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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline, with Donna Traynor and Noel | :00:14. | :00:24. | |
Thompson. The headlines this Friday evening: the police apologised to a | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
couple whose wedding be stopped because they thought it was an | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
immigration scam. A man is accused of killing his | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
cousin in a hit-and-run. Marian Price is charged in | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
connection with the murder of two soldiers. | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
And in a new deal, Ireland will save hundreds of thousands of euros. | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
There's something strange on the beach at Portstewart, but what is | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
it? Find out later in the programme. Also, on the North Coast they're a | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
big step closer to landing a major golf tournament. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
Will it be a weekend for ice-cream and barbeques? I'll have your | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
First to the sham wedding that wasn't. Just before they were to | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
say "I do", the bride and groom were arrested and the couple spent | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
the next five hours in a police station. The police said they | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
suspected it was an immigration scam. By the time the police | :01:16. | :01:19. | |
admitted they'd made a mistake, the ceremony at the Guildhall in | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
Londonderry had been cancelled. The couple, who are expecting their | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
first child, say the police apology doesn't even begin to make up for | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
the disruption of their big day. Julia Paul reports. | :01:33. | :01:38. | |
They may look like any young couple in love. But when Neil McElwee and | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
his Chinese fiancee, Yanan Sun, tried to get married this week, the | :01:43. | :01:47. | |
police thought differently. Suspecting the marriage was just a | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
immigration purposes, as the ceremony was about to go ahead, | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
they arrested the couple. They were taken to a police station, Forster | :01:54. | :02:00. | |
to dress in forensic clothing and separated. This is our wedding day. | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
They made a big mistake. I kept trying to explain to them, say to | :02:04. | :02:11. | |
them, this is insane. You know, how has this happened? They were | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
looking at the ground. I had my make-up done and my hair done. It | :02:18. | :02:24. | |
was perfect. I was very excited for my wedding and to see my husband. | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
In just two minutes, I got to the city walk and then had to go to | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
another room. The couple were held for five hours and only released | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
when the solicitor colder. She says it appears the police may have been | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
looking for illegal immigrants. One wedding guest has been referred for | :02:44. | :02:50. | |
deportation. I do have concerns that the board Agency have taken a | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
few here that if it is a sham, it is a great opportunity for this | :02:57. | :03:03. | |
wedding ceremony to see how many nationals here do not have their | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
paperwork in working order. police said they had an anonymous | :03:08. | :03:13. | |
tip-off. They have accepted their mistake. We have apologised and | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
said we are sorry for the trauma we caused them, and we do get things | :03:17. | :03:22. | |
wrong. Eventually, the couple were able to marry the next day but they | :03:22. | :03:28. | |
say nothing will make up for what happened. They have completely | :03:28. | :03:33. | |
destroyed our day. I don't think we will ever be satisfied. We got | :03:33. | :03:39. | |
married on Wednesday but all the magic and Spock had disappeared. | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
The cousin of a man who died after a hit-and-run in Coalisland has | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
been charged with his murder. Declan Quinn was knocked down on | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Saturday. Today 21-year-old Anthony Joseph Quinn of Maplebrook Hill, in | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
Coalisland, was in court. Our district reporter, Louise Cullen, | :03:51. | :03:59. | |
reports. Appearing at the Magistrates Court | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
was Anthony Joseph Quinn, from a poor Burchill. The 21-year-old is | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
charged with driving while disqualified. His cousin died on | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
Monday, two days after he was hit by a car. The sergeant objected to | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
bail and told the court Anthony Joseph Quinn was already on bail | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
for assaulting a guard. There also concerns about failing to attend | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
court and interfering with witnesses. The solicitors said his | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
client had gone to his mother's house, where he made arrangements | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
to hand himself in on Tuesday. The court was told this was not | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
resemble hit-and-run. He said the client had been called to his | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
father's house and was being attacked. When he arrived, three | :04:47. | :04:56. | |
man chased him by car and on foot. The Declan Quinn was then attacked | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
with a hammer. Anthony Joseph Quinn ducked behind the wheel, fearing | :05:01. | :05:09. | |
for his life, and then realised his windscreen had been smashed. | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
Anthony Joseph Quinn's solicitor said he had answered all the police | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
questions and had broken down after giving his account. Bail was | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
refused and he will appear again next month. | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
The convicted IRA bomber Marian Price has been charged in | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
connection with the murders of two soldiers in Antrim in 2009. She is | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
accused of providing property for the purposes of terrorism, | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
understood to be a mobile phone. Mrs Price, now known as Marian | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
McGlinchey, is currently in prison after her early release licence was | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
revoked earlier this year. Her lawyer says the new charge is an | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
abuse of legal process. Chris Page reports. | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
This is Marian Price, leaving court three months ago to go back to | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
prison. A veteran Republican who is 57 had her early release licence | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
suspended after she appeared at this dissident republican rally. | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
She is also known as Marian McGlinchey, and she held a piece of | :06:06. | :06:11. | |
paper which a man in a balaclava read a speech from. Now she is | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
being charged in connection with the murder of two soldiers in | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
County Antrim. The men were shot dead by the Real IRA in March 2009. | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
Marian Price is accused of providing property, specifically a | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
mobile phone, for the purposes of terrorism. She did not appear in | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
person at the hearing today in Belfast Magistrates Court. Her | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
solicitor told the court she had first been questioned 18 months ago. | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
He argued there must have been insufficient evidence to charge her | :06:41. | :06:49. | |
then. He claims no new evidence has emerged since. He said he would try | :06:49. | :06:54. | |
to RUN out as an abuse of process. He claimed the new charges were | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
linked to the Secretary of State's decision to revoke her early | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
release licence. She was convicted of being a dog and the IRA bombing | :07:02. | :07:10. | |
of the Old Bailey in 1973. -- being involved. The defence lawyer's want | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
to question two senior detectives and another witness about the case | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
against Marian Price. She is expected to appear via video link | :07:18. | :07:22. | |
for the next hearing in the case in two weeks time. | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
The police say a device found in East Belfast was a viable fire bomb. | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Homes were evacuated in the Harkness Parade and Banbury Street | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
area while the army dealt with the bomb. | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
You're watching BBC Newsline. Still to come on the programme: | :07:36. | :07:42. | |
How Ireland's first female aviator put Carnmoney on the map. | :07:42. | :07:52. | |
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And why these sea creatures are A council worker has been killed in | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
an industrial accident in Coleraine. It happened at a recycling plant. | :07:56. | :08:06. | |
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Nicola McHugh reports from there. The accident happened just before | :08:07. | :08:15. | |
midday at the recycling plant in Coleraine. These are pictures taken | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
from the scene. The man has not yet been named and few details about | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
what led to his death have been released. The entrance to this | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
disposal and recycling centre remains cordoned off as a full | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
examination is carried out. What we can see inside and to the left is a | :08:31. | :08:35. | |
number of police officers who are carrying out preliminary | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
examinations. War we know is that the victim was a 39-year-old man | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
after becoming trapped behind a lorry somewhere within the site. -- | :08:44. | :08:50. | |
what we know of. He worked for the council. A statement has said the | :08:50. | :08:55. | |
accident was a tragedy and that thoughts and prayers are with the | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
family. The Health and Safety Executive has taken over the | :08:58. | :09:08. | |
investigation. The site will remain closed until further notice. | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
Is there finally a glimmer of hope for the Republic's economy? A deal | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
reached among European leaders means a cut in the interest rate | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
Dublin is paying on the international loans which are | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
keeping its economy afloat. Government officials suggest it | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
will mean an annual saving to taxpayers of at least 600 million. | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Jennifer O'Leary reports. The government had lobbied hard to | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
persuade Europe that the interest rate in Ireland's bail out loan was | :09:30. | :09:38. | |
unsustainable. 45 billion euros of a bail out was stamped with a 5.8% | :09:38. | :09:45. | |
interest rate. The rate was felt to be unfair, but as EU leaders agreed | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
new plans to save the euro, Ireland also secured a number of | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
concessions. At a 2% cut in the bail out interest rate. That is a | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
saving of at least 600 million euros a year. And the period for | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
repaying has been extended to 15 years. The government is keen to | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
stress the positives. We have achieved the interest rate | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
reduction and the extended repayment period takes a lot of | :10:10. | :10:14. | |
pressure off us and makes it much easier for us to we access the | :10:14. | :10:20. | |
international markets to get out of the bail out programme. But the | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
deal last night does not necessarily mean less payment of a | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
public. The Irish government is still spending around & more than | :10:27. | :10:37. | |
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it will take in this year in tax. - - around 10% more. And what about | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
Ireland's low corporation tax rate? That Taoiseach is is no conditions | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
are attached to the interest rate condition but they have had to | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
agree to participate in talks which could lead to corporation tax | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
changing. And this evening the Chancellor, | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
George Osborne, has confirmed that the Treasury will cut the interest | :10:56. | :10:59. | |
rate on the �3.2 billion it has loaned to the Irish Government as | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
part of the bail out. A park in Glengormley is being to | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
be renamed in honour of an English noblewoman. But Lillian Bland, | :11:08. | :11:10. | |
whose family lived in County Antrim, was no run-of-the-mill aristocrat. | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
As our district journalist, Ciara Riddell, reports, she's in the | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
history books as the first woman to make and fly her own airplane. But | :11:17. | :11:27. | |
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before now her achievement has largely gone unrecognised. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
1,900s in County Antrim. The fact that Lilian -- Lillian Bland was a | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
woman did not deter her. certainly did things that were not | :11:42. | :11:47. | |
accepted as the norm at that time. She was a tomboy. She would have | :11:47. | :11:52. | |
shot rifles and been part of the boys' club. She was certainly | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
different from everybody else in the village. In 1910 she proved her | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
worth as a pioneering aviator, flying higher plane and months | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
later becoming the first woman to ever fly aboard her own aircraft. | :12:07. | :12:17. | |
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Her only help, hair aunt's garden. This was a thrill to me to think | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
that my grandmother would be involved in something like this. | :12:26. | :12:35. | |
This girl, 100 years ago, was able to design and build and fly her own | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
aircraft with no training or knowledge. Today, Queen's | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
University students study her work. A computer-generated image shows | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
just how advanced she was. This was the equivalent of space today. A | :12:50. | :12:55. | |
lot of people still do not believe that flight was possible in those | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
days. So they were on the edge of technology. A model of the plane | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
has now been elected in the park and next month, Lillian Bland will | :13:06. | :13:10. | |
finally get the recognition she deserves when the party is | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
officially renamed in her honour. - - when the park. | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
I had never even heard of her before. Lots of people had not. | :13:22. | :13:30. | |
The sports minister has told BBC Newsline she will attend the | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
Northern Ireland football team's Euro 2012 qualifier next month | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
against the Faroe Islands at Windsor Park. But Caral N Chuiln | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
says she will not be present at the playing of the National Anthem. | :13:38. | :13:45. | |
As you might expect the stance has prompted considerable debate across | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
the airwaves today, but before he got round to talking football, our | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
reporter Austin O'Callaghan first sought the minister's opinion on | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
the possibility of a major golf tournament coming to Northern | :13:53. | :13:59. | |
Ireland. I would welcome all the opens, the | :13:59. | :14:04. | |
Irish and British Open. I think the Irish Open should come off, given | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
that from 14 months ago we have had three sporting champions in golf. | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
Why wouldn't it? Why shouldn't we be organising it to make sure it is | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
brought here? What you support Northern Ireland | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
against the Faeroe Islands? I am hoping to be there. I have | :14:24. | :14:29. | |
received an invitation. I am aware there is an invitation and I am | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
hoping to be there. And will you stand for the anthem? | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
I will not be there for the anthem, that is part of the arrangement. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
The arrangement I am hoping to reach. I don't want to be | :14:43. | :14:48. | |
politically insensitive to the community, but I don't want to be | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
insensitive to the community I represent, either. | :14:56. | :15:03. | |
Could you not make a gesture? Edwin Poots as -- was at a special | :15:03. | :15:13. | |
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game, and with respect, Mary McAleese is not representing wealth | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
but -- west Belfast, I am. We both have our local to his -- | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
local constituencies. I am hoping to go to the game without this | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
being an issue. I understand that, but can you | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
understand one section of the community may be slightly offended? | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
I think to be honest the way this will be dealt with will be, there | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
are political sensitivities about me even going to the game, | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
regardless of the anthem, and I am prepared to do that. I am asking | :15:48. | :15:57. | |
people to be flexible, as well. Northern Ireland has taken a | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
significant step closer to hosting a major golf tournament. Royal | :16:02. | :16:04. | |
Portrush was today given Stormont's financial seal of approval. The | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
Executive has confirmed that, should the North coast course | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
attract a European Tour event - likely to be the Irish Open - then | :16:10. | :16:12. | |
it would provide substantial backing. Gavin Andrews has more. | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
These were the scenes when Darren Clarke returned with the Open | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
Championship trophy this week. There is no doubting the support | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
and interest for golf here. Now it is time to take advantage. | :16:24. | :16:30. | |
wanted to grasp the momentum. Watch we need to work on over the next | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
period in time, the structures we need to change, the changes we need | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
to make in relation to the needs of a European Tour event. We are | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
hopeful that we can deliver, because when you look at the | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
logistics around an event, like St George is when people were being | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
brought in from large distances away, I think Northern Ireland | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
could coped well. According to last year's US Open | :16:57. | :17:05. | |
champion, the course is ready. They knew holes have been stretched | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
to 270 yards, and everyone loves this layout and part of the world. | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
When the sun shines, it is particular menace. It is tournament | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
standard, British Open started, and it will be a great test for the | :17:17. | :17:24. | |
best players in the world. It is a stepping-stone to getting this | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
important championship back in this area of the world. | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
One rat -- one man who will be responsible for that is Graham's | :17:32. | :17:41. | |
brother, Gary, who works on the green. | :17:41. | :17:46. | |
It would be fantastic to get a major event here, and C Graham | :17:46. | :17:53. | |
playing, all the Irish boys, it would be great to see. This is a | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
championship course and deserves a good tournament. | :17:55. | :18:01. | |
Still, everything is in place, banning something unforeseen, the | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Irish links will see a tournament in two years time. There has been | :18:05. | :18:09. | |
private sponsorship, and along with today's Government backing there | :18:09. | :18:14. | |
should be no problem coming up with the 4 million euros it will take. | :18:14. | :18:17. | |
Over the last few years there has been very little love lost between | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
Armagh and Tyrone. The teams meet again tomorrow in an all-Ulster, | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
all-Ireland qualifier. It is a rivalry which has defined gaelic | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
football for the last decade as these pictures from 2005 certainly | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
illustrate. Such was their pulling power that at their collective | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
height the teams regularly brought crowds in excess of 60,000 to croke | :18:38. | :18:41. | |
park. Many of the familiar faces which saw the teams dominate the | :18:41. | :18:42. | |
which saw the teams dominate the footballing landscape will be on | :18:42. | :18:44. | |
display in Omagh tomorrow evening display in Omagh tomorrow evening | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
as they vie for the right to take on Roscommon in the fourth round of | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
the qualifiers. The game is live on BBC Radio | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
Ulster tomorrow as is the double header from croke park where Derry | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
play Kildare followed by Down We stay with gaelic games and ask, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
is the sport in the grip of a cruciate ligament injury crisis? | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
This season alone, no fewer than 14 high profile inter-county careers | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
have been halted because of serious knee injuries - but do the | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
statistics point to an actual increase? Or is there just a | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
greater awareness of the problem. Thomas Niblock has been to meet one | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
of Northern Ireland's leading knee surgeons. | :19:25. | :19:31. | |
That feels very solid... I would say... | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Another day at the clinic, another day treating a cruciate ligament | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
injury. The players feel the numbers suffering from the dreaded | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
knee are on the increase. It is not dies. We have seen it all | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
and Bradley and Paddy Bradley with cruciate ligaments. It is a long | :19:51. | :19:59. | |
road to recovery. -- it is not nice. Every day it seems to be someone | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
with cruciate ligament. Whether it is the book's order pictures or the | :20:05. | :20:09. | |
training... However, medical opinion | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
contradicts the theory that cruciate ligament are on the | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
increase. I think the ugliness is on the | :20:16. | :20:25. | |
increase. The numbers have been roughly the | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
same over the past ten years. There is a simple reason why Gaelic | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
Athletic Association players are more likely to suffer knee injury. | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
Gaelic players play in the summer, and the ground is hard. If you | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
plant your studs in the winter, your foot slips, if you plant them | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
in the summer, your foot sticks. The slip can protect the need, and | :20:50. | :20:54. | |
it is the combination of hard ground, studs and the summer that | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
causes the problem. Hard ground, the main reason why | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
some of the top Gallagher Fliss -- Gaelic Athletic Association players | :21:03. | :21:13. | |
are on the sidelines. Finally rowing - Coleraine's Peter | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
Chambers and his team-mate Kieran Emery have qualified for tomorrows | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
final of the Lightweight mens pairs at the World Under-23 Championships | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
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The hills will be alive with the sound of music this weekend as | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
thousands of people take to the Sperrins for the annual Glasgowbury | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
festival. This year there's a new element to | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
the festival as up and coming comedians will also be strutting | :21:39. | :21:49. | |
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their stuff. Here is our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish. | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
This is among the 50 two-act who will take to the various stages | :21:55. | :21:59. | |
during the Glasgowbury Festival. The aim has always been to try to | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
support emerging home-grown talent, and will be joined by a performance | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
-- performance -- performers including The Answer and general | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
fiasco. By ants are playing at Glastonbury | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
and going to the UK and taking their music to the world. -- bands | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
are playing. Northern Ireland has had some fantastic talent, and it | :22:22. | :22:30. | |
is time that talent comes to the As a spin-off from the festival, | :22:30. | :22:33. | |
workshops are run to give local musicians the chance to develop | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
their talent. It is local talent the chance to be seen and heard. It | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
is all about them, that is the beauty of it, it is just about | :22:45. | :22:50. | |
local talent. Glasgowbury brings huge benefits to | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
the area, at a time when businesses have been affected by the economy | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
downturn. Glasgowbury is an immensely | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
positive impact on the area. It is bringing tourists and day-trippers | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
and. People know Draperstown because of Glasgowbury. | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
For the first time, there is a comedy stage and no shortage of | :23:10. | :23:17. | |
aspiring comedians. Did you hear about the tractor that | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
went down a lane and turned into a field? | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
The old ones are the best! People have been flocking to | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
Portstewart Strand today to see something rather unusual that's | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
washed-up on the shore. BBC Newsline's Natasha Sayee is there. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
What is going on? The first I had heard about this is | :23:39. | :23:47. | |
when I got a tweet to say a hideous sea monster had washed up in | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
Portstewart. It is fairly hideous. They are just barnacles, is that | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
right? They are not uncommon to this area. | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
We have never had them in this quantity before. | :24:04. | :24:11. | |
This is quite a rare sight? It is. We have had them on various | :24:11. | :24:20. | |
bits of wood before, but never in this quantity. People are flocking | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
to it. They are, and it is an amazing | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
sight with all the different collars. It is something children | :24:27. | :24:32. | |
will probably never see again. They are moving at the moment, but | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
there are some dead ones, what will you do with this? | :24:35. | :24:39. | |
We are talking to our different parts bar agencies to see what best | :24:39. | :24:43. | |
we can do. It is a substantial piece of wood they are all attached | :24:43. | :24:49. | |
to, so we have to see what way we can best move it out over the | :24:49. | :24:54. | |
coming two days. Thank you very much indeed. We | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
understand they are delicacies in Spain, but looking at them is | :24:57. | :25:03. | |
enough to put them off your dinner. Some people like to eat snails and | :25:03. | :25:10. | |
mussels. But if it was all alive and moving | :25:10. | :25:15. | |
it would be horrifying. Well, there are rumours of a heat | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
wave next week, but Cecilia Daly is going to tell us something | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
going to tell us something different. | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
The I am going to sort this remote, once and for all. We are expecting | :25:25. | :25:31. | |
temperatures to rise next week, but what exactly is a heatwave? | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
According to the World Meteorological but -- organisation, | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
temperatures have to be five degrees above the average, for a | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
sustained period, five days or more. That means we need maximum | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
temperatures of 22 or 23 Celsius or more for a week. We may get one or | :25:51. | :25:55. | |
two days like that, but not a heatwave. It will be nice to the | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
weekend, a lot better than it has been, a massive improvement on last | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
weekend. A couple of showers are lingering at the moment, the cloud | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
this afternoon is already picking up, as well. Nice weather this | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
evening, cooling off quickly, and that will be a feature of the | :26:12. | :26:17. | |
weekend weather. Temperatures falling to 45 degrees in the rural | :26:17. | :26:23. | |
areas. Fresh start to the morning, it will warm up nicely with | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
sunshine around. Plenty of sunshine tomorrow morning, and like today | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
the cloud will build towards lunchtime into the early afternoon. | :26:31. | :26:36. | |
Not as much as today and it will stay dry. If you are along the | :26:36. | :26:41. | |
north coast, a bit of a breeze, slightly cooler, but probably the | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
north coast seeing the best of the sunshine. Higher temperatures will | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
be further inland, up to 20 Celsius across parts of the south-east, | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
some areas of cloud building. Great day for Glasgowbury, but chilly | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
evenings, so take some layers with you if you are heading that way. | :27:01. | :27:05. | |
There will be plenty of other nice things to do this weekend, are | :27:05. | :27:11. | |
locked along the north coast. Or, just sit in the back garden. Sunday, | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
more sunshine, slightly higher temperatures. The plots of a screen | :27:15. | :27:19. | |
this weekend, the warm weather continues into next week. | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
We decided earlier the definition of a heatwave in Northern Ireland | :27:23. | :27:28. |