:00:00. > :00:13.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.
:00:14. > :00:17.This is BBC Newsline and these are the headlines this
:00:18. > :00:29.Emergency services are at the scene at the higher crashes through a shop
:00:30. > :00:31.Politicians talk of pro-Brexit alliances
:00:32. > :00:35.and not electoral pacts, but what does that really mean?
:00:36. > :00:41.You can package this one whatever way you like, but this will end up
:00:42. > :00:43.becoming a feud by the public as a Nationalist pack.
:00:44. > :00:46.Petrol bombers attack a house in Ballymena
:00:47. > :00:51.with four people inside, including an 11-year-old boy.
:00:52. > :00:56.Someone could have been killed here. You can see the damage to the house,
:00:57. > :01:01.you can see the damage to the gas line. If that had have went up, it
:01:02. > :01:02.wouldn't have just been that family and that property, it would have
:01:03. > :01:05.been the whole neighbourhood. Library users will see
:01:06. > :01:07.their services cut back as budget Rural patients are facing long
:01:08. > :01:23.journeys to visit their GP, As one Irish league boss resigns, we
:01:24. > :01:25.hear from the two managers chasing local football putts biggest prize.
:01:26. > :01:27.Some cooler weather around this weekend, but that's just a taster
:01:28. > :01:39.First, to that incident in south Belfast an hour ago.
:01:40. > :01:42.A car has crashed through the window of business
:01:43. > :01:48.It happened on the Lisburn Road just over an hour ago.
:01:49. > :01:55.Which is a busy arterial route lined with shops and businesses.
:01:56. > :01:58.Our reporter Dan Stanton is at the scene.
:01:59. > :02:07.Yes, the actual car has just been taken away a moments ago, where it
:02:08. > :02:11.will now be assessed by police accident investigators. As you can
:02:12. > :02:15.see, there is a clear up operation now going on inside the shop, with a
:02:16. > :02:19.will have to assess if it can reopen and when to customers. We have been
:02:20. > :02:23.speaking to witnesses here at the scene, including a woman who was at
:02:24. > :02:27.the entrance to the shop and a woman who was at the entrance to the shop
:02:28. > :02:51.on the card came. She said she car and tried to
:02:52. > :02:55.run out it. She said was too shocked to talk to the BBC, but doubt inside
:02:56. > :02:59.the shop have been talking to us. This is what if you have them had to
:03:00. > :03:02.say if you months ago. All of a sudden, I heard the crash. I thought
:03:03. > :03:05.Id bomb had gone off on a first heard it. I went out and saw that
:03:06. > :03:07.the car had come straight through. Donohoe, I don't anything. I just
:03:08. > :03:09.saw all the commotion. Then I phoned the police and the ambulance
:03:10. > :03:11.straightaway and members of the public help the guy lying on the
:03:12. > :03:15.ground. Thankfully, everyone seemed to be OK. All the customers seem to
:03:16. > :03:18.be OK. I checked in the seemed fine. I think one guy was being treated
:03:19. > :03:24.for shock. He seems to be doing OK. I understand there was an elderly
:03:25. > :03:29.couple inside the car. They had been treated by ambulance staff for
:03:30. > :03:32.shock. I understand they are at the Royal Victoria Hospital at the
:03:33. > :03:37.moment, are being assessed. There was a customer inside the shop who
:03:38. > :03:40.was slightly injured and they understand he has actually left the
:03:41. > :03:47.scene and didn't need any further treatment. Dan Stanton reporting
:03:48. > :03:50.from south Belfast. Just four days into the Westminster election
:03:51. > :03:54.campaign and we have had top of electoral pacts and alliances. In
:03:55. > :03:56.the face of a possible unionist pact,
:03:57. > :03:59.The SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, says the Alliance party should
:04:00. > :04:01.rethink its rejection of an anti-Brexit coalition to fight
:04:02. > :04:02.the general election in Northern Ireland.
:04:03. > :04:04.In the face of a possible unionist pact the SDLP,
:04:05. > :04:07.Sinn Fein and the Green Party have already held talks about coming
:04:08. > :04:10.together to fight pro-Brexit candidates in the Westminster poll.
:04:11. > :04:12.The intention is to send a message to the Prime Minister.
:04:13. > :04:15.But the Alliance leader Naomi Long says it would be regarded
:04:16. > :04:17.as a nationalist pact and her party will not get involved.
:04:18. > :04:19.Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon.
:04:20. > :04:24.this is the kind of happiness a packed empire. From Sinn Fein with
:04:25. > :04:29.help from the DUP. Kuyt Brexit be about to do the same? For the SDLP,
:04:30. > :04:35.Sinn Fein, Alliance and the Green Party. I don't think any general
:04:36. > :04:40.election is a substitute for a referendum on the final deal.
:04:41. > :04:45.Regardless of what decision is made from this proposed pact, Northern
:04:46. > :04:48.Ireland's boy should be heard. The whole Brexit campaign was about
:04:49. > :04:52.taking back control, the people of Northern Ireland should have a say
:04:53. > :04:58.on their future. Jaime might it work as Michael at the two constituencies
:04:59. > :05:04.for example. Any Brexit referendum, these places had a majority remain.
:05:05. > :05:15.If the SDLP do decide it could help Sinn Fein at the general election.
:05:16. > :05:20.Here, though as a majority of 17,000. That could see Sinn James
:05:21. > :05:24.Anderson eight. The SDLP say they are not interested in a so-called
:05:25. > :05:32.sectarian pact only involving Sinn Fein. But the alliance decision to
:05:33. > :05:35.reject the idea could prove fatal. Can the Alliance Party be persuaded
:05:36. > :05:38.to change their mind? You can package this one whatever way you
:05:39. > :05:46.like, but this will end up becoming viewed by the public as a
:05:47. > :05:50.Nationalist pact. That is dangerous. It is not only sectarian eyes think
:05:51. > :05:54.the debate around Brexit, but potentially disenfranchise as
:05:55. > :05:58.Unionists were not happy with the idea of a hard Brexit but would not
:05:59. > :06:03.vote for a Nationalist pact. Are you saying that because you are getting
:06:04. > :06:08.all these moderate unionist votes no glove I'm saying it because I
:06:09. > :06:12.believe it. The man who thought up this alliance says they should think
:06:13. > :06:18.again. Their roles as of ideas out there. Potential candidates and
:06:19. > :06:23.constituencies who would be very pro-remain and anti-Brexit. I think
:06:24. > :06:26.Naomi needs to think about us. We all have to set aside our own narrow
:06:27. > :06:33.political ambitions for a fuel leaks. Corridor remains open to any
:06:34. > :06:37.political party who wish to discuss the idea, analyse the political
:06:38. > :06:42.positions and then go away and make individual decisions as political
:06:43. > :06:49.parties. The political alliance would be progressive in its nature.
:06:50. > :06:55.He believed a Brexit like pack could emerge. If it looks to Nationalist,
:06:56. > :07:00.I don't think the STL P can run with it. That doesn't mean that there can
:07:01. > :07:06.to be a number of unilateral actions that would allow for candidates who
:07:07. > :07:11.were former remain and he would be in favour of some form of special
:07:12. > :07:15.designated staters from Northern Ireland to have a free run across a
:07:16. > :07:20.range constituencies. The parties have big decisions to make before
:07:21. > :07:23.the voters get their turn. Gareth Gordon, BBC Newsline.
:07:24. > :07:25.A family home in Ballymena was petrol-bombed overnight.
:07:26. > :07:29.Our reporter, Aileen Moynagh, has been to the scene
:07:30. > :07:42.He broken window, the evidence of an attack on a house on Alfred Street
:07:43. > :07:46.place in Ballymena just before 4am this morning. Inside a house at the
:07:47. > :07:50.time were a woman, her ex-partner and two of the Jordan. An
:07:51. > :07:56.18-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy. Through the smashed window, a
:07:57. > :08:00.petrol bomb was thrown, causing a fire inside and scorch damage to an
:08:01. > :08:04.outside wall. When the Fire Service arrived, the fire was out, but there
:08:05. > :08:09.were concerns about a gas leak, because of gas pipes underneath the
:08:10. > :08:14.kitchen window. No one was injured in the attack. When the local MLA
:08:15. > :08:16.knows the family is booked to them about what happened. The shocked and
:08:17. > :08:21.horrified that something like this could happen to them, to their
:08:22. > :08:25.property and is unable to do. They are surprises as happened in the
:08:26. > :08:28.don't know why. Paul Frew says the local community will support the
:08:29. > :08:34.family through this, but there is a sense of confusion as to why this
:08:35. > :08:36.family was targeted. There is a complete shock and surprise to us
:08:37. > :08:41.why they would have picked this family and this property. Of course,
:08:42. > :08:43.that is for the police to investigate. I certainly would
:08:44. > :08:48.condemn it and the people who think that this would be a good thing to
:08:49. > :08:51.do. This could have ended up horrendously wrong. Someone could
:08:52. > :08:55.have been killed here. You can see the damage to the house, the gas
:08:56. > :08:58.line, if that had went up, it wouldn't have just been that
:08:59. > :09:02.property and the family within it, it would have been your whole
:09:03. > :09:09.neighbourhood. In a separate incident, a car was burnt out close
:09:10. > :09:10.to this roundabout. At this stage, the police say they are not
:09:11. > :09:25.connecting the two incidents. We headed west with Shane Harrison.
:09:26. > :09:30.All quiet at the moment in the quiet man country. I live at Ashford
:09:31. > :09:33.Kassel, were tomorrow, Rory McIlroy is to get married.
:09:34. > :09:35.Libraries face the prospect of fewer staff, fewer new books
:09:36. > :09:38.and reduced opening times because of a finance cut.
:09:39. > :09:39.There's a 5% reduction in their annual
:09:40. > :09:41.funding from the Department for the Communities.
:09:42. > :09:53.Our education and arts correspondent Robbie Meredith reports.
:09:54. > :10:00.For some of our libraries, each chapter might be ending. Libraries
:10:01. > :10:03.Northern Ireland lost ?2 million last year and the need to save
:10:04. > :10:07.another one point family manse this year, that will mean buying less. We
:10:08. > :10:13.will be spreading the cuts around. We'll be spending a bit less on
:10:14. > :10:20.newspapers, children's books, adult books, online resources, and so on.
:10:21. > :10:24.We also need to look at our staffing costs. That means many libraries
:10:25. > :10:28.opening a bit less frequently in the near future. We're looking at
:10:29. > :10:32.introducing summer opening hours in the majority of our libraries, which
:10:33. > :10:36.would be slightly less than the opening hours for the rest of the
:10:37. > :10:40.year. Despite changing times and many more people using home
:10:41. > :10:45.technology, libraries here are still relatively popular. Last year, 25%
:10:46. > :10:50.of adults used one on a regular basis and almost 50% of children
:10:51. > :10:55.visited one, and that doesn't include school libraries. The one in
:10:56. > :11:01.Belfast was busy today, with readers of all ages. We started using the
:11:02. > :11:07.library and borrowing the big for my child's, for her, and all the
:11:08. > :11:09.activities that either for reading and socialising and helping
:11:10. > :11:14.gathering people together and it was also a very good way for us to get a
:11:15. > :11:21.little bit introduced to the culture. Over Easter, I have been
:11:22. > :11:27.most days for two or three hours, because I find that I work much
:11:28. > :11:30.better here than at home. It is good for children to come and have
:11:31. > :11:35.support for their homework. I have used it since they were babies.
:11:36. > :11:38.There were almost over 100 libraries right across Northern Ireland. If
:11:39. > :11:44.their opening hours cut even just buy a fewer hours week, that will
:11:45. > :11:48.have an impact on readers young and old in every town, and city. Robbie
:11:49. > :11:52.From cuts in library provision to cuts in rural doctors' surgeries.
:11:53. > :11:54.We've reported before on difficulties in getting Gps to
:11:55. > :11:58.This evening the focus is on Roslea in County Fermanagh.
:11:59. > :12:01.Its only surgery closed last week - leaving the village without a doctor
:12:02. > :12:04.Our south-west reporter Julian Fowler has been speaking
:12:05. > :12:06.to doctors and patients about the recruitment crisis
:12:07. > :12:26.When a rural GP and firm and a retired in the 1990s, around 40
:12:27. > :12:32.doctors apply for the post. When the GP here retired last year, not one
:12:33. > :12:36.doctor responded to the job advert. Now the surgery has closed and
:12:37. > :12:39.patients transferred to another surgery. Last night, a public
:12:40. > :12:47.meeting was held to protest against the closure. Don't normally protest
:12:48. > :12:53.in public, but today my temper is rising. Our probably be back to see
:12:54. > :12:58.you. We cannot afford to take taxis there and paper baby-sitters when we
:12:59. > :13:00.have to go down and wait around with children. This is outrageous and we
:13:01. > :13:05.will not accept it! APPLAUSE
:13:06. > :13:10.People say the changes will mean they will have to travel further and
:13:11. > :13:17.wait longer to see a doctor. I will then have to go a round trip of over
:13:18. > :13:23.30 miles for any medication or anything I need. We have a little
:13:24. > :13:28.boy with medical needs and the GP surgery was a lifeline for us. I
:13:29. > :13:32.know I'm going to have to wait. In your experience, how long is the
:13:33. > :13:36.weight? Well, you could be waiting up to three weeks if you want to see
:13:37. > :13:45.the doctor. I am 87 years of age and its... It's not a good idea for me
:13:46. > :13:48.to have to drive down there. Doctors say the difficulties in recruiting
:13:49. > :13:54.GPs to small rural surgeries in the Senate the Thames. Young doctors now
:13:55. > :13:57.want to work in group activities, they are aware of their obligations
:13:58. > :14:01.in terms of governance and providing a safe service only feel that that
:14:02. > :14:06.can best be done where they have peer support. It also affects things
:14:07. > :14:11.like annual leave, being able to take leave and it is difficult to
:14:12. > :14:15.find law comes and doctors working single-handed practices have found
:14:16. > :14:19.that attempts to much to bear. This practice is now taken only patients
:14:20. > :14:23.of three doctors who have retired in the last year. There are plans to
:14:24. > :14:27.replace the 1970s building with a new medical centre. GPs say that
:14:28. > :14:33.with so many vacancies, the least attractive practices have no future.
:14:34. > :14:40.My own dad was a single-handed GP for many years and it was... Of its
:14:41. > :14:44.time, it was a good model, but practice has become so complicated
:14:45. > :14:46.and the pressures are so high that I think you're going to find
:14:47. > :14:51.increasingly doctors are going to come together and form larger groups
:14:52. > :14:56.and almost inevitably, that will mean that small villages full no
:14:57. > :15:02.longer have the local surgery. World are plans train more GPs, the
:15:03. > :15:06.recruitment crisis facing single doctor practices remains. With more
:15:07. > :15:10.GPs approaching retirement, it's likely that other rule surgeries
:15:11. > :15:11.will have to close. Julian Fowler, BBC Newsline.
:15:12. > :15:16.A County Londonderry care worker has pleaded not guilty to four counts
:15:17. > :15:19.51-year-old Freda Boyd from Drumeen Drive in Garvagh,
:15:20. > :15:21.is accused of ill-treating four different people while
:15:22. > :15:23.they were in-patients for mental health disorders
:15:24. > :15:32.A solicitor said she would be contesting the four charges.
:15:33. > :15:34.Former Boxing world champion Carl Frampton says people don't
:15:35. > :15:37.have the right to send abuse on social media, after his family
:15:38. > :15:39.were targeted in two separate incidents.
:15:40. > :15:41.His wife Christine received death threats on Facebook and he received
:15:42. > :15:43.abuse on Twitter for wearing a GAA top.
:15:44. > :15:45.Hillsborough Castle has been awarded almost ?5 million
:15:46. > :15:48.of Lottery money to make it more accessible to the public.
:15:49. > :15:50.The money will be spent on a new visitor centre
:15:51. > :16:07.When the work is complete, the venue will be open all year round.
:16:08. > :16:13.A squeeze on the public purse has led to an increase in borrowing
:16:14. > :16:15.by a growing number of community or social businesses.
:16:16. > :16:18.One lending organisation has had its busiest period in 16 years.
:16:19. > :16:30.Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill reports.
:16:31. > :16:38.Aside old industry, new businesses are beginning. This is the foundry.
:16:39. > :16:44.A hub for social enterprise start-ups. Rows of office space for
:16:45. > :16:48.early stage ventures like website design, all sharing the goal of
:16:49. > :16:52.providing jobs. We want to go out and find the diamonds still in the
:16:53. > :16:55.community and give them the opportunity to come in and build
:16:56. > :16:58.their own businesses, and create local employment uncertainty this
:16:59. > :17:05.part of the city really achieve what it can do again. This Lady dreams of
:17:06. > :17:10.her own specialist clothing business, garments without buttons,
:17:11. > :17:14.clothes, scenes are labelled her children with autism. Momentum has
:17:15. > :17:22.been great and they are very helpful. I cant believe that I only
:17:23. > :17:27.came here last September with a small idea and now I am ready to
:17:28. > :17:32.manufacture. The enterprises here have a common thread, operating like
:17:33. > :17:36.Private businesses, but supporting a community or a social purpose. Many
:17:37. > :17:40.of them have hatched help from an organisation which has had its
:17:41. > :17:45.busiest few months in 16 years, lending almost ?2 million to 18
:17:46. > :17:50.projects. We do not charge arrangement fees, settlement fees,
:17:51. > :17:56.we are after it the social enterprise ourselves. We concentrate
:17:57. > :17:59.all lending activity, all our lending energy in the areas of the
:18:00. > :18:04.mainstream banking sector are not particularly keen to get involved
:18:05. > :18:08.in. But our space. The lender believes cuts in public funding
:18:09. > :18:13.largely explains a record period for loans, it hopes the money will prove
:18:14. > :18:17.to have been well invested in the ventures it backs become a success.
:18:18. > :18:19.Julian O'Neill, BBC Newsline Belfast.
:18:20. > :18:22.A joint British-Irish ceremony is to be held in Belgium in June
:18:23. > :18:24.to mark the centenary of the Battle of Messines Ridge in
:18:25. > :18:27.Unionist and nationalist soldiers from across Ireland fought side
:18:28. > :18:32.The ceremony will be at the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Messines
:18:33. > :18:36.The shared event will mark the service and sacrifice
:18:37. > :18:39.of soldiers from the 36th Ulster division and the 16th Irish division
:18:40. > :18:53.On Wednesday's programme, we met seven-year-old
:18:54. > :18:57.He has autism and barely spoke until he watched the astronaut
:18:58. > :19:00.Tim Peake blast into space just over a year ago.
:19:01. > :19:02.Hayden's mother told us he's been talking about all things space
:19:03. > :19:05.Well, the story has been watched almost 50,000 times
:19:06. > :19:08.online since our broadcast and now even Major Tim Peake
:19:09. > :19:21.What planet do you want to go to? Myers. Can you tell them where Myers
:19:22. > :19:26.is? It's the fourth planet away from the Sun.
:19:27. > :19:32.online since our broadcast and now even Major Tim Peake
:19:33. > :19:37."Delighted that Hayden is making such great progress.
:19:38. > :19:39.Next stop, Mars for that brave young lad."
:19:40. > :19:42.You can watch that report, it's still on our Facebook page.
:19:43. > :19:45.Now there are big preparations on the west coast of Ireland ahead
:19:46. > :19:49.the wedding of golf star Rory McIlroy.
:19:50. > :19:50.Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison is there.
:19:51. > :20:10.It would be pushing it to say that security is very tight at the moment
:20:11. > :20:15.for the wedding tomorrow, but tomorrow it will be a different
:20:16. > :20:21.story. Rory and Eric are used to Raqqa. They have spent the last two
:20:22. > :20:27.new receives here and tomorrow we expect the likes of singers from
:20:28. > :20:34.Westside and one direction to be here along with golfers. Graeme
:20:35. > :20:39.McDowell is playing a internment in America. Pierce Brosnan got married
:20:40. > :20:41.here. As my colleague has been finding out, he has been listening
:20:42. > :20:47.to what local people have been saying about tomorrow pot event. One
:20:48. > :20:52.of sport's most eligible bachelors is about to tie the tie the knot.
:20:53. > :20:55.Rory McIlroy and his fiancee have been engaged since late 2015. They
:20:56. > :21:01.will marry at the picturesque Ashford Castle in County Mayo. He
:21:02. > :21:10.often shies away from the spotlight, but tomorrow, golf's quiet man will
:21:11. > :21:14.struggle to dodge the attention. The attention is bringing a welcome
:21:15. > :21:18.boost to the village. It will draw down tourists from Northern Ireland.
:21:19. > :21:24.It will be wonderful. They are badly in need of it. Lastly, there were a
:21:25. > :21:29.lot of people staying here and putting up marquees and forests and
:21:30. > :21:33.whatnot. Friends and family of the couple will rub shoulders with stars
:21:34. > :21:37.in the world of sport and music. This usually sleepy fishing village
:21:38. > :21:44.is now the centre intense media interest. There is speculation that
:21:45. > :21:48.Ed Sheerin, Rory pot friend is going to make an appearance here tonight,
:21:49. > :21:52.even though he is playing in Manchester. The real speculation is
:21:53. > :21:56.that the main entertainment is going to be the legend that is Stevie
:21:57. > :22:03.wonder. Or maybe years just calling in to say loves them. I like it,
:22:04. > :22:08.Shane. It's going to be a great weekend. And now the sport.
:22:09. > :22:10.36 games played in this season's Irish league, only two to go.
:22:11. > :22:13.And just a single point seperates Crusaders at the top, and Linfield,
:22:14. > :22:16.who've won the league 51 times - the most successful club
:22:17. > :22:19.However if Linfield slip up against Coleraine this weekend,
:22:20. > :22:29.then this year's Championship could be all over by 5:00pm tomorrow.
:22:30. > :22:38.If the pressure is on Crusaders, they are certainly not showing it.
:22:39. > :22:42.Nice and relaxed comedy team had their final training session last
:22:43. > :22:47.night, knowing this year's championship could come down to one
:22:48. > :22:52.goal, one mistake, just one piece of brilliance. COMMENTATOR: A second
:22:53. > :22:56.opportunity! What is the overriding opportunity right now? I think we
:22:57. > :23:01.are keen to get on with it. Do you enjoy it? Absolutely not. The
:23:02. > :23:06.emotions of football are tough. Somatic state, trying to win
:23:07. > :23:11.something. You only get yourself in this position now and again. -- so
:23:12. > :23:14.much at stake. He had to say in the moment all of the time and that's
:23:15. > :23:17.what we are trying to do. We are not getting ahead of ourselves, we are
:23:18. > :23:21.just dying to play one game of football and deal with them as they
:23:22. > :23:26.come along. In the history of the Irish league, only two clubs have
:23:27. > :23:34.managed three successive titles. The class of 2017 ready to pounce if
:23:35. > :23:38.Crusaders slip up. Typically take care of our own business. We are
:23:39. > :23:41.going to Coleraine now. You should be one of those occasions. We are
:23:42. > :23:48.waiting to difficult. Especially down there, once again, our boys
:23:49. > :23:53.should go down and relish. Sometimes it's not about performance, it's
:23:54. > :23:58.about digging out points. Is it going to take three winter when the
:23:59. > :24:04.fleet? I think so. Linfield are a top team. We have to look after our
:24:05. > :24:08.own camping on with what we do. We have to see of best is good enough
:24:09. > :24:13.and if it's not, never mind. If their side failed to claim all three
:24:14. > :24:18.points and Crusaders do, then it's all over for another year. If
:24:19. > :24:19.Linfield win, then this year's title race will go to the very final game
:24:20. > :24:23.the season. Some breaking football news this
:24:24. > :24:25.evening and Cliftonville are looking for a new manager
:24:26. > :24:27.after the resignation The former Cliftonville player has
:24:28. > :24:31.been in full-time charge at Solitude since October 2015,
:24:32. > :24:32.after impressing Despite only one win in nine,
:24:33. > :24:35.Cliftonville are currently fourth in the table,
:24:36. > :24:37.and will be involved in the end-of-season playoff's
:24:38. > :24:47.for a European place. Little has been strongly linked with
:24:48. > :24:51.the vacant job at the Rovers. The Belfast Giant's season may be
:24:52. > :24:54.over, but there's more top-class ice hockey taking place at the SSE
:24:55. > :24:56.Arena. For the very first time,
:24:57. > :24:58.Belfast hosts Division 1B The Great Britain team will be
:24:59. > :25:01.hoping to gain promotion, but face tough opposition
:25:02. > :25:15.from the likes of Japan, For over a decade, Colin Shields has
:25:16. > :25:19.been scoring goals here for the Belfast Giants. He is the team pot
:25:20. > :25:23.all-time leading scorer, but now the focus of the Scottish born forward
:25:24. > :25:27.isn't helping Great Britain win World Championship promotion on home
:25:28. > :25:30.ice. Something a little bit different not only for myself, but
:25:31. > :25:39.for the fans and the people Belfast and Great Britain to see us. We are
:25:40. > :25:42.looking for a dead. Is an exciting challenge. Something to push as
:25:43. > :25:46.Elizabeth over the finish line and awfully we will take home a gold
:25:47. > :25:49.medal. Will be the first time in a long time that they have hosted the
:25:50. > :25:56.championship and hopes how they can win hands gain promotion. Every year
:25:57. > :26:00.that you can win it, it's whatever level you are at, it's great. To win
:26:01. > :26:03.it as the home nation would be brilliant. We have to handle that
:26:04. > :26:07.and make sure we stay focused. I think they have a great chance. I
:26:08. > :26:10.really believe that. I know the guys believe that. There is a real
:26:11. > :26:15.camaraderie and excitement in the grip. I hope we bring it and the
:26:16. > :26:20.liver. This is the latest major ice hockey event to be held in Belfast
:26:21. > :26:24.following on from a successful American tournament and another
:26:25. > :26:26.opportunity to showcase the city. Supporting Northern Ireland is not
:26:27. > :26:29.just about the capping Giants, it's about support as a whole and
:26:30. > :26:33.something bigger for the community. It's good to see other events with
:26:34. > :26:37.the World Championships and the friendship are forthcoming to
:26:38. > :26:43.Belfast. It is a thumping else the fans can enjoy can enjoy the city.
:26:44. > :26:46.Showing them a little bit of a different style of hockey. Hopefully
:26:47. > :26:49.they will come out and support and we dusted pictures. The first game
:26:50. > :26:51.is against Croatia on Sunday. The first game is against
:26:52. > :26:53.Croatia on Sunday. Antrim's Mark Allen produced
:26:54. > :26:55.a superb first session to take a 5-3 lead over John Higgins
:26:56. > :26:57.in their second-round match at the World Championship
:26:58. > :26:59.at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield.The world number
:27:00. > :27:01.11 hit three centuries against the four-time champion
:27:02. > :27:04.including a run of 129 in frame six. After not potting a ball
:27:05. > :27:06.for more than 40 minutes, Higgins regrouped to snatch
:27:07. > :27:09.the final frame of the session. The two remaining sessions take
:27:10. > :27:11.place tomorrow with Allen You can also keep in contact with us
:27:12. > :27:28.via Facebook and Twitter. The weather for the weekend
:27:29. > :27:37.ahead with Cecilia Daly. He real change in our weather is
:27:38. > :27:42.coming next week when it is going to get a lot colder. This weekend,
:27:43. > :27:47.we'll see a of cold weather compared to the last couple of days. A lot of
:27:48. > :27:52.dry weather around, good news for gardeners. Not completely rain free.
:27:53. > :27:55.For instance, tonight we have trips and jabs of rain around. Not
:27:56. > :28:01.particularly heavy on lasting too long and it will generally be quite
:28:02. > :28:04.cloudy. Perhaps a little bit cooler compared to recent nights. Let's
:28:05. > :28:18.look at Saturday. A lot of dry weather to come. There will, once
:28:19. > :28:22.again, be a lot of cloud around, too. If you're up early tomorrow, it
:28:23. > :28:25.will be damp places. Most of that rain edges away quite quickly and
:28:26. > :28:26.then we'll see a little better brightness coming through. The best
:28:27. > :28:28.chance of sunshine tomorrow afternoon will be over and trim.
:28:29. > :28:33.Slightly lower temperatures than today. Still a very light winds. The
:28:34. > :28:37.cloud will be thicker over parts of terror on. The risk of one or two
:28:38. > :28:43.showers at any time through the course of the day. Not bad
:28:44. > :28:48.motorcycle racing weather. A lot of dry weather. A few are out and about
:28:49. > :28:53.tomorrow night, no more than the odd spot of rain. Otherwise, fairly dry
:28:54. > :28:57.and not to Chile. Similar temperatures to tonight. Let's move
:28:58. > :29:03.on to Sunday. Fairly cloudy to begin with, with the few bits and pieces
:29:04. > :29:09.of rain around. Temperatures edged back up. A few fancy getting out in
:29:10. > :29:12.the garden this week, it will not be completely dry, but if your amount
:29:13. > :29:20.of dry weather around and not as cold as next week when we get this
:29:21. > :29:24.blast of cold air. Originally, that comes from the Arctic. One of the
:29:25. > :29:28.coldest times of year in the Arctic and that's why we can see
:29:29. > :29:29.temperatures in single figures, even snow. Enjoy your weekend.
:29:30. > :29:36.You can also keep in contact with us via Facebook and Twitter.