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England's road to recovery. There is more throughout the evening on the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
BBC News Channel. We're back with the | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Good evening. Engineers have been struggling to reconnect 3000 homes | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
still without power as gale force winds swept across Northern Ireland. | :00:12. | :00:16. | |
NIE says it restored power to around 30,000 homes overnight. Dozens of | :00:17. | :00:20. | |
roads have been closed because of fallen trees and many flights and | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
ferry crossings have been disrupted. BBC Newsline's Mervyn Jess reports. | :00:26. | :00:35. | |
This house in Southdown had its roof and off after power lines came down | :00:36. | :00:40. | |
on top of that. The three people inside were fortunate to escape | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
uninjured. The fire started at the back of the television. The light | :00:45. | :00:52. | |
bulbs blew off and it burst completely. I got up and shouted up | :00:53. | :01:00. | |
the Stayers you had better get out. There is a fire. -- shouted up the | :01:01. | :01:09. | |
stairs. The wall was on fire. I got my mother out and my father. The | :01:10. | :01:18. | |
storms have impacted on thousands of homes across Northern Ireland with | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
powder cuts caused by trees falling on electricity lines. On the | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
outskirts of South Belfast, high winds snapped -- snapped and | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
Electricity Board but had to be replaced. -- an electricity pole. | :01:32. | :01:41. | |
These high winds are still blowing and it is very difficult but we | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
always have to bear in mind the safety of our engineers. This | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
pensioner arrived home last night to find his bungalow covered by trees | :01:50. | :01:54. | |
which had uprooted in his front garden. This morning friends and | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
neighbours cut a path through to his front door. Did not look too bad | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
that I could hardly see it was so stormy. When you walk up this | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
morning, what did you think? I nearly cried. The high winds sparked | :02:09. | :02:16. | |
a small fire at this shopping centre in Newry over night. Elsewhere | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
falling trees caused problems and blocked some roads. This minibus was | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
among the number -- a number of vehicles damaged. The high winds | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
have continued to batter some areas during the day, making it people -- | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
difficult for people everywhere. Power supplies remained the most | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
vulnerable. This engineering work behind me is what is involved in | :02:41. | :02:56. | |
getting things back to normal. The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
says agreement in the Haass talks can be achieved. Dr Haass and his | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
assistant Meghan O'Sullivan are due to return to Belfast tomorrow to | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
host bilateral talks around flags, parades and the past this weekend. | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
Mr Adams said that progress was made in the talks that broke up in the | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
early hours of Christmas Eve and says he's confident agreement is | :03:14. | :03:15. | |
possible when the talks recommence. Failure is not an option. Dr Richard | :03:16. | :03:22. | |
Haass was invited here. He was invited by us and the Deputy First | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
Minister and the First Minister. All of these issues are soluble and can | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
be sorted out. I think that a deal is possible. | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
Previously confidential state files from the 1980's - released today - | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
show that the Government considered banning Sinn Fein when electoral | :03:43. | :03:45. | |
support for the party started to grow. The state papers also name | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
Gerry Kelly, now a Sinn Fein MLA, as the IRA inmate who shot prison | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
officer John Adams during the Maze jail escape in 1983. Mark Simpson | :03:53. | :04:05. | |
reports. The rapid rise of Sinn ten in 1983 with Gerry Adams elected MP | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
for West Belfast caused concern in government circles. Previously | :04:09. | :04:16. | |
confidential state papers released today show how officials discussed a | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
plan to make the party illegal and fine or jail anyone found to be a | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
member. This historian says the government was trying to find a | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
political solution to a worsening security problem. You had the | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
massacre in South Armagh, bombings in London were civilians died. The | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
government had thought about prescribing Sinn Fein completely. | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
But the government concluded that banning the party would be | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
counter-productive and the idea was scrapped. 1983 was also the year 38 | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
diary prisoners escaped from the Maze jail including Gerry Kelly, now | :05:00. | :05:06. | |
a Sinn Fein MLA. A report into the break-out names him as the main fish | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
-- inmate who shot prison officer John Adams. Another prison officer | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
saw him shot -- pointing a pistol into the control room and the report | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
says it was established that he shot John Adams. Gerry Adams was later | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
charged in connection with the shooting but was found not guilty. | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
More than 1000 files have been released today by the Public Record | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
Office but 225 papers have not been published. They are expected to | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
remain secret until the year 26 D seven. The authorities say the files | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
not released contain sensitive personal information. | :05:45. | :06:01. | |
Now time for a weather update. It has been a wild and windy day today. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
Now time for a weather update. It has been a wild and windy There is a | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
weather warning in place and it remains so until midnight tonight. | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
Temperatures will dip right down to three degrees. Somebody will need a | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
new shared! But the damage is nothing in the way of what we saw | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
today. Showers will continue through Saturday. Some of those showers | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
could be quite snugly over higher ground. There will be some breaks in | :06:36. | :06:42. | |
the cloud. It will be a day of sunshine and showers. Temperatures | :06:43. | :06:49. | |
will reach around five degrees. The showers are ever present as we go | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
through Sunday -- Saturday and into the evening. There will be clearer | :06:53. | :06:59. | |
skies on Saturday night, meaning temperatures will dip sharply. | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Sunday is not a bad day. It is a cold but right start. But later on | :07:03. | :07:08. | |
in the day another weather front moves in. It is an unsettled picture | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
to our weather. The next weather front is due on Sunday evening into | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
Monday morning so it could get a little bit lively. Towards the | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
middle of the week there are more storms on the way. | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
That's all from the BBC Newsline team. Keep up to date with News | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
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