20/02/2017 BBC Newsline

The death of a man in a scrambler bike crash

Ryan Phillips was 27 and from the Lisburn area.

He was involved in a collision with another bike on a pathway

The scene of the crash on the Lagan towpath.

Ryan Phillips who died, was

An 18-year-old youth was riding the other end was injured.

The tragedy happened just next to an off-road

The police are trying to find out what caused

It runs from the park and ride facility.

The name is popular with walkers and cyclists and is used as

The exact circumstances of what happened last night were

still being investigated but it was dark at the time and there would

have been a lot of noise from passing traffic on a motorway,

which is just on the other side of these bushes.

Neighbours arrived at the scene of the crash as police were

Young fellas at such a young age and this tragedy

The police were on scene and the lane was closed off.

Families were arriving and people were grief

stricken and it was a terrible scene.

Last summer, police launched an awareness campaign about

the use of scramblers in public places following the death of

Valerie Armstrong, a mother of three struck by a scrambler

in Colin Glen Forest Park in West Belfast.

Also last year, Daniel Sheridan died in a motorbike

And, a nine-year-old boy was hit by a scrambler at

Following the tragedy last night, the police

have issued an appeal for

information from anyone who was close to the scene of the crash.

Tributes have been paid to a 22-year-old Belfast man

who died at the weekend almost a fortnight after an incident

Conan Anderson had been injured during a night out and afterwards

a 27-year-old man was arrested in north Belfast on suspicion

Police are now treating the death as murder and have appealed

The victim had been a sports coach and involved

There's no words to describe what the family are going through.

Especially kids at that young age, the look up the game as a role

The police are investigating a gun attack in Coleraine last night

A masked gunman opened fire in their home in James Street.

The woman in her 50s and her son who's in his 20s

The DUP leader claims winning the Assembly election would give

Sinn Fein a hugely significant worldwide propaganda boost.

Launching her party's manifesto, Arlene Foster said such a result

would be a disaster for unionism and for Northern Ireland

and stopping Sinn Fein was the platform on which the DUP

This hotel will forever be associated with the failed talks

process led by the US diplomat Richard Haas.

Just over three years later, the DUP were back to launch

their manifesto for an election which will be followed by yet more

The DUP say they are fighting this election in the worst possible

circumstances but its main message is clear and it is one we have heard

The party leader said she was suffering.

I have been struck down with the cold/man flu so it is bad.

She was able to list ten reasons to give

the people on doorsteps about why it would matter if Sinn Fein wins

It would give Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein a hugely

significant worldwide propaganda boost just months after nationalism.

undermine unionist confidence which has been rebuilt after so many

years of decline and, finally, it would

give Sinn Fein the right to nominate a First Minister.

Our job, your job, is to make sure that that does not happen.

Then she turned to the Ulster Unionists.

Colleagues, it is inexplicable, sad and shameful that Mike Nesbitt would

urge people to transfer to the SDLP ahead of the Unionists.

When her speech was over, the media was not

The eight-page document is not really a manifesto

at all, but an addendum to reflect developments since the last document

It lists the main priorities of the DUP from then, prioritising

spending on health service, creating more jobs and increasing income,

protecting family budgets, raising standards in education for everyone

The DUP claims it goes into the election

Its goal is to get in front by Thursday.

An environmentalist has described the route of a new dual carriageway

near a protected wetland as the most expensive and destructive option

Chris Murphy has gone to court to try to stop work on a section

Chris Murphy, helped by his wife Doris, represented himself in court.

He is not opposing the duelling on the A6,

He says it is too close to an important

protected wetland north of Toomebridge.

At rush hour it's choked with traffic.

It needs upgrading, but not along this route,

He said this was one of the most important

wetlands in this island whose importance as a home for migratory

The stripping of the said was like cutting the corner of a Rembrandt.

At the heart of this case is a claim that the environmental survey

underpinning the decision to push ahead with the road were a decade

Chris Murphy said the Department for Infrastructure

officials had been told they were not compliant with rules

under EU laws which protect this place, but they'd

A new assessment ought to have been carried out, one that

was up-to-date and gave good information on the impact of the

project and populations of swans which use these fields.

He said picking the line closest to the lough through a

landscape celebrated by poet Seamus Heaney,

was the most expensive and most destructive option,

The Department will get its say tomorrow.

A County Armagh man has been fined several thousand pounds

for destroying 30 acres of priority habitat within an environmentally

Inspectors from the Environment Agency visited a site

owned by Derek Johnston from Carrickasticken Road

in Forkhill and saw areas being burned and sprayed

and vegetation being removed with machinery.

The land is within the Slieve Gullion Area

of Special Scientific Interest and Area of Conservation

and it is an offence to carry out such work

there without notification or permission.

The weather is next. Good evening. We had quite a spring

like feel to the weather this afternoon with temperatures above 14

degrees in some spots in the sunshine. Overnight tonight we have

a weather front which will introduce some cloud and rain in the southern

half of Northern Ireland. Poor skies across the North means cooler

overnight there. Tomorrow. Dry but it not going to last as we go

through the day, the weather front will again return but this time it

will bring some much heavier and more persistent rain. In

mid-morning, it is dry but it doesn't take long for the rain to

start to push in and spread to all parts. Temperatures still quite

mild, 11 or 12 degrees, but you can see what a different day were having

a cost of imports of the UK. Heavy rain across the west coast of

Scotland, drive across south-east England. It would be a varied of

weather. We start of this mild note that by the time ago to Thursday, it

could be cold enough for the chance of some hill snow. Overnight the

rain will continue into Tuesday and Wednesday. Behind it, we start to

introduce some of that cooler air so look at what happens to our

temperatures, highs of eight or 9 degrees on Wednesday and it is

because this area of cold air is becoming more dominant by the end of

the week. On Thursday morning, there is an area of low pressure comes

through and it could be cold enough to see them filled snow over highest

ground. A mild start of the week of the temperatures are going downhill.

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