09/10/2016 BBC Newsline

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A woman in her forties is in a critical condition in hospital

after a single car crash on the A1 in county Down.

It happened between Dromore and Hillsborough in the early

The A1 was closed in both directions until mid afternoon

while an electricity pole, which was damaged in the crash,

The chair of the Assembly's Finance Committee has defended

the allocation of almost ?2 million of Social Investment Funding

to Charter NI, some of whose key personnel have links to the UDA.

Speaking on the Sunday Politics programme, Emma Little Pengelly,

who's an architect of the fund, says she's satisfied a robust

Absolutely. If they hadn't, the councils wouldn't have paid able to

fund it. There is a system of checks and balances. One of the reasons the

systems didn't deliver money quickly was because of a full system of

checks and balances. The government has been scrutinised. --

A 26-year-old man has been charged following the stabbing of three men

in their 20s in Lisnaskea in the early hours

He's charged with aggravated burglary and grievous

The men were all treated in hospital for non life threatening injuries.

The Northern Ireland football squad are now in Germany

for their World Cup qualifying game on Tuesday.

It follows last night's four nil win over San Marino

at the new National Stadium at Windsor Park, with

the Northern Ireland captain starting the scoring off.

there was a good opportunity. Like to be on the ball and was sunk a

good opportunity to do that. We should have done better with a

couple of rigidities that we have but overall it was important we got

the right result, that was first and foremost getting the three points,

but nice to fill the shaft with a bit of style. Hopefully we didn't

use too much energy tonight. We could pick the game up earlier than

we did and relaxed more, but... It is a lot of time for the second goal

to come. When we were down to ten man, we had to really shift it, and

had to be patient and wait for the goals to come. We got a lot of the

ball, but it's always a real tough sides to play, with 11 men behind

the ball. We were playing in ten or 20 yards inside that have come we

knew it is going to be a difficult game, but we didn't panic, wouldn't

try and push on too much, and he got the winners.

Meanwhile the Republic of Ireland are in action later in Moldova.

We'll have the goals in our late bulletin.

Loughgiel will meet Slaughtneil in the Ulster Club Hurling Final

after both clinched semifinal wins today.

Benny McCarry hit Loughgiel's goal as they ran out comfortable winners

Pregnancy and the loss of a baby affects thousands of families

And today in Belfast hundreds of balloons were released to raise

awareness in what is Baby loss awareness week.

Happier times for Helen and her family. Her first baby Samuel was

stillborn at full term. That was 2005. A year later, Helen with other

parents in a similar position set up a charity to help others. We did

feel very alone to begin with, when all your friends having healthy

babies, and you just seem like the odd one out. This just really

amazing to know that you are not alone, there are those who

understand what you're going through. Roughly around 24 families

a day goes to the loss of pregnancy or infant in some form, so it's

quite a big thing, it's not spoken about very much. That's in Northern

Ireland? You like yes, 24 people a day. The voters of the day is a

really big balloon release of the thousands of balloons raring to go

but not before they are tagged with messages. It's a nose for my son,

telling him I love him, it gives me strength everyday and tells me what

I have to do. They won't make it all the way up there, it will get as

close to him as possible. This family have since gone on to have my

children. Fathers are there to look after mothers as well, but it is

nice to have a bit of support, too. The man has carried the baby but it

blears a family at the end of the day. -- the mum has carried the

baby. Every year the balloons have been released the sun has been

shining. On BBC Newsline next week we'll

have a special series looking at smartphones and digital

technology, here's Tara Four out of five adults now use a

smartphone. And the latest research suggests more and more of us are

becoming addicted to them. So, what impact is this having on our lives?

How is it are affecting our families? What's it doing to our

social lives? Good question. And how is it changing the way we work. And

where we work? What impact is it having on our health? On BBC

Newsline next week we'll be taking a closer look. And I will be ditching

my smartphone for seven days to see if I can cope.

Now with the weather forecast, here's Barra Best.

Hello. There's not too bad an end to the day go some evening sunshine

across eastern counties, but cloud will thicken up from less than at

bringing with it some outbreaks of rain. When we hold onto some clearer

skies tonight it will be chillier, but for many of us where the cloud

persist and eight to 10 degrees. As for tomorrow, a little bit more

unsettled and uncertainty feeling cooler than today. Grey damp skies

for central and western areas, the best chance of sunshine in the

eastern counties to begin with. Travelling tomorrow, with the

exception of Ulster across Ireland is is a dry picture, it is a dry

picture, a good bit of cloud with some sunny gaps. For Britain, the

best of the weather will be across Scotland, the north-west of England,

Wales and the south-west, but an onshore wind will dry in scattered

shouts through eastern counties coming in as far as the Midlands at

times. Temperatures for us all, 12 to 15 degrees. For us, tomorrow

evening, there is some sunshine across eastern counties that should

drift further west, before nightfall. 11 of 12 degrees the

high, with a fairly light when. Those winds pick up as we go into

Tuesday, the Tuesday overall not a bad day with plenty of dry weather.

1314 degrees on land, but with onshore winds it will feel a bit

cooler and fresher along the Antrim and County Down coast. As for the

rest of the week, the winds begin to pick up as we have low pressure

coming in. That low pressure likely brings sours as times, but also

breaks up the cloud, allowing sunny spell through.

From everyone on the BBC Newsline team, good-bye.