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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Friday evening. | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
Sean Quinn, one of Alan's rich as men, declares herself bankrupt. I | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
am live at the court. Water wallows in Ballymoney are set to continue | :00:35. | :00:41. | |
over the weekend. Alan's new head of state promises a presidency of | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
inclusion and ideas. The special day to remember soldiers killed in | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
war as past and present full step the record-breaking pictures which | :00:54. | :01:00. | |
are making waves all over the world. And very wet and windy day, we will | :01:00. | :01:09. | |
have a pretty decent weekend. Good evening. The Fermanagh businessman | :01:09. | :01:15. | |
Sean Quinn was once Ireland's's riches man and is now bankrupt. He | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
made his declaration today at the High Court in Belfast. He is said | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
to have debts of more than two and have billion pounds, much of it | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
owed to the Anglo-Irish Bank. He could be back in business in one | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
year. Our business correspondent joins us now. Sean Quinn spent | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
years building up a huge business empire which straddle both sides of | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
the border and beyond. A long way, he amassed a huge personal fortune | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
once said to be worth more than �4 billion. Within minutes today, he | :01:47. | :01:53. | |
was declared bankrupt, unable to pay his increasing debts. 63 euros | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
Sean Quinn is one Ireland's best- known self-made millionaires whose | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
fortunes have merited the Irish economy going from Plymouth to bust. | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
His problems can be traced back to the crash of the Dublin-based | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
Anglo-Irish Bank whose headquarters lie and finish. He bet on the | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
bike's share price and lost hundreds of millions of Euros as a | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
result. This led to the demise of the Quinn empire, he lost control | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
of Quinn insurance and there is manufacturing companies in April. | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
Today, at the High Court in Belfast he voluntarily applied for and was | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
made bankrupt over an alleged debt of 2.8 billion euros at the Anglo- | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Irish Bank. He denies owing the full amount, but except he owes the | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
bank for property loans. The bass majority of his debt arises out of | :02:39. | :02:47. | |
the purchase for shares that commenced in 2007. He does admit | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
and it is disclosed in his statement of affairs that there are | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
debts which he is unable to repay and which are due to Anglo-Irish | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
Bank in the sum of about �200 million and he has no ability to | :03:00. | :03:10. | |
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repay those debts. The company he now controls the Bank questions | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
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whether he qualifies for bankruptcy By declaring himself bankrupt in | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
Northern Ireland, Sean Quinn only has to weigh one year before going | :03:43. | :03:46. | |
back into business. If he had done the same in the Republic, it would | :03:47. | :03:56. | |
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take 12 years. Weld Sean Quinn that developed what became one of the | :03:58. | :04:05. | |
biggest businesses in Irish history and much of it was centred on the | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
border counties of Fermanagh and Cavan. At one stage, his grin | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
employed thousands and as our journalists reports, on his rise | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
and fall. Sean Quinn that transformed this part of the | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Fermanagh border, from rural wilderness to a global business | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
empire. From a quarry on the family farm, two interests spanning class, | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
construction, plastics and insulation. Four decades on, the | :04:32. | :04:37. | |
Quinn Group portfolio includes insurance, health care and hotels. | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
He borrowed �100 to start his business in 1973 and he was to | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
borrow millions to borrow -- to buy shares in Anglo-Irish Bank and he | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
lost it all when the shares became worthless. The bank removed Sean | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
Quinn from his businesses in April, sparking protests from his | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
employees who remained fiercely loyal. He is a man with a | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
reputation for avoiding the media glare, but he did face the cameras | :05:03. | :05:09. | |
to apologise to those workers. could apologise to anyone, it would | :05:09. | :05:15. | |
be our staff. Maybe the reputation was tarnished. From that point of | :05:15. | :05:21. | |
view, as regards having impropriety, absolutely not. Among the people | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
who have come to rely on the thousands of job Sean Quinn created | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
in this area, there is a great deal of shock and sadness at his | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
dramatic reversal in fortune. Some suspect we have not seen the last | :05:34. | :05:41. | |
of Sean Quinn. It is it and nail in his business coffin, but we do not | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
know the ins and outs and maybe there is a recovery from this and | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
we would hope that the Quinn rain will continue and be strong again. | :05:50. | :05:53. | |
While the green when lorries are still a familiar sight, parts of | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
the mighty Quinn empire are being dismantled. The massive queue which | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
once adorned the in -- insurance building in Fermanagh was removed | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
last weekend as it prepares for new owners. The landscape in this part | :06:07. | :06:16. | |
of Fermanagh will not be the same again. Northern Ireland Water says | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
thousands of families and Ballymoney will have to keep | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
boiling the water until early next week. Restrictions were put in | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
place when the system became contaminated during pipe | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
replacement work. 3000 properties on the edge of town have been | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
affected since Tuesday. It is dinner-time at his primary school | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
in the Ballymoney and the children settling down for a roast meal or | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
given bottled water instead of the usual tap water. The school is in | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
the area affected by contaminated water and they have been doing this | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
since Tuesday. It was first brought to our attention when one of our | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
teachers heard it on the radio. The teachers began to prepare the | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
children not to top up the water bottles at the sink and so on. | :07:00. | :07:04. | |
Later that day, there was water delivery to the school and bottles | :07:04. | :07:10. | |
of water arrived. Teachers are reminding children not used to what | :07:10. | :07:16. | |
are in the sink and come to them for our a top up. 3000 properties | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
on the edge of town have been affected. They have been told to | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
boil their water as a precautionary measure. The system became | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
contaminated with soil entered it during work to replace what are | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
pipes. Thousands of litres have had to be flushed out. It is hard to | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
say exactly how long it will take to sort out. We have to talk to the | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
public and continued to flush the system and drawing make the system | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
and get to the point where everyone is satisfied that the water quality | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
is back to its normal high standard. Northern Ireland Water says it | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
needs two days of clear samples before the restrictions can be | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
lifted and that means more inconvenience for the people of | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
Ballymoney, which could last well into the early part of next week. | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
Guests arriving at Dublin Castle for a reception to celebrate | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
Michael D Higgins becoming the ninth President of Ireland. At his | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
inauguration this afternoon, he was described as a noble man of quiet | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
virtue. It is a moment Michael D Higgins had dreamed of, walking | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
through St Patrick's Hall alongside that can assure, on his way to | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
becoming the ninth President of Ireland. Assembled for this | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
occasion, former president -- presidents, the tea shop and 700 | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
invited guests. Political leaders from Northern Ireland and church | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
leaders and diplomats and his four children, family and many friends. | :08:48. | :08:52. | |
The ceremony was marked by music, inter-faith prayers and a human his | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
blessing, before Alan's first Chief Justice brought the declaration of | :08:57. | :09:07. | |
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office. Trumpet sounded and the presidential standard flu and a 21 | :09:16. | :09:26. | |
gun salute sealed his inauguration full Enda Kenny paid tribute. | :09:26. | :09:32. | |
indeed and noble man, of quiet virtue. He will bring that nobility | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
of heart and mind and spirit to the office of the President. Then the | :09:39. | :09:42. | |
president addressed his people, acknowledging the difficult times | :09:42. | :09:49. | |
and pledging a presidency of transformation. We are Irish arced | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
a creative resourceful talented and warm people, with a sense of warmth | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
-- common decency and justice. Let us address the next seven years | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
with hope and courage as we worked together to build a future for our | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
country. Were those words of encouragement, a passionate | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
President Higgins set forth on his seven-year term of office. Still to | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
come on the programme. In our series marking ten years of the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
PSNI we hear from a senior officer about how it is tackling | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
international crime gangs. We talk to the Portrush man who helped | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
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capture on camera the biggest wave ever surfed. The main a wreath- | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
laying ceremony in Belfast to mark Armistice Day had one of his | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
largest gatherings in years. Remembrance of soldiers killed and | :10:46. | :10:53. | |
those still in conflict can take many forms. They came to remember | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
as they do every year on this day at Belfast Cenotaph. Bobby bricks | :10:58. | :11:03. | |
from East Belfast lost his poppy on the way to today's ceremony. He is | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
in the RAF during the Second World War, droppings applies to the | :11:07. | :11:13. | |
Chindits fighting the Japanese in the jungles of Burma. We were in | :11:13. | :11:20. | |
our teens. I was in it for excitement. I thought it was | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
wonderful! I and we never leave because I was afraid of missing | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
something. The experiences of soldiers Ireland, north and south, | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
fighting in Afghanistan, are the focus of the new exhibition in the | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
Imperial War Museum. It began as a few hastily scribbled notes in the | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
dusty fields of helm and promised - - problems in Afghanistan and ended | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
up here at the Imperial War Museum in Manchester. What is exceptional | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
about this exhibition is that we have a pen and paper record of | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
people's thoughts and feelings and the frontline in quite recent times. | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
You might think in a very technological aids that this could | :12:02. | :12:08. | |
be done by a text or iPad or by some other means, but the only way | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
to get the thoughts and feelings right from the frontline is by a | :12:15. | :12:21. | |
giving these guys and girls pen and paper. It was a brilliant idea. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
is a war artist who featured in our special report from Afghanistan at | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
the start of the year, where he was gathering the soldiers thoughts on | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
postcards from frontline bases. I was working with the Royal Irish | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
Rangers and I realised that if I got them to write their accounts on | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
postcards quickly, there would be an immediacy that she would not get | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
in a more reflective account. the Belfast Garden of Remembrance, | :12:47. | :12:57. | |
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people's thoughts were expressed in a more traditional manner. Crime | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
levels may be at their lowest level for many years, but international | :13:01. | :13:04. | |
criminal gangs are increasingly targeting Northern Ireland. Four | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
our last report marking the 10th anniversary of the PSNI, the | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
officer in charge of crime investigation spoke to our | :13:11. | :13:21. | |
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correspondent. Police officers forced their way into a brothel in | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
Belfast, inside they found three women got to Northern Ireland and | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
forced to work as prostitutes by a Chinese mafia gang. It is the kind | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
of crime which did not exist in Northern Ireland until recent years. | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
The officer in charge of criminal investigations says the activities | :13:37. | :13:43. | |
of gangs based outside Northern Ireland is an increasing problem. | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
We we are very much in the radar of these organised crime groups. We | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
are an affluent society and we are seen as a place where money can be | :13:51. | :13:58. | |
made. Individuals are trafficking - - traffic into Northern Ireland to | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
be forced into prostitution and to be forced into the labour market | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
and not paid and put in terrible positions. A, a bomb attack at in | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
Newry courthouse last year. A stark reminder of violence that police | :14:11. | :14:16. | |
hope had gone away. When the PSNI was four and, it was viewed as a | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
new police service for a New Era. Dissident republicans continue to | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
pose a threat. We hope for better times and thought that terrorism | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
was behind us. We knew these groups would be with us for a while, but | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
some of them have moved on into organised crime at and I think it | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
is unexpected that we were at this level of threat of some 11 years | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
later. We are working very hard, together with our colleagues down | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
south in combating that threat. We have had success in terms of | :14:49. | :14:53. | |
charging people and we are now seen as cases come through the courts. | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
This year already, we have charge 46 people with terrace type | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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offences, almost double the amount charged last year. The man | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
responsible for leading criminal investigations and handling | :15:16. | :15:23. | |
intelligence disagrees. We worked with it for ten years, we knew we | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
were losing these officers, so we put in place training programmes, | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
we put in place processes and we put in place skills, learned from | :15:33. | :15:38. | |
those who were leaving, but also developing new skills from other | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
organisations and law enforcement has moved on in the last ten years, | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
we had moved into more digital age, more information we can see in | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
terms of forensic in St basins and all those are new skills. We have | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
built on the investigated skills and detective skills that were | :15:55. | :16:00. | |
there and we have dealt more and more into the 21st century. Much | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
has changed since the PSNI was formed. Crime levels are at their | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
lowest for many years and the police are enjoying record levels | :16:08. | :16:16. | |
of public support. Those who The police ten years on. It's been | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
a decade since the Republic last won a place in a major football | :16:19. | :16:23. | |
tournament. A good result tonight would be a big step towards ending | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
that run of bad luck. Stephen Watson is here. Absolutely. One | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
hour until kick-off. The Republic's first leg of the Euro 2012 play-off | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
matches against Estonia. The second is next Tuesday. Will this man look | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
like that? Giovanni Trappatoni has left it late to finalise the | :16:44. | :16:50. | |
starting 11. Austin O'Callaghan is live in Tallinn. Confirmation as | :16:50. | :16:56. | |
short time ago that Jonathan Walters will partner Robbie Keane | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
up front for the Republic and it is one decade since their last | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
qualified for the finals of the major tournament and while the | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
players are taking nothing for granted against Estonia, that | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
supporters to beat the journey to this city for the big game already | :17:13. | :17:21. | |
seen to be in celebration mode. Come on, you boys in green. | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
since dystonia's singing Revolution, which paved the way for their | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
independence, has there been music like this in the city. At least | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
3000 Irish fans have been scrambling for the allocation of | :17:35. | :17:44. | |
1400 tickets. They are 100 euros each. 16 euros is the face value. | :17:44. | :17:54. | |
would you buy one? Come on, the boys! What would you be prepared -- | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
be prepared to do? I would were a horrible said, I would get changed | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
into something ridiculous. Whilst the republic's history is poor, | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
their track record in Estonia is more encouraging. 2 - 010 years ago | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
was the key stepping stone towards their qualification for the 2002 | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
World Cup. The question is, can the current team repeat that? Are you | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
nervous? Not really. Shay Given is too nervous -- professional. He is | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
too long in the tooth to actually feel any nerves. He is very keen to | :18:32. | :18:36. | |
get on with us. Should Giovanni Trappatoni's side lose, that's a | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
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different story. He has to qualify for up stop it's that simple. --. | :18:46. | :18:51. | |
Blunt and to the point from one supporter. It was this day 24 years | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
ago that the Republic qualified for their first and only European | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
Championship finals. Germany 1988. His men tonight hope they can take | :19:01. | :19:08. | |
a bigger step towards bridging that gap. Thank you very much indeed. | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Ulster's rugby players begin their European Campaign tomorrow at | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
Ravenhill in what promises to be a very busy weekend of sport. Gavin | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
Andrews looks ahead. Ulster found their fight against Connacht in the | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
Pro12 last Saturday. As significant when. But French opposition in the | :19:23. | :19:28. | |
Heineken Cup is another matter. will not get as many opportunities | :19:28. | :19:35. | |
like that. And you have to finish those opportunities. It is | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
important to create like we did at the weekend. But to finish them. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
Glentoran took their chance this weekend, beating Enfield and | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
they're back in the Irish League title race. Next up, Carrick | :19:47. | :19:55. | |
Rangers. It is ourselves, Cliftonville at Portadown up there. | :19:55. | :20:01. | |
Which is great to see. If people think it is good for the Irish | :20:01. | :20:09. | |
League, that's great. But we will turn our attentions to Saturday. | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
Crossmaglen face Ballinderry on Sunday, hoping for some of that | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
magic they produced against St Gall's. With St Gall's and the | :20:17. | :20:23. | |
rivalry, we expect this to be tough. But with Ballinderry, it will not | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
be the same. He can follow all games on BBC Radio Ulster this | :20:29. | :20:36. | |
weekend. A Brendan Dolan from Belcoo enters the Grand Slam of | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
Darts in Wolverhampton this weekend. And the man from County Fermanagh | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
is in top form. Last month, at the World Grand Prix, he shot a nine- | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
dart finish, the fastest possible way to win in the sport. Denise | :20:45. | :20:55. | |
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Watson went to meet him. Brendan Bullseye! In October, Brendan Dolan | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
had the first-ever nine dart finish with the double starred rule on | :21:12. | :21:21. | |
television, an achievement he will not forget. What a moment! Yes, it | :21:21. | :21:27. | |
seems to be all over Youtube. It is great. And obviously for me, it is | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
great that people are looking at you and watching it and they will | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
remember me for something when I am long dead. Brendan received a warm | :21:39. | :21:45. | |
welcome back on to his local bar. But success has not come easy. | :21:45. | :21:50. | |
Brendan had the chance of winning eight years ago, going to England, | :21:50. | :21:57. | |
a professional was setting him up. And the chance to turn professional. | :21:57. | :22:05. | |
But when his mother got sick, he said, no. For that reason alone, he | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
has the best credibility in the world. My goal is the top 16, top | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
10, top-five and hopefully world No. 1. But I have to win major | :22:16. | :22:22. | |
television tournaments. That is my goal. This is the impressive trophy | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
which Brendan to come to Belcoo after coming runner up in the World | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
Grand Prix. Now, he steps up to the big leagues. The Grand Slam, where | :22:31. | :22:38. | |
prize money is in excess of �100,000. Great achievement. You | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
may remember we brought you amazing surfing footage about this time | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
last year. Here, Alastair Mennie from Portrush is riding a huge | :22:44. | :22:49. | |
Atlantic wave off the Irish coast. Now he's helped to capture on film | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
the biggest wave ever surfed. Here, Hawaiian Garrett McNamara rides a | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
monster wave off Portugal. It's being claimed as a world record 90 | :22:57. | :23:05. | |
footer! Alastair was part of the team who made it happen. And he | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
joins me tonight. With his surfboard. How exciting was that? | :23:12. | :23:18. | |
Incredible. Something we have wanted to do it for all of our | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
lives, bigger and bigger, 60 ft, it is incredible. You are out in the | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
ocean when it happens. Clock us through exactly what it was like. | :23:30. | :23:37. | |
The normally work with three men, safety, jet ski and surfer. You can | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
see the man serving, carrot back tomorrow. He will face the wave and | :23:44. | :23:54. | |
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if he falls, my job is to rescue him. - -- Garrett McNamara. | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
Amazingly, he gets out? Were you jealous that it was not you? | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
would have been great if it was me or Andrew. But he is the man for | :24:04. | :24:10. | |
the job. In terms of the biggest waves. It was his time. Fantastic | :24:10. | :24:17. | |
achievement. His nickname is big red, and he is a big weather fan. | :24:17. | :24:26. | |
All was watching the weather. But the best weather today, some | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
heavy downpours and strong wind making it feel blustery. The good | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
news is that is changing this evening and we can look forward to | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
a much drier night. Cooler because of clear skies but temperatures | :24:38. | :24:43. | |
will range between seven and nine degrees. Still above average. | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
Western areas will get off to a cloudy start tomorrow but that | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
cloud lifts and we will all look forward to some sunshine coming out. | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
From the get go, lasting through the afternoon. The wind will be | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
fairly light coming from the south- east, temperatures at 11 or 12 | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
degrees. Feeling pretty good in the sunshine. Perfect for getting out. | :25:05. | :25:10. | |
And for hanging out the washing. No threat of any rain. The second part | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
of the after noon holds onto that sunshine. End to Saturday evening, | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
we can see that cloud creeping up, and that will continue overnight | :25:19. | :25:29. | |
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into Sunday. Temperatures, 7 - 9 degrees, similar to tonight. Sunday, | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
it is a cloudy start but eventually that will drift and will allow the | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
bright spells to come through. Look at those temperatures - 15 degrees. | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
Six degrees above the seasonal average. And the new week starts | :25:44. | :25:48. | |
fairly dry and mild. And don't fit -- don't forget to go out and about | :25:48. | :25:58. | |
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and take your pictures tomorrow. In August we had a look inside a | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
suitcase filled with memorabilia from the World Wars. It had turned | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
up in a Belfast backstreet. Now we have a better idea about how the | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
case ended up there. It's believed it fell into the hands of burglars | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
who didn't know what to do with it. Claire Savage can tell us more | :26:15. | :26:18. | |
about the case and its owner. The case was bursting with items from | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
both world wars. Love letters and anti-Hitler poems and a gift from | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
the ante of the current Queen Elizabeth to frontline troops. | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
Really sentimental items from World War One, like the box of Princess | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
Mary give to a soldier. We wanted to get that back. It belonged to | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
Henry Campbell, who was a teenager in the Second World War. He had a | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
half-sister, Agnes and they share the same mother, Jane, but had | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
different fathers. Jane remarried after her first husband died. Agnes | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
had two children, Dennis and Joan, which makes them Henries niece and | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
nephew and the closest relatives. Henry was in the RAF cadets before | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
becoming a tram driver and inspector. I knew he was in the Air | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
Training Corps but I did not know his circle of friends. There are | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
letters from Palestine and people who run training courses in England. | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
What amazes me is where has it been for 60 years? Henry grew up in | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
McMaster Street and his family moved away 40 years ago. One theory | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
is that the suitcase lay hidden somewhere in the house for years | :27:30. | :27:34. | |
only teed -- only to be discovered by burglars recently. They later | :27:34. | :27:39. | |
dumped it. This could have belonged to Henry's uncle, who died in the | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
First World War. And the love letters? One was a lady may be | :27:45. | :27:50. | |
trying to get him as a boyfriend! There are so many others. It would | :27:50. | :27:54. | |
be interesting to have a chance to look through them. I have very fond | :27:54. | :28:03. | |
memories of him. He was someone who did not make one enemy. The case | :28:03. | :28:11. |