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Police divers have recovered the body of George Jamison | :00:00. | :00:09. | |
The 61-year-old went missing on Saturday. | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
The police say the death isn't being treated as suspicious. | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
The man who died when he was hit by a car in west Belfast yesterday | :00:19. | :00:22. | |
evening was Jim Maxwell, who was known as Maxi. | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
It happened on the Donegall Road close | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
The 71-year-old lived locally and it's believed | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
he was crossing the road when he was struck. | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
The name of a pedestrian hit by a lorry | :00:35. | :00:37. | |
on the Glenavy Road near the Moira Roundabout yesterday | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
There's been a small fire in a housing complex for older | :00:40. | :00:46. | |
The building was evacuated briefly and paramedics | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
were called to the premises in Main Street. | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
It's believed the fire started accidentally. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
Over ?122,000 has been donated to the Black Santa annual collection | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
That total includes ?13,000 given today alone. | :01:02. | :01:06. | |
A popular feature of Christmas in the city, it attracts support | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
Hello, nice to see you. Thank you very much. That is great. It will | :01:09. | :01:34. | |
build up through January and then we have a cut-off point and then the | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
money is distributed at the end of February. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
31 prisoners who are serving life sentences are among more than 100 | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
who've been granted home leave over Christmas. | :01:45. | :01:45. | |
The inmates, who have been released until the 4th of January, | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
are from Maghaberry and Magilligan prisons and from Hydebank Wood. | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
The Prison Service said that all the prisoners granted leave have | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
been risk-assessed and have completed a home leave programme | :01:54. | :01:55. | |
or have undergone periods of unaccompanied testing | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
A vet in north Belfast has asked the public to leave extra food out | :01:58. | :02:04. | |
This is one of two that have already needed treatment in recent days, | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
but there are fears it could be an early sign of problems | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
that they faced in previous years when they had to take care | :02:16. | :02:17. | |
They are appealing to local people to continue to feed the birds, | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
if they can, over the Christmas and New Year period. | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
The Belfast Giants had a big win last night at the start | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
They beat league leaders the Cardiff Devils two-nil | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
The Giants took an early lead through Brandon Benedict, | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
before getting the clinching score in the dying seconds from Matt | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
The Giants stay fourth in the table but with games in hand can now catch | :02:44. | :02:49. | |
Christmas is a time for making memories | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
and a County Down museum has been compiling a collection of articles | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
that mean something special to local people at this time of year. | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
Among the finds is a rare Boer War tin, sent to the troops by Queen | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
Louise Cullen has been finding out more. | :03:05. | :03:14. | |
October 18 99. The Boer War began. It brought thousands of young men to | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
South Africa fighting the British Army, far from home and amid early | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
heavy losses in the campaign, morale by Christmas of that year was at | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
rock bottom. Queen Victoria decided to send a tin containing chocolate | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
each soldier on the front. The problem was it was Cadburys, and | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
that is who she wanted to give her warrants to. There were pacifists | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
and Quakers did not believe in the war, so they have this dilemma | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
should we give something to support people fighting? The Queen told them | :03:50. | :03:52. | |
to do so, so they believed they should. The three main chocolatiers | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
of the time were all pacifist Quakers and decided they would all | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
make chocolate for the tins. But that still didn't help. They'll | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
agreed they will put their names on the chocolate, but the Queen did not | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
want that, because Cadburys was hers. So the agreement was made that | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
they would all be labelled as Cadburys, but the chocolate inside | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
would bear the name of the Manufacturer. The chocolate in this | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
tip was eaten by a soldier who survived the Boer War only to die in | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
the last year of World War I, 1918. The lie many others, is tin became a | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
memento box and a reminder of the home he plonked to see at Christmas. | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
-- this, like many others. Here's Cecilia with | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
the all-important Christmas weather. Not longer now, just a few hours | :04:39. | :04:49. | |
until Christmas Day. If you on the road tonight, it will be icy in | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
places and I will be showers around with snow on some hills as well. It | :04:53. | :04:58. | |
could be tricky for a while. But as the night goes on, those showers | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
will ease off. The bitter wind will also drop, but with clear skies, | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
temperatures will get around freezing. Frost and ice to startle | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
and Christmas morning, but mostly dry. There is rain to come during | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
the afternoon, but the morning looks pretty decent and the winds will not | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
be as strong. Rappaport, enjoy the morning and the sunshine, maybe some | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
snow on the hills. The rain comes up from the south, it means a wet | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
Christmas Day for the Republic, Wales and England. Milder air will | :05:32. | :05:34. | |
come through eventually, but as it comes up against the cold, there | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
will be wet slow and in places. -- wet snow. Cold crisp over the North | :05:43. | :05:47. | |
and Scotland, cold and damp tent Christmas Day across Northern | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
Ireland. They will become milder on Christmas night and also dry as the | :05:51. | :05:54. | |
cold, wet weather moves northward. Winds will pick up on Christmas | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
night, so you will be windy and that's windy weather will continue | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
into boxing day. Not as cold, not as cold as today. Lots of dry weather | :06:05. | :06:08. | |
and sunshine in places, so not a bad day. He'll be milder still on Sunday | :06:09. | :06:15. | |
and Monday of next week. Happy Christmas. | :06:16. | :06:16. | |
Keep in touch with the news over the holiday with BBC Radio Ulster. | :06:17. | :06:21. |