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:00:07. > :00:09.The police are to re-open their inquiry into the Kingsmill

:00:10. > :00:12.massacre, after a palm print found on a getaway van was linked

:00:13. > :00:17.The new evidence comes 40 years after ten Protestant men were shot

:00:18. > :00:20.dead by an IRA gang, near the County Armagh village.

:00:21. > :00:27.It was a truly dramatic development, which took the families

:00:28. > :00:33.by surprise after 40 years of anger and heartbreak.

:00:34. > :00:36.A group of family members arrived here at the inquest this morning

:00:37. > :00:38.expecting to hear more witness statements about the day their loved

:00:39. > :00:43.Instead, they were taken to a private room and told the shock news

:00:44. > :00:45.that the palm print they had known about for 40 years had been

:00:46. > :00:50.Now the criminal investigation has been reopened, and a senior

:00:51. > :00:52.investigating officer has been appointed to restart the search

:00:53. > :00:58.The reaction of the families was described in court as emotional,

:00:59. > :01:01.stunned silence, but delight at the development.

:01:02. > :01:04.There was no explanation about why it had taken so long to find

:01:05. > :01:13.First of all it would have to be welcomed, but it is never too late.

:01:14. > :01:16.We are going through a mixture of emotions, and I have to be

:01:17. > :01:21.After 40 years we are now told there has been a development.

:01:22. > :01:28.It heard that the print had been identified last Tuesday.

:01:29. > :01:41.and the news was broken to the families today.

:01:42. > :01:45.A barrister said they had come to the inquest with no hope

:01:46. > :01:47.of justice but with hope that the truth might come out.

:01:48. > :01:50.They now say they are delighted at the news the enquiry

:01:51. > :01:53.That print had been taken from the suspected getaway

:01:54. > :01:56.vehicle 40 years ago, so the sudden confirmation of who it

:01:57. > :01:58.belongs to has caused some suspicion among the families.

:01:59. > :02:00.Alan Black is the only survivor of the attack.

:02:01. > :02:02.It went through a review in the 1980s, and another

:02:03. > :02:16.When they have had it all this time, we are just into the inquest,

:02:17. > :02:29.starting to get going, they throw this into the mix.

:02:30. > :02:39.The truth may come, and I think what is wrong

:02:40. > :02:43.The truth may come, and I think what is wrong now, they're

:02:44. > :02:46.afraid of the truth coming out, and everybody is beginning to tell

:02:47. > :02:48.the truth and go into things, whereas before they just brushed

:02:49. > :02:52.The inquest continued in the afternoon with witness

:02:53. > :02:53.statements, and will resume on Thursday.

:02:54. > :02:55.An inquiry into historical child sex abuse here has begun examining

:02:56. > :02:58.allegations relating to the former Kincora Boys' Home in east Belfast.

:02:59. > :03:01.It's expected to look at claims a paedophile ring at the home had

:03:02. > :03:07.Abused as a young boy at Kincora, this man came to the enquiry today

:03:08. > :03:11.Kincora was a home for older teenage boys, and operated in east Belfast

:03:12. > :03:13.from 1958 until it closed amid scandal in 1980.

:03:14. > :03:15.Kincora was a home for older or teenage boys,

:03:16. > :03:19.from 1958 until it closed amid scandal in 1980.

:03:20. > :03:21.Three men were jailed in 1981 for abusing boys there.

:03:22. > :03:24.At least 29 boys were known to be abused at the home.

:03:25. > :03:26.Over the years there have been persistent allegations of a cover-up

:03:27. > :03:37.At the enquiry today MI5 and MI6 were legally represented,

:03:38. > :03:39.and they are co-operating with the enquiry.

:03:40. > :03:43.The enquiry has been provided with full and voluntary cooperation

:03:44. > :03:46.by all Her Majesty's Government departments and agencies.

:03:47. > :03:49.The scale of the allegations due to be heard at the enquiry over

:03:50. > :03:54.the next week was outlined in stark terms.

:03:55. > :04:04.You will hear me referred to, and you will read claims, of state

:04:05. > :04:07.sponsored child prostitution, paedophile rings, blackmail, and

:04:08. > :04:12.cover-ups. Which you will have to examine.

:04:13. > :04:18.The allegations have been circulating for four decades. It was

:04:19. > :04:25.Saturday if they are true, they must be laid bare, and that if they are

:04:26. > :04:27.false, they must be dispelled and laid to rest.

:04:28. > :04:33.Details from some of the intelligence files will be made

:04:34. > :04:38.public; however, some of files will only be seen by the inquiry team.

:04:39. > :04:43.They will then be preserved secret. -- some of the files. -- some of our

:04:44. > :04:49.files. -- some other files. Two men have been arrested

:04:50. > :04:51.by the National Crime Agency in connection with the controversial

:04:52. > :04:53.Nama property deal. The agency said it had also carried

:04:54. > :04:56.out searches at addresses in County Down, in connection

:04:57. > :04:58.with a fraud investigation. Nama, the Republic's so-called bad

:04:59. > :05:00.bank, sold more than one billion pounds worth

:05:01. > :05:02.of property assets in 2014. The shooting of a man

:05:03. > :05:05.by the army in 1971 was neither necessary or proportionate,

:05:06. > :05:07.a coroner has found. Harry Thornton was killed

:05:08. > :05:23.after his car backfired outside The father of six was shot dead by a

:05:24. > :05:28.member of the Parachute Regiment near to the Springfield Road police

:05:29. > :05:32.station. The coroner also find that evidence by a soldier C was

:05:33. > :05:36.inaccurate. He said there was no weapon in the van and no forensic

:05:37. > :05:42.evidence on the victim to show a gun had been fired.

:05:43. > :05:50.He was taken away from me, taken away from his six children. It is

:05:51. > :05:58.good to know no that the world can see that he was innocent, and that

:05:59. > :06:02.soldier C was telling lies and soldier Abels -- shot him and he

:06:03. > :06:09.could have didn't -- done many a thing before he shot him. I'm so

:06:10. > :06:14.glad the truth is out at last. And we can't let him rest now.

:06:15. > :06:29.Arthur Murphy was sitting beside him when he was shot.

:06:30. > :06:35.A week in hospital after... The family's legal term -- team is

:06:36. > :06:37.now applying for the anonymity of the soldiers involved in the

:06:38. > :06:39.incident to be lifted. That is due to be heard later this

:06:40. > :06:39.week. Eight children who came

:06:40. > :06:41.to Northern Ireland after fleeing their home countries have

:06:42. > :06:43.disappeared while they were in the care of the authorities, a BBC

:06:44. > :06:50.Spotlight investigation has found. The programme looks in detail

:06:51. > :06:54.at the cases of two of the missing That's here on BBC One

:06:55. > :06:58.just after this bulletin. Sailors from Ireland who died

:06:59. > :07:01.in the Battle of Jutland 100 years ago were remembered today on board

:07:02. > :07:03.HMS Caroline, the only surviving In all 1,500 Irish sailors died

:07:04. > :07:16.in the First World War. They were Catholics and Protestants,

:07:17. > :07:17.unionists and nationalists from all parts of Ireland,

:07:18. > :07:20.and some were as young This was an unprecedented

:07:21. > :07:30.all-Ireland commemoration today, as Prince Michael of Kent

:07:31. > :07:39.represented us in the Royal Navy, as Prince Michael of Kent

:07:40. > :07:46.representatives from the Royal Navy, Irish Naval Service

:07:47. > :07:48.and the German Admiral joined more than 200 descendants to remember

:07:49. > :07:51.the sacrifice of Irish sailors. They also remembered the 1,000 men

:07:52. > :07:53.in the Merchant Navy He left young twins

:07:54. > :08:08.and a pregnant wife. His daughter was named

:08:09. > :08:19.after the ship he was killed on. He captained an attack

:08:20. > :08:28.against the German cruiser. For those who lived with horror

:08:29. > :08:32.and mental anguish, we remember you. For those with no family to remember

:08:33. > :08:36.them, we remember you. And for those who were

:08:37. > :08:41.forgotten, we remember you. The ceremony here earlier

:08:42. > :08:45.was particularly poignant for descendants of those

:08:46. > :08:48.who were killed. Earlier I spoke to two

:08:49. > :08:50.women whose relatives saw the horrors of the Battle

:08:51. > :08:53.of Jutland and survived. Very proud of my grandfather,

:08:54. > :09:04.and the fact also that HMS Caroline and has been restored

:09:05. > :09:12.to its former glory. So generations and generations

:09:13. > :09:15.are going to see and hopefully get some insight into what it was like

:09:16. > :09:19.to be involved, live on the ship, be involved in the war,

:09:20. > :09:21.and the horrors that Memories I have got from older

:09:22. > :09:29.people are that he would stand in his doorway, post-war,

:09:30. > :09:31.and he would look into I'm sure he was recalling absolute

:09:32. > :09:37.atrocities. He would have seen the Queen Mary

:09:38. > :09:43.going down, over 1,200 on board, not to mention the noise and how

:09:44. > :09:52.appalling that was. He would have also witnessed

:09:53. > :09:54.the burials at sea off HMS Tiger. There were 28 buried, and I'm sure

:09:55. > :09:57.he must have known them. So I'm sure all those memories must

:09:58. > :10:02.have been recurring. The families of sailors

:10:03. > :10:05.remembering their role in the Battle Football now, and the Republic have

:10:06. > :10:10.been playing their final warm up Football now, and the Republic have

:10:11. > :10:15.been playing their final warm-up game before the start

:10:16. > :10:30.of the European Championships - The home side looked in control in

:10:31. > :10:42.the early stages, but Belarus took the lead. A fine finish... Martin

:10:43. > :10:50.O'Neill's men then went close. Before Belarus doubled their

:10:51. > :10:55.advantage. This deflected shot going in. Substitute Shane Long made an

:10:56. > :11:00.instant impact when he came off the bench, setting up Stephen Ward to

:11:01. > :11:07.make it 2-1, but the Republic couldn't find that elusive second

:11:08. > :11:11.goal. Martin O'Neill will submit his final 23 man squad for the European

:11:12. > :11:16.Championships within the next hour or so; it looks as though David

:11:17. > :11:21.Myler, Darron Gibson and Stephen Quinn will be battling it out for

:11:22. > :11:22.two spots, after Harry Arter was ruled out of the competition with a

:11:23. > :11:25.thigh injury. The Northern Ireland football team

:11:26. > :11:28.have headed off to Austria for more training ahead

:11:29. > :11:30.of the European Championship finals. They will take on Poland

:11:31. > :11:33.in their opening game in Nice Their final friendly

:11:34. > :11:35.is against Slovakia That's the news and sport for now;

:11:36. > :11:40.finally on to the weather forecast, and with the details,

:11:41. > :11:49.here's Cecilia Daly. Good evening. It's been another

:11:50. > :11:53.stunning day. Tomorrow is the 1st of June, officially the start of

:11:54. > :11:56.summer, and it looks like the summary weather will continue. This

:11:57. > :12:10.is a selection of today's temperatures. Missed and low cloud

:12:11. > :12:16.has stubbornly clung on in places. It will flow southwards tonight as

:12:17. > :12:20.temperatures fall away, which may lead to a spot of fog first thing

:12:21. > :12:24.tomorrow. So if it is grey first thing tomorrow, give it some time

:12:25. > :12:28.because the warm sunshine will eventually break through, and it is

:12:29. > :12:33.more likely to be misty across the North and west. Summer skies will

:12:34. > :12:36.win out in most places. Across much of Scotland, the Republic of

:12:37. > :12:41.Ireland, this is where the best of the weather will be and the highest

:12:42. > :12:44.temperatures. In contrast of many parts of England particularly

:12:45. > :12:48.eastern counties of England, London and the Midlands it is chilly,

:12:49. > :12:53.cloudy, although the rain will become lighter compared to today. So

:12:54. > :12:57.we are looking at similar temperatures to -- tomorrow across

:12:58. > :13:00.Northern Ireland. A little bit cooler towards the north coast due

:13:01. > :13:04.to that breeze coming in off the sea. More fine weather to come on

:13:05. > :13:08.Thursday, perhaps temperatures sliding a little bit but still

:13:09. > :13:12.feeling warm in that sunshine. And it continues as we head towards the

:13:13. > :13:16.weekend; temperatures dropping a little bit. More cloud around this

:13:17. > :13:18.weekend, but still plenty of dry weather.

:13:19. > :13:21.Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25 in the morning during Breakfast

:13:22. > :13:25.You can also keep updated with News Online and from Radio

:13:26. > :13:29.From all of us here on the programme, enjoy