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
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
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
Soon after setting sail for dover. And bt sport are to pay £1. 2 billion to carry on showing the Champions League and Europa League until 2021. The new deal ends the Highlights Shows On Terrestrial Tv. Good morning. Welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The uk factories at Ellesmere Port and luton employee. The new owners met government and unions last week and provided insurance that existing Production Commitments would be honoured at Ellesmere Port until 2020 and luton for some years beyond that but the combined company will have 2a factories in europe and some say that is too many. Its one of the biggest deals in the car making sector. British and german Brands Vauxhall and opel are to merge with the french brands peugeot and citroen. Together they will make a company which is the second largest automotive player in europe. Today, the bosses of General Motors and psa welcomed the £1. 9 billion deal and stressed their commitments to vauxhall and opel at least until 2020. After that it was
threat to our export business , and that the uk must consider its trading arrangements with europe. nissan s submission to mps on the same subject was more upbeat suggesting an opportunity for two new battery gigafactories. however, it raised concern that the eu s plan to tax carbon intensive imports including from the uk means some manufacturers are already reconsidering the investment attractiveness of the uk as the base for their european operations. the uk has a very simple decision to make. either it supports the future of vehicle manufacturing in the uk in which case it steps up and offers competitive incentives and competitive energy costs or it decides it s not in vehicle manufacturing long term, and it loses those 800,000 jobs associated with the industry. in the community around the historic ellesmere port vauxhall plant, there is concern.