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A woman's in a critical condition after being hit by a scrambler

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motorbike in a country park on the outskirts of Belfast.

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The incident happened at the Colin Glen Forest

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Our reporter Martin Cassidy has been to the scene.

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This lake is a popular spot for dog walkers in West Belfast. The woman,

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who is believed to be a mother, was walking along the pathway by the

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lake earlier this evening. A number of people on the motorcycles were

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also in the area at the time. The Ambulance Service said they received

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a call just before 545 this evening and a woman in her 40s had been

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struck by a motorbike here in Colin Glen Forest Park. The police arrived

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shortly after. This evening, two men are in custody. Our thoughts and

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prayers are with this woman and her family. I think that from what we

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are hearing, she is a local woman, a mother of young children, so it is

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really, really tragic this has happened. Community workers say this

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is not the first serious incident involving Qantas and motorcycles in

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the park. There's a problem, but it is widespread. It is all over West

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Belfast. There was a young lad last year who fell off a scramble and was

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critically ill about a mile away from here. We've done a number of

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initiatives with the community and the PSNI to try and get these

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things. They are killing machines. The woman this evening is undergoing

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surgery on the Royal Victoria Hospital. -- in the Royal Victoria

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Hospital. A cyclist in his sixties has died

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in a crash in County Down. His bike was in collision

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with a car at around half It happened on the main road

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between Bangor and Holywood. Another cyclist was slightly

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injured. Unionists have dismissed

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a suggestion by the Taoiseach, Enda Kenny, that a border poll

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could be considered in the wake Sinn Fein have called for such

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a move after a majority of people in Northern Ireland voted to remain

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in the European Union. Here's our political

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correspondent, Stephen Walker. Enda Kenny made his remarks at

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the annual summer school in County Donegal, where he delivered a speech

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about the implications of the UK's Discussions and negotiations that

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take place over the next few weeks should take into account the

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possibility, however far-fetched it might be, that the clause in

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the Good Friday Agreement might be triggered if there's clear evidence

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of a majority of people wishing to leave the United Kingdom

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and join the Republic, that that should be catered

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for in the discussions that Unsurprisingly, Sinn Fein have

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welcomed the Taoiseach's Now we have incredible uncertainty

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and alarm within key People are asking

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serious questions about what the future holds and I think

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people are beginning to ask themselves the question,

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are we not better off in Ireland that's in Europe

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than the United Kingdom, The say calling for

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a border poll is only It is in the Good Friday

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Agreement and it has to be discussed, but calling a referendum

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and a border poll is easy, but you need to put in hard work to ensure

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that the detail is there and most importantly, persuade people

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of the benefits of it. The new Secretary of State made

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it clear on his first trip to Northern Ireland

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yesterday that there were no grounds

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to call a border poll There is no need for

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a referendum or a border poll. There is not the evidence

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to substantially allow the Secretary

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of State to action one. The Unionists say a border

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poll at this time is a We do not want to destabilise

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our communities, our economy, our businesses, by yet

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another distraction of going away from what needs to happen

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in the course of the next two years. The Secretary of State

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and the Prime Minister have said that, and the people

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have said it too. Whilst Enda Kenny's comments

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are seen as significant to give a border poll political

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prominence, such a vote can only be called by the Secretary

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of State if there is evidence of a shift in public

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opinion towards Irish unity. The Secretary of State

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said that has not The Northern Ireland Executive has

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published an action plan aimed at tackling paramilitary activity

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and organised crime. ?50 million will be spent

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over the next five years half the money coming from Stormont

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and the rest from Westminster. An independent review commission

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will be set up by the British and Irish governments

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to monitor progress. The Ulster Unionist leader

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Mike Nesbitt has dismissed the plan as a wish list without any concrete

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actions. The consultancy firm PwC has

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predicted that the Brexit vote will lead to a slowdown

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in the economy over It thinks that locally

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it will grow by 0.2% Our Economics and Business Editor

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John Campbell told me more produce a forecast to give us

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an idea about what they think will happen to the UK economy

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in the short term. They also provide a breakdown

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for Northern Ireland. And they've said over

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the last 12-18 months, the UK economy has shown

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a gentle slowdown. But they think Brexit

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will exacerbate that. If we take a look at

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the figures, we can see at the start of this year, PwC

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thought growth in Northern Ireland would be 1.4%, they can

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revise that to 1.0%. They had thought it would be 1.5%,

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but now they are expecting They think there will be a slowdown

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in business investment, because there's so much economic

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and political uncertainty. Foreign companies

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investing in the UK may decide to wait until the dust

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settles before they commit money to big projects, although PwC

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thinks by the time it gets to the end of next year,

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most of that effect will have been factored out and

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the economy will grow again. We need to emphasise that

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at the moment, we have no real hard facts about what impact Brexit has

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had on the behaviour of consumers or Now, we're looking at forecasts

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and surveys, but the hard data is not

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there and I won't have it, nobody will, until the autumn

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or maybe later before we get a really solid sense of how Brexit

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is or isn't effecting the economy. We did get news today

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about the rate of inflation? It has eased up to half of 1%,

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still miles away from But many analysts predict as we go

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into next year, we will see inflation take up,

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because the pound has fallen quite distinctly because of

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Brexit and that makes imports more expensive and could force

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prices up early next year. When inflation rises,

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interest rates go up, but what the Bank of England is

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signalling is they will probably cut interest rates down

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to a quarter of 1% next month. Again, that is not solid,

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it could happen, let us wait and The tobacco firm JTI is setting up

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a ?5 million trust fund to help job The company will end production

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in the town next year The fund, which will be chaired

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by the local MP Ian Paisley, will dispense about ?300,000

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a year to projects and initiatives over

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the next 20 years. We'll never replace almost

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a thousand jobs with a fund That is not the point though,

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the point is to stimulate the climate through training

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and assisting adults with needs and hopefully, starting to rejuvenate

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the employment in an area that has faced such a kicking

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from unemployment. Well, it's still a pretty warm

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evening at the end of a very hot day, when temperatures got as high

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as the late twenties. Many people headed to

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the beach or to the park and our reporter Rick

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Faragher joined them. Blue skies, red-hot temperatures,

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this really is Northern Ireland. The working day

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didn't seem so bad in People full of cheer

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and in fine voice. Seeing Belfast in the sunshine,

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you think you are under I feel more vibrant

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and everybody is in great form, just enjoying

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life and we're not normally able to sit out

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in the sunshine like this. Ireland's recent cricket match

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against Afghanistan was called Enjoying the weather

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and it's my day off. It's not often we get

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this, so best to make Suncream was also the order

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of the day and the weather here was a welcome sight

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for children on school holidays and Just down the road in

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a Crawfordsburn Beach, thousands made their

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way to the seafront. At lunchtime, the car park gates

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were closed because of Those who made it through

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were treated to this. A perfect setting on what was

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a glorious afternoon. And of course in the summer,

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big crowds means big Days like this don't tend to come

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along very often in And when they do, people tend

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to make the most of it. And today, people

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needed no encouragement A look ahead to a story we'll have

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on BBC Newsline tomorrow, And we'll be examining how people

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in the Republic, including business leaders, are viewing the the UK

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Brexit referendum result, We are inundated with questions from

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UK firms who are saying, we need to know we can with certain to have a

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base in a EU country that can trade with the EU without tariffs all

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other costs and with certainty and we need to know where working with a

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country with the same language and legal system and 100% commitment

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from a culture for being in the EU and that's why Ireland's getting so

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many enquirers are right now. -- enquiry.

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In football, Crusaders have lost tonight's Champions League qualifier

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6-0 at FC Copenhagen, going down 9-0 on aggregate.

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The weather forecast now, with Angie Philips.

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The hottest day of the year so far today. 20 degrees maximum and that

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heat and humidity is about to break and an approaching weather front is

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sparking off thunderstorms implies that night. Some heavy downpours

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which could lead to localised flooding on warnings remain in

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place. Not all parts will catch those and there will be dry spells,

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but increasingly cloudy through the night. Still feeling humid. 15-16d,

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uncomfortable for sleeping. Tomorrow is looking fresh and cloudier. There

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will be showers to begin with, trickling away toward the east and

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will become scattered with time. Dry weather across the Republic of

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Ireland follows, as there will be across Wales and southern England,

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where it will still be warm, humid and sunny. Not as hot as today, but

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still 30 Celsius. Further north, northern England and Scotland,

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severe thunderstorms, lightning and hail and heavy downpours and there

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is likely to be disruption. Towards the northern and western areas, we

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find the fresh air. Temperatures well down in places tomorrow

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compared to today, particularly in the West. Showers largely dying off,

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the second half of the day is dry and there will be breaks in the

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cloud and some bright, sunny intervals. Temperatures are well

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down on today, particularly in the West, 18-20d. Similar values on the

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weekend, showery outbreaks, and dry gaps in between.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am in the morning

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