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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Tuesday: The | :00:21. | :00:24. | |
first minister threatens to quit, if Prison Service symbols are | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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changed. This is a matter... If they do this, | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
I will resign. MoT tests are to get tougher. New | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
checks from next year. 40 years on, families welcome new | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
inquests into the Ballymurphy shootings. | :00:46. | :00:52. | |
The experiment wits back -- which backs the ban on smoking in cars. | :00:52. | :00:58. | |
The Republic of Ireland are just 1 game away from the Euro 2012 | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
football finals. Join me in Dublin. And changes on the way with the | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
weather. Join me short cliff. -- shortly. | :01:11. | :01:20. | |
It is a storm of controversy at Stormont, over suggested changes to | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
the emblem of the Northern Ireland Prison Service. The First Minister | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
has threatened to resign. Sinn Fein have told him to come down and | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
focus on the reform needed. It has been suggested that the crown | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
symbol and the title her Majesty's Prison could be dropped. We will | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
talk to the justice minister and an moment. | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
This prison holds young offenders and women as inmates. It is | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
officially one of her Majesty's Prisons, like other jails in | :01:49. | :01:57. | |
Northern Ireland, but how long all that remained the case? | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
Is the Minister saying that he anticipates an end to our prisons | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
being called her Majesty's prisons? That he anticipates an end to the | :02:06. | :02:12. | |
Crown as the symbol of the Prison Service? Could he be clear on that? | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
We're looking at a process of fundamental reform. That will | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
affect every part of the Prison Service and its culture. In those | :02:21. | :02:26. | |
circumstances, whilst these issues are operational issues for the | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
Prison Service, those are issues that have to be considered by the | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Prison Service, as it looks to the appropriate way it will be run in | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
the years ahead. So what is the big deal? Didn't the | :02:38. | :02:47. | |
police changed their name and uniform a decade ago? Today, the | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
First Minister says a similar change for the Prison Service was | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
unacceptable. It will not happen on my watch, let's make that clear. If | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
they attempt to bring this by some circuitous route, I will resign and | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
take the matter to the electorate, who will have their say. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Those feelings are echoed by the families of the prison officers who | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
lost their lives during the Troubles. This lady's husband was | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
murdered as he left St Patrick's Cathedral. | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
There is more than just a name change. How will change in any | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
major move on? They fail to see it. It is all we have left. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
But the Deputy First Minister thinks Unionist politicians are | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
going over the top about the Prison Service emblems. There should be no | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
knee-jerk reaction. People need to recognise that fundamental change | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
within the prison system is absolutely vital for. | :03:48. | :03:53. | |
One thing to bear in mind is that in political terms, David Ford are | :03:53. | :04:02. | |
still on probation -- is still on probation. A minister who depends | :04:02. | :04:07. | |
on Unionist and nationalist support is now at the centre of a | :04:07. | :04:13. | |
Unionist/nationalist tug-of-war over the emblem. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
The Justice Minister David Ford as we three. | :04:16. | :04:24. | |
The most recent report had 40 recommendations, and it did not | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
mention symbols like the crown on the badge, or changing HMP. Where | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
did the idea come from? It was about a fundamental end-to-end | :04:34. | :04:41. | |
reform of the prison system. That is what has been highlighted. The | :04:41. | :04:47. | |
team I set-up has brought this together. In the first report, the | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
need for cultural reform was mentioned, so it has not come out | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
of nowhere. It is part of the overall issue. Do you have over all | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
proposals to drop the HM p and the Crown from the badge? There are no | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
proposals on my desk, but there are clearly issues that have to be | :05:05. | :05:11. | |
discussed, as we have to look at this reform. Given the response | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
from Peter Robinson, will you drop such proposal? You played a clip | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
from the assembly last night, but the last contribution I made, I | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
stated clearly there were issues that were operational from the | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
Prison Service, and there are cross-cutting issues regarding the | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
executive as a whole. Issues like major changes to the symbols on | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
emblems would be an issue that I would have to talk to other | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
ministers about. You would be unlikely to push it through? I have | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
highlighted they are other issues which I have already written two | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
other ministers about the need for work on a cross-departmental basis. | :05:49. | :05:56. | |
The executive will have to determine what it sees about an | :05:56. | :06:03. | |
overall reform package that is needed. Do you accept that for some | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
people, changing the name would not change anything? Clearly the name | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
change would be painful for some people. Having been to the Prison | :06:12. | :06:22. | |
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Service Memorial on Friday, for the Remembrance service their... I have | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
to ensure that the whole justice system is reshaped for the job that | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
is required for the years ahead. The prison service is part of that. | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
Do you also have said you are dependent on Unionist support for | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
your continuing in this role? have known from day one that I | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
could be removed at any time through a vote in the assembly. | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
Will that inflow ensure decisions? I will do what I believed to be | :06:50. | :06:59. | |
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best for the people of Northern Ireland. If I judged serious issues | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
on the basis of whether or not they were politically acceptable to one | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
section of society, I would do nothing. I am determined to get the | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
reforms that the society needs. Putting your car through the MoT | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
can be a nerve-racking and expensive business. It is about to | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
get tougher. 22 new checks are being proposed to comply with the | :07:24. | :07:30. | |
EU regulations. With more details, here is Martin Cassidy. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
Local MoT centres have never been busier. Thanks to the recession, | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
many motorists keep their cars longer. For the first time, more | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
than one million vehicles will be entered for a Test this year, which | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
has changed little since its introduction in 1975. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
These are requirements of the European Union, of which Northern | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
Ireland is part. For the majority of drivers, this will not be | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
significant. Brakes will be tested, and warning lights will be tested, | :08:03. | :08:08. | |
to see if there is some deeper warning with the safety of the car. | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
The MoT inspectors will add 22 new items to the a checklist. Most | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
changes will revolve around the electronics of the car, and the | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
dashboard warning indicators, to make sure they are functioning | :08:20. | :08:27. | |
properly. Others would be the brakes, where they would be an | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
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increase in efficiency, to 58%. And cars with high-intensity lights, | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
there will be a test to make sure they have a system that is | :08:43. | :08:49. | |
functioning proper live. For a new carriages, the MoT test may mean | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
more business, but owners with plenty of fancy features may think | :08:55. | :09:03. | |
-- need to think about the implications of a more thorough MOT. | :09:03. | :09:09. | |
You need to have equipment to diagnose while lights come on to | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
the dashboard, for instance. will be made before vehicles will | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
be refused an MoT certificate for failing to meet the new standards. | :09:19. | :09:25. | |
The price of an MoT will remain unchanged at �30. | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
There has been a big response to that on the Facebook page. Most | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
people are not at all happy with the tougher testing. You can join | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
the discussion on face the. There are to be new inquests into | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
the deaths of 10 people who were shot dead by the army in west | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
Belfast 40 years ago. A priest was one of those killed. | :09:48. | :09:51. | |
In a rare interview, Father Hugh Mullan's brother says he hopes the | :09:51. | :09:58. | |
new inquest will get to the truth. A August 1971 was one of the | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
bloodiest months in the Troubles. Violence was widespread after the | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
security forces began to imprisoned terrorist suspects without trial. | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
Here is how a BBC correspondent reported what happened in | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
Ballymurphy. The Bullets turned night into one | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
of the most dangerous and frightening that I have known. | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
Among those who died was a woman standing outside her burning house, | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
and a Roman Catholic priest who was administering the last rites to a | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
dying man. That priest was Father Hugh Mullan. | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
Today his brother told me about the events of 40 years ago. He said I | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
am going to try to get help. Stay where you are. As he got up, he was | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
shot, then he was shot again. you thought about him a lot over | :10:52. | :11:02. | |
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the last 40 years? Yes. You do. It is natural. He was a good man. | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
other people were shot dead by the army in Ballymurphy over three days. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
Their families have always argued the investigation was a sham. Now | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
the Attorney-General has decided the inquests into Wall 10 deaths | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
will be reopened. The Army have always claimed they | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
opened fire after being shot at by republican paramilitaries. But the | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
families of those who died dispute that. They say everyone who was | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
killed was unarmed. -- unarmed civilians. The truth will come, and | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
that is what it is all about. People said he was a con man, he | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
was not. The Ministry of Defence says it will -- co-operate with the | :11:47. | :11:56. | |
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Still to come: Join me in Dublin, where I will be talking to the | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
Shamrock Rovers manager Michael O'Neill, ahead of the Republic of | :12:05. | :12:13. | |
Ireland's Euro 2012 Corps of fire. All wrapped up for the Christmas | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
light switch on, Mr Tumble is coming to town. | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
A stark reminder of how difficult it is for people to find work. It | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
has emerged that more than 4,000 people went for 150 jobs on offer | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
at a new company that has set up in Belfast. | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
The international law firm has moved in to a new office block on | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Belfast Waterfront with one of the best views in the city. What the | :12:44. | :12:49. | |
company did not see coming was the huge demand for the jobs it is | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
bringing. It has recruited over 150 people, with many more trying to | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
get a start. 4,500 people applied for the first 150 jobs on offer. On | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
average, that is the equivalent of 30 people for every single job. | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
The company offered to hand the grants it will receive to his | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
London employees to relocate here. The offer was worth �8,000 per head, | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
but only five opted to leave London for Belfast. It is purely for | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
personal reasons, it does not have anything to do if the quality of | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
life in Belfast, which is fantastic. But I think people are personally | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
to committed to London, in terms of family life, and mortgages, I guess | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
the stop the low take-up means most of the jobs will go to people from | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
here who answered -- who answered local job but there since -- | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
answered local advertisements. I sent my CV, hoping for the best. | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
I was invited to come to the assessment centre, and it was very | :13:58. | :14:08. | |
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tough. But out of all the applications, it is a privilege. | :14:10. | :14:18. | |
Pupils, parents and staff from Dunmurry High School have | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
demonstrated outside an education board headquarters in the hopes of | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
stopping a plan to close their school. Unlike other boards, this | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
one, the south eastern, has no public representatives and refused | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
the BBC and members of the public access to the meeting today. Our | :14:31. | :14:36. | |
education correspondent, Maggie Taggart, was outside. | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
Dunmurry High School is getting extra support for its teaching and | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
is predicting a large deficit in a few years, but politicians joined | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
the school to protest about plans to close it. It special needs | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
pupils are particularly concerned. Well, to try to find the right | :14:54. | :15:00. | |
school that handles conditions like, for example, I have autism, so we | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
will have to find a school I can take care of me. The school was | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
judged to have too few pupils and following the closure proposal, 17 | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
more have gone since the win. knew that would happen, but we hope | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
the commissioners will open ears and hearts and listen to what we | :15:18. | :15:25. | |
have to say. The chief executive of the board met the protesters and | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
said the decision would be made tomorrow before he went into the | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
meeting. Since 2006, major decisions for the south-east and | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
Education and Library Board have been made by a set of commissioners | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
appointed by the Department of Education. They are in a special | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
room at the moment discussing the future of those schools that are at | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
risk. We asked to Widnes that meeting but were refused. The | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
Minister of Education's has decided to keep the commissioners for the | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
time being but said any decision made would go to him and then be | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
open for media scrutiny. Yesterday, the health minister told | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
us he would consider banning smoking in cars and not just when | :16:06. | :16:10. | |
children are on board. Tonight ,we look closer at the health dangers. | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
BBC Newsline's Julian O'Neill talks to campaigners for a ban who have | :16:13. | :16:23. | |
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measured the damage tobacco smoke could be in the confines of a car. | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
This doctor works for the British Lung Foundation. With a doll as a | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
property is getting ready to measure the impact of just one | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
cigarette with a monitor. This measures tiny particles that do | :16:36. | :16:40. | |
exist in the background atmosphere but they are much more prevalent | :16:40. | :16:45. | |
when there is second-hand smoke or fumes a range. Joe is our smoker, | :16:45. | :16:50. | |
who has agreed to take the wheel. The machine gets to work. Smoking | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
in cars could soon be banned by Stormont. This doctor would welcome | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
it. Every day he sees children with breathing problems. Particularly | :16:59. | :17:04. | |
during the winter season we see a lot of bronchitis and asthma and | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
tobacco smoke is a big factor in a mission to the Children's Hospital. | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
Back in our car, the experiment is almost over, and even driving with | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
the windows slightly down, the experts as the reading on the meter | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
is still high. We have had one driver tried around for a few | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
minutes and even in that shop bit of time, the levels of already | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
reached dangerously high levels. It gives us a snap shot into the kind | :17:30. | :17:33. | |
of exposed that children in Northern Ireland have on a day-to- | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
day basis and highlights the damage they can potentially take place. | :17:38. | :17:42. | |
will want is said to launch a public consultation on the issue -- | :17:42. | :17:52. | |
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Stormont. The If you're a civil engineer, you may want to go and do | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
something else for the next few minutes. Today, a scientist told an | :17:56. | :17:57. | |
international engineering conference in Belfast that | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
engineers are responsible for the widespread destruction of beaches | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
and coasts. Professor Andres Cooper says their solutions are short term | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
and just make the situation worse. Our environment correspondent Mike | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
McKimm has been investigating the coastal protection game. | :18:15. | :18:20. | |
There are days when it seemed we do not have enough coastal protection. | :18:20. | :18:26. | |
But in actual fact, mile upon mile of our coastline is other concrete | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
or man-made armoury. Hundreds of thousands of tons of it. Often we | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
drive along blissfully aware of what is keeping the road up and the | :18:35. | :18:41. | |
sea Ed. Some coastal race cost as much as a motorway per mile. It is | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
a standing and cheering problem to keeping the sea at bay. But this | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
man claims that engineers are destroying our coast on a global | :18:49. | :18:56. | |
scale. They minute there is some land at risk, people get concerned | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
and theirs was an engineer ready to build a ball. When you pulled a | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
wall like that you have destroyed and nationally functioning, healthy | :19:05. | :19:10. | |
ecosystem. It cost money, you have to maintain it for ever and ever, | :19:10. | :19:19. | |
it destroys the grade between the land and sea. There is no beach to | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
speak of in places. This is a popular spot in the summer but the | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
backdrop is rather brutal. But when the engineering is there to protect | :19:27. | :19:32. | |
a radar houses, you cannot just remove it. Sometimes you are faced | :19:32. | :19:37. | |
with this choice. You can protect infrastructure and lose a beach or | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
you can move the infrastructure or relocated and preserve the beach. | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
We would argue that is a far more sustainable way of looking at | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
things. Preserve the functioning ecosystem and move the | :19:49. | :19:54. | |
infrastructure. So we have to decide what sort of a coastline it | :19:54. | :19:58. | |
is, do we want a natural one, or one like this? One like this costs | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
a lot of money. The Euro 2012 finals beckon for the Republic of | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
Ireland. They beat Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the play-offs. | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
It's the second leg tonight in Dublin - Stephen Watson is there | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
for us. Is it just a walk in the park? | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
It should be a formality. I don't think you'll find anyone arriving | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
here at the Aviva Stadium to think the Republic of Ireland will slip | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
up. The only way Estonia can spoil this party is if they did to the | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
Republic what they did to Northern Ireland, and score for my goals | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
against them, which is very unlikely against a team with the | :20:36. | :20:41. | |
great defensive record, unbeaten in 10 games. It is a full house and | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
everybody expecting to see the Republic qualify for their first | :20:45. | :20:52. | |
major finals in 10 years. They are not hoping, they expect. | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
It has been 23 years since these Republic of Ireland fans watched | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
the Irish at the European finals, in a famous win over England. | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
fortunate enough to score the goal and was my first international goal, | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
believe it or not. Probably the cameraman did not believe it | :21:12. | :21:20. | |
either! He would traipsing over John Aldridge, thinking he's got it. | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
It was a fabulous day. But if you had said to me, way back in 1988, | :21:25. | :21:30. | |
that Ireland would not control -- qualify for another European tie-up | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
meant until 2012 I would have thought you were crazy. We were not | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
given a chance, and the more we were written off, the more we fight | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
back. That was a fabulous result. I cannot remember a more significant | :21:45. | :21:54. | |
one or more enjoyable one after that. The last man to lead Ireland | :21:54. | :21:59. | |
into a major finals believes that Giovanni Trapattoni should continue. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
The qualifying campaign has not been the easiest, it was a tough | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
group, and they have come through it. When you come through you | :22:08. | :22:12. | |
should be rewarded. I think he will. I do know what will happen with all | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
the players, there is talk that some of them will retire. He has | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
done fantastic, a great job. job is not quite compete just yet | :22:20. | :22:29. | |
but it will be at around 9:30pm tonight. By -- complete. | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
Joining me is a former international Michael O'Neill. | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Surely reported a violin cannot blow this opportunity? The book be | :22:38. | :22:45. | |
a major design and a rage a surprise if there was to happen. | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
cannot see them losing by four goals. The team will be well | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
drilled. They had done the hard work out in Tallinn and tonight is | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
a formality. Is this the night when Northern Ireland fans look, that | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
bit of envy and think about what might have been, having lost to | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
Estonia twice in the group stages? Yes, I can understand that. Two | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
disappointing results against Estonia. Estonia had the chance in | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
the play-off but Northern Ireland were particularly poor in one lake. | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
But it is hopefully something that the Northern Ireland team can learn | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
from. The job for Northern Ireland is up for grabs. Have you would | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
yourself out? I have not ruled myself in or Ed. I had my current | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
job with Shamrock Rovers. My contract ends surely alarming | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
discussion for my new contract. My future is up in the air and the | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
Northern Ireland job is very attractive. Whether it is too soon | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
in my career, some people are so bad. Thanks very much. Northern | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
Ireland's Under-21 side, which included Newcastle United's Shane | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
Ferguson in the starting lineup, were in action this afternoon | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
against Serbia in a Euro qualifier in Coleraine. The Serbs won the | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
match 2-0, with both goals coming late - in the last ten minutes of | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
the match. That visit from the Aviva Stadium, | :24:16. | :24:26. | |
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I will be backed by that 10:25pm. Some of the wet and windy weather | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
is on the way. For the time being, as you saw in Dublin, it is like | :24:32. | :24:38. | |
that here in Northern Ireland. It is rather cloudy but it is dry. | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
Tonight temperatures will drop to three or maybe for my degrees for | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
parts of the West. It will stay dry into tomorrow but eventually as we | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
go through Wednesday it is the game to become more unsettled. He should | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
be relatively bright at times. A few spells are drizzle in parts of | :24:57. | :25:04. | |
the West. But generally speaking, a dry start. Rather cloudy but the | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
cloud break at times. Perhaps the odd spell of sunshine. Temperatures | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
staying above average for the time of year at around 11 or 12 degrees. | :25:14. | :25:18. | |
It is not until the second part of the day there we begin to see a | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
weather front pushing him from the Atlantic. Overnight he will meet | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
another one pushing up from the south and it will bring some heavy | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
rain and especially to parts of the North. Away 90 come as we go into | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
Thursday but he will not be quite as cold. Thursday gets off to a | :25:37. | :25:41. | |
fairly decent start. But then the blue is showing you that eventually | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
it is going to change as we go through to the second part of the | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
Forget the celebrities of MTV fame - true superstars are arriving in | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
Belfast this weekend! Justin Fletcher, the actor who plays Mr | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
Tumble, plus Postman Pat and Fireman Sam! They'll be turning on | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
the Christmas tree lights outside the City Hall on Saturday. And | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
they're getting Santa to take a break from working on his Christmas | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
letters to pay a visit. Natasha Sayee reports. | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
By now we are unused to the rich and famous from around the world | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
dropping into Belfast. We have had presidents and superstar switching | :26:17. | :26:25. | |
on the a Christmas tree lights, but how many of you know this guy? Yes, | :26:25. | :26:32. | |
if it is Mr Tumble, described to me today as the lady gaga of the told | :26:32. | :26:41. | |
the world. To be honest, I had not heard of him, but this lot love him. | :26:41. | :26:49. | |
He makes me laugh. Do your mummy and daddy watching? Mummy thinks | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
he's so funny. What is the best thing Mr Tumble does? He makes me | :26:56. | :27:03. | |
laugh. So, he tumbles and he is good for a laugh, but what of the | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
Lord Mayor know about him. I know he is very popular. I think I've | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
had more requests for tickets to the Christmas tree switch-on then I | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
did for the other events. There is enthusiasm amongst the younger | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
citizens to get down and see Justin Fletcher. I feel now that I know | :27:23. | :27:30. | |
this children's superstar. But can I hear the song one more time. | :27:30. | :27:38. |