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16/02/2014

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Hello and welcome. The governor of the Bank of England has said

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Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK where house prices are not

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recovering. Mark Carney said house price recovery is a generalised

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phenomenon aside from here. He said the most recent statistics from

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Northern Ireland suggest a modest recovery has begun. In Northern

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Ireland, the property price index showed quarter on quarter and year

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on year rises in the third quarter of 2013. The Bank of England has

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stood by Mr Carney's comments. I will say, if you look at the UK as a

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whole, everywhere bar Northern Ireland, you are seeing house prices

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begin to recover. So it is a more generalised phenomenon. Northern

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Ireland's prices haven't seen the recovery everywhere else has seen,

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but they are probably going to be for 2013, they will be broadly flat.

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I expect to see growth of about 5% this year. On Wednesday, we will see

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the Department of Finance and personnel's Price index, I think

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they will show further evidence that tentative signs of a housing

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recovery are underway. The police are treating an attack on

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house in North bowl fast as a hate crime. A number of windows were

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smashed the front of the house in Deacon Street at around 2am. No one

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was injured. It is understood a young child was among those in the

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house at the time of the attack. Speaking on behalf of the whole

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community, speaking on behalf of everyone, actions like this aren't

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welcome here, for this community or any community. This community has

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come through a lot in the past and actions like this don't help because

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we are rebuilding ourselves a woman has been taken to hospital

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after inhaling fumes. Fire crews were called to the house at around

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1pm. The woman, her partner and a young child were living at the

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property. The fire officer in ties of the operation says it is

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important that oil burners are properly serviced. We sent crews in

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with gas monitors to investigate, they have ascertained it was due to

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a 40 burner at the rear of the promises, and oil fired burner which

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was in severe need of servicing. She has been taken in by the paramedics,

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she has suffered a mild condition from inhalation. A man has been

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arrested after police seized a mission in Belfast. He was detained

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after officers carried out a planned investigation. He has been charged

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with possessing munition under suspicious circumstances. In the

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Republic, 25,000 homes in the South and West are without power after the

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bad weather. Electricity has been restored to thousands of customers

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last night but many others are without telephone or broadband

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services. Two local writers have been jointly nominated for a BAFTA

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award in the outstanding debut writer category will stop Glenn

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Patterson and Colin Carper co-wrote the film good vibrations, about punk

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bands at the height of the troubles in the 1970s. In gay lick the will,

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Saint Vincent won in the all Ireland club semifinal. -- Gaelic football.

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The dairy side were attending to secure their second all Ireland

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final but it was the Dubliners who made the early breakthrough. Thomas

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Quinn scored the first goal after six minutes. McInally scored a 48th

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minute goal but some Vincent ran out winners. They hit us again in the

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second half, with little down and came at them again, we headed down

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to a point but they just kicked on. They were just a bit more ruthless

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with the ball, and up front, they gutted their quicker. We were taking

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the ball to within their scoring zone, they were hitting us on the

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counterattack. The Belfast Giants are on the verge of securing the

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elite league crown after a victory over Nottingham. They could seal the

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title on Sunday if they beat Nottingham again and both Sheffield

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and Dundee lose. The other scenario is they will get the toaster when

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the title on Friday night. -- get the title. Tomorrow, Billy Connolly

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will join us from New York where he will be talking about his work with

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Seamus Heaney on one of the last projects he was working on before he

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died. Time for the weather. We finally got to enjoy an afternoon

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without the threat of ring. Unfortunately it is going to become

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more unsettled. Eventually, as we go through the night, we will have rain

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coming in, but the good news is, because of the rain and cloud, there

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is no ice or frost in the forecast, temperatures stay in the mid-single

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figures. The Newsweek will get off to an unsettled start. A fair amount

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of rain out there, not for everyone, it will come and go through the day

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but there will also be good dry spells as well. The low pressure

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system will take hold across Britain and Ireland tomorrow, so a similar

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picture for us all. Outbreaks of rain and scattered showers and

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breezy at times as well. For Northern Ireland, we could see

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temperatures topping nine or 10 degrees, above average, but you will

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want to keep the umbrella handy. Most of the wet weather will clear

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tomorrow night into Tuesday, and Tuesday for the most part is looking

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dry. Later in the day we will start to see more unsettled weather coming

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in. Wednesday is shaping up to be a decent day, dry and bright weather,

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it won't be until Thursday that we begin to see another weather system

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coming in from the Atlantic. Our next bulletin is at 11:20pm. You

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