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Good evening, the headlines on BBC Newsline: A family flee their home | :00:15. | :00:18. | |
as a fire spreads from a nearby recycling centre. | :00:19. | :00:28. | |
I just wanted my family to be safe. That was all that mattered to me. | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
A court hears more details about what happened the night | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
the West Belfast man Christopher Meli was killed. | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
Claims that this undercover officer from Scotland Yard targeted | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
The pioneering surgery which it's hoped will help improve the life | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
Also on the programme: Our Christmas carol this evening comes | :00:48. | :00:55. | |
from Willowbridge School in Enniskillen. | :00:56. | :01:01. | |
An early Christmas present for our top rally driver - | :01:02. | :01:04. | |
And, the next few days will be colder but still very changeable. | :01:05. | :01:11. | |
Three days before Christmas, this is all that's left of a family | :01:12. | :01:21. | |
The police are treating the fire that destroyed | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
It broke out and spread from a nearby re-cycling centre. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Our reporter, Catherine Morrison, is in the village this evening. | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
Yes, the fire reduced the family home behind me here to little more | :01:37. | :01:51. | |
than a blackened shell. It is only when you are standing here that you | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
really get to see just how close the house is to the recycling centre | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
next door, where the blaze broke out in the early hours of this morning. | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
High winds fanned the flames to this family home just a few metres and a | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
flimsy wooden fence separates the two. The family had to flee in the | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
middle of the night wearing just their pyjamas, and it was a lucky | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
escape. A neighbour told me that less than ten minutes after the | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
family left, the entire house was engulfed in flames. Earlier, our | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
reporter spoke to the family. This was home to Rebecca, Andy and | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
two and a half -year-old Daisy. Its brief now gone, its walls are | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
unstable, and all their treasured belongings lost. Having left in any | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
of them nightwear, they sat this morning at a relative's in borrowed | :02:50. | :02:55. | |
clothes. As soon as I opened the door, the embers and the heat just | :02:56. | :03:03. | |
met me at the front door. I knew I had to get out. I knew the fire was | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
going to spread. My immediate reaction was to grab the child. I | :03:10. | :03:16. | |
took Daisy. She was just in her pyjamas. I grabbed her tight and | :03:17. | :03:21. | |
bolted through the door. Rebecca followed. The reaction was to look | :03:22. | :03:32. | |
back. It seemed as if the house was on fire. But I just want my family | :03:33. | :03:43. | |
to be safe. That was all that mattered to me. We have only been in | :03:44. | :03:53. | |
the house about two months. It was a struggle even at times because I | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
have just recently lost my job a month ago. Between struggling to | :03:58. | :04:07. | |
find a new job and to keep the house, maintain the house, and | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
coming to Christmas and buying the present, which we struggled to buy. | :04:15. | :04:24. | |
When I say we struggled, friends and family. We could not have done it | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
without friends and family. We are saying that even more now. Safe and | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
sound, all thanks to the neighbours across the road. I just run to the | :04:33. | :04:37. | |
door and I hammered on it to get them out. The man came out with the | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
girl. And this is the recycling centre where the fire started, a | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
fire that police are now treating as suspicious. At its height, there | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
were seven fire appliances here, and 40 firefighters from across | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
counties, and down. The high last night and that several houses were | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
also at risk of catching fire. If the fire has been a malicious act, I | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
just want whoever has done it to understand and believe... We have | :05:09. | :05:16. | |
lost our home at Christmas. We have nothing now. No toys. No presents to | :05:17. | :05:28. | |
each other. All our photographs, our wedding photographs. A family | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
together. Things could have been very, very different. | :05:34. | :05:43. | |
I am joined now by the camps like Carla Lockhart. There has been a | :05:44. | :05:46. | |
real sense of shock in this street. The people I have spoken to my | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
neighbours, what has the reaction been like in the wider community. | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
There is a real sense of shock and sadness for this little family who | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
have suffered great loss. You can see behind us that their house has | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
been absolutely gutted with flames and fire damage. The family, | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
thankfully, escaped unharmed. Certainly, our thoughts and prayers | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
are with his family. I have known them for many years, and it is so | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
disheartening and so sad to see a family left without any of their | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
belongings. There has been a real sense that people are rallying | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
around the family. Has been a real outpouring of generosity and support | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
for them. Absolutely. This morning, when Andrew's daddy contacted | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
myself, we decided to coordinate a campaign to help the family. We have | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
been overwhelmed by the amount of money that has been donated. Has | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
been over ?5,000 given to the family, and the officers have been | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
inundated with the amount of Christmas presents and gifts and | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
presents going towards the family. Perhaps a small comfort for this | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
family. Thank you for joining me. This is an ongoing police | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
investigation, and they want to hear from anyone who may know what | :07:05. | :07:06. | |
happened here last night to contact them. | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
Tributes have been paid to an elderly farmer who died | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
It's thought Pat Curran was killed in an incident involving a tractor | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
at his farm near Kilclief yesterday evening. | :07:17. | :07:24. | |
He was a person who was particularly supportive of his neighbours, of the | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
local farming community. A very good, upstanding, dead member of our | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
local community, and he will be sadly missed by all. | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
The police have apologised to a former officer | :07:41. | :07:42. | |
who was seriously injured in a dissident republican bomb attack. | :07:43. | :07:44. | |
Peadar Heffron was the victim of a booby trap bombing | :07:45. | :07:46. | |
A Police Ombudsman report found that four officers failed to pass | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
information to detectives investigating the attempt | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
A meeting of the Policing Board heard today that two of the officers | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
had not been disciplined as severely as the Ombudsman had recommended. | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
This is BBC Newsline and still to come on the programme | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
we'll hear about the life changing pioneering surgery that this | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
seven-year-old girl from Ballycarry has had. | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
The High Court has been told that a young father was beaten to death | :08:21. | :08:23. | |
in retaliation for an earlier fight in West Belfast. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
20-year-old Christopher Meli was killed near houses in Twinbrook | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
Today, a judge granted bail to a one of three teenagers charged | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
Christopher Meli's family and a group of friends were in court for | :08:34. | :08:51. | |
today's bail hearing. Stephen McCann, 18, denies involvement in | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
the murder. He appeared at the hearing to a video link. Prosecuting | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
barrister outlined how police believe events unfolded after a | :09:00. | :09:08. | |
fight at a local kebabs earlier in the evening. Christopher Meli was in | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
one of the groups. The barrister said his group then left the scene, | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
and the other group went off and told friends that they had been | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
jumped on, and the bigger group was formed to get revenge. They said | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
they then confronted Christopher Meli's group with the intention to | :09:25. | :09:28. | |
cause serious harm. Hearing heard that Stephen McCann admitted to | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
police that he was involved in a fight with Christopher Meli earlier | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
on the night of the murder. Stephen McCann told police, "I was in the | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
fight last night. I was fighting with the wee man who was murdered". | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
However, Stephen McCann denies involvement in the murder of | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
Christopher Meli. The hearing heard that three people have been charged | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
in connection with the murder and seven others have been released on | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
bail. The defence barrister told the hearing that none of the witnesses | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
so far had implicated Stephen McCann in the murder. The barrister added | :10:00. | :10:03. | |
that Stephen McCann is prepared to be a witness during the hearing | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
Christopher Meli's mother left the courtroom. As she worked out -- | :10:11. | :10:22. | |
walked out, "Look up", she told him. The judge has ordered Stephen McCann | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
to live at an undisclosed address 30 miles from Belfast. | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
Environmental campaigners claim surveillance was carried out | :10:33. | :10:34. | |
in Northern Ireland by one of the police officers at the centre | :10:35. | :10:37. | |
The undercover officers tricked women into sexual relationships. | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
Environmentalists want the inquiry into what happened to be | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
Our investigations reporter Kevin Magee has more. | :10:44. | :10:54. | |
He looked every inch and environmental campaigner, but Mark | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
Kennedy was in fact a married policeman, one of a number who | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
infiltrated green groups in England by tricking women into intimate | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
relationships. Here is how Scotland Yard was forced to apologise for | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
their actions. We have accepted that those relationships should not have | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
happened, and we have been through a process and now agreed settlement | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
with the women. Part of that process of settlement was a desire on our | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
part to be public about the apology that we make. According to | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
environmental activists, Mark Kennedy, here on the left, also | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
travel to Northern Ireland to carry out surveillance. When Mark Kennedy | :11:34. | :11:39. | |
was here in 2005, it was around the time that the anti-globalisation | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
campaign was at its height. One of the events he attended was a meeting | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
of activists, held here at the menagerie bar on Belfast University | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
Street. He also went to another meeting of green activists and | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
environmentalists held here in the city Church, and while he was here, | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
he had his photograph taken. The PSNI say the special undercover unit | :12:03. | :12:08. | |
that Mark Cody was attached to did not work it, but those who | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
accompanied him to Northern Ireland say this picture shows that he did. | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
A judge that inquiry is underway in England to investigate the role of | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
the undercover officers at Scotland Yard. I don't think there is any | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
question that this public inquiry that is already looking into the | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
activities of this unit in infant and Wales should now be extended. | :12:27. | :12:30. | |
People in the environmental movement and the third World movement are | :12:31. | :12:34. | |
questioning why they should be spied on. When asked if Mark Kennedy's | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
secret undercover unit ever operated in Northern Ireland, the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
Metropolitan Police said they neither confirm nor deny. | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
Plenty more to come, including the latest on the controversy involving | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
an Irish show-jumper at the London International horse show. | :12:54. | :12:57. | |
A little girl from Ballycarry in County Antrim has had pioneering | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
Sophie Mathers, who is seven, has cerebral palsy. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
That means her legs are stiff and awkward, making walking, | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
But doctors at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool decided Sophie | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
was suitable for a complicated operation and they cut nerves | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
in her spine to alleviate the problem. | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
Sophie Mathers and her parents played together on the morning of | :13:24. | :13:38. | |
her operation at Alder Hey. Sophie was eight weeks premature, and has | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
cerebral palsy. That means her legs are stiff and rigid. She is affected | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
in her legs, so her legs are very stiff and the muscles are very | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
tight. Day-to-day living is a struggle for her. Sophie can walk | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
with a frame, but the stiffness makes it hard. Doctors call it | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
spasticity. This morning's operation is aimed at loosening her leg | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
muscles. This will relieve the tightness. Give her more confident | :14:06. | :14:12. | |
in herself, a wee bit more freedom. It is not a miracle cure that will | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
mean she can walk unaided, but doctors say it can be life changing. | :14:17. | :14:23. | |
Just to be made more comfortable, and hopefully gain more independence | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
about the house, and do more for herself. Sophie knows how she once | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
the surgeons to make her legs. Not tight. Alder Hey is the only | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
hospital in the north-west where this operation is available. It | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
involves cutting nerves in the spine to relieve stiffness. It is complex | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
surgery. We were nervous, yes, really nervous. But we had to do it | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
because we have tried other solutions and nothing has took. | :14:54. | :15:04. | |
Preparation for the operation takes an hour or more, and that is because | :15:05. | :15:09. | |
Sophie has to be fitted with monitors said the doctors can see | :15:10. | :15:12. | |
how her body is reacting as they operate on her nerves. The surgeon | :15:13. | :15:19. | |
uses a powerful microscope to carry out the delicate work. She | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
stimulates the nerves in Sophie's back. Another doctor can tell her | :15:23. | :15:29. | |
which nerve roots to cut, and which ones to leave alone. We know that | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
those routes are involved in the spasticity circuit, and if we cut | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
some of them, the spasticity will get better, which is what we have | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
just done on Sophie. The operation takes several hours. When I see the | :15:43. | :15:50. | |
parents, when they go home if he wants after, and they come to me and | :15:51. | :15:53. | |
it is a different child, and they can't even say why, it is just | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
better. This is what we want. Tomorrow, we will see how Sophie is | :16:00. | :16:08. | |
progressing after the surgery. Yes, we will have another report | :16:09. | :16:09. | |
tomorrow. Stephen Watson's here with the sport | :16:10. | :16:10. | |
now, and he has a special guest. World rally driver Kris Meeke has | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
had an early Christmas present. He's signed a three year deal | :16:16. | :16:17. | |
with French manufacturer Citreon to drive at the very | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
highest level in his sport. Fantastic news for you. It has been | :16:21. | :16:30. | |
a roller-coaster season. Just how big a deal is it to get three years | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
with this manufacturer? It is something I have been working | :16:36. | :16:38. | |
towards all my career. Opportunities have been thin on the ground. Some | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
years I did not have any drive, but over the last two seasons by | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
opportunities have allowed me a full season this year, but to get that | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
three-year deal, citron have thrown their full commitment and next year | :16:52. | :16:58. | |
we will develop a new car, so it is a big opportunity. Some exciting | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
pictures here from the rally at Argentina, York first win in the | :17:02. | :17:06. | |
world Rally championship this year. Just how big a deal was this for | :17:07. | :17:09. | |
you? It's incredible. I always wanted to be part of a world Rally | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
team, but to actually win your first rally at that level is something | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
very special. For sure, lots of emotions ran high at the finish | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
line. I would like to repeat it. Everyone says the first one is | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
special, but for me, the best one is always the next one. After that you | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
had a topsy-turvy season, crashed here and there, a lot of pressure on | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
whether you might retain your drive or not, so to get that use before | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
Christmas must be great. Yes, we battled through mid part of the | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
season my performances were still strong, but we did not bring home | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
the results on some occasions. The last three or four rallies, we | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
really knuckled down. Formerly in particular in the last rally in | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
Wales, we got our best ever performance, finishing second behind | :17:54. | :17:56. | |
the world champion, and that was a strong way to finish the season and | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
begin negotiations. The 2016 team is a development team, could you be | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
back here as a world Rally Champion? That is the thing that gets me up | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
every morning and drives me on. Certainly, for me, it is the | :18:13. | :18:16. | |
ultimate ambition. I am in the best place now on citron have produced | :18:17. | :18:23. | |
the strongest team over last decade, and this is just fantastic for me to | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
be part of it. Briefly, I am sure you have got a nice blacks and | :18:28. | :18:34. | |
Christmas adequate amount I have an 18-month-old and a two-month-old, so | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
it will be busy! Happy Christmas and thank you for coming in and talking | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
to us. For most of us, this time | :18:40. | :18:41. | |
of year is a time to relax, but many top athletes have to keep | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
focused through the festivities. Boxer Carl Frampton is putting his | :18:45. | :18:47. | |
family first over Christmas, but is also preparing | :18:48. | :18:50. | |
for the biggest fight of his career against Scott Quigg | :18:51. | :18:52. | |
in Manchester in February. Nial Foster looks back | :18:53. | :18:54. | |
at the champion's eventful year and the challenge | :18:55. | :18:56. | |
that now lies ahead. It is the season to reflect on a | :18:57. | :19:08. | |
successful year for Carl Frampton. He defended his belt against Chris | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
Aber lost in February. Then, after a trip to the wild, wild West in July, | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
after hitting the canvas twice, the 28 your old Fort back. I feel like I | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
want to say sorry. It was an amazing performance. And, so he was, not to | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
box, but home for Christmas to present an award and spend time with | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
family. Local boy, Carl Frampton! I want to take Christmas Day as it | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
comes, really. I want to be with my family. I love being around my wife | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
and kids. Carla is five years old now, she loves Santa and everything | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
about Christmas. I do something that not a lot of people have to do you | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
stop I go away and train away from home, and I missed them all the | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
time. That is a bit different from a normal athlete. I am going to enjoy | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
myself. There is still ten weeks until the fight. And preparations | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
for that title battle against Scott Quigg are going well. I have been | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
training for six or seven weeks. It has been hard. I have already | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
started sparring and have a view bumps and bruises on my face. I just | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
want to put this to bed. A lot of people think that Scott Quigg is a | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
better fighter than me. I know he is not, I just need to go out and prove | :20:39. | :20:40. | |
it now. The countdown is on. The London International Horse Show | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
ended in controversial Irish rider Bertram Allen | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
was announced as the winner, but then disqualified | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
on a technicality. Wexford Rider Bertram Allen posted a | :20:52. | :21:08. | |
stunning jump off time last night to destroy a world-class field, at | :21:09. | :21:18. | |
Olympia in London. But then, drama behind the scenes as Bertram Allen | :21:19. | :21:26. | |
was disqualified. Blood was spotted on his horse's right flank. A rider | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
is automatically disqualified if blood is found. Utterly devastated. | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
My horse jumped to fantastic rounds, he tried his best, I tried my best, | :21:38. | :21:45. | |
and my spur slipped and so there was maybe that size on him, it was a bit | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
red, it was not even bleeding. Something has to be done about it. | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
Everyone here can't understand. The British rider who was promoted from | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
runner up did give the young Irishman his winner's rosette, but | :22:05. | :22:07. | |
that was not quite the present he wanted. It is now a case of get back | :22:08. | :22:09. | |
on the author again. Sean O'Brien has signed a new three | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
year contract with the IRFU which will see him remain | :22:14. | :22:15. | |
at Leinster until after There is a lot of talk about a new | :22:16. | :22:30. | |
storm heading across the Atlantic towards us. Your lovely globe shows | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
snowdrops! Well, storm Eve are, storm five, | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
will have an impact on our weather tomorrow night. There aren't no | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
weather warnings issued at the moment for Northern Ireland, but | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
severe weather warnings have been issued for the Republic, | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
particularly the West Coast, so bear that in mind if you are travelling | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
during tomorrow. It'll be cold and blustery tonight, lots of showers | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
coming in, and as the night gets colder, those showers will turn | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
wintry. That is the future of our weather over the next couple of | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
days, it will get colder. Cabbages dropping low enough for some frost | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
and ice tomorrow morning, and there will be some wintry showers -- | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
temperatures. Tomorrow night storm Eva will start to come towards cars, | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
bringing severe gales and heavy rain to the west coast of Ireland and | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
many areas including parts of Northern Ireland. We will be | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
monitoring that. First thing tomorrow, nasty on the road with ice | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
and frost around, but the wintry showers ease away by the morning. If | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
you are heading to the shops, a lot of dry and bright weather around. | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
Colder than today, so do wrap up warm because the wind will make it | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
feel quite chilly tomorrow. Not too much in the way of rain or snow to | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
come during tomorrow. Here comes the first of tomorrow night's wet and | :23:57. | :24:00. | |
windy weather. It is coming in tomorrow evening and it will get | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
increasingly wet and windy tomorrow night. No warnings out at the | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
moment, but we may have wins strong enough to bring a future ease down, | :24:08. | :24:12. | |
gusts up to 60 miles an hour. At the end of the night it is all over and | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
temperatures are back down again. That is how we start Christmas eve. | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
Christmas Eve will bring a feud snow showers, particularly to the hills. | :24:22. | :24:26. | |
Lots of crisp, dry weather, but in between there will be some wintry | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
showers and it will feel cold. Maybe a bit more festive, and you will | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
need to wrap up. Christmas day starts off dry and cold. Rain is | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
expected to go northwards, and as it arrives, it will get milder. For | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
Saint Stephen's day, temperatures back up into double figures. | :24:44. | :24:51. | |
Finally, a Christmas Carol, when a child is born, and it comes from the | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
choir at Willowbridge School in Enniskillen. Good evening. | :24:55. | :25:03. | |
# All across the land dawns a brand new morn | :25:04. | :25:25. | |
# This comes to pass when a child is born | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
# The winds of change whisper in the trees | :25:34. | :25:48. | |
# And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and torn | :25:49. | :25:56. | |
# This comes to pass when a child is born | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
# A rosy hue settles all around | :26:05. | :26:12. | |
# You got the feel, you're on solid ground | :26:13. | :26:20. | |
# For a spell or two no one seems forlorn | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
# This comes to pass when a child is born | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
And all of this happens because the world is waiting. | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
Waiting for one child, black-white-yellow, no one knows. | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
But a child that will grow up and turn tears to laughter. | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
And misery and suffering will be words to be forgotten forever. | :26:51. | :27:07. | |
# It must come true sometime soon, somehow | :27:08. | :27:13. | |
# All across the land dawns a brand new morn, | :27:14. | :27:24. |