food bank, I didn't know
:05:01. > :05:09.I was ashamed, I really didn't know what to do with myself.
:05:10. > :05:13.And the lady at the food bank actually took my hand,
:05:14. > :05:16.looked me in the eye and said, "You've got nothing to worry about,
:05:17. > :05:23.From the really desperate, destitute, right up to people
:05:24. > :05:26.walking in with suits that were walking the streets,
:05:27. > :05:29.pounding the streets looking for work, anybody can walk
:05:30. > :05:34.into a food bank and say, "You know what, I need help."
:05:35. > :05:37.In order to meet demand, the Trussell Trust has recently
:05:38. > :05:42.opened three new food banks in areas of need - two in West Belfast
:05:43. > :05:47.They say that in order to end food poverty in Northern Ireland,
:05:48. > :05:50.charities, politicians, businesses and the public
:05:51. > :06:00.The inquest into the death of an 11-year-old boy who was struck
:06:01. > :06:04.by an Army rubber bullet in West Belfast in 1972 has heard
:06:05. > :06:08.a claim that soldiers went to look at him as he lay on the ground,
:06:09. > :06:14.Frank Rowntree died after suffering serious head and brain injuries.
:06:15. > :06:22.It's accepted he wasn't rioting when a rubber baton round struck him
:06:23. > :06:26.on the side of the head in April 1972, causing fatal
:06:27. > :06:31.The incident was witnessed by a 14-year-old schoolgirl
:06:32. > :06:37.Now a widow, Bernadette Connolly described what she remembered.
:06:38. > :06:41.Mrs Connolly told the court she saw an armoured vehicle with rifle
:06:42. > :06:56.She saw Frances Roundtree Underground. She said two soldiers
:06:57. > :06:59.got out of the vehicle and appeared to search for something and then
:07:00. > :07:03.lift something from the ground and drive off. They didn't offer Frances
:07:04. > :07:05.any help or first aid. A barrister for the Ministry
:07:06. > :07:07.of Defence pointed out she'd earlier told the Historical Enquiries Team
:07:08. > :07:09.a slightly different story. She strongly denied lying
:07:10. > :07:11.at that time. But there have been allegations
:07:12. > :07:13.that the baton round had contained a used battery,
:07:14. > :07:16.making it lethal. Medical evidence suggests
:07:17. > :07:19.Frank Rowntree was shot from a range There's growing speculation that
:07:20. > :07:29.aerospace firm Bombardier is close to a deal to sell more than 100
:07:30. > :07:33.of its C Series planes. The company has struggled to find
:07:34. > :07:39.customers for the new plane, and hundreds of jobs have been lost
:07:40. > :07:42.in Belfast as a result. But it's reported that Bombardier
:07:43. > :07:49.is in advanced discussions An American man who was forced
:07:50. > :07:57.to stay here for ten months awaiting trial has been cleared
:07:58. > :08:00.of endangering an aircraft. Jeremiah Mathis Thede denied causing
:08:01. > :08:04.a disturbance on a flight from Rome to Chicago, which was diverted
:08:05. > :08:10.to Belfast International. A jury at Antrim Crown Court
:08:11. > :08:18.found him not guilty. Now finally onto the weekend weather
:08:19. > :08:31.outlook, and here's Geoff Maskell. Our weather today has turned chilly
:08:32. > :08:36.after the rain that came in through the middle part of the day, we moved
:08:37. > :08:40.into cooler air which helped us to have a clear evening but tonight
:08:41. > :08:45.temperatures dropped and there is a chance of a frost in many places
:08:46. > :08:50.overnight as temperatures dip below freezing. We are into cooler and
:08:51. > :08:56.clearer air, so tomorrow should be brighter for money. There may be a
:08:57. > :09:02.few showers, especially in the West, some of those wintry but elsewhere
:09:03. > :09:05.dry and bright. It's a different story over the water, where the
:09:06. > :09:10.remains of the front which has brought rain through today will sink
:09:11. > :09:15.South, meaning it will be grey and wet for many parts of central and
:09:16. > :09:20.eastern England. It gets drier and brighter further north, but not
:09:21. > :09:25.between seven and eight. In the between seven and eight. In the
:09:26. > :09:30.second half of the weekend we get a more westerly flow, isobars quite
:09:31. > :09:34.tightly packed together, a sign of the breeze picking up a
:09:35. > :09:37.tightly packed together, a sign of Cool on Sunday and become cloudy
:09:38. > :09:41.tightly packed together, a sign of we head into next week, so Sunday
:09:42. > :09:45.has a few Moorish travellers around but the air temperature is improving
:09:46. > :09:51.a little so what we lose in terms of warmth from the sun we gain in terms
:09:52. > :09:55.of slightly warmer air mass. The high pressure becomes more
:09:56. > :09:56.established next week, it will stay cloudy but temperatures recovering a
:09:57. > :09:57.little. That's it from us
:09:58. > :10:03.until 5:20pm tomorrow.