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Emergency services are at the scene at the higher crashes through a shop

Politicians talk of pro-Brexit alliances

and not electoral pacts, but what does that really mean?

You can package this one whatever way you like, but this will end up

becoming a feud by the public as a Nationalist pack.

Petrol bombers attack a house in Ballymena

with four people inside, including an 11-year-old boy.

Someone could have been killed here. You can see the damage to the house,

you can see the damage to the gas line. If that had have went up, it

wouldn't have just been that family and that property, it would have

been the whole neighbourhood. Library users will see

their services cut back as budget Rural patients are facing long

journeys to visit their GP, As one Irish league boss resigns, we

hear from the two managers chasing local football putts biggest prize.

Some cooler weather around this weekend, but that's just a taster

First, to that incident in south Belfast an hour ago.

A car has crashed through the window of business

It happened on the Lisburn Road just over an hour ago.

Which is a busy arterial route lined with shops and businesses.

Our reporter Dan Stanton is at the scene.

Yes, the actual car has just been taken away a moments ago, where it

will now be assessed by police accident investigators. As you can

see, there is a clear up operation now going on inside the shop, with a

will have to assess if it can reopen and when to customers. We have been

speaking to witnesses here at the scene, including a woman who was at

the entrance to the shop and a woman who was at the entrance to the shop

on the card came. She said she car and tried to

run out it. She said was too shocked to talk to the BBC, but doubt inside

the shop have been talking to us. This is what if you have them had to

say if you months ago. All of a sudden, I heard the crash. I thought

Id bomb had gone off on a first heard it. I went out and saw that

the car had come straight through. Donohoe, I don't anything. I just

saw all the commotion. Then I phoned the police and the ambulance

straightaway and members of the public help the guy lying on the

ground. Thankfully, everyone seemed to be OK. All the customers seem to

be OK. I checked in the seemed fine. I think one guy was being treated

for shock. He seems to be doing OK. I understand there was an elderly

couple inside the car. They had been treated by ambulance staff for

shock. I understand they are at the Royal Victoria Hospital at the

moment, are being assessed. There was a customer inside the shop who

was slightly injured and they understand he has actually left the

scene and didn't need any further treatment. Dan Stanton reporting

from south Belfast. Just four days into the Westminster election

campaign and we have had top of electoral pacts and alliances. In

the face of a possible unionist pact,

The SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, says the Alliance party should

rethink its rejection of an anti-Brexit coalition to fight

the general election in Northern Ireland.

In the face of a possible unionist pact the SDLP,

Sinn Fein and the Green Party have already held talks about coming

together to fight pro-Brexit candidates in the Westminster poll.

The intention is to send a message to the Prime Minister.

But the Alliance leader Naomi Long says it would be regarded

as a nationalist pact and her party will not get involved.

Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon.

this is the kind of happiness a packed empire. From Sinn Fein with

help from the DUP. Kuyt Brexit be about to do the same? For the SDLP,

Sinn Fein, Alliance and the Green Party. I don't think any general

election is a substitute for a referendum on the final deal.

Regardless of what decision is made from this proposed pact, Northern

Ireland's boy should be heard. The whole Brexit campaign was about

taking back control, the people of Northern Ireland should have a say

on their future. Jaime might it work as Michael at the two constituencies

for example. Any Brexit referendum, these places had a majority remain.

If the SDLP do decide it could help Sinn Fein at the general election.

Here, though as a majority of 17,000. That could see Sinn James

Anderson eight. The SDLP say they are not interested in a so-called

sectarian pact only involving Sinn Fein. But the alliance decision to

reject the idea could prove fatal. Can the Alliance Party be persuaded

to change their mind? You can package this one whatever way you

like, but this will end up becoming viewed by the public as a

Nationalist pact. That is dangerous. It is not only sectarian eyes think

the debate around Brexit, but potentially disenfranchise as

Unionists were not happy with the idea of a hard Brexit but would not

vote for a Nationalist pact. Are you saying that because you are getting

all these moderate unionist votes no glove I'm saying it because I

believe it. The man who thought up this alliance says they should think

again. Their roles as of ideas out there. Potential candidates and

constituencies who would be very pro-remain and anti-Brexit. I think

Naomi needs to think about us. We all have to set aside our own narrow

political ambitions for a fuel leaks. Corridor remains open to any

political party who wish to discuss the idea, analyse the political

positions and then go away and make individual decisions as political

parties. The political alliance would be progressive in its nature.

He believed a Brexit like pack could emerge. If it looks to Nationalist,

I don't think the STL P can run with it. That doesn't mean that there can

to be a number of unilateral actions that would allow for candidates who

were former remain and he would be in favour of some form of special

designated staters from Northern Ireland to have a free run across a

range constituencies. The parties have big decisions to make before

the voters get their turn. Gareth Gordon, BBC Newsline.

A family home in Ballymena was petrol-bombed overnight.

Our reporter, Aileen Moynagh, has been to the scene

He broken window, the evidence of an attack on a house on Alfred Street

place in Ballymena just before 4am this morning. Inside a house at the

time were a woman, her ex-partner and two of the Jordan. An

18-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy. Through the smashed window, a

petrol bomb was thrown, causing a fire inside and scorch damage to an

outside wall. When the Fire Service arrived, the fire was out, but there

were concerns about a gas leak, because of gas pipes underneath the

kitchen window. No one was injured in the attack. When the local MLA

knows the family is booked to them about what happened. The shocked and

horrified that something like this could happen to them, to their

property and is unable to do. They are surprises as happened in the

don't know why. Paul Frew says the local community will support the

family through this, but there is a sense of confusion as to why this

family was targeted. There is a complete shock and surprise to us

why they would have picked this family and this property. Of course,

that is for the police to investigate. I certainly would

condemn it and the people who think that this would be a good thing to

do. This could have ended up horrendously wrong. Someone could

have been killed here. You can see the damage to the house, the gas

line, if that had went up, it wouldn't have just been that

property and the family within it, it would have been your whole

neighbourhood. In a separate incident, a car was burnt out close

to this roundabout. At this stage, the police say they are not

connecting the two incidents. We headed west with Shane Harrison.

All quiet at the moment in the quiet man country. I live at Ashford

Kassel, were tomorrow, Rory McIlroy is to get married.

Libraries face the prospect of fewer staff, fewer new books

and reduced opening times because of a finance cut.

There's a 5% reduction in their annual

funding from the Department for the Communities.

Our education and arts correspondent Robbie Meredith reports.

For some of our libraries, each chapter might be ending. Libraries

Northern Ireland lost ?2 million last year and the need to save

another one point family manse this year, that will mean buying less. We

will be spreading the cuts around. We'll be spending a bit less on

newspapers, children's books, adult books, online resources, and so on.

We also need to look at our staffing costs. That means many libraries

opening a bit less frequently in the near future. We're looking at

introducing summer opening hours in the majority of our libraries, which

would be slightly less than the opening hours for the rest of the

year. Despite changing times and many more people using home

technology, libraries here are still relatively popular. Last year, 25%

of adults used one on a regular basis and almost 50% of children

visited one, and that doesn't include school libraries. The one in

Belfast was busy today, with readers of all ages. We started using the

library and borrowing the big for my child's, for her, and all the

activities that either for reading and socialising and helping

gathering people together and it was also a very good way for us to get a

little bit introduced to the culture. Over Easter, I have been

most days for two or three hours, because I find that I work much

better here than at home. It is good for children to come and have

support for their homework. I have used it since they were babies.

There were almost over 100 libraries right across Northern Ireland. If

their opening hours cut even just buy a fewer hours week, that will

have an impact on readers young and old in every town, and city. Robbie

From cuts in library provision to cuts in rural doctors' surgeries.

We've reported before on difficulties in getting Gps to

This evening the focus is on Roslea in County Fermanagh.

Its only surgery closed last week - leaving the village without a doctor

Our south-west reporter Julian Fowler has been speaking

to doctors and patients about the recruitment crisis

When a rural GP and firm and a retired in the 1990s, around 40

doctors apply for the post. When the GP here retired last year, not one

doctor responded to the job advert. Now the surgery has closed and

patients transferred to another surgery. Last night, a public

meeting was held to protest against the closure. Don't normally protest

in public, but today my temper is rising. Our probably be back to see

you. We cannot afford to take taxis there and paper baby-sitters when we

have to go down and wait around with children. This is outrageous and we

will not accept it! APPLAUSE

People say the changes will mean they will have to travel further and

wait longer to see a doctor. I will then have to go a round trip of over

30 miles for any medication or anything I need. We have a little

boy with medical needs and the GP surgery was a lifeline for us. I

know I'm going to have to wait. In your experience, how long is the

weight? Well, you could be waiting up to three weeks if you want to see

the doctor. I am 87 years of age and its... It's not a good idea for me

to have to drive down there. Doctors say the difficulties in recruiting

GPs to small rural surgeries in the Senate the Thames. Young doctors now

want to work in group activities, they are aware of their obligations

in terms of governance and providing a safe service only feel that that

can best be done where they have peer support. It also affects things

like annual leave, being able to take leave and it is difficult to

find law comes and doctors working single-handed practices have found

that attempts to much to bear. This practice is now taken only patients

of three doctors who have retired in the last year. There are plans to

replace the 1970s building with a new medical centre. GPs say that

with so many vacancies, the least attractive practices have no future.

My own dad was a single-handed GP for many years and it was... Of its

time, it was a good model, but practice has become so complicated

and the pressures are so high that I think you're going to find

increasingly doctors are going to come together and form larger groups

and almost inevitably, that will mean that small villages full no

longer have the local surgery. World are plans train more GPs, the

recruitment crisis facing single doctor practices remains. With more

GPs approaching retirement, it's likely that other rule surgeries

will have to close. Julian Fowler, BBC Newsline.

A County Londonderry care worker has pleaded not guilty to four counts

51-year-old Freda Boyd from Drumeen Drive in Garvagh,

is accused of ill-treating four different people while

they were in-patients for mental health disorders

A solicitor said she would be contesting the four charges.

Former Boxing world champion Carl Frampton says people don't

have the right to send abuse on social media, after his family

were targeted in two separate incidents.

His wife Christine received death threats on Facebook and he received

abuse on Twitter for wearing a GAA top.

Hillsborough Castle has been awarded almost ?5 million

of Lottery money to make it more accessible to the public.

The money will be spent on a new visitor centre

When the work is complete, the venue will be open all year round.

A squeeze on the public purse has led to an increase in borrowing

by a growing number of community or social businesses.

One lending organisation has had its busiest period in 16 years.

Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill reports.

Aside old industry, new businesses are beginning. This is the foundry.

A hub for social enterprise start-ups. Rows of office space for

early stage ventures like website design, all sharing the goal of

providing jobs. We want to go out and find the diamonds still in the

community and give them the opportunity to come in and build

their own businesses, and create local employment uncertainty this

part of the city really achieve what it can do again. This Lady dreams of

her own specialist clothing business, garments without buttons,

clothes, scenes are labelled her children with autism. Momentum has

been great and they are very helpful. I cant believe that I only

came here last September with a small idea and now I am ready to

manufacture. The enterprises here have a common thread, operating like

Private businesses, but supporting a community or a social purpose. Many

of them have hatched help from an organisation which has had its

busiest few months in 16 years, lending almost ?2 million to 18

projects. We do not charge arrangement fees, settlement fees,

we are after it the social enterprise ourselves. We concentrate

all lending activity, all our lending energy in the areas of the

mainstream banking sector are not particularly keen to get involved

in. But our space. The lender believes cuts in public funding

largely explains a record period for loans, it hopes the money will prove

to have been well invested in the ventures it backs become a success.

Julian O'Neill, BBC Newsline Belfast.

A joint British-Irish ceremony is to be held in Belgium in June

to mark the centenary of the Battle of Messines Ridge in

Unionist and nationalist soldiers from across Ireland fought side

The ceremony will be at the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Messines

The shared event will mark the service and sacrifice

of soldiers from the 36th Ulster division and the 16th Irish division

On Wednesday's programme, we met seven-year-old

He has autism and barely spoke until he watched the astronaut

Tim Peake blast into space just over a year ago.

Hayden's mother told us he's been talking about all things space

Well, the story has been watched almost 50,000 times

online since our broadcast and now even Major Tim Peake

What planet do you want to go to? Myers. Can you tell them where Myers

is? It's the fourth planet away from the Sun.

online since our broadcast and now even Major Tim Peake

"Delighted that Hayden is making such great progress.

Next stop, Mars for that brave young lad."

You can watch that report, it's still on our Facebook page.

Now there are big preparations on the west coast of Ireland ahead

the wedding of golf star Rory McIlroy.

Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison is there.

It would be pushing it to say that security is very tight at the moment

for the wedding tomorrow, but tomorrow it will be a different

story. Rory and Eric are used to Raqqa. They have spent the last two

new receives here and tomorrow we expect the likes of singers from

Westside and one direction to be here along with golfers. Graeme

McDowell is playing a internment in America. Pierce Brosnan got married

here. As my colleague has been finding out, he has been listening

to what local people have been saying about tomorrow pot event. One

of sport's most eligible bachelors is about to tie the tie the knot.

Rory McIlroy and his fiancee have been engaged since late 2015. They

will marry at the picturesque Ashford Castle in County Mayo. He

often shies away from the spotlight, but tomorrow, golf's quiet man will

struggle to dodge the attention. The attention is bringing a welcome

boost to the village. It will draw down tourists from Northern Ireland.

It will be wonderful. They are badly in need of it. Lastly, there were a

lot of people staying here and putting up marquees and forests and

whatnot. Friends and family of the couple will rub shoulders with stars

in the world of sport and music. This usually sleepy fishing village

is now the centre intense media interest. There is speculation that

Ed Sheerin, Rory pot friend is going to make an appearance here tonight,

even though he is playing in Manchester. The real speculation is

that the main entertainment is going to be the legend that is Stevie

wonder. Or maybe years just calling in to say loves them. I like it,

Shane. It's going to be a great weekend. And now the sport.

36 games played in this season's Irish league, only two to go.

And just a single point seperates Crusaders at the top, and Linfield,

who've won the league 51 times - the most successful club

However if Linfield slip up against Coleraine this weekend,

then this year's Championship could be all over by 5:00pm tomorrow.

If the pressure is on Crusaders, they are certainly not showing it.

Nice and relaxed comedy team had their final training session last

night, knowing this year's championship could come down to one

goal, one mistake, just one piece of brilliance. COMMENTATOR: A second

opportunity! What is the overriding opportunity right now? I think we

are keen to get on with it. Do you enjoy it? Absolutely not. The

emotions of football are tough. Somatic state, trying to win

something. You only get yourself in this position now and again. -- so

much at stake. He had to say in the moment all of the time and that's

what we are trying to do. We are not getting ahead of ourselves, we are

just dying to play one game of football and deal with them as they

come along. In the history of the Irish league, only two clubs have

managed three successive titles. The class of 2017 ready to pounce if

Crusaders slip up. Typically take care of our own business. We are

going to Coleraine now. You should be one of those occasions. We are

waiting to difficult. Especially down there, once again, our boys

should go down and relish. Sometimes it's not about performance, it's

about digging out points. Is it going to take three winter when the

fleet? I think so. Linfield are a top team. We have to look after our

own camping on with what we do. We have to see of best is good enough

and if it's not, never mind. If their side failed to claim all three

points and Crusaders do, then it's all over for another year. If

Linfield win, then this year's title race will go to the very final game

the season. Some breaking football news this

evening and Cliftonville are looking for a new manager

after the resignation The former Cliftonville player has

been in full-time charge at Solitude since October 2015,

after impressing Despite only one win in nine,

Cliftonville are currently fourth in the table,

and will be involved in the end-of-season playoff's

for a European place. Little has been strongly linked with

the vacant job at the Rovers. The Belfast Giant's season may be

over, but there's more top-class ice hockey taking place at the SSE

Arena. For the very first time,

Belfast hosts Division 1B The Great Britain team will be

hoping to gain promotion, but face tough opposition

from the likes of Japan, For over a decade, Colin Shields has

been scoring goals here for the Belfast Giants. He is the team pot

all-time leading scorer, but now the focus of the Scottish born forward

isn't helping Great Britain win World Championship promotion on home

ice. Something a little bit different not only for myself, but

for the fans and the people Belfast and Great Britain to see us. We are

looking for a dead. Is an exciting challenge. Something to push as

Elizabeth over the finish line and awfully we will take home a gold

medal. Will be the first time in a long time that they have hosted the

championship and hopes how they can win hands gain promotion. Every year

that you can win it, it's whatever level you are at, it's great. To win

it as the home nation would be brilliant. We have to handle that

and make sure we stay focused. I think they have a great chance. I

really believe that. I know the guys believe that. There is a real

camaraderie and excitement in the grip. I hope we bring it and the

liver. This is the latest major ice hockey event to be held in Belfast

following on from a successful American tournament and another

opportunity to showcase the city. Supporting Northern Ireland is not

just about the capping Giants, it's about support as a whole and

something bigger for the community. It's good to see other events with

the World Championships and the friendship are forthcoming to

Belfast. It is a thumping else the fans can enjoy can enjoy the city.

Showing them a little bit of a different style of hockey. Hopefully

they will come out and support and we dusted pictures. The first game

is against Croatia on Sunday. The first game is against

Croatia on Sunday. Antrim's Mark Allen produced

a superb first session to take a 5-3 lead over John Higgins

in their second-round match at the World Championship

at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield.The world number

11 hit three centuries against the four-time champion

including a run of 129 in frame six. After not potting a ball

for more than 40 minutes, Higgins regrouped to snatch

the final frame of the session. The two remaining sessions take

place tomorrow with Allen You can also keep in contact with us

via Facebook and Twitter. The weather for the weekend

ahead with Cecilia Daly. He real change in our weather is

coming next week when it is going to get a lot colder. This weekend,

we'll see a of cold weather compared to the last couple of days. A lot of

dry weather around, good news for gardeners. Not completely rain free.

For instance, tonight we have trips and jabs of rain around. Not

particularly heavy on lasting too long and it will generally be quite

cloudy. Perhaps a little bit cooler compared to recent nights. Let's

look at Saturday. A lot of dry weather to come. There will, once

again, be a lot of cloud around, too. If you're up early tomorrow, it

will be damp places. Most of that rain edges away quite quickly and

then we'll see a little better brightness coming through. The best

chance of sunshine tomorrow afternoon will be over and trim.

Slightly lower temperatures than today. Still a very light winds. The

cloud will be thicker over parts of terror on. The risk of one or two

showers at any time through the course of the day. Not bad

motorcycle racing weather. A lot of dry weather. A few are out and about

tomorrow night, no more than the odd spot of rain. Otherwise, fairly dry

and not to Chile. Similar temperatures to tonight. Let's move

on to Sunday. Fairly cloudy to begin with, with the few bits and pieces

of rain around. Temperatures edged back up. A few fancy getting out in

the garden this week, it will not be completely dry, but if your amount

of dry weather around and not as cold as next week when we get this

blast of cold air. Originally, that comes from the Arctic. One of the

coldest times of year in the Arctic and that's why we can see

temperatures in single figures, even snow. Enjoy your weekend.

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