21/01/2017 BBC Newsline

The former Health Minister Jim Wells says four members of his family,

including his brother, have installed

the controversial green energy boilers.

The DUP MLA says he only found out about their involvement

in the scheme yesterday and that he has no financial

The latest revelation comes ahead of the publication of the names of

businesses who installed the wood-burning boiler is under the

floors RHI scheme. A regional breakdown showed the main clusters

of recipients are close to the chicken processing plant in

Ballymena and Dungannon. Four relatives were involved in the

scheme. My brother has one boiler and three cousins between them have

eight borrowers. They all rear chickens for one of the largest

companies in Northern Ireland and they installed these as part of the

scheme. How did you come to find that out? My brother told me

yesterday. Mr Wells says he has made no personal gain from RHI and has no

involvement in his brother or cousins' businesses. Two days ago

the DUP special adviser Andrew Crawford resigned. His decision to

quit came a day after he was named by a senior civil servant as the

adviser he believed had influenced the decision to keep the scheme

open. Doctor Crawford denies this and says he acted with complete

integrity. Another DUP special adviser has stepped aside from

having any future involvement in the RHI scheme after failing to declare

a family link. John Robinson, who is an adviser to Simon Hamilton in the

Department of the economy, said he didn't have any family links to the

scheme. Only to reveal that his father-in-law is receiving payments

for two RHI boilers. The releasing of the names by the Department of

the economy on Wednesday will be one of the last act before Stormont goes

into recess ahead of the assembly elections on March the 2nd.

The police investigating the murder of a woman in Lurgan yesterday

have been given extra time to question a 51-year-old man.

The body of Anita Downey was found in a house in the Toberhewney Hall

area in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has told a conference in Dublin

that taking Northern Ireland out of the EU will destroy

Several hundred people have attended a Women's March

in Belfast to protest against Donald Trump's presidency.

Hundreds of thousands around the world have

attended similar events following yesterday's inauguration.

Women's groups were joined outside the city hall

by people supporting gay rights, immigrants

Organisers of today's rally said they were overwhelmed by the number

On-street parking charges in parts of Belfast,

Newry and Lisburn city centres are set to rise next month.

Motorists will have to pay an extra 20p an hour to park

The Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard says the cost has not kept

For many, going to work or popping into town just got more expensive.

Prices here in the city centre will soon rise to ?1.40 an hour while

some street on the edge of this city will see a 50% rise to ?1.20. In

this burn, it will soon be 80p an hour and a newly, 60p. The only

winners in this regard are going to be the big out-of-town shopping

centres who have free car parking which is already an unfair

competitive advantage on town centres. We should be reducing car

park charges, not hiking them. Chris Hazzard says the increases are the

minimum possible, but not everyone's impressed. The roads haven't got any

better, there hasn't been an increase in parking spaces. If this

is an incentive, I'm shocked. If you want to park in the city centre,

you've got to be prepared to pay it. The increase in charges will be

introduced in less than one month. Rugby now and Ulster's European

Champions Cup campaign ended with a whimper at home to Bordeaux

in Belfast this afternoon. Les Kiss's men, who went

into their final pool five game knowing they couldn't qualify

for the knock out stages fell behind Darren Cave did run

in this second half try, The final score Ulster

22, Bordeaux 26. having lost nine of their last

13 games in all competitions. Hello there. If you're heading out

tonight, you probably will want to keep the big cult handy. It's a

chilly one and for a while, temperatures are likely to fall

several degrees below freezing. As we make our way through tonight, we

are likely to see more clouds coming in from the south. That will help

lift temperatures that by tomorrow morning but it will be a chilly

start to Sunday possibly with pockets of mist and fog out there

and certainly a frost in some spots as well. Overall, we hold onto high

pressure just keeping the weather is nice and settled. There will be more

clouds around on Sunday then there was today, but it will break at

times. There will be some sunny gaps. Southerly winds will stay late

and over all, a dry picture. If you are travelling across the island

tomorrow, we are likely to see some wet weather breaking out across

western counties. Further east, likely to stay dry with sunny gaps.

Temperatures best the further south you are and cooler towards the

north. Looking at four or 5 degrees there. In any sunshine, feeling not

too bad. We only have light winds. Tomorrow evening, it will turn

chilly quite quickly again with some file, maybe frost around on Monday

morning but it is going to be another settled day. There will be a

lot of clout, some sunshine trying to come through as well and overall,

a dry picture but we may see some damp weather breaking out in parts

of the West. If you are enjoying the recent spell of settled weather,

good news as we look ahead right through until Wednesday, there is no

great change in focus. BBC Newsline will be

back tomorrow at 6:20pm. From everyone on the BBC

Newsline team, goodbye.