23/04/2017 BBC Newsline

The police say a sizeable bomb that was left at the gates

of Holy Cross Boys School in Ardoyne in North Belfast was an attempt

by violent dissident republicans to kill police officers.

The bomb was left outside the school gates on a busy pedestrian route

between the shops in Ardoyne and a social club at

It was spotted by police just before midnight close

There's no doubt that device were there to try to kill community

police officers on the beat in the local area but also

it was left in such a reckless manner and such a reckless occasion

that it would undoubtedly have led to death of the member

Police knocked on the back doors on all of these homes and asked

They were offered the alternative of going to a community centre

A mother and her daughter are among the 20 families forced

She has been affected quite badly by this.

She said her mum woke her up at 1am and said we have to leave the house

and for any young child, it is difficult to go through it

so you can see the child was affected by this incident.

As an elected representative let me condemn it for

Those who are involved in this need to get off people's backs

The message is as simple and as straightforward as that.

After the device was taken away, the police cordon

was lifted and residents were allowed to return.

You don't need these things, so you don't.

Nobody needs this and why are people doing it?

Forensic experts will analyse the bomb for clues.

The Holycross Boys Primary School is due to open after the Easter

Two men aged 34 and 24 have been arrested after a car was driven

into the front of a house in Larne and set alight.

Police received reports of the incident on the Killyglen Road

in the Craigyhill area around 4.45pm this afternoon.

It's not known if anyone was injured and there are no further details.

A firefighter from Omagh who was hailed a hero after coming

to the help of a runner during last week's Boston Marathon has been

Crew commander Terry Canning saw that Julianne Bowe

from New Jersey was overcome with heat and struggling

Along with another competitor from Chile, he helped

He stayed with me for the last maybe 200 metres and...

Your job was a great help because you're a fireman.

The important thing was that you let her down so she crossed the line.

Absolutely, anybody that has ever experienced a run or a marathon,

the most important thing is the last couple of steps over

the marker plates, just say, I finished that marathon.

A major three day conference involving more than 1,000 people

in the airline and tourism sectors has got underway in Belfast.

Northern Ireland airports are hoping the event,

Routes Europe, will help it secure new flights connections.

While any deals struck on new air routes may not necessarily

involve Northern Ireland, it's a shop window for host cities

who can usually benefit from holding the event.

Belfast and Northern Ireland provides us with the perfect flat

platform. It is attractive for tourism. It is attracting investment

and it has two incredibly competitive airports of the it is a

great platform for us to bring the air development community into

Belfast and into Northern Ireland for them to really show case what

they have got to offer. Now with the weather

forecast for the week ahead. Good evening. We maybe well into the

spring time, but the weather has different ideas. A change is on the

way. It takes place tonightment we get a cold front pushing through and

we get cold air coming all the way towards us from the Arctic.

So it will feel colder with gusty winds picking up at times. We will

have wintry showers. But not wintry showers tonight. Just rain showers.

There will be dry gaps for a time. Temperatures five or six Celsius in

the countryside. Later in the night we get that weather front moving

into the north and parts of the west to bring a band of more persistent

rain. Not a great start tomorrow, but we will see lovely sunshine, but

it won't be warm sunshine and we have that cloudy start as that band

of rain continues to track southwards and then ge get the

sunshine. In the mean time the rain band heads into the Republic of

Ireland across the north of England and into Wales. Further south, dry.

Some sunshine around in the south-west. We have got temperatures

into the mid-teens. In behind that weather front to the north, we have

got lots of sunshine, but colder air and we are starting to see see sleet

and snow showers and there could be disruption on higher routes. Become

to Northern Ireland in the afternoon, one or two showers

around. A lot of sunshine. Temperatures will be struggling at

around eight or nine Celsius. As the win continues to pick up, it will

feel colderment we have the northerly winds as we head into the

first part of the week. Those isobars tightly packed together.

So we have very gusty winds, maybe gales in parts of the north as we

head into Tuesday. Widespread wintry showers across northern areas. A

mixture of rain, sleet and hill snow. On Wednesday they could be

getting the wintry showers. The showers start to ease towards the

north-west, but it starts to cloud over. Wednesday drier. We have some

rain on Thursday. That's it until 6.25am

tomorrow morning. From everyone on the BBC

Newsline team, goodnight. This is all Roz,

she's trying to frame me! This is the final push,

we cannot fail. He sent you, didn't he?

Are you expecting someone else?