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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline.

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Bill Clinton tells local politicians to finish the job - to resolve

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remaining issues in the peace process as he pays tribute to John

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Hume. I'll have more on the visit of the former US President.

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Also on the programme... The Chief Constable rejects claims

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that letters sent to so called On The Runs amounted to an amnesty.

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Planners reject a Tesco store for Ballycastle and accuse the

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supermarket chain of damaging the town.

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Remembering the Vietnamese boat people who came to Northern Ireland

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to begin a new life 35 years on. One night in Nicosia - we'll have

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the latest from Northern Ireland's friendly international away to

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Cyprus. Wet tonight, even wetter tomorrow.

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Thank goodness it gets a bit brighter by Friday!

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The Former US President Bill Clinton has arrived at Queen's University in

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Belfast for a special event on what is his fifth visit to Northern

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Ireland. -- is due to arrive shortly at Queens University in Belfast. He

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started the day in Londonderry and had a meeting with the First and

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Deputy First Ministers at Stormont this afternoon. Let's go first to

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Donna, who's live in south Belfast. We are waiting for the arrival of

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Bill Clinton here at redoubt hall here in south Belfast, where once

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again, Queens University is celebrating the former president. In

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2001 he was awarded an honorary degree. Tonight, an institute

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concentrating on leadership will be named after him. His job tonight is

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to give the inaugural lecture. Earlier today, he told local

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political leaders that they had to finish their job - to resolve the

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outstanding issues in peace process. This afternoon he met the First and

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Deputy First Minister at Stormont, where they discussed the challenges

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facing power-sharing just a few days after the threatened resignation of

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Peter Robinson. His schedule has been put back because of that

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meeting and we are still waiting for his arrival here. The day started in

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Londonderry, where thousands of people turned out to see and hear

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the former president. His focus was very much on peace. And on the Nobel

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Peace Prize winner John Hume. Our North-West reporter Keiron Tourish

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has more. President Clinton used this visit to

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Derry to honour the contribution to the political process of former SDLP

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leader John Hume and his wife Pat. Symbolically, all three walked

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across the city's iconic Peace Bridge. It links both sides of the

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Foyle and underlined the former President's message of

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reconciliation. Bill Clinton, with John Hume. President Clinton was

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warmly welcomed in Guild Hall Square and in his speech paid tribute to

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John Hume. He also urged politicians here to find the resolve and

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determination to overcome any difficulties in the peace process.

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You can't resolve the parades, the flags, the history issues. We can't

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resolve all the other issues. -- you can resolve a grades. You have to be

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free. These children have to have a future. I don't really care, it's

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not for me to say what the details should be. You have inspired the

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world. You have to finish this. President Clinton was here at the

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invitation of the University of Ulster and helped launch a book

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entitled Peacemaking In The 21st Century. The Peace lectures include

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contributions from himself and his wife Hillary, as well as John Hume.

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It was a great visit and very good of him to come here. It was very

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interesting that the man of his international status has come to

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Derry. Looking at all the young people who were there today, I

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thought the message was so right for them and I dearly would love the

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message to be taken to heart by everyone. Although President Clinton

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was heckled briefly over Iraq, for the overwhelming majority, this was

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a memorable experience. We are visiting from Qatar. We happen to be

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here delay and we thought, what a great chance to see the president.

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We got a salute from President Clinton. It felt great. Before

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leaving, President Clinton said this was a visit that had given him "one

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more day in Derry I will never forget."

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We are waiting here at Queens University in south Belfast for the

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arrival of the former US president. Tonight, and Institute of leadership

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will be named after him. Queen's Vice-Chancellor Professor Patrick

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Johnston is with me. Why choose Bill Clinton for the name of the

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Institute? It is a very important evening and a real pleasure to have

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President Clinton here. He has shown global leadership, when he was

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president, and since, after he stepped down, particularly here in

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Northern Ireland. He has made a huge impact on our society and to be able

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to name our institute that embodies his spirit of passion and

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commitment, making a difference to people and societies, particularly

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in Northern Ireland but also in other parts of the world, is an

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honour and privilege for us. You have recently become vice

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chancellor, a leader in your own right. What inspiration do you get

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from President Clinton? I was working in the United States when he

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became president. During that time he doubled the culture budget and

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look at the impact that has had. -- the cancer budget. He has done the

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same thing with anything else he has taken forward, particularly in

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Northern Ireland. We will have the William J Clinton Leadership

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Institute at Queens. We can begin to shape leaders in culture and arts

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and network them with other foundations like the Kennedy

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Foundation in Boston. It will bring enormous benefits to our society. He

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is a great speech-maker. What do you expect from today's lecture. I think

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it will be a real inspiration, I have no doubt. It will inspire

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everybody in the room and hopefully inspire beyond Queens. Thank you for

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joining us. We have cameras inside to hear a lecture this evening as we

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await Bill Clinton's arrival. He is a little bit behind schedule because

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of the meeting at Stormont. We will have the latest on his visit on BBC

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One at 10:25pm on the late BBC Newsline.

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You're watching BBC Newsline, still to come... Tesco's plan for a store

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in Ballycastle is rejected as planners hit out at the supermarket

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chain for damaging the Northampton Town. -- North Antrim town.

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The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Westminster is to

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conduct an inquiry into the letters sent to republican fugitives. The

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Committee chair, Laurence Robertson, says the terms of reference of the

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judge-led inquiry announced by the Government last week are too narrow.

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The Chief Constable has rejected claims that the letters amounted to

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get out of jail free cards or an amnesty. Our home affairs

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correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.

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Matt Baggott arrived to face questions about a scheme set up by

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the government and republicans but was greeted by loyalist protestors.

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The Progressive Unionist Party claims the scheme proves that

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republicans have been given preferential treatment. It says the

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police should now suspend investigations by the Historical

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Enquiries Team, many of which have focused on the activities of the

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UVF. Cameras were allowed to record his arrival at a specially convened

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private meeting of the Policing Board to discuss the issue. But

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there were no cameras present to witness what sources described as 90

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heated minutes of debate. Afterwards, the Chief Constable

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defended the PSNI's role in the process. Are legal advice is that we

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had a duty to clarify someone's status. That is under existing

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legislation and a responsibility the police have. This meeting was the

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result of a ruling by a judge at the Old Bailey last week that John

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Downey would not stand trial for the murders of four soldiers because

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he'd been sent a so-called "letter of assurance" by the Northern

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Ireland Office, saying he would not be prosecuted. It was revealed that

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more than 180 other On The Runs had been sent similar letters. The court

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judgement revealed that the letters contained caveats, stating that they

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had been sent based on "evidence currently available" and that the

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issue may be reconsidered if fresh evidence became available. But the

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First Minister reacted angrily. There are people going around with

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letters stuffed in their pockets which say that even if somebody

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fingers you, you cannot go to jail. That is an outrage, I think, in any

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democratic state. Matt Baggott today made it clear he doesn't share that

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view. As far as we are concerned, and there is nothing in the

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judgement that contradicts us, there are no get out of jail cards, no

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amnesties, and there are no letters of immunity. If new evidence emerges

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then it will be investigated and we will send reports to the Public

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Prosecution Service. I wanted to make that clear. Afterwards, the DUP

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said it wasn't satisfied with the answers provided by the Chief

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Constable and accused the NIO of a cover up. I think it is quite clear

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that there was a conspiracy to withhold the information about the

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letters. It was stated time and time again that that was an issue for the

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Northern Ireland Office and others and was not part of the PSNI's

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remit. I think anybody with a bit of sense can see that this information

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was withheld from politicians. The debate that took place behind closed

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doors today is likely to be repeated when the board holds its next public

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meeting. Its members won't have long to wait - that meeting will take

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place here tomorrow afternoon. Sean Hackett, the 19-year-old who

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shot his father Aloysius, is either a dangerous manipulative murderer or

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a mentally disturbed teen on the possible verge of schizophrenia,

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caught up in one of the most extraordinary and complex criminal

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cases ever. The conflicting descriptions came from prosecuting

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and defence lawyers in their closing submissions to the jury. Julian

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Fowler was at Dungannon Crown Court. A gifted footballer, a good

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sportsman with a good life given to him by a good family, but the

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prosecution say Sean Hackett was a dangerous man. The prosecution

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lawyer said underneath Sean Hackett's smiling face was a wicked,

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and a plate of Keller. He said the meticulously planned and executed

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slaughter of his father was a brutally selfish act in order to get

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over whatever problems he had in his life. He said Sean Hackett was not

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suffering from depression and that feeling a bit down after a break-up

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with his girlfriend was not an excuse for murder. His defence claim

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he was little more than a child and two convicted of murder would create

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another injustice for the family. The defence lawyers said the central

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question was how an 18-year-old of impeccable character with everything

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to live forward on to develop the bizarre notion that it would help

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him if he killed one of his parents. He asked the jury, do you really

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need be a psychiatrist to know that something inside this young man's

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head was badly wrong? He said a finding of manslaughter on the

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grounds of diminished responsibility would be the right verdict, a just

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verdict, and the proper verdict. The jury is expected to retire to

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consider its verdict tomorrow. The Planning Appeals Commission has

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said that Tesco has caused "significant loss of investment" to

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a County Antrim town by pursuing a development plan. The retail chain

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wanted to build a supermarket on the edge of Ballycastle, but that was

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rejected by planners. Here's our business and economics editor John

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Campbell. A review of the six further

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education colleges here has -- to date Mark the end of a long

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battle for traders in this seaside resort. The Chamber of Commerce says

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there is a sense of relief. There is a sense of relief that this has

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passed. It had been gone going -- on going for ten years and had put a

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negative shadow over local businesses. Hopefully we can go

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forward. The Planning Appeals Commission agreed that allowing a

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Tesco development on the outskirts of Ballycastle would have caused

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unacceptable damage to the town centre. The commission went

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further. It says Tesco has already caused a problem. The ruling refers

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to a Tesco cloud hanging over the time. By that it means existing

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retailers were reluctant to spend money on their businesses while

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waiting on the outcome of the planning process. It means there was

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a significant loss of investment to the town centre. That is a view

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echoed by one local businessman. There is a bank building across the

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street that nobody was prepared to buy, despite it being very very

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cheap as a consequence of the cloud hanging over the town centre. Not

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everyone opposed the plan. In a statement, Tesco said, this would be

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extremely disappointing to the local people who wanted our investment.

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Dot. -- wanted our investment... Tesco has slowed the space of no --

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piece of new openings. It could mean that this sort of planning battle is

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increasingly a thing of the past. It is hard not to be moved by some

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of the images which have been broadcast from Syria in recent

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months. 2.5 million refugees are fleeing the war-torn country. 35

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years ago, it was a crisis in Vietnam that was making the

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headlines and some of those granted refugee status ended up here in

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Northern Ireland. Our reporter Julie McCullough has been to meet a couple

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of them. 1979, and these were some of the

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pictures being beamed around the world. Vietnamese refugees, crammed

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into small fishing boats, fleeing their home country in fear of

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persecution. Many didn't make it, but Saychan Lau and Amui Lay were

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among the 295 people packed into this 15 metre long boat when they

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were picked up by a British ship. There were also some of the first to

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make Northern Ireland their new home. TRANSLATION: The leader of the

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refugees told them that there were not enough jobs in London, but in

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Northern Ireland, there is a lot of work and good housing and they would

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like us to go over to Northern Ireland to start a new life. Here in

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the Public Records Office, you can read some of the recently made

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public government files that give you more details about the

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Vietnamese boat people coming here. For example, most of them, around 19

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families, were settled in Craigavon. And it wasn't always easy

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for them. They had problems adapting to their new home and, of course,

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had to be warned about the Troubles. The first time we came it was really

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scary, because there was a soldier. We had to be checked before you got

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into a shop. I saw the soldier had I gone and -- had a gun and it was

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really scary. Because we came from Vietnam it was really bad. I had

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just come to Northern Ireland and it was really scary, and I nearly

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cried. Alan Locke, who was Maier of Craigavon at the time, has a better

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memory of their arrival. -- the Mayor of Craigavon. I have a lot of

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very pleasant memories. The boat people were wonderful, I must say.

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It felt wonderful that we were doing what we could do for people that

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were less fortunate than ourselves. I was very proud of, generally, the

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people of Craigavon. But there was also disappointment, because many of

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the boat people, including one of these women, went back to England.

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TRANSLATION: When they went out to work at night and in the daytime

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came back, they discovered that other communities had broken into

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their house and taken the TV and thereby got -- their belongings.

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They weren't even worried about coming in broad daylight and they

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robbed the place. Despite the problems, these women and their

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families did return to Northern Ireland and they have no intention

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of leaving again. Still to come on the programme

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before seven... We continue our series commemorating

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the centenary of the outbreak of World War I and how a cargo ship

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landing in Larne Harbour would shape history in Ireland.

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There are more people who need organ transplants than donor organs

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available. One couple from County Down have been telling how they took

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part in a UK-wide scheme which pairs donors and recipients and it's made

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a huge difference. Chris Page has more.

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The science of transplant surgery is advancing all the time, but the need

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for donors remains a big issue. Seamus Kenny needed a kidney

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transplant. His wife, Pauline, was willing to donate, but her kidney

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was not suitable, so they entered a new way -- UK wide scheme which

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matches donors and recipients. They were matched with another couple.

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Respective partners donated their kidneys. It all took place on the

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same date nine months ago. When the Kennys got news of the match, it was

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a great relief. We were shocked because we were not expecting the

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news that day. Over a period of time, it was sinking in. We had lots

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of contact with the hospital to keep us informed. It gave us time to come

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to terms with it and gave us time to plan. I expected I would have to go

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onto dialysis. To get the news that you are going to get a kidney was

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like a miracle. I could not believe it was going to happen and all of

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the time, I kept thinking it would not happen. It was like a dream.

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They are an amazing advert for all that is good about kidney

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transplantation. Both of them look so good and so healthy now. Shimmers

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and Pauling wanted to give something back to the staff at City Hospital.

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With the help of Seamus's employers, they have raised ?100,000 for the

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renal unit. Now we continue our series

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commemorating the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. Tonight,

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Mervyn Jess reports from Larne, where local school children are

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remembering the UVF gun-running episode at the harbour. It happened

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just months before the outbreak of war in Europe.

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Larne in the early part of the twentieth century was a busy

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commercial port. But what was brought into the harbour by day was

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far removed from what was landed one night in April 1914. The Clyde

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Valley, loaded with 200 tonnes of guns and ammunition from Hamburg in

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Germany sailed into port to be met by teams of UVF men ready to receive

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a cargo that would shape history in Ireland. A massive operation,

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involving 600 cars, dispersing guns to places like Tyrone, Fermanagh,

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Cavan, and suddenly the UVF had military supremacy in Ireland. This

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brought Ireland to the brink of civil war. Some young people in

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Larne are currently involved in project retelling the story of the

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Clyde Valley. Because I go to school in Ballymena, it was good that it

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was happening locally. It has brought us a better understanding of

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the town and something that happened helped to shape events taking place

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in a more global scale as well. It is one of those events, like 1912

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other 1916 rising, which shape this island North and South. The more

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understanding we have, the more we can't escape our past. -- the more

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we can escape. The story has lasted longer than the ship. The Clyde

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Valley was sold for scrap in the mid '70s.

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There will be more on that story on BBC Radio Ulster tonight at 11:50pm.

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BBC Newsline and Good Morning Ulster will have another World War One

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story tomorrow. Northern Ireland's footballers

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haven't won a friendly game home or away in 18 attempts. So how are they

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faring tonight against Cyprus? George Best way back in 1971 is the

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last Northern Irish man to score a goal in Nicosia and that remains the

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case. Martin Paterson had a great opportunity to end that run early

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on. His header was well saved, though. And at the other end, the

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hosts exerted pressure. Late in the half, Manus produced a fine save. At

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half-time there is no score. We will bring you any goals in the late

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bulletin. There's a 7.45 kick off in Dublin,

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where the Republic face a tough test in a home friendly against Serbia.

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Ahead of this evening's game, Martin O'Neill's number two, Roy Keane,

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who'd been quite scathing of Manchester United's performance in

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Europe last week. - was asked if the international team was bad against

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Serbia tonight would he be critical? I would hope that my comments have

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always been fair and I hope that will continue. If we did put in a

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bad performance I probably will not speak to the media! He is developing

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a sense of humour, as is this man. It's 31 trophies and counting for

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David Jeffrey. The Linfield boss, who's set to quit Windsor Park at

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the end of this season, has just drawn level with Roy Coyle's record.

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Last night's County Antrim Shield win over Crusaders was decided on

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penalties. David Jefferies' 31st trophy as

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Linfield manager had to be won on penalties after a scoreless final.

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The goalkeeper was the Linfield hero as he saved two. Billy Joe Bones

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converted the winner. David Jeffrey was accepting none of the praise. My

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focus for tonight was to make sure that the focus was on the players

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and on the club winning another trophy. If you put things in the

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right order, then a lot of the time things come out in the right way.

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Eight more cup finals lie ahead for a Linfield as they aim to win the

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league and claim a historic 32nd trophy for David Jeffrey as manager.

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Finally, following recent tests, British Horseracing Authority has

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confirmed that Irish trainer Philip Fenton's horses are clear to run at

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the Cheltenham Festival. He's been charged with possessing banned

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anabolic steroids in Ireland. The Cheltenham Festival starts next

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Tuesday. These are live pictures from Queens University. The former

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US President Bill Clinton, here on a one-day visit. He has arrived for a

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special event at the University. This is his fifth visit to Northern

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Ireland. He is being welcomed by Professor Patrick Johnson. Tonight,

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Mr Clinton will give a lecture on leadership at a new institute which

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is being named after him. We will have a special report on that story

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on our 10:25pm bulletin. Time for the weather.

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Has there been a dry basis the start of this year? There have not been

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many and today was not one. The president was complaining about

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the rain earlier and it has been coming down through the day. Showers

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will persist this evening and through the early part of the night

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as well. The skies will dry across the north and west just before dawn.

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As we head into tomorrow, it is going to be another wet day.

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Gradually, the rain starts to work its way north, spreading to all

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parts. The rainfall totals are not big. 15-20 millimetres. Given the

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amount of water in some rivers, there is a yellow warning in place

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across County Fermanagh through the day tomorrow. It is a pretty wet

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picture wherever you are. The cloud cover means that temperatures stay

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reasonable, ten or 11 degrees as we go through the day. It is pretty

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well wherever you look. Gradually through Thursday evening and into

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Friday, the skies clear. And when that happens, temperatures drop away

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markedly. A chilly night on Thursday going into Friday. Friday will have

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a different field. Brighter and colder as a high pressure comes into

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force. Seven or eight degrees, but she a much more usable day. You can

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see high pressure trying to keep us safe from the low pressure systems.

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It will not be strong enough to do that on Saturday and guess what

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happens - the rain is on its way back. It will be a soggy start to

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the weekend but at least temperatures are going up. It is a

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reasonably unsettled picture as we look through the weekend. Rain still

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