A schoolteacher comes face to face with the driver responsible for her boyfriends death. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing in elections to the Northern Ireland assembly. They have won 27 seats, just one behind the democratic irish unionists. Sinn feins president , gerry adams, said it was a Watershed Election and the end to a permanent unionist majority in Northern Ireland. The two parties now have three weeks to try to agree a new Power Sharing coalition. From belfast, Chris Buckler reports. Sinn fein believe they have changed the political picture in Northern Ireland. If this election was a battle in the long fight between unionism and nationalism, they are claiming victory. Clearly, the unionist majority in the assembly has been ended and the notion of a permanent or perpetual unionist majority has been demolished. The dup are still stormonts biggest party, but they can only watch as republicans ate into their sizeable lead from
Meg williamson comes face to face with the driver responsible for her boyfriends death. The bbcs inside out south team reports in fatal distraction. My my boyfriend was killed lastjune on the a34. One car was travelling northbound. It was the southbound car that hit, smashed through the central reservation and hit gavin head on on The Other Side of the road. I was on the phone to my girlfriend at the time. I was scared of losing her and they were emotional calls. Shouting calls, emotional calls, raging calls, but shouldnt have been made that night. I will live with that forever and ever. At 24, forever and ever. At 2a, Lewis Stratford is lucky to be alive. He never imagined his frantic calls to save his relationship would end a life. Gavin was an australian through and through. He used to make me feel safe. We talked about holidays, we talked about potentially going out to australia together. The plans that we had were exciting. Something we were both really looking forward to. Gavin a
A schoolteacher comes face to face with the driver responsible for her boyfriends death. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing in elections to the Northern Ireland assembly. They have won 27 seats, just one behind the democratic irish unionists. Sinn feins president , gerry adams, said it was a Watershed Election and the end to a permanent unionist majority in Northern Ireland. The two parties now have three weeks to try to agree a new Power Sharing coalition. From belfast, Chris Buckler reports. Sinn fein believe they have changed the political picture in Northern Ireland. If this election was a battle in the long fight between unionism and nationalism, they are claiming victory. Clearly, the unionist majority in the assembly has been ended and the notion of a permanent or perpetual unionist majority has been demolished. The dup are still stormonts biggest party, but they can only watch as republicans ate into their sizeable lead from
Which produces peugeot vehicles reportedly reaches a deal to buy General Motors european operations. Britain is not be legally obliged to make a final Budget Payment to the eu after brexit, according to a house of lords committee. Downing street has described the report as a significant contribution. Thousands of people are marching in london to demonstrate over nhs cuts. Protestors have travelled from across the country and Jeremy Corbyn is expected to address the crowd. Now on bbc news, click. This week smoking streets, burning fruit and keeping our cool as we go live in Virtual Reality. We are about to put a whole new spin on the world of mobiles. We are at the mobile World Congress in barcelona, the big show devoted to phones, tablets and all things mobile. We are a bit behind schedule, but we are going to get there. Although, if we look a bit distracted its because we are preparing for a rather audacious experiment. It is not that we are not interested in the floating displays, co
A schoolteacher comes face to face with the driver responsible for her boyfriends death. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Sinn fein are celebrating their best ever showing in elections to the Northern Ireland assembly. They have won 27 seats, just one behind the democratic irish unionists. Sinn feins president , gerry adams, said it was a Watershed Election and the end to a permanent unionist majority in Northern Ireland. The two parties now have three weeks to try to agree a new Power Sharing coalition. From belfast, Chris Buckler reports. Sinn fein believe they have changed the political picture in Northern Ireland. If this election was a battle in the long fight between unionism and nationalism, they are claiming victory. Clearly, the unionist majority in the assembly has been ended and the notion of a permanent or perpetual unionist majority has been demolished. The dup are still stormonts biggest party, but they can only watch as republicans ate into their sizeable lead from