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Belfast is to get an economic boost with the creation of 300 | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
Backed by Invest NI to the tune of ?2 million, the investment | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
announcement comes at a time when politicians disagree over | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
what damage, if any, Brexit will have in attracting | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
This report from our business correspondent Julian O'Neill. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
300 jobs from a new inward investor is just the kind of news | :00:31. | :00:33. | |
Invest NI spent a year on the deal which has delivered | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
Tullett Prebon has its headquarters in London but has chosen Belfast | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
ahead of Asia or Europe for a new IT base. | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
The First Minister says it sends out a positive message. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
I will never talk down the Northern Ireland economy because my | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
experience as the Economy Minister has made it clear to me we have so | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
much to offer to companies across the world, whether our young people, | :01:05. | :01:14. | |
academic excellence, cost for accommodation | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
and the fact we are going to lower the rate | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
of corporation tax, I think Northern Ireland has a strong story to tell. | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
Belfast has a track record of attracting jobs in financial | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
services which has put it on the radar of a growing | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
Why we chose Belfast is the high level of skilled people in the | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
financial markets and technology area, combined with education, it | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
It's a timely announcement amid economic uncertainty | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
But one half of the Executive is concerned foreign companies may | :01:48. | :01:55. | |
soon see Northern Ireland as a less attractive location. | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
There's no point living in a fools' paradise. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
There is a tremendous amount of uncertainty, and that | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
inhibits our ability to be very fully engaged with prospective | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
investors who are, and had been up until the Brexit result, very keen | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
The jobs, created over a three-year period, will pay well, | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
?33,000 on avergage, with the company being offered | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Today's announcement is as good as a business | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
as usual sign hanging from | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
The boost is as obvious as it is welcome but | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
the real challenges of Brexit are, of course, yet to be faced. | :02:50. | :02:57. | |
The Environment Agency is investigating the cause | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
of what it describes as a major fish kill in the Faughan | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
The incident was first reported yesterday, and so far more | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
than 1,000 dead fish have been recovered over several | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
The Faughan is an important salmon river and it's thought the numbers | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
of salmon fry may have been badly affected. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
Four masked men have been involved in a shooting at a hotel in Belleek | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Staff were threatened before one shot was fired into a van belonging | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
to a contractor who was working at the premises on Main Street. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
The police say the men escaped in a black Ford Escort | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
The Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has called | :03:37. | :03:44. | |
on politicians here to introduce same sex marriage like | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
Ms Davidson is in Belfast for the Pride festival. | :03:47. | :03:57. | |
I'm a Protestant, I'm engaged to a Catholic Irishwoman | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
who was educated by nuns, so for me this is not | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
about a particular community or country or faith background, | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
this is about people who are in love and are loved in return, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
having the same rights as everybody else. | :04:17. | :04:31. | |
The Archbishop says accusations have been made at Saint Patrick's college | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
that students had been using a day dating website. | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
A new study shows there's been a significant fall in the number | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
of people owning their homes, compared to ten years ago. | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
Industry experts are pointing to several factors which could | :04:50. | :04:51. | |
partly explain the drop, as Rick Faragher reports. | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
A growing number of people might not have the option. | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
Home ownership in Northern Ireland is down. | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
Over the last couple of years people have been paying so much in rent | :05:00. | :05:07. | |
that it could've gone to a deposit but it's desperation, | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
they don't have the properties and cannot get the money, | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
some are relying on their parents but they have to go | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
Finances aside, could there be other factors in the decline of mortgages? | :05:16. | :05:26. | |
Younger people aren't feeling the need to graduate, | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
get their first pay cheque and go and buy a house, people are waiting | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
longer, more in line with other European cities where there is not | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
This report shows 63% of people in Northern Ireland have a mortgage, | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
down from 73% ten years ago, but roughly in line | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
The people behind the study say this now suggests the issue of one day | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
owning your own home is not just a London problem. | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
Katie and her husband bought their house in West Belfast | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
two years ago via a co-ownership deal, a scheme where they own only | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
She says it's becoming harder for young people to get a mortgage. | :06:07. | :06:14. | |
We were both new into our jobs, the banks required a certain | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
security from you in terms of making the commitment to payments every | :06:19. | :06:24. | |
month, which you cannot really do, you have the best aspirations | :06:25. | :06:30. | |
in the world and are ready to go once you get out of uni, | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
and are ready to start your career but the requirements set for us | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
Anyone who was looking for a job, you don't have an option to not live | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
There's now speculation that the Bank of England could cut | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
That may go some way to making mortgages more affordable, | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
if you can get one in the first place. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
A court has ruled that a dog, which was at risk of being put down, | :06:55. | :06:58. | |
The terrier, called Hank, was seized by Belfast council | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
and was assessed as being a type of pit bull which is illegal. | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
The animal's predicament prompted a huge social media campaign. | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
It was last month that two-year-old Hank was removed by dog wardens | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
following a complaint from a member of the public. | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
One of his owners broke down in court today as it was agreed | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Until the judge said the words, we were afraid | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
I can't get over it, being able to see him | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
Supporters erupted into spontaneous applause inside the court. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
The campaign to highlight Hank's seizure gained worldwide attention. | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
We did not think Hank would be coming home, | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
especially this soon, without the support. | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
Belfast City Council expediated the process, we spoke to people | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
who had similar situations in England and it seems | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
they responded to pressure and we would not be having | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
this conversation today without the public support. | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Hank will have to undergo behavioural training and also be | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
kept on a lead and muzzle while in public. | :08:11. | :08:12. | |
His family, though, say they are just relieved | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
A human skeleton which could be 1000 years old has been discovered | :08:15. | :08:24. | |
in the grounds of Hillsborough Castle. | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
Archaeologists found it during excavation work ahead | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
They say it's unusual to find remains of that age | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
In recent decades it has hosted royalty, | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
But it seems the grounds of Hillsborough Castle have been | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
These archaeologists and volunteers are uncovering an unknown history. | :08:46. | :08:52. | |
And they didn't need to dig deep to find it. | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
These human remains were one of the first thing to be found | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
on the site, ten centimetres below soil level and | :09:02. | :09:03. | |
the experts think it's a young woman but the bones will be taken away | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
today for analysis in the hope that can be confirmed and we can find out | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
We arrived hoping to find the remains of a 15th or 16th century | :09:12. | :09:21. | |
church and about two hours into our first day | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
While that was initially believed to belong to the church, we now think | :09:25. | :09:33. | |
it might be about 1000 AD, so many hundreds years earlier. | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
Other human remains found on this ancient burial site | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
The challenge now is to find the remnants of the church building. | :09:41. | :09:46. | |
Volunteers are doing much of the work. | :09:47. | :09:58. | |
Were talking and very long time ago, pre-broken | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
records, so exciting to find out more about | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
Hillsborough before it was as we know it, | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
Once work is complete, the site will be restored. | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
And after revealing his or her secrets, this person will once | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Northern Ireland athletes have started arriving in Brazil | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
for the start of the Olympic Games, which get underway on Friday. | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
Stephen Watson is in Rio for BBC Newsline. | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
They are jetting into Rio from all corners of the globe for the biggest | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
sporting show on earth. And Brazil is ready. In the impressive | :10:36. | :10:44. | |
athlete's Village, a traditional welcome 4-team island. They have a | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
former gold medallist from Northern Ireland in charge, and he is an | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
Olympic and Commonwealth Games veteran. I'm excited to be here now. | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
You have different versions as an athlete when you go to the games, | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
but we just want to make sure we have got everything in place for the | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
lies here so they can perform to the maximum. If they do perform to the | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
maximum, I'm sure we will come away with some excellent performances, | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
and hopefully some medals as well. Among the competitors from back home | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
is Paddy Barnes. No boxer from Northern Ireland has ever won an | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
Olympic gold medal, but that is something that he is hoping to put | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
right this time. In Beijing I won bronze. I was happy with that, but | :11:29. | :11:37. | |
realistically, it should have been gold. A bold prediction in pursuit | :11:38. | :11:43. | |
of achieving his Olympic dream. It looks like we're in for a bit of | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
a wet and windy spell. Here's Barra Best with | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
the weather details. It is largely dry at the moment and | :11:52. | :12:00. | |
it will be a warm night, with temperatures not falling below 14 | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
Celsius for many of us. By tomorrow morning, the unsettled weather | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
returns from the Atlantic, which sets us up for quite a disappointing | :12:09. | :12:12. | |
day tomorrow. But at times, and we can expect it to be much windier. It | :12:13. | :12:17. | |
is because we have this area of low pressure moving eastwards across as, | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
bringing gusty winds. Quite a blustery day. Maybe some drier | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
weather across parts of County Down and County Armagh, but some wet and | :12:33. | :12:34. | |
windy conditions through the day. The best of the weather tomorrow | :12:35. | :12:39. | |
will be across much of England and Wales. The focus of the unsettled | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
weather will be across Ireland and Scotland, where we continue to see | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
unsettled spells of whether continue through the day. Some of the rain | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
could be heavy, possibly a touch sundry. Sunny spells in between with | :12:56. | :13:00. | |
temperatures reaching 17 Celsius. Maybe 18 will be get the best of the | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
sun. A better picture for Thursday. Inland, 1890 degrees is not out of | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
the question. The scattered showers. Not a bad day on Friday. Lots of dry | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
weather in the forecast. It will warm up for Saturday, but low | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
pressure is not far away and it may turn unsettled. More detail on that | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
closer to the time. | :13:27. | :13:28. |