29/12/2016 BBC Newsline

A couple in their fifties have escaped serious injury in a fire

Two dogs who were in the bungalow on the Foreglen Road

The fire in a rear bedroom began just before seven

The man and woman were treated for smoke inhalation

The fire is believed to have started by accident.

A couple from County Down have been conned out of almost ?5,000

after becoming the latest victims of an online Swedish

Since March three other people in Northern Ireland have

been defrauded of some ?13,000 between them.

One of the victims has been explaining how he was conned

Ian was looking at cars on a second-hand car website when he was

hooked in by the scam. He enquired about this Audi. And looking

reasonable price, ?4000 for a 2010 car so I thought I would inquire so

I tried ringing the telephone number at the time. It went straight to the

answer machine and there was no answer so I left it. The following

day, I got a text message from Catherine Mattson. I never spoke to

her. She provided an e-mail address to everything from then on was done

by e-mail, she told me the whole story about how she had worked in

Belfast and how the car had been backcombed -- back home to Sweden

with when it was no use because it was irate handcart. But the car was

-- -- because it was a right handcart. But the car never arrived

with him. It's just devastating to lose that amount of money. It's very

common, we've had for people who have lost money. Some people have

been fortunate enough and canny enough not to go any further with

the purchase because they have smelt a rat. the advice is if you're going

to buy a second-hand car, make sure you see it and check it out first.

In the arts, 2016 was a year in which we said goodbye to some

notable local names in music, art and literature.

Our arts correspondent Robbie Meredith takes a look back.

Some important local voices fell silent this year.

Belfast singer songwriter Kennedy succumbed to cancer aged

Sir Van Morrison was among those to pay tribute.

While Sir Paul McCartney said he was very

sad to hear of the death of his former guitarist Henry McCulloch.

John Montague and Basil Blackshaw also passed away in 2016.

He was a painter who was so deeply rooted in

the Ulster countryside, particularly Antrim and North Down where he grew

An artist inspired by Blackshaw made headlines of his own.

Colin Davidson's portrait of the Queen was

Meanwhile, young Belfast actor Anthony Boyle earned

reviews for his performance in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,

the hottest ticket in London's West End.

In the books, my character is a bit of a baddie, a bad egg.

The Ulster Orchestra celebrated 50 years.

While the Undertones marked 40 years together.

We're still playing in the band with people I knew when I was

On the big screen, The Journey, a fictional account of the

relationship between Martin McGuinness and

Ian Paisley was premiered at the prestigious

Northern Ireland however is getting set to say goodbye to small screen

hit Game of Thrones which is to end in 2018.

Winter hasn't come quite come to Westeros yet.

There are still two more series to go.

It's been a year of sporting triumphs for Northern Ireland -

the Euros, Carl Frampton, Jonathan Rea to name but a few.

But what about East Belfast Ladies FC?

Kelly Bonner went along to meet the team who are making

It's a cold, wet, December evening but it hasn't put these women off

coming to training to practice and pressure's on. We done the double

last year, we want to go for the lead and more trophies issue. 18

months ago, East Belfast ladies didn't even exist but now they're in

the history books after their unbelievable double winning debut

season. We wanted to go and see how we went on and we got to where we

are now. I've played football for 22 years and my career was coming to an

end. I thought my football was over and now we've gone and done a double

and then making new friends, people I didn't know before -- I'm making

new friends and some of the girls have command leaps and bounds.

When they first started off, we took the few hammerings -- and a few. And

there just followed naturally. East Belfast ladies are hoping for the

same success in 2017. Let's get the weather

now with Angie. Good evening. It is quite mild for

the last few days of 2016 before turning chilly into January but the

breeze is picking up at the moment and through tonight it is going to

be bringing more in the way of cloud. It's still mainly dry and

because we have that blanket of cloud overhead, it should stay

frost-free, temperatures no lower than six or seven Celsius. Into

tomorrow, a cloudy, breezy day more so than today, still mainly dry, but

I wouldn't be surprised as you require becoming sick enough to give

a few patches of drizzle mainly towards the west, otherwise it is

dry, but we do have windier weather across the north of Scotland into

the northwest of Scotland. Elsewhere, apart from the odd shower

to western coast, it is mainly dry, may be a few dry intervals to the

East Coast and one or two patches of fog when it stays chilly. Elsewhere,

a lot of cloud but also a bit milder, particularly the further

north and west Europe. It looks like a milder day for Northern Ireland in

the afternoon, temp just higher than today at 11 or 12 Celsius. Still a

fair amount of cloud and breeze so not much in the way of sunshine.

That takes us into New Year's Eve and changes on the way, we have the

weather front living in and the isobars gathering, which means

increasing winter so it will become quite windy on New Year's Eve. A dry

start, perhaps bright spells, milder head of the rain, temperatures at

1011 Celsius but the rain moves in from the northwest to the afternoon

and into the evening. All there for many of us, clearing out of the way

by the time we get to the midnight celebrations. Behind the rain, we

have cold, arctic air coming in from the north so it's times chillier for

New Year's day and the start of next week. Brighter with a few wintry

showers. Our next BBC Newsline

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