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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
Thompson. The headlines this Wednesday evening: An action plan | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
to try to cut emergency waiting times - Will it make any | :00:20. | :00:30. | |
difference? There were people beside me he was saying this is a | :00:30. | :00:40. | |
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mess. A wheeze question the health minister. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
We question the Health Minister Edwin Poots who's here in the | :00:44. | :00:54. | |
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studio. Our business editor will assess the changes in the Budget. | :01:00. | :01:10. | |
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Only one Irish League football club wins in a thrilling night of action. | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
And we've been a bit unlucky with the sunshine lately, but that's | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
about to change. In the face of mounting criticism | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
of the state of the Health service, the Minister Edwin Poots is setting | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
new targets for dealing with patients in Accident and Emergency. | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
He wants 95 percent of patients to be admitted or discharged within | :01:29. | :01:34. | |
four hours. And he has set up what he calls an Action Group to take a | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
longer term view on solving the problems in the Service. The moves | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
follow the death of an elderly man who spent 24 hours on a trolley | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
waiting for a bed in the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. In a | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
moment we'll hear from Edwin Poots himself, first here's our health | :01:47. | :01:55. | |
correspondent. Chester three of the hundreds of | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
people who contacted BBC Newsline to tell us about their experiences. | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
This woman's 80-year-old mother spent a night on a trolley, she had | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
a fractured hip. Something as basic as providing a toilette prove | :02:13. | :02:18. | |
impossible for nurses, often too busy to talk. Eventually, she was | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
brought into a storeroom, I waited approximately 45 minutes, I | :02:25. | :02:28. | |
couldn't understand what was happening, I went to look further, | :02:28. | :02:33. | |
I couldn't find her. Another patient told me she was in the | :02:33. | :02:38. | |
storeroom, she was still on the bed pan, I have to go and ask a nurse | :02:38. | :02:48. | |
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to remove the bedpan. The Health Minister announces plans, in order | :02:49. | :02:55. | |
to reduce the waiting times Edwin Poots said that nurses would be | :02:55. | :02:59. | |
allowed to discharge patients, they would be more frequent rounds of | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
the ward, minor injuries treated on site, and maximising the amount of | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
day care procedures. Some nurses said they had heard it all before, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
but the minister showed he was listening, and confronting why so | :03:14. | :03:19. | |
many staff are turning to the media. We think the question is for | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
employers. Why do staff feel the need to go to the media? They do | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
not believe that they are being listened to, and that people are | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
taking action when they have raised concerns, and they feel they have | :03:31. | :03:38. | |
no choice. A test of whether the plan is working is whether fewer | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
people have experiences like John, his father has Alzheimer's, he says | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
nurses had no time to listen. said she was giving him penicillin, | :03:48. | :03:54. | |
I said, if you look at the notes, you will find he is allergic to | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
penicillin, and is highly intolerant to other medicines. | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
Should anyone be held accountable? In the last four years, a dozen | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
chief executives have been sacked for failing to meet targets. It is | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
a time to start cracking the whip, people are paid enormous amounts of | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
money for doing this job, and not beating targets. My focus is | :04:23. | :04:29. | |
entirely on patients. Others can take on the role of holding people | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
to account, my entire focus is the patient. For the public, some | :04:35. | :04:44. | |
problems are easily solved, this man's mother weighted how was just | :04:44. | :04:53. | |
to receive stitches. -- this man's mother waited for hours. They could | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
be much more efficient. Sol in this crisis is the biggest challenge yet | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
for the health minister. The Health Minister Edwin Poots is | :05:01. | :05:11. | |
with me now. As a they can this challenge -- has | :05:11. | :05:21. | |
it taken this tragedy to get your head out the sand? Absolutely not. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
I was dedicated to this long before any of this. What I was hearing was | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
not acceptable, the waiting times were too long. Why was it allowed | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
to become so bad? A mess, as one patient told us. It is quite | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
apparent that the problem does not solely rest in accident and | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
emergency, it is the whole hospital system. A lot of people have had to | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
stay on trolleys, as opposed to moving towards. That has led to | :05:52. | :06:02. | |
large build up so people. You close the one major A&E centre? -- you | :06:02. | :06:10. | |
closed. What would have made the difference was spreading our jam or | :06:10. | :06:18. | |
thinly across these hospitals, we were spread across two sides. | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
about accountability? He was responsible for it? It is the chief | :06:24. | :06:32. | |
executive of the trust, he is responsible. He is accountable to | :06:32. | :06:39. | |
me and the public. The standards that we are receiving are not | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
acceptable. We expect that to be improved. We have heard about heads | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
rolling, will it happen here? have set them some very significant | :06:54. | :06:59. | |
targets. If they felt to be met, it is an issue that will be addressed. | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
You have set these targets, but you have given no more resources. We | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
have heard about �80 million of cuts, which will maybe reduce the | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
number of nurses, it will affect operations, community care, you're | :07:13. | :07:19. | |
asking the possible? We have a very tight budget. That is the Budget we | :07:19. | :07:28. | |
have. That does not mean make-up front line services. In Antrim | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
Hospital, we have financed, and replaced, the recruitment of 40 | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
additional nurses. There is a new unit being built. We are doing | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
things. A target of 95% of patients being discharged in the first 24 | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
hours, by when? We would want to see that in fermented in the next | :07:50. | :07:57. | |
the number of months. Too long, people will say. I want to see that | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
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move upwards. If it hasn't happened, we resigned -- world you resign? | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
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are putting these measures in place. Will you resign? What is important | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
is how why will respond to these difficulties. I'm very clearly | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
putting a planning to place, and I want to do with things. Let's watch | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
this space. Thank you. The Chancellor George Osborne has | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
said thousands of people in Northern Ireland should find | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
themselves better off as a result of today's budget. Although some | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
pensioners could eventually find themselves worse off. Let's have a | :08:42. | :08:45. | |
look at some of the main points. The amount people can earn tax free | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
is increasing, it's currently around �8,000 but will go up more | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
than �9,000. The Chancellor says it should give people as much as an | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
should give people as much as an extra �220 a year. People over 65 | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
currently get a bigger tax free allowance but that will be frozen | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
and so its value will be eroded by inflation. Households where someone | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
earns over �42,000 were going to lose their child benefit. That's | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
been changed. It will now only affect people earning over �50,000. | :09:16. | :09:21. | |
And only those earning �60,000 will lose it all. Smokers will be hit, | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
with a packet of 20 cigarettes going up by 37 pence. There will | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
also be a 3p rise in the price of a pint. There's no respite for | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
motorists. The Chancellor is sticking with plans to increase | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
fuel duty later this year. That's dismayed many people who say high | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
fuel costs are one of the biggest drags on our economy. Here's our | :09:41. | :09:50. | |
drags on our economy. Here's our business correspondent. | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
Spiralling fuel prices are having a dramatic effect on this haulage | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
company. It uses 80 million litres of diesel annually. It cost them an | :10:02. | :10:09. | |
extra �180,000 a year. A fuel prices are at their record high, | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
and while there was no respite, there was huge disappointment at | :10:14. | :10:22. | |
the 3p a litre rise in August. are depilated, very upset. -- | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
deflated. Some hauliers will say they can't go one. After Matt Lee, | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
people may lose their jobs because of this. The cost to the consumer | :10:34. | :10:41. | |
will go up. Boris start, it means higher food prices. -- for a start, | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
it means higher food prices. This woman working at Ulster Hospital | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
and �27,000 here, she will pay around �300 less a year, though she | :10:54. | :11:02. | |
says, in real terms, she would be any better off. I'll be paying an | :11:02. | :11:06. | |
additional six under �80 in pension contributions. If I have a huge | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
amount of fuel costs. Heating and to have gone up, and the dredger | :11:11. | :11:20. | |
pounds when make any difference. -- �300. I won't be any better off. | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
Smokers will have to pay more. The increase will come into effect at | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
six o'clock. It won't stop me at all. I think it's ridiculous. | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
increase is great from my perspective, it will help me cut | :11:33. | :11:43. | |
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back. That is a really big hike. The fact that the Chancellor will | :11:43. | :11:50. | |
allow many middle-class families to keep all of their child benefit was | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
welcomed. I think child benefit should be available to as many | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
people as possible. People deserve a bit to help of their children. | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
The Budget has left the one big unanswered question for Northern | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Ireland, and that is the fate of the pay of two other 1,000 public | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
sector workers. The Chancellor, ultimately wants to see pay bills | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
going down, what he didn't was it when, or by how much. -- didn't | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
spell out. Our business and economics editor | :12:24. | :12:28. | |
Jim Fitzpatrick joins me now. Jim did this budget live up to what we | :12:28. | :12:36. | |
expected? The expectations were on the top rate of tax. Let's look at | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
the highest rates, it's coming down to 45p next year. How many people | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
will that affect in Northern Ireland? The answer is around 4,000. | :12:44. | :12:53. | |
That is not a huge impact. What about the match and tax? They | :12:53. | :13:02. | |
avoided that. -- what about mansion tax? They have to pay another tax | :13:02. | :13:08. | |
anyway. What is the impact? thing that was aborted was personal | :13:08. | :13:18. | |
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allowances. They are effectively the rate you pay income tax. | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
Because they are raising it it will take some people out of the system | :13:22. | :13:32. | |
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altogether. They will be 600,000 people who will see that affect. | :13:33. | :13:43. | |
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has been a speculation about public service work sectors? Some | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
departments are concerned. The differential, the premium you get | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
in the public sector is 27%, that figure comes from the Department of | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Finance. The finance minister, Sammy Wilson, is concerned about | :14:00. | :14:07. | |
this. He has reasons why they are paying more, if the principle is | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
established by reducing pay, it would have a big impact. Having | :14:11. | :14:21. | |
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said that, they found a more Helpful to the film industry, | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
passenger devolution helping foreign investment, a reduction in | :14:26. | :14:29. | |
corporation tax which will close the gap Parlour between Northern | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
Ireland and the Irish Republic and broadband for Belfast. And the fact | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
that some people who Warren Lowing comes are being lifted out of tax | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
and will pay no tax -- who what are Honour low-income. There are lot of | :14:44. | :14:50. | |
things that concern me in this Budget. -- who are on the low | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
income. It has been found people at the bottom will lose the most. | :14:56. | :14:59. | |
People on pensions are squeezed so forget about the squeezed middle, | :14:59. | :15:09. | |
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You can check out the detail with News Online. Still to come... We | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
look at the planned changes to its capacity benefit. And Banbridge | :15:29. | :15:36. | |
Officials from Linfield and Derry City football clubs have been | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
giving their reaction to the trouble after last night's Setanta | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
Cup game. Buses carrying Linfield supporters were attacked as were | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
houses close to the stadium. One man was arrested. In a statement | :15:44. | :15:46. | |
Linfield say they were unhappy with "aggressive and provocative | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
behaviour" by Derry City stewards and some local people. But one of | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
Derry City's directors says he feared for his life as he ran from | :15:53. | :16:03. | |
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They knocked down part of the fence, then a mob started to attack me -- | :16:06. | :16:16. | |
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attack me. The stewards rugby- They said let's kill him! To be | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
honest, it was really scary. People who have been deemed too ill to | :16:24. | :16:27. | |
work may be forced to look for a job under benefit changes. The | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
government is moving people from the old incapacity benefit to was | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
appalled -- employment support allowance. We have the highest | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
number in the UK and incapacity benefit and the government digs | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
many of them can find some form of work. Our political correspondent | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
has the second in our series on reworking welfare. This is Bill, he | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
works trying to help people get jobs. He is fully behind changes to | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
welfare that will see thousands taken off incapacity benefit. That | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
is because of the new test which focuses on what work you can do | :17:01. | :17:07. | |
rather than what you cannot. This is not about saying you're all | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
faking, this is saying there are people who were genuinely unwell | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
and need support, there are those who want to get back to work but | :17:14. | :17:18. | |
cannot because they are tied up in the system. By breaking down a | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
system and giving people a step-by- step approach without making it | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
economically hard for them, we can make their lives different. It in | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
the past you had to go and see what was known as the big doctor to get | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
benefit, now it is being phased out and you go to centres like this. If | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
you pass the test you can collect �100 a week on employment support | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
allowance. This is how it works... The most ill people will get the | :17:44. | :17:48. | |
allowance automatically, others are sent to a health care professional, | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
not necessarily a doctor. They then send a report to the Social | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
Security Agency for a decision. Some people are moved to a work | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
support group on benefit of around �94 a week. Others lose their | :18:01. | :18:09. | |
incapacity benefit. We think around 30% of those who move from capacity | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
benefit will either fell at test or move on -- and have to move on to | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
jobseeker's allowance, or alternatively, they may drop out of | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
the benefits system altogether if they have a partner who earns over | :18:21. | :18:27. | |
a certain amount, or if they do. You need 15 points to keep your | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
benefits but you can appeal. We are aware of a case of a lone parent | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
with one child, the woman has learning difficulties. She was | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
given no points at her assessment but and 36 in her appeal. The whole | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
process took four a month and in the meantime she was left on a | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
basic benefit of �67 a week. Despite such problems one welfare | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
reformer says it is the only option. I take the view that with the | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
economy in such dire straits we cannot afford to allow so many | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
people to be signed off into different areas and then have the | :19:02. | :19:07. | |
belief the highest they can aspire to is a workless life. I think many | :19:07. | :19:13. | |
people should aspire to more the mat. I think a lot of people do. | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
critics. How long-term unemployment and ill-health is a legacy of the | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
Troubles and say job opportunities are not there for those who want to | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
work. Particularly in this recession, if you have people | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
applying for jobs and you have somebody who has been on long-term | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
incapacity benefit through no fault of their own, and you have a string | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
of graduates coming in, you can answer that question for me. Who | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
are you going to employ? It is not known how many people on incapacity | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
benefit have been helped into work as those figures are not recorded. | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
But the Department of Employment and learning says around 1500 | :19:46. | :19:53. | |
people have claimed a return to work credit in the past year. | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
In the final part of her series tomorrow night Martina will be | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
looking at universal credit - it's going to replace all the current | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
benefits. And the changes to benefits have prompted a lot of | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
discussion on our Facebook page today. You can join the | :20:07. | :20:17. | |
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In last night's Setanta Cup quarter-finals, League of Ireland | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
sides won three of the four ties, leaving Crusaders as the only Irish | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
Premiership club in the last four after their 2-0 win over Bohemians. | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
But the tie of the night was at Brandywell where Derry emerged as | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
victors. With the game poised our one all from the first leg, | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
Linfield took the lead. But Derry were level in the second half. They | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
scored two more to clinch the tie. There was a result which left the | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
Linfield manager furious with the match officials. But there were no | :21:03. | :21:12. | |
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complaints from Derry as they In Belfast, Sean Ward scored the | :21:15. | :21:20. | |
best goal of the night to get Tottenham back into their tie | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
against Sligo. But just as the glens were getting into their | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
stride, this happened... A floodlight failure and a ten-minute | :21:30. | :21:36. | |
delay. When the lights came back on a penalty was conceded, and a tie. | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
The it was not the ideal way of taking the players into the | :21:41. | :21:43. | |
changing room and cooling down, then having to come out again | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
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midway through the second half. But Two goals from Barry Johnson and | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
Joe Gormley got them back on level terms. They forced the game into | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
extra time and then a penalty shoot-out but could only convert | :22:02. | :22:08. | |
one spot kick. There was no pressure on us. We had to keep | :22:08. | :22:15. | |
clean sheets. It went to penalties and it is a lottery from there. Our | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
players were dead on their feet but I have nothing but admiration for | :22:19. | :22:29. | |
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them. Earlier this week we saw Methodist College win at the Rugby | :22:29. | :22:37. | |
Schools Cup. Tonight we bring you the hockey schools champions after | :22:37. | :22:47. | |
war was probably the most thrilling final of them all. Banbridge | :22:47. | :22:50. | |
Academy have cemented their reputation as one of the best | :22:50. | :22:52. | |
Schools' Hockey teams in Ireland after a thrilling 3-2 extra-time | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
victory over Friends' School from Lisburn in this year's Burney Cup | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
final. Denise Watson reports. The Academy scored twice in the first | :22:58. | :23:04. | |
six minutes. A short corner conversion made it 2-0. The first | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
goal for friends came courtesy -- the first goal for Friends' School | :23:12. | :23:20. | |
came up after 25 minutes. The final touch, then they were well and | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
truly back in the final contest. Extra-time was necessary. Banbridge | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
thought they had got victory but there was more drama to come. In | :23:31. | :23:41. | |
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the dying moments Friends' School So Banbridge Academy, Burney Cup | :23:47. | :23:50. | |
winners again but friend -- Friends' School pushed them all | :23:50. | :24:00. | |
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away. Ireland and Munster hooker Jerry Flannery has retired from | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
professional rugby. He had struggled with injuries for the | :24:03. | :24:11. | |
last two seasons. Flannery won a total of 41 caps for Ireland. | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
Armagh claim that their players, including Ciaran McKeever here, | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
suffered ''racist and personal abuse'' during Sunday's league | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
defeat to Laois. And Graham McDowell was a member of the Lake | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
Nona team which has won the Tavistock Cup. McDowell carded a | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
three-under 69 on the final day of the annual exhibition tournament in | :24:25. | :24:33. | |
Florida. And finally good luck to Ireland's cricketers - they face | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Canada in a Twenty20 World cup qualifier early tomorrow morning | :24:35. | :24:44. | |
our time. We'll have that action on Good luck to them. Now the weather. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
I have been inside all day, but I think it has been nice. It has been | :24:48. | :24:54. | |
dry. Let's hope it continues. has been fine. We have been unlucky | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
with the sunshine, the cloud has rolled in each day to spoil things. | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
That is what happened again today. The cloud went back northwards | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
after a bright start. Our fortunes are about to change. We have fairly | :25:08. | :25:12. | |
clear skies, so we are hoping to see those engine during the night. | :25:12. | :25:16. | |
Still a fair amount of cloud around through the evening. It is dry, the | :25:16. | :25:21. | |
winds are easing down. Through the night the clouds starts to shrink | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
away towards the north, clearing skies but that means it will also | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
be a cold at night. Temperatures inland, Three Degrees, but close to | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
freezing in some rural spots. Chances are we will see patchy | :25:36. | :25:40. | |
Frost with the odd patch of mist, or fog as well. If they form they | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
will probably go quite quickly tomorrow. A dry, fine day coming up. | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
A brighter day certainly with more sunshine around. Despite a chilly | :25:49. | :25:55. | |
start it will probably be the skies and sunshine. A few differences | :25:55. | :26:00. | |
around tomorrow. If you are on the County Down coastline you will | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
probably have an onshore south- easterly breeze. So it could feel | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
quite cool. The best is inland, particularly towards the west and | :26:10. | :26:20. | |
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north-west. Through tomorrow night -- a fine day, but cloudy. Even on | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
Friday there will be some showers around but they will not linger | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
into the weekend, they should clear to leave us with a lot of dry | :26:36. | :26:46. | |
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