08/11/2017

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0:00:00 > 0:00:00Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

0:00:10 > 0:00:12Hello and welcome to BBC Newsline.

0:00:12 > 0:00:1530 years ago an IRA bomb exploded at the Remembrance Day

0:00:15 > 0:00:17Service in Enniskillen.

0:00:17 > 0:00:21Today, a new memorial was unveiled to honour the 12 who died

0:00:21 > 0:00:23and the many more who were injured.

0:00:23 > 0:00:26The bomb went off without warning at a 10:45 in the morning

0:00:26 > 0:00:32at the town's cenotaph.

0:00:32 > 0:00:42Here's our south-west reporter, Louise Cullen.

0:00:48 > 0:00:56Descendants of the dead remembering those lost here. 11 were killed and

0:00:56 > 0:00:59812 died 13 years later and more than 60 were injured. Those left by

0:00:59 > 0:01:07wind came here today to rememberwe will never forget and you know the

0:01:07 > 0:01:14pain is there but you learn to get through it day by day and year by

0:01:14 > 0:01:24year.The loss is just so terrible. And someone just said to me just

0:01:24 > 0:01:28last year that the grief is the price of love and I never heard of

0:01:28 > 0:01:36that until -- and I never thought of that until I heard that.A memorial

0:01:36 > 0:01:43to the 12 dead was unveiled and the families then went to a private

0:01:43 > 0:01:48memorial service.Some people say that time is a great healer and I am

0:01:48 > 0:01:53sure that many of you here today will say that is not true in your

0:01:53 > 0:01:57experience. Over the passing of the years, you learn to live what would

0:01:57 > 0:02:01with what has happened. But I don't think time heals wounds such as

0:02:01 > 0:02:10ours.They were injured they were joined by invited gears guests.I

0:02:10 > 0:02:15think people are being reflected now about the horrific nature of what

0:02:15 > 0:02:20happened that day.Ten people were connection arrested in connection

0:02:20 > 0:02:25with the bomb but no one has ever been charged. Greek Batemanit is

0:02:25 > 0:02:30great regret to me that no one has ever been charged for the bombing

0:02:30 > 0:02:36but if new evidence comes to light we will pursue that.The memorial

0:02:36 > 0:02:40has now gone into storage and agreement has to be played reached

0:02:40 > 0:02:44on where it will be placed.

0:02:44 > 0:02:47The public inquiry into the RHI scheme has heard claims

0:02:47 > 0:02:50that officials pushed ahead with it against expert advice,

0:02:50 > 0:02:55because their minister Arlene Foster wanted it to start without delay.

0:02:55 > 0:02:58The experts were so concerned they wanted it recorded

0:02:58 > 0:03:00that their advice had not been heeded.

0:03:00 > 0:03:03The inquiry was told the accuracy of the claim

0:03:03 > 0:03:05would need to be scrutinised.

0:03:05 > 0:03:06Our Agriculture and Environment Correspondent

0:03:06 > 0:03:11Conor Macauley reports.

0:03:11 > 0:03:14The minister in charge of the department

0:03:14 > 0:03:16with responsibility for this, Arlene Foster, came under huge

0:03:16 > 0:03:21pressure and today the enquiry heard the claim officials pushed ahead

0:03:21 > 0:03:25with the scheme against expert advice because she wanted

0:03:25 > 0:03:28to get it up and running.

0:03:28 > 0:03:30It was based on the minutes of the conference between her

0:03:30 > 0:03:36officials in her department and the regulator which was helping to

0:03:36 > 0:03:40introduce the scheme.

0:03:40 > 0:03:42The regulator told the enquiry it wanted her

0:03:42 > 0:03:44officials to delay its low-cost controls being imposed in Britain

0:03:44 > 0:03:52could be replicated in our regulations.

0:03:52 > 0:03:57Ofgem personnel advised them to wait until the regulations had

0:03:57 > 0:04:01been amended and that would risk the draft Northern Ireland

0:04:01 > 0:04:06regulations currently proposed.

0:04:06 > 0:04:15They recorded the minister's wish to proceed without these amendments.

0:04:15 > 0:04:18He urged a note of caution and said the first thing was to establish

0:04:18 > 0:04:22whether the minutes of the teleconference

0:04:22 > 0:04:24was accurate to that of what had been said

0:04:24 > 0:04:26and the next thing to

0:04:26 > 0:04:28work out was where officials got the idea

0:04:28 > 0:04:30Arlene Foster was adamant it should go ahead and was that based

0:04:30 > 0:04:33on conversations with the Minister and her special adviser

0:04:33 > 0:04:43and were there records of those conversations?

0:04:44 > 0:04:46He said there was a lack of evidence at

0:04:46 > 0:04:49the moment as to whether the warnings from Ofgem had been

0:04:49 > 0:04:51referred up the chain of command to ministerial level.

0:04:51 > 0:04:54The plan was to review the regulations the summer after the

0:04:54 > 0:04:57scheme started and update them with the cost controls but that did not

0:04:57 > 0:05:00happen.

0:05:00 > 0:05:03The opening of the enquiry is long and detailed but every day

0:05:03 > 0:05:07it is throwing up new information about the reasons behind the biggest

0:05:07 > 0:05:14financial mess we have ever had.

0:05:14 > 0:05:17Police and army bomb experts are at the scene of a security

0:05:17 > 0:05:18alert in East Belfast.

0:05:18 > 0:05:23Part of Grand Parade has been closed to traffic and it's thought a number

0:05:23 > 0:05:25of homes have been evacuated.

0:05:25 > 0:05:28The police are examining a 300-yard stretch of the road

0:05:28 > 0:05:32which runs alongside Orangefield playing fields.

0:05:32 > 0:05:34Two men have been killed in separate road crashes.

0:05:34 > 0:05:38A man in his 30s died after the car he was a passenger in collided

0:05:38 > 0:05:42with a lorry near Toomebridge at about 07:00 this morning.

0:05:42 > 0:05:45The driver is in a critical condition.

0:05:45 > 0:05:47And just after midnight, an 18-year-old man died

0:05:47 > 0:05:52in a single-vehicle crash on the Dungannon Road, Portadown.

0:05:52 > 0:05:55A number of business owners in Northern Ireland have been

0:05:55 > 0:06:00involved in off-shore tax avoidance, a BBC investigation has revealed.

0:06:00 > 0:06:03The information is part of the mass leak of documents known

0:06:03 > 0:06:05as the Paradise Papers.

0:06:05 > 0:06:08We've been investigating one tax avoidance scheme which involved

0:06:08 > 0:06:10local business owners.

0:06:10 > 0:06:12There's no suggestion that they have acted illegally.

0:06:12 > 0:06:18Our economics and business editor, John Campbell reports.

0:06:18 > 0:06:25This is Sam McCrea speaking to the BBC ten years ago.

0:06:25 > 0:06:29He owns a business with his wife.

0:06:29 > 0:06:34They employ more than 150 people and turn over

0:06:34 > 0:06:36about £20 million a year.

0:06:36 > 0:06:44It has had help from an investment company since 2008.

0:06:44 > 0:06:47In 2014, the company headquarters were

0:06:47 > 0:06:50valued at £4 million.

0:06:50 > 0:06:55The following year, the property was sold for just £1.

0:06:55 > 0:06:57The new owner was based here,

0:06:57 > 0:07:00the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius.

0:07:00 > 0:07:06It was described in the accounts as an unconnected third party.

0:07:06 > 0:07:16They agreed they would pay this unconnected party...

0:07:24 > 0:07:26The BBC has seen documents that would suggest that

0:07:26 > 0:07:27McCrea is actually

0:07:27 > 0:07:29controlling that company in Mauritius and they had

0:07:29 > 0:07:30given the valuable property to themselves

0:07:30 > 0:07:31in all but name.

0:07:31 > 0:07:34And that is not the end of the potential advantages from their

0:07:34 > 0:07:36offshore arrangements.

0:07:36 > 0:07:39Sam McCrea transferred £200,000 into his

0:07:39 > 0:07:42Northern Irish bank account by borrowing

0:07:42 > 0:07:46money from the company in Mauritius he apparently controlled

0:07:46 > 0:07:52as a loan so it would not be liable for tax.

0:07:52 > 0:08:02Their lawyers said...

0:08:10 > 0:08:14Invest Ni is a shareholder in Sam McCrea's company.

0:08:14 > 0:08:24They said...

0:08:32 > 0:08:35Tonight and later this week, the Nolan Show

0:08:35 > 0:08:43will have more on these revelations from Mauritius.

0:08:43 > 0:08:45The weather next with Barra Best.

0:08:45 > 0:08:50The weather next with Barra Best.

0:08:50 > 0:08:55We don't have any frost to worry about, we have a lot of cloud and

0:08:55 > 0:08:58patchy light rain which will keep temperatures up to seven or 8

0:08:58 > 0:09:03degrees. Otherwise, a largely dry start to did the day tomorrow with

0:09:03 > 0:09:09sunshine coming and going back a north-westerly wind will make it

0:09:09 > 0:09:12feel fresh towards the north coast. If you are travelling tomorrow, it

0:09:12 > 0:09:17is a similar picture with plenty of dry and sunny weather with the

0:09:17 > 0:09:21exception of the Sun South West be some cloud coming in gradually

0:09:21 > 0:09:25making its way inland. But before it makes its way to worse, we can

0:09:25 > 0:09:30expect some dry sunny weather in the afternoon about them to leave the

0:09:30 > 0:09:33cloud will come and in the evening and overnight there will be some

0:09:33 > 0:09:42outbreaks of rain which will clear by breakfast time on Friday. Friday

0:09:42 > 0:09:45gets off to a promising start start with driver cloudy weather but we

0:09:45 > 0:09:48are expecting more rain to come in from the south towards the end of

0:09:48 > 0:09:50the day with colder air.

0:09:50 > 0:09:51That's it for now.

0:09:51 > 0:09:54Our next BBC Newsline is at 06:25 in the morning

0:09:54 > 0:09:55during Breakfast here on BBC One.

0:09:55 > 0:09:57You can also keep updated with News Online.

0:09:57 > 0:10:00Goodnight.