:00:09. > :00:11.A woman's in a critical condition after being hit by a scrambler
:00:12. > :00:15.motorbike in a country park on the outskirts of Belfast.
:00:16. > :00:20.The incident happened at the Colin Glen Forest
:00:21. > :00:29.Our reporter Martin Cassidy has been to the scene.
:00:30. > :00:37.This lake is a popular spot for dog walkers in West Belfast. The woman,
:00:38. > :00:41.who is believed to be a mother, was walking along the pathway by the
:00:42. > :00:45.lake earlier this evening. A number of people on the motorcycles were
:00:46. > :00:50.also in the area at the time. The Ambulance Service said they received
:00:51. > :00:54.a call just before 545 this evening and a woman in her 40s had been
:00:55. > :01:01.struck by a motorbike here in Colin Glen Forest Park. The police arrived
:01:02. > :01:05.shortly after. This evening, two men are in custody. Our thoughts and
:01:06. > :01:14.prayers are with this woman and her family. I think that from what we
:01:15. > :01:19.are hearing, she is a local woman, a mother of young children, so it is
:01:20. > :01:23.really, really tragic this has happened. Community workers say this
:01:24. > :01:29.is not the first serious incident involving Qantas and motorcycles in
:01:30. > :01:34.the park. There's a problem, but it is widespread. It is all over West
:01:35. > :01:37.Belfast. There was a young lad last year who fell off a scramble and was
:01:38. > :01:42.critically ill about a mile away from here. We've done a number of
:01:43. > :01:47.initiatives with the community and the PSNI to try and get these
:01:48. > :01:50.things. They are killing machines. The woman this evening is undergoing
:01:51. > :01:55.surgery on the Royal Victoria Hospital. -- in the Royal Victoria
:01:56. > :01:56.Hospital. A cyclist in his sixties has died
:01:57. > :01:59.in a crash in County Down. His bike was in collision
:02:00. > :02:02.with a car at around half It happened on the main road
:02:03. > :02:05.between Bangor and Holywood. Another cyclist was slightly
:02:06. > :02:09.injured. Unionists have dismissed
:02:10. > :02:11.a suggestion by the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, that a border poll
:02:12. > :02:14.could be considered in the wake Sinn Fein have called for such
:02:15. > :02:19.a move after a majority of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain
:02:20. > :02:21.in the European Union. Here's our political
:02:22. > :02:23.correspondent, Stephen Walker. Enda Kenny made his remarks at
:02:24. > :02:29.the annual summer school in County Donegal, where he delivered a speech
:02:30. > :02:32.about the implications of the UK's Discussions and negotiations that
:02:33. > :02:40.take place over the next few weeks should take into account the
:02:41. > :02:42.possibility, however far-fetched it might be, that the clause in
:02:43. > :02:45.the Good Friday Agreement might be triggered if there's clear evidence
:02:46. > :02:50.of a majority of people wishing to leave the United Kingdom
:02:51. > :02:54.and join the Republic, that that should be catered
:02:55. > :02:56.for in the discussions that Unsurprisingly, Sinn Fein have
:02:57. > :03:02.welcomed the Taoiseach's Now we have incredible uncertainty
:03:03. > :03:09.and alarm within key People are asking
:03:10. > :03:16.serious questions about what the future holds and I think
:03:17. > :03:19.people are beginning to ask themselves the question,
:03:20. > :03:21.are we not better off in Ireland that's in Europe
:03:22. > :03:23.than the United Kingdom, The say calling for
:03:24. > :03:28.a border poll is only It is in the Good Friday
:03:29. > :03:34.Agreement and it has to be discussed, but calling a referendum
:03:35. > :03:44.and a border poll is easy, but you need to put in hard work to ensure
:03:45. > :03:48.that the detail is there and most importantly, persuade people
:03:49. > :03:50.of the benefits of it. The new Secretary of State made
:03:51. > :03:52.it clear on his first trip to Northern Ireland
:03:53. > :03:54.yesterday that there were no grounds
:03:55. > :03:56.to call a border poll There is no need for
:03:57. > :04:00.a referendum or a border poll. There is not the evidence
:04:01. > :04:01.to substantially allow the Secretary
:04:02. > :04:07.of State to action one. The Unionists say a border
:04:08. > :04:10.poll at this time is a We do not want to destabilise
:04:11. > :04:16.our communities, our economy, our businesses, by yet
:04:17. > :04:18.another distraction of going away from what needs to happen
:04:19. > :04:22.in the course of the next two years. The Secretary of State
:04:23. > :04:25.and the Prime Minister have said that, and the people
:04:26. > :04:35.have said it too. Whilst Enda Kenny's comments
:04:36. > :04:37.are seen as significant to give a border poll political
:04:38. > :04:40.prominence, such a vote can only be called by the Secretary
:04:41. > :04:45.of State if there is evidence of a shift in public
:04:46. > :04:48.opinion towards Irish unity. The Secretary of State
:04:49. > :04:50.said that has not The Northern Ireland Executive has
:04:51. > :04:55.published an action plan aimed at tackling paramilitary activity
:04:56. > :05:00.and organised crime. ?50 million will be spent
:05:01. > :05:03.over the next five years half the money coming from Stormont
:05:04. > :05:06.and the rest from Westminster. An independent review commission
:05:07. > :05:09.will be set up by the British and Irish governments
:05:10. > :05:13.to monitor progress. The Ulster Unionist leader
:05:14. > :05:15.Mike Nesbitt has dismissed the plan as a wish list without any concrete
:05:16. > :05:20.actions. The consultancy firm PwC has
:05:21. > :05:24.predicted that the Brexit vote will lead to a slowdown
:05:25. > :05:26.in the economy over It thinks that locally
:05:27. > :05:31.it will grow by 0.2% Our Economics and Business Editor
:05:32. > :05:36.John Campbell told me more produce a forecast to give us
:05:37. > :05:45.an idea about what they think will happen to the UK economy
:05:46. > :05:47.in the short term. They also provide a breakdown
:05:48. > :05:50.for Northern Ireland. And they've said over
:05:51. > :05:52.the last 12-18 months, the UK economy has shown
:05:53. > :05:56.a gentle slowdown. But they think Brexit
:05:57. > :05:59.will exacerbate that. If we take a look at
:06:00. > :06:02.the figures, we can see at the start of this year, PwC
:06:03. > :06:07.thought growth in Northern Ireland would be 1.4%, they can
:06:08. > :06:10.revise that to 1.0%. They had thought it would be 1.5%,
:06:11. > :06:15.but now they are expecting They think there will be a slowdown
:06:16. > :06:26.in business investment, because there's so much economic
:06:27. > :06:30.and political uncertainty. Foreign companies
:06:31. > :06:33.investing in the UK may decide to wait until the dust
:06:34. > :06:36.settles before they commit money to big projects, although PwC
:06:37. > :06:39.thinks by the time it gets to the end of next year,
:06:40. > :06:43.most of that effect will have been factored out and
:06:44. > :06:48.the economy will grow again. We need to emphasise that
:06:49. > :06:55.at the moment, we have no real hard facts about what impact Brexit has
:06:56. > :06:58.had on the behaviour of consumers or Now, we're looking at forecasts
:06:59. > :07:06.and surveys, but the hard data is not
:07:07. > :07:08.there and I won't have it, nobody will, until the autumn
:07:09. > :07:12.or maybe later before we get a really solid sense of how Brexit
:07:13. > :07:17.is or isn't effecting the economy. We did get news today
:07:18. > :07:24.about the rate of inflation? It has eased up to half of 1%,
:07:25. > :07:27.still miles away from But many analysts predict as we go
:07:28. > :07:32.into next year, we will see inflation take up,
:07:33. > :07:34.because the pound has fallen quite distinctly because of
:07:35. > :07:38.Brexit and that makes imports more expensive and could force
:07:39. > :07:41.prices up early next year. When inflation rises,
:07:42. > :07:47.interest rates go up, but what the Bank of England is
:07:48. > :07:51.signalling is they will probably cut interest rates down
:07:52. > :07:53.to a quarter of 1% next month. Again, that is not solid,
:07:54. > :07:56.it could happen, let us wait and The tobacco firm JTI is setting up
:07:57. > :08:06.a ?5 million trust fund to help job The company will end production
:08:07. > :08:12.in the town next year The fund, which will be chaired
:08:13. > :08:16.by the local MP Ian Paisley, will dispense about ?300,000
:08:17. > :08:18.a year to projects and initiatives over
:08:19. > :08:28.the next 20 years. We'll never replace almost
:08:29. > :08:30.a thousand jobs with a fund That is not the point though,
:08:31. > :08:35.the point is to stimulate the climate through training
:08:36. > :08:37.and assisting adults with needs and hopefully, starting to rejuvenate
:08:38. > :08:40.the employment in an area that has faced such a kicking
:08:41. > :08:45.from unemployment. Well, it's still a pretty warm
:08:46. > :08:49.evening at the end of a very hot day, when temperatures got as high
:08:50. > :08:51.as the late twenties. Many people headed to
:08:52. > :08:54.the beach or to the park and our reporter Rick
:08:55. > :09:02.Faragher joined them. Blue skies, red-hot temperatures,
:09:03. > :09:04.this really is Northern Ireland. The working day
:09:05. > :09:06.didn't seem so bad in People full of cheer
:09:07. > :09:18.and in fine voice. Seeing Belfast in the sunshine,
:09:19. > :09:20.you think you are under I feel more vibrant
:09:21. > :09:27.and everybody is in great form, just enjoying
:09:28. > :09:29.life and we're not normally able to sit out
:09:30. > :09:32.in the sunshine like this. Ireland's recent cricket match
:09:33. > :09:37.against Afghanistan was called Enjoying the weather
:09:38. > :09:47.and it's my day off. It's not often we get
:09:48. > :09:57.this, so best to make Suncream was also the order
:09:58. > :10:11.of the day and the weather here was a welcome sight
:10:12. > :10:13.for children on school holidays and Just down the road in
:10:14. > :10:17.a Crawfordsburn Beach, thousands made their
:10:18. > :10:20.way to the seafront. At lunchtime, the car park gates
:10:21. > :10:22.were closed because of Those who made it through
:10:23. > :10:27.were treated to this. A perfect setting on what was
:10:28. > :10:32.a glorious afternoon. And of course in the summer,
:10:33. > :10:34.big crowds means big Days like this don't tend to come
:10:35. > :10:42.along very often in And when they do, people tend
:10:43. > :10:47.to make the most of it. And today, people
:10:48. > :10:49.needed no encouragement A look ahead to a story we'll have
:10:50. > :11:01.on BBC Newsline tomorrow, And we'll be examining how people
:11:02. > :11:03.in the Republic, including business leaders, are viewing the the UK
:11:04. > :11:18.Brexit referendum result, We are inundated with questions from
:11:19. > :11:21.UK firms who are saying, we need to know we can with certain to have a
:11:22. > :11:24.base in a EU country that can trade with the EU without tariffs all
:11:25. > :11:28.other costs and with certainty and we need to know where working with a
:11:29. > :11:32.country with the same language and legal system and 100% commitment
:11:33. > :11:39.from a culture for being in the EU and that's why Ireland's getting so
:11:40. > :11:41.many enquirers are right now. -- enquiry.
:11:42. > :11:43.In football, Crusaders have lost tonight's Champions League qualifier
:11:44. > :11:45.6-0 at FC Copenhagen, going down 9-0 on aggregate.
:11:46. > :11:53.The weather forecast now, with Angie Philips.
:11:54. > :12:02.The hottest day of the year so far today. 20 degrees maximum and that
:12:03. > :12:05.heat and humidity is about to break and an approaching weather front is
:12:06. > :12:09.sparking off thunderstorms implies that night. Some heavy downpours
:12:10. > :12:12.which could lead to localised flooding on warnings remain in
:12:13. > :12:16.place. Not all parts will catch those and there will be dry spells,
:12:17. > :12:24.but increasingly cloudy through the night. Still feeling humid. 15-16d,
:12:25. > :12:28.uncomfortable for sleeping. Tomorrow is looking fresh and cloudier. There
:12:29. > :12:33.will be showers to begin with, trickling away toward the east and
:12:34. > :12:38.will become scattered with time. Dry weather across the Republic of
:12:39. > :12:41.Ireland follows, as there will be across Wales and southern England,
:12:42. > :12:47.where it will still be warm, humid and sunny. Not as hot as today, but
:12:48. > :12:52.still 30 Celsius. Further north, northern England and Scotland,
:12:53. > :12:56.severe thunderstorms, lightning and hail and heavy downpours and there
:12:57. > :13:01.is likely to be disruption. Towards the northern and western areas, we
:13:02. > :13:04.find the fresh air. Temperatures well down in places tomorrow
:13:05. > :13:10.compared to today, particularly in the West. Showers largely dying off,
:13:11. > :13:14.the second half of the day is dry and there will be breaks in the
:13:15. > :13:19.cloud and some bright, sunny intervals. Temperatures are well
:13:20. > :13:23.down on today, particularly in the West, 18-20d. Similar values on the
:13:24. > :13:25.weekend, showery outbreaks, and dry gaps in between.
:13:26. > :13:30.Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am in the morning