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England's road to recovery. There is more throughout the evening on the

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BBC News Channel. We're back with the

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Good evening. Engineers have been struggling to reconnect 3000 homes

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still without power as gale force winds swept across Northern Ireland.

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NIE says it restored power to around 30,000 homes overnight. Dozens of

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roads have been closed because of fallen trees and many flights and

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ferry crossings have been disrupted. BBC Newsline's Mervyn Jess reports.

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This house in Southdown had its roof and off after power lines came down

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on top of that. The three people inside were fortunate to escape

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uninjured. The fire started at the back of the television. The light

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bulbs blew off and it burst completely. I got up and shouted up

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the Stayers you had better get out. There is a fire. -- shouted up the

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stairs. The wall was on fire. I got my mother out and my father. The

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storms have impacted on thousands of homes across Northern Ireland with

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powder cuts caused by trees falling on electricity lines. On the

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outskirts of South Belfast, high winds snapped -- snapped and

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Electricity Board but had to be replaced. -- an electricity pole.

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These high winds are still blowing and it is very difficult but we

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always have to bear in mind the safety of our engineers. This

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pensioner arrived home last night to find his bungalow covered by trees

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which had uprooted in his front garden. This morning friends and

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neighbours cut a path through to his front door. Did not look too bad

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that I could hardly see it was so stormy. When you walk up this

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morning, what did you think? I nearly cried. The high winds sparked

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a small fire at this shopping centre in Newry over night. Elsewhere

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falling trees caused problems and blocked some roads. This minibus was

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among the number -- a number of vehicles damaged. The high winds

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have continued to batter some areas during the day, making it people --

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difficult for people everywhere. Power supplies remained the most

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vulnerable. This engineering work behind me is what is involved in

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getting things back to normal. The Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams

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says agreement in the Haass talks can be achieved. Dr Haass and his

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assistant Meghan O'Sullivan are due to return to Belfast tomorrow to

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host bilateral talks around flags, parades and the past this weekend.

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Mr Adams said that progress was made in the talks that broke up in the

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early hours of Christmas Eve and says he's confident agreement is

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possible when the talks recommence. Failure is not an option. Dr Richard

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Haass was invited here. He was invited by us and the Deputy First

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Minister and the First Minister. All of these issues are soluble and can

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be sorted out. I think that a deal is possible.

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Previously confidential state files from the 1980's - released today -

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show that the Government considered banning Sinn Fein when electoral

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support for the party started to grow. The state papers also name

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Gerry Kelly, now a Sinn Fein MLA, as the IRA inmate who shot prison

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officer John Adams during the Maze jail escape in 1983. Mark Simpson

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reports. The rapid rise of Sinn ten in 1983 with Gerry Adams elected MP

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for West Belfast caused concern in government circles. Previously

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confidential state papers released today show how officials discussed a

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plan to make the party illegal and fine or jail anyone found to be a

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member. This historian says the government was trying to find a

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political solution to a worsening security problem. You had the

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massacre in South Armagh, bombings in London were civilians died. The

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government had thought about prescribing Sinn Fein completely.

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But the government concluded that banning the party would be

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counter-productive and the idea was scrapped. 1983 was also the year 38

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diary prisoners escaped from the Maze jail including Gerry Kelly, now

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a Sinn Fein MLA. A report into the break-out names him as the main fish

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-- inmate who shot prison officer John Adams. Another prison officer

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saw him shot -- pointing a pistol into the control room and the report

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says it was established that he shot John Adams. Gerry Adams was later

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charged in connection with the shooting but was found not guilty.

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More than 1000 files have been released today by the Public Record

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Office but 225 papers have not been published. They are expected to

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remain secret until the year 26 D seven. The authorities say the files

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not released contain sensitive personal information.

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Now time for a weather update. It has been a wild and windy day today.

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Now time for a weather update. It has been a wild and windy There is a

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weather warning in place and it remains so until midnight tonight.

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Temperatures will dip right down to three degrees. Somebody will need a

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new shared! But the damage is nothing in the way of what we saw

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today. Showers will continue through Saturday. Some of those showers

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could be quite snugly over higher ground. There will be some breaks in

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the cloud. It will be a day of sunshine and showers. Temperatures

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will reach around five degrees. The showers are ever present as we go

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through Sunday -- Saturday and into the evening. There will be clearer

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skies on Saturday night, meaning temperatures will dip sharply.

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Sunday is not a bad day. It is a cold but right start. But later on

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in the day another weather front moves in. It is an unsettled picture

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to our weather. The next weather front is due on Sunday evening into

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Monday morning so it could get a little bit lively. Towards the

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middle of the week there are more storms on the way.

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That's all from the BBC Newsline team. Keep up to date with News

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