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:00:17. > :00:19.Good evening. Welcome to BBC Newsline. The headlines:

:00:19. > :00:24.The multi-million pound prostitution trade in Northern

:00:24. > :00:29.Ireland - we have a special report. A Spanish student gets four years

:00:29. > :00:32.for dropping a concrete block on to a police officer's head.

:00:32. > :00:36.The decommissioning body's final report - the governments aren't

:00:36. > :00:39.given an inventory of weapons put beyond use.

:00:39. > :00:49.Fascinating footage of the opening of Stormont - but why was Prince

:00:49. > :00:52.

:00:52. > :01:00.Edward so unhappy? And the increasing cloud is not a

:01:00. > :01:03.good sign - tomorrow will be a very different day.

:01:03. > :01:08.Northern Ireland now has a greater demand for prostitutes than other

:01:08. > :01:12.parts of Europe, according to the police. Men are spending as much as

:01:12. > :01:15.half a million pounds a week in brothels. Police say gangs are

:01:15. > :01:21.capitalising on that growing demand and are bringing in women from

:01:21. > :01:30.abroad every day. Some are being held against their will. Our

:01:30. > :01:34.reporter has been investigating and has this exclusive report.

:01:34. > :01:39.Prostitution is hidden, often behind advertisements for escorts.

:01:39. > :01:45.It is a big money industry here now. So big, it now much as other parts

:01:45. > :01:51.of Europe. There is a significant demand here for prostitutes. That

:01:51. > :01:55.is larger than the other parts of the UK or Europe. It can still be

:01:55. > :02:01.found on street corners in the dark but mostly now, in homes and

:02:01. > :02:04.apartments, and in daylight. That just in cities. Brothels and

:02:04. > :02:12.prostitution services can be found across the Northern Ireland, more

:02:12. > :02:17.than ever. Around 88, in cities and many times. Some of the women are

:02:17. > :02:21.local. Free movement across borders has allowed others to come from

:02:21. > :02:26.abroad, willingly. Police believe many are here are cropped --

:02:26. > :02:33.against their will, victims of sex trafficking, controlled by gangs.

:02:33. > :02:36.They try and identified a market. We are seeing people from outside

:02:36. > :02:42.the UK coming to Northern Ireland to set up brothels and bring

:02:42. > :02:47.prostitutes and traffic persons into service the market. Demand is

:02:47. > :02:53.driving supply. Just a click of a computer away. Every day, according

:02:53. > :02:57.to the police, you girls are riding here. Some are hoping for a new

:02:57. > :03:04.life, but for many, not the new Stade they expected. We have had

:03:04. > :03:09.cases from China, sub-Saharan Africa, cases from West Africa.

:03:09. > :03:13.People have arrived with the promise of a job, for example as a

:03:14. > :03:19.nanny, but there is no such job and very quickly they are forced into

:03:19. > :03:23.the sex trade. It is a very difficult situation for individuals

:03:23. > :03:31.who some may find themselves in a nightmare situation, being in the

:03:31. > :03:37.sex trade against their will. the girls, and, so does the money.

:03:37. > :03:42.-- as the girls come in. For every of the brothels in Northern Ireland,

:03:43. > :03:50.is an average of two prostitutes. That is 176 prostitutes operating

:03:50. > :03:55.daily, each averaging five climbs every day. That is up to 880 men in

:03:55. > :04:03.Northern Ireland using prostitution services every day. Liffe, around

:04:03. > :04:11.�80 for half an hour. -- the fee. The combined potential daily

:04:11. > :04:15.earnings for prostitutes and sex gangs, of her �70,000. -- over. In

:04:15. > :04:18.a week, almost half a million pounds here is spent on

:04:18. > :04:22.prostitution. Over the last couple of years, the police here have

:04:22. > :04:26.rescued dozens of people caught up in prostitution against their will.

:04:26. > :04:30.They were found to be traumatised and very afraid. What has happened

:04:30. > :04:36.to the people who were controlling them? Based on prosecutions and

:04:36. > :04:39.convictions, very little. If all these women are being rescued yeah

:04:39. > :04:43.there are few prosecutions and convictions, it does not look good

:04:43. > :04:47.for the police? The primary objective is to rescue

:04:47. > :04:52.victims. The secondary objective is to prosecute offenders. Trying to

:04:52. > :04:55.get enough evidence is extremely difficult. Organised crime groups

:04:55. > :05:00.know this. If they are caught in possession of firearms or drugs

:05:01. > :05:04.they know they will be prosecuted and possibly convicted, but they

:05:04. > :05:14.know it is difficult for us to get evidence for human trafficking.

:05:14. > :05:15.

:05:15. > :05:19.That is why they are making towards that. There's denied is the busiest

:05:19. > :05:22.night for prostitution. Why? Police believe men come into town with

:05:22. > :05:30.their partners and when they go late night shopping, they go to

:05:30. > :05:39.meet prostitutes. 88 brothels that the police know

:05:39. > :05:41.about. Those figures do not really the women, people behind those

:05:41. > :05:47.figures? I suppose apart from the statistics, which are shocking in

:05:47. > :05:51.their own right, what will concentrate the minds of the

:05:51. > :05:56.viewers is the human tragedy. Much of the sex trade in Northern

:05:56. > :06:00.Ireland is trafficking, were gangs are bringing in people from abroad

:06:00. > :06:04.into Northern Ireland and then hiring them out for six. There may

:06:04. > :06:09.be a perception that that is something that happens somewhere

:06:09. > :06:13.else at another time. The reality is, it is happening here and now.

:06:13. > :06:17.What other police doing to try to prevent it? If over the last two

:06:18. > :06:23.years, the police have rescued dozens of people who have been held

:06:23. > :06:26.captive and held in horrific and terrifying conditions. The next

:06:26. > :06:29.obvious question is, what happens to the people controlling them? The

:06:29. > :06:37.reality is very little. There have been few convictions or

:06:37. > :06:41.prosecutions. The difficulty is, Windies Rehman are rescued, -- when

:06:41. > :06:46.these women are rescued, they cannot speak English, and they are

:06:46. > :06:51.so traumatised and afraid for themselves and families in whatever

:06:51. > :06:57.country they emanated from, they cannot or are not willing to co-

:06:57. > :07:01.operate. The problem remains. Here in Northern Ireland, it is growing.

:07:01. > :07:04.A student from Spain has been given four years in jail after dropping a

:07:04. > :07:06.concrete block on to a police woman's head in riots in Ardoyne

:07:06. > :07:11.over 12th July last year. Sentencing Roger Costa, the judge

:07:11. > :07:20.said it was a cowardly attack carried out in an orgy of violence.

:07:20. > :07:23.Six others also involved in the rioting appeared in court today.

:07:23. > :07:27.This footage was taking just seconds after a concrete block was

:07:27. > :07:33.dropped on to a female police officer. This is the man who did it,

:07:33. > :07:37.29 year-old Roger Costa, from Spain. He was here studying English and

:07:37. > :07:41.said he went to take pictures because he had an interest in

:07:41. > :07:46.politics. But his was one of the most serious acts of violence and

:07:46. > :07:51.today, he answered for it in court. The judge gave him credit for

:07:51. > :07:54.coming forward when he could have stayed in Spain. He said Northern

:07:54. > :07:59.Ireland had welcomed Costa and that welcome had been poorly repaid and

:07:59. > :08:04.sentenced him to four years, saying he still owes a debt to our society.

:08:05. > :08:10.Six others appeared in the dock, all charged with rioting, aged from

:08:10. > :08:14.18 to 45 and some from north Belfast, but others from as far

:08:14. > :08:20.away as Ballymena and Kilkeel. Sentences ranged from committee

:08:20. > :08:24.service to a year in jail. Nobody wants to see this on our streets.

:08:24. > :08:28.We do not want young people to become criminalised, particularly

:08:28. > :08:31.where that is the result of being encouraged by others to become

:08:31. > :08:34.involved in violence. I would urge any boy who is considering to

:08:34. > :08:40.become involved in this behaviour to step back and think of the

:08:40. > :08:46.consequences. Bagging up the message was the judge, he said the

:08:46. > :08:50.sentences were just not punishment but a to tenants -- deterrent. It

:08:50. > :08:54.doesn't others also charged with involvement are due in court

:08:54. > :08:56.tomorrow. -- 12 others. The DUP has criticised the

:08:56. > :08:59.Independent Decommissioning Body for not providing a full breakdown

:08:59. > :09:02.of the weapons handed in or destroyed by terrorist groups. In

:09:02. > :09:04.its final report published today, the IICD gives an account of the

:09:04. > :09:09.commissioning events, details the key factors that enabled the

:09:09. > :09:11.Commission to do its job and highlights the lessons learnt. Full

:09:11. > :09:14.details of the weapons decommissioned will be given to the

:09:14. > :09:17.US State Department for safekeeping and not to the British and Irish

:09:17. > :09:20.governments, as was originally the plan. That is what the head of the

:09:20. > :09:23.decommissioning body, General John de Chastelain, had to say in

:09:23. > :09:27.October 2003, when the IRA refused to allow him to make public details

:09:27. > :09:33.of the weapons it had just decommissioned.

:09:33. > :09:38.My colleague and I examined each individual Oram and assured

:09:38. > :09:42.ourselves it was in operational condition. We made an inventory of

:09:42. > :09:46.the ammunition and explosive material and put together an

:09:46. > :09:50.inventory which along with the previous inventory, will be handed

:09:50. > :09:57.over to the previous -- to the two governments when we reached the end

:09:57. > :10:01.of the process. John de Chastelain. With me now is Vincent Kearney. The

:10:01. > :10:05.DUP said that people have a right to know what the inventory is. The

:10:06. > :10:10.plan was never to make it public, even in the beginning? That is

:10:10. > :10:16.correct. Throughout the process, the details of what had been the

:10:16. > :10:19.commission was shrouded in secrecy because of the paramilitary

:10:19. > :10:22.organisations involved. We heard the general said the original plan

:10:22. > :10:26.was for a full inventory to be given to the British and Irish

:10:26. > :10:30.governments at the end of the process. It would then have been up

:10:30. > :10:33.to them to decide if and when to make those details public.

:10:33. > :10:37.Certainly no guarantees that they would have done so. Undoubtedly

:10:37. > :10:41.they would have come under serious pressure, particularly from

:10:42. > :10:47.Unionists, to make that public. The goalposts have now been moved to

:10:47. > :10:57.Washington, where details are kept under lock and key. That is a

:10:57. > :10:59.

:10:59. > :11:03.surprising move. Why be changed in Plan? Giving it kiss -- it says it

:11:03. > :11:06.believes that doing this now would be unhelpful to give peace process.

:11:06. > :11:11.The commission says it believes revealing details of what

:11:11. > :11:17.paramilitary weapons were be commissioned might encourage

:11:17. > :11:23.attacks on those groups, and it does not want to be -- discourage

:11:23. > :11:28.future acts of taking weapons at of commission. Will we ever know what

:11:28. > :11:32.was destroyed? The commission said the US State Department has agreed

:11:32. > :11:35.to keep the documents under lock and key until such times as the

:11:35. > :11:41.British and Irish governments make a joint written request for those

:11:41. > :11:45.details to be given to them. In a big government is in any way

:11:45. > :11:49.nervous about the possible political implications, they will

:11:49. > :11:52.not agree to sign a joint request asking for the details. I do not

:11:52. > :11:56.think we will see them any time soon.

:11:56. > :11:59.A pipe bomb device has been discovered in Glengormley. An army

:11:59. > :12:02.robot is examining the object, which was discovered in Harmin Park.

:12:02. > :12:05.A number of homes have been evacuated and residents have been

:12:05. > :12:10.advised to stay indoors. Still to come...

:12:11. > :12:14.A good yarn for the sheep shearers, the market for wool is picking up.

:12:14. > :12:22.And we have rare pictures of the opening of Stormont and speak to

:12:22. > :12:24.the man who reported on the royal occasion.

:12:24. > :12:28.The chairman of the Assembly's Social Development Committee, Alex

:12:28. > :12:30.Maskey, has asked the minister to give a fuller explanation as to why

:12:30. > :12:36.he has intervened in the dispute between Housing Executive and Red

:12:36. > :12:38.Sky. The decision by the Housing Executive to end its �8 million

:12:38. > :12:44.maintenance and repair contract with the East Belfast company was

:12:44. > :12:47.greeted with protests. Last week, the DUP minister, Nelson McCausland,

:12:47. > :12:53.told Housing Executive to reinstate the company until a new system for

:12:53. > :13:03.awarding contracts is put in place. Sinn Fein's Alex Maskey says he

:13:03. > :13:08.

:13:08. > :13:11.I once the minister to come clean on this manner. Had a number of his

:13:11. > :13:15.senior colleagues have met with him and lobbied on behalf of this

:13:15. > :13:19.company. It is very shaky legal ground and that is why I want the

:13:19. > :13:22.minister to come clean and give the public are transparent explanation

:13:22. > :13:25.as to what is the basis of his intervention.

:13:25. > :13:28.The funeral has taken place of our colleague, the broadcaster, David

:13:28. > :13:30.Dunseith, who died last week. The Deputy First Minister, Martin

:13:30. > :13:33.McGuinness, was one of several politicians who attended Requiem

:13:33. > :13:36.Mass at the Star of the Sea church in Strangford. Dozens of colleagues

:13:36. > :13:39.past and present were in the congregation.

:13:40. > :13:44.Tributes have been paid to the former leader of the Alliance Party,

:13:44. > :13:51.Sir Oliver Napier, who died at the weekend following an illness. He

:13:51. > :13:55.was 75. Shane Harrison looks back at his career.

:13:55. > :13:59.If the Alliance Party was founded in 1970 hymen and women who

:13:59. > :14:03.rejected what was happening on the streets of Northern Ireland. They

:14:03. > :14:07.wanted a new, moderate party that would appeal across the religious

:14:07. > :14:12.divide, tea-party that believed there should be no change to

:14:12. > :14:18.Northern Ireland's positions in the UK until a majority wanted it.

:14:18. > :14:26.Oliver Napier, a Catholic solicitor was the first leader. What we are

:14:26. > :14:33.doing today is forming an alternative reform, political

:14:33. > :14:41.programme and party. To push through and to continue the

:14:41. > :14:45.reformation of Northern Ireland. 1974 as a result of the power-

:14:45. > :14:55.sharing agreement, he became the legal minister and head of the

:14:55. > :15:00.Office of legal reform. We want nothing to do with them forced

:15:00. > :15:04.powers in any undemocratic Government in Stormont. But his

:15:05. > :15:09.ministerial period was, like the agreement of brief, because of the

:15:09. > :15:15.Ulster Workers Council strike and the results of the 1974 General

:15:15. > :15:19.Election. In 1979, Mr Napier, who would be knighted, campaigned in

:15:19. > :15:28.the General Election for a Westminster as these -- seat in

:15:28. > :15:32.east Belfast. I am hopeful and quite confident that I am going to

:15:32. > :15:37.win this seat. But it wasn't to be, are though he came within less than

:15:37. > :15:42.1000 votes of defeating Peter Robinson, who would hold the seat

:15:42. > :15:46.until Naomi long's victory for the alliance in the 2010 general

:15:46. > :15:49.elections. I want to thank those who went through the Alliance Party

:15:49. > :15:55.before me who built the basics on what this victory has been

:15:55. > :16:01.delivered. He resigned as the party leader in 1984. But he returns to

:16:01. > :16:07.the political fray, standing twice in North Down in the 1990s. Do I

:16:07. > :16:14.wish to get out of semi-retirement and knock on doors for RFU weeks?

:16:14. > :16:17.Not particularly. Not particularly. But I feel it is my duty. Again he

:16:17. > :16:23.was unsuccessful, but he was admired and popular across the

:16:23. > :16:26.political divide. Not just as a politician but for his work in

:16:26. > :16:27.integrated education. Sir Oliver Napier, who died at the

:16:27. > :16:34.weekend. Next a local product that

:16:34. > :16:36.surprisingly may be helping our economic recovery and that's wool.

:16:37. > :16:40.With demand for wool and products made from wool increasing sharply,

:16:40. > :16:43.the market has reached a 25-year high. Our rural affairs

:16:43. > :16:46.correspondent, Martin Cassidy, has been looking at the spin off for

:16:46. > :16:52.the farming and carpet industry. And he's spent the day with wool

:16:52. > :16:56.producers at a major sheep farming event in Ballymena.

:16:56. > :17:01.Hundreds of sheep farmers have gathered in Ballymena for the

:17:01. > :17:05.National sheep Association annual event. He is more than just a good

:17:05. > :17:10.weather attracting the farmers, because a wool industry which has

:17:10. > :17:14.gone through some tough times is finally on the off. It is sheering

:17:14. > :17:19.times and on farms across Northern Ireland, the wool is being gathered

:17:19. > :17:24.in. It has taken the sheep a year to produce its crop, but in a

:17:24. > :17:29.little over a minute, the fleece is expertly removed. The price they

:17:29. > :17:34.receive for the wool depends on the market. There are no grants or

:17:34. > :17:40.subsidies. But the value of wool has been rising, reaching a 25 year

:17:40. > :17:46.high. A few years ago the wool Czech barely cover the cost of the

:17:46. > :17:53.shearing, but for as little as �1 office, it is now worth three to �4.

:17:53. > :17:57.It it is a source of income. Northern Ireland, wool is a good

:17:57. > :18:01.supplier for the carpet industry. And that is where most of the wool

:18:01. > :18:06.in Northern Ireland goes, and it does fetch a premium. Just like the

:18:06. > :18:09.sheep farmers in this fans, this cock at face in Portadown has had

:18:09. > :18:14.to battle through the recession and face up to competition in the

:18:14. > :18:18.market for wooden floors. But now they are busy again, filling export

:18:18. > :18:25.orders for hotels and cruise ships. We have found the export market

:18:25. > :18:29.very strong this year, particularly in America. The Middle East, again

:18:29. > :18:32.the market we went into recently is paying dividends and the cruise-

:18:32. > :18:38.ship market, which is one of our strongest, we are finding it very

:18:38. > :18:42.strong. Encouraged by the recovery, the company and then -- plans to

:18:42. > :18:47.invest up to �5 million, building a new factory in Portadown. And it

:18:47. > :18:51.means another source of income and may help stem the decline in the

:18:51. > :18:56.local flock which has fallen to Merck -- below one million. If

:18:56. > :19:02.you're looking for somebody special in terms of wool production, what

:19:02. > :19:08.about the Wensleydale? The face from a sheet like this can now make

:19:08. > :19:16.a 30 to �40, no wonder farmers are once again looking at the

:19:16. > :19:19.specialist will producers. -- wool. All this week on BBC Newsline we'll

:19:19. > :19:21.be taking a look at some rarely seen footage, providing a priceless

:19:21. > :19:24.glimpse into the past. The British Pathe newsreels were

:19:24. > :19:27.shown in cinemas from early last century until the 1970s and the

:19:27. > :19:30.archive contains some remarkable scenes from our local history.

:19:30. > :19:40.Chris Page has been delving through the films. Tonight he begins with

:19:40. > :19:40.

:19:40. > :19:45.the opening of one of our best known buildings. The house in the

:19:45. > :19:49.Hills celebrates its 80th birthday next year. News crews are like us

:19:49. > :19:57.are familiar sight, but when the building opened there were few

:19:57. > :20:01.cameras about. The archive you're our Battersea is fascinating.

:20:01. > :20:06.There was pompons ceremony from the start. The foundation stone was

:20:06. > :20:14.laid by the Governor-General on what was then as an unremarkable

:20:14. > :20:18.hillside in 1928. Four years later, the Prince of Wales who was to

:20:18. > :20:23.become King Edward VII came to Belfast to open Parliament

:20:23. > :20:32.Buildings at Stormont. There were lots of celebrations.

:20:32. > :20:36.And thousands of people gathered here on that day in 1932. Among

:20:36. > :20:43.them was a 21-year-old journalist who has only just retired from

:20:43. > :20:50.writing. James Kelly is 100 years old but he remembers Stormont's

:20:50. > :20:55.grand opening very well. Each step they went up, the crowd cheered and

:20:55. > :20:59.the Prince had to acknowledge it. So it took him some time to get up

:20:59. > :21:04.all of these steps and into the house where he was to speak and

:21:04. > :21:14.read a speech. James was in such as building when the Prince spoke to

:21:14. > :21:23.

:21:23. > :21:30.There was a mishap during the speech and it was not recorded, but

:21:30. > :21:36.it is etched in James Kelly's memory. A woman, a waitress came

:21:36. > :21:39.along the corridor carrying a big tray full of crockery. She just

:21:39. > :21:47.reached where the prince was sitting and she slipped and fell.

:21:47. > :21:50.All of this crockery rolled along and the woman ran away. So the

:21:50. > :21:58.prince, seen here saluting was annoyed, but that wasn't the only

:21:58. > :22:04.reason why. Apparently the Prince of Wales, Prince Edward left London

:22:04. > :22:14.after a blazing row with his father to open Stormont. He was very much

:22:14. > :22:22.

:22:22. > :22:26.the unsmiling Prince, saluting but It is easy to see the newsreel did

:22:26. > :22:31.not reflect the real shape of Northern Ireland's society. There

:22:31. > :22:36.is a sense of a kind of model kind of society in Northern Ireland

:22:36. > :22:42.focused on Unionism. There's no sense of the nationalist minority.

:22:43. > :22:46.The divisions were there. In spite of everything that has passed since,

:22:46. > :22:52.parliamentarians are sitting at Stormont again and the Finn -- the

:22:52. > :22:58.building is famous all over the world.

:22:58. > :23:02.That was how the story of Stormont began and on BBC Newsline, a series

:23:02. > :23:07.featuring these films has just started. Tomorrow will be looking

:23:08. > :23:10.at what famous visitors have made of Northern Ireland over the years.

:23:10. > :23:13.Sport next and Antrim are the Ulster hurling champions. They beat

:23:13. > :23:16.an Armagh team that were making their first appearance in a

:23:16. > :23:26.provincial final since 1946. Antrim now face Limerick for a place in

:23:26. > :23:31.the All-Ireland quarter-final. Ulster champions for a 10

:23:31. > :23:35.successive year. Antrim were over whelming favourites. They have the

:23:35. > :23:42.perfect start. They looked comfortable throughout the first

:23:42. > :23:48.half, scoring with ease as they look for a starting spot against

:23:48. > :23:53.Limerick. It took Armagh 65 years to make it to its final and they

:23:53. > :23:57.tested Antrim until the end, but Antrim won by eight points. It is

:23:57. > :24:07.absolutely brilliant to see Armagh to come and reach the final. But

:24:07. > :24:12.

:24:12. > :24:15.they knew it would be a great final. It may be flattered Antrim a bit,

:24:15. > :24:25.but there was only a couple of points in it with only 10 minutes

:24:25. > :24:26.

:24:26. > :24:36.to go. It was nice to be here. We are on the rise and I do firmly

:24:36. > :24:41.believe we will be back. 2-20, 22- 12 the final score. The Ulster

:24:41. > :24:44.Championship remains in the Antrim dressing room.

:24:44. > :24:46.At 9:00pm tonight here on BBC One, don't miss 'Rory's Major

:24:46. > :24:49.Breakthrough'. A programme from Stephen Watson with exclusive

:24:49. > :24:52.behind-the-scenes footage of Rory McIlroy's triumph at the US Open.

:24:52. > :25:02.Here we see Rory leaving the Congressional course, the night he

:25:02. > :25:11.

:25:11. > :25:16.won the tournament. We'll have you Rory. -- we love you

:25:16. > :25:26.Rory. His first morning as a major

:25:26. > :25:33.champion. And it is an early start. As the papers arrive, he is already

:25:33. > :25:37.in the hotel foyer or with his father. I remember Darren Clarke

:25:37. > :25:43.ringing me at 5am and I had not been deferred yet, just to say well

:25:44. > :25:49.done. I was catching a flight to Cape Cod. He had promised to play

:25:49. > :25:57.in a golf day hosted by one of his sponsors. You see in the picture,

:25:57. > :26:02.of me and my father, embracing each other. It was just fantastic. It is

:26:02. > :26:05.something we will never forget. is living the jet-set life now,

:26:05. > :26:14.boxing, tennis, where will it all end.

:26:14. > :26:20.We just about held on to the fine weather after the glorious weekend.

:26:20. > :26:26.I think for most of us, at some stage we had scenes like this. Lots

:26:26. > :26:35.of blue sky and sunshine. The nights were impressive as well.

:26:35. > :26:39.This photograph shows summertime phenomenon of a clear night, ice

:26:39. > :26:44.crystals high up in the atmosphere and they light up when the sun

:26:44. > :26:48.drops beneath the horizon. You can see more of those images on a

:26:48. > :26:52.Facebook page. We are unlikely to see any of that

:26:52. > :26:56.tonight because we have lower cloud edging in. It has been creeping in

:26:57. > :27:00.through the course of the day. Still warm out there this evening.

:27:00. > :27:05.The breeze is picking up and the club continues to increase. For

:27:05. > :27:15.many of us it will end up a wet and for some, a windy night. By the

:27:15. > :27:18.time it gets to dawn, heavy and persistent spells of rain, but it

:27:18. > :27:25.is a warm night. It will brighten up but it is not too good to begin

:27:25. > :27:29.with. In morning rush-hour, it will be wet and soggy. A lot of surface

:27:29. > :27:32.water and spray on the roads, in particular for the Eastern Counties

:27:32. > :27:36.where it is likely to be windy for a time Bostock it could take a good

:27:36. > :27:41.part of the money before we get rid of the rain from County Down,

:27:41. > :27:46.perhaps Belfast and parts of County Antrim. Brighter skies do

:27:46. > :27:50.eventually reached the east. Still patches of blue and the risk of

:27:50. > :27:55.showers breaking out. I think they will move along quite quickly.

:27:55. > :27:59.Temperatures are not too bad tomorrow. A little bit fresher by

:27:59. > :28:04.the time we get to Wednesday. Again some sunshine and showers which are

:28:04. > :28:08.likely to be slower moving because the winds are light up. Pretty much

:28:08. > :28:11.the same story through the rest of the week. Bright spells and showers