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Tonight's top stories: The BBC learns a woman has been charged

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with taking abortion pills after she sought medical help.

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Accusations of asset stripping after a bike retailer says

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it's cutting around 300 jobs in East Antrim.

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Bad news also at Bombardier as it speeds up its redundancy programme,

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putting hundreds out of a job sooner than expected.

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Inspectors find a lot of improvement at Hydebank Wood

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Also tonight: The Holywood man whose soggy bottoms on strawberry tarts

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sunk his hopes of winning the Bake Off

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Everyone has been getting behind me. Really enjoying it, enjoying the

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moment. Medics feared he wouldn't

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survive a traumatic road traffic accident but,

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eight months on, Odharan McKenna and his twin brother CJ have jointly

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captained their school Rain tonight and some clear skies

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to follow mean that it should be BBC Newsline has learned that

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a woman was reported to police and charged in connection

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with using abortion pills The purchase and use of the drugs

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is illegal throughout the UK. about their availability

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in Northern Ireland. And there are warnings that women

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are putting their health at risk by taking abortion

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pills bought online. Buying and using abortion pills is

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illegal across both the UK and Ireland. But there is concern about

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their availability online. We purchased drugs which arrived from

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India to an address here. That is despite Northern Ireland's strict

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abortion laws that prevent the termination of any pregnancy, unless

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the mother's life or health is at serious risk. The drugs were

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analysed for hours at Queens University. We can say with 100% as

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surety, it is that pharmaceutical compound. They found the pills were

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capable of causing an abortion. But they are not licensed for use in the

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UK. As with all drugs, there are risks associated with this drug's

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use. Of particular concern would be the heavy bleeding, which is a

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relatively common adverse effect, and a number of women would require

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a blood transfusion. If you're talking about heavy blood loss as a

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result of using these, is that potentially life-threatening?

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Completely, yes. That means someone in who use the drugs will require

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treatment. We have learned that at least one woman charged with using

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abortion pills was reported to police after she requested medical

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help. The Department of Health did issue guidelines earlier this year

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that stated that medical staff did have a duty to give information to

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police to secure the apprehension, prosecution or conviction of anybody

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involved in an illegal termination. However, the guidance is not clear

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because it also says that they do not have to pass on that information

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if they have a reasonable excuse not to. Whenever we want women to seek

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medical advice, we have been telling them do not say that they have taken

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the hills, because the medical professions are obliged to report

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this to the police and it is very clear in the most recent Northern

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Ireland guidelines that there is a don't ask, don't tell policy in

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those guidelines. Campaigners have been pushing for a relaxation of the

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abortion laws, but that remains a divisive and sensitive issues at

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Stormont. We do not want that to happen and our politicians have been

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holding against the tide of some people, like Amnesty International

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and other groups, who are actively trying to quite possibly change a

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lot. We made numerous requests to speak to the Justice Minister, and

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she was due to give interviews at an NSPCC event. As the NSPCC invaded

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you here today? When it became clear that we wanted to talk about

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abortion, however, her press officer had thrown out.

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While she not prepared to answer any questions about an abortion? I am

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not answering any more questions while you film, please. The Health

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Minister also refused requests for interviews. But in a statement, her

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department said their primary concern for any woman was care.

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The DUP leader Arlene Foster has said her party will continue to

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block attempts to introduce Same Sex Marriage Bill the Assembly. Mrs

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Foster said in an interview that abuse from some activists had

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convinced her to continue to use the blocking mechanism known as a

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petition of concern. Our political editor has more details.

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Well, these latest comments came in one of a series of interviews that

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Arlene Foster is giving in the run-up to her party conference,

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which is this weekend. In an interview with the press

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Association, she was asked about her party's position on same-sex

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marriage, and whether they might in the future decide not to use a

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petition of concern to block private member 's attempts to change the law

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on that score. She indicated that the DUP remains committed to a

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traditional definition of marriage and would use the tool, a petition

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of concern, which allows it to be any attempt to change Hall. She also

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said in that interview that she and her colleagues have subjected to

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what she called vicious abuse online by LGBT activists, and she said that

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abuse would not change your position. Indeed, she said it might

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actually had any position of the DUP in ensuring that they would not opt

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for any change on that score. And is this a surprise?

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I do not think so, really. If you look at the detail of the DUP's

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Assembly manifesto, there was one line were they said they remained

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committed to the definition of marriage and resisting any attempt

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to redefine it. So I think it has always been pretty clear on that

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score that they will continue to be to this. There has been talk about

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limiting the use of a petition of concern but Arlene Foster says this

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is a matter about which are party feels very strongly, so why would

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they not use that petition if they can?

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And are likely to see petition of concern used in relation to reform

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of abortion laws? It is another of those moral issues

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which causes quite a lot of debate here, and controversy at Stormont. I

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cannot see any change in relation to the kind of issues that Chris has

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been reporting on, they use of my North Pole faulty and that we, but

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what we are waiting to see if the outcome of a working group which has

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reported to the Executive. We still do not know what the recommendations

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are on the sensitive issue of fizzle fizzle abnormality. Sinn Fein is up

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for a change in the law of the working group recommends that, as is

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the Justice Minister. But we are waiting to see whether Arlene Foster

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decides to get her DUP party a free vote on this issue.

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Mark, at Stormont, thank you. The job losses announced

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by the bike retailer Chain Reaction have provoked

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a furious political reaction. The company is to cut

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around 300 positions It was locally owned

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until earlier this year when English firm Wiggle bought it

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for more than ?70 million. The former Finance Minister

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Sammy Wilson has accused the new owners of blatant

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and cynical asset stripping. Our economics and business editor

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John Campbell reports. It is this sort of work which will

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no longer be done locally. Waigel has spent millions on a huge new

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warehouse in the centre of England. So it makes commercial sense to have

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all of those logistics in one place. But that does not cut much ice with

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this MP. This is not because the company is uncompetitive. This is

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simply because a bigger company bought out a competitor, wanted to

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strip its assets, has a spare capacity in other parts of its

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organisation and intends to move to that spare capacity. The South

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Antrim MP met the company today. He says he can understand some of their

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explanations for the cuts, but he believes misleading language was

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used at the time of the takeover. The one worry when we heard about

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the merger was that there might be job lay-offs and things might get

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moved to another location. So I raised it at the time and we got

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nearly cast iron assurance that no, they were here forever and today,

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this was their home and this was where they would be employing people

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the future. But you always that with a doubt and now the worst has

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happened and we have got to fight, and tried really hard, to make sure

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that jobs stay here, that we build the business year and we hold it in

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South Antrim, and Andrew. Their main warehouse sits on the edge of this

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small village, where there is less focus on the political rhetoric and

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more concern about the wider economic impact. Some of the

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warehouse workers live nearby, and staff coming to and from work are

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killer customers at the village shop. Nobody here wanted to talk

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today, but they are worried about what it will mean for trade. Nobody

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from Chain Reaction was available to speak to the media today, although

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they have again emphasised they will be retaining around 300 jobs in

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Northern Ireland, and the company have again said they need to

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centralise warehousing in Wolverhampton if they are going to

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keep this business competitive in a very tough field.

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Meanwhile, one of Northern Ireland's biggest employers, Bombardier,

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is to bring forward a wave of redundancies

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which had been announced for next year.

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The company says the move will help reduce costs

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and improve its competitiveness.

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Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill joins us

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from outside its main Belfast factory.

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It is worth re-emphasising at the outset that this is not a new round

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of job losses being announced, but rather the exhilaration of a

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previously announced redundancy programme. Back in February, they

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announced that 1008 -- 1080 jobs would be going as it responded to

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financial problems caused by cost overruns with its passenger jet. The

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initial plan was to break those redundancies out over two years,

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roughly half this year, roughly half next. But today is the third

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occasion on which Bombard has adjusted that split and the upshot

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is all 1080 jobs will now go all for one year as opposed to two. So, a

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process which began in February will conclude in the coming months.

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Who has this come down -- gone down? Two things. Firstly, the company

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recognises that this is a difficult time for workers and their families.

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Consider that hundreds of workers got news today that work they

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thought they were going to have for another year and I will not exist

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for them. The union, Unite, is naturally disappointed but

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recognises that the global business is trying to get itself back into

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shape after a couple of pretty catastrophic years financially. The

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worry, however, is that more job losses could be on the horizon.

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Remember, last week they announced a further 7500 jobs would have to go

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across its global operation. Now, there are no indications yet that

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some of those jobs will go at Belfast but there is of course

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anxiety that workers who are having to deal with one round of

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redundancies could very soon be dealing with another.

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Plenty to come before seven, including...

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Hollywood's Andrew Smith may have lost in the final of Bake Off, but

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he is still a baking hero in his hometown.

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Inspectors say there've been significant improvements

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at Hydebank Wood, the prison for women and young male

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about the level of drugs in the jail.

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Our home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney has more.

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It was rebranded from a prison to a college last year. Inmates are now

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called students instead of prisoners. Inspectors today said

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there has been a change of ethos, as well as name. The Prison Service is

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there to deliver a secure, decent environment. There is no doubt about

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that. But we also want them to rehabilitate offenders. Here, I

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found a staff actively engaging with prisoners, being firm but at the

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same time showing compassion when it was required. The landscape of the

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site has also been transformed. Courts are part of the new

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environment. They were introduced to help teach new skills, and provide

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therapeutic care for vulnerable prisoners. I have noticed a big

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change in some of the young lads when they start working with the

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goats. It gives them peace of mind and self-esteem to know that they

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can benefit from working with animals. There are also ceramics

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workshops with products sold to members of the public. Inmates are

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now taking Christmas orders. A lot of them get self-worth and self

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esteem. I can't paint, I can't do that or this. But when they call

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from baseline beamed into more detailed stuff, they can see that

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they can achieve it. It is bringing out their inner self-esteem. Inmates

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also help recycle most of the waste produced on the site. We used to put

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everything into landfill. When we changed to call College, one of our

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new workshops, a successful one, the recycling centre. Even leftover food

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is turned into fuel for fires. It has brought down the recycling

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centre and push through the composting machine. We then

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introduced the compost to shredded paper and we turn it into an equal

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shell, which is sold in the staff shop. But today's reports are not a

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completely clean bill of health. The inspectors expressed concern about

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the level of care for prisoners with serious mental health problems, and

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the widespread availability of drugs. The governor accepts that

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more needs to be done about the drugs problem. Bars and rolls will

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not stop people from carrying goods back internally inside them, and

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that is something we have found fairly challenging to deal with. New

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substances being brought in are basically order free, so very hard

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for dogs to detect? Yes, that is right. The systems we have in place

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are continually being updated in terms of testing. But for those new

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psychoactive substances, it is extremely difficult for us to keep

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on top of it. Inspectors also criticised the fact that the woman's

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prison and young male offenders centre occupied the same site. They

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say this is inappropriate and repeat calls made in previous reports for a

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separate woman's prison to be built. The sister of the late Gerry Conlon

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- one of the Guildford Four - has called for hundreds

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of secret papers on his after a small number of them

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were released to the BBC. Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong,

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Paul Hill and Carole Richardson one of Britain's worst

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miscarriages of justice. IRA bombs ripped through pubs in

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Woolwich and Guildford. Four people were wrongly convicted of the

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murders. They were released in 1989. I've been present 15 years for

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something I didn't do, something I didn't know anything about.

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An inquiry was set up and based its findings on hundreds of secret files

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kept at the National Archives. Back in Belfast, there is anger only a

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few have been made public. Campaigners want all of files used

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in drying up that government report released, because they say they will

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show how four innocent people ended up going to prison for something

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they did not do. There are 750 files in total, and following a Freedom of

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Information request, the content of six of them have been made available

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to the public for the very first time. They show that some of those

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who influenced the inquiry still refuse to accept that Gerry Conlon

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and Paul Hill were not in the IRA. Proof one lawyer says of a campaign

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within sections of the establishment to reconnect them. May give us an

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indication that some of the problems that we had in the course of the

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keys, or many years, the persistent attempt to try to reconnect the

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Guildford four was still going on after the acquittal. Gerry Conlon

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and Paul Hill, who married into the Kennedy family in America,

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consistently denied they were in the IRA. Did I write? Yes, of course,

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that is what you did in west Belfast. What I involved in civil

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disobedience? Yes. Was I ended IRA? Never in my life. Weibring six files

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out? Bring all of the other files I and put it out to the public and

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stand and see who is guilty. Both doing this. The government is guilty

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of hiding evidence. Gerry Conlon died to make years ago

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and Carole Richardson has also passed away. The solicitor who

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represented the two surviving members of the four says they still

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firmly asserted their innocence and wanted the whole truth to be told.

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Even now, for decades on. -- four decades on.

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The Health Minister has responded to critics

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who say she should have bid for extra money

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in the October Monitoring round, to help cut waiting lists.

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Appearing before the the Health Committee this morning,

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Michelle O'Neill said the way the money is allocated has changed.

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There is no longer a formal bidding process. Monitoring is absolutely

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changed, what there is no it is an ongoing deadlock with the Finance

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Minister and Executive colleagues and I have had that discussion with

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him on many occasions. The October monitor and I was successful in

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achieving capital funding for ambulance, one example.

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It wasn't to be for County Down's Andrew Smyth in the final

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of the Great British Bake Off last night.

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The 25-year-old engineer from Holywood was pipped

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by schoolteacher Candice Brown in the final.

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But as BBC Newsline's Mark Simpson reports,

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our Andrew enjoyed his slice of the action.

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OK, that's it, time is up. To win, Andrew Smyth knew he could not

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afford to make any mistakes. Oh, dear. There are two sides of the

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baking paper and I have put it on the wrong one, as you can see. Oh!

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And then there was the dreaded soggy bottom. The winner is... Candice!

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CHEERING Disappointment again for Andrew and

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his family. But he is now very much a man in

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demand. He lives in Derby, and currently works as an aerospace

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engineer, and he has got even bigger plans for the future. Everybody has

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been lovely, especially the people in Derby and Northern Ireland.

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Everybody has been getting behind me. Short-term, do all of the Bake

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Off stuff but long term I would love to get into some form of science and

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engineering presenting or broadcasting because that is another

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passion, besides baking. Back in his the Bake Off was a talking point.

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Everyone in Hollywood is very proud of him and he did well to get

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through to the final. I think he was robbed. What did you think of the

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Bake Off last? I do not know. It was on the same time as the football.

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Man United beat Man City! But there's hair dresser was watching.

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She has no mandate for more than 20 years. He comes across as a nice

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guy. He is fabulous. What you see on television is exactly what you get.

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He may be a hero here in Hollywood, his hometown, but Andrew's immediate

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future lies over in England. He wants to continue being an engineer

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and a baker. Fair play to him! It seems he wants to have his cake and

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eat it. He gets all the good jobs!

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Now sport and with a truly remarkable tale,

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One of those epic and life affirming stories, Tara.

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Such was the extent of brain trauma sustained in a road traffic accident

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that medics feared Odhran McKenna might not survive,

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the efforts of a Northern Ireland ambulance rapid response trauma

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Bear in mind he had to learn to walk and talk again.

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as Odhran and his twin brother CJ jointly captained St Marys Christian

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Brothers Grammar to the Ulster schools title,

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beating St Killians Garron Tower under lights

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Good evening. When you look at that, can you quote believes the journey

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that you have come on? Yes, it has been great. I always had belief in

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myself and everybody else has believed in me, so it has been

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great. I thought I would do it and I have. We had hoped to reunite you

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this evening was part of that trauma team. We spoke with Doctor Jonathan

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Dawson earlier today and he is in Devon and said to pass on his

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delight that you are here and played last night. I know that you publicly

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what to think that medical team. Yes, the trauma team, the paramedics

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with them were great. The ICU staff as well. I would also like to thank

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all the staff that were so great to me. CJ, it was bleaker, they thought

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he might not recover. They all had belief in me and I had belief in

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myself. You can do whatever you want to do if you put your mind to it.

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CJ, last night at the match your referred to this man as a warrior.

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There was a beautiful moment at the final whistle. Your brother is

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wearing 25 and into shot comes in CJ. He went straight for him. What

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is going through your mind? It was phenomenal. Just from February,

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eight months tomorrow I think it is, you just dream about this. You

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wonder if he was going to be playing, if he was going to be

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alive. You were dreaming about it all your life but since we joined

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seven years ago, it was all about this cup and hopefully lifting it as

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joint captain. Can you go to when in all of Ireland? With the background

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team we have, like most cunning ham, Mr Johnson and Mr McDonald, anything

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is possible. With the team we have as well. That was not exhaustion,

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was it? I was just reflecting. I hope it was not exhaustion, I was

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only on a few minutes! Icon not legible without asking you this.

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Eight days after your injury, sustained eight months to D-Day

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tomorrow, you wake up in the hospital and you think you are

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aware? I thought I was on a skiing holiday in the Alps, which I have

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never been to! And you asked for some toast and said let's get on

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with the this? Yes, let's learn to walk again. We really appreciate

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both of you joining us tonight and continued success on the field.

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Ahead of tomorrow night's big inter-provincial derby with Munster,

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to the team that defeated Exeter last weekend.

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Dan Tuohy and Wiehahn Herbst return from long-term injuries

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And although they're included in the Ireland squad

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Paddy Jackson, Luke Marshall and Craig Gilroy all start for Ulster.

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Boxer Katie Teller has decided to turn professional. She has joined

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promoter Eddie Hern's Maxim team and will make a professional debut at

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the SSC arena in Wembley on November 26. -- match team.

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Let's have a look at the weather. No birds today, back to landscape. We

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had a great start to the day. Plenty of cloud around right the way

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through this morning. Some of that delivers quite a bit of drizzle and

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one of our weather watchers managed to cap that sense of grey, a breath

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of skies sitting over us. Thanks to Tony for sending that picture in.

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Now, as we go through towards this weekend, we are going to keep that a

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team of grey and cloudy skies. There will always be a bit of brightness

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but mostly dry and males for the next few days. But with the threat

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of rain always present. Tonight, that threat becomes more of a

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reality. We will see that band of rain sinking slowly south. Behind

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did, that has the effect of bringing out the clouds of it. That gives us

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some clearer skies tonight. Through the second half of this evening, the

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temperatures will really drop away. It does mean that tomorrow morning

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is going to be quite a bright start. The chance of

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a little bit of rest and file but for most people, rather a nice

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morning. It is not going to last, because that men would thank South

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through this evening is on its way back tomorrow. Skies quoting from

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the south and then a little bit of rain is. That has a bit of impact on

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the temperature. That rain starts to push on, never ending too terribly

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much because the front is fragmenting all the while but it

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would introduce a bit of moisture and that means there will also be a

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bit of fog forming through the night on Friday into Saturday morning.

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Temperatures relatively mild. Not a bad night for the rugby. Through the

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weekend, we have got this area of high pressure being established.

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That gives us a good deal of protection, certainly through the

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first half of the weekend. The rain is always threatening. Well we get

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away with that on Saturday, for most places, through most of the daylight

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hours staying dry, and those temperatures in the low teens, the

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threat of rain increases a little bit on Sunday. I know a lot of

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people will be thinking about going out for Halloween events. Lots of

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events through Northern Ireland through the next four or so and if

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you're out to recruiting, I do not think that if a bad line-up staying

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mostly dry, with those temperatures reasonably mild.

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