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This is BBC Newsline. Tonight's top stories: | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Peter Robinson is to step down as DUP leader and First Minister | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
Now, it seems to me, it is the appropriate time to announce the | :00:20. | :00:32. | |
departure and allow the party to take it forward. | :00:33. | :00:33. | |
What now for the future leadership of the DUP? | :00:34. | :00:35. | |
How this teenager with disabilities was left alone for hours | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
I'm upset about what happened but I am more angry that we have not been | :00:38. | :00:47. | |
given any answers. A man is shot and critically | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
injured in West Belfast. How dogs are being used | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
as alternative therapies at a new rehabilitation regime inside | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
the re-named Hydebank Wood College. And the next couple | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
of days look like bringing Peter Robinson has said he decided | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
to step down as First Minister and DUP leader after - in | :01:01. | :01:13. | |
his words - stabilising Stormont. He told the BBC it was difficult to | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
find the right time to step down, but following this week's political | :01:18. | :01:21. | |
deal, We'll hear more of what he's | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
been saying in a moment. First, | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
our political editor Mark Devenport has been examining a political | :01:28. | :01:29. | |
career that's spanned four decades. When Peter Robinson took over as DUP | :01:30. | :01:43. | |
leader and First Minister, it might the end of one of the longest | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
apprenticeships in politics. I am a patient man. The young East Belfast | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
estate agents join the DUP in the early 1970s, spurred on by the | :01:56. | :01:59. | |
murder of a school friend in an IRA bombing. He then embarked on a long | :02:00. | :02:07. | |
career of politics protest. He participated in the protests against | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
the Anglo-Irish agreement. He was filmed at resistance rallies wearing | :02:13. | :02:15. | |
a red beret. His most infamous adventure came when he took part in | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
a loyalist incursion. This episode earned him a fine in the Irish | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
courts. I will continue to protest against the Anglo Irish agreement. I | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
will continue to protest against the lack of security. Peter Robinson | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
built up a formidable reputation as a professional politician. Adept at | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
speaking at Parliament as an East Belfast MP. He was one of his lead | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
party's negotiators which paved the way for power-sharing with Sinn | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Fein. Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness may have been coming | :02:53. | :02:58. | |
known as the Chuckle Brothers, but when Peter Robinson took over, | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
predictions where the chuckling Woodstock. There will be no smiling | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
for the cameras, no chuckling. Peter Robinson faced questions, not just | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
about his partner in power, but also his partner in marriage. He married | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
Iris Collins in 1970. They became a husband and wife team at | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
Westminster. However, in January 2010, the BBC Spotlight programme | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
revealed Iris's relationship with a 19-year-old businessman. The First | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
Minister faced questions with how he responded to his wife's role in | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
arranging loans from property developers from her teenage lover. | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
If people feel they must judge Hayek, I hope people can find it | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
within themselves, as I have done, the gift of mercy and compassion. | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
Despite the obvious stress he was under comedies First Minister | :03:53. | :04:04. | |
survived. Further scandal evolved and played a part in Peter Robinson | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
losing his East Belfast seat to know long and 2010. From a personal point | :04:09. | :04:19. | |
of view, I had indicated to many people at that I had preferred not | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
to stand in the selection. You should always be careful what you | :04:24. | :04:29. | |
wish for in politics. He was no longer an MP, but Peter Robinson | :04:30. | :04:32. | |
remained First Minister. He was a guest of honour when the Queen | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
visited Dublin in 2011. He attended a state banquet with his wife by his | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
side, in her first public appearance since the Spotlight scandal. The DUP | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
was defined by a large it spent by two dynasty is. The brittle | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
relationship between Robinson and Paisley came under the microscope in | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
2014. Ian Paisley referred to his successor with undisguised venom. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
There was a beast here prepared to go forward to the destruction of the | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
party. Away from the DUP's internal tensions, Peter Robinson's | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
relationship with Martin McGuinness faded from professional coolness and | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
heated anger. The two men fell out over the development of a jail. | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
Controversial comments Robinson made about Muslims did not help. If I | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
said anything that was the rocketry, of course I would apologise, and I | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
have indicated very clearly that I would be hurt if anyone felt I was | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
showing disrespect for them or not supportive of them. But it was the | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
deadlock over welfare reform which threatened Stormont's existence. We | :05:47. | :05:51. | |
simply cannot afford in terms of welfare reform to lift up the tab of | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
?1 billion per year when we only have a budget for resource | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
expenditure of ?10 billion. In May 2015, the DUP celebrated as another | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
Robinson, having, who is no relation, recaptured East Belfast on | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
the Alliance Party. But Peter Robinson faced another ordeal. This | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
time, he was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack, | :06:18. | :06:21. | |
which he blamed on his diet and lifestyle. If you look at my father, | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
you would cringe. Lots of snacking and fast foods, all the things you | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
should not do. Exercise... Picked up from the drawer and dropped at the | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
door. I blame myself entirely. Once again, the First Minister bounced | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
back, continuing to lead the DUP in negotiations. But once more, he | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
faced tough questions, this time about his party's handling of a huge | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
property deal involving the Irish Republican Army bank. I neither | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
received, expected to receive, sort zero received a single penny. The | :07:00. | :07:07. | |
murder of former IRA member sparked fresh crisis at Stormont. Peter | :07:08. | :07:14. | |
Robinson responded by ordering his ministers to stage a series of | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
temporary resignations. However, his surprisingly relaxed reaction to an | :07:21. | :07:24. | |
official security assessment, which concluded the IRA still exists, it | :07:25. | :07:28. | |
showed the DUP leader was not keen to collapse the default Government. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
He seemed increasingly interested in securing a deal as part of his | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
legacy, but would not confirm exactly when he plans to retire. | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
Everybody, when they get to my age, start looking at what is the | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
appropriate time to move on. I have always argued that events would | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
determine that. You are looking for where is the end of each chapter. | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
Where is a sense of the time to hand over. Famously, he relaxed by | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
keeping quiet car, but he wasn't someone who dipped in and out of | :08:01. | :08:08. | |
politics. He surmounted challenges which would have ended others'' | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
careers. And his tactical acumen was unrivalled when it came to | :08:15. | :08:16. | |
conducting negotiations and fighting elections. | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
That notion of the end of a chapter was a theme Peter Robinson | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
picked up on when our political editor Mark Devenport asked him | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
this afternoon about the timing of his departure announcement. | :08:25. | :08:31. | |
In politics, it is very difficult just to find the exact moment that | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
Because politics, by its very nature, continues to flow on. | :08:35. | :08:41. | |
So you never really get to the end of a chapter. | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
I think probably what we have at the present time with | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
the agreement that has been reached is as close as you are going to get | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
I want to get to the end of the process within the party so that | :08:53. | :08:57. | |
we can have a new leader in place and give them a good time to settle | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
You have had some well-publicised health problems with your heart. Did | :09:02. | :09:15. | |
that play any part in your decision-making? No, indeed, that | :09:16. | :09:20. | |
occurred after I had informed party officers of my intention to stand | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
down. If it had happened before, it may well have been one of the | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
factors I took into consideration, because the job is an exacting job. | :09:32. | :09:39. | |
It is rigorous and at times brittle. So it could well have been a factor | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
if it had occurred, but I had already taking the decision by that | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
point in time. You have always been known as a 24-hour politician. How | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
do you think you will cope with retirement? I do not think the | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
history of those who have given up. Is pretty good. I am not the kind of | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
person who will sit idly around the house and get in my wife's way. I am | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
going to be someone who finds something to do. I suspect it | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
probably will not be politics. Your predecessor had some harsh words to | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
say about you after he left. Ian Paisley felt he was pushed out by | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
you and others in the party. Did that hurt at the time and is it | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
something you learn from and how you leave the stage? I would not find | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
myself in the position where I am going to turn on friends and | :10:36. | :10:40. | |
colleagues who have supported me throughout my lifetime. I will be | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
there to give support and encourage those who follow. And if the party | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
wants me to give advice, I will give it, but I will not stick my nose in | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
and interfere in future decision-making. I will be there to | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
encourage and to support. Will you endorse any successor? Ireland | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
Dorset whoever the successor is. But you will not enter any competitive | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
race by endorsing one against the other? I think it is entirely wrong | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
front outgoing leader to try to shape that. What I do know is that | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
all of those who might be considered as main contenders are friends of | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
mine. They have served me loyally as I have been party leader and they | :11:25. | :11:25. | |
can expect the same from me. The Deputy First Minister Martin | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
McGuinness said he had known that Mr Robinson intended to step | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
down for some time. He said that the pair had built | :11:32. | :11:33. | |
a friendship with each other during the seven years they had | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
spent leading the Executive, despite many people thinking this | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
would never have been possible. Because of the pressures that exist | :11:40. | :11:50. | |
within the DUP, it was a different approach publicly, but privately, | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
you know, we have had a very civilised, very core dual | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
relationship. You cannot an office and work very closely with someone | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
for that long and not feel empathy or friendship with him. | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
Peter Robinson's decision to stand down as First Minister and DUP | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
leader has raised the inevitable question of who will take over. | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
Our political correspondent Chris Page has been considering what might | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
White it was here in the 1970s that a young councillor called Peter | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
Robinson began to forge a formidable reputation. He was so successful | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
locally that a leisure Centre was named after him. But from here, he | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
grew the DUP into the dominant force in unionism. After his departure, | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
what will be the next steps for his party? This academic has written a | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
book based on a survey of DUP members. He says Mr Robinson has set | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
a firm, strategic direction. There is an old guard who are still very | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
suspicious of Sinn Fein and reluctant about power-sharing. Peter | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
Robinson and the advisers are still very suspicious of Sinn Fein and | :13:03. | :13:04. | |
reluctant about power-sharing. Peter Robinson and the advisers around him | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
marginalise those elements. Peter Robinson recognised that very early | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
on and basically the pragmatists have really marginalise the | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
fundamentalists within the party. So who will take on that mantle? Who | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
has been accompanying Mr Robinson to important meetings recently? This | :13:22. | :13:28. | |
man has already had two temporally stints in office. Nigel Dodds heads | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
up the party's team of MPs. The DUP talk about this two years ago, | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
dividing the office between a leader and a First Minister, and it seems | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
to be Nigel Dodds will be read and Eileen Foster as First Minister. | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
There are others who have held high-profile roles. Peter has not | :13:50. | :13:55. | |
gone yet. It is important to reflect that as a party and we will discuss | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
what is best not just for the party, but from Northern Ireland as well. | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
Those discussions inside Stormont's largest party will decide who gets | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
the keys to the most powerful office in Northern Ireland. Tomorrow, the | :14:10. | :14:16. | |
DUP's annual conference begins. There will be talk about who takes | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
on Peter Robinson's jobs as First Minister and DUP leader. | :14:22. | :14:22. | |
And there'll be more on Peter Robinson's decison to step | :14:23. | :14:25. | |
down on The View tonight at 10.35pm on BBC One. | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
A man is in a critical condition in intensive care | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
after being shot in the head in West Belfast this morning. | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
The man, who is in his 40s, is believed to be a member | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
Two men have been arrested. Julie McCullough reports. | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
The car the man had been travelling in was brought to a stop at this | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
pedestrian crossing, where the woman driving a raised the alarm. I saw a | :14:53. | :14:59. | |
man getting attacked in the car by three men. Then as soon as the | :15:00. | :15:05. | |
anglers came, it just drove him off. There was blood everywhere. One | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
local politician was taking his daughter to nursery school at the | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
time. There were literally hundreds of children on their way to school | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
at this time of the morning. Any one of them could have been a victim of | :15:19. | :15:24. | |
this particularly indiscriminate type of shooting. Although the car | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
was abandoned, the actual shooting happened here, a couple of hundred | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
yards away at Rossnareen Avenue, close to the victim's home. A woman | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
who has lived nearby from more than 50 years could not believe what had | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
happened. I was shaking. I was shocked. On our street! Nothing ever | :15:47. | :15:51. | |
happens on our street. I could not take it in. The principle of a | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
school nearby said counselling would be made available for any staff are | :15:58. | :15:59. | |
children who require it. The father of a teenager with | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
disabilities who was left alone on a school bus for almost three hours | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
has said his daughter now rarely The driver and a special needs | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
escort failed to drop her off Instead, | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
she was left on the bus at a depot. The Education Authority is | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
investigating what happened, but her family say they are still | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
waiting for a formal apology. Our south west reporter | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Julian Fowler has the details. 17-year-old Sophie Kerr uses a | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
wheelchair and is unable to speak. Four weeks ago, | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
she was picked up by a bus to take her to Willow Bridge Special Needs | :16:34. | :16:36. | |
School, but she was left on the bus, which was then driven to | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
a depot and parked up for nearly As far as the school was concerned, | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
she was maybe As far as we knew, | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
she was at school. So there was a grey area that nobody | :16:50. | :16:54. | |
knew where she was Sophie was left called and upset by | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
what happened. With Sophie, | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
we're lucky that she doesn't have as But some of the children, | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
it could have been life-threatening if they had been left | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
in that same situation. It is understood the bus driver and | :17:17. | :17:25. | |
an adult who is scored the pupils have been suspended while an | :17:26. | :17:26. | |
investigation is carried out. The Education Authority said it took | :17:27. | :17:28. | |
immediate action and contacted the parents to offer | :17:29. | :17:30. | |
an unreserved apology. They also said they had written | :17:31. | :17:32. | |
a letter to provide assurances that all steps would be taken to prevent | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
such an incident occurring again. But the family say they are still | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
waiting to receive the letter I am upset about what has happened, | :17:41. | :17:53. | |
but I am more angry that we have not been given any answers, because this | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
does not just affect Sophie, it affects every special-needs child in | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
Northern Ireland. They want procedures put in place to alert | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
parents if their child does not arrive in school. Now that they have | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
lost trust in the bus transport arrangements, Sophie is instead been | :18:12. | :18:13. | |
taken to school by taxi. of Northern Ireland's biggest arts | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
organisations have been reversed. The groups had been told they | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
would lose 7% of their planned funding from the | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
Arts Council of Northern Ireland. But after this month's budget, | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
?620,000 will be restored. Yesterday we looked at how a new, | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
very different prison regime. The first of its kind in Britain or | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
Ireland, it has been introduced to Following suicides and incidents | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
of self harm, there is now a particular emphasis on addressing | :18:43. | :18:46. | |
the welfare of those detained at Donna Traynor focusses this | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
evening on women inmates. Women are here in Hydebank either | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
because they are on remand or have been found guilty of a crime and | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
sentenced two months or years in jail. Two years ago, inspectors | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
voiced their concern about prisoners' welfare and in particular | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
mental health issues. As part of a rehabilitation programme, new | :19:15. | :19:16. | |
innovative ways of helping vulnerable prisoners have been | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
introduced. Things like art therapy and pet therapy, where vulnerable | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
prisoners are taught to work with dogs, teach them obedience tricks | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
and agility exercises. Earlier, I spoke to one prisoner and asked her | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
how she had benefited from the pet therapy. Up! Good boy. It is just | :19:35. | :19:42. | |
great to get out with him. It clears my head and they are fun to work | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
with. It has given me some responsibility and I look forward to | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
it every day. Every morning, to get them out for a good run. It is just | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
really good to clear my head. For me, it is like therapy, to be | :20:03. | :20:11. | |
honest. It gives me a focus. The dog gives me unconditional love. Arts | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
and crafts are also been used any therapeutic way. You put it on | :20:16. | :20:27. | |
thick. Heather, you were a prison officer for 15 years before you | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
began to teach craft here. What was your reaction from your colleagues? | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
You lot were apprehensive. A lot said I should be doing my own job | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
along with them. But then eventually, surprisingly, it's | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
turned around. Alarms were not going off, there were less fights, so I | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
proved them official. What kind of issues do these women face? Long | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
time away from their families. Isolation. Behind the door at night | :20:55. | :21:02. | |
time, and their memories, they start to think. They have this fear of | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
jail as lonely place. It is not like that at all. We are a big family, we | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
are here to help people and that is why the get them involved in all the | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
70s. It does work. Some prisoners say these classes provide far more | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
than just learning new skills. I have three children and was doing | :21:23. | :21:31. | |
really well. It was always working. I was always supporting myself. This | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
support is fantastic. To do crafts, to do the joinery, you can just | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
paint. In the cell, I can paint in myself. No matter what women have | :21:48. | :21:53. | |
done here or what they are here for, they are all mums and I can see how | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
emotionally they are as regards to family and children. Everybody has a | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
different story. With me is Reverend Nixon, one of the chaplains here at | :22:10. | :22:14. | |
Hydebank. How do you balance in your mind caring for the prisoners here | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
and those victims of crime, many of whom could be your parishioners? The | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
first thing I would say is when I commend to Hydebank on a Monday | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
morning, I do not always find people who initially have a sense of | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
remorse. I find people who are troubled by the separation from | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
family, friends and home. But with time, often the residents in | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Hydebank begin to think about the people on the outside. They begin to | :22:45. | :22:47. | |
reflect on the lives they have disturbed and upset. It is good for | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
the community to know it is not all about bad people, it is often about | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
troubled people who are trying to find a way of saying sorry but who | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
do not have the mechanism to do so. Thank you. Also with me is Richard | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
Taylor, the deputy governor here at Hydebank. Crime and punishment, | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
where does we are bullish on coming to play there? Those are the three | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
key elements. All of the people we have at Hydebank are committed by | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
the courts. For many years and many decades, we have worked with people | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
here. Where are outcomes have not been where they needed to be in | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
regard to society... People are coming here because of whatever | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
background they have had or crimes they have committed. The | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
rehabilitation creates opportunities and the skills once released to lead | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
a law-abiding life. Richard, thank you. Hydebank will continue to be a | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
place of detention. Only in time will we find out if this new | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
programme for education and learning will make any difference in the | :23:53. | :23:53. | |
community. And if you'd like to share your view | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
on the new regime being implemented at Hydebank or view last night's | :23:56. | :23:58. | |
report, check out our Facebook page. Doubt has been cast over | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
the future of a multi-million pound regeneration | :24:02. | :24:03. | |
scheme in Belfast city centre. Plans for the ?360 million pound | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
Royal Exchange project included However, the Department of | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
Social Development said it had ended its agreement with the developer, | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
Leaside Developments, because they had failed to demonstrate it could | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
deliver the scheme. U2 played their first gig in Belfast | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
last night They put on quite a show at the SSE | :24:22. | :24:42. | |
Arena. Holding Belfast in the palm of their hand. After more than a | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
decade and a half, U2 began only strips downstage with some of their | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
earliest hits and a message for local fans. You are heroes to us, on | :24:53. | :25:14. | |
this stage. Thank you for your patience. Thanks for sticking with | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
us. But it wasn't long before the full U2 concert experience kicked | :25:23. | :25:36. | |
in. Later, there were messages of solidarity with people in Paris. And | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
tonight, they do it all again for another sold-out gig. | :25:41. | :25:48. | |
Time for the weather now and Angie is here. What is in store? Cold | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
weather. We will get a taste of winter of the next couple of days. | :25:57. | :26:01. | |
As if it is not chilly enough already. Today was really just an | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
average November day. Quite breezy with some showers running west to | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
east. They have eased off through the course of the afternoon, so just | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
ate few remaining through the evening. That Breeze continues to | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
ease throughout the night, so mainly dry with clear spells and quite | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
chilly in places as well, particularly chilly in the | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
countryside. Later on, we get a band of showery rain approaching the | :26:30. | :26:33. | |
north coast. That is the first sign of a transition to Calder weather. | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
It will flood southwards across the country into the weekend. A called | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
wind started to pick up tomorrow and eventually, showers, which are | :26:46. | :26:50. | |
likely to turn increasingly wintry. But to begin with, that showery band | :26:51. | :26:55. | |
edges as we southwards through the morning rush hour. It mainly Falls | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
as rain. The wind starts to strengthen from the north-west. It | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
does brighten up, that we have more showers. They will increasingly turn | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
it to a wintry mix of rain, sleet and hill snow. It will feel very | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
cold in that wind. Highs of 6-7 C. We are watching the wind for | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
tomorrow night. We have a warning for severe gales in place. There | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
could be some disruption. Gusts as high as 60 mph along the north coast | :27:27. | :27:31. | |
and through the North Channel. Hazards of sleet and snow showers. | :27:32. | :27:38. | |
That will settle above and is also likely to become quite icy in places | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
as well as temperatures drop towards freezing. A wintry start to the | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
weekend. Showers increasingly turning to sleet over the hills, but | :27:49. | :27:55. | |
a cold and windy day. Quite a widespread frost, I think, for | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
Saturday night. Not as windy on Sunday and drier and brighter. | :28:00. | :28:01. | |
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