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Craven. -- good evening. The headlines: What is really going on | :00:23. | :00:29. | |
in Antrim Area's A&E department? Councillors say they want the truth. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
Also on the programme: New money to entire his older teachers to take | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
redundancy. Hopefully this announcement will be | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
an incentive for them to think about taking a package and saving a | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
younger teacher's job. unemployment figures show a fall, | :00:49. | :00:55. | |
or the failure of another of retail chain puts 200 jobs at risk. | :00:55. | :00:59. | |
What price a breath of fresh air? The National Trust is starting to | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
charge for a walk around a popular estate. | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Five Ulster men and the at -- in the Ireland squad, but should they | :01:07. | :01:12. | |
have been more in the Six Nations? It is a colder 24 hours coming up | :01:12. | :01:22. | |
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with some wintry showers tomorrow. First night, the standard of care | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
at Antrim Area Hospital. The local council has now called on members | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
of the public and staff to share their experiences, whether good or | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
bad. A email linked to the BBC last week from the Health Trust | :01:37. | :01:42. | |
highlighted the pressure staff were under to get beds for patients. | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
That e-mail from the Director of Acute Services confirmed that | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
people were waiting for many hours on trolleys. Our correspondent is | :01:49. | :01:55. | |
at the hospital. The public have been very keen to | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
share their experiences with us. One woman described how she course | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
an elderly relative to the A&E department a few days ago. That | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
person who suffered from cancer had to spend 11 hours waiting on a | :02:10. | :02:14. | |
trolley. It was tightly packed with other patients who were also lining | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
the corridors and trollies. Despite this, one person had to received a | :02:21. | :02:29. | |
blood transfusion in these conditions. It is an appalling lack | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
of dignity. Others described a limited amount of food and liquid | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
being brought to patients, and the situation was an acceptable. A | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
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local GP joins me, what are your patients describing to you? They | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
are telling me how awful it is to come here. They have to wait for | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
hours on trolleys. Sometimes they do not even get a trolley and they | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
are sitting on a chair for five or six hours until they get attention. | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
There is no dignity or privacy. There are three of them in a | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
cubicle. They cannot go to the toilet, they have to clamber over | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
somebody else. In spite of all this, they have great praise for the | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
staff because they are working very hard. You describe to me earlier in | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
dark words that this would be the last place you would want to be | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
bought to if you were ill. That is shocking coming from HET. Iron have | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
sadness for the state of the health service in Northern Ireland. | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Especially here, because of the closure of the Mid-Ulster Hospital. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
I spoke of this some years ago and said that it was likely to happen. | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
Because of lack of space, patients are getting poor standard of care | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
and it is not acceptable in this day and age. Is there a shortage of | :03:52. | :04:02. | |
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doctors? No. There is a shortage of beds. The geography is poor. That | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
means that people cannot get the care they need. It is awful to have | :04:09. | :04:17. | |
to lie on a trolley for 12, 14 hours without any dignity. Thank | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
you for joining us. Councillors say they want to get to the root of the | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
problem. They're getting conflicting messages from | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
management here. They won members of staff and the public to contact | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
them confidentially. Their names and telephone numbers will be | :04:34. | :04:40. | |
withheld. They want to know the truth about what is going on here. | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
Viewers have been contacted us -- contacting us on Facebook and by e- | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
mail. Here are some of their comments. | :04:50. | :05:00. | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 42 seconds | :05:00. | :05:42. | |
Ordered teachers are being offered extra money to entice them into | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
voluntary redundancy. BT is being negotiated with the unions in a bid | :05:48. | :05:53. | |
to protect younger teachers being squeezed out as budgets tighten. | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
Teachers' unions are predicting up to 4,000 job losses over the next | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
four years. They need to encourage voluntary redundancies, and the | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
main target is older teachers. There is a growing number of older | :06:08. | :06:13. | |
teachers in Northern Ireland. There are 600 who are 60 or over. The | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Department of Education no longer makes up the shortfall in missing | :06:17. | :06:22. | |
pension years, and so deep end -- prospect of only retirement is less | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
attractive. The unions hope that extra money will help overcome | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
resistance from our older teachers. To each is aged 55 on basic salary | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
you have worked for more than 20 years will get �57,000. Those aged | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
60 or Iver could get �63,000. At the other end of the scale are | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
teachers with extra responsibilities you could come | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
away with �84,000. They will be to use some of that money to keep | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
their full pension. �167 million has been set aside to pay for it. | :06:59. | :07:03. | |
It favours those who come to -- are coming to the end of their | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
educational tenure. They can take the package and leave with dignity | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
and respect. I think this will allow for a smooth transition for | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
teachers to leave the system and for younger teachers to remain in | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
the system. Teachers just starting out on their | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
careers will hope that will improve their chances of getting a job. | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
have one or two back in that older category, and hopefully this | :07:31. | :07:37. | |
announcement will be an incentive for them to take the package and | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
took this saved a him the teacher's job. If unions are usually in the | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
business of saving jobs, but in this case they are encouraging | :07:46. | :07:52. | |
voluntary redundancies. We are encouraging older members to look | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
favourably at the offer, because we cannot guarantee it will be | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
available next year. Unions have also won a -- agreement to redeploy | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
teachers to lose their jobs. Two teenagers have been arrested in | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
connection with a recent spate of the vehicle hijackings in that -- | :08:14. | :08:20. | |
Belfast. Most of them are targeted at women drivers. | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
The Health Minister has said there will be no further action on | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
allegations of abuse at Lissue House in Lisburn and Forster Green | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
Hospital in Belfast unless there is new evidence. Edwin Poots was | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
speaking to the Health Committee over allegations of abuse at the | :08:36. | :08:42. | |
hospitals. A woman from Comber has been | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
questioned in relation to the murder of Phyllis to its -- Philip | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
Strickland -- Philip Strickland. Stacey McCaughey is accused of | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
perverting the course of justice. Another arrest was made this | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
morning. Three teenage boys were arrested in | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
relation to an assault in South Belfast earlier this month. It | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
happened in the Village area when extras on a film set were attacked. | :09:07. | :09:14. | |
You are watching BBC Newsline. Still to -- still to come: From the | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
longest serving manager in the game to the most recent. | :09:19. | :09:27. | |
We will hear from two men shortly. Would you pay �2 for a walk around | :09:27. | :09:34. | |
this National Trust estate? The unemployment level has fallen | :09:34. | :09:39. | |
again according to the official figures, yet the number of people | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
claiming unemployment benefit continues to rise. Our Business and | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
Economics Editor is with me. Explained was why that is. | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
It is a conundrum. Let us look at how the figures are moving. The | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
measure of unemployment shows that over the year it has dropped by 1%. | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
That is significant. In fact, the rate of employment has gone up by | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
2.5% aren't there more jobs around? No. The number of jobs has dropped | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
by over 8,000. As you have mentioned, the claimant count has | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
gone up. The number of people on the dole is over 60,000. Why this | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
disparity? The measure of unemployment is going in different | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
ways. Rather than look at the headline rate, let us look at the | :10:30. | :10:36. | |
trend. The trend is downwards. But he does not mean more jobs. Why are | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
we seeing this drop in unemployment? It is hard to be sure, | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
but it could be immigration. People are leaving, or perhaps they are | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
going back to study. Retailers facing a difficult time. | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
Three Cocks, the chain of stores, has gone into administration in | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Britain and here. Yes, it is carnage on the High | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
Street. This will have a big impact here. Peacocks have 27 stores in | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
Northern Ireland. It will be at least 200 job losses if they cannot | :11:08. | :11:15. | |
sustain their business and sell it. And if you are a retainer and do | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
not have customers who have money, you are out of business. | :11:18. | :11:24. | |
Lever's on a positive note. We have had these different | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
measurements of our economy out today. The construction sector is | :11:28. | :11:38. | |
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up South -- for up, the first time in five years. | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
A property developer who borrowed money from the troubled | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
Presbyterian Mutual Society has lost an extensive land portfolio. | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
Receivers are trying to find buyers to recover some of the money. | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
The land portfolio includes a site here which had been earmarked for | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
Alice -- a development. This is the first time the Presbyterian Mutual | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
Society has moved across one of its big borrowers. The company is | :12:11. | :12:19. | |
controlled by Samuel Moore. The mutual is being wound down. Savers | :12:19. | :12:26. | |
were panicked into 1000 and dates in -- in 2008 by the financial | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
crisis and withdrew their money. Much of their loan book relates to | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
develop and land. This land and property portfolio covers more than | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
a dozen sites stretching far and wide. It is not yet clear how much | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
will be recouped by a sale, but since the Presbyterian Mutual | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
Society advanced the stone, -- these loans, its value has | :12:56. | :13:06. | |
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diminished. The administrators for the Presbyterian Mutual Society | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
Two local newspaper editors have been giving evidence to the Leveson | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
inquiry in London. It's examining press ethics in the wake of the | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
phone hacking scandal. The editor of the Belfast Telegraph | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
was questioned about journalists using subterfuge to get stories | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
while the Irish News editor was asked if he was aware of phone- | :13:26. | :13:33. | |
hacking by journalists in Northern Ireland. Yes, I have heard on an | :13:33. | :13:40. | |
anecdotal basis, but not something I could testify on. We have | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
probably all now heard about it on an anecdotal basis! Particularly in | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
Belfast, but not specifically in the Irish News and not in | :13:50. | :13:57. | |
connection with the journalists under my jurisdiction. That would | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
only be sanctioned by myself, and there have been two or three cases, | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
one recent case I can think of, in which we sanctioned that, because | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
the public interest, in my view, made it necessary. | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
On tomorrow's BBC Newsline, we'll have a story that affects everyone | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
who puts their bin out. New long term waste contracts could soon be | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
signed by local councils to help them hit EU targets. But some | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
companies claim the deals about to be done could land Northern | :14:26. | :14:33. | |
Ireland's ratepayers with a huge bill. Even on a short-term basis, | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
we could offer a savings from day one of around 25% on the prices | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
that have been mooted at the moment. A saving of perhaps 20 million per | :14:42. | :14:48. | |
year. A conservative estimate puts that about half a billion over 25 | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
years. In a moment we'll be live to Omagh | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
to see Tyrone take on... Tyrone! But first - not everyone's entirely | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
happy with the composition of the Ireland rugby squad for the Six | :15:00. | :15:07. | |
Nations. Here's Gavin Andrews. All will become clear! | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
Brian McLaughlin has expressed surprise that only five Ulster | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
players have been included in the Ireland Six Nations squad. Ulster's | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
Head Coach believes the team's strong showing in Europe this | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
season might have earned more international recognition. Nikki | :15:17. | :15:24. | |
Gregg reports. The World Cup was expected to be a | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
swan song for some of Ireland's most seasoned campaigners. But | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
their coach has kept faith with the bulk of the squad he did to New | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
Zealand last autumn. There is no Brian O'Driscoll. The captain is | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
continuing his rehabilitation from shoulder surgery. Rory Best, | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
Stephen there is, Andrew Trimble and Tom caught by the five Old St - | :15:48. | :15:51. | |
- Ulster players included. The Ulster coach believes they should | :15:51. | :15:58. | |
have been more. -- they air macro it should have been more. I think | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
it is a bit disappointing, because Chris Henry has been exceptional | :16:03. | :16:08. | |
all season, and dance to he, in the last three of four games has shown | :16:08. | :16:13. | |
that he is capable of playing at that level. We are disappointed | :16:13. | :16:19. | |
they are not included in the senior squad. International ambitions are | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
being put to the side now has Ulster prepare for their biggest | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
game of the season. A win against Claremont on Saturday will | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
guarantee a place in the quarter- finals of the Heineken Cup. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Mathematically it There are the rich to the last eight, but the | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
players are eager to create history with a first ever winner on French | :16:39. | :16:44. | |
soil. It will be a tough game, they have a good forward pack, they are | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
playing at home, I think they will -- we will have to make sure we are | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
up for the challenge. We are looking to book a home quarter. | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
Their current form is proving useful in recruitment forms. Roger | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
Bolsun will return to raven Hill next season after four years at | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
Northampton. Live coverage of the game on Radio | :17:09. | :17:18. | |
Ulster FM on Saturday. That starts at 2pm. The semi-final line-up for | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
Gaelic football's Power NI McKenna Cup will be known after tonight's | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
concluding round of group matches. The pick of the games is | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
undoubtedly Tyrone against Fermanagh in Omagh, where the | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
managerial head-to-head is attracting as much attention as the | :17:28. | :17:35. | |
match. Let's go live now to Mark Sidebottom at Healy Park. | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
Thank you, as you say, it is kind of all about the managers. I will | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
ask you first. Is it a novel occasion for you, or just another | :17:46. | :17:52. | |
game, given that you were in the same party -- Club, he is the | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
captain. He estimates is a bit strange for Peter to be on a | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
different side, but when he goes into the world of in decanted | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
management, that is likely to happen, particularly within Ulster. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
Here we have it, three games into the season, we are meeting each | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
other. I was saying a few minutes ago thatNow the longest serving | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
manager in the game, and Peter de newest. -- the newest. What advice | :18:20. | :18:27. | |
would you in part to him? No advice at any more! He knows what he's | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
doing. He has brought a new spark of life to the fund manager said | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
that, that can only be good for football in this prevent. -- firm | :18:37. | :18:45. | |
manner. We will be the same friend as we ever were after the match. | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
Did you always think he would make his stride into management given | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
his ability on the field of play? Without a doubt. He says it is in | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
his blood, he doesn't end when you stop playing. That is just the way | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
it is. He enjoys it so much about the game, he still wants to be | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
involved, and he is not that easily found for an interview before the | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
game, as usual! Apparently he is stuck somewhere. We will stick with | :19:13. | :19:18. | |
you. I know it is early doors, is this about looking toward the Lika, | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
and finding the right balance? is about all those things, it is | :19:23. | :19:29. | |
about preparing well. We didn't start the League well last year, it | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
cost us a chance of from promotion. So we would be faster out of the | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
blocks this year. -- we want to be. Here he is now! He is just coming | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
in! The producer has told me you have held up of the broadcast. A | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
quick word on this evening's game Kabul would you be taking it easy? | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
I am not playing! You will have to talk to those players out there. It | :19:55. | :20:00. | |
will be a good crowd, it is a great opportunity, they will be playing | :20:00. | :20:08. | |
good opposition. Are you feeling of awe are uncomfortable? There will | :20:08. | :20:10. | |
be sending wrong with me if I didn't, I definitely feels | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
different coming here, preparing to try and defeat a Tyrone team, | :20:17. | :20:22. | |
especially with this man involved, but I am with these boys now, they | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
are making a great effort, so I will be doing my best. Do the | :20:28. | :20:35. | |
handshake for the cameras! He was slippery and elusive on the pitch, | :20:35. | :20:42. | |
we just about got in there for you. Back to you in the studio, we got | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
there! Belfast boxer Brian Magee has | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
confirmed that he'll fight in Denmark for a WBA Interim World | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
title on the 18th of February. With all the details - plus news of a | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
Glentoran win and disappointment for snooker player Mark Allen. | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
Here's Denise Watson. To wait is over. After months of | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
sweating in the gym, Brian Magee will take to the ring in Copenhagen | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
next month. The Belfast man sees his fight as a vital stepping stone | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
to a major title. His opponent's nickname is hard hitting, but he is | :21:15. | :21:22. | |
not fazed. I am a focused and driven, it is going to be the | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
hardest four weeks of my life, probably, I am fit and strong, I | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
hope to be on time and on target. Glentoran packed a punch in the | :21:31. | :21:36. | |
Carling Premiership with a 3-0 victory against Ballymena. | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
The result was exactly what they needed after their humiliating | :21:41. | :21:47. | |
defeat to Newing 10 in the Irish Cup. | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
Sean Ward also got onto the scoresheet, but Scott Young, who | :21:51. | :21:56. | |
resigned as manager at the weekend was in their thoughts. It is never | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
an easy place to come, and you are looking for a reaction from the | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
players, I think that that we gutted. The players are dedicated | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
bad result to Scott. Unfortunately, it is a match too late, but they | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
wanted me to say that. It was an uncomfortable night for | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
Mark Allen at the Masters. He looked a frustrated as Neil | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
Robertson beat him six frames to three. He had let slip a 3-2 lead. | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
Afterwards he said he had completely lost interest in the | :22:29. | :22:35. | |
match and couldn't really be bothered after the interval. That | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
is your sport tonight. How much would you pay to go for a | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
walk? The National Trust is going to start charging for access to the | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
grounds of Castle Coole in Enniskillen. | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
That's led to some saying they'll go elsewhere for their fresh air | :22:49. | :22:57. | |
and exercise. Here's our Fermanagh District Journalist Julian Fowler. | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
This castle stands on the edge of Enniskillen. The former home of the | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
Earls of Balmore, it is -- towards, lakes and parkland are just a few | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
minutes' walk from the centre of town. The National Trust believes | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
around 70,000 visits are made to the grounds here each year. Soon, | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
anyone who isn't a member of the trust will have to pay. The reason, | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
the property costs almost twice as much to maintain that it currently | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
generate income. We know that many thousands of people come and walk | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
in the park every year. What a lot of people don't realise is the cost | :23:35. | :23:43. | |
to maintain it. It costs �270,000 a year. That is just to run the place. | :23:43. | :23:49. | |
We run it at a 100 did �1,000 loss. Until now visitors have only been | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
charged when arriving by car. Now from March until October, walkers | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
will be charged �2 per adult and �1 per children over the age of five. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
I would be willing to pay, I know it is a good cause. When you have | :24:04. | :24:09. | |
got family, there is other places you can go and walk for free to | :24:09. | :24:18. | |
stop what you pay the �2? Yes. Or I would get membership. If you charge | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
here, I think you're going to lose a lot of people walking, it is a | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
lovely environment to walk in. think it is dreadful, I really do. | :24:29. | :24:33. | |
Because Labour should be able to use this walk free of charge to | :24:33. | :24:38. | |
stop -- people should be able to. The National Trust hopes this will | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
not deter visitors and more people will take out annual memberships to | :24:42. | :24:49. | |
help it pay for the work that it does. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
And the debate over this story is raging away on our Facebook page, | :24:52. | :24:58. | |
with opinion split over whether it's a good idea or not. You can | :24:58. | :25:08. | |
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It has turned a little bit colder today, and that chill will be in | :25:19. | :25:26. | |
the air for another 24 hours or so before things get milder again. It | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
was a dull start, but it improves quickly, sunny spells coming | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
through across more areas. Some cloud still floating in, | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
threatening a few showers across the northern counties. Equally, | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
some clearer skies, and it is better news for some of the | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
stargazers this evening. You can catch the last of the BBC's life | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
star-gazing programme this evening. So we hold on to the clear spells | :25:56. | :26:00. | |
for the first part of the night, it is going to be a cold night. | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
Temperatures can are generally down to three Celsius. That is low | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
enough for some frost and if you icy patches. We are also likely to | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
see a few showers in parts of the north and west. We are going to be | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
seeing more of those showers tomorrow, a cold day coming up, | :26:21. | :26:26. | |
with a blustery wind picking up in the afternoon. Not too strong first | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
thing in the morning, with some glimmers of brightness in the east, | :26:29. | :26:35. | |
but for most of us, it will cloud over. That rain will start to move | :26:35. | :26:40. | |
away, clearing away from the east coast into the afternoon. Some of | :26:41. | :26:45. | |
the best sunny spells could be across part of County Down and | :26:45. | :26:53. | |
parts of County Armagh. Towards the north, the gusty wind will pick up, | :26:53. | :27:01. | |
bringing some wintry showers. A cold day tomorrow, only around six | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
degrees, the wind making it feel chillier. Those showers continuing | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
to tomorrow evening. Overnight, spells of rain moved in, and they | :27:10. | :27:15. | |
linger into Friday morning before clearing away. Still breezy and | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
Finally, a reminder of the stories making the headlines. | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
Concerns have been raised about standards in one of our A&E | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
department. AGP has said it is awful to come to Antrim area | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
hospital. More money is on offer from the | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
Department of Education to encourage to take redundancy. | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
Unemployment figures show a slight fall, but the failure of the retail | :27:42. | :27:47. | |
changed Peacocks has put about 200 jobs at risk. | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
The search of the stricken boat off the coast of Italy has been | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
suspended as the liner her slipped deeper into the sea. | :27:54. | :27:58. |