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Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline: our main story - the | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
stormy weather. I'm in Donaghadee where the | :00:24. | :00:26. | |
strongest of today's winds have been recorded. Elsewhere, and huge waves | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
were recorded battering parts of the north coast, while in West Belfast | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
part of a building collapsed. Trees fell on the strength of the winds, | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
causing disruption to transport, and power lines were brought down, | :00:37. | :00:38. | |
leaving thousands without electricity. | :00:39. | :00:41. | |
Also on the programme: The Police say the organiser of Saturday's | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
loyalist protest could be prosecuted for breaching the Parades Commission | :00:46. | :00:47. | |
ruling. Motorists won't be needing these any | :00:48. | :00:53. | |
more after 93 years. The Justice Minister is to ask the | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
public about changing the law on abortion. | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
The Ireland rugby coach Joe Schmidt assures Ulster's Darren Cave he has | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
an international future. Power cuts, travel disruption, | :01:03. | :01:12. | |
fallen trees - today's stormy weather has caused a lot of | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
disruption. About 30,000 homes and businesses had no supply because of | :01:20. | :01:25. | |
damaged cables. Motorists were fortunate to escape serious injury | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
from falling trees and other flying debris. In West Belfast, part of a | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
gable wall collapsed onto the pavement. First we go to Barra Best | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
who's in Donaghadee in County Down. And Barra, the coast felt the full | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
force of those strong winds. We are here in Donaghadee. A short | :01:46. | :01:57. | |
distance away gusts of wind were carded at a kilometres an hour. | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
And, on the Beaufort scale, those were hurricane-force gusts. The | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
storm moved in from the Atlantic in the early hours of this morning as | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
weather warnings came into effect. The winds have caused disruption | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
across Northern Ireland, as Mark Simpson reports. | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
High tide on the North Antrim coast. Very high tide. This is the seafront | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
at Port Stewart. It is little wonder there was no one about. There was | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
water everywhere. Wave after wave after wave. It was all caused by the | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
strongest winds seen so far this winter. Some reaching more than 80 | :02:35. | :02:45. | |
miles an hour. The dangers were all around. Anything above ground level | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
was vulnerable. A number of drivers narrowly avoided injury from falling | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
trees. The police had to close a number of roads. Never mind driving | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
in some parts of Belfast, even walking wasn't easy. And cycling. It | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
came on a very strong and then calmed down and then was bad again. | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
From one extreme to the other. It was desperate. The damage caused to | :03:13. | :03:21. | |
this shop in Belfast was bad but it could have been much worse. The wind | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
blew down a wall, but somehow no one inside or outside was hurt. It ended | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
like a car going into the wall. I'm still shocked. I haven't stopped | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
shaking. It is nerve wracking. I can't believe it. I'm devastated for | :03:40. | :03:48. | |
my boss and colleagues. Disruption was caused to the power supply of | :03:49. | :03:53. | |
more than 25,000 homes and businesses across Northern Ireland. | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
NIE Said there were more than 250 faults reported across the network. | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
Quick action was needed but getting around today has been treacherous. | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
It has been a difficult day on the travel front, whether by road, rail | :04:11. | :04:17. | |
or especially by C. The normally calm coastal waters near Bangor were | :04:18. | :04:25. | |
whipped up by the wind. It was even worse in North Antrim. You can never | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
underestimate the power of the water and the power of the sea. The whole | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
road was covered in water and rocks underneath it. In Belfast, it was | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
too windy for the Christmas markets to open this morning. We can cope | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
with rain and snow but wind is an unknown factor. With a construction | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
like this with lots of fixtures and fittings, I want to make sure it is | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
safe for people to be in and I'm not prepared to take that risk. | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
Normality is now returning. What fell down and is gradually being put | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
back together, including the Christmas tree at Stormont. | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
Of course, it's not unusual to have strong winds at this time of year. | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
We have to expect a few storms during the winter season. It's still | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
very windy around the coast with gusts here a short time ago close to | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
50mph, but the winds are subsiding as forecast. But as the warning for | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
wind expired this afternoon, a new warning for ice came into effect - | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
mainly in the north and east - with temperatures expected to fall to | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
freezing and below tonight. The police have interviewed the | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
organiser of last Saturday's protest in Belfast city centre for breaching | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
the Parades Commission's determination, and they say he could | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
be prosecuted. Loyalists gathered outside City Hall, before parading | :05:52. | :05:59. | |
to Tennant Street in North Belfast. -- he will be prosecuted. | :06:00. | :06:07. | |
About 2000 people took to the streets on Saturday to protest and | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
according to the parade application over alleged police brutality. The | :06:12. | :06:21. | |
parade was supposed to know. The police used large signs to warn | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
protesters. They also spoke directly to parade officials. Something one | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
steward didn't want us to film. Having breached the Parades | :06:35. | :06:41. | |
Commission ruling, the parade moved on. That breach was brought up | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
today. It is clear that there were breaches. I am wondering whether the | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
police have done anything to do with it. The organiser was spoken to on | :06:51. | :06:59. | |
Monday and will be prosecuted relating to offences relating to | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
that. We will continue to study the case and more prosecutions will | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
follow. The person being prosecuted as the person who signed the form | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
submitted to the Parades Commission. Police have spoken to him already. | :07:14. | :07:19. | |
The BBC understands the same man was responsible for a parade on the 21st | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
September which also breached a Parades Commission determination. | :07:24. | :07:31. | |
The Chancellor says the UK economy is expected to grow by 2.4% next | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
year - it's fastest rate of growth in a decade. Delivering his autumn | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
statement, George Osborne pledged some extra money for Stormont but | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
said that austerity policies would have to continue to tackle the debt | :07:41. | :07:45. | |
run-up during the recession. Our economics and business editor John | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
Campbell is here. The Chancellor was also talking about state pension | :07:50. | :08:03. | |
age. It is still a big thing for him to keep welfare spending under | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
control. Whether state pension it is | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
difficult to cut that, politically. Currently it's 65 and we knew it was | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
due to move up to 66 and then 67 by 2028. What was new today was that | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
the Chancellor said it would be 68 by the mid-2030s and 69 by the late | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
2040s. So what that means really is, if you are now in your 40s, you'll | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
have to work till you're 68. If you're in your 30s, till you're 69. | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
And realistically, if you're at the start of your working life in your | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
20s, you'll be 70 before you can retire. Some research this evening | :08:41. | :08:48. | |
says that a newborn baby born today will be 77 before they can claim a | :08:49. | :08:56. | |
state pension. And staying with benefits, the | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
Chancellor talked about a cap coming in by 2015. | :09:00. | :09:06. | |
Yes, what that means is that a figure for total annual spending on | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
benefits will be agreed by Parliament and it will be up to the | :09:10. | :09:14. | |
Government to stick to that. And really what that is intended to do | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
is keep downward on those benefits. That raises the prospects more | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
freezes and even cuts. It could have a disproportionate impact here. | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
So all these pressure on but still Stormont gets some extra money to | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
spend here? Because of the vagaries of the | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
formula used to work out spending for devolved administrations, | :09:39. | :09:40. | |
Stormont will get a small boost of ?136 million over the next two | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
years. That's in the context of an annual budget of abou ?11 billion. | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
The Secretary of State says that could be used to help consumers with | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
their energy bills. Earlier today I asked the Finance Minister Simon | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
Hamilton if that's how the money would be spent. We will decide what | :09:59. | :10:07. | |
our priorities are. There are lots of things including energy prices | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
and support for businesses and support for a normal per -- support | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
for the vulnerable. But you can't say that will help people with their | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
energy bills? There is a compelling argument that the government uses | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
the additional money to support business and the community where it | :10:29. | :10:34. | |
is needed. Rising energy bills is somewhere I'm sure we would be keen | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
to look at. As rate relief for small businesses something he would | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
consider doing with the money? Extending small business rate relief | :10:48. | :10:49. | |
for one year is something we have already agreed to. We brought it in | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
over one year ago. It is working successfully in Northern Ireland. I | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
can understand why they would want to do some thing for business rates | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
in England because over the last two years to increase in business rates | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
in England has been nearly doubled that of Ireland. Looking at giving | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
an extra thousand pounds to businesses is some thing we're | :11:20. | :11:27. | |
looking at doing. Will it be help for business or help for everyone | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
crushing work that has to be thrashed out around the business | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
table. Thanks John. The Chancellor also | :11:37. | :11:41. | |
announced the end of an era for something almost a century old. The | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
tax disc on vehicles is to be abolished - but not the charge which | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
goes with it. Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
explains more. The tax disc has been a feature of | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
motoring life for more than 90 years but now it ended a paper exercise | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
that goes with it in offices like this one are about to vanish under | :11:59. | :12:05. | |
the puzzles announced today. Instead, electronic systems will be | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
used to maintain a register of tax vehicles. So, the disc will | :12:09. | :12:14. | |
disappear. The change will happen next October. A monthly direct debit | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
option will and while payment to be spread but at an extra 5% | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
administration cost. Stormont's department of the environment said | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
it was a matter for Westminster and therefore would be adopted | :12:33. | :12:36. | |
throughout the UK. But are we good to go? A recent government report | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
spoke of compatibility issues with computer systems. With aligning are | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
services more closely with the rest of the UK potentially cost jobs? The | :12:46. | :12:52. | |
end of jobs are threatened here. Stormont wants the local posts | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
spared and says this move does not further endanger those soft. Add the | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
road tax office, doing away with the disc is a talking point. It would be | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
good for direct debit instead of paying a large amount of money at | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
once. If it goes over to Swansea as the hardest to understand someone. | :13:17. | :13:26. | |
This is a cost saving measure. Losing a piece of paper from our | :13:27. | :13:37. | |
windscreen will save ?7 million. The DUP has said the Garda | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
Commissioner should public lay apologise for the way his force | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
responded to revolutions. The intelligent material suggested that | :13:50. | :13:58. | |
tarmac Garda liars dismissed it as nonsense. | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
Almost 25 years after the iron sheeting of the two most senior RUC | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
officers to be killed during the troubles, the incident casts a | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
shadow on the present. The Smethwick report this week said that they died | :14:16. | :14:22. | |
as a collision between Garda officers and the IRA. There were | :14:23. | :14:30. | |
questions about Harriet the Garda and tarmac had responded. This man | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
was the Chief Constable who is responsible these include the | :14:38. | :14:48. | |
intelligence branch of the PSNI. A lawyer speaking on behalf of the | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Garda Commissioner said the PSNI had failed the two officers. He | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
dismissed the evidence is not just nonsense but nonsense upon stilts. | :15:01. | :15:09. | |
In his report, the judge said he had been impressed by the evidence given | :15:10. | :15:15. | |
and accepted it. Considering that everything has been vindicated | :15:16. | :15:17. | |
around the evidence that was given by Drew Harris, do not think it | :15:18. | :15:27. | |
appropriate that Commissioner should give an apology? It would be | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
inappropriate for me to comment but I would say again that I'm very | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
proud of the integrity of the PSNI. I am proud that the ACC next and he | :15:37. | :15:46. | |
was given that accolade by the judge. The commission refused to be | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
drawn on the issue yesterday. We have discussed it with our | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
colleagues in the PSNI and they have a position and we have a position | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
and it would be inappropriate for me to go any further publicly at this | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
point in time. The two police chiefs will meet shortly to discuss the | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
implications of the report into the killings. | :16:12. | :16:18. | |
The Justice Minister wants to consult the public on changing the | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
law on abortion so that in certain circumstances women do not have to | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
travel to Britain for a termination. Sarah Ewart came to prominence | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
recently. She had an abortion in England after she was told her baby | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
had a fatal abnormality and could not survive after birth. This report | :16:33. | :16:34. | |
from our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
Sarah Ewart never imagined having an abortion but when she discovered her | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
unborn baby had a condition which meant it wouldn't survive outside | :16:46. | :16:47. | |
the one, that's what happened. She had to go to London because the life | :16:48. | :16:53. | |
you would not allow it. I had no choice. I am carrying a body. Unless | :16:54. | :17:02. | |
you are at suicidal stage, they will not offer you a termination. The | :17:03. | :17:10. | |
case of Sarah and another couple also provoked a huge public | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
response. Did it help lead to a change in the law? It will be an | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
open consultation. Some people will respond by saying there should be no | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
change and others will want a widening of the law. There is | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
another play a public case for a very narrow change which would deal | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
with these small number of very difficult and tragic issues. He | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
knows that even that prospect will be resisted by some with deeply | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
healthy is against abortion of any kind. This move may signal an | :17:43. | :17:50. | |
important change but it must be remembered we are only talking about | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
a consultation at the moment. The ultimate decision is one for the | :17:55. | :17:58. | |
executive parties. The health minister appeared before the Justice | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
committee today on another matter. His only comment on abortion came on | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
a statement from his department saying... | :18:07. | :18:27. | |
The Ulster Unionist leader was clear. A change has got to come. It | :18:28. | :18:35. | |
is a matter of conscious tarmac conscience for us. I will support a | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
mother's right to choose abortion when she is carrying a fatally | :18:41. | :18:52. | |
flawed foetus. I wish to record that such an reported issue should not be | :18:53. | :19:04. | |
treated with media coverage. A recent parliamentary commission | :19:05. | :19:06. | |
looked at this and one of the difficulties was where do you draw | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
the line. They looked at the 1967 act and said it probably wouldn't | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
pass today because it would be discriminatory against disabled | :19:16. | :19:16. | |
people. act and said it probably wouldn't | :19:17. | :19:18. | |
pass today because it would The argument has only just begun. | :19:19. | :19:25. | |
A pipebomb has exploded at the front door of a house in County Down. It | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
happened at about 2am in the village of Shrigley, near Killyleagh. No-one | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
was injured. The front door of the house was damaged. The police are | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
investigating a motive for the attack. | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
One of the reasons we have a skills shortage is said to be inflexible | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
childcare. A new survey of 5000 parents suggests that qualified | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
people are leaving the workforce because they can't find childcare | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
they can afford. Or that it doesn't fit their working hours. BBC | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
Newsline's Tara Mills reports. They may not be double trouble but | :19:57. | :19:59. | |
twins are definitely double the cost. That goes from food to nappies | :20:00. | :20:06. | |
and childcare. With most families already stretched paying for food | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
and fuel, tough decisions have to be made. This family was lucky. A | :20:10. | :20:17. | |
flexible employer allowed them to work shifts which means they have | :20:18. | :20:22. | |
cut their bill in half. Both of them are part-time so they make up the | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
place of one full-time child. Anyone on a quite a good wage with have | :20:28. | :20:41. | |
difficulty with ?1600. The average full-time nursery place now costs | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
?158 per week. That means a family with two children would spend over | :20:48. | :20:53. | |
?16,000 per year on childcare. Two thirds of parents surveyed said they | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
struggle to meet those costs. The cost of childcare don't just affect | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
individual families. There is a big impact on the economy, too. It | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
doesn't make sense for parents, particularly women, to train in the | :21:09. | :21:13. | |
workforce to go through qualifications and then just leave | :21:14. | :21:15. | |
because childcare and the cost and lack of flexibility is forcing them | :21:16. | :21:21. | |
out. This family believes Stormont could do more. A lot of mothers | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
stuck at home are very qualified and can't get to work because childcare | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
is to expensive. We'll help with PETA have funded nursery places from | :21:33. | :21:43. | |
a younger age. -- would be to have. Childcare strategies are being | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
looked at but we are already six years behind England and Wales, | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
where local authorities are legally obliged to provide adequate | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
childcare places. The Ireland rugby coach has been | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
responding to reports that one of Ulster's top players is unhappy with | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
his lot. Gavin's here. The English premiership clubs have | :22:07. | :22:08. | |
just confirmed any statement in the last ten minutes that they won't | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
compete in the Heineken Cup in the next season. They are pursuing other | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
options. Ulster centre Darren Cave has | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
speculated about why he's got just five Ireland caps in four years. He | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
said it could be because his "face doesn't fit". Cave was left out of | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
Ireland's tests in the Autumn international series but has been in | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
impressive form for Ulster. Ireland coach Joe Schmidt gave this response | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
today. He called me this morning and was disappointed with what was | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
written. Sometimes that happens. It makes for a good story. He felt that | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
reading through the full article that there were a lot of positive | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
things with the current set up. I like him as a character. He is a | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
smart rugby player and he is a good guy to have stopped I don't think | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
there is any personal animosity there but I certainly understand his | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
frustration. Ulster Table Tennis is 90 years old | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
this year and it has just been given a timely birthday present. For | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
decades, a haul of valuable trophies lay forgotten in a storeroom. Their | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
rediscovery has revived memories of legends in the sport from the | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
distant past. Mark Sidebottom reports. | :23:26. | :23:33. | |
This week I introduce to you Victor Barna from Hungary. In his day, | :23:34. | :23:41. | |
Victor Barna was to table tennis what Roger Federer is to tennis. A | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
holder of 22 world titles. He won the Ulster title some 70 years ago | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
is no surprise. Imagine the surprise when a routine rummage in a | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
forgotten store a few months ago on earth the Hospital Challenge Cup. | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
When I opened the box and pulled back several layers of newspaper, I | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
was struck by the quality of the silverware. These things are solid | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
silver. We looked through the various dates on them and the people | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
involved and discovered a very strong link with the history of | :24:22. | :24:27. | |
table tennis worldwide. This is a useful Tommy Caffrey. He played | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
Victor Barna 50 years ago. And he was also doubles champion 1952. I | :24:36. | :24:44. | |
said they are worth a lot of money and he said he knew. The doubles one | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
must be worth thousands. Table tennis's very own treasure trove | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
kept on giving. The ladies single trophy, also recently unearthed and | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
refurbished was donated by sorority Harcourt -- Sir Robert Harcourt. | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
They are worth several thousands of pounds but the memories are | :25:09. | :25:19. | |
priceless. Finally, Mark Allen is in action | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
shortly in the quarterfinal stage of the UK Championship in York against | :25:23. | :25:29. | |
England's Ricky Walden. We know all about the wind and rain | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
today now get ready for another weather extreme - ice. Geoff has the | :25:34. | :25:34. | |
forecast. today now get ready for another | :25:35. | :25:42. | |
Wasn't that a wet and windy day today? The problem tonight is not | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
strong winds. It is ice. The Met office have issued a yellow warning | :25:48. | :25:51. | |
for ice because it is going to get properly chilly overnight tonight. | :25:52. | :25:56. | |
We have got some wintry showers this evening continuing as temperatures | :25:57. | :26:02. | |
dropped down towards freezing. A little lower in rural areas. We | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
could see some snow on the hills at dawn tomorrow morning. Because it is | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
such a cold night temperatures tomorrow will not really recover | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
from that. It will be a cold day. Showers will continue and you could | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
catch one just about anywhere. Temperatures are nothing to write | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
home about. Nothing spectacular at all. Plenty of showers around. Some | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
good news is the wind. They will drop off quite markedly. The | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
south-west is a much warmer quarter. Over the next few days, things will | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
warm up. But we have had a properly wild day today. Tomorrow will feel | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
very different to that. We have seen some very strong winds, the | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
strongest for the last two years. The maximum gust was 84 miles an | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
hour with average wind speeds in excess of 53 mph. Thank goodness | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
things calmed down with high pressure in charge of the next few | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
days. The weather will have a very different feel. For Saturday, for | :27:15. | :27:21. | |
example, a bit more cloud and milder temperatures and a few showers, | :27:22. | :27:26. | |
still, around. Those temperatures are starting to warm up, though. For | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
next week, we can wave goodbye to the wild weather and say hello to | :27:32. | :27:40. | |
mild weather. Our Facebook page has news of a | :27:41. | :27:46. | |
peace project launched by schoolchildren in Londonderry and a | :27:47. | :27:51. | |
Christmas tree at Lisbon Cathedral. -- less | :27:52. | :27:54. |