09/10/2016 BBC Newsline

Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline.

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 hours

The road was closed in both directions until mid afternoon.

The chair of the Assembly's Finance Committee has defended

the allocation of almost two million pounds 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, and if I didn't, then the council 's could not find that,

and a system of checks and balances impact on the speed of the delivery

of the framework. The number of checks and balances included is

extensive. The governments has been scrutinised.

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 in 2005 and a year later Helen along

with other parents in similar positions to set up a charity to

help others. You do feel alone to begin with, when all your friends

are having healthy babies, and you're just the odd one out. It's

amazing to know that you are not alone, and others understand what

you're going through. Roughly around 24 families per day go through the

loss of pregnancy or infant in some form, so it is, it's quite a big

thing not spoken about very much. That's in Northern Ireland? You

acquiesce, in Northern Ireland, 24 a day. The focus of the day of the big

balloon release, thousands raring to go, but not before they are tagged

with messages. I've put a note for Charlie telling I love him, saying

that he gives me the strength to get up in the morning, to do what I have

to do, and though I make it all the way up there, it's going to get

there as close as possible. David and his wife lost their first born

at 38 weeks. They have since gone on to have four children. A lot of

people don't think about the dads in that situation, but the fathers are

there to really look after the mothers as well, but they need a

better support to support two, the mum has carried the baby, but it's a

family at the day. The family been broken. Life after losses in its

tenth year. Apparently every year the billions be released, the sun

has shone. And turning to football,

the Republic of Ireland ran out three one winners in their World Cup

qualifier away to Moldova. Shane Long scored in the opening

minutes of the first half to give Moldova drew level

just before half time, but James McClean put

the Republic back with this well placed shot, and the West Brom

player struck again a few minutes later after some good work out

wide by Seamus Colman. And one other result

for you tonight, Linfield lost two two nil away to Queen of the South

in the Scottish Challenge Cup. Now, 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 mind more of us are

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

How was it affecting our families? What is it doing to our social lives

in? Good question. 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 will be taking a closer look. Oh, and I'll be ditching my

smartphone for seven days. Let's see if I can cope.

Now, with a look at the weather for the next few days,

Hello there. We had to scattered showers that they, and some will

persist overnight. We have some clearance in the sky, turning

chillier as the temperatures dip into low single figures, but most of

us hold on cloudy conditions between eight and 10 degrees. That cloud

will give us some unsettled weather, unfortunately, for Monday. There

will be outbreaks of rain and it will feel cool as a result, too.

There will be some rather grey clouds, outbreaks of rain especially

in the central and western areas. The best chance of any sunnier

spells to begin with will be across the east coast for Antrim and County

Down, may be part of Armagh as well. Travelling across Ireland tomorrow,

with the exception of part of altar where we will continue to see rain

made largely dry picture. Cloudy at the Bella knows you are, sadly

towards the south. For Britain, the best of the weather will be across

Scotland, the north-west of England into Wales, and the south-west, but

a fresh wind coming in of C will dry in showers for Eastern counties and

it is soldier areas as well. Amateurs are best tomorrow will

reach about 12 degrees, about 15. For us we are likely to see 12 in

many areas, and continue to seize some cloudy dampness especially in

the west for a while, but even here it should brighten up for a while

towards the end of the day before nightfall. The best of the sunshine

tomorrow across eastern counties. 11 to 12 degrees their highs with the

light winds. Those winds pick up as we make our way into Tuesday so it

will wield more fresh as we go out and about, and towards the Antrim

and County Down coast inland, still breezy at times, not so bad, 13 or

14 degrees in the best of the sunshine. Choose a shed with a

bright day of the week. As we go to the rest of the week, the wind

suddenly begin to pick-up from Tuesday onwards, gusty by mid week

at times, too. We have low pressure coming in from the Atlantic. That

low pressure is likely to bring a scattering of shower at times, but

it will help break up the clouds, allowing the sun shines through. We

will of course keep you up to date. Our next BBC Newsline

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