:00:00. > :00:09.The Audit Office has uncovered potential fraud in a ?1 billion
:00:10. > :00:12.scheme of subsidies for renewable energy.
:00:13. > :00:15.The Economy Minister has ordered spot-checks of projects to discover
:00:16. > :00:20.The scheme has now closed but will continue to pay
:00:21. > :00:29.Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill.
:00:30. > :00:32.It's a scheme found out to be burning money,
:00:33. > :00:35.abusing a generous system of financial support offered
:00:36. > :00:39.to businesses and people switching to renewable heating.
:00:40. > :00:43.A tariff is paid per kilowatt of heat burned for 20 years
:00:44. > :00:46.but unlike in Britain there is no payment cap.
:00:47. > :00:49.Energy can be burned for the sake of claiming.
:00:50. > :00:53.The Audit Office cited the case of a farmer who, with no need
:00:54. > :00:57.for a biomass boiler, installed one simply to heat
:00:58. > :01:02.an empty shed to line up payments of ?1 million.
:01:03. > :01:06.The economy minister, shocked by the audit findings,
:01:07. > :01:11.I'm trying to take action in terms of getting consultants in to look
:01:12. > :01:14.at the allegations around fraud and the key options are around cost
:01:15. > :01:17.control and making sure that anything that can be done to keep
:01:18. > :01:22.these costs under control can be taken and that's an important step
:01:23. > :01:25.that we have to take to ensure that we do give confidence back
:01:26. > :01:28.to the public and that we're learning the lessons
:01:29. > :01:33.The Audit Office says the Stormont scheme was run
:01:34. > :01:38.Had they been the same, it would have helped
:01:39. > :01:44.As it is, Stormont has gone beyond the maximum the Treasury
:01:45. > :01:55.I can't believe this has happened to the tune of 45 million,
:01:56. > :01:59.to have over 140 million coming out of the budget going forward.
:02:00. > :02:05.It's a litany of maladministration, litany of not effectively
:02:06. > :02:11.Simon Hamilton says his DUP predecessors in what was
:02:12. > :02:14.the Department of Enterprise are not to blame and that civil servants
:02:15. > :02:21.The scheme has now closed but cleaning up the financial mess
:02:22. > :02:23.is only just beginning, with inspectors having to set
:02:24. > :02:28.the good applications from the bad in the hope of getting on top
:02:29. > :02:37.An on-the-run drugs dealer has been arrested in Spain.
:02:38. > :02:40.Mark Dunford was due to be sentenced in February last year for his part
:02:41. > :02:45.in illegal drugs supply in Coleraine and Ballymena.
:02:46. > :02:49.Police officers seized almost ?900,000 worth
:02:50. > :02:54.Following his arrest at the weekend, the 41 year old, who had
:02:55. > :02:56.an address in Coleraine, will now appear in court
:02:57. > :03:00.Maintenance work has been suspended at a block of flats
:03:01. > :03:02.in North Belfast because of threats against Housing Executive
:03:03. > :03:08.It's not clear who is behind the threats in the New Lodge area
:03:09. > :03:11.but the Housing Executive says it is taking them very seriously.
:03:12. > :03:21.Sinn Fein say the threats should be lifted immediately.
:03:22. > :03:24.This essential maintenance was looking ventilation and window
:03:25. > :03:29.replacements, it reduces fuel poverty and increases the quality of
:03:30. > :03:32.lives, these people need to come forward and speak for themselves
:03:33. > :03:35.about the threats made that I'm calling not only on them to draw
:03:36. > :03:39.their threats that also the community to come out and support
:03:40. > :03:42.the residents, the Housing executive and the contractors.
:03:43. > :03:45.The mother of a Lisburn man who died in Cambodia from a drugs overdose
:03:46. > :03:48.She says he had taken drugs before and she had
:03:49. > :03:53.Martin Hale was found in his room in the Cambodian capital Phnom Pehn.
:03:54. > :03:57.Maggie Taggart has been speaking to his mother.
:03:58. > :04:02.His family home in Lisburn is in mourning for the 34-year-old man.
:04:03. > :04:04.Martin had been travelling in Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia
:04:05. > :04:08.for a few months but on Friday police came to tell his mother
:04:09. > :04:12.He'd been staying in the Happy House budget guesthouse.
:04:13. > :04:15.Cambodian police reported that he and his friend had
:04:16. > :04:23.The family believe they were taking tablets with morphine and that
:04:24. > :04:38.No matter who Martin met, he was not a bad fella.
:04:39. > :05:00.Did you ever imagine this would happen?
:05:01. > :05:05.When I used to say to him, please, son, don't take anything,
:05:06. > :05:13.Martin was a father with one daughter and phoned his mother daily
:05:14. > :05:19.His friend Dean, also from Lisburn, got out of the hospital and went
:05:20. > :05:25.After a social media campaign, he was eventually found and is due
:05:26. > :05:31.Neither man had travel insurance so the family is being helped
:05:32. > :05:35.by a charity to get his body home for burial.
:05:36. > :05:40.The trust has been absolutely brilliant.
:05:41. > :05:41.Don't know what I'd have done without them.
:05:42. > :05:44.They've done everything they can for us.
:05:45. > :05:47.It's made it a lot easier to get him back home.
:05:48. > :06:00.Knowing that he's never coming home alive.
:06:01. > :06:05.Martin's family hope to have his body back
:06:06. > :06:13.The Education Authority has been accused of misleading
:06:14. > :06:17.an Assembly Committee for the second time in three months
:06:18. > :06:21.about nursery provision in special schools.
:06:22. > :06:24.The charges by the Education Committee's vice chair relate
:06:25. > :06:27.to evidence the EA gave about Fleming Fulton
:06:28. > :06:32.The Authority says the information it gave was accurate.
:06:33. > :06:39.Our education correspondent Robbie Meredith has the story.
:06:40. > :06:41.Three-year-old Charlie with his mum Angela.
:06:42. > :06:45.He has cerebral palsy and poor eyesight.
:06:46. > :06:52.At the last hearing MLAs asked why the nursery at this special
:06:53. > :07:01.school hasn't been allowed to admit pupils.
:07:02. > :07:05.Senior officials and the school governors didn't want its business
:07:06. > :07:17.Senior officials said the school governors didn't want its business
:07:18. > :07:22.I'm being very cautious of the fact that last night the Board
:07:23. > :07:25.of Governors said they were very concerned that their issues
:07:26. > :07:30.I've spoken to three school governors who were at that meeting.
:07:31. > :07:33.They told me that they did not at any stage ask her not
:07:34. > :07:37.to discuss Fleming Fulton's affairs with the committee.
:07:38. > :07:53.The principle also sent a letter to MLAs in which he said...
:07:54. > :07:57.The committee's chair said they had misled them.
:07:58. > :08:01.She attempted to close the conversation on that issue
:08:02. > :08:04.whereas all the members were clear that Fleming Fulton wanted a clear
:08:05. > :08:08.message to the committee that they are open and that they are
:08:09. > :08:12.ready to accept children for special educational needs nursery
:08:13. > :08:17.The EA say they're satisfied the information they
:08:18. > :08:22.It all leaves Angela and Charlie in limbo.
:08:23. > :08:26.The other option would be another school which is 60 miles a day
:08:27. > :08:30.for two and a half hours of school and for a child with sight loss
:08:31. > :08:33.and cerebral palsy who needs support I don't feel that is an option.
:08:34. > :08:37.Ideally I think the situation would be Fleming which is close
:08:38. > :08:43.but unfortunately for some reason that doesn't seem to be an option.
:08:44. > :08:47.Not sure if it's open or closed or what.
:08:48. > :08:51.It's just been handled so badly that I don't think anybody knows.
:08:52. > :08:59.The committee are due to question officials tomorrow.
:09:00. > :09:02.A woman's body has been recovered from Black Lough in Dungannon.
:09:03. > :09:06.The police are investigating the circumstances of her death.
:09:07. > :09:12.A man in his 30s is critically ill in hospital after a gun attack
:09:13. > :09:16.The victim, who is known to the police, was shot several
:09:17. > :09:19.times this morning on the Dun Emer housing estate in Lusk.
:09:20. > :09:22.Gardai are trying to establish if the shooting is part
:09:23. > :09:24.of the Kinahan-Hutch gangland feud which has been linked to nine
:09:25. > :09:30.Shots have been fired at a house in Colerainey.
:09:31. > :09:33.Bullets were fired into a glass panel in the front door
:09:34. > :09:36.of the property at Elms Park just after midnight last night.
:09:37. > :09:43.An old pool in east Belfast is to get a new lease of life
:09:44. > :09:49.Hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of water have been pumped
:09:50. > :09:52.from an underground bore-hole into the pool in the grounds
:09:53. > :09:58.Our reporter Mervyn Jess has been for a look around before it
:09:59. > :10:03.Thousands of people drive past this every day but not
:10:04. > :10:11.This lake and the former outdoor pool beside it lie
:10:12. > :10:15.within the grounds of a stately home on the Belmont Road in east Belfast.
:10:16. > :10:19.The pool was used for a time by pupils at nearby Campbell College
:10:20. > :10:26.Now the new owner has handed the running of it to a charity.
:10:27. > :10:34.It's boats, kevlar boats, big teams and it's exciting
:10:35. > :10:43.Pushing each other in and rough and tumble.
:10:44. > :10:48.Our home closed, then we moved somewhere else and then that closed
:10:49. > :10:54.We've been searching for a new facility and this
:10:55. > :10:56.is something completely unique and outstanding.
:10:57. > :11:06.This was built in the 1920s and has been over year in restoration.
:11:07. > :11:12.This pool holds 750,000 cubic metres of water.
:11:13. > :11:19.But that's not its most unique feature.
:11:20. > :11:22.It's going to be the largest natural swimming pool in Europe.
:11:23. > :11:25.There's a bigger one being built in England but for now it has
:11:26. > :11:29.the title of the largest natural pool in Europe and that means no
:11:30. > :11:32.chemicals added or chlorine, nothing.
:11:33. > :11:36.Just H2O, just a modern filtration system which includes
:11:37. > :11:38.This transformation has cost around ?500,000.
:11:39. > :11:40.It's given a new lease of life to this historic natural
:11:41. > :11:42.no-additives swimming pool and come as a much-needed boost
:11:43. > :12:03.It feels like it's been raining for 60 days. We had a largely dry
:12:04. > :12:07.picture but over the coming week or so it is going to be a bit more
:12:08. > :12:10.unsettled and that's because of the jet stream which has set over ours
:12:11. > :12:14.and will be driving in the answer to whether from the Atlantic. That said
:12:15. > :12:19.it's not going to be a complete wash-out. Don't panic. Tonight will
:12:20. > :12:23.be dry but on the chilly side for some countryside areas. We could see
:12:24. > :12:27.temperatures dipping to six or seven. Most towns and cities nine or
:12:28. > :12:31.ten. Tomorrow there is can be a bit more cloud around unfortunately.
:12:32. > :12:34.They will bring more rain as well, especially towards the west of first
:12:35. > :12:37.before that rain begins to bridges with these words. Fairly patchy and
:12:38. > :12:42.not very heavy and turning quickly drive behind it. If you're juggling
:12:43. > :12:45.tomorrow, that rain nudges across the Channel reaching parts of
:12:46. > :12:49.Scotland but before then it's a fine day across Britain with dry weather
:12:50. > :12:53.and sunshine and bridges reaching low 20s. Across Ireland it will be
:12:54. > :12:58.unsettled towards North and west. Here we will have rain. By the
:12:59. > :13:03.afternoon largely cloudy but largely dry damages up to 19 or 20. Not long
:13:04. > :13:07.before you see the next area of rain pushing for tomorrow evening. That
:13:08. > :13:11.will merge eastwards across all places giving us a wet evening but
:13:12. > :13:14.before then not a bad end the day, some sunny gaps bowl the rain
:13:15. > :13:20.reaches us. The bridge is tomorrow 16 or 70 degrees. We are looking at
:13:21. > :13:25.a good Friday for the most part on Thursday. Perhaps some drizzle but
:13:26. > :13:29.not enough a lot. The badgers on the rise of the weekend, 19 or 20, maybe
:13:30. > :13:30.21 that there will be some scattered showers.
:13:31. > :13:34.Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25 in the morning during Breakfast
:13:35. > :13:36.You can also keep updated with News Online.