live now to belfast and speak gb news reporter dougie. dougie what ? reporter dougie. dougie what? yes , judge well, hello and yes, judge justice o'hara said that he found holden's evidence and coherent and inconsistent and basically he did not believe them. this all centred around an incident in 1988 at the cloy when mr. mccann asked was crossing through to go to a ganc crossing through to go to a gaelic football match on the way through a gun, was discharged and killing. mr. mccann asked me david holden, then an 18 year old guardsman, said that his hands were wet from cleaning and they slipped on the trigger . they slipped on the trigger. that the family have fought 34 years to try and get to the of what has happened. today court this is what they had say. welcome today's ruling from justice. it's a day of mixed emotions obviously for the family . we're thinking primarily family. we're thinking primarily of it and we're thinking of issue for the first 20 years of , the campaign led the charge and probably at the cost of our health. we think of it as a and we think of john today.

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reporter dougie beattie. dougie, how the autumn statement gone down in northern ireland.at this moment in time. but yes that extr a £660 million. well that extra £660 million. well it's not really is it. because we were told that there was loads of money to spend in northern ireland. everybody should get back to work. all the politicians should back. politicians should get back. there there. and there was millions there. and then collapse as then when stormont collapse as well, there's money. there's actually a £650 million black hole. so those barnett consequentials extra that commander direction will be basically plugging that hole. but i'm in dundonald international ice ball and. you might ask why i'm here of all places. well, we had no regional government in 1985 and local councils in northern ireland had to act like a government. but there's one big thing in all this is riots and it's business in northern ireland, it's very scared of riots going , extremely scared of riots going, extremely high because we have no government at the moment. governments regional rate qu

dougie . well, hello and there. dougie. well, hello and welcome . the dundonald welcome.national ice ball. why am i here? to be here. come clear in a moment. but last i had to wash my face, tidy myself up and go back to the aib business. i and belfast. and there caught up with glen roberts of and i call him neil of hospitality ulster and richard buckley, the editor of business . and here's what of business. and here's what they thought about the budget a lot of stealth taxes in there national insurance on all their taxes that will impact on small businesses not just the northern but throughout the uk. i to say it but i think it disappointing we expected more the chancellor talked growth but there was not a lot in there to practically help businesses to grow. it's like everything all budgets you got to get under the skin all of it and actually takes a few days work out but the headline they mentioned support for rates they mentioned support for rates they mentioned continued support for energy and the pacific league did mention hospitality, which at least is encouraging .

that's dougie court. all right.ern ireland thanks beattie, northern ireland thanks to join us now in a fascinating story here. westminster nearly controlled by the labour party course, has dropped the term paying course, has dropped the term paying to try to be more inclusive. its replaced it with the term global majority. the council has also announced more anti—racism training for staff and they are taking steps to become an anti—racism organisation . plus, they're organisation. plus, they're introducing measures to remove pay gaps by introducing measures to remove pay gaps by 2025. westminster city said in a statement. four years on, from the founding of its black , asian and multiple its black, asian and multiple ethnic network westminster council is committed to serious action to make its organisation more and inclusive. the black and multiple ethnic staff networks meeting the council made three commitments. these include to be an anti—racist organisation to sustained action, to meet pay by 2025 and to adopt th

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now our reporter dougie beattie was in belfast at a christmas market where they're cutting their clotheu on the protocol and happens with northern ireland and the rest of the island of ireland. yeah. well those talks, i mean so we're in a much better place where we were not so many months ago . there's been an every ago. there's been an every viewer watching this know that actually to have any sort of relationship, to do any deal with anybody, whether it's in business in life or indeed if you're government, you need to have personal relationship have good personal relationship with people you're talking with the people you're talking to. have trust and to. you have to have trust and respect both parties. respect between both parties. that lacking in our that has been lacking in our relationship . both sides between relationship. both sides between the uk and the european union. and that has changed our relationship with ireland much stronger than it's been for a very time. and our relationship between the united kingdom and very time. and our relationship betieuropeaanited kingdom and

let's head over to northern ireland and dougie beattie there for his morning dougie.ntre in northern ireland. it's at lusk, just north of belfast . and i can just north of belfast. and i can tell you it is absolutely freezing here this morning. but joining me is denise collins sees a cwa representative in northern ireland and. i basically ask her, denise , basically ask her, denise, what's it all about? basically what the dispute is about us is about it's attack of on the terror attack of the terms and conditions of the postal workers . it's an attack on the service , on what we're doing is taking our rightful our rightful decision tick and nostril action to fight for those very terms and conditions and also to see of this great public service. how much more disruption can we expect over the christmas period and what will it mean to the ordinary person? well, there have been further dates announced . so there have been announced. so there have been and up to this point, we haven't reached an agreement between royal mail and the cw . so what royal mail and the cw. so w

dougie feeling doesn't dim.inisced about good times hot in belfast why do you love it that that's right yeah my child was conceived of sorry 754 this year did what did you call your first child. did you give it to northern irish name. no, it to northern irish name. no, it wasn't dog . it was it was it wasn't dog. it was it was sunny. sunny was lovely. once you say happy birthday, sunny, it's not as bad. oh, you digress . we're going to be talking .we're going to be talking about much more important at the celebrations, not only england, but it will save the whales all world cup. coming up, you wait after break and course, your after break and of course, your forecast . hello, after break and of course, your forecast. hello, i'm after break and of course, your forecast . hello, i'm from the forecast. hello, i'm from the met office . it's a cold start met office. it's a cold start for many of us today, but there are further showers out and there will continue to be some showers in places during the rest of the day