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The father and his children injured in a lightning strike in Lisburn

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George Allen, who's 37, remains in a critical condition.

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His five-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter's

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condition have tonight been described as stable.

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Today, the Education Minister, Peter Weir, visited

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Killowen Primary School and praised the efforts of the teachers.

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As Will Leitch reports, it's now emerged that both

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the principal and vice-principal worked with the injured family

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George Allen was doing what any father would have done,

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collecting his children from school on a wet afternoon.

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The lightning strike left all three of them seriously ill in hospital

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and closed the school of 450 pupils for the time being.

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This school, the classrooms, the playgrounds, the sports

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areas, really should have been buzzing today.

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Instead, the school is closed, the corridors silent,

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save for the teachers working with an independent counselling team

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to assess the questions the children are likely to ask

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I found it very sad driving up the driveway.

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Usually, as you say, there is the buzz and the hubbub

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of the school situation, obviously some children in class,

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Just to see the emptiness and to feel the emptiness.

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Driving up, you think back to what happened yesterday

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Some children witnessed the incident and saw senior teachers

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The Education Minister has praised their actions.

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On the day itself, I think the school behaved in an exemplary

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fashion and I think the intervention from senior members of staff

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I really want to commend them for their swift action.

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Local people have started fundraising for the Allen family

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and, at lunchtime, pupils brought food for their teachers,

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Just now, everyone at Killowen Primary School

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An inquest into the Kingsmills Massacre has been adjourned

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It's looking into the murders of ten Protestant workmen by the IRA

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in the County Armagh village in 1976.

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The coroner said police should be given time to pursue a new lead

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Gordon Adair reports from the inquest.

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Before hearing the day's evidence, the coroner talked about last week's

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development when a partial palm print found on a vehicle at the time

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of the killings was re-examined and apparently for the first time

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He said that he understood how the families of those killed felt

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that they no longer knew who to believe all what to believe

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-- that they no longer knew who to believe or what to believe,

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given the circumstances and particularly

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However, he said this could potentially be one of the most

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crucial pieces of evidence ever to emerge and that as such

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the police had to be given the opportunity to pursue that lead

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He said, however, this would not be an open-ended process and he said

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they would be putting in place a provisional timetable and keeping

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It's 22 years since six Catholics were killed

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Tomorrow, the Police Ombudsman will publish a report

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into allegations of collusion between police officers

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Our Home Affairs Correspondent Vincent Kearney reports.

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The horrific aftermath of an attack that left six men dead

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They had been watching a World Cup game in The Heights

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bar in Loughinisland when UVF gunman struck.

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No one has ever been convicted in connection with the attack.

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Families of the victims have claimed that is because the police

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Five years ago, the previous Police Ombudsman Al Hutchinson

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upheld their complaint that the police had not properly

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investigated the killings, but he said there was no evidence

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The families took legal action and that report was quashed.

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The current Police Ombudsman Michael Maguire reopened the investigation.

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The families are hoping for a very different outcome.

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It is quite simple, they seek an independent, impartial,

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robust analysis of the facts and where there are failings

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that they be highlighted as failings and where there requires to be

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accountability that the appropriate censure is made.

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The ombudsman's findings will be published tomorrow morning.

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Michael Maguire's report will contain thousands of words

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but for the families of those killed here 22 years ago,

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the focus will be on whether he uses one word - collusion.

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Public housing here has received a major boost,

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following a big loan from the European Investment Bank.

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It is providing ?280 million towards the cost of building

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Here's our business correspondent Julian O'Neill.

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The money will bankroll a future pipeline of projects.

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In all, 4,700 homes in the social housing sector.

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Two housing bodies, Choice and Apex, will also get top funds

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from Stormont in an ongoing drive to cut waiting lists

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-- Two housing bodies, Choice and Apex, will also get top

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up funds from Stormont in an ongoing drive to cut waiting lists

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There is a huge need for housing in Northern Ireland.

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The waiting list has over 40,000 people on it,

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I think this investment and the thousands of new homes,

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affordable homes that will be built as a result, will make a start

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The European Investment Bank is based in Luxembourg and makes low

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It has been involved in many roads projects in Northern Ireland

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as well as providing ?150 million worth of capital

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towards the University of Ulster's new Belfast campus.

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Run by the EU, the bank is a nonprofit and the outcome

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of the referendum will not affect this deal.

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It has no bearing on existing loans, loans we have already agreed,

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where obviously a contract is a contract.

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There may well be implications for the future.

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It is difficult to say at this stage what those will be.

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The construction sector will join in the celebrations,

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such is the scale of this announcement.

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Spread over five years, it will deliver on sites

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The electoral registration problems for the vote on whether to stay

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in or out of the EU which have affected other parts of the UK

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That means, according to the Electoral Office Northern Ireland,

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that the deadline to register will not be extended

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Now, if you are feeling a bit squeamish, this might be

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Because if you've a morbid hatred of creepy crawlies then our next

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Our Agriculture and Environment Correspondent Conor Macauley has

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been out to investigate reports of an infestation of

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caterpillars attacking ash trees in south Belfast.

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A plague of green bugs munching their way through these

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They have stripped them almost bare in just over a week.

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It is enough to make you itch...a lot.

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If you listen really closely, you can actually hear

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the larvae eating the leaves in the tree above me.

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The problem with that is that you are then so close

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they are constantly falling on your head.

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It is a bit disconcerting, certainly.

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We have posted videos on social media and our friends are enjoying

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The Ulster Wildlife's Moth Man comes up with one.

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-- As they are flies, not moths, well, he is a little disappointed.

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Everything in the insect world goes in cycles.

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The heat we've been having in the last couple of weeks,

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you will get these plagues and infestations so it is uncommon

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Experts are to be sent out for a look but locals say this

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happened last year, too, and the trees did not suffer.

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Now for news from the Northern Ireland camp at the European

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The news emerging from the Northern Ireland camp today

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is that Kyle Lafferty says he's had the results of a scan on his injured

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groin and will be fit to play against Poland on Sunday.

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The pictures today perhaps tell a different story.

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Lafferty didn't train and simply spent 15 minutes on an exercise

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bike as his team mates prepared for the game.

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Lafferty was all smiles for the cameras but was still

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walking very gingerly and it remains to be seen whether he will win his

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race to be fit in time for the game in Nice.

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There are four sets of brothers playing in the Euro 2016.

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One set will line up for Northern Ireland.

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Joel Taggart has been talking to Jonny and Corey Evans,

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and started by asking Corey about his first memories

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Just out in the street, kicking a ball about.

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He was a bit older and he was playing with a few kids and I would

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Once I got a bit older I was allowed to to join in.

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Corey was a fast centre forward at that stage.

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He always scored the goals, and I would have a position at the back,

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The first ever brothers to appear for Northern Ireland

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How nice will it be to be able to share it with Corey?

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Usually when we come away, we always share rooms.

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We enjoy all the experiences together.

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It would be great to go into the tournament,

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something we are both very proud of, representing our country.

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The only thing that would top all of this would be two

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of you on the pitch at the same time celebrating a goal at

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You set me up, I'll have a wee tap in.

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That'd be brilliant, that'd would top it all off.

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The Republic of Ireland squad arrived in France today ahead

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of Monday night's opening fixture against Sweden.

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Earlier, the team had an official photo call at Dublin Airport before

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Martin O'Neill's side play Sweden on Monday in their Group E opener.

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Another lovely day today, but will it stay for tomorrow?

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Here's Cecilia Daly with the weather forecast.

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It is more tonight but also miss Steve. Some fog around as well. Also

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some low cloud on the north coast. A little uncomfortable at times. It

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will be a warm day eventually tomorrow with sunshine but there

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will be mist and low cloud probably brightening up more quickly towards

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the north coast but the mist and fog will linger on the County Down coast

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longer. Mist and low cloud affecting North Sea coast,. Otherwise it is a

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lovely day eventually for many parts of the UK and Ireland. Temperatures

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in Northern Ireland putting into the low 20s. A couple of showers

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breaking out mainly across the Northwest. After our warm weather

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tomorrow it will feel cooler and it will be wet at times on Friday.

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Quite a change is our weather starts to come in from the Atlantic and it

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is the start of more unsettled weather which will linger through

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the weekend and probably into next week. That will not be raining all

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the time this weekend. It looks like Saturday will be the driver one of

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the two days. Most of the showers will have moved on before Northern

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Ireland kicks off with their first match in the Euro 2016 competition.

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The forecast for Sunday in Nice is warmer and sunny.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at 6.25 in the morning

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