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Good evening. | 0:00:08 | 0:00:09 | |
The local news with Donna Traynor... | 0:00:09 | 0:00:12 | |
The police have charged a 19-year-old man with | 0:00:12 | 0:00:14 | |
the murder of 24-year-old Richard Miskelly yesterday. | 0:00:14 | 0:00:17 | |
Mr Miskelly died after being assaulted at a house | 0:00:17 | 0:00:20 | |
on the Bangor Road in Newtownards early yesterday morning. | 0:00:20 | 0:00:25 | |
The man accused of killing him is also charged with perverting | 0:00:25 | 0:00:27 | |
the course of justice and is due in court tomorrow. | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
A second man who was arrested has been released by the police. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
Five men involved in a kidnap gang who threatened to cut off | 0:00:33 | 0:00:35 | |
the victim's fingers have been given suspended jail sentences. | 0:00:35 | 0:00:38 | |
The man, who was a cattle dealer, was tied up at gunpoint | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
in County Tyrone and held captive for five days in 2012. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:47 | |
Here's our south west reporter Julian Fowler. | 0:00:47 | 0:00:50 | |
Paul Gogan, who is originally from County Meath, thought | 0:00:50 | 0:00:53 | |
he was coming to Northern Ireland to see a meat factory. | 0:00:53 | 0:00:55 | |
Instead the cattle dealer was kidnapped | 0:00:55 | 0:00:58 | |
at gunpoint and held here - in an old refrigerated shipping | 0:00:58 | 0:01:01 | |
container at a motorsport track near Castlederg. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
The location is so remote the gang couldn't get a mobile signal. | 0:01:03 | 0:01:09 | |
They put Paul Gogan in the boot of a car | 0:01:09 | 0:01:12 | |
and drove towards the border. | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
They called his father Robert. | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
He was told to pay ?400,000 or his son's fingers | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
would be chopped off. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:26 | |
He replied, "Cut away," hung up and alerted Gardai. | 0:01:26 | 0:01:29 | |
Paul Gogan was eventually released after 100,000 euros | 0:01:29 | 0:01:30 | |
was left in a hedge. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:33 | |
He was accompanied on his trip by 59-year-old Robert | 0:01:33 | 0:01:35 | |
Vevers from Dumfries. | 0:01:35 | 0:01:37 | |
He pleaded guilty to kidnapping, false imprisonment and blackmail. | 0:01:37 | 0:01:40 | |
The judge said in an idiotic moment he had taken the law | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
into his own hands to recover ?200,000 he said he was owed - | 0:01:43 | 0:01:48 | |
a debt which led to the collapse of his business and his marriage. | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
The judge said he sold his soul to the devil when he contacted | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
criminals in Dublin who in turn recruited some men from Omagh | 0:01:55 | 0:01:57 | |
to assist in the kidnap plot. | 0:01:57 | 0:02:01 | |
44-year-old Patrick Noel McCaul from Slieveard Rise and 27-year-old | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
Matthew McLean from Glenpark Road pleaded guilty to conspiracy | 0:02:05 | 0:02:09 | |
to commit blackmail. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:12 | |
22-year-old Robert McLean from Deverney Park | 0:02:12 | 0:02:14 | |
and Martin Arkinson, who's 21, from Ballycolman Estate | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
in Strabane admitted assisting the blackmailers by buying food | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
and telephone top-up cards. | 0:02:19 | 0:02:23 | |
The judge said this was an unusual and indeed remarkable case. | 0:02:23 | 0:02:26 | |
The victim and his family did not give evidence and the central | 0:02:26 | 0:02:29 | |
players in the kidnap were not before the court. | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
The five who admitted their role were given suspended prison | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
sentences between 18 months and 2.5 years. | 0:02:36 | 0:02:44 | |
Talks on a new single transfer test for P7 children are due | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
to start next month. | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
The organisations who run the current two academic selection | 0:02:50 | 0:02:53 | |
tests are aiming to have a common exam in place by November 2019. | 0:02:53 | 0:02:57 | |
Our education correspondent Robbie Meredith reports. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:01 | |
For many of these P7 children at Andrews Memorial Primary | 0:03:01 | 0:03:04 | |
in Comber, the transfer tests have come and gone, but | 0:03:04 | 0:03:07 | |
the memory remains. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
Hard, long. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:12 | |
It took ages and there were lots of practice papers. | 0:03:12 | 0:03:17 | |
We could get some tests to keep going over the summer. | 0:03:17 | 0:03:21 | |
The principal wants to see that testing system streamlined. | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
Three Saturdays and potentially another one if they do the tests and | 0:03:26 | 0:03:30 | |
then another familiarisation day. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:33 | |
When you have that over the course of the autumn term, | 0:03:33 | 0:03:38 | |
if there was a shortened version of that and just one test it | 0:03:38 | 0:03:42 | |
would help everyone. | 0:03:42 | 0:03:43 | |
A document drawn up for the Education Minister Peter Weir | 0:03:43 | 0:03:46 | |
obtained by the BBC suggests what a common test could look like. | 0:03:46 | 0:03:49 | |
It says... | 0:03:49 | 0:03:51 | |
Children could sit three test papers, each lasting 45 minutes. | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
Two papers will be in multiple choice format. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
The third paper will contain writing and maths exercises. | 0:03:57 | 0:04:01 | |
The three papers could be taken on a single day. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:05 | |
For a single test to happen, though, two significant hurdles | 0:04:05 | 0:04:07 | |
have to be overcome. | 0:04:07 | 0:04:08 | |
AQE charge a fee for entry to their test, PPTC don't - | 0:04:08 | 0:04:11 | |
so who would pay for it? | 0:04:11 | 0:04:14 | |
The tests are also very different, so what format | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
would a common test take? | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
And that means it's not a done deal. | 0:04:19 | 0:04:23 | |
They are different types of tests. | 0:04:23 | 0:04:24 | |
They are examined across a different number of days. | 0:04:24 | 0:04:27 | |
There are significant differences as far as that is concerned. | 0:04:27 | 0:04:31 | |
That still exists. | 0:04:31 | 0:04:33 | |
We are going to have to be very resolved and very determined | 0:04:33 | 0:04:36 | |
if we are to overcome those things. | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
It's significant that the testers are getting round the same table, | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
but it'll be November 2019 at the earliest before | 0:04:42 | 0:04:45 | |
a single test is in place. | 0:04:45 | 0:04:54 | |
A Londonderry man has been called a hero after rescuing a couple | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
from a fire in their home at the weekend. | 0:04:57 | 0:04:59 | |
The man and woman have been transferred to hospital | 0:04:59 | 0:05:02 | |
in Belfast for treatment. | 0:05:02 | 0:05:03 | |
Sean McLaughlin heard a fire alarm going off inside their house | 0:05:03 | 0:05:05 | |
in Galliagh as he was going home on Saturday night. | 0:05:05 | 0:05:12 | |
The man who was in the bungalow, he can't walk, so he was sitting | 0:05:12 | 0:05:16 | |
on the bed and the flames were all around him. | 0:05:16 | 0:05:18 | |
And his wee legs were starting to take on fire. | 0:05:18 | 0:05:20 | |
His wheelchair was just outside the room, so I managed to get him | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
off the bed and put him on the wheelchair. | 0:05:24 | 0:05:26 | |
And I got him outside and I wheeled him outside | 0:05:26 | 0:05:28 | |
in the backyard and asked him was anybody else in there? | 0:05:28 | 0:05:28 | |
I went back in and to be quite honest the fire started getting | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
a bit worse and thick black smoke and I couldn't really see her. | 0:05:38 | 0:05:41 | |
I shouted her name and then I heard her, a soft toned | 0:05:41 | 0:05:44 | |
voice shouting out to me, "Help! | 0:05:44 | 0:05:46 | |
And when I got in, more yellow flames started coming out, | 0:05:46 | 0:05:48 | |
so I got to see her again and I just asked her could she crawl | 0:05:48 | 0:05:52 | |
towards me and she got a wee bit over towards me. | 0:05:52 | 0:05:55 | |
And then I just managed to grab her arm and pulled her out. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:58 | |
The political crisis at Stormont has stalled | 0:05:58 | 0:06:00 | |
the recruitment of a new head of the Northern | 0:06:00 | 0:06:04 | |
Ireland Civil Service. | 0:06:04 | 0:06:05 | |
Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness interviewed candidates last year, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
but when the renewable heat scheme controversy blew up, | 0:06:08 | 0:06:10 | |
the process was halted. | 0:06:10 | 0:06:11 | |
Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill reports. | 0:06:11 | 0:06:12 | |
It is a key post at Stormont Castle. | 0:06:12 | 0:06:14 | |
The head of the Civil Service acts as the principle policy advisor | 0:06:14 | 0:06:17 | |
to the top two ministers. | 0:06:17 | 0:06:22 | |
A failure to fill the job means this man, Sir Malcolm McKibbin, has | 0:06:22 | 0:06:25 | |
temporarily put off his retirement to remain in charge of 23,000 | 0:06:25 | 0:06:28 | |
officials in government departments and manage a budget of ?11 billion. | 0:06:28 | 0:06:35 | |
It is a powerful position at the heart of devolution, | 0:06:35 | 0:06:38 | |
but replacing him has been delayed and the Executive will likely | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
require legal advice to proceed. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:45 | |
Last November, Arlene Foster and Martin McGuinness | 0:06:45 | 0:06:49 | |
together interviewed two short-listed candidates. | 0:06:49 | 0:06:51 | |
Rules were changed to allow it. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:54 | |
They were given training in equality laws and an HR consultant | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
sat in to ensure proper procedures were followed. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:00 | |
The two men they interviewed were senior, experienced civil servants - | 0:07:00 | 0:07:05 | |
David Sterling and Andrew McCormick. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
Both had worked with Mrs Foster when she was Minister | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
at the Department of Enterprise and each has accepted responsibility | 0:07:11 | 0:07:16 | |
for failures around the RHI scheme. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
The BBC understands the interviews produced a winner, | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
but as the fall-out from RHI created a crisis, no appointment was made | 0:07:22 | 0:07:28 | |
during a seven-week period before the collapse of the Executive. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:32 | |
The recruitment process stalled and is now clouded by uncertainty. | 0:07:32 | 0:07:37 | |
Having politicised the appointment, it needs a First and Deputy First | 0:07:37 | 0:07:42 | |
Minister to complete - and no-one is confident those | 0:07:42 | 0:07:44 | |
posts will be filled quickly after the election. | 0:07:44 | 0:07:49 | |
A further complication is that Michelle O'Neill, | 0:07:49 | 0:07:53 | |
having replaced Mr McGuinness, was not part of the interview panel. | 0:07:53 | 0:07:59 | |
The Executive office will not comment on what it said | 0:07:59 | 0:08:02 | |
is still a live recruitment process. | 0:08:02 | 0:08:04 | |
No-one knows what the outcome will be - and it might even be | 0:08:04 | 0:08:06 | |
an issue a London minister has to address. | 0:08:06 | 0:08:16 | |
The latest weather outlook now, with Cecilia Daly. | 0:08:17 | 0:08:22 | |
Hello, good evening. | 0:08:22 | 0:08:23 | |
Another cold night coming up. | 0:08:23 | 0:08:24 | |
Fairly clear skies around at the moment, but there is an ice | 0:08:24 | 0:08:27 | |
warning now in force. | 0:08:27 | 0:08:28 | |
Temperatures will fall to around freezing, maybe just below | 0:08:28 | 0:08:31 | |
and there will be a few showers. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:33 | |
But showers will become more frequent during the early | 0:08:33 | 0:08:36 | |
hours from the northwest, hitting the cold air | 0:08:36 | 0:08:38 | |
and folding as snow in places by the end of the night, | 0:08:38 | 0:08:41 | |
particularly over high ground. | 0:08:41 | 0:08:44 | |
So, tomorrow morning through the rush-hour, | 0:08:44 | 0:08:46 | |
there will be the risk of ice in places and there will also be | 0:08:46 | 0:08:49 | |
some wintry showers moving south. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:50 | |
Just bear that in mind. | 0:08:50 | 0:08:51 | |
It will feel much colder in the gusty wind. | 0:08:51 | 0:08:54 | |
Most of the showers falling as rain, sleet or hail at lower levels, | 0:08:54 | 0:08:57 | |
but over the high ground there could be a couple | 0:08:57 | 0:08:59 | |
of centimetres of snow. | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
So, you can see there is a little area of low pressure there moving | 0:09:01 | 0:09:04 | |
southwards over parts of Scotland, towards north-west England | 0:09:04 | 0:09:06 | |
and across Northern Ireland, which will bring quite | 0:09:06 | 0:09:08 | |
frequent showers initially. | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
Behind it, sunnier skies over northern and central | 0:09:10 | 0:09:13 | |
areas of Scotland. | 0:09:13 | 0:09:14 | |
Wintry showers for much of northern England. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:17 | |
East Anglia and the south-east of England staying dry, | 0:09:17 | 0:09:19 | |
at least until late in the day, and the Republic of Ireland seeing | 0:09:19 | 0:09:23 | |
some sunshine and not too many showers until late | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
in the day either. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:26 | |
But it will be quite cold and wintry across Northern Ireland, gusty | 0:09:26 | 0:09:29 | |
winds, fairly frequent showers. | 0:09:29 | 0:09:30 | |
Some sunshine at times too, particularly in the afternoon. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:32 | |
Now, is the last day of February, the last day of winter, | 0:09:32 | 0:09:36 | |
and as March rolls in, which is the start of meteorological | 0:09:36 | 0:09:40 | |
spring, still a bit unsettled, but it won't be just | 0:09:40 | 0:09:43 | |
as cold and wintry. | 0:09:43 | 0:09:44 | |
On Wednesday there will be a fair bit of dry weather | 0:09:44 | 0:09:47 | |
through the morning, just one or two showers. | 0:09:47 | 0:09:49 | |
Some rain though edges up from the south late in the day. | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
And Thursday, we'll see a few showers, but also some dry spells. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:56 | |
That's it for now. | 0:09:56 | 0:10:02 | |
Less than a year since the last Assembly election, | 0:10:15 | 0:10:17 |