:00:00. > :00:11.Flights in and out of Belfast International Airport
:00:12. > :00:14.are returning to normal after a day of disruption.
:00:15. > :00:17.A cargo plane which was damaged on landing this morning blocked part
:00:18. > :00:22.It led to some flight cancellations and delays.
:00:23. > :00:37.With no warning of problems, this plane came in to land shortly before
:00:38. > :00:40.6am but almost instantly the crew would have known something was
:00:41. > :00:46.wrong. It isn't clear yet exactly what but it led to tire blow outs.
:00:47. > :00:51.The plane came to a safe stop but at the worst possible place. The
:00:52. > :00:55.aircraft stopped at the intersection of two runways so we had to work
:00:56. > :01:01.back, work out how much runway space we could use. We managed to get 1900
:01:02. > :01:08.metres which meant we could continue operation. The time used to make
:01:09. > :01:11.that decision meant knock-on delays through the day. I was supposed to
:01:12. > :01:14.be in Glasgow but now I've missed my meetings in Glasgow so I'm going to
:01:15. > :01:20.have to try to get to Edinburgh instead but that won't be until
:01:21. > :01:24.tomorrow morning. We can forget the flight at 8:10am. We have to get
:01:25. > :01:30.another flight to Glasgow and another flight from Glasgow at
:01:31. > :01:38.2:15pm to Australia. I'm going to miss that. After the 12 -- after the
:01:39. > :01:42.incident, the plane was towed away and the runway was reopen. The
:01:43. > :01:46.aircraft has been moved from the main runway and air accident in the
:01:47. > :01:51.gators are looking at the right undercarriage in an attempt to find
:01:52. > :01:55.out what went wrong. The at Port says it expects normal operations to
:01:56. > :02:07.resume tomorrow. -- the airport says. In one local health trust,
:02:08. > :02:11.some women have to wait up to 35 weeks to see a cancer specialist.
:02:12. > :02:13.The minister says the numbers are shocking. Our health correspondent
:02:14. > :02:23.has the details. Joanne knows what it's like living
:02:24. > :02:28.with a cancer diagnosis. In 2008 she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
:02:29. > :02:31.Now it has spread to her stomach and bones. Her treatment has been good
:02:32. > :02:38.overall but she says she's had to fight to be seen quickly. When she
:02:39. > :02:42.told me I had breast cancer, I was devastated. Not about having cancer
:02:43. > :02:47.but about the weight of five weeks because all I could think of is I
:02:48. > :02:51.needed this cancer out. With greater awareness around cancer, more people
:02:52. > :02:55.are being referred to specialists but that extra demand means some are
:02:56. > :03:01.waiting longer than the recommended target. In fact, figures seen by the
:03:02. > :03:06.BBC reveal that after a routine breast cancer referral, some women
:03:07. > :03:13.are waiting 35 weeks. The figures are horrendous. Waiting 35 weeks for
:03:14. > :03:17.a routine breast appointment for a woman is so stressful but, equally,
:03:18. > :03:23.the patients are in that time still unwell. It is a problem that needs
:03:24. > :03:28.sorted out in the coming back to our door because they're anxious, upset
:03:29. > :03:42.and getting sick. The spokesperson for the trust said...
:03:43. > :03:48.Technologies the loss of specialist staff meant patients couldn't be
:03:49. > :03:53.seen as quickly as the trust would like, but performance has improved
:03:54. > :03:56.significantly. Like other places, the breast-cancer unit has
:03:57. > :04:01.encountered difficulty recruiting senior staff. It isn't just cancer
:04:02. > :04:04.which has long waiting times. The leaked figures indicate some
:04:05. > :04:14.referred for routine urology treatment could face a wait of 142
:04:15. > :04:18.weeks. Orthopaedics, 93 weeks. And cardiology, 47 UNIX. While we don't
:04:19. > :04:22.know how many people this affects, these are the official figures,
:04:23. > :04:29.compiled by the health trust and given to our GPs. I think that what
:04:30. > :04:32.we've seen of the last number of months has been shocking. It is
:04:33. > :04:36.unacceptable to say that anyone would have to wait any longer than
:04:37. > :04:41.is absolutely necessary. The targets are challenging for a reason, to
:04:42. > :04:45.make sure we deliver the very best outcomes we possibly can. According
:04:46. > :04:51.to this cancer charity, the helpline is busy. We ask people to think what
:04:52. > :04:54.it's like sitting at home with the fear you might have cancer and
:04:55. > :05:01.knowing you won't know for four months. It's horrific. Timing is
:05:02. > :05:03.critical and, for some, can make a huge difference not only to their
:05:04. > :05:06.treatment but even their survival. A nine year old boy was injured
:05:07. > :05:09.in a collision involving a scrambler The police are investigating
:05:10. > :05:14.what happened and the child is in It's the latest crash involving
:05:15. > :05:17.a scrambler and it happened within a few hours of an Assembly
:05:18. > :05:38.debate about the current Evidence grabbers have been driven
:05:39. > :05:46.in the area. A nine-year-old boy was injured after being hit by attempt
:05:47. > :05:51.won -- scrambler. He was taken to hospital and is said to be in a
:05:52. > :05:55.stable condition. No one else was injured. A local councillor says
:05:56. > :06:01.young people riding scramblers in this area is an ongoing issue and
:06:02. > :06:07.something needs to be done. Last night has raised the game a bit.
:06:08. > :06:11.Before, there was damage to football pitches. This could have been a
:06:12. > :06:15.tragic, tragic accident. Thankfully it isn't. We could have been looking
:06:16. > :06:21.at a more serious incident if someone had been more seriously
:06:22. > :06:28.injured or dead. The PSNI and the council need to step up and say we
:06:29. > :06:33.will police the public spaces and send out a message to the people
:06:34. > :06:39.that this is not acceptable. It is illegal to ride quad bikes and
:06:40. > :06:43.scramblers in public spaces. In July, mother of three Valerie
:06:44. > :06:50.Armstrong died after being hit by a scrambler in west Belfast. One month
:06:51. > :06:56.later on a private legal track, 13-year-old Daniel Sheridan from
:06:57. > :06:59.Dublin was killed in a crash. Yesterday, the law surrounding
:07:00. > :07:05.scramblers and quad bikes was debated in the Assembly. A motion
:07:06. > :07:08.was put forward for the law to be better enforced.
:07:09. > :07:10.It was claimed in the High Court today that a withdrawal
:07:11. > :07:12.from the European Union would have a "catastrophic effect"
:07:13. > :07:16.Separate proceedings have been brought, one by Raymond McCord,
:07:17. > :07:17.the father of a loyalist paramilitary murder victim.
:07:18. > :07:20.The other by a cross-party group of MLAs.
:07:21. > :07:23.Raymond McCord's barrister argued that the Good Friday Agreement gave
:07:24. > :07:28.the people of Northern Ireland power over their own sovereignty.
:07:29. > :07:32.The Assembly members' lawyer said any plans to trigger Article fifty
:07:33. > :07:37.should be examined and voted on by Parliament or the Assembly.
:07:38. > :07:41.The Republic's government is inviting politicians,
:07:42. > :07:44.business people and trade unionists from both sides of the border
:07:45. > :07:46.to what it is describing as an "all island civic
:07:47. > :07:53.The meeting will be hosted by the Taoiseach in Dublin
:07:54. > :08:00.Sinn Fein, the SDLP and the Alliance have already indicated
:08:01. > :08:03.they will accept their invitations, but the main unionist parties say
:08:04. > :08:18.While the Prime Minister says no UK region can opt out of Brexit, the
:08:19. > :08:22.DUP says a special argument needs to be made for Northern Ireland. We
:08:23. > :08:28.will make a special case for the island of Ireland, both with the
:08:29. > :08:32.European Union and with the wider world. Northern Ireland as part of
:08:33. > :08:35.the United Kingdom and we are heading for Brexit, we know that and
:08:36. > :08:38.we will work closely with our government in London but we also
:08:39. > :08:42.need to ensure that special arrangements are put in place to
:08:43. > :08:46.ensure that we have free movement of goods on the island, that we have a
:08:47. > :08:47.market on the island that enables businesses to do what they do best-
:08:48. > :08:50.trade with each other. The cost of buying a plastic bag
:08:51. > :08:53.could double to ten pence. That's one of the options
:08:54. > :08:55.being considered by the Department of Finance which is reviewing
:08:56. > :08:58.the carrier bag levy. The use of plastic bags has fallen
:08:59. > :09:00.dramatically since the levy was introduced in 2013,
:09:01. > :09:13.as Catherine Morrison reports. No trip to the shops these days is
:09:14. > :09:17.complete without bringing a handful of banks from home, increasingly
:09:18. > :09:24.more and more of us are opting to reuse bags instead of buying them at
:09:25. > :09:28.5p a go. It isn't -- hasn't just changed our shopping behaviour, it
:09:29. > :09:37.has helped the environment, too. There have been millions of bags
:09:38. > :09:42.less in circulation. It also raised millions for environmental projects.
:09:43. > :09:45.Environmental campaigners and politicians have hailed the plastic
:09:46. > :09:49.bag levy a success. Now under review by the Department of Finance at
:09:50. > :09:54.Stormont. They are considering three options. Scrapping it all together,
:09:55. > :09:59.keeping it the same or doubling the price of a single use bag from 5p to
:10:00. > :10:09.10p. How do shoppers here about that? Terrific. I think it has been
:10:10. > :10:16.very successful. It has cleared up the environment quite a bit. What
:10:17. > :10:21.about paying 10p and not 5p? I don't think that'll make a difference to
:10:22. > :10:26.the average shop. The cost of the average shop. If it is put to good
:10:27. > :10:31.use, well and good. But why? It is making us pay. We don't want to pay
:10:32. > :10:37.5p towards the environmental whatever. Definitely try to reuse
:10:38. > :10:41.the banks. Definitely, there are so many in the boot of the car, it's
:10:42. > :10:46.difficult to remember to bring them out sometimes. The Department for
:10:47. > :10:49.affairs is responsible for the levy and a member of the committee told
:10:50. > :10:55.us he is in favour of the status quo. We've seen good results of the
:10:56. > :11:00.introduction of the 5p levy with an 80% reduction in plastic bags used.
:11:01. > :11:03.Whether it is necessary to increase it to keep that reduction, I'm not
:11:04. > :11:10.sure. I don't think we are in the position to remove it entirely. We
:11:11. > :11:12.will see more bags used. No decision will be made until next spring once
:11:13. > :11:24.the review has been completed. They were involved in the biggest
:11:25. > :11:26.game of the season but it ended with them out.
:11:27. > :11:29.Cup holders Dundalk came from a goal down to beat Kenny Shiels' side 2-1
:11:30. > :11:31.in their semi final replay at the Brandywell.
:11:32. > :11:34.Ireland's bid to host the Rugby World Cup in 2023
:11:35. > :11:38.is through to the final phase of the selection process.
:11:39. > :11:40.Ireland will now go up against France and South Africa
:11:41. > :11:46.for the right to host the tournament in seven years' time.
:11:47. > :11:50.The decision will be made in November next year.
:11:51. > :11:55.The weather forecast is next with Angie Phillips.
:11:56. > :12:03.Good evening. The breeze has been easing down a little bit today and
:12:04. > :12:06.it has been mainly dry thanks to the high pressure over Scandinavia. We
:12:07. > :12:10.do have south-easterly winds, holding weather fronts to the west
:12:11. > :12:15.of us. This particular weather front has been sitting across the West for
:12:16. > :12:18.the last day or two and has given almost a month's worth of rainfall
:12:19. > :12:23.over parts of Kerry, which has led to some flooding. For the rest of
:12:24. > :12:29.the Republic and Northern Ireland, the dry weather is holding.
:12:30. > :12:33.Temperatures are settling at around 10-12. We might get the odd light
:12:34. > :12:38.shower developing later in the night as the breeze picks up again, and
:12:39. > :12:42.tomorrow will be a breezy day. A mainly dry day once again with the
:12:43. > :12:50.odd light shower first thing. They will be dying away. A much better
:12:51. > :12:56.day for the rest of Ireland, dry and brighter. For much of Britain, dry
:12:57. > :13:01.as well. There is a keen south-easterly breeze making it
:13:02. > :13:04.quite cool, even in the south with temperatures at best mid to high
:13:05. > :13:09.teens. Northern Ireland, come the afternoon, still mainly dry. The
:13:10. > :13:12.stubborn cloud will break up a bit giving some brightness particularly
:13:13. > :13:20.towards the east, which is where the breeze will be most noticeable. And
:13:21. > :13:24.be cooler as well. Thursday and Friday also mainly dry with the odd
:13:25. > :13:26.shower. Still breezy but the breeze eases down towards the weekend.