iam martine i am martine croxall. the headlines at 8.00pm. jailed for 12 years after running over and killing a 10—year—old boy and his aunt. but the family express disappointment with the sentence. the education secretary is heckled over her plan for new grammar schools. teachers say they're having to drop courses due to a lack of funding. a judge orders the columnist katie hopkins to pay 24 thousand pounds in damages — after she libelled a blogger on twitter. bt bows to demands for a legal separation with 0penreach — which runs the uk's broadband infrastructure. rivals sky and talktalk cautiously welcome the move. the singer ed sheeran makes chart history — he's the first artist to get every single song from his new album into the top 20.

iam the in relation to my own role in this. i am the leader of sinn fein. i nominated martin mcguinness in his time for this position.r robertson stood aside twice when there was controversy and then took up his position again. there is a way to sort this out. it is not that we are putting up red line positions. we are saying there isa line positions. we are saying there is a scandal, there is a huge question over the loss, potentially, of half a billion of taxpayers‘ money, let‘s get that sorted out. i think we have constantly said through the period of the last weeks the reason we are in this situation is because of that scandal and the dup's arrogance to the public in relation to that but also because we have had failure by the dup, british and irish governments to implement previous agreements. there are key issues to be dealt with and it is important to come at it with the right attitude. we sought the strongest mandate to go back and deal with the problems. if people come at it with the right attitude we could find a way forward. inaudible question. you have heard me say he is not an independent arbiter. he has