11/10/2016 BBC Newsline

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Tonight, we're in the river polluted by Northern Ireland Water, where

there is still evidence of that chemical spill.

A murder trial hears this accused woman swore on her child's life

We've the latest on Fujitsu job cuts announced across the UK.

Join me live in Garvagh where this family are about to go without wi-fi

More Michael McGovern magic required as Northern Ireland take on

And it certainly felt cooler today as the breeze picked up.

There'll still be a breeze tomorrow but the sunshine will be back.

Northern Ireland Water says a cracked pipe in

one of its treatment works caused a chemical spill which killed

A thickening agent used in the process for dealing

with waste water ended up in the Annesborough River

Anglers say it could take the environment years to recover.

Here's our agriculture and environment

These were big adult fish, and even four miles from the pollution source

they were wiped out in large numbers.

Spawning salmon and sea trout, generations of them lost

And this was the source of the pollution -

a waste water treatment works run by NI Water near Castlewellan.

Four days on, there were still large quantities of the pollutant

chemical sluggishly making its way downstream.

The pollution came out of the treatment works a couple of hundred

metres upstream and there are still a lot left in the river. You can see

the fish ear did not stand a chance. There is a pool of the stuff here

and it is a thick, cloying material that sticks to everything it

touches. The public raised

the alarm on Saturday. A clean-up is under way but it'll be

a slow process and the river NI Water said a cracked pipe

in the plant led to the leak. They've apologised and promised

to restock the river. We truly regret the outcome this

incident has had, the number of fish that have been killed and we will

work closely with all our regulators and stakeholders, the Ulster anglers

and local angling clubs to make good the impact on the river.

But anglers say it could take years for the ecology of the Carrigs

It has an immediate impact this year, it could have an impact for up

to six years. The fish will be spawning in three

years' time so the young ones will be returning three

years after that. They are now no longer available to

the river system, so it has a long-term effect.

NI Water facilities have been the source of pollution before.

The maximum fine under the legislation is ?20,000.

The Japanese technology firm Fujitsu has said it plans to cut up

The company is a major employer here with around 800 staff.

Our economics and business editor John Campbell is with me.

What do we know about the impact locally?

Fujitsu is a major employer in IT services, it has some big contracts

in the public sector, about 550 staff in Belfast and a further 250

in Derry. The union said as a result of this announcement that Fujitsu

will cut about 18% of its staff, does that mean 18% of staff here are

going? A short time ago the Finance Minister Simon Hamilton said it may

not be so simple. My understanding is this is an evaluation of their

skills base looking to the future of the sector is dear operating in,

alongside the unions it is my job to impress upon the senior decision

makers in Tokyo that we have a good skills base year which is reflected

in Fujitsu employees here, there is a low cost of doing business here

and a good level of government support and it is a good place to

invest. Although we did not know how many jobs are going, the unions say

there will be job cuts in Belfast and Derry but the precise number

will only become clear over the next few weeks.

A woman accused of murdering a Craigavon man has sworn

on the life of her child that she didn't do it.

Shaunean Boyle is charged alongside Stephen Hughes

The 40-year-old's body was found badly beaten in a bin at the rear

Almost everything heard in court today was an account

of what happened inside this house in July 2014.

All day the jury was read transcripts of police interviews

with Shaunean Boyle in the days after Owen Creaney's body

was discovered under cardboard in a wheelie bin.

The court heard of the moment Shaunean Boyle

said her co-accused, Stephen Hughes, told her Owen

Shaunean Boyle said she was gobsmacked.

Having seen him in the room, she walked back out.

She said she couldn't even look at him, going on to say

Throughout the police interviews, Shaunean Boyle was repeatedly asked

if she had helped lift or squash Owen Creaney's body into the bin.

Each time she denied she'd had anything to do with putting

Later, the court heard how the investigating officer had

She said she'd felt disgusted, saying the fella, a reference

to Mr Creaney, was her friend and that she wouldn't have liked

A postmortem examination found Owen Creaney's ribs and

It also found that it may have taken him two days

During those police interviews, Shaunean Boyle also said

if she'd thought for one second there was something wrong

with Owen Creaney she would have got an ambulance.

She went on to swear on her child's life that she didn't do it,

adding that she was sorry for all of the Creaney family.

Naomi Long looks certain to be the next leader

She has secured the backing of all its Assembly members,

who are the only ones entitled to stand as candidates.

Mrs Long's nomination was seconded by the former Alliance

He described her as the best communicator

Our Political Editor Mark Devenport is at Stormont.

It looks like a done deal. I think so, even though Naomi Long is

warning she still needs to get half the members of Alliance's ruling

council to vote for her when they meet on October 26, given she has

the backing of all her MLAs, I think it is a done deal. The challenge

that faces her will be how to follow David Ford. In his time Alliance got

to Stormont ministers and an MP and have now been robbed of those jobs.

I have huge ambitions for the party. We lost our Westminster seat under

unusual circumstances that I would not roll out Alliance having future

Westminster seats or being in government, but we want to be a

government that is open and transparent and working for the good

in Northern Ireland, and in the interim we will be a robust

opposition to make sure it in government we have lives up to those

high standards. How will her style differ to David Ford? She is

younger, another woman party leader and has a pugnacious style, she

doesn't take prisoners, she has already had a go at what she sees as

the increasing arrogance of the DUP under Arlene Foster so we can expect

more of that but she will have to jostle for space with the other

parties here, the UUP and SDLP and new kids like the Greens and the

people for profit group. Across the border, the Secretary of State has

been talking about the broader. He was talking about measures that the

British and Irish and might use to avoid a hard border after the UK

leads the EU but he was quite positive about the possibilities for

funding after we leave the EU. He pledged to stand by commitments to

peace and cross-border projects in the year 2020. We are considering

carefully the position and post the UK's departure and that is work the

Treasury are assessing, we will form judgments in relation to that, those

guarantees I have referenced in my answer thus far give that sense of

the programmes that have been entered into prior to the UK's

departure from the EU, and we will be giving careful consideration to

the next steps in the same way as we give careful consideration to a

number of funding lines and programmes after the UK's departure.

Mr Brokenshire says that is still work in progress but it is the first

time I have heard him talk about the possibility of funding after the UK

leads the EU. The Audit Office says there's

evidence that staff morale has deteriorated in Northern Ireland's

sizeable public sector because of Our business correspondent

Julian O'Neill runs through the main The Northern Ireland Executive

is cutting the size of the public sector to ease financial pressure

and this report by the Audit Office covers year one of its

redundancy programme. In total, 4383 jobs were axed

in the 12 months to March. Redundancy packages totalled

?171 million, which equates That upfront cost should be recouped

quickly because the reduction to the overall public sector wage

bill will be ?155 million annually. But responding to the report,

a trade union says the cutbacks We are now into the eighth or ninth

year of austerity, we've seen public servants attacked in terms of pay

and conditions but also recruitment freezes, promotion freezes, so our

public services are creaking and the standards of service are going down

due to these cuts. Broadly speaking, the Audit Office

finds no big faults within the voluntary exit scheme

and reports it was operated in a way But it does flag up

issues which need watched as the redundancy

programme continues. Savings will need to be shown

to have been sustained, and as well as monitoring staff

morale, which has been impacted, a watchful eye also needs to be kept

on skills and service delivery. So many of us have become dependent

on mobile technology that No smartphone to check

out social media sites? Perhaps no smart TV

to stream movies? Well, we've asked a family to go

cold turkey for 48 hours Tara Mills is live in Garvagh

for us this evening. Of course, not everyone has

wi-fi but the McDonalds But it's not for long because they

have agreed to switch off their Wi-Fi and internet for the next 48

hours, and Ellie here is squeezing every last drop out of it. Let's

look at their typical day. Facebook, Instagram, all members of

this family have their internet favourites. Tonight they're going

cold turkey. Who will suffer the most? We like Instagram, chap --

snap chat, the lungs. It will be like the dark ages. I think it will

be Ellie, but I have a suspicion it could be Hannah because she uses it

more than she thinks. Chrome casting from the iPad, Facebook, snap chat,

every time you go out of the room it's... So how much time does

everyone spent on their gadgets? You turn around to speak to them and

they have a phone in and you go, did you hear me? What? So you know they

aren't even listening. They can sit in the back of the car and we can

drive to Belfast and there wouldn't be a conversation. When I come home

I'll be texting my boyfriend, then maybe go into my room, a couple of

snaps chats, then I'll put a film on and stream it onto the TV through

the Wi-Fi, then three or four films on that and then snap chat until I

fall asleep. And mum Deborah is not immune either. If I'm out in the car

and waiting, I take my phone out, look on Facebook, maybe go on eBay

and look at some of the shops and I do it myself. Curtis, a member of a

cycling club, claims he will cope. I only use it for Facebook and to see

if the club is out, maybe the odd time on the police station or Fifa,

that doesn't get on a lot either, the TV is always taken up with other

Wi-Fi stuff. Is that why you go cycling so much? Yes, to get away

from it all! It was Hannah who volunteered the family to take part

in our experiment, something she may be regretting. At the moment I'm not

worrying about but maybe after it's turned off I'll be like, save me, I

regret everything! Ellie says it is snap chat that she will miss the

most. So if I lose the streets I get from so many days, I will have to

get them over again. How stressed are you? Very. Poor, LA. I feel bad

for what you're doing to you. We haven't talked about cost. Did you

think all these gadgets have become a necessity rather than a luxury? I

think so, Ellie has homework sometimes that you have to look

things up on and if you don't have it on home you have to go to

libraries or ask someone to do it for you and maybe it is something

people cannot afford. Is it something you feel worried about,

the next 48 hours? Slightly. I know Ellie's fingers are twitching

already but we will get through it, we will just have to find different

things to do at night, when we have nothing else to do. Curtis, what

about the concept of cheating? Imagine your friends and family are

keeping an eye on you. To date already they have said, what are you

doing on that phone? I said it hasn't started yet, so they are

watching already so I cannot get away. Ellie, you can do the big

switch off. That's it! Listen, good luck and we will be back on Thursday

night to find out how you have got on. No tears, now. Back to you,

Donna. Rather them for me. They could

always watch the TV or read a book. The last Victorian public baths

in Ireland still in use Half of the Templemore Baths

building in East Belfast is derelict, but money

from the Heritage Lottery Fund and Belfast City Council will bring

the whole site back into use Public baths like this

first appeared in Britain Four of them were built in Belfast,

including this one. Then, they were more

about hygiene than fun. Somewhere for workers to get washed

after a week's hard graft Part of this building

is still used for swimming. Well, it's easy to see how time has

taken its toll on this place. This old 22-yard pool hasn't been

used for decades but it's hoped this cash injection will allow this place

to be transformed into Other Victorian features will be

preserved and a brand new 25-metre pool will be built alongside

the old baths. It'll cost around ?17

million to transform. ?5 million of that is coming

from the Heritage Lottery Fund. This is one of the most unique

buildings in Ireland and in Belfast it's the last remaining public baths

still in use. It retains this fantastic linkage to the Belfast of

the Victorian age and of the last century, so it's a fantastic

heritage project. From being a young fella, we use

this regularly, when our children were readying to swim and the

council decided to close it, we thought it was an injustice so we

got together as a voluntary trust and for the council.

And it seems Belfast City Council has listened.

It hopes work here will be completed within five years.

I would like to see that when it's finished.

Mark, how will Northern Ireland's footballers handle world

The world champions on their own patch, Donna.

They did meet in the Euros in Paris in June, on a night

Goalkeeper Michael McGovern was heroic then and will need to be

From Hanover, BBC Newsline's Joel Taggart reports.

It's a game that Michael McGovern will always remember. Shot after

shot, save after save. His/her works kept the score down in Paris,

earning him the plaudits. But the modest Fermanagh man is not one for

reflected glory. I've not watched the whole game back. I've seen all

my saves on social media, people tags make, but everyone is still

talking about it so it is properly what I will be remembered for when I

missed playing. I would like to think that between then and now I

will make other memories, for myself as a team. His performance against

Germany in the European Championship finals was a defining moment of his

career but will he be as busy tonight? Not as busy but he will

certainly not have back quiet night. It is how we work as a team, how we

contain them will be key, I think they had top gear in Paris and maybe

we will get them when they are a gear down. Northern Ireland have

shocked the Germans here before, Norman Whiteside in Hamburg, while

Gerry Taggart's strike helped make a point in Nuremberg. McGovern

believes another correct display could see Hanover added to that

list. We knew we had a taste of it and it was Brian, we are not

dreaming we will last them off the park but if we can't sustain the

game and nick a goal, we could get a result. We have belief, we have seen

before that we can do it. Attention will focus on this man again if it

happens. The stars of US college basketball

are Belfast bound. Initially four colleges

from North America have signed up for an elite invitational

tournament to be staged Watched on television

by millions, college basketball Its popularity is comparable

to the sport at professional level. Players and coaches

enjoying superstar status. A tournament here

would be another step It's a $100 million is in many

places, not a small undertaking for the major programmes. Hosting an

event in Northern Ireland with be an opportunity for us to raise our

brand awareness but also give our athletes a chance to have an

international experience while they are in college.

Those involved in organising the tournament visited

The Basketball Hall of Fame are supporting the event,

working alongside the Sport Changes Life foundation.

We don't intend to come for a one off. We don't tend to land in the

place one time and flight away, we like to build relationships and

state to build a long-standing series of events and something that

can't last for years. We want people to come out and have first-class

family entertainment and we think the economic impact and the

basketball impact can be substantial. It's a four-year

package and in year one and there are four teams, then here two, three

and four, there are eight teams travelling over, so those people

coming and eating in restaurants and creating another exciting weekend

for- plastic city. So basketball benefits

and Belfast benefits. Mark November 11th in the diary

if you're a rugby fan. The Barbarians are to play

in Belfast for the first Among those included

in the invitational squad to take on Fiji next month ?

Ulster's Dan Tuohy and Ruan Pienaar. It's great to get the chance to play

for the Barbarians, loads of traditions have come through this

game, a lot of wonderful players, so chuffed to get the invitation. Being

there in Belfast, one more game I get to play in front of a home game,

so looking forward to it and pleased to have Dan joining us as well. It

will be a great game against a really good Fijian team.

Finally tonight, Portadown have lost their appeals

against a 12-point deduction and suspension from all

The IFA also ruled that Portadown's postponed opening match

of the season be recorded as a 3-0 win for Coleraine,

moving them up to third in the table.

Looking forward to the basketball next year, Mark.

Cecilia Daly has the weather forecast.

Good evening. We noticed it felt colder today is that breeze picked

up and especially as we lost the sunshine this afternoon, there were

some showers and are still a lot of cloud this evening, some dampness in

places so temperatures will not drop as low tonight. Where we get gaps in

the cloud, in the north west we could see temperatures lower than on

the map but it will not start as chilly as this morning and the

sunshine will make an appearance again. To begin with it's pretty

cloudy and there will be dampness, so you may need the umbrella first

thing. Temperatures quite a bit higher than this morning, especially

in the West, and there will still be that cool breeze nagging away at the

East Antrim coast, but around the middle of the morning we should see

that cloud starting to break up and more sunshine developing towards

lunchtime and into the afternoon. Lots of dry weather, maybe not

everywhere, the odd shower at a dot of dry weather and in the sunshine

14 degrees will not be too bad, but the best -- the West and North West

will have the best weather. Tomorrow night the cloudy skies return, and

it is likely to stay clearest and coolest tomorrow night in the North

West, then on Thursday, to begin with it is likely to be cloudy,

breezy towards the east coast but brightening up with sunshine coming

through. We will keep the pattern through the rest of the week, it

will be breezy towards the East Coast, areas of cloud will bring

some showers but then there will be summary gaps and more dry weather,

but it looks like things will turn more unsettled toward the weekend

and that high moves away and we get a big area of low pressure from the

south. Changes at! All good things come to an end.