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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline. No peace centre at the | :00:16. | :00:22. | |
Maze. So no economic development there, either. Martin McGuinness | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
spells out Sinn Fein's bottom line there, either. Martin McGuinness | :00:24. | :00:31. | |
on the former jail site. No change to GCSEs and A levels here after a | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
review finds there's no case to replace them. A relative of an | :00:35. | :00:40. | |
elderly man who had more than £100,000 stolen by his carer speaks | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
elderly man who had more than out after her guilty plea. I would | :00:42. | :00:50. | |
elderly man who had more than have been a regular visitor and I | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
never had any reason to suspect this have been a regular visitor and I | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
was going on. There's criticism of have been a regular visitor and I | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
an Orange Order offer to talk to Ardoyne residents if it gets to | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
complete its march there this weekend. | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
at Ravenhill. But why did their mascot, Sparky, get so excited? We | :01:06. | :01:14. | |
reveal who was inside the bear suit. And after a lovely weekend for many, | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
we are more or less back to normal as we start the month of October, | :01:18. | :01:26. | |
with rain on the way. First to the latest in the row over the future of | :01:26. | :01:34. | |
the Maze Long Kesh site. The Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
says there can be no further development there unless the deal | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
that had been reached to build a peace centre is honoured. Mr | :01:40. | :01:43. | |
McGuinness said that while the Balmoral Show can go ahead next | :01:43. | :01:46. | |
year, any future plans will depend on the peace centre deal. Last | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
month, the First Minister withdrew his party's support for the centre, | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
saying it could not go ahead without consensus. Mark Devenport is at | :01:55. | :02:06. | |
Stormont. Mr McGuinness, is he saying that nothing can happen | :02:06. | :02:09. | |
unless everything is agreed? That is it. Martin McGuinness faced | :02:09. | :02:14. | |
unless everything is agreed? That is questions in the Assembly this | :02:14. | :02:17. | |
afternoon and he spelt out in public what Sinn Fein has been saying for | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
quite some time, but development at the Maze site is frozen and Mr | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
McGuinness described the campaign to stop this Peace Centre as deplorable | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
and said he was deeply saddened that the agreement that Sinn Fein had | :02:31. | :02:32. | |
and said he was deeply saddened that with the DUP was not being honoured. | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
He did raise the agricultural Society for their work in hosting | :02:37. | :02:42. | |
their show on the site earlier this year but he did add, these are | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
important riders. The decision to withdraw support, it has now | :02:48. | :02:55. | |
jeopardised the future of the site as a whole. And I am also content | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
that the Balmoral show continues next year. However, the anticipated | :03:01. | :03:08. | |
development of the site can only proceed on the basis of the | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
honouring of the commitments that were made and the role of the | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
honouring of the commitments that development corporation. And no | :03:12. | :03:21. | |
further developments took place until this was satisfied. What are | :03:21. | :03:28. | |
the applications? As Martin McGuinness said, being interrupted | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
there, it does look like the show could still stay on the road for | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
next year but we know that the Royal could still stay on the road for | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
Ulster Agricultural Society is looking to sign a longer term | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
agreement with the board and in a sense, they spent £2.5 million | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
agreement with the board and in a already on that side, unsecured on | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
till they do that, so that is a major headache for them. What is the | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
position of the board? They had a meeting and released a statement | :03:56. | :03:58. | |
saying it would be inappropriate for them to comment on a confidential | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
discussions with the First and them to comment on a confidential | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
Deputy First Ministers but that statement says that key decisions | :04:03. | :04:09. | |
regarding this site are taken by the First and Deputy First Ministers and | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
that the board will do its best to First and Deputy First Ministers and | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
continue to secure regeneration for this site but it is hard to say how | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
they can fulfil their basic function, given what Martin | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
McGuinness has said. Thank you. Next to education and the future of A | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
levels and GCSEs. The Education Minister at Stormont, John O'Dowd, | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
had commissioned a major review of the exams after changes were | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
announced by his equivalent in England, Michael Gove. Today, the | :04:29. | :04:40. | |
findings of that review were unveiled and it says there is no | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
case for changing exams here in the near future. David Maxwell has this | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
report. The review published today recommended evolution rather than | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
revolution when it comes to our exams system. It was prompted by | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
changes in England which will be phased in from autumn 2015. There, | :04:54. | :05:02. | |
GCSE and A-level students will sit all examinations at the end of the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
two year course. But the local exams board, CCEA, who conducted the | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
review, don't believe we should follow Michael Gove's direction and | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
the Education Minister here agrees. We have consulted in preparation of | :05:13. | :05:19. | |
this report and people say, letters examined the change but letters | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
examined that carefully and make sure it is based on research and | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
that we end up with a system we can be proud of and can transport across | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
the world. So what does the review recommend? It says GCSEs and | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
A-levels should be retained but there'll be discussions about | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
possible name changes. It proposes a mixture of testing both during and | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
at the end of courses. But the review says students should only | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
have one opportunity to re-sit exams Internal assessments such as | :05:45. | :05:52. | |
coursework will also stay. So while the overall structure remains the | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
coursework will also stay. So while same, what could change? The review | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
says consideration should be given to combining GCSE English and | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
English language. A new GCSE mathematics exam should be | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
considered and a more specialised IT qualification. At A-level, students | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
will only be able to do re-sits in June. The review also recommends | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
developing a new exams system in the longer term and potentially | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
scrapping GCSEs further down the line. But reforms elsewhere mean the | :06:17. | :06:24. | |
exams system is going to become much more fragmented within the UK and | :06:24. | :06:33. | |
that's raised some concerns. We need to be absolutely sure that nothing | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
is done that damages or limits the portability and transfer potential | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
of exams in Northern Ireland when young people sick access to | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
universities in other jurisdictions. But John O'Dowd says qualifications | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
here will still carry equal weight. The review now goes out to | :06:49. | :06:52. | |
consultation but it's already been broadly welcomed by schools. I | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
welcome the fact that he believes that one size does not fit all. I | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
strongly believe that Northern Ireland is very separate and should | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
remain so and therefore, our pupils are good and our examination results | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
are the best in the UK. What the Minister has put forward is | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
something that allows the system to be adjusted rather than the radical | :07:16. | :07:20. | |
change that Michael Gove has proposed. The idea of coursework is | :07:20. | :07:25. | |
important and that allows students to develop a range of skills they | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
don't learn from exams. The review published today has been described | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
as cautious. It requires no immediate upheaval but it does call | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
for a longer term review of GCSEs and A-levels and points to more | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
substantial changes in five to yen years. -- ten years. A woman who was | :07:38. | :07:48. | |
supposed to be caring for an elderly man was in fact stealing from him. A | :07:48. | :07:53. | |
Bangor woman has pleaded guilty to taking more than £100,000 from Cecil | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
McAllister, who was also known as Jock. He was 91 years old when the | :07:56. | :08:03. | |
theft began. He has now passed away. Barra Best was at Downpatrick Crown | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
Court. This is 56-year-old Leslie Dorothy Helen Boyd. She was charged | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
with six points of fraud and one of theft. The fraud charges relate to | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
the writing of six bank cheques worth more than £61,000. They were | :08:22. | :08:28. | |
drawn from the dagger account of Cecil McAllister in 2009 and 2010. | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
The largest was worth £50,000. The smallest £100. Boyd, from | :08:33. | :08:39. | |
Chippendale Avenue in Bangor, was also charged with stealing a further | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
£44,000 belonging to Mr McAllister. This morning, a jury was sworn in | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
for the start of the trial but before the case that under way, Boyd | :08:47. | :08:51. | |
was made legal team indicated there would be a change of plea. Leslie | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
Boyd was originally set to contest the charges but cheaply the guilty | :08:55. | :09:00. | |
when all seven were put to her during a brief appearance in court. | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
She is due back here in December for sentencing. Before she left the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
court, the judge told her she should think hard about the kind and | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
details she gives about what happened because that might | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
influence her sentence. I would urge people listening to this or | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
following the story to sit down as a family with vulnerable members and | :09:19. | :09:24. | |
have this discussion, could this happen? I firmly believe that if it | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
happened here, it could happen to anybody. There's the boy decide on | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
bail until she has to appear for sentencing in December. -- Leslie | :09:34. | :09:42. | |
Boyd. Stay with us. Coming up: Could a Government-backed scheme give the | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
housing market the extra boost it needs? A nationalist residents group | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
in North Belfast says it would be insane for the Parades Commission to | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
allow the Orange Order to march past Ardoyne shops this Saturday. The | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
proposal by the Order is to complete the contentious march that was | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
proposal by the Order is to complete restricted by the Commission on 12th | :09:59. | :10:13. | |
of July. Vincent Kearney reports. 44 police officers were injured during | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
three nights of rioting after an Orange Order parade was stopped in | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
three nights of rioting after an North Belfast on the 12th of July. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
Since then, a protest camp has operated at Twaddell Avenue - just | :10:21. | :10:25. | |
yards from the section of road the parade was banned from. The Orange | :10:25. | :10:36. | |
Order today invited the media to a press conference to announce its | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
proposal for a parade this Saturday morning, and then talks about next | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
year. News crews turned up - but the Order didn't. Reporters and camera | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
crews were told that various partner groups associated with what's | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
described as the civil rights camp would be be available for interview | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
on the latest move by the Order. Those present included political | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
parties linked to the UVF and the UDA, along with city councillors | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
from the Ulster unionists and the DUP. It was left to them to spell | :10:58. | :11:06. | |
out the Order's position. We will apply to complete our parade at 9am | :11:06. | :11:11. | |
on Saturday the 5th of October, and the parade will consist of the three | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
lodges and to bands that were banned from the club and road by the | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
Parades Commission. -- Crumlin Road. We are open to dialogue with the | :11:20. | :11:25. | |
residents for the 2014 parades that can commence immediately after our | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
return to the Orange Hall. No one is here from the Orange Order to answer | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
return to the Orange Hall. No one is questions about what the Orange | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
Order itself says. Is that acceptable? I am glad you asked me | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
that. Mervyn Gibson sent the text minutes before he arrived to say he | :11:43. | :11:48. | |
had an urgent family member -- family matter to attend to. He would | :11:48. | :11:53. | |
have a very reasonable reason. A spokesman for a nationalist | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
residents' group in Ardoyne said there must be talking before | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
walking. I think it would be insane for the Parades Commission to | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
overturn their original determination and that would | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
constitute a rational decision-making and I would say, do | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
not capitulate to loyalist violence. Intimidation and lawbreaking. | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
not capitulate to loyalist violence. Because that is what happens here on | :12:16. | :12:19. | |
a nightly basis. But the Orange Order says its offer of a morning | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
parade is a significant. -- is significant. Sources say that many | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
in their community oppose this move. They want return parade to take less | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
at the traditional time of 7pm. Not at 9am. The Parades Commission will | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
meet tomorrow to discuss the application for a parade this | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Saturday. The Reverend Mervyn Gibson from the Orange Order joins me. I | :12:42. | :12:47. | |
Saturday. The Reverend Mervyn Gibson was no one from the Orange Order | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
represented at that news conference? Several people were or injure men. | :12:52. | :12:57. | |
They did not represent the Orange Order to ring the news conference? I | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
had a personal commitment but I am here now. Does that mean you are on | :13:01. | :13:08. | |
your own in this? Not at all. The camp showed that everybody from | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
Orange family was there. From all of camp showed that everybody from | :13:11. | :13:18. | |
those community group. You see this proposal for Saturday is a step | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
forward, something very positive? What would you say to residents that | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
say that giving permission would be giving in to intimidation and | :13:25. | :13:30. | |
violence? I do not know where that has come from. You have not seen the | :13:30. | :13:36. | |
pictures? ! Has not in any violence. I would challenge you to | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
show us any photographs after the 12th of July. There has been | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
peaceful protest and I have seen no violence. You don't think this will | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
given to the violence that happened? All of those people | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
injured, including many police? What happened then was because of the | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
Parades Commission giving in to the violence of republicans last year. | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
It showed that violence paid. Many in the unionist family did not think | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
that and we can't dine and we had a very peaceful protest. You say that | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
if this parade goes ahead on Saturday, you will engage in talks? | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
You were engaged in talks before the Saturday, you will engage in talks? | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
12th of July. The residents association told us they are ready | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
to start tomorrow. Why such a delay? We are also ready to start but we | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
want to get this matter sorted out. We want this impasse broken. We want | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
to deal with what happened and finish that parade and we have | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
applied for permission at 9am on Saturday morning and we believe that | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
is economise and once that takes place, we will enter into talks for | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
next. If that is not granted, would you accept that? We might not like | :14:45. | :14:48. | |
next. If that is not granted, would it but we will protest against that | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
but we have to accept the decision. Andy talks will start, regardless? | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
No, the talks will start if the parade goes home and if the brethren | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
No, the talks will start if the we turn home, then the talks will | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
start on Monday. 40 weeks of talks on the table. Pity. -- thank you. | :15:03. | :15:09. | |
start on Monday. 40 weeks of talks The trial of a brother of the former | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
west Belfast MP Gerry Adams has been listening to the closing statements | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
of both the prosecution and defence. 58-year-old Liam Adams from Bernagh | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
Drive in Belfast denies ten charges of raping and indecently assaulting | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
his daughter more than 30 years ago. Will Leitch reports. | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
Liam Adams was in court to hear prosecution and defence counsel some | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
of the evidence against him. Speaking to the jury, a prosecution | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
barrister said Aine detailed evidence against her father. We | :15:42. | :15:48. | |
suggest, he said, the detail is king in this case and when you look at | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
the detail, you could not make it up. He told the jury: | :15:52. | :16:06. | |
But in making her closing speech, a defence barrister said it was one | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
person's word against another and she questioned the truthfulness of | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
Aine Adams. She said: The jury of nine men and three women | :16:16. | :16:34. | |
have been hearing evidence in this case for over two weeks. This | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
afternoon they took direction from case for over two weeks. This | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
the judge in how properly to deal with it. Tomorrow they retired to | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
consider their verdicts. The local banks say they need more | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
information before deciding if they'll take part in a Westminster | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
backed scheme for house-hunters, which could allow for 95% mortgages. | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
The Help to Buy scheme is supposed to start next week. Our Economics | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
and Business Editor John Campbell has more details. | :17:00. | :17:08. | |
The local housing market is just about getting off the floor after a | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
huge and ruinous crash. The Help To Buy scheme could give it a further | :17:13. | :17:19. | |
boost. The scheme is being run by the Westminster government and | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
applies across the UK. It will mean you can buy a house costing up to | :17:22. | :17:30. | |
£600,000 with a deposit of as little as 5%. The deposit is so low because | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
of the loan goes bad, the government will cover the first 15% of the | :17:35. | :17:42. | |
bank's losses. Unsurprisingly, estate agents are enthusiastic. | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
Prices are hopefully turning so if there is an opportunity like this, | :17:48. | :17:54. | |
there will be more sales. This buyer said the scheme would have made | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
things easier for him. We had to start saving which meant we would | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
things easier for him. We had to not have spent more money. It was | :18:01. | :18:12. | |
tough. But there is still a big unanswered question over which | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
lenders will take part in the scheme. Ulster bank's parent company | :18:16. | :18:24. | |
RBS is on board. But like all local banks, it wants more information | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
before committing. At a stroke this scheme with increased demand in the | :18:29. | :18:33. | |
market. People who thought they would have to wait years for a | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
deposit will be able to buy straightaway. But supply will take | :18:38. | :18:44. | |
time to catch up which sounds like a recipe for rising prices. It will | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
probably lead to a bit of a rise in house prices. The local economy is | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
still scarred by a housing market that got out of control. The | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
government insists this scheme will be regulated to prevent a new bubble | :18:59. | :19:01. | |
emerging. be regulated to prevent a new bubble | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
Joey Dunlop was our last motorcycling World Champion, but | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
could we be celebrating another one soon? Stephen Watson can tell us. | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
The late Joey Dunlop was World Champion an incredible five times in | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
the 1980's. More than 25 years on, Eugene Laverty could be following in | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
his footsteps. With just two more rounds left, the Toomebridge rider | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
has put himself right into contention to win the World | :19:24. | :19:25. | |
Superbike championship. He had two contention to win the World | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
podiums finishes, including victory in Race Two, at Laguna Seca in | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
America last night. Thomas Niblock reports. | :19:33. | :19:44. | |
When Eugene Laverty hit the front in the Californian heat, he was made to | :19:44. | :19:55. | |
work hard all the way to the finish line but held on to a precious lead | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
and vital points in the championship title race. With his earlier third | :19:58. | :20:04. | |
place in race one, he is now a title contender. It was one of the best | :20:04. | :20:19. | |
races in my life. I had to work so hard in the last few laps but thanks | :20:19. | :20:26. | |
to my team, we made a step today. With two more rounds and another 100 | :20:26. | :20:30. | |
points still available, Eugene Laverty is up to second place, only | :20:30. | :20:38. | |
23 points behind the leader. I really was not sure if I could do | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
that today. The package wasn't quite there. We did not have the grip | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
that today. The package wasn't quite today but it shows the power of the | :20:45. | :20:53. | |
will to win. The championship now moves to France next weekend before | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
the final round in Spain a fortnight later. | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
Ulster's rugby players moved up to fifth in the Pro12 table after a | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
fine win over Italian side Treviso at the weekend. Ulster scored five | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
tries at Ravenhill to secure an excellent bonus point victory. Lion | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
Tommy Bowe celebrated his return from injury with this try. Watch | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
Sparky the mascot closely. You may wonder why, in particular, his | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
celebrations were quite so exuberant. That's because it wasn't | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
celebrations were quite so Sparky in the bear suit. It was the | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
man who's joined me in the studio tonight - winger Andrew Trimble. | :21:26. | :21:39. | |
Why? I have no idea. It was a childish ambition of mine so I | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
thought it was a great opportunity. I assume as we take a look at your | :21:44. | :21:49. | |
celebration, you are now fully fit from injury and back for a return? I | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
did a bit of homework and watched Sparky in the first half and thought | :21:56. | :22:03. | |
I could do this. I lost all composure when Tommy scored the try. | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
Tommy knew it was me but he must have forgotten because he gave me | :22:08. | :22:14. | |
the cold shoulder. An excellent Ulster performance. The young guns | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
are going really well. There is great competition for places at the | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
moment. It is great to see. Ulster is going from strength to strength. | :22:26. | :22:31. | |
moment. It is great to see. Ulster Young guys playing well, it is a | :22:31. | :22:36. | |
great place to be at the minute. The last couple of weeks have not been | :22:36. | :22:41. | |
so much fun for myself, but I am looking forward to getting back | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
involved. A disappointing start to the season. Worthy players worried | :22:47. | :22:56. | |
at all? It does not take long, two losses and it is all doom and gloom | :22:56. | :23:01. | |
but now a couple of wins, we are fifth in the table. You are fit for | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
selection so hopefully might see you this week? I am not sure exactly but | :23:07. | :23:16. | |
hopefully in the next week or two. When Sir Alex Ferguson retired as | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
Manchester United boss at the end of last season, that left Ronnie McFall | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
of Portadown as arguably the longest serving football manager in the | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
world. McFall has been in charge at Shamrock Park for almost 27 years. | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
And while Man United may be struggling, Portadown are flying | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
high. Thomas Kane reports. It might be early in the season but | :23:34. | :23:39. | |
Portadown are looking like title challengers. They went 1-0 down | :23:39. | :23:45. | |
against Lenthall at the league's top scorers. Gary Twigg is already in | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
double figures for the campaign. While Peter McMahon popped up with a | :23:52. | :23:59. | |
winner. We are not getting carried away in any shape or form. It is all | :23:59. | :24:05. | |
topsy-turvy and we just have to refocus and keep our feet on the | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
ground. After a stuttering start, Linfield are the league's inform | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
ground. After a stuttering start, team. Peter Thompson's goal made it | :24:15. | :24:23. | |
six wins in a row. We did not make too much of it and being Linfield, | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
things not going to well, too much of it and being Linfield, | :24:26. | :24:38. | |
have stuck together, we have a lot of work to do but we have worked | :24:38. | :25:00. | |
hard. A second victory of the season. Brian Henderson with one of | :25:00. | :25:12. | |
the best goals of the weekend. That is it from me. When children in need | :25:12. | :25:18. | |
the best goals of the weekend. That comes around, we know where to find | :25:18. | :25:23. | |
Pudsey! A friend of mine was planting grassy this weekend and was | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
glad to get some rain. It really has been disappointing | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
today especially given the glorious conditions we But backed down to | :25:37. | :25:48. | |
earth with a bump today. It is looking pretty unsettled. Spells of | :25:48. | :25:52. | |
rain, often windy as well, at least temperatures are close to or above | :25:52. | :26:00. | |
average. We did start off with brightness in the West before that | :26:00. | :26:06. | |
low cloud came piling in. That is shifting the leaves quite quickly | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
off the leaves. An overcast evening, one or two bits and pieces of rain | :26:14. | :26:20. | |
macro. Mainly dry towards the west and the north by through the night, | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
the wind will be picking up, we will have more persistent spells of rain | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
and the potential for it to be heavy. Lows of 11 or 12 degrees. | :26:29. | :26:38. | |
Tomorrow is a cloudy and dull and damp one and still quite windy. The | :26:38. | :26:42. | |
more persistent rain will be during the morning and the risk of Hugh | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
more persistent rain will be during heavy burstss. Could the unpleasant | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
more persistent rain will be during on the roads during rush hour. But | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
the rain should ease off in the afternoon. There will be troops and | :26:56. | :27:08. | |
trips and drives in the afternoon. Temperatures not too bad given the | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
southeasterly breeze, 15 or 16 degrees. Even though the rain eases | :27:13. | :27:18. | |
tomorrow during the afternoon, we could see heavier showers returning | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
through the night. Wednesday is quite windy and quite damp places. | :27:23. | :27:29. | |
As we head into Thursday, for all of us, a weather front moving in to | :27:29. | :27:34. | |
bring heavy and persistent spells of rain. We are back at 10:25pm. You | :27:34. | :27:43. | |
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