08/04/2017 BBC Newsline

A 14-year-old boy has been charged with trying to buy

a submachine gun and ammunition on the so-called dark web.

A court heard he was arrested as he met a contact

The schoolboy who cannot be identified because of his age was

arrested here at the Riverside regional Park in Coleraine on

Thursday. His detention came after several weeks of what was described

as a proactive police investigation linked to the online dark web. It's

alleged the 14-year-old used the dark web in an attempt to buy a gun

and bullets which were to be used to intimidate a third party. He had

gone to the regional Park to meet someone about this, however, his

contact turned out to be a police operative and he was arrested. The

court was told the schoolboy was arrested as part of an investigation

into the online dark web. This involved an attempt to buy a

submachine gun and 100 rounds of ammunition. The schoolboy appeared

in court flanked by a police officer and his father and spoke only to

confirm his identity and that he understood the charge. The police

opposed bail but the district judge said that due to his age he was

remanded on bail but the strict conditions that he would have no

access to a mobile phone or the internet. He will appear in court

again at the end of the month. A number of controlled explosions

have been carried out on a car during a security alert in Twinbrook

in West Belfast. Police believe the vehicle

in Azalea Gardens may be linked to a robbery at office premises

in The Cutts area on Monday, when three men dressed as postmen,

one armed with a gun, assaulted two women and made off

with a sum of money. A number of items were taken

away for examination. The new Ulster Unionist leader

Robin Swann says having a single Speaking after being confirmed

as leader by party members, he also said there should be no back

door deals in the talks process. Here's our political

correspondent, Stephen Walker. The sole candidate for a leader,

Robin Swann, was given unanimous backing by the party faithful. Mike

Nesbitt, who resigned after last month 's Assembly election. Robin

Swann said that in the ongoing talks into restoring devolution there must

be no back door deals and if it was a 2-party agreement it would be a

two party Executive. He also spoke out against the creation of one

party to represent Unionists. A single Unionist party with limited

choice, stifle debate and quickly result in the depletion of Unionist

votes at the ballot box. The North Antrim MLA also said the Ulster

Unionists would-be champions for the union. Robin Swann is the Ulster

party leader in a decade. He leads a party battered and bruised after the

Assembly election and the party faces big questions. How will they

re-engage with the electorate and will they go back into government if

there is a power-sharing Executive? Robin Swann is the new leader, but

he faces some very familiar questions.

An event held by the Basque terrorist group ETA to begin

the surrender of the remainder of its weapons has been attended by

He was one of the independent witnesses who verified

the decommissioning of IRA weapons, and he's been involved in the peace

process in the Basque region of Spain for a number of years.

At a ceremony in the southern French city of Bayonne,

a file containing details of ETA arms caches and their locations

was handed over to a group of international witnesses,

Hugely significant. Today I note that many people here have been

waiting for and longing for and working towards and I don't think

you could exaggerate the significance and importance of this

day and I judge that not just by the individuals who have spoken, but by

the crowds of people and we are going now to see many thousands of

them who will gather to celebrate this day.

Golf, and Rory McIlroy gets his third round at the US

Rory McIlroy it started around 35 shots behind the leading group of

players, knowing that he needs a low scorer this afternoon if he is to

put himself in a position to really challenge for the Masters title

tomorrow. A little deflated after an unlucky finish yesterday, but he

feels he is very much in contention. I am within five of the lead with

better conditions on the way. I am right in this tournament. I know

what can happen on Sunday around here, good and bad. It is about

getting into position. I need something in the 60s tomorrow to get

myself in their and I am not disappointed. I am disappointed by

what happened at the last, but I am in a decent position. McIlroy tees

off in about 15 minutes. It has been a lovely day today. Dry

and bright, high pressure firmly in charge, but the clear skies through

this evening when the temperature will drop away very sharply through

the first part of the night. They will recover because we have cloud

seeding in from the West and I'm afraid that tomorrow is altogether a

more cloudy picture. We start with the blanket of cloud sitting and

Rovers through the morning so we will start to see rain encroaching

from the West. That would be light and patchy to start with but through

the afternoon the brain becomes more persistent and spreads further

across Northern Ireland. The different data many other parts of

the British Isles. Look at south-east England. They get

uninterrupted sunshine and temperatures up to 24 degrees.

Across Scotland it is much wetter. Into next week there is a theme of

the temperatures dropping away, the weather becoming unsettled. Monday

is a mix of sunshine and showers so I hope you could get the outside

jobs done today because it has been the pick of the next few days. That

is it for now. We are back at ten to seven tomorrow evening. Until then,

enjoy your weekend. Revision gone off-track?

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