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be updates on the BBC News Channel and on BBC News online throughout | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
the night. Dungannon rider Ryan Farquhar | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
and another competitor have been injured in a crash tonight | :00:07. | :00:17. | |
at the North West 200. Ryan Farquhar was taken by police | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
helicopter to Belfast. Stephen Watson is at | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
the North West for BBC Newsline. An evening of the mixed emotions at | :00:23. | :00:35. | |
the North West 200 as Carrickfergus ride Alistair Seeley put his name in | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
the history books, a crash in the second race marred this evening's | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
writing. Ryan Farquhar and Amit Cooper both suffered injuries after | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
a high-speed crash which organisers say tonight are not | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
life-threatening. But the incident brought an early end to the racing | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
as Gavin Andrews reports. In conversation on the grid before the | :01:00. | :01:03. | |
super Twin is a raise. A short time later, Dungannon's Ryan Farquhar and | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
English man Dan Cooper were involved in a racing incident on the coast | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
road section. The race was red fly good and paramedics attended the | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
scene. Ryan Farquhar is sustained chest and pelvic injuries and was | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital by helicopter. Cooper suffered | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
shoulder injuries and was transferred to the Causeway | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
hospital. Both riders are in a stable condition, with a | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
non-life-threatening injuries. Earlier this evening, Alistair | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Seeley had produced a record-breaking performance in the | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
super sport class. This is his 16th North West Wing which makes him the | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
most successful ride in the history of the event. He set a new lap | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
record on the way to the chequered for like and sparks emotional scenes | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
in the enclosure of the winners with his support team and family. There | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
was a third rider injured during practice earlier today coming he has | :02:04. | :02:09. | |
been named as a local man, the new, who suffered pelvic injuries and is | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
being treated in hospital in Belfast. One race did not run this | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
evening, in the superstock class, and it has been added to Saturday's | :02:18. | :02:19. | |
schedule. The Ulster Unionists, | :02:20. | :02:20. | |
who for decades were the main party of Government at Stormont, | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
have announced that they're Leader Mike Nesbitt said this | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
afternoon that his party would not be taking up the one seat they're | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
entitled to in the His surprise move followed | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
the re-appointment of Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness as First | :02:33. | :02:35. | |
and Deputy First Ministers. Here's our political | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
correspondent, Gareth Gordon. We were down to last | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
"and finally..." for the former | :02:49. | :02:49. | |
newsman-turned-politician The UUP decided unanimously | :02:50. | :02:50. | |
to form the first official opposition of this | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
Northern Ireland Assembly. This is a big and bold move to bring | :02:55. | :03:04. | |
a better and a more normal democracy Suddenly, all that went | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
before, the real election of the First Minister, | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
a Deputy First Minister and the Assembly Speaker were relegated | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
to the inside pages. The focus will now fall | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
on the SDLP and Alliance. Will Sinn Fein and | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
the DUP govern alone? The SDLP were taken aback | :03:33. | :03:40. | |
like everyone else, has a mandate for the UUP | :03:41. | :03:42. | |
and I have a mandate for the SDLP's position which was | :03:43. | :03:52. | |
always to negotiate and achieve a programme for Government | :03:53. | :03:54. | |
that we could all sign up to. That is our position | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
and remains our position. The parties who will form | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
an Executive were not During the election | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
campaign, there was no He was never in nor | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
out, and now he has tested his own party and they have | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
said it is time to get out. seen as a leadership, it will be | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
seen as a lack of leadership. to express the democratically | :04:20. | :04:32. | |
expressed wishes of the people in charged both the DUP | :04:33. | :04:42. | |
and the SDLP have the responsibility to bring | :04:43. | :04:50. | |
this Talks of a Programme | :04:51. | :04:51. | |
for Government are to resume I spoke to Mike Nesbitt earlier, | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
and I asked him if his decision was an admission of political | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
failure at the Assembly elections. It may be an admission of failure | :05:01. | :05:08. | |
by Sinn Fein and the DUP, but we agree on the Programme for | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Government in the two weeks between the election and setting | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
up the next Executive. Not only can they not do it | :05:15. | :05:16. | |
in two weeks, they can't do it in to months, | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
in less than seven months. It will be the end | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
of the year before you know what they plan to deliver | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
and how they plan to deliver it. What they will publish over | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
the next months is basically motherhood | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
and apple pie. You could have an the | :05:31. | :05:36. | |
education minister post, and instead, | :05:37. | :05:38. | |
they've added a fourth I would have thought, given | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
what they said about education, the DUP will take it | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
on the first or third pick, so I think you | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
are wrong to suggest it But you have handed your opponents | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
should have a fourth Yes, we think it is much | :05:49. | :05:58. | |
more honest if the next Executive is run by | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
the DUP and Sinn Fein, as the last one was, | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
and look what happened at the end, | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
they had four parties in Government, two of who we were voting | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
against the Budget and also against Now, whether the SDLP | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
joins the UUP is for them, but we would be stronger | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
if they did and we would have a more honest debate, because | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
whether the other parties are at the table or not, | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
it is clear the DUP and Sinn Fein intend to boss | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
the next Executive. Martin McGuinness said | :06:24. | :06:25. | |
it is a mistake to pitch Dave He told me if we had a mandate | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
to get back into the Executive, there's no way | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
I would not be there. Others said I wouldn't take | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
the additional ?39,000 per annum, the chauffeur-driven | :06:35. | :06:39. | |
car and other perks. I am not here to put my nose | :06:40. | :06:52. | |
in the trough, but to see better politics delivered for all | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
the people of Northern Ireland. Would you give this | :06:57. | :06:58. | |
the five years and see what There's no reverse | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
gear in opposition. A good thing for devolved | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
Government in Northern Ireland and hopefully a good thing | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
for all of Northern Ireland. And there'll be reaction | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
from the five main parties to that Ulster Unionist move | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
on the The View, straight A 20-year-old man has died | :07:14. | :07:15. | |
following a road accident He was the driver of a car | :07:16. | :07:19. | |
which was in collision with plant An energy company has plans to build | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
a new power station in Belfast. Evermore Energy wants to develop | :07:24. | :07:34. | |
the facility at a site It could produce electricity | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
for for 100,000 homes. A planning application is due to be | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
lodged later this year and funding for the scheme is understood | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
to be well advanced. Families of some of those killed | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
in the Birmingham pub bombings over 40 years ago have been told that | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
"sensitive material" from the time has been sent by the Government | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
to the city's coroner Louise Hunt. She told a hearing | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
today that the material was in her judgment "significant" | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
and related to a claim by lawyers for the families | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
that the authorities may have had advanced warning of | :08:03. | :08:07. | |
the bombings from an IRA mole. A barrister representing | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
West Midlands Police said the evidence was that there | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
had been no tip-off. The coroner is due to give | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
a ruling next month on whether the inquests | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
into the bombings The Loyalist Community Council says | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
it's hoping there'll be fewer It's unveiled an alternative design | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
commemorating the battle of the Somme a hundred years ago, | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
which it thinks would Unfurling a new way to tackle | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
the problem of flags. The Loyalist Community Council | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
says it hopes this one, commemorating the 36th Ulster | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
Division at the Somme, could replace It has been consulting and has come | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
up with a new protocol as well. It is all about respect | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
for the flags, they say, Things need to be done better, | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
both in terms of ensuring that torn and tattered | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
flags are replaced with a more dignified | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
and respectful commemoration. But also, people are | :09:04. | :09:08. | |
saying clearly that the impact of flags needs to be | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
reduced on the communities No one believes that paramilitary | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
flags will disappear entirely this year, but the LCC expect to see | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
fewer of them and hopes I'm hoping the Loyalist | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
Party will take charge of their own flags and take | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
responsibility for them. I certainly would not | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
like to see them on and that is not what it | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
they may cause offence Certainly any initiative that tries | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
to get to grips with the challenges presented | :09:43. | :09:50. | |
by flags is to be welcomed and can be helpful, but of course, | :09:51. | :09:52. | |
the proof of the pudding is in the eating and we will wait | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
and see how this is This is the first big | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
initiative from the Loyalist Community's Council since | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
it was formed last autumn. It does acknowledge | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
what everyone already knows, that flags can cause | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
friction, so too do bonfires. And it is the coming | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
summer which will tell whether these latest calls | :10:11. | :10:21. | |
for respect have been heated. Well, it was day two | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
of the Balmoral Show, and the good weather ensured that it lived up | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
to its billing as the busiest day. of livestock and farm machinery, | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
food featured strongly once again. But also present were campaigners | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
in the EU referendum debate, including two British farm ministers | :10:34. | :10:35. | |
on opposite sides of the argument. If we vote Leave and take back | :10:36. | :10:47. | |
control we can write laws correct for our own farming can sweep away a | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
lock of the pointless at the ministrations, a lot of the petty | :10:53. | :10:55. | |
finders that farmers get, we can abolish all of that and start again | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
from scratch and supports farmers, because we would be spending ?350 | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
million a week on the European Union, we could spend it on our own | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
priorities and support farming in a way that works for us. The European | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
market is incredibly important for food and farming and particularly so | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
in Northern Ireland, 83% of all food exports go into the European Union, | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
particularly into the Republic of Ireland. Leaving the single market | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
would be bad for those exports. It would mean a more red tape, farmers | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
would have to follow both UK and EU regulations and we could also see | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
tariffs as well. Bikes that crush at the North West 200. Dungannon rider | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
Ryan Farquhar is now said to be in a serious condition in Belfast's Royal | :11:43. | :11:43. | |
Victoria Hospital. The weather forecast | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
now, with Barra Best. Is being another fine day, but | :11:46. | :11:56. | |
tomorrow it cools. It will be: tonight and temperatures will fall | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
to about a- 9 degrees. Not bad for the time of year. As for tomorrow, | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
we are expecting plenty of dry weather and it will feel cooler, but | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
sunny. The study will be out in many areas, bit of cloudy here and there | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
are not a bad start. Across Britain and Ireland and apart from the odd | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
shower in parts of northern England, for Scotland, it is a dry picture. | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
The best of the sunshine across Ireland, northern England, parts of | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
Wales and the south coast of England. Crowley elsewhere. Northern | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
wind will be driving in and temperatures will fall back to | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
northern -- normal and warm further south. For Northern Ireland, the | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
second part of the day will have the highest temperatures inland. 18-19d. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
For coastal areas, probably 13-14d. But that is normal for the time of | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
year. By the end of the day, 12-macro showers, a few could be | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
heavy, but they shouldn't last. As for Saturday, if you're heading | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
towards the North West 200, it is said to be dry, plenty of sunshine, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
but temperatures of 10-11d so you may want is to wrap up. 40-15 | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
further inland. Cloud of the Irish Sea, not a lots. No rain at Sunday | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
or Monday, good amounts of sunshine as well. Good night. | :13:17. | :13:18. | |
Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am in the morning | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
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