:00:13. > :00:16.This is BBC Newsline and these are the headlines
:00:17. > :00:29.Tonight, we're in the river polluted by Northern Ireland Water, where
:00:30. > :00:30.there is still evidence of that chemical spill.
:00:31. > :00:33.A murder trial hears this accused woman swore on her child's life
:00:34. > :00:40.We've the latest on Fujitsu job cuts announced across the UK.
:00:41. > :00:44.Join me live in Garvagh where this family are about to go without wi-fi
:00:45. > :00:51.More Michael McGovern magic required as Northern Ireland take on
:00:52. > :00:58.And it certainly felt cooler today as the breeze picked up.
:00:59. > :01:02.There'll still be a breeze tomorrow but the sunshine will be back.
:01:03. > :01:12.Northern Ireland Water says a cracked pipe in
:01:13. > :01:15.one of its treatment works caused a chemical spill which killed
:01:16. > :01:21.A thickening agent used in the process for dealing
:01:22. > :01:25.with waste water ended up in the Annesborough River
:01:26. > :01:31.Anglers say it could take the environment years to recover.
:01:32. > :01:32.Here's our agriculture and environment
:01:33. > :01:40.These were big adult fish, and even four miles from the pollution source
:01:41. > :01:42.they were wiped out in large numbers.
:01:43. > :01:45.Spawning salmon and sea trout, generations of them lost
:01:46. > :01:50.And this was the source of the pollution -
:01:51. > :01:58.a waste water treatment works run by NI Water near Castlewellan.
:01:59. > :02:01.Four days on, there were still large quantities of the pollutant
:02:02. > :02:08.chemical sluggishly making its way downstream.
:02:09. > :02:15.The pollution came out of the treatment works a couple of hundred
:02:16. > :02:21.metres upstream and there are still a lot left in the river. You can see
:02:22. > :02:26.the fish ear did not stand a chance. There is a pool of the stuff here
:02:27. > :02:27.and it is a thick, cloying material that sticks to everything it
:02:28. > :02:28.touches. The public raised
:02:29. > :02:30.the alarm on Saturday. A clean-up is under way but it'll be
:02:31. > :02:33.a slow process and the river NI Water said a cracked pipe
:02:34. > :02:42.in the plant led to the leak. They've apologised and promised
:02:43. > :02:54.to restock the river. We truly regret the outcome this
:02:55. > :02:59.incident has had, the number of fish that have been killed and we will
:03:00. > :03:05.work closely with all our regulators and stakeholders, the Ulster anglers
:03:06. > :03:07.and local angling clubs to make good the impact on the river.
:03:08. > :03:10.But anglers say it could take years for the ecology of the Carrigs
:03:11. > :03:21.It has an immediate impact this year, it could have an impact for up
:03:22. > :03:22.to six years. The fish will be spawning in three
:03:23. > :03:26.years' time so the young ones will be returning three
:03:27. > :03:34.years after that. They are now no longer available to
:03:35. > :03:36.the river system, so it has a long-term effect.
:03:37. > :03:39.NI Water facilities have been the source of pollution before.
:03:40. > :03:46.The maximum fine under the legislation is ?20,000.
:03:47. > :03:50.The Japanese technology firm Fujitsu has said it plans to cut up
:03:51. > :03:58.The company is a major employer here with around 800 staff.
:03:59. > :04:02.Our economics and business editor John Campbell is with me.
:04:03. > :04:09.What do we know about the impact locally?
:04:10. > :04:18.Fujitsu is a major employer in IT services, it has some big contracts
:04:19. > :04:24.in the public sector, about 550 staff in Belfast and a further 250
:04:25. > :04:31.in Derry. The union said as a result of this announcement that Fujitsu
:04:32. > :04:38.will cut about 18% of its staff, does that mean 18% of staff here are
:04:39. > :04:43.going? A short time ago the Finance Minister Simon Hamilton said it may
:04:44. > :04:48.not be so simple. My understanding is this is an evaluation of their
:04:49. > :04:52.skills base looking to the future of the sector is dear operating in,
:04:53. > :04:59.alongside the unions it is my job to impress upon the senior decision
:05:00. > :05:04.makers in Tokyo that we have a good skills base year which is reflected
:05:05. > :05:08.in Fujitsu employees here, there is a low cost of doing business here
:05:09. > :05:13.and a good level of government support and it is a good place to
:05:14. > :05:19.invest. Although we did not know how many jobs are going, the unions say
:05:20. > :05:22.there will be job cuts in Belfast and Derry but the precise number
:05:23. > :05:24.will only become clear over the next few weeks.
:05:25. > :05:26.A woman accused of murdering a Craigavon man has sworn
:05:27. > :05:29.on the life of her child that she didn't do it.
:05:30. > :05:30.Shaunean Boyle is charged alongside Stephen Hughes
:05:31. > :05:35.The 40-year-old's body was found badly beaten in a bin at the rear
:05:36. > :05:48.Almost everything heard in court today was an account
:05:49. > :05:50.of what happened inside this house in July 2014.
:05:51. > :05:53.All day the jury was read transcripts of police interviews
:05:54. > :05:56.with Shaunean Boyle in the days after Owen Creaney's body
:05:57. > :06:01.was discovered under cardboard in a wheelie bin.
:06:02. > :06:03.The court heard of the moment Shaunean Boyle
:06:04. > :06:07.said her co-accused, Stephen Hughes, told her Owen
:06:08. > :06:19.Shaunean Boyle said she was gobsmacked.
:06:20. > :06:22.Having seen him in the room, she walked back out.
:06:23. > :06:24.She said she couldn't even look at him, going on to say
:06:25. > :06:28.Throughout the police interviews, Shaunean Boyle was repeatedly asked
:06:29. > :06:31.if she had helped lift or squash Owen Creaney's body into the bin.
:06:32. > :06:34.Each time she denied she'd had anything to do with putting
:06:35. > :06:38.Later, the court heard how the investigating officer had
:06:39. > :06:43.She said she'd felt disgusted, saying the fella, a reference
:06:44. > :06:46.to Mr Creaney, was her friend and that she wouldn't have liked
:06:47. > :06:53.A postmortem examination found Owen Creaney's ribs and
:06:54. > :07:04.It also found that it may have taken him two days
:07:05. > :07:08.During those police interviews, Shaunean Boyle also said
:07:09. > :07:10.if she'd thought for one second there was something wrong
:07:11. > :07:12.with Owen Creaney she would have got an ambulance.
:07:13. > :07:16.She went on to swear on her child's life that she didn't do it,
:07:17. > :07:23.adding that she was sorry for all of the Creaney family.
:07:24. > :07:26.Naomi Long looks certain to be the next leader
:07:27. > :07:30.She has secured the backing of all its Assembly members,
:07:31. > :07:34.who are the only ones entitled to stand as candidates.
:07:35. > :07:37.Mrs Long's nomination was seconded by the former Alliance
:07:38. > :07:42.He described her as the best communicator
:07:43. > :07:51.Our Political Editor Mark Devenport is at Stormont.
:07:52. > :07:59.It looks like a done deal. I think so, even though Naomi Long is
:08:00. > :08:04.warning she still needs to get half the members of Alliance's ruling
:08:05. > :08:11.council to vote for her when they meet on October 26, given she has
:08:12. > :08:16.the backing of all her MLAs, I think it is a done deal. The challenge
:08:17. > :08:23.that faces her will be how to follow David Ford. In his time Alliance got
:08:24. > :08:29.to Stormont ministers and an MP and have now been robbed of those jobs.
:08:30. > :08:33.I have huge ambitions for the party. We lost our Westminster seat under
:08:34. > :08:38.unusual circumstances that I would not roll out Alliance having future
:08:39. > :08:42.Westminster seats or being in government, but we want to be a
:08:43. > :08:47.government that is open and transparent and working for the good
:08:48. > :08:50.in Northern Ireland, and in the interim we will be a robust
:08:51. > :08:56.opposition to make sure it in government we have lives up to those
:08:57. > :09:03.high standards. How will her style differ to David Ford? She is
:09:04. > :09:08.younger, another woman party leader and has a pugnacious style, she
:09:09. > :09:14.doesn't take prisoners, she has already had a go at what she sees as
:09:15. > :09:18.the increasing arrogance of the DUP under Arlene Foster so we can expect
:09:19. > :09:24.more of that but she will have to jostle for space with the other
:09:25. > :09:31.parties here, the UUP and SDLP and new kids like the Greens and the
:09:32. > :09:35.people for profit group. Across the border, the Secretary of State has
:09:36. > :09:43.been talking about the broader. He was talking about measures that the
:09:44. > :09:48.British and Irish and might use to avoid a hard border after the UK
:09:49. > :09:53.leads the EU but he was quite positive about the possibilities for
:09:54. > :09:59.funding after we leave the EU. He pledged to stand by commitments to
:10:00. > :10:06.peace and cross-border projects in the year 2020. We are considering
:10:07. > :10:14.carefully the position and post the UK's departure and that is work the
:10:15. > :10:19.Treasury are assessing, we will form judgments in relation to that, those
:10:20. > :10:23.guarantees I have referenced in my answer thus far give that sense of
:10:24. > :10:29.the programmes that have been entered into prior to the UK's
:10:30. > :10:34.departure from the EU, and we will be giving careful consideration to
:10:35. > :10:40.the next steps in the same way as we give careful consideration to a
:10:41. > :10:45.number of funding lines and programmes after the UK's departure.
:10:46. > :10:50.Mr Brokenshire says that is still work in progress but it is the first
:10:51. > :10:51.time I have heard him talk about the possibility of funding after the UK
:10:52. > :10:54.leads the EU. The Audit Office says there's
:10:55. > :10:57.evidence that staff morale has deteriorated in Northern Ireland's
:10:58. > :10:59.sizeable public sector because of Our business correspondent
:11:00. > :11:04.Julian O'Neill runs through the main The Northern Ireland Executive
:11:05. > :11:10.is cutting the size of the public sector to ease financial pressure
:11:11. > :11:14.and this report by the Audit Office covers year one of its
:11:15. > :11:18.redundancy programme. In total, 4383 jobs were axed
:11:19. > :11:24.in the 12 months to March. Redundancy packages totalled
:11:25. > :11:29.?171 million, which equates That upfront cost should be recouped
:11:30. > :11:38.quickly because the reduction to the overall public sector wage
:11:39. > :11:45.bill will be ?155 million annually. But responding to the report,
:11:46. > :12:01.a trade union says the cutbacks We are now into the eighth or ninth
:12:02. > :12:07.year of austerity, we've seen public servants attacked in terms of pay
:12:08. > :12:11.and conditions but also recruitment freezes, promotion freezes, so our
:12:12. > :12:14.public services are creaking and the standards of service are going down
:12:15. > :12:15.due to these cuts. Broadly speaking, the Audit Office
:12:16. > :12:18.finds no big faults within the voluntary exit scheme
:12:19. > :12:21.and reports it was operated in a way But it does flag up
:12:22. > :12:24.issues which need watched as the redundancy
:12:25. > :12:25.programme continues. Savings will need to be shown
:12:26. > :12:28.to have been sustained, and as well as monitoring staff
:12:29. > :12:32.morale, which has been impacted, a watchful eye also needs to be kept
:12:33. > :12:41.on skills and service delivery. So many of us have become dependent
:12:42. > :12:47.on mobile technology that No smartphone to check
:12:48. > :12:53.out social media sites? Perhaps no smart TV
:12:54. > :12:56.to stream movies? Well, we've asked a family to go
:12:57. > :13:01.cold turkey for 48 hours Tara Mills is live in Garvagh
:13:02. > :13:11.for us this evening. Of course, not everyone has
:13:12. > :13:27.wi-fi but the McDonalds But it's not for long because they
:13:28. > :13:33.have agreed to switch off their Wi-Fi and internet for the next 48
:13:34. > :13:35.hours, and Ellie here is squeezing every last drop out of it. Let's
:13:36. > :13:46.look at their typical day. Facebook, Instagram, all members of
:13:47. > :13:50.this family have their internet favourites. Tonight they're going
:13:51. > :14:02.cold turkey. Who will suffer the most? We like Instagram, chap --
:14:03. > :14:08.snap chat, the lungs. It will be like the dark ages. I think it will
:14:09. > :14:15.be Ellie, but I have a suspicion it could be Hannah because she uses it
:14:16. > :14:22.more than she thinks. Chrome casting from the iPad, Facebook, snap chat,
:14:23. > :14:31.every time you go out of the room it's... So how much time does
:14:32. > :14:36.everyone spent on their gadgets? You turn around to speak to them and
:14:37. > :14:42.they have a phone in and you go, did you hear me? What? So you know they
:14:43. > :14:47.aren't even listening. They can sit in the back of the car and we can
:14:48. > :14:52.drive to Belfast and there wouldn't be a conversation. When I come home
:14:53. > :14:59.I'll be texting my boyfriend, then maybe go into my room, a couple of
:15:00. > :15:04.snaps chats, then I'll put a film on and stream it onto the TV through
:15:05. > :15:11.the Wi-Fi, then three or four films on that and then snap chat until I
:15:12. > :15:18.fall asleep. And mum Deborah is not immune either. If I'm out in the car
:15:19. > :15:23.and waiting, I take my phone out, look on Facebook, maybe go on eBay
:15:24. > :15:33.and look at some of the shops and I do it myself. Curtis, a member of a
:15:34. > :15:38.cycling club, claims he will cope. I only use it for Facebook and to see
:15:39. > :15:45.if the club is out, maybe the odd time on the police station or Fifa,
:15:46. > :15:50.that doesn't get on a lot either, the TV is always taken up with other
:15:51. > :15:58.Wi-Fi stuff. Is that why you go cycling so much? Yes, to get away
:15:59. > :16:02.from it all! It was Hannah who volunteered the family to take part
:16:03. > :16:09.in our experiment, something she may be regretting. At the moment I'm not
:16:10. > :16:14.worrying about but maybe after it's turned off I'll be like, save me, I
:16:15. > :16:24.regret everything! Ellie says it is snap chat that she will miss the
:16:25. > :16:29.most. So if I lose the streets I get from so many days, I will have to
:16:30. > :16:38.get them over again. How stressed are you? Very. Poor, LA. I feel bad
:16:39. > :16:44.for what you're doing to you. We haven't talked about cost. Did you
:16:45. > :16:50.think all these gadgets have become a necessity rather than a luxury? I
:16:51. > :16:53.think so, Ellie has homework sometimes that you have to look
:16:54. > :16:58.things up on and if you don't have it on home you have to go to
:16:59. > :17:04.libraries or ask someone to do it for you and maybe it is something
:17:05. > :17:11.people cannot afford. Is it something you feel worried about,
:17:12. > :17:15.the next 48 hours? Slightly. I know Ellie's fingers are twitching
:17:16. > :17:19.already but we will get through it, we will just have to find different
:17:20. > :17:26.things to do at night, when we have nothing else to do. Curtis, what
:17:27. > :17:31.about the concept of cheating? Imagine your friends and family are
:17:32. > :17:35.keeping an eye on you. To date already they have said, what are you
:17:36. > :17:39.doing on that phone? I said it hasn't started yet, so they are
:17:40. > :17:51.watching already so I cannot get away. Ellie, you can do the big
:17:52. > :17:54.switch off. That's it! Listen, good luck and we will be back on Thursday
:17:55. > :18:00.night to find out how you have got on. No tears, now. Back to you,
:18:01. > :18:04.Donna. Rather them for me. They could
:18:05. > :18:06.always watch the TV or read a book. The last Victorian public baths
:18:07. > :18:08.in Ireland still in use Half of the Templemore Baths
:18:09. > :18:12.building in East Belfast is derelict, but money
:18:13. > :18:15.from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Belfast City Council will bring
:18:16. > :18:18.the whole site back into use Public baths like this
:18:19. > :18:27.first appeared in Britain Four of them were built in Belfast,
:18:28. > :18:32.including this one. Then, they were more
:18:33. > :18:35.about hygiene than fun. Somewhere for workers to get washed
:18:36. > :18:38.after a week's hard graft Part of this building
:18:39. > :18:44.is still used for swimming. Well, it's easy to see how time has
:18:45. > :18:51.taken its toll on this place. This old 22-yard pool hasn't been
:18:52. > :18:54.used for decades but it's hoped this cash injection will allow this place
:18:55. > :18:58.to be transformed into Other Victorian features will be
:18:59. > :19:06.preserved and a brand new 25-metre pool will be built alongside
:19:07. > :19:11.the old baths. It'll cost around ?17
:19:12. > :19:13.million to transform. ?5 million of that is coming
:19:14. > :19:26.from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This is one of the most unique
:19:27. > :19:31.buildings in Ireland and in Belfast it's the last remaining public baths
:19:32. > :19:38.still in use. It retains this fantastic linkage to the Belfast of
:19:39. > :19:40.the Victorian age and of the last century, so it's a fantastic
:19:41. > :19:55.heritage project. From being a young fella, we use
:19:56. > :20:01.this regularly, when our children were readying to swim and the
:20:02. > :20:06.council decided to close it, we thought it was an injustice so we
:20:07. > :20:08.got together as a voluntary trust and for the council.
:20:09. > :20:10.And it seems Belfast City Council has listened.
:20:11. > :20:17.It hopes work here will be completed within five years.
:20:18. > :20:19.I would like to see that when it's finished.
:20:20. > :20:23.Mark, how will Northern Ireland's footballers handle world
:20:24. > :20:26.The world champions on their own patch, Donna.
:20:27. > :20:30.They did meet in the Euros in Paris in June, on a night
:20:31. > :20:35.Goalkeeper Michael McGovern was heroic then and will need to be
:20:36. > :20:46.From Hanover, BBC Newsline's Joel Taggart reports.
:20:47. > :21:01.It's a game that Michael McGovern will always remember. Shot after
:21:02. > :21:06.shot, save after save. His/her works kept the score down in Paris,
:21:07. > :21:12.earning him the plaudits. But the modest Fermanagh man is not one for
:21:13. > :21:17.reflected glory. I've not watched the whole game back. I've seen all
:21:18. > :21:23.my saves on social media, people tags make, but everyone is still
:21:24. > :21:28.talking about it so it is properly what I will be remembered for when I
:21:29. > :21:31.missed playing. I would like to think that between then and now I
:21:32. > :21:39.will make other memories, for myself as a team. His performance against
:21:40. > :21:43.Germany in the European Championship finals was a defining moment of his
:21:44. > :21:50.career but will he be as busy tonight? Not as busy but he will
:21:51. > :21:56.certainly not have back quiet night. It is how we work as a team, how we
:21:57. > :22:02.contain them will be key, I think they had top gear in Paris and maybe
:22:03. > :22:05.we will get them when they are a gear down. Northern Ireland have
:22:06. > :22:11.shocked the Germans here before, Norman Whiteside in Hamburg, while
:22:12. > :22:16.Gerry Taggart's strike helped make a point in Nuremberg. McGovern
:22:17. > :22:24.believes another correct display could see Hanover added to that
:22:25. > :22:28.list. We knew we had a taste of it and it was Brian, we are not
:22:29. > :22:32.dreaming we will last them off the park but if we can't sustain the
:22:33. > :22:40.game and nick a goal, we could get a result. We have belief, we have seen
:22:41. > :22:41.before that we can do it. Attention will focus on this man again if it
:22:42. > :22:42.happens. The stars of US college basketball
:22:43. > :22:46.are Belfast bound. Initially four colleges
:22:47. > :22:49.from North America have signed up for an elite invitational
:22:50. > :22:52.tournament to be staged Watched on television
:22:53. > :22:59.by millions, college basketball Its popularity is comparable
:23:00. > :23:06.to the sport at professional level. Players and coaches
:23:07. > :23:10.enjoying superstar status. A tournament here
:23:11. > :23:28.would be another step It's a $100 million is in many
:23:29. > :23:32.places, not a small undertaking for the major programmes. Hosting an
:23:33. > :23:37.event in Northern Ireland with be an opportunity for us to raise our
:23:38. > :23:41.brand awareness but also give our athletes a chance to have an
:23:42. > :23:43.international experience while they are in college.
:23:44. > :23:44.Those involved in organising the tournament visited
:23:45. > :23:48.The Basketball Hall of Fame are supporting the event,
:23:49. > :23:53.working alongside the Sport Changes Life foundation.
:23:54. > :24:01.We don't intend to come for a one off. We don't tend to land in the
:24:02. > :24:05.place one time and flight away, we like to build relationships and
:24:06. > :24:10.state to build a long-standing series of events and something that
:24:11. > :24:16.can't last for years. We want people to come out and have first-class
:24:17. > :24:19.family entertainment and we think the economic impact and the
:24:20. > :24:25.basketball impact can be substantial. It's a four-year
:24:26. > :24:29.package and in year one and there are four teams, then here two, three
:24:30. > :24:35.and four, there are eight teams travelling over, so those people
:24:36. > :24:36.coming and eating in restaurants and creating another exciting weekend
:24:37. > :24:39.for- plastic city. So basketball benefits
:24:40. > :24:45.and Belfast benefits. Mark November 11th in the diary
:24:46. > :24:48.if you're a rugby fan. The Barbarians are to play
:24:49. > :24:51.in Belfast for the first Among those included
:24:52. > :24:55.in the invitational squad to take on Fiji next month ?
:24:56. > :25:10.Ulster's Dan Tuohy and Ruan Pienaar. It's great to get the chance to play
:25:11. > :25:15.for the Barbarians, loads of traditions have come through this
:25:16. > :25:21.game, a lot of wonderful players, so chuffed to get the invitation. Being
:25:22. > :25:26.there in Belfast, one more game I get to play in front of a home game,
:25:27. > :25:31.so looking forward to it and pleased to have Dan joining us as well. It
:25:32. > :25:32.will be a great game against a really good Fijian team.
:25:33. > :25:34.Finally tonight, Portadown have lost their appeals
:25:35. > :25:36.against a 12-point deduction and suspension from all
:25:37. > :25:39.The IFA also ruled that Portadown's postponed opening match
:25:40. > :25:42.of the season be recorded as a 3-0 win for Coleraine,
:25:43. > :25:44.moving them up to third in the table.
:25:45. > :25:52.Looking forward to the basketball next year, Mark.
:25:53. > :25:57.Cecilia Daly has the weather forecast.
:25:58. > :26:06.Good evening. We noticed it felt colder today is that breeze picked
:26:07. > :26:11.up and especially as we lost the sunshine this afternoon, there were
:26:12. > :26:16.some showers and are still a lot of cloud this evening, some dampness in
:26:17. > :26:22.places so temperatures will not drop as low tonight. Where we get gaps in
:26:23. > :26:25.the cloud, in the north west we could see temperatures lower than on
:26:26. > :26:29.the map but it will not start as chilly as this morning and the
:26:30. > :26:35.sunshine will make an appearance again. To begin with it's pretty
:26:36. > :26:39.cloudy and there will be dampness, so you may need the umbrella first
:26:40. > :26:44.thing. Temperatures quite a bit higher than this morning, especially
:26:45. > :26:49.in the West, and there will still be that cool breeze nagging away at the
:26:50. > :26:54.East Antrim coast, but around the middle of the morning we should see
:26:55. > :26:59.that cloud starting to break up and more sunshine developing towards
:27:00. > :27:03.lunchtime and into the afternoon. Lots of dry weather, maybe not
:27:04. > :27:08.everywhere, the odd shower at a dot of dry weather and in the sunshine
:27:09. > :27:15.14 degrees will not be too bad, but the best -- the West and North West
:27:16. > :27:20.will have the best weather. Tomorrow night the cloudy skies return, and
:27:21. > :27:25.it is likely to stay clearest and coolest tomorrow night in the North
:27:26. > :27:30.West, then on Thursday, to begin with it is likely to be cloudy,
:27:31. > :27:34.breezy towards the east coast but brightening up with sunshine coming
:27:35. > :27:39.through. We will keep the pattern through the rest of the week, it
:27:40. > :27:43.will be breezy towards the East Coast, areas of cloud will bring
:27:44. > :27:49.some showers but then there will be summary gaps and more dry weather,
:27:50. > :27:54.but it looks like things will turn more unsettled toward the weekend
:27:55. > :28:01.and that high moves away and we get a big area of low pressure from the
:28:02. > :28:07.south. Changes at! All good things come to an end.