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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
Shock as seven care homes across Northern Ireland are to close. | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
The Stakeknife investigation is to look at more than 50 murders. | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
The new technology making life easier | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
How here-to-stay low interest rates are helping the housing market. | :00:32. | :00:41. | |
The cheering's over, as a row kicks off over planned Euro celebrations. | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
The sport of mixed martial continues to grow - tonight we'll be speaking | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
to Leah McCourt, Northern Ireland's newest European champion. | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
And we're now in less cold air but feeling cool in the wind, which | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
Seven residential care homes privately owned by the Four Seasons | :01:00. | :01:08. | |
Following the announcement the Health Minister has halted | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
Lisa McAlister is at a Four Seasons home in East Belfast. | :01:17. | :01:30. | |
I'm at Stormont nursing home where in the last few minutes a meeting | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
has just got under way between management and relatives of | :01:36. | :01:41. | |
residence, and similar meetings are taking place at all seven homes | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
affect did across Northern Ireland. The Four Seasons group is one of the | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
largest providers of care homes and the UK, today a spokesman said the | :01:52. | :01:57. | |
closures were unavoidable, that all seven homes are operating at a loss. | :01:58. | :02:05. | |
Four Seasons is the UK's largest private care home operator, it runs | :02:06. | :02:10. | |
69 homes across Northern Ireland. But by February next year 's seven | :02:11. | :02:11. | |
homes will close. That leaves more than 250 elderly | :02:12. | :02:26. | |
residents looking for a new place to live and almost 400 staff either | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
transferring to other homes in the group of looking for new jobs. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Relatives of residence at the homes received letters by special delivery | :02:35. | :02:37. | |
this morning telling them of the decision. | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
Staff attended meetings this afternoon to hear more. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
They didn't want to speak afterwards. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
I don't think I'm allowed to say anything. | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Four Seasons revealed widening losses of ?25 million in its | :02:56. | :02:57. | |
third-quarter results this week, because of rising costs and lower | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
occupancy. The proposed closures had already | :03:01. | :03:09. | |
been postponed, the Health Minister said today he was freezing all | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
decisions in the light of the uncertain to in the private sector. | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
It is only appropriate we pause and give careful consideration to what | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
has been proposed in respect of some was eventual care homes to ensure | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
that... Because some of these proposals to close these homes were | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
predicated on spare capacity within the independent sector. One that has | :03:32. | :03:39. | |
been reduced it is what we pause and consider the implications. | :03:40. | :03:44. | |
But that has no impact on the closures announced today. | :03:45. | :03:47. | |
Four Seasons says it will spend the next three months engaging with | :03:48. | :03:49. | |
families and health trusts to ensure suitable alternative placements for | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
residents, Bob Holmes will close by the end of February next year. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
-- but the homes. Tonight's meetings at the start of a | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
12 week consultation period, but the utmost priority and concern for | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
relatives is what impact this will have on their relatives who are in | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
many cases already frail and a move may not be the best thing for them | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
both physically and emotionally. We'll bring you any updates on these | :04:22. | :04:23. | |
meetings tonight at 10:25pm. With me is Pauline Shepherd | :04:24. | :04:30. | |
from a group that represents private What's the big problem here? It | :04:31. | :04:39. | |
relates to the viability of the tariff, which does not meet the full | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
cost of care. The money comes from -- coming from Government, it | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
doesn't meet the pressures that the care homes are facing. They are | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
facing additional pressures from nurse shortages, which has resulted | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
in them needing to employee agency nurses which can cost three or four | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
times the hourly rate. The permissive levels have increased | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
with the complexity of care for older people. -- dependency levels. | :05:09. | :05:17. | |
And the tariff is not kept in line with those dependency requirements | :05:18. | :05:22. | |
and those needs. When your organisation and | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
independent providers go to the Minister and tell them they can't | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
make ends meet, what sort of reception do you get? | :05:28. | :05:35. | |
Each year we would be asked to submit information to consider the | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
yearly uplift of the tariff, but I have been expressing concern for the | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
past probably year saying that Herath does not meet the | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
requirements, and also specifying to them that they need to look at what | :05:47. | :05:56. | |
the true cost of care is. -- the tariff does not meet. They need an | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
independent economist to look at the figures and come up with a rate that | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
meet the requirements of the individuals in care homes. | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
For the 250 people affected by this closures, what does that mean in | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
general for relatives? It is a difficult emotional time for | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
residents and their families. There is uncertainty as to where those | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
residents were replaced, which is an issue for the health and social care | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
board, to liaise with Four Seasons and other providers to see if they | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
can be accommodated in other homes. Detectives from outside Northern | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
Ireland are expected to be brought in by the PSNI to investigate more | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
than 50 murders linked to a man alleged to have been the army's most | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
high ranking agent within the IRA. Our Home Affairs Correspondent | :06:44. | :06:50. | |
Vincent Kearney has this exclusive Hundreds of Republicans and | :06:51. | :07:00. | |
loyalists led secret double life is as informers and agents during the | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
Troubles. Stakeknife was regarded as one of | :07:04. | :07:11. | |
the most valuable. The only's must senior -- Abhi. | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
-- army. An agent of the state, who killed | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
other agents of the state. A former West Bell must -- Belfast | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
man has denied reports that he was the agent. | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
The investigation could be the largest ever in the UK into | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
allegations against a serious -- single individual. | :07:37. | :07:40. | |
The BBC understands it will investigate up to 53 killings | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
between 1978 and 1995, and also look for evidence of possible criminal | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
behaviour by those within the Ministry of Defence, the army and | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
MI5 work Stakeknife. Sources have told the BBC the case | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
could take a team of up to 50 list at this five years to complete. | :07:59. | :08:05. | |
In an interview to be broadcast tonight, the Chief Constable | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
outlined the scale of the task. This is so big and so vast ranging, | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
a time period of about 17 years, everybody is fixated on the | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
individual known as Stakeknife, and I'm quite sure he will be the | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
subject of investigative rigour, but there will be other suspects in all | :08:28. | :08:32. | |
of this. Relatives of some of Stakeknife's | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
alleged victims launched legal action earlier this month in a bed | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
to stop the PSNI investigation. It appears that legal challenge may | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
no longer be necessary. Whilst the police haven't | :08:44. | :08:49. | |
commented, understand the Chief Constable is likely to bring in | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
officers from other UK police forces. The PSNI is expected to | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
advertise for experienced detectives to apply to join a special major | :08:57. | :09:04. | |
investigation team on secondment. News of the expected move has been | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
welcomed by the daughter of Caroline Morlan. | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
The IRA said the 34-year-old mother of three was an informer, and shot | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
her dead in 1994. We didn't want the PSNI | :09:16. | :09:22. | |
investigating. It is a step in the right direction. | :09:23. | :09:26. | |
The director of public investigate -- prosecutions has told us the | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
investigation should have taken place much sooner. The police have | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
known of Stakeknife's alleged activities for at least 12 years. | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
This should have been taken forward thoroughly and expeditiously as soon | :09:39. | :09:44. | |
as the information became known to those whose statutory responsibility | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
it was to carry out investigations. Bringing in detectives from other UK | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
police forces may be easier said than done. | :09:54. | :09:55. | |
Even if they are available, the money may not be. | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
The question of who will pay has yet to be answered. | :10:00. | :10:01. | |
And you can see Spotlight on BBC One tonight at 10:40, | :10:02. | :10:03. | |
A senior police officer in Londonderry says | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
a so-called punishment shooting in the Brandywell area last night | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
ranks as one of the worst he's ever come across. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
The 23-year-old victim was shot in the legs. | :10:18. | :10:19. | |
His mother told BBC Newsline she thought he was dead | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
Here's our North West reporter, Keiron Tourish. | :10:23. | :10:34. | |
23-year-old Jonathan Simpson was shot several times in both legs in | :10:35. | :10:40. | |
what police described as a callous incident. | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
His family say this was a particularly brutal attack. The | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
gunman entered the house and shot him a number of times and the living | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
room. The police say early indications are | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
that Jonathan Simpson sustained potentially life changing injuries. | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
His mother says that when she arrived home, she thought he was | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
dead. I had never seen a scene like it in | :11:09. | :11:21. | |
my life. How can anybody with grown-up | :11:22. | :11:25. | |
children have that on their conscience? | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
My son was rushed to hospital for a, his arteries were blocked and it | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
was like he was dead. They dragged him from the living | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
room to the hall, opened the front door and let everybody see him, so | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
that everybody thought he was dead, my son. | :11:44. | :11:45. | |
23 years of age. I think this ranks as one of the | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
worst I have seen. This young man was shot in the upper part of both | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
of his legs, twice in each leg, the femur in one leg and doing serious | :11:56. | :12:01. | |
damage to the other leg. These are life changing injuries. I think | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
we're looking at a situation where the attack could have caused this | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
young man's my. Sinn Fein server can be no | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
justification the attack. They have not just punished his | :12:12. | :12:20. | |
mother, they have traumatised her and those who have seen the | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
aftermath of what they did last night. Both the -- those people who | :12:23. | :12:30. | |
are standing -- who think they are standing up for a community, they | :12:31. | :12:33. | |
are nothing but love this. The police have appealed for | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
witnesses to come forward. -- they are nothing but bullies. | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
A former British soldier has told the inquest into the death | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
of a man shot dead by the army in Belfast in 1971 that he believed | :12:46. | :12:49. | |
"Soldier C" was giving evidence anonymously at the inquest of | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
Harry Thornton, killed by the Parachute Regiment on | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
In 2012 the British government acknowledged | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
that Mr Thornton was an innocent man and apologised for his death. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
Henry Thornton, known as Harry to his family. He was shot by a member | :13:01. | :13:19. | |
of the Parachute Regiment. Only now has the coroner being able to make a | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
start on what happened. So more than 44 years after his | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
death, the inquest has finally begun, and the first witness spoke | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
of a loving husband and father, a man who missed his children and | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
tried to get home to see them every Saturday. | :13:41. | :13:49. | |
The second witness is known to the inquest as soldier C. | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
He was on a 4 month tour based in Springfield Road. | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
It has always been believed -- believed Harry Thornton's van | :13:57. | :14:02. | |
backfire twice and another soldier shot him, killing him. | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
Soldier C said the van was being driven in a manner which concern | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
him. He said he thought two shots were | :14:11. | :14:14. | |
fired, with one bullet passing very close to him. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
Decades later he says he doesn't believe the vehicle was backfiring. | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
The death sparked widespread rioting, while others held a vigil | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
at the scene of the shooting. But no weapons were found in or | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
around the van, and three years ago a British Government minister wrote | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
to Mr Thornton's widow stating that he was an innocent man and | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
apologising for his death. Today, counsel for the Thornton | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
family suggested soldier C was Mike description of events was lie after | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
lie to cover up what happened. -- soldier C's description. | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
The success of the international soccer teams on both sides of | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
the border has already led to some political squabbling over big screen | :14:58. | :14:59. | |
Now an SDLP proposal for a joint civic reception at Belfast City | :15:00. | :15:11. | |
Hall has fallen foul of the Ulster Unionists, as Mervyn Jess reports. | :15:12. | :15:19. | |
There were branches and smiles from Northern Ireland and the republic of | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
all and qualified for the European Championships. -- brought cheers. | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
But now a plan for a joint celebration of the qualification has | :15:32. | :15:41. | |
led to a squabble. An Ulster Unionist councillor says this is | :15:42. | :15:44. | |
playing politics with sporting achievement. | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
No, this is a simple recognition of two teams who have achieved great | :15:48. | :16:03. | |
sporting achievements. It will reunify sport as being the | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
winner. Reconciliation is the main theme of this, and the recognition | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
of achievements. I personally will be supporting the | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
four teams who have qualified from the British Isles, name -- namely | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
Northern Ireland, England, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland. | :16:25. | :16:26. | |
I believe like many of my colleagues that the SDLP are politicking. They | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
don't want to bring politics into sport. -- we don't. Sport unites us, | :16:32. | :16:38. | |
and it is good for people, so therefore I would ask the proposer | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
of this motion to reconsider it and to add on England and Wales as well | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
as the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. | :16:48. | :16:51. | |
That is not the only controversy brought on by this. Public screening | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
of the two teams playing in the summer Championships has led to | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
disagreement over which matches should be shown in a number of | :17:00. | :17:05. | |
council areas. The civic reception proposal in | :17:06. | :17:08. | |
Belfast is likely to stir up emotions among supporters of both | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
teams when it is pitched at council next week. | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
This issue is due to be brought up at a meeting at City Hall next | :17:17. | :17:19. | |
Tuesday, and in footballing parlance that in itself could be a game of | :17:20. | :17:21. | |
two halves. People with breathing problems | :17:22. | :17:23. | |
have been given a new lease of life Thousands are taking advantage | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
of new technology. As Maggie Taggart reports, | :17:27. | :17:37. | |
they can now do a lot more activities than before, | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
yet the technology is cheaper than This man needs help to brief cover | :17:40. | :17:52. | |
24 a day. In the past, when he wanted to get out and about, even | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
the portable should -- portable machines were big and heavy and | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
didn't last long. I didn't want to go out. It was | :18:02. | :18:10. | |
embarrassing, so it was. He uses a condenser and tube in the | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
house but now Franciscan venture out more with the new equipment carried | :18:15. | :18:17. | |
like a shoulder bag. It is brilliant. The ones now, I can | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
fill those two containers, and the last May from eight to 16 hours, so | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
I can go places in the car. Three years ago no one was given the | :18:32. | :18:37. | |
new portable machines. Now almost 2,500 patients are supplied with | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
them by the health and social care board. | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
Because people can take more exercise, it can extend their lives. | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
I have heard examples of farmers who can visit fields that were just too | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
far away for them, and individuals who have been able to walk distances | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
they never could before, and for some people it appears to have | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
transformed their life, and we are delighted we have been able to | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
provide that criminal -- chemical benefit. | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
This technology has made a huge difference to 2,500 patients like | :19:08. | :19:14. | |
Sadie. It improves their lifestyle and health prospects. | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
It gives me my freedom and independence, and I really feel I | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
don't -- I am not a burden with it. I feel I can go on and on my life as | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
I want to plan it. There is a financial benefit as | :19:30. | :19:32. | |
well, using the new machines costs about two thirds of the old system. | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
A partnership between Google and the professional services firm PwC | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
The companies formed the partnership last year, aimed | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
at getting more business clients to use Google's software products. | :19:42. | :19:50. | |
It is the first centre of its kind in Europe, but will not immediately | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
However, it is understood that there will be recruitment in the coming | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
Householders have been told by the Bank of England governor they | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
can expect interest rates to remain low for some time. | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
Locally the housing market continues to recover. | :20:05. | :20:05. | |
But as our business correspondent Julian O'Neill reports, prices still | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
The housing market has been in recovery mode for two years, but it | :20:09. | :20:22. | |
is a long road back after the crash, with prices still around half | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
of what they were a years ago. But sales are ticking over. Take | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
here in Dungannon were one recent fire felt it was the right time to | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
purchase. It was a stage I thought, should I | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
sell my house and move into the renting market, but then the fear | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
was how to get back onto the housing market again. | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
So I am happy with what I've done now, and this is where I intend to | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
stay. Prices here in Mid Ulster are up 11% | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
over the year. That is the biggest percentage improvement of any | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
council district. Over the past 12 months, house | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
prices have risen in all areas. But there is significant regional | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
variation. In the Derry and Strabane council | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
area, prices are lowest. The cost of atypical has here is | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
?98,000. The most expensive area is in | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
Lisburn and Castlereagh, were it to become property is ?139,000. | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
-- atypical property. In Dungannon this estate agent | :21:31. | :21:33. | |
employs only half the number of staff at it in the room, but the | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
recovery has arrived with this year's sales figures up on 2014. | :21:40. | :21:46. | |
-- as it did in the boom. The further west you have come, the | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
slower has been the recovery, and speaking to estate agents elsewhere | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
they are behind us in the market recovery. | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
Prices are rebounding, and the negative equity problem is easing. | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
Also helping has been a delay in putting up interest rates. | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
Experts predict they may remain untouched until the middle of next | :22:11. | :22:11. | |
year. Thomas Niblock has the sport this | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
evening, and joining him is Northern If Dublin has Conor McGregor, | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
we have Leah McCourt; she's 22, she's a mum, | :22:18. | :22:25. | |
she's works with children and adults And I'm delighted to welcome the | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
European amateur mixed martial arts It is amazing, all the hard work's | :22:28. | :22:49. | |
paid off. What was the experience like? | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
It was really tough, it was an amateur tournament with people from | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
all over the world. You can see the pictures right now. | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
Yes, but it was an amazing feeling being able to show off my skill, and | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
I worked so hard and train twice a day every day. | :23:10. | :23:15. | |
You look absolutely fantastic, and winning the gold medal as Europe's | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
best. Also your 4-year-old daughter | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
Isabella, you have also pretend wrestled with? | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
She loves it, she says as long as I bring home gold she doesn't mind me | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
going away. She does judo as well so it is to stick to getting involved. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Why is mixed martial arts so popular? | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
People understand how highly skilled you. It is becoming more and more | :23:44. | :23:49. | |
recognised. The likes of Conor McGregor, they relate to it, and if | :23:50. | :23:56. | |
they go and watch an event themselves they see how amazing it | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
is. Congratulations on the gold medal. | :24:01. | :24:01. | |
Thank you for coming in. Now, Kyle Lafferty scored seven | :24:02. | :24:02. | |
goals in nine matches to help Northern Ireland qualify for next | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
summer's European championships, only Bayern Munich superstar Robert | :24:06. | :24:07. | |
Lewandowski has scored more - but Lafferty can't get in the starting | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
line-up for his club Norwich City. Well, last night the 28-year-old | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
striker was playing against Manchester United U21s and hit | :24:13. | :24:14. | |
this wonder goal for the Canaries. Lafferty is out | :24:15. | :24:24. | |
of favour with Norwich manager Alex Neil, but desperate to prove | :24:25. | :24:26. | |
himself in the Premier League ahead of Euro 2016 in France - and goals | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
like that might just do the trick! Ulster's Iain Henderson has today | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
dismissed suggestions that the top Pro12 teams can no longer | :24:33. | :24:34. | |
compete against the bigger English Ulster play Leinster in Dublin | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
on Friday, after both sides lost I don't think April 12 has one in | :24:38. | :24:55. | |
the Champions Cup, so if you want to take a direct call it -- correlation | :24:56. | :25:07. | |
-- Pro12. I still think the Pro12 has a lot of quality sides who can | :25:08. | :25:10. | |
compete with those top-level sides. Finally, this evening, | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
in a first for ice hockey. Four American college sides have | :25:15. | :25:16. | |
arrived in Belfast; this coming weekend | :25:17. | :25:18. | |
they'll play in the first ever competitive colleges fixtures to be | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
staged outside of North America. We'll have a special report | :25:21. | :25:23. | |
on tomorrow's BBC Newsline. Angie Phillips is here with | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
the forecast. It was a little bit brighter times | :25:30. | :25:41. | |
today, but there were quite a showers around particularly across | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
parts of the north and west. Some of them quite heavy as well. The south | :25:47. | :25:50. | |
and East got away with relatively few showers in comparison, and we're | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
going to continue along that sort of theme throughout the course of this | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
evening. For a time there will be dry gaps with clear spells. But | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
through the night there was clear spells are going to be filling in | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
with cloud. It looks like it could be a damp old end to the night, but | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
not a chilly one. Frost free with lows of around five or 6 degrees. | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
Tomorrow we hold onto that gusty wind. We still have some showery | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
rain through the morning, it is likely to be quite damp and drizzly | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
through the morning rush hour. Then we start to see a bit of a change, a | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
drier but still quite cloudy conditions starting to move in from | :26:33. | :26:39. | |
the rest -- the West. Probably clearing away from the East Coast by | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
lunchtime. Nine at 10 degrees tomorrow, above average, but if you | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
are exposed to that gusty wind from the North West it will feel cooler. | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
The wind is is a little bit through tomorrow night. Still a bit breezy | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
round the coast, but it will end up quite misty and market tomorrow | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
night with patches of drizzly rain. Quite mild for the time of year. -- | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
misty and murky. Potentially quite heavy rain on Thursday night. As we | :27:10. | :27:17. | |
head into Friday morning a weather front brings strong winds and gales, | :27:18. | :27:23. | |
and rapidly will be cooling down again, we could be heading towards | :27:24. | :27:27. | |
wintry showers. We're getting reaction to the | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
closure of seven private care homes. You can share your views on our | :27:32. | :27:36. | |
Facebook page and on Twitter. We will be back at 10:25pm. | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
Goodbye. | :27:39. | :27:43. |