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Now on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are. | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
John McAreavey, whose wife Michaela was murdered on their honeymoon | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
in Mauritius six years ago, is returning to the island | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
to issue a fresh appeal for information about her killing. | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
No-one has been convicted of the murder of the Tyrone woman. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
In an exclusive interview John McAreavey has spoken | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
to BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson, who's in | :00:27. | :00:28. | |
Most people here in Mauritius thought John McAreavey would never | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
be back on the island but as we speak he is on his way. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
It is six years since his wife Michaela was | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
murdered on honeymoon in a luxury hotel near here. | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
John McAreavey is not coming back here alone. With him is his sister | :00:46. | :01:01. | |
Claire and Mark Carter, one of Michaela's brothers. | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
His decision to return was not a sudden decision. | :01:04. | :01:05. | |
He has been planning it for quite some time, | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
and before he left I spoke to him, and I asked him what | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
he hoped to achieve by coming back here. | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
What we're trying to achieve from this whole process is justice, | :01:13. | :01:15. | |
and that is justice for Michaela, for our families. | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
It is a hard process, and there's no doubt about that. | :01:20. | :01:28. | |
But it has been hard ever since Michaela died. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
And I suppose this process isn't just picking up again from 2012. | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
This has been an ongoing process for our families for | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
The difference now is we are taking a bit more of a lead, | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
because we are not content with how things have been happening | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
The question many people are asking is why now? | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
John McAreavey recently remarried, and here in Mauritius | :01:53. | :01:58. | |
there is absolutely no sign of a breakthrough in the police | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
investigation but John is adamant that his visit here | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
We could sit in a studio in Belfast or wherever and announced that and | :02:09. | :02:21. | |
the media might grab that and run with that but we need to appeal to | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
the people in Mauritius. We felt that the biggest way | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
to achieve that was to Five years ago, two | :02:26. | :02:27. | |
hotel workers were found After that the police here launched | :02:28. | :02:40. | |
a fresh investigation that it achieved nothing. | :02:41. | :02:42. | |
Will John McAreavey's presence here achieve anything? | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
Nobody knows but he is prepared to give it a try. | :02:45. | :02:46. | |
A pipe bomb has been made safe outside | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
People living in the Tamneymore Park area of the Waterside | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
had to leave their houses for a time while army bomb disposal experts | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
There's increasing concern about the level of dissident | :03:00. | :03:03. | |
violence, with four attacks stretching from Strabane to Derry | :03:04. | :03:07. | |
A forensic team was carrying out detailed follow-up searches at this | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
The army examined a suspicious object at Tamneymore Park | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
It followed a paramilitary-style attack on Wednesday evening, | :03:20. | :03:27. | |
Two days earlier, a 23-year-old man was shot in the leg | :03:28. | :03:39. | |
in Creggan after being forced to lie on the floor by two masked men. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
We still have small groups of people who are | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
It is up to us to drag them out of the past. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
There is no place for guns or bombs on our streets. | :03:51. | :03:58. | |
Last week in Strabane, the PSNI said there was an attempt to kill | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
officers after a roadside bomb in the Townsend Street area. | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
As I say, there was a clear message sent at the recent election. | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
They want politicians to deliver for them. | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
They don't want faceless people doing things on their behalf. | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
One DUP MLA has raised his security concerns with the PSNI. | :04:16. | :04:25. | |
We have been assured they are doing all they can to bring these people | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
to justice and tried to minimise any impact they can have. | :04:33. | :04:33. | |
The police in the city have issued an appeal for information. | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
They want to hear from anyone who saw suspicious | :04:37. | :04:44. | |
activity around Gobnascale to come forward. | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
The bodies of a man and a woman have been recovered from the river | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
The couple, on holiday from Germany, had been on a hired boat. | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
They were last seen at a restaurant in Carrick-on-Shannon | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
The body of the man, who was 40 and originally from Roscommon, | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
was found this afternoon at the town's marina. | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
The woman, who was found a few hours later, was English and in her 30s. | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
Postmortem examinations will be carried out on Monday. | :05:06. | :05:09. | |
Detectives are investigating after a man's body was found | :05:10. | :05:12. | |
It is thought the body may have washed ashore. | :05:13. | :05:18. | |
A year ago all of the local hospitals went smoke-free. | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Staff, patients and visitors were banned from | :05:24. | :05:24. | |
The Western Trust first adopted the policy in 2014. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
Linzi Lima has been finding out if people are adhering to the ban. | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Health trusts here declared themselves smoke-free zones. | :05:35. | :05:41. | |
Smoking is not allowed anywhere on hospital grounds. | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
A year on, has the ban made any difference? | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
The fact we went smoke-free last year, 2016, it is a slow work | :05:51. | :06:02. | |
in process but it is still improving, which is the main thing. | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
There is a lot less litter as well so it is improving. | :06:08. | :06:16. | |
Joe is the smoking warden at the Belfast Trust. | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
There's no smoking on the grounds, OK? | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
You just have to be compassionate with them. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Some people might have had a relative that just died. | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
They might have been told they have a terminal illness, | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
so you have to be compassionate in your approach and have sympathy | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
The smoke-free policy is a ministerial directive, not law, | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
meaning those lighting up on hospital grounds | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
may be asked to put it out but won't face prosecution. | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
We are certainly seeing an improvement on all of our sites. | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
Although, I have to say, and be totally honest, | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
that it is still a challenge, and particularly a challenge | :06:51. | :06:53. | |
on our big sites such as the Royal and the City Hospital. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
Maybe not at the front of the hospital | :06:58. | :07:06. | |
but there should be somewhere for long-stay patients | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
People who smoke and are in hospital, what do they do? | :07:10. | :07:15. | |
Especially when I'm on my way to the cancer ward. | :07:16. | :07:32. | |
I think they should have an allocated area for them, | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
maybe not just at the front door because sometimes it's busy | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
I don't smoke personally, so not favourable! | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
Undoubtedly at entrances and grounds at some hospitals, | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
The trust still say their policy is working and those | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
Through the use of a warden and education policy, | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
they hope those numbers will reduce even further. | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
And just one football result in the SSE Airtricity Premier Division, | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
where Bray Wanderers beat Derry City 3-2. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
The Candystripers took to the pitch in shirts | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
honouring their former captain, Ryan McBride, who died | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
It's the start of the weekend and although it isn't likely to be quite | :08:14. | :08:29. | |
as good as last weekend there is some fine weather. It's a weekend of | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
two halves, we started on a showery note but the showers will fade away, | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
it turns drier and brighter but cooler air so quite chilly at night | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
and even daytime not as mild as before. The showers will use | :08:46. | :08:51. | |
weighted night to the north so many places to running dry, even tonight | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
is cooler than last night, and tomorrow we should see some bright | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
spells, maybe initially in the morning and then later, in between | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
we have showers so a bit of an April fool, tomorrow starts after right | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
and bright but showers will edge through the later part of the | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
morning. Low pressure is the dominating feature on Britain and | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
Ireland as a whole so that brings a mix of sunshine and showers, some | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
places may avoid the showers but were they do come along they could | :09:27. | :09:31. | |
be heavy and thundery. We will have those into the afternoon, moving | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
south and east, here they could be heavy with under but they clear away | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
later on, so a drier and brighter end to the day but a north-westerly | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
wind means temperatures are not as high. Tomorrow night cold, there | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
could be grown frost on Sunday morning but does that of the two | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
days, mainly dry with bright and sunny spells. | :09:57. | :09:57. | |
BBC Northern Ireland is keeping her country... | :09:58. | :10:09. | |
..from line-dancing champions to crooning kids. | :10:10. | :10:13. |