14/05/2017 BBC Newsline

The Brexit Secretary David Davis has said he doesn't accept that Irish

border issues can be resolved in the first stage of the UK's

The EU's Brexit guidelines state that Irish border

issues should be tackled, along with citizenship

rights and UK payments, before talks on a trade

Here's our Economics and Business John Campbell.

Last week the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier visited Ireland and

gave a speech in which he said he wanted a bold and ambitious trade

deal with the UK. He repeated the policy that full trade -- before

trade talks could start there would be progress on how the border would

be banished after Brexit. But David Davis said that trying to separate

the border issue from the trade deal was illogical. How on earth do you

resolve the border issue with the north of Ireland and the Republic

unless you know what our general borders policy is, what the customs

policy is, what the free-trade agreement is, whether you need to

charge tariffs? David Davis said that the issue would become the

political row of the summer. He is due to meet Michel Barnier after the

UK election. It's possible that Michel Barnier can find some wiggle

room. His guidelines say that trade talks can start after sufficient

progress has been made on the preliminary issues. Much depends on

what sufficient progress means in practice.

The remains of a Spitfire fighter plane which crashed into a field

in County Monaghan in 1942 have been recovered by a group

A number of items were excavated near Emyvale yesterday.

Our reporter Michael Fitzpatrick was there.

Digging up the pieces of the past, the remains of an RAF Spitfire plane

have lain untouched in this field for nearly 75 years. The majority of

the wreckage was cleared at the time but a number of parts were left in

the impact crater. Josie was five when the plane came down near her

family home. I can remember crowds of people wanting to take pieces

with them. Gathering around to see what happened. It was all exciting

for us. The Spitfire pilot safely bailed out of the plane north of the

border after his instruments froze. After each layer of birth is scraped

away, new parts of the aircraft are revealed. Exciting times, we've come

down onto one of the cylinder heads inside the Merlin engine. We don't

know it is connected to the rest of the internal crankshaft, but a very

strong smell of fuel, a lot of oil. After five hours of digging the

Rolls-Royce engine was pulled from the Earth. All of the pieces will be

cleaned and catalogue before being handed over to the County Monaghan

Museum. Jonathan Rea is still leading

the world superbike championship despite being beaten twice in two

days by Welsh rival Chaz Davies. A second place finish meant reigning

world champion Rea managed to extend his lead, coming

away with 40 points. Now a look ahead to later this week

when BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson will have the inside story

of John McAreavey's recent Six years after Michaela McAreavey

was murdered on her honeymoon here in Mauritius, her family is seeking

justice. There are things that will stay with me for the rest of my

life. So, they came here, 6000 miles, for five days. They appealed

to the people of Mauritius for help. They put pressure on politicians and

they return to the scene of the crime.

And that's on BBC One Northern Ireland on Tuesday night at 10.40 -

Now for the weather with Angie Phillips.

Good evening, the weather has been quite changeable through the weekend

and it's going to remain that way through the week ahead. Rain in the

forecast, or showers, locally heavy and quite gusty wind. A bit fresher

today, sunshine and showers, some of them heavy but they will fade

tonight, only giving way to thickening cloud and more persistent

rain overnight with a strengthening south easterly wind but at least it

isn't cold, temperatures around 8-10. Tomorrow, eventually things

will improve and it will feel warm but it's a miserable start, wet and

windy. Not very pleasant for the warning rush-hour, a lot of surface

spray. A miserable morning, wet and heavy bursts of rain, eventually

moving east. Wet and windy in many parts, especially over Scotland and

northern England. The wind not as strong in the South, turning more

patchy through the afternoon. Temperatures not too bad, into the

high teens. Quite a warm and humid day to come for Northern Ireland,

heavy rain moving away leaving patches of light rain and drizzle

and we may see temperatures in the east up to 19, 20 degrees,

especially with some brightness. Through the week, low pressure in

the Atlantic dominating the weather, plenty of white lines packed in,

indicative of brisk wind. Quite breezy, quite a damp start in the

north-west although things will turn a bit more dry and more fresh. In

the meantime, rain bushing south. Warm and humid in the south-east,

temperatures freshening up into Wednesday. Still quite wet here. A

dry gap behind that, further spells of rain moving into the North and

West. These showers could be quite heavy as they will be on Thursday

with a risk of hail and thunder.