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- Updates for Wednesday 8 June 2016
- School closed after father and two children struck by lightning
- Increase in manufacturing exports to outside the EU
- Independent panel recommends new decommissioning scheme
- Picture: White Rocks Beach, County Antrim (by James Gardiner)
A hockey player who suffered serious dental injuries in a first eleven match has lost a High Court negligence claim against her former school.
Megan Murray, 22, sued Rainey Endowed in Magherafelt over damage inflicted when she was not wearing a mouth guard during a game nearly eight years ago. But a judge ruled that the school's policy of recommending pupils use gum shields met the appropriate standard of care.
Alliance leader David Ford has submitted an urgent question to the health minister asking what evidence came to light to allow the lifting of the gay blood ban.
"I have always believed Northern Ireland should be brought into line with the rest of the UK when it comes to gay men donating blood. Therefore the lifting of the ban is a positive step. However, the minister needs to explain why it took so long to come to this decision."
BBC News NI Agriculture and Environment Correspondent
A plague of biblical proportions is munching its way through ash trees in an area of south Belfast.
Tens of thousands of larvae have stripped a number of trees almost bare in the Belvoir estate.
A search is under way for three divers missing off the north Antrim coast near Whitehead.
The Coastguard rescue helicopter, Bangor lifeboat, Portmuck and Larne Coastguard and a merchant vessel are all involved in the search.
Northern Ireland striker Kyle Lafferty gave positive news on his groin injury following a scan today.
Lafferty sustained the injury during training yesterday, five days before the Euro 2016 opener against Poland. He sent out a tweet earlier saying he was "now back on the pitch and bring on the Poles".
First Minster Arlene Foster plans to go to the Northern Ireland versus Poland match on Sunday.
But Deputy First Minster Martin McGuinness is staying at home as he will be answering questions in the assembly the following day.
The Northern Ireland Executive has not yet agreed that cutting corporation tax is affordable, the finance minister has said.
Máirtín Ó Muilleoir was answering questions from members of the Assembly's finance committee. Under the Fresh Start deal, the executive committed to cut the tax rate to 12.5% in 2018, on the basis that the measure is affordable.
The Public Health Agency is meeting women in Northern Ireland who have experienced a pregnancy where the baby was diagnosed with a fatal foetal abnormality.
The BBC understands that the agency wants to be able to help other women who are told their baby has a life-limiting condition, including what options may be available.
The coroner at the Kingsmills inquest says the discovery of a palm print has "shaken the confidence of a number of families" whose loved ones died.
But Judge Brian Sherrard said: "This is the first and best opportunity since 1976 to establish a verifiable link between the person who has been identified and the attack. That link may produce many more leads."
BBC Sport NI's Thomas Kane reports on the Republic of Ireland's hopes for this year's Euros.
"O'Neill's Ireland haven't come just to make up the numbers," he says. "It is a major tournament, and it just wouldn't be the same without the Republic."
Sinn Féin deputy first minister Martin McGuinness says he finds it absolutely incredible that it took somebody 40 years to come up with a palm print in relation to the Kingsmills massacre.
Police are to re-open their inquiry into the killing of ten Protestant workmen in South Armagh after the print was found on a getaway van.
Meanwhile the inquest has been adjourned until 21 June.
Irish police investigating the murder of Strabane man Michael Barr in Dublin on 25 April have arrested a woman in her 30s.
She is being questioned in Dublin. Mr Barr, 34, was killed in the Sunset House pub. He was known to gardaí (Irish police) for his involvement with dissident republicanism.
Families involved in the Kingsmills inquest will hear later this afternoon whether it will be adjourned.
The coroner said that, given the significance of evidence about a partial palm print found on a vehicle, police should be given the opportunity to pursue this. The coroner said a timetable would be put in place and that families would be advised as to the progress of the investigation.
A security alert at Parkway, Ballymena has ended.
Nothing was found and the road has been re-opened.
Planners have recommended the go-ahead for a proposal to build a 12-storey, 250-bedroom, hotel on Tomb Street in Belfast.
They have also reversed a recommendation that a new Lidl store in east Belfast should be refused. Belfast City Council's planning committee will decide on both applications next week.
Police investigating the Dublin murder of Strabane man Michael Barr have arrested a woman in her 30s.
Mr Barr, a dissident republican, was shot dead in a pub in April. The murder was believed to be linked to an ongoing gangland feud.
Families involved in the Kingsmills massacre inquest will hear later this afternoon whether it will be adjourned.
Earlier, referring to the matching of a palm print in the case, the coroner said given the significance of the evidence, police should be given the opportunity to pursue it.
BBC News NI's Kevin Sharkey reports from the Police Federation's annual conference.
A bust commissioned by the Arts Council commemorating the late poet Seamus Heaney will be unveiled on Sandymount Green in Dublin this afternoon.
The event is to mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of 'Death of a Naturalist'.
The daughter of north Belfast man Michael McGibbon, who was killed in a paramilitary-style shooting in April, says the killers are "a law unto themselves".
"I just want to express my anger towards how people are dealing with the criminals who did it," Shauna McGibbon said. "I think it is so unfair that they are able to get away with it."
The commissioner who investigates complaints against MLAs believes the public is losing confidence in the Stormont complaints system.
Douglas Bain recommends changes to the way complaints are handled.
Education Minister Peter Weir has commended the staff at Killowen Primary School in Lisburn for their actions immediately after a lightning strike which seriously injured a man and his two children.
Although the school is closed today, staff are meeting independent counsellors to prepare them for any questions the children might ask when they return.