29/05/2017 BBC Newsline

The police are investigating a possible link between yesterday's

murder in Bangor and the loyalist feud in Carrickfergus.

Colin Horner was shot in front of his three-year-old son

in a supermarket car park yesterday afternoon.

Our reporter Richard Morgan has more.

This is Colin Horner, pictured at the funeral

Mr Gilmore died after he was shot in Carrickfergus in March.

Two months on, Colin Horner could be the latest victim

The 35-year-old was gunned down in this Sainsbury's

car park which was busy with shoppers yesterday afternoon.

Flowers have been left close to the spot he was killed.

Police say a possible link to the loyalist feud

in Carrickfergus is one line of inquiry.

There were at least three shots fired, we know that.

It was a completely reckless act in a public car park

His three-year-old son was in the car and was immediately

beside his car when he was shot dead in front of him.

Detectives want to trace the movements of Mr Horner's black

Nissan Pulsar between 1:30pm and 2:30pm on Sunday.

There's another vehicle we are interested in that was seen

leaving the Balloo Link area immediately after the shooting,

immediately adjacent to the car park, a red Ford Mondeo this car

GKZ 7996 but we know they were false plates on this vehicle.

Police believe the gunman's vehicle was brought here

to Kerr's Road before it was set alight.

Police are here today, conducting an operation.

We also know that the gunman and probably at least one other

associate must have then got away from Kerrs Road so there's probably

another vehicle here so my appeal to the public is if anyone saw

of the vehicle being burnt out or waiting in the area

my appeal is for them to come forward and give

It's understood police will maintain a presence in the Bangor area

A 40-year-old man has been charged with last Friday's murder

He's due to appear at Lisburn Magistrates' Court tomorrow.

BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson has been to Portadown.

Marjorie and Michael Cawdery were both aged 83.

They lived on the outskirts of Portadown.

On Friday afternoon they were found dead by relatives.

An intruder had broken into their home.

It's believed the elderly couple were stabbed.

There are a lot of elderly people in the area and

People have never experienced anything like that round here so it

The family are absolutely devastated, which is understandable.

Marjorie and Michael were both quiet and reserved people.

They were not into the public end of things.

The rest of the family will be similar to that.

For them it is just trying to deal with this horrific act

A 40-year-old man was arrested on Friday afternoon.

The family of the elderly couple released a statement in which they

described what happened on Friday afternoon as incomprehensible.

They thanked everyone who had offered

A man and a woman escaped serious injury when their light aircraft

came down in County Down later this afternoon.

The emergency services were called to Castlewellan Forest Park

where they found the pilot and passenger who had managed to get

The pair were examined by paramedics and discharged.

A man's appeared in court charged with attempted murder in Antrim

He's also charged with slashing at two women.

The incident took place shortly before 7am on Saturday morning. A

man was stabbed five times. He witnesses said one police wind

pictured the victim's chest close to his heart.

Paul Catherwood of Rathlin Island -- Les Byrne was in court. He is

charged with action in bodily harm and position of an offensive weapon.

He's solicitor said he was acting in self defence at the house party near

the home will be relative. A detective constable told the court

that the incident was aggravated by alcohol and an element of

sectarianism. Bail was refused and he was remanded in custody.

A 17-year-old boy accused of rape has been denied bail.

The teenager, whose name can't be given because of his age,

is charged with four counts of rape and six counts of sexual assault.

The alleged attack is said to have happened in the Black Mountain area

The police said he's also being investigated over a separate

A disabled motorist was dragged from his car and assaulted

He flagged down by two men in the Sixmilecross area

They drove off in the car which was later found crashed.

The police say the victim, who uses crutches, made his way,

with some difficulty, to a nearby house to get help.

British Airways flights between Belfast City and Heathrow

airports are getting back to normal, after the cancellations caused

Many passengers were left stranded at home and abroad,

but BA say two thirds of passengers will have reached their destination

One passenger who was supposed to fly back to Belfast on

a BA flight on Saturday only managed to get home this evening.

I think they have treated everybody very poorly.

I feel for people, there were a lot of children as well,

so they should have been supplying them with information

I know that is minor but it settles people a little bit.

To tell people to leave the airport and do things online

Football and the Northern Ireland team will be without more key

players for next week's World Cup qualifier away to Azerbaijan.

Conor Washington and Jamie Ward are added to the injury list.

But the manager is hopeful Gareth McAuley and Craig Cathcart

in defence will be ready for the trip to Baku.

Having spoke to both lads consistently and the medical team

have been on top of everything for quite some time,

We have to make sure that what we have is as

prepared as possible and does the job.

At this time of year volunteers from around the world head

to live on Rathlin Island - home to our biggest sea bird colony.

Our north east reporter Sara Girvin went to the windswept island to see

For most of the year, fewer than 150 people

But every spring and summer the population explodes as tens of

thousands of sea birds come ashore to nest.

The spectacle will attract 20,000 visitors this year alone.

Volunteers come to the island for different reasons but they come from

Really getting down to the core and essential things of life.

Getting away from the busy metropolitan area I live in.

Since I was nine years old I have been bird-watching but usually I

would be the last one on a walk, I would be at the back.

Rathlin Island is famous for its puffins but many other

There were no guilimots here yesterday but now

It will become even more tightly packed over the coming days

and then in ten weeks they will all be gone.

The birds are the stars of the show but some volunteers find other

reasons to fall in love with Rathlin Island.

The lighthouse has become renowned for being an opportunity

Girl volunteers have come over to work with the RSPB and have

partnered up with island men so it is a very romantic place.

This is the island's resident married couple.

I've been interested in wildlife since I was a small child.

The thing I like about the birds is that they are literally everywhere.

It doesn't matter if you're out in the countryside or on a fantastic

colony like this or in the middle of the city, there is always

The RSPB needs more volunteers before breeding season is out.

They're hoping that they will get more helpers home to roost.

The weather forecast is next with Barra Best.

We end this bank holiday money on a fine and dry note and it is going to

stay that way overnight. It