Browse content similar to 30/04/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
rain. A reminder of our | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
Good evening. The headlines on BBC Newsline. Another attack on the | :00:00. | :00:24. | |
office of mail me long in East Belfast but the MPs says she is not | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
moving. -- Naomi Long. A senior lawyer says On The Run letters sent | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
in error can be withdrawn. A new campaign to highlight the dangers of | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
head injuries in sport. I've been speaking to Jamie Dornan, who is | :00:39. | :00:46. | |
filming again in his native Belfast. You approach the city differently | :00:47. | :00:51. | |
and you get more from it, I think, than just being at school and | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
drinking and doing whatever I did growing up in Belfast. And tomorrow | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
is the first day of May but in some places temperatures will be more | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
typical of March. I'll be back with the details. | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
The Alliance MP Naomi Long has insisted her party will not be | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
driven out of East Belfast and will not be bullied or intimidated. Four | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
people threw seven petrol bombs at her constituency office last night. | :01:23. | :01:27. | |
It was the latest in a series of attacks, as Newsline's Mark Simpson | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
reports. Under attack again. Naomi Long has seen it all before. She has | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
lost count of the number of times this office in East Belfast has been | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
attacked. There have also been death threats. But this office is staying | :01:44. | :01:52. | |
and so is she. I will not be driven out and I will not be bullied | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
because I have stood up to bullies my entire life and I will not give | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
up on that night. Last night's attack was captured on CCTV. There | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
were also eyewitnesses. It happened just before 11pm. I have seen some | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
of the CCTV recorded last night and it is in the hands of the police. It | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
shows the attackers in the middle of the road, first throwing stones at | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
the upstairs windows and when they break the glass, they produce petrol | :02:19. | :02:25. | |
bombs. But the upstairs windows are double glazed and the petrol bombs | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
could not break through the second pane of glass. As these pictures, | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
posted on social media, show, most of the petrol bombs simply bounced | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
off the building and landed on the pavement. There were four | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
individuals involved, for youths wearing black food and clothing and | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
we have some eyewitnesses who have come forward with information. | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
Parties on all sides have called for these repeated attacks to stop. SDLP | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
and Sinn Fein all editions called at the office to seek Naomi Long, as | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
did a number of unionists. On the streets of East Belfast, people gave | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
their view. It is unbelievable and should not happen. People in this | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
community do not want it, it does not lead to anything. Past | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
experience tells us. That is not democracy. But what anybody thinks | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
of them, they are allowed their point of view. The clean-up has been | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
completed but the police investigation is only just | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
beginning. Had it not been for the attack, Naomi Long would have been | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
at the Northern Ireland Select Committee at Westminster today. It | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
heard from a senior lawyer who played a key role in the | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
controversial on the run scheme. He said if letters were sent in error | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
they could be withdrawn. A judge ruled that John Downey could not | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
stand trial for the murders of four soldiers in the Hyde Park bombing | :04:03. | :04:06. | |
because he was sent a letter as part of on the run scheme telling him he | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
was not wanted by police. Although the letter was sent by mistake, the | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
judge said it was legally binding. A senior lawyer for the Attorney | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
General, who played a central role in the scheme, today said he | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
believes any other letters sent by mistake could now be withdrawn. | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
Kevin Magee and he gave evidence to the Northern Ireland affairs | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
committee at Westminster. If the position is the case of John Downey, | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
and we suddenly become aware of the fact that the letter was a mistake, | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
and is sufficient evidence and always was evidence to prosecute, I | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
think we would withdraw the letter. There have been problems but we | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
would withdraw the letter. He said the person sent the letter would | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
have to be told it was being withdrawn and would be given the | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
opportunity to leave Northern Ireland to avoid arrest. You would | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
have to tell the person that the U got was in error and you will be | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
arrested and I think you have to give them some time to absent | :05:14. | :05:20. | |
themselves and becomes bizarre. If you did not do that, you would be in | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
the same position as a John Downey and you know you would lose that | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
case. The lawyer said number of Attorney Generals had warned the | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
government they opposed the scheme were told it was central to the | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
political negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
Successive Attorney Generals made it clear in a series of letters that | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
the prosecution process could never give any answer to the problem of On | :05:46. | :05:51. | |
the Runs. And to do so, the process they asked, to check the evidence | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
status of each of these individuals, would damage the criminal justice | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
system. Nevertheless, they asked us to do that. Earlier, so money | :06:03. | :06:08. | |
Flannigan told the committee he opposed tipping people of that they | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
were wanted by police. But he didn't have any problem giving assurances | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
that those who were not. We were given the name of an individual and | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
we considered all of the intelligence, if there was any, that | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
was held on that individual, whether there was any evidence, fingerprint, | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
DNA, which is or anything, and if after an examination of all of that | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
we had no grounds for arresting the person, whatever, in other words, we | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
almost had been unlawful to arrest the person and a few came to that | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
conclusion, I would have no objection to such a person being | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
told. He insisted the letters were not amnesty and those who received | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
them could still be charged with criminal offences if new evidence | :06:57. | :07:05. | |
emerges. Nuns who staffed two children's home in Londonderry have | :07:06. | :07:07. | |
denied allegations of physical, emotional and psychological abuse of | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
boys and girls in their care. The nuns asked for their right to remain | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
anonymous, which is offered under the terms of the historical abuse | :07:15. | :07:17. | |
inquiry. Dan Stanton reports from Banbridge. The first none to give | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
evidence told the enquiry that she had no formal training but work at | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
the children's home in Londonderry for 12 years. Statements by seven | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
residents were read to the court, claiming she was involved in | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
physical and mental abuse. In reply she said a number of occasions she | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
would never had children and in response to a claim by one that she | :07:44. | :07:47. | |
had her and her two sisters were wetting the bed, she said no. The | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
nun told the enquiry but in the 1950s, just her and one other member | :07:53. | :07:58. | |
of the order were in charge of 60 children at the boys home. Another | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
nun who appeared worked at Nazareth at -- Nazareth house -- Nazareth | :08:04. | :08:11. | |
house and she was asked about bedwetting and hires some children | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
felt humiliated. She said she had no knowledge of that and did not recall | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
any children being asked to wash their own bed linen. She was asked | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
about hitting children and also not giving medical attention to a child | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
who had a leg injury. She denied all of these allegations. The enquiry, | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
which is examining abuse at children's homes in the 1920s until | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
1995, will be hearing from nuns from other orders in the coming days. | :08:40. | :08:46. | |
Assembly members are calling for more information from the health | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
authorities about cases involving children with heart problems. | :08:50. | :08:51. | |
Members of the Stormont Health Committee claim they're not | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
receiving the full picture about the extent of treatment some children | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
have received in Belfast before being transferred to Dublin for | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
heart surgery. The Health Board has rejected any allegations that it has | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
not been transparent. Marie-Louise Connolly reports. This boy was born | :09:05. | :09:17. | |
with a heart defect last year. Critically ill, he was rushed from: | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
Hospital to Belfast ambulance for what the family was told was | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
emergency treatment. He had the treatment is done and order to | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
travel he had to have that. Without that, his oxygen would have got | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
quite low. He would have been brain-damaged or would not survive. | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
The Health Committee today questioned whether briefings they | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
received from officials have provided the full picture of the | :09:48. | :09:50. | |
extent of surgical procedure is being performed in Belfast. We were | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
given an impression that there was very little need for emergency | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
intervention and there have been none during the past number of | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
months prior to that meeting, yet from what we have learned from | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
families and those involved in this area, there has been a number of | :10:07. | :10:11. | |
surgical interventions that have been essential to save the lives of | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
children. The health board rejected allegations that officials were not | :10:16. | :10:16. | |
being transparent and it said... The board said this was consistent | :10:17. | :10:33. | |
with the evidence given to the Health Committee in May last year | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
but campaigners remain critical of how this issue has been handled. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
Campaigners and parents affected by this issue believe that health | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
officials have pre-judged that heart surgery should cease in Belfast and | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
this case highlights how important it is to keep children's heart | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
surgery in Belfast I would -- I would not like to be the one telling | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
a parent that a child who requires attention is not an emergency. The | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
BBC can also reveal that the Department of paediatric cardiology | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
in Belfast road to the health board last year stressing the importance | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
of retaining surgery in Belfast. The letter detailed one case, saying | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
that it crystallised how any decision regarding the future of | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
paediatric cardiac services in Belfast could impact on individual | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
patients. The doctor said the minister decided to stop cardiac | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
surgery, transferring assets child in an unstable condition to another | :11:32. | :11:37. | |
unit would see surgeons faced with a deteriorating situation and a | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
hazardous intervention. The future of children's heart services will | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
become clearer when the independent panel presents its findings to the | :11:48. | :11:50. | |
Health Minister. He is then expected to make his decision public at the | :11:51. | :11:58. | |
start of July. There has been condemnation of an attack on a | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
Romanian man in East Belfast this morning. There has been widespread | :12:02. | :12:13. | |
condemnation of the attack. The victim of cycling along the stretch | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
when an unknown man assaulted him. Bring a bag containing excrement in | :12:17. | :12:22. | |
his face. The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to his eyes. | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
Locals say they are shocked at the horrific nature of this incident. | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
The victim is still in the area and it is. He has been attacked before. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
The incident happened outside St Patrick's Church of Ireland on the | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
Lord Newtownards Road and the Reverend John cunning ham is the | :12:39. | :12:43. | |
Minister. There is no need for violence at any time and I think | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
that perhaps the effect on this gentleman might be dramatic and it | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
might disturb him for some years to come. And for other immigrants, that | :12:55. | :13:01. | |
is bound to be a problem in the back of their minds. It will unsettle | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
them. And we have quite a few in this area. Police say they are truly | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
-- treating this as a hate crime and appealed for anyone with information | :13:13. | :13:20. | |
to contact them. Recognise and remove is a slogan we'll hear more | :13:21. | :13:24. | |
and more often with the campaign to recognise the dangers of concussion | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
in sport. Adding their backing to the awareness and education | :13:28. | :13:29. | |
programme today were Government departments and the parents of a | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
teenage rugby player who died after a concussion. This report from | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Thomas Niblock. A Government initiative recognising the dangers | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
of concussion was launched today at Queen's University. Governing bodies | :13:41. | :13:48. | |
representing the GAA, The Irish Football Association and players | :13:49. | :13:51. | |
from Ulster rugby were all in attendance, as was the family of | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
Benjamin Robinson, the 14-year-old schoolboy who died in 2011 because | :13:54. | :14:05. | |
of a concussion. The message is recognised and removed. And the | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
children you have to err on the side of caution. Asking the child if he | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
is OK after concussion, which is brain injury, is not good enough and | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
it is like asking a drunk driver if they are OK to drive. You have to | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
just remove them and that is it. Easier said than done. Welsh | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
international Jamie Roberts is a qualified doctor yet he decided to | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
play on for 18 minutes after fracturing his skull against | :14:33. | :14:35. | |
Australia. When he was walking off he could hear his head squeak. In | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
last year's All-Ireland final, Ross O'Carroll admitted he played on | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
after receiving a concussion. Medics say don't play but the reality is | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
players and management are more difficult to convince. There is a | :14:45. | :14:53. | |
National League game when a lad came off and I put him back into the | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
fray. My call would have back in, but the doctor said no. I would have | :14:58. | :15:04. | |
argued but there is no point in having a professional there and not | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
going on what he says so we luckily pulled him out and he had concussion | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
and was out for two weeks. Sport is a serious business and the pressure | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
to perform and win is clear for all to see. But failing to identify a | :15:17. | :15:27. | |
concussion can be a fatal mistake. The SDLP says David Cameron's | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
decision to commit to a referendum on EU membership by 2017 was a | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
strategic error. In its European and local government manifesto, which | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
was launched today, the SDLP says it supports reform of the European | :15:38. | :15:40. | |
Union but its strong advice in any referendum would be to vote yes to | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
EU membership. Here's Mark Devenport. The SDLP welcomed German | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
politician Martin Schulz to Belfast today - he's the socialist candidate | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
for the top job at the European Commission. The SDLP says Northern | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
Ireland has spent too long on the margins of Europe with EU sceptic | :16:04. | :16:12. | |
MEPs failing to deliver. The North has lost influence in Europe since | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
John Hume stepped down and there is a gathering opportunity to change | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
fundamentally politics here at home and elect a strong, decisive, | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
effective voice to the European Parliament. The SDLP manifesto says | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
EU membership is worth ?3000 every year to every household here. It | :16:29. | :16:36. | |
says the party aims to increase employment by 10% over six years, | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
The manifesto criticises the Agriculture Department's handling of | :16:40. | :16:41. | |
European payments, claiming the department has become removed from | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
the farming community. On local government, the SDLP promises to | :16:47. | :16:48. | |
ensure business and domestic rates do not rise above inflation. Alex | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
Attwood and his young family were given an enthusiastic reception by | :16:55. | :17:10. | |
SDLP supporters. BBC Newsline can reveal that another feature film is | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
to be shot in Northern Ireland. It's called High Rise, will star English | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
actor Tom Hiddleston and will be partly filmed in County Down. Over | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
the next two weeks we're taking a closer look at our blossoming film | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
industry and how this entertainment economy is pumping in millions of | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
pounds and employing hundreds of people. For this evening's programme | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
I visited a particular BBC production that's making headlines. | :17:31. | :17:39. | |
Here in a corner of Belfast they are in the middle of recording the | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
second series of the highly acclaimed drama The Fall. This area | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
is where you will find the costume trucks, make-up and trailers were | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
the actors, Gillian Anderson and Jamie Dornan, have come back to be | :17:51. | :17:56. | |
fed between takes. BBC Northern Ireland has seen a marked resurgence | :17:57. | :18:00. | |
in television drama over the past couple of years, with millions of | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
pounds of Northern Ireland money being pumped into those Burtons. | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
Recently you might have seen Jamaica Inn, but that was not filmed in | :18:10. | :18:13. | |
Cornwall, the setting of the novel, but here. So was a police drama line | :18:14. | :18:18. | |
of duty, that has been highly successful. I am here at The Fall to | :18:19. | :18:25. | |
talk to one of the stars, Jamie Dornan, and the writer. You will | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
find out why this drama has also been highly successful. You cannot | :18:30. | :18:40. | |
predict that people will enjoy any show or feel it is compelling or | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
captures the imagination. It is gratifying when it happens but it is | :18:45. | :18:51. | |
hard to know quite why. Suddenly, if you cast Gillian and Jamie Dornan, | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
the orange strong territory. Because your character is a killer, he also | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
seems to be very caring and has a family, how difficult is it to play | :19:02. | :19:12. | |
that? It is not a breeze! But I relish and love it. And I have said | :19:13. | :19:20. | |
in the past that I approached the character as two different | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
characters because that makes the most sense, it made it easier for me | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
to relate to what I was doing in either mode, killing or family. Both | :19:27. | :19:37. | |
equally difficult. I have come to beg you to give me another chance. | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
What difference does it make to you that you are filming in your home | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
place? It is lovely to be her. I have a different sense of Belfast | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
and idea and when I lived here previously, growing up and at | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
school. I have a huge appreciation for it, not that they did not before | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
but you come back slightly more adult and you approached the city | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
differently and you get more from it than just being at school and | :20:10. | :20:16. | |
drinking and doing whatever I did growing up. I am appreciating it | :20:17. | :20:27. | |
more as a city and I love it. It is what you believe that matters. Let | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
me go. I think a lot of the successful dramas have a very strong | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
sense of place, to use a cliche, the city in which they take place | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
becomes a character. The idea of a small city, whether reverberations | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
might be more keenly felt, a city where crimes like that have not | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
traditionally taken place and I am glad to say so far have not taken | :20:57. | :21:02. | |
place, also was appealing. And I am fascinated by the history of the | :21:03. | :21:06. | |
place so I allowed some of that to feed through. The senior police | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
officer, played by John Lynch, his career will have spanned some of | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
those years of the Troubles and that will help the mindset with his | :21:17. | :21:22. | |
thinking. And it is a great city to live and work in as well. The first | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
series ended on a cliffhanger so without giving anything away, can | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
you tell us a little bit about what the second series has in store? Not | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
really, no! It scares me, to! Don't be scared. Scary series! And Allen | :21:40. | :21:49. | |
has not ruled out a third series. On tomorrow's programme, Maggie Taggart | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
will be meeting some of the tourists who are following in the footsteps | :21:53. | :21:55. | |
of the hugely successful Game of Thrones series. It was not until I | :21:56. | :22:02. | |
got to Northern Ireland yesterday that they saw the advertisement for | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
the tourism and I realised so much of it was done here. And it is | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
beautiful here! I can understand why. That is tomorrow. While the | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
number of red squirrels has dwindled for many years because of the | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
dominant American greys, there are some areas where the native species | :22:21. | :22:22. | |
thrives. Scientists from Queen's University have set up cameras in | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
red squirrel hotspots in County Fermanagh to try to survey the | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
populations, but to their surprise they've captured more images of | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
another rare and secretive mammal - the pine marten. Julian Fowler tells | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
us more. Bright eyed and bushy tailed - red squirrels can be hard | :22:38. | :22:43. | |
to spot. Volunteers have been placing cameras in the woods to help | :22:44. | :22:46. | |
scientists to establish where they are living. It is part of a project | :22:47. | :22:55. | |
looking at the distribution of squirrels in County Fermanagh with | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
the aim of conserving the red squirrel. How unusual is to capture | :22:59. | :23:07. | |
squirrels on camera? Very unusual. You do not get many people doing | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
that. Normally camera traps are used to record the presence of more | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
enigmatic species like tigers or leopards. We decided to try this for | :23:16. | :23:21. | |
the squirrels. But when they looked at the footage they found almost | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
twice as many pictures of something even more elusive and rare. The pine | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
marten. With a reputation for being vicious killers of hens and | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
chickens, pine martens are now thought to number just a few | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
thousand. The cameras at Crom even captured a pine marten watching an | :23:37. | :23:45. | |
Irish hare race by. It was an unexpected surprise but also a good | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
one because the pine marten is also protected in Northern Ireland so the | :23:50. | :23:52. | |
more information we can get on them, the better. Because you have them | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
involved in the squirrel Project, have you have to change the way he | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
must carry out the study? No, it has made us think this might be a better | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
method for monitoring pine martens of the project is ongoing and we | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
will persevere and hopefully will pick up more red squirrels from | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
across the county but the information we get on pine martens | :24:14. | :24:20. | |
is very useful as well. Researchers will continue to record sightings of | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
red squirrels and pine martens to try and ensure their survival. The | :24:24. | :24:31. | |
guy behind you! The weather is next with Cecilia. | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
We have not had much rate this month, it has been pretty dry and in | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
fact, up in Derry today they were caught spraying the grass. You can | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
catch those sprays of water. Thank you for that. We have plenty of a | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
natural stuff tonight, some could be quite heavy, particularly in the | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
West and South and that means a very mild night. Tomorrow is the start of | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
May, it will not feel mild, especially after today, towards the | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
North coast, quite a truly feel to the day. -- cool field. Quite a keen | :25:11. | :25:20. | |
breeze also. Gradually, the rain will become more patchy as the room | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
goes on. Tomorrow afternoon, dry spells, plenty of cloud and | :25:25. | :25:29. | |
temperatures across the North of Derry and North Antrim, ten, maybe | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
not even reaching double figures in some spots. That is about six | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
degrees down on today. It'll be cool with temperatures of around 11 or 12 | :25:39. | :25:41. | |
and with dampness the air but by tomorrow, the rainbow cleared many | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
places, except haps the far South-East. You can see that chilly | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
are over North Antrim gradually coming southwards. Maybe a touch of | :25:52. | :25:59. | |
frost on the grass in some places on Friday. Otherwise, better, drier and | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
brighter, especially in the East and temperatures will slowly recover but | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
there will still be a chill in the air and into the weekend, | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
temperatures continue to rise. It looks like it will be quite cloudy, | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
generally dry some drizzle on Saturday night. Our late summary is | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
at 10.25pm. You can also keep in contact with us via Facebook and | :26:24. | :26:25. | |
Twitter. Goodnight. | :26:26. | :26:29. |