09/05/2016 BBC Newsline

Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: The negotiations

on forming a Government start tomorrow.

The DUP and bike in the Stormont. The two will be joining them around

the table? The negotiations around forming a Government start tomorrow.

Already, our new MLAs have been finding their way around Parliament

buildings. A protestor climbs onto an oil drill

as the standoff continues The Ashers gay cake case goes

to the Appeal Court and their lawyer says staff could not sin

by going against their consciences. Also on the programme tonight:

The plane that sailed rather than flew to its new home

on a Sligo campsite. Bolster rugby's season has burst

into life and they are now just one step away from the final.

people have been making the most of the warmest day of the year!

Negotiations on a what a new Government at Stormont

will look like are set to begin tomorrow morning.

It's expected that Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness will be

re-appointed as First and Deputy First Ministers.

Let's see the make up of the MLAs benches and the likely shape

The first meeting of the new Assembly is not until Thursday, but

inside here we can get a really good idea of what is going to look like.

The largest party, here they come, the DUP, 38 feet again. As for Sinn

Fein, 28 seats this time, that is one down on five years ago. As for

the other parties, the Ulster Unionists stay on 16, the SDLP are

down to on 12 and the Alliance Party stay at eight seats and the Green

Party have doubled their representation to two, people before

profit, the new kids on the block, they have two seats, the TUV leader

Jim Allister is bike as as the independent Claire Sugden. This is

the state of the parties in the new Stormont 2016. But how do all the

seats translate into seats at the executive table? Let us have a look.

As you can see, there are now fewer seats around the Executive table,

because we have fewer departments. The one thing hasn't changed, the

First Minister, there she is, Arlene Foster is back. Martin McGuinness is

also back as Deputy First Minister. The DUP will have three other

ministries, Sinn Fein will have two. The Ulster Unionists will be

entitled to one and the SDLP will be entitled to one as well. Will they

take them? If they decide not to go into opposition, their seats will go

to other parties. As you can see, we have one -- a spare seat he would

likely to go to the Alliance Party which is the justice ministry. It

was handed to the Alliance Party last time a cross community vote and

we think that is likely to happen again. But we will see. So this is a

possible shape of the new Executive table. Of course, we do not know yet

which party will take which minister, will be health, education

or finance? But we do know that Arlene Foster will have the first

pic. At Stormont it was moving-in day

for the new politicians They don't officially

become MLAs until Thursday But today they were shown

around the building Here's our political

correspondent, Gareth Gordon. It has been a very long journey to

Stormont for this veteran socialist, in more ways than one. I came back

here today and one of the reasons is that I prefer travelling by rail. If

I wanted to be reasonably certain that I'd reach displaced by 10am, I

would have to get the train from Derry at 6am. That is utterly

ridiculous in 2016. So that is one of the things I will be pursuing.

This pair are old adversaries from days gone by as interviewer and

interviewee. Today's discussion, the Stormont dress code. Personally, I

do think wearing a tie makes you a better legislator. So I'm pretty

relaxed about it, but I'll go with the flow in terms of the team and we

will discuss it and see whether they ask for real change and there will

make a decision. -- I do not think wearing a tie. Upstairs, under the

new member was being shown the ropes, Claire Bailey gets the office

vacated by the Ukip leader David McNarry. Rather, he just did not

stand for election. But there's a handy guide showing those who did

and got elected. I'll be sitting in between Eamon McCann and Jim

Allister, so I will need to learn that the ropes really fast to

maximise a time. This new Sinn Fein MLA was a research scientist in

agriculture and food before becoming a full-time politician. One of the

things I did during my campaign was publish a strategy for the cause way

area and it is about looking at development of the indigenous

industry that there and expanding on that, so that's something I'll be

pushing an hour. So we will all this new blood help improve relations?

Whenever I talk to people on the doorsteps, they said they wanted a

different type of politics, they were sick of what was going on years

ago in Stormont weather was a lot of fighting and bickering. They want to

see a new generation of all editions working on their behalf. The flag of

the EU is flying over the building today to mark Europe today, a

reminder that one election may be over, but another poll is just

around the corner. The only one who thinks the UK should vote to leave

the EU. If we look at the issues raised on the doorsteps with us,

it's really did confirm we took absolutely the right position in

relation to Brexit. A discussion for another day.

Our Political Editor Mark Devenport is at Stormont this evening.

Mark, you've been speaking to the First and Deputy First Ministers.

A pretty good mood and no doubt some of that was down to the weather, it

has been as sunny here as everywhere else in Northern Ireland, but in

Arlene Foster's case, she had more reason to feel elated, because

whilst they lost an MLA in one constituency, they gained one in

another and she came back with 38, which was exactly the same number

they had before. This was the first campaign as a party leader and it

was a very personalised campaign, so she took a great degree of

satisfaction from that. They're moving onto those talks on forming a

Government and I asked a Government and I ask the whole underachieving

they would take? We've set ourselves 14 days to have discussions around

the programme for Government and that doesn't necessarily mean we

will use those 14 days, I hope that we don't have to use them all and we

can get on to doing the job and work we've been set by the people. Will

Stormont be healthier if there's an opposition in this Monday? It's

entirely a matter for the other parties. Of course, in the past,

they've been in opposition inside the executive, so it may be more

honest for them to be in opposition outside of the Executive, but is a

matter to them for them in whether they want to join with us in bowling

a stronger and safer Northern Ireland. That is where my focus is.

A short time later I spoke to Martin McGuinness, of course, Sinn Fein

lost one MLA, but they did better than they need is opposition with

the SDLP who lost two are a Storm Katie team. Martin McGuinness

congratulated all the 100 MLA is what got successfully elected and he

told me what his take was on these... We will meet the Alliance

and the Unionist party and the SDLP and begin discussions around the

programme for Government. It will all be very inclusive. Would you

prefer it have the SDLP and Ulster Unionist inside the tent or not? I

would prefer that the SDLP and the bolster Unionists and if the

Alliance Party wish to take the justice ministry, I'd prefer them

all to be in the side the tents. The whole purpose of the Good Friday

Agreement was to have all of us in a power-sharing way, but working

constructively and positively and cohesively to ensure that we both a

better future for the people we represent. So absolutely, I want to

see everybody inside the tent. So as things stand we should be a bit

white in a fortnight, or maybe less, as to whether the SDLP and Ulster

Unionists will join the power-sharing coalition. The next

bit of business it will happen on Thursday when they are expecting

Martin McGuinness and Arlene Foster to be reconfirmed in their positions

-- positions and MLAs will lead to new speaker.

Still to come on the programme: A visit to County Down

for the man in charge of Europe's agriculture policy.

He encourages farmers to vote to remain in the European Union.

A soldier whose family are in Carrickfergus died

after he was assaulted in Wales yesterday.

Private Matthew Boyd who was 20, was found unconscious in Brecon.

A 23-year-old man was arrested yesterday on suspicion of murder and

Matthew Boyd served in the Royal drug Walter Regiment. His family

moved there from Carrickfergus when he was a child. It is understood he

still have relatives here. Private Boyd was therefore a training

exercise and in the early hours of yesterday morning, he was assaulted

after leaving a pub in the town. He was found unconscious and later died

in hospital. The police arrested a 23-year-old man on suspicion of

murder yesterday, the second man -- and a second man aged 22 was

detained today. There is nothing to suggest that Matthew Boyd, being a

soldier, was any motivation for this assault. Nor is there any indication

that this is links to an act of terrorism. The Ministry of Defence

said in a statement that is false with the family, friends and the

Regiment of private Boyd and asked that their privacy is respected and

-- at this difficult time. An environmental protestor

who climbed on top of a drill being transported to an exploratory

oil well has come down. The site is at Woodburn

forrest near Carrickfergus. Our North East reporter

Sara Girvin was there. The police were expecting a protest

today, but they weren't expecting this. Just after 10am this morning,

this man climbed a drill head going to the forest and bought enough

supplies to stay there for two days. This is in the first protest at

Woodburn. Crowds have been gathering kit since February, worried that

drilling by fractures may pollute jinking water in thousands of homes

in the area and Northern Ireland water, who leased the site said they

are confident there is no threats. Speaking to the BBC from behind a

police barricade, Mark Chapman described his decision to climb the

drill as a spur of the moment thing. He said he had a bicycle lock with

him and the police attempted to remove him from the drill and he

chained himself to it. But just before 3pm, after negotiating with

the P S a night, you changed his mind and left the drill of his own

accord. He was arrested and released on -- placed on police bail. He said

he had no regrets. Committing a small scribe -- primer to prevent

the larger crime of elemental damage. -- to prevent the larger

crime of environmental damage. The jeweller made its way to the forest.

This particular part of the campaign may not have lasted as long as he

might have liked, but as you can see behind me, the protest at Woodburn

continues. The bakery at the centre of the "gay

cake" controversy is back in court. Ashers' Baking Company is trying

to overturn a ruling made last year that it unlawfully

discriminated against a customer. It's two years to the day that

an order for a cake with the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" was made

at the firm's Belfast branch. Back in court, the owners of Ashers'

Baking Company arrived for the hearing just a head of their son

Daniel. The general manager of the bakery along with his wife, Amy. A

Christian family appealing a decision made last year. A similar

case but by the quality commission on behalf of gay rights activist

Gareth Lee here on the right. The MIDI has made a lot of this being a

faith -based trial. It is about a man who walked into the shop to

years ago and did not get the service that he would expect. I do

not one Northern Ireland to be a lottery where when we go into a shop

or ask for a service that we have to second-guess the conscience of the

service provider. We are hoping that this court will rule we are not

required to endorse the view that goes against our conscience and

beliefs. This is never just been about one thing. It is clear that it

has always had implications for freedom of expression throughout the

UK. Counsel for the Ashers said the family had no idea about Gareth

Lee's sexual orientation and he had been in the bakery before. The

problem is not with a customer, but with the message on the cake which

was inconsistent with a family's deeply held beliefs. To provide such

a service would have been seen before. If edge sexual person had

bought a cake, the family said they would have responded the same way.

The hearing is expected to last three days.

A County Armagh man has appeared in court charged with the attempted

murder of a police officer in Eglinton last summer.

He's also accused of possession of semtex explosives.

Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.

Before the court was this manner from Victoria Street. He's accused

of possessing Semtex explosives with attempts to endanger life. It

follows the discovery of a bomb in Eglington on June 18 last year. A

defence solicitor said the prosecution was missing essential

ingredient in relation to connecting the accused to the charges. He said

that the basis of the prosecution case was that there were low levels

of explosives and clothing taken from him in the Republic. He also

said the prosecution was relying on CCTV evidence about a vehicle the

accused was stabbed in Donegal. He said there was no evidence of it

being seen in Eglington. The defence solicitor said there was no

forensics DNA or fibre evidence linking the defendant to Eglington.

He called for a scientific reports to be disclosed to the defence.

District Judge said all material should be given to the defence

before the next hearing on May 16. Sean McVeigh was led away there was

applause from the public gallery. Irish language speakers have held

a demonstration outside the BBC's headquarters

on Ormeau Avenue in Belfast. A spokesman said it was organised

in protest at the BBC's disregard A BBC spokesperson said BBC

Northern Ireland produced a range of Irish language content

across television, radio and online which reflects commitments detailed

in the BBC's current Charter With six weeks to go

to the European referendum, Today the Agriculture Commissioner

Phil Hogan was in County Down, explaining why he thinks UK farmers

would be better off inside the EU. Our Agriculture correspondent

Conor Macauley reports. He's the big cheese of European

agriculture. And today, he was on Pat McCabe's farmer. Commissioner

Phil Hogan have the double persuading UK farmers their future

is inside European Union. It is linked to other places in the area.

And with mountains in the distance, where a potential new trade body

could be drunkenly focused on what farmers get from Europe in subsidy

payments and the easy access to a market for their produce. You're

better off sticking with a situation where you have 500 million consumers

rather than 60 million consumers in the context of the benefits for

trade that has been achieved already. There's no guarantee you'll

get the same terms of all conditions in the future. Farmers had come to

question the Commissioner. Bureaucracy, complaint about one

inspections and annoyance of prices -- over prices were all heard. He

heard about the frustration with the rules and regulations of Europe. The

kind of red tape he said he is trying to get rid of. There is no

sort of bullets, it will be a struggle and we are looking for

answers. We are on our knees looking for answers. We want to hear the

arguments from the outcome in as well, and until farmers here that,

there's a long way to go. One bit of good news for farmers like Pat McKay

today, beef will not now be part of a potential EU trade deal with South

America. The prospect of cheap meat flowing into Europe is off the menu

for now. If you're going on holiday this summer, your trip may involve

one of these. But you certainly wouldn't expect to find one on a

campsite. That is unless you had to County Sligo. As our reporter says,

the idea of using an unwanted plane as alternative accommodation almost

did not take off. Just get yourself a redundant

Russian Boeing 767 and use it as a ground level camping alternative. It

attempts to transport it by road hit some bureaucratic turbulence, so the

plane had to be loaded onto a barge and floated from Shannon airport to

a new site in County Sligo. There, it will be used by campers are what

some the more glamorous than a tent. I went after the plane and I got

one, I got a decommissioned plane and that was all very fine and all

right, but the logistics of moving a Boeing 767 from Shannon airport to

Sligo proved to be a little bit more challenging than I thought! Judging

by the curiosity shown already, it is definitely putting it on the map.

Glamping taken to new heights! A look ahead now to a story on BBC

Newsline tomorrow. With the details, here's our

north-west reporter, Keiron Tourish. I'm here at Old Trafford following

the journey of one young lad from PFA Awards we certainly had all the

talent and potential to make it big at the Theatre of dreams. Injury

halted his career and he tried -- tragically lost his life at the age

of 26. That is the ageing Doherty story on BBC Newsline. -- Adrian

Doherty. Now sport, and a very exciting

weekend of action and a thrilling And Ulster finished

in the top for of the Pro12 and now have a semifinal

trip to Dublin. A win away to Ospreys

secured a Play-Off spot and Leinster now block the path

to the final. The final whistle and Mission

accomplished! Season accomplished! Well, so far. All studied at a win

and Rory Best, Paddy Jackson and Andrew Trimble led the charge. Many

believe Paddy Jackson should be sparking Ulster into life. The

liberty stadium was the venue well is the last won the league ten years

ago. Plain that there was Rory Best. A decade on and he continues to

inspire. Ospreys scored themselves, but Andrew Trimble was insured is

quality. -- once again showed his quality. Ulster kicked off after the

break and they will now play Leinster away in the semifinal. We

know they are a quality side and will not be the same team next time

around. They will be better for the run and it will be one hell of a

battle and we have a lot of respect for them and when they get things

right, they are very, dangerous. Glenister gets also will take place

this Friday. Glenavon won the Irish cup

for the second time in three years when they beat Linfield two-nil

at Windsor Park on Saturday, denying David Healy his first piece

of silverware as a manager. It took until half-time for Glenavon

to break the deadlock through the man whose goals have done so much to

get them to this showpiece final. And the crucial second Glenavon

strike came three minutes after the break to secure the trophy. I'm very

proud of him. All the backroom staff helped me

through the last four years I've been here and all the supporters,

they are back in numbers again. It is lovely photos, good for players.

Glenavon upset the odds. World Cup Kings once more!

It was a good weekend for Northern Irish rowers

at the European Championships in Germany.

Joel Cassells won a gold medal in the lightweight pair,

while in the lightweight four, Peter Chambers was a member of the

It's the highlight of the road-racing calendar this week

BBC Newsline will be following all the build-up and race action.

The paddock is a hive of activity as teams and riders from around the

world get ready for this year's event. The manner to beat will be

Alistair Seeley, he has won at least once in his last eight visits to the

north coast and needs one more victory to become the most

successful rider ever of the North West 200. He was talking about

getting T-shirts made, and it would be nice if we can get it. Have six

claps of the whip, six classes in motor racing. So there is every

opportunity to do it, but a lot of good, fast talented riders who of a

lot of confidence and experience should be able to put themselves in

the right place at the right time and do a good job. All you harder

begins tomorrow in the opening practice session. Roads close at 915

and as live coverage on the BBC sport website from ten o'clock. The

store to the Championship and the North West 200, but perhaps the

weather might not be a talking point for once.

It wouldn't have been a problem today, Thomas, that's for sure.

We were basking in lovely sunshine, as you could see in a photo taken

from the International Space Station.

The British astronaut Tim Peake posted this

Unfortunately, the picture doesn't include all of the Western counties,

but you can see there was hardly a cloud in the sky over us.

And on such a day, Angie Phillips is not the studio,

Yes, it's a glorious evening here. The ice cream van is still parked up

and there are a few barbecues on the go and a few people are still

catching a few rays on what was the warmest day of the year so far.

Temperatures in the mid-20s imports of the West. But it will probably be

the warmest day of this week as well, gradually, the temperatures

will be coming down near average by the time we get to the end of the

week. There will be a showery spell amid a week, but other than that,

fair amount of dry weather in the forecast and some sunshine as well.

Look at the satellite picture, that shows an abundance of sunshine

across the East and the North and we still have that this evening. It is

a fine end to the day. Lots of sunshine and lovely Somerset 's.

Overnight, dry with clear spells. Temperatures eight or 9 degrees in

the countryside, but mostly in double figures. Tomorrow, another

fine day coming up for most of us. A bit more high cloud, the sunshine

and maybe hazy at times, the most part dry though. The exception may

be in the morning towards the southern counties. The risk of one

or two showers brushing past. Along the east coast, a gentle, easily

breeze. Temperatures 16-17d. Still above average. Highest temperatures

inland and towards the West. Perhaps not as high as today, but 21-23d

still a very good indeed. A great day for the first practice session

at the North West 200. If you're going to be out in the sun for any

length of time, don't forget the summer block, the UV levels are

pretty high. Perhaps not quite so high on Wednesday, the weather front

moves across the South and edges further north. On Wednesday, we have

to expect a bit more of an easterly breeze, more cloud, showery

outbreaks and the temperatures generally around 18. The rain clears

away to the south and becomes drier on Thursday and Friday, just not

quite so warmer. -- warmer. You can also keep in contact with us

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