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stand firm, dismissing talk of a leadership challenge, after | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
a This is BBC Newsline. | :00:00. | :00:25. | |
Tonight's top stories: Peter Robinson is criticised for | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
supporting a Belfast pastor who made To This comment is not helpful and | :00:28. | :00:35. | |
many people will take offence at what he has said. | :00:36. | :00:45. | |
The Police Federation slams senior officers for failing to protect | :00:46. | :00:54. | |
The folk musician Francis McPeake appears in court | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
NIE says it is being forced to cut 10% of its workforce. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
David Jeffrey tells us why he quit Linfield as manager | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
After a lovely few days, a change in the weather is on the way tonight. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
The First and Deputy First Ministers have clashed after Peter Robinson | :01:11. | :01:18. | |
defended a north Belfast pastor who made controversial comments | :01:19. | :01:23. | |
This evening, a spokesman for local Muslims said Mr Robinson's remarks | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
They invited him to Belfast's Islamic Centre to learn | :01:30. | :01:34. | |
Our political correspondent Gareth Gordon has the details. | :01:35. | :01:44. | |
Islamic is heathen. Peter Robinson is has attended quite well | :01:45. | :01:53. | |
Metropolitan Tabernacle in the past and says he will again. In today's | :01:54. | :01:59. | |
Irish News he defended the past's remarks on Islam, saying he hasn't | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
an ounce of hatred in his bones. You have to ask, what you not trust | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
those followers of Islam in doing? I wouldn't trust them in terms of | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
those who have been involved in terrorist activities, I don't trust | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
them if they are fully devoted to sharia law. I wouldn't trust them | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
for spiritual guidance but I trust them to go done to the chops for | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
May, I trust them to do a number of other day to day issues. There is no | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
reason why you wouldn't. That provoked a response from the Deputy | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
First Minister, Martin McGuinness, who called on Peter Robinson to show | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
leadership in promoting equality, tolerance and respect for all. What | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
he got instead was this almost instant reply on Twitter, saying Mr | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
Robinson would not take lessons in tolerance from a self-confessed | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
leader of a bloody terrorist organisation, a reference to Mr's I | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
a past. Post election we may have expected temperatures to cool, yet | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
we have another ugly row between two men whose ability to work together | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
is increasingly in question. The two men today met the Turkish ambassador | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
to Britain, who was here opening a new consulate in Belfast, from a | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
secular state with a Muslim population. Today in measured | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
language the Secretary of State made it clear her view of Islam was | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
different from Peter Robinson's. It is a matter for the First Minister | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
how he responds to these remarks. For myself, I do condemn the remarks | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
made by Pastor McConnell. I do not believe, Islam is a peaceful | :03:54. | :04:02. | |
religion, unfortunately people do hijack for extremist ends. The local | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
Muslim community says it is hurt by the remarks. This is an unhelpful | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
comment from the minister. He is supposed to represent all the people | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
of Northern Ireland and we feel part of this country, so he is | :04:18. | :04:24. | |
misrepresenting us. His comment is not helpful and many people will | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
take offence at what he has said. Peter Robinson has been strong in | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
his defence of Pastor McConnell but now he is having to defend himself. | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
Dithering and rudderless - that's how the union that represents police | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
officers here has described the response of the PSNI's command team | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
The Police Federation says more than 800 officers were injured, | :04:43. | :04:46. | |
and that more should have been done to protect them. | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
It's lodged a formal complaint with the Health and Safety Executive, | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
accusing operational commanders of a failure in their duty of care. | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Our home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney reports. | :04:58. | :05:03. | |
Police officers spent much of last summer on the front line, | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
The union that represents them today said their commanders should have | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
drawn the line and done more to protect them. | :05:13. | :05:22. | |
820 police officers have been injured on duty as a result mainly | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
of light protests and violence orbited by the UVF and UDA. That is | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
a shocking statistic, almost a quarter of all front line officers | :05:36. | :05:36. | |
injured but like flag protests. The Police Federation has lodged | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
a formal complaint with the Health and Safety Executive, | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
claiming that operational commanders failed in their duty | :05:44. | :05:45. | |
of care to officers sent in to deal Those in command who did need to | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
understand that the safety of officers is being jeopardised by | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
those same officers struggle to prevent anarchy on our streets. | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
He said water cannon and plastic bullets should have been deployed | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
But the Chief Constable, who was in the audience at the Federation's | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
annual conference, said that could have made the situation worse. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
He rejected the claim that police commanders | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
dithered and didn't do enough to protect those on the front line. | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
I am determined we will do everything we can to improve the | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
safety of our colleagues. We have a strong track of that -- track record | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
of that and we will work closely with Terry and the Federation and I | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
will welcome to Health and Safety Executive here because one officer | :06:37. | :06:37. | |
injured is one too many. Matt Baggott will soon step down | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
after five years as Chief Constable. Terry Spence today spoke of the | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
challenges facing his successor. The task any new Chief Constable | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
will face is nothing short of monumental. He or she will have to | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
demonstrate streetwise awareness, be able to resist undue political | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
pressure, fight our corner on resources and be able to make tough | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
calls when it comes to tackling terrorism and disorder. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
That successor will be chosen tomorrow, when three candidates are | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
They include current PSNI Assistant Chief Constable George Hamilton. | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
He joined the RUC in 1985 and has experience in | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
He also worked in England, and spent almost three years as an assistant | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
chief constable in Scotland before returning to the PSNI. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
His opposition for the job includes Cressida Dick, an assistant | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
commissioner with the Metropolitan Police in London, and the most | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
She came to national prominence in July 2005, when she led | :07:34. | :07:39. | |
an operation that resulted in Brazilian man Jean Charles de | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Menezes being shot dead by police officers after being wrongly | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
She was later cleared of any blame for his death. | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
Assistant Garda Commissioner Derek Byrne is the other contender. | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
He's been a police officer since 1979 and is currently | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
completing a Master's degree in violence, terrorism | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
The post of Chief Constable of the PSNI is regarded as the most | :08:03. | :08:12. | |
The identity of the next person to hold the position is expected | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
Belfast Crown Court has heard allegations that | :08:17. | :08:26. | |
the folk musician Francis McPeake abused a teenage girl. | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
The trial was halted shortly after opening at Belfast Crown Court, | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
after the judge dismissed the jury because of a legal technicality. | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
Francis McPeake, who's 72, is the head of one of Ireland's best-known | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
He's charged with sexually abusing a girl who was 15 at the time | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
This morning he was put on trial at Belfast Crown Court. | :08:49. | :08:54. | |
Francis McPeake stood in the dock as the 12 child sex abuse charges | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
He was wearing a grey suit and a grey tie and looked straight ahead. | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
The prosecuting barrister gave his opening statement. | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
He said the musician had met his alleged victim at | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
a music event and started to abuse her on a trip to the Republic. | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
The court heard he abused her in several other locations, | :09:22. | :09:23. | |
including in his car and in a musical instruments workshop. | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
The prosecution claim the abuse happened from 2009 to 2010. | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
The lawyer said he would claim that the accused never forced | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
But he said that if what she said happened had indeed | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
taken place, that would mean an offence had been committed, | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
The court heard that during police interviews, | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
the accused's solicitor read out a statement in which Francis McPeake | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
said the allegations were false, malicious and without foundation. | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
Early this afternoon, the judge dismissed the jury | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
because of a legal technicality and the case was adjourned. | :09:54. | :10:02. | |
Still to come on tonight's programme: | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
The schoolboys who have been making friends with dementia sufferers | :10:06. | :10:08. | |
First week we came, we didn't really know anybody, but the second week, | :10:09. | :10:20. | |
God bless all of them, they really are heart-warming. | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
More than 100 jobs are to go at Northern Ireland Electricity. | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
Consultations are under way with staff about voluntary redundancies. | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
The company says it needs to cut costs after it was prevented | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
Julian O'Neill, our business correspondent, is here. | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
How will NIE go about making the cuts? | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
First, it is worth stressing that NIE says there will be no compulsory | :10:44. | :10:53. | |
lay-offs here. It is looking for 120 volunteers. If it gets them, it will | :10:54. | :10:59. | |
trim its workforce by about 10%. Discussions have begun with staff | :11:00. | :11:04. | |
and unions. NIE says the redundancies are as are about | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
cutting costs but the Unite union has expressed its opposition, saying | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
this is a company in good financial shape. Last year it announced an | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
operating profit of ?112 million. The real issue isn't about the level | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
of staffing or staffing costs, but the level of dividends. It is about | :11:26. | :11:31. | |
private versus public ownership and maybe the real trick in this issue | :11:32. | :11:36. | |
is to bring this matter back into public ownership, bring the whole | :11:37. | :11:42. | |
electricity generating ownership back into public ownership so the | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
people of Northern Ireland have a share within it. | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
Last year, proposed price increases by NIE to customers were blocked. | :11:48. | :12:02. | |
NIE argued it needed extra revenue to make improvements to the network. | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
The upgrades will still take place but in justifying these job losses, | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
in a argues they are a consequence of having its operating allowances | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
reduced a by the competition watchdog. -- as determined. | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
Northern Ireland's Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
heard that a Stormont Home Affairs Minister in the mid-1960s believed | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
that the Sisters of Nazareth in Londonderry were saving the state | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
money by caring for children at their residential homes. The | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
inquiry also heard today that it was the 1980s | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
before a sex abuse policy was given to residential homes in the area. | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Kevin Sharkey reports from the inquiry in Banbridge. | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
These are the final days of the public hearings | :12:45. | :12:46. | |
into two homes run by the nuns, at Bishop Street and Termonbacca. | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
This morning, the inquiry was presented with historical | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
correspondence between the Sisters of Nazareth order and state bodies. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
The letters dealt with an application for a grant | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
in the 1960s to carry out building improvements at Termonbacca. | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
They revealed that the Government was seeking details of the order's | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
accounts before approving the funding, and central to the | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
application at the time was the then Home Affairs Minister, Bill Craig. | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
In his memo to colleagues, written in 1964, Mr Craig said if voluntary | :13:19. | :13:30. | |
homes like term and back-up were not available, children would have to be | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
accommodated by the authorities at great offence. He | :13:36. | :13:42. | |
standards of accommodation at Termonbacca at the time fell well | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
below what his department expected in a home for deprived children. | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
The inquiry is now hearing closing statements at the end | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
also today, as is closing submission, the board heard it was | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
1988 before guidelines were published within residential homes. | :14:07. | :14:19. | |
Counsel for the board also said any attempt during that period to admit | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
children from voluntary homes into state care would have been regarded | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
as "significant state interference" in the private lives of families and | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
the arrangements they made for their children. | :14:29. | :14:30. | |
A 21-year-old Londonderry man has pleaded guilty to possession | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Nathan Hastings of Stradowen Drive was arrested | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
when two cars were stopped on the Northland Road in April last year. | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Inside one, police found a pipe bomb, a pistol, ammunition and two | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
He had been due to stand trial this morning but instead asked that | :14:43. | :14:47. | |
the charges of possession of arms and explosives be put to him again. | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
A 23-year-old man has been shot in the leg on the outskirts of | :14:52. | :14:58. | |
The victim was in a takeaway in the Juniper area of Twinbrook | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
last night when he was dragged out and shot in the knee and ankle. | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
It's believed hundreds of health service staff won't get | :15:09. | :15:10. | |
Public sector unions here say it follows problems with | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
a new payroll system introduced in all of the health trusts. | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
At NIPSA's annual conference, members expressed anger over | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
the glitch and urged the Health Minister Edwin Poots to address | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
There will be calls for the minister to resign because month after month | :15:23. | :15:35. | |
he has said he and his officials will resolve the issue, yet tomorrow | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
we again expect hundreds if not thousands of members will have | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
problems with their pay, and these are real people with mortgages and | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
bills to pay and many members have not received their pay. | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
The Chief Electoral Officer says it's regrettable that | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
a newly elected councillor, who uses a wheelchair, was unable to give | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
his victory speech from the podium because no ramp was provided. | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
Johnny McCarthy, who will represent NI21 on the new | :16:01. | :16:02. | |
Lisburn and Castlereagh Council, had to give his speech from the floor. | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
The council has apologised for any inconvenience caused. | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
Councillor McCarthy says he hopes the incident will help raise | :16:09. | :16:11. | |
awareness of the issues faced by people with disabilities, | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
but that's not the reason he wanted to get into politics. | :16:16. | :16:23. | |
The reason I got into politics was not to campaign specifically for | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
disabled people. I became a counsellor to speak to all -- for | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
all the people of Les Byrne. I think because I am in a wheelchair it | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
gives me a unique insight into how someone in a wheelchair has to live, | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
so I think my experiences in life will help me give a slant to the | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
different issues that come up for Liz Byrne and Castlereagh Council so | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
hopefully I can put that opinion forward but it is not something I am | :16:56. | :16:57. | |
solely focused on. Still to come | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
on tonight's programme: Former Linfield boss David Jeffrey | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
tells us why he decided to commit -- to quit the club. | :17:06. | :17:12. | |
You wouldn't expect 14-year-old boys to make friends with elderly | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
dementia sufferers, but that's exactly what's happening | :17:16. | :17:16. | |
Pupils from Ashfield Boys' School have been taking part in the scheme. | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
I went to see how they've been getting along. | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
Have you nothing to tell me, nothing exciting happening, nobody getting | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
married? Minnie Beck | :17:31. | :17:46. | |
keeps the Ashfield Boys She's one of 25 tenants | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
in this supported housing scheme who benefit from regular visits | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
from the 14-year-olds. Today's task is to get | :17:54. | :17:55. | |
the garden ready for the summer. The boys say at first the project | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
seemed like a good way to get out of class, but they've been surprised | :17:59. | :18:02. | |
at the bonds they've built up. First week we came, we didn't really | :18:03. | :18:08. | |
know anyone, but the second week, God bless all of them, they really | :18:09. | :18:10. | |
are heart-warming. They are funny, they tell jokes and staff. Do you | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
look forward to coming to see them? Yes. Do you have grandparents? My | :18:15. | :18:25. | |
granny passed away not that long ago so it is good to come and have fun. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
And the generation gap has been very easily bridged. | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
When I came here I was invited to join the art class of the school, | :18:34. | :18:42. | |
which really, really, to have the honour to be here with them, there | :18:43. | :18:50. | |
are not many faces that invite you, you are a bit by yourself by date. | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
It would be great to bring some of their relatives, maybe get to know | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
the older folk, a few nice gentleman. | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
As the finishing touches are put to the garden, | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
everyone is hoping for some sunshine so they can reap the rewards | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
Three Irishmen in their 20s have created an unusual souvenir of their | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
Iain McNamara, Chris McGrath and Kevin Cobbe filmed themselves | :19:20. | :19:28. | |
Irish dancing in 23 different countries, from Peru to Australia, | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
They set it to the music of Riverdance, although they admit | :19:33. | :19:38. | |
that they might not be quite at Michael Flatley's level. | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
That video's had thousands of hits online already. | :19:47. | :19:48. | |
There's a link to it on our Facebook page, where you can also add | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
David Jeffrey's quit Linfield football club recently | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
He's been telling Stephen Watson why. | :19:59. | :20:04. | |
He's certainly one of the most colourful characters | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
in local football, and at times one of the most controversial. | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Tonight, in a special interview, David Jeffrey gives an insight | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
into the reasons for his departure as Linfield manager. | :20:13. | :20:15. | |
He's also been forthright in what he feels are the problems confronting | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
the Irish League, and says the sport?s governing body isn't | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
He won 31 trophies during 17 years in charge of Linfield, now David | :20:25. | :20:42. | |
Jeffrey leaves the local game with a parting shot for the Irish that Boll | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Association. I feel strongly that the Irish League has been neglected | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
by the governing body. I understand the pressures of top level of into | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
the international team was top of the pile. We had the heady days when | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
we need England and Spain and I think local foot will was allowed to | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
regress because of the motley, I can see in the near future, fewer and | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
fewer players from Northern Ireland at England and Scotland, at some | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
stage an international manager has to look to the Irish League so let's | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
take care of our own product at home. Geoffrey had a turbulent last | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
season with Linfield. He was disciplined after appearing on | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
social media singing about a new player signing from a rival club, | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
which played a part in his decision to quit. That was unfortunate. I | :21:40. | :21:48. | |
haven't got a clue about social networking, anything like that, | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
there are many things that occur in a football manager's life and I | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
wouldn't say, it would be untruthful to say that wasn't one | :22:02. | :22:04. | |
consideration, but it wasn't the reason, certainly that on all of | :22:05. | :22:12. | |
what it brought. Was a breakdown with the Linfield board anything to | :22:13. | :22:18. | |
do with your decision to leave? I made with additions in the interests | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
of myself, of the club, and the interests of myself. Did you feel | :22:23. | :22:29. | |
you were not wanted at the club any more? I made the interests -- the | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
decision in the interests of the club and myself and the supporters | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
and the players and I am at peace with that decision. But after | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
leaving local football, David Jeffrey is determined to be back | :22:47. | :22:47. | |
soon. The GAA's referees? committee meets | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
in Croke Park tonight to review several high-profile incidents | :22:54. | :22:55. | |
regarding a controversial new rule. The black card, which allows | :22:56. | :22:58. | |
a player who has been sent off to be replaced by a substitute, | :22:59. | :23:02. | |
is designed to clean up the game and prevent cynical fouling. | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
But some managers have been complaining about the inconsistent | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
application of the rule. Pat McAneaney, chairman of | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
the referees committee, today told BBC Newsline that he accepted the | :23:11. | :23:13. | |
enforcement of the black card must improve, adding it was here to stay. | :23:14. | :23:21. | |
After over a quarter of a century, the decision to revive | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
the Londonderry marathon last year has given a rise to a resurgence | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
of runners in the city. The event, which was part of the UK | :23:28. | :23:30. | |
city of culture celebrations, has attracted even more participants | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
for this weekend?s event. Here's our North West reporter, | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
Keiron Tourish. 1800 people took part in last | :23:36. | :23:48. | |
year's event. The runners range from serious competitors to enthusiastic | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
joggers. It was the first time the marathon had taken place since the | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
mid-19 80s and it was such a success that the organisers were urged to | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
stage it again this year as a legacy of event from the City of Culture | :24:02. | :24:07. | |
year. There is a total up surge in people keeping fit and healthy and | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
when you come to the city there are runners everywhere and that pathways | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
in the city lend themselves to a running city. There is no part of | :24:18. | :24:29. | |
the city that we have missed out in the course, and it is mostly flat. | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
The marathon gets under way at 8:30am on Sunday. Organisers have | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
urged everyone eating part and spectators to get here early. -- | :24:41. | :24:49. | |
taking part. More than 2000 people getting their trainers on in Derry | :24:50. | :24:54. | |
this weekend. Now let's see what the weather has in store. It has been a | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
beautiful afternoon across much of Northern Ireland and in the west we | :25:01. | :25:05. | |
saw lovely clear skies, temperatures up to 20 degrees in Enniskillen. | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
Things go downhill overnight as we go through into this evening, this | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
skies start to cloud up and rain works its way in from the east | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
overnight. The only upside to that is that temperatures remain quite | :25:21. | :25:24. | |
mild, I think staying in double figures in many places overnight. | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
Thursday has a different feel to it, a drizzly patch rain continuing | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
through the day. It might clear a little in the day but still plenty | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
of cloud around, so we can say goodbye to these lovely clear skies | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
and say hello to something more cloudy. If you are out, one thing | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
you will notice tomorrow is the temperature, quite different from | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
today. Today in the West we saw highs of 20, tomorrow under that | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
cloud we will struggle to see any better than 12 or 13, so that | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
drizzly light rain is a threat or ever you are, especially across the | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
East Coast, so not the best day. Lots of you have been out with your | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
cameras taking some fantastic pictures over the last few days. I | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
wanted to share a few of you. -- share a few of them with you. At | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
least all this rain will be good for the growers as we go into Friday. | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
Friday might be a day to get your camera out. It is warmer, plenty of | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
cloud around and still showers but we will get a few breaks which will | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
help those temperatures on the way up, and that general trend of | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
temperatures climbing continues on Saturday, so look at some of these | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
temperatures. That is not too bad, still quite a lot of cloud but we | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
will get some brighter spells as well, the odd shower were on | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
Saturday, so towards the weekend, you can say that Saturday is the | :27:02. | :27:07. | |
pick of the day is before a little bit of a change arrives on Sunday. | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
Just time for a recap of the main headlines. The first and deputy | :27:13. | :27:21. | |
ministers have clashed after peter Robinson defended a North Belfast | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
pastor who made comments about Muslims. And the Police Federation | :27:24. | :27:30. | |
has criticised senior officers for failing to protect officers during | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
disorder last summer. Our late summary is at 10:25pm. You can also | :27:36. | :27:42. | |
keep in touch via Facebook and Twitter. Have a good night. | :27:43. | :27:45. |