02/04/2017 BBC Newsline

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Police have launched a murder inquiry after the death

of a 31-year-old man injured during an altercation

He has been named as Paul McCready from north Belfast.

Michael Fitzpatrick has been to the scene.

The altercation took place in this part of the city centre shortly

before 1am this morning. Ambulance crews were called to treat

31-year-old Paul McCready, unconscious on the street outside a

bar. The North Belfast man was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital but

later died from his injuries. This afternoon, the police, who are

treating Paul McCready's death as murder, carried out an examination

of the loyal end of the street surrounding the incident. This

altercation took place at one of the busiest times of the week in the

Cathedral Quarter. The police said there would be quite a number of

people in the area at the time who witnessed what happened. They have

appealed to them to come forward. A man has died in a car

crash in County Down. It happened on the Saintfield Road

in Crossgar early this morning. A 60-year-old man is in a serious

condition in hospital after he was assaulted

in Sperrin Park in And a 30-year-old man has been

charged with causing grievous bodily harm after an assault

on a 32-year-old man at Waterworks Park in

north Belfast yesterday. The Democratic Unionist MP,

Ian Paisley, says he intends to press the UK Government over

allegations his father's phone The claims were made in a newspaper

article by the former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott,

who said he was told of the tap by then Prime

Minister Tony Blair in 2005. Mr Prescott has opened up the black

box into the dark arts of the Government. The Wilson protocol

makes it clear that Members of Parliament are not to be wiretapped

or slipped on by National Security Agency 's. Clearly, that has

happened in this case. We were tipped off at the time of something

like this was going on. I think that made us very alert to what should be

said. I know that at the time, my father personally challenged Tony

Blair about this and Tony Blair denied it. That, I think, shows the

level of deceit to which the player Government was prepared to GOTO. --

the Tony Blair Government. A confidential telephone line

is to be set up in Mauritius for people to give information

about the murder of Tyrone woman The move coincides with the visit

to the island of her husband John McAreavey to try to help

the police investigation. From Mauritius,

Mark Simpson reports. One of the first things John

McAreavey did in Mauritius was talk to his lawyer. They discussed plans

to make a public appeal for more information about Michaela

McAreavey's murder. In an interview at his office, the lawyer said the

information did not have to go directly to the police. We can get

anonymous information via the hotline. This is how it is done when

you want to send information to the police and you don't want your

identity to be revealed. Confidential hotline? Yes. The

police are fully OK with that. John McAreavey will give more details on

this at a news conference on Tuesday. At that conference, he will

try to send a direct message to the people of Morrish is. He will say

that he does not want sympathy but he wants their help.

Sport now, and defending champion Jonathan Rea leads

the World Superbikes Championship by 50 points despite losing out

to rival Chaz Davies in race two at Aragon.

In Gaelic football, Derry and Fermanagh are relegated

Antrim will play Division 4 next year, meanwhile,

Armagh missed out on promotion in Division 3.

In Division 1, Tyrone, Donegal and Monaghan all lost.

Now, here's Cecilia Daly with the weather.

We have had a beautiful day today. Sunny skies in many places and small

amounts of cloud. This is Ballantyne looking lovely on the north coast.

Further along the coast, we have a lovely, colourful spring flowers.

Good news this week. Not so much tomorrow. From Tuesday onwards,

pretty settled. It will not be sunny overtime but some bright weather

will be alone. Potentially one too chilly nights. Tonight will not be

as cold as last night. There are some clear skies around at the

moment but they will fill in with cloud rolling in the Atlantic. Maybe

one or two spots of rain but most places dry. The breeze will pick up

through the night and certainly will be quite blustery to start in the

new week. Lots of cloud around competitively and rain at times.

Many places getting away with the drive journey to work or school.

Most of the rain sitting in the West. It is a weather front

extending southwards across the Republic of Ireland. LA brightness

and eased late as the rain slips eastwards across many parts of

Ireland, north and south. Into the West of Scotland as well. It is

cooler in the West compared to today. Eastern Scotland, much of

England and East Wales should stay dry. That rain will continue to move

eastwards across the Irish Sea, into the latter part of the day. Tomorrow

afternoon, blustery, largely cloudy and rain on and off. It could end up

quite wet and double honestly feel rather cool compared to today. But

the rain does move away on Monday night. On Tuesday, some showers for

the North of Scotland. Some rain for a time across south-east England,

otherwise, many parts of the UK and Ireland will be dry with brisk winds

over Scotland on both Tuesday and Wednesday. This ridge of high

pressure is bringing in lots of dry, fine weather to the UK and Ireland

and in the sunshine will feel quite nice. We should seek him because

coming up a little bit as the meat goes on. Most of the dampness this

coming week across the North of Scotland, otherwise, in many places,

fine. That is it for now. Our next BBC Newsline bulletin

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