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Good evening, this is BBC Newsline. The headlines: up to 2000 | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
holidaymakers plans are in ruins after a tour firm goes bust. | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
5,000 homes are lying unfinished as a result of the property crash. | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
A major security operation in Londonderry is linked to a | :00:34. | :00:40. | |
republican dissident activity. We take a peek inside our new | :00:40. | :00:44. | |
titanic project as sparks fly to have it ready on time. | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
And once again, rain will replace the blue-sky is this evening but | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
the sun will shine again before the Several thousand people from | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
Northern Ireland could be affected by the collapse of a travel company | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
which operated outside of Belfast International Airport. Holidays 4 U | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
specialised in flights and packages to Turkey. Jim Fitzpatrick is at | :01:12. | :01:18. | |
Belfast International. What is happening to those holidaymakers | :01:18. | :01:25. | |
who are already abroad? They should be fine. They left here yesterday. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
There is a flight that goes each week to Turkey. We estimate about | :01:31. | :01:35. | |
300 people from Northern Ireland in Turkey at the moment and they | :01:35. | :01:39. | |
should retire on the flight they intended to return on. That is | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
because the insurance scheme, they should be fine. What about those | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
who were planning to go over the next few weeks? That is the bigger | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
problem. With one flight a week with 200 people on board, that | :01:55. | :02:02. | |
could be anything up to 2000 people who are hoping to go from here to | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
Turkey. The company operated at the cut-price end of the market. Now | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
they cannot go with Holidays 4 U, they will get their money back but | :02:11. | :02:15. | |
trying to find another holiday at the same price at the height of the | :02:15. | :02:20. | |
season will be hard work. There are complications. If you book your | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
flight and accommodation separately, you will find your flight is | :02:24. | :02:27. | |
covered by insurance but your holiday accommodation is still | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
there, sitting and waiting for you and you have no means to get there | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
to enjoy it. People who have paid for a package and do not go, will | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
not lose out? That they should not lose out because of the Civil | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
Aviation Authority's scheme. It is a question of whether they get a | :02:46. | :02:52. | |
holiday of the price they hope to and with competition very tough and | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
company is going out of business, then not -- may not be enough spare | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
capacity in the system to get a new holiday with the same money. | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
will be hearing from Dublin later in the programme where there is a | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
row over air passenger duty. Figures obtained by the BBC suggest | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
that up to 5,000 homes are lying unfinished as a result of the | :03:16. | :03:20. | |
property crash. This is the first time the problem of so-called ghost | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
estate has been quantified here. Now the question is what to do | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
about all these eyesores. A symptom of our economic times, a | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
derelict house estate. This site was abandoned four years ago when | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
the developer went past. It is one of many unfinished developments | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
across Northern Ireland, often referred to as ghost estates. The | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
majority were brought by developers who could not afford to finish them | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
where finance dried up and prices plummeted. Others have been | :03:54. | :03:59. | |
mothballed in the hope the market will recover. The Stormont | :03:59. | :04:02. | |
executive should do something to address the issue. What we need to | :04:02. | :04:08. | |
do is recognise there is a problem. We know the cause of it all. Let's | :04:08. | :04:14. | |
deal with the problem we have now. I can fill these houses with people | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
queuing up to get houses and that could be represented all over the | :04:18. | :04:23. | |
country. The executive have to take the lead. I can see ministers | :04:23. | :04:26. | |
sitting round the table, finance, the department that looks after | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
housing, the environmental department, all coming together to | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
say, what will we do about this? Another ghost estate. The former | :04:38. | :04:45. | |
owners of this side went into administration in 2009 owing the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
bank �25 million. The extent of the problem has been called a tide -- | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
quantified in the Republic for the first time. Data gathered to | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
suggest there are between four and 5,000 homes in various states of | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
construction from foundations upwards lying idle. As one solution | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
to turn them over to social housing where the small number of these | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
private developers have been bought by housing associations, it is not | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
straightforward. We need to check the design of the homes that we are | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
buying, that they match the requirements. We have to make sure | :05:23. | :05:31. | |
they are fully constructed or at least 50 % constructed. On | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
occasions in this kind of property market, the purchase price that we | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
can afford does not make the developers expectations. This side | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
is likely to be developed in the new future as is this one in County | :05:44. | :05:48. | |
Down. But for many ghost estates it is unlikely they will be brought to | :05:48. | :05:54. | |
life any time soon. Now to a property that has been on | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
the market for a while, but this one is costing taxpayers �400 for | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
every day it goes unsold. Ormiston House is owned by the assembly. It | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
was bought for �9 million but its asking price now is a lot less. | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
Martina Purdy looks at how close Stormont is to finding a buyer. | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
This is Ormiston House, once one of the most exclusive addresses in | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
Belfast. It was owned by shipbuilders Sir Edward Holland and | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
its present owners, the Stormont Assembly, are keen to sell for | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
around �2.5 million. They have been offers but there -- is there any | :06:37. | :06:43. | |
sign of a cell? There has been a strong level of interest, there | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
have been offers put in and we anticipate there will be a number | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
of other offers. There is an incentive for us to sell the | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
property because we want to make sure it is not a drain. Whenever | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
happens, Ormiston House will be sold at a loss. Its current | :07:03. | :07:11. | |
valuation of around �2.5 million is well below its 2001 purchase price | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
of �9 million. And every day it remains unsold, it is costing the | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
assembly money. The average weekly bill for items such as security and | :07:19. | :07:26. | |
repairs is around �3,000. The fees totalled around �150,000 last year | :07:26. | :07:31. | |
alone. Provided a buyer is found shortly, the losses could be as | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
high as �8 million. In hindsight, it should not have been brought in | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
the first place, but we have to move from where we are and the | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
assembly is trying to get the best value. But even if they cannot find | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
a buyer, there are other hurdles. Local residents are objecting to | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
the impact on development and those concerned with heritage are worried | :07:55. | :08:01. | |
that the asset is being lost to the community. If they can be some use | :08:01. | :08:05. | |
that meant the building could be restored back to the community, if | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
that was something like a museum or a visitor centre, something that | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
could draw on the upcoming Titanic celebrations, if we could do | :08:17. | :08:23. | |
something like that, that would be fantastic. So far, there has been | :08:23. | :08:27. | |
interest in turning this side to apartments, a nursing home or a | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
boutique hotel. There has also been a potential buyer interested in | :08:32. | :08:37. | |
recreating a private residence. We will have more on the shipyard | :08:37. | :08:42. | |
later in the programme when we take a tour around Titanic Belfast. Four | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
people who were arrested as part of a police operation against | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
dissident Republicans in Londonderry are being questioned by | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
detectives. During a search, and number of people had to be moved | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
from their homes while the Army dealt with a suspicious object. | :08:58. | :09:05. | |
The dramatic scenes when I witnesses said police rammed a red | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
Peugeot. The instant happened last night around 80 Clarke as the P S M | :09:10. | :09:18. | |
I investigated suspected dissident activity. Some people describe it | :09:18. | :09:23. | |
as something out of the Sweeney. You had police vehicles colliding | :09:23. | :09:33. | |
with other vehicles. The three men arrested are aged 54, 42 and 23. | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
They have been taken to the serious crimes week for questioning along | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
with a 16-year-old youth. The 23- year-old man was arrested in a calf | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
at 8:20pm and police say a suspected rifle was discovered. It | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
is be examined by forensic experts. In an immediate follow-up, the two | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
other men and the teenager were detained. They were not in the car. | :09:56. | :10:02. | |
As part of the operation, an object was discovered. It was removed for | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
examination by the army. Police asked people in several thousand | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
homes to move out last night. whole row behind me was affected. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
It was a fair amount of disruption. A lot of upset for older people. | :10:21. | :10:28. | |
would think so. During this major operation, the police carried out | :10:28. | :10:33. | |
other searches. They took away plastic bags containing a number of | :10:33. | :10:41. | |
objects. This rate has now been opened to traffic. | :10:41. | :10:47. | |
Still to come: the board game of fantasy that has come true for two | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
County Down man. And find out why this GAA club believes it is backed | :10:55. | :11:05. | |
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The chief Executive of Ryanair has backed calls for the UK's air | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
passenger duty to be scrapped. The departure tax adds from �12 to �170 | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
to a flight out of local airports. Michael O'Leary also says the | :11:17. | :11:24. | |
Republic is losing out because of its 3 euros travel tax. Our | :11:24. | :11:30. | |
reporter is in Dublin. Ryanair operates out of the City of Derry | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
airport. What else did Michael O'Leary have to say about the UK | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
duty? He was talking on the publication of his latest passenger | :11:40. | :11:45. | |
numbers but he was looking more at the disparity between the levy and | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
what -- on what passengers leaving the Republic pay on passengers | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
leaving Northern Ireland. There have been calls for the air | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
passenger duty to be abolished and Michael O'Leary agrees. | :11:58. | :12:06. | |
Is should be scrapped in the UK. It causes huge damage. The UK tourism | :12:06. | :12:10. | |
industry has declined because it is losing visitors to France, Spain | :12:10. | :12:16. | |
and Italy. It is doing untold damage to air travel in the north | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
of Ireland, it should be trapped -- scrapped and we think there should | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
be no tax. For it was thought that the 3 euros | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
tax in the Republic was to be scrapped altogether. That was the | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
plan but there was a quid pro quo. The Minister for Transport said to | :12:35. | :12:38. | |
the art -- Airlines, increase the number of passengers coming to | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
Ireland and we will remove the tax. The minister said there had not | :12:43. | :12:51. | |
been sufficient commitment from the airlines. If it does happen it ups | :12:51. | :12:57. | |
the ante in what air passengers in Northern Ireland are currently | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
paying. It is hoped tens of thousands of | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
visitors will be attracted to Belfast next year when the sides | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
and sounds of shipbuilding are recreated in the Titanic Quarter. | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
A massive building called Titanic Belfast is to be ready in time for | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
the 100 anniversary of the ship's sinking. Maggie Taggart has been to | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
see the work in progress. 100 years ago Titanic floated | :13:21. | :13:27. | |
proudly before its tragic end in 1912. Around 3,000 workers | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
constructed it in Belfast and to date thousands of workers are | :13:31. | :13:37. | |
constructing this building. The signature project is calling �97 | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
million and promises to be on time. Estate agents say that location, | :13:42. | :13:47. | |
location and location of the most important factors and this location | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
is the unique selling point of Titanic Belfast. | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
When you face out northwards from the building, that is where the | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
Titanic was built. To your left is the river where it first set sail. | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
To the south was where the workers came every day. | :14:06. | :14:11. | |
From its windows, workers will have a better view Dundee's present-day | :14:11. | :14:17. | |
tourists. They will be able to look down on the dry dock and the slip | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
away. What you see before us is one of | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
the ship's holes. People can get an impression of exactly what it would | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
have been like. This is the first time use cameras | :14:33. | :14:40. | |
have been allowed in. The opening is in 20th April 12, 100 years | :14:40. | :14:47. | |
after it sank on its maiden voyage with the loss of 1500 lives. | :14:47. | :14:53. | |
Exhibitions will chart the life of Doug -- Belfast at the time, and | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
discovery of the ship on the bed of the Atlantic. | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
You can get a feel of the story itself and there is a shipyard | :15:03. | :15:08. | |
where you get on a car which takes you through the centre of the | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
shipyard, the smiles, sights and sounds. | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
-- the smell ofs. They say it will be finished in | :15:20. | :15:26. | |
April of next year, eight months away. Despite the fact that there | :15:26. | :15:30. | |
is so much construction going on, the building is becoming a talking | :15:30. | :15:37. | |
point a round the Titanic quarter. Two County Down men have put | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
themselves on the worldwide board game map. They take the players on | :15:41. | :15:46. | |
a streak -- strange journey, you are in a strange world balanced on | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
the top of four elephants which sits on the back of a giant turtle. | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett will recognise this as the Discworld and | :15:56. | :16:00. | |
the game "Guards! Guards!" has been based on the fantasy novels. It has | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
been given official approval but it has taken a long time to get to | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
this stage. But 20 years the two men who | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
designed this board-game have been working towards the day when people | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
all over year it -- the world will be playing at. | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
It was just something we thought about ourselves but as people | :16:20. | :16:27. | |
started to enjoy it we thought it could become something. Being a big | :16:27. | :16:32. | |
fan of Terry Pratchett's work, it means a lot that he liked it. The | :16:32. | :16:39. | |
last prototype we looked at, he said this is what it should like -- | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
look like. It was one thing for the author to | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
say he liked it, another to get a games company to produce it. | :16:47. | :16:52. | |
We did several designs over a year and a half and came back with the | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
5th or 6th version of it and tried to take all the boxes that the | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
company wanted us to take. We wanted to mix that up with the | :17:02. | :17:12. | |
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Discworld magic. "Guards! Guards!" is based on Sir | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
Terry Pratchett's Discworld series and it comes -- the name comes from | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
one of the titles. The game features 90 characters from more | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
than 20 of the books but I have been told you do not have to be a | :17:27. | :17:29. | |
fantasy fiction fan to enjoy playing at. | :17:29. | :17:39. | |
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At by have got it spot on -- they have got it spot on. It is quite | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
easy to dip in and I think I will read quite a few of the books now. | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
The game goes on sale next month and already the pair are working on | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
ideas for the next stage. It is a bit more complicated than | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
drafts! Next to the jockey who is riding to the rescue of his GAA | :18:01. | :18:08. | |
club. Austin O'Callaghan is speaking from | :18:08. | :18:12. | |
County Down. If you look at any sports club, | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
times are not easy, so when you have this man to lend a helping | :18:18. | :18:26. | |
hand, Tony McCoy. Does this mean you are coming out of retirement? | :18:26. | :18:32. | |
Definitely not. It would be nice if I could play football though! | :18:32. | :18:41. | |
to play for this club as a child. - - you used to. Yes, until I was | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
pretty much 15. It is nice to be able to give something back. | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
Obviously my brother and sister are still playing for the club and my | :18:50. | :18:58. | |
nieces and so on. We have your old coach, Raymond. Do you remember | :18:58. | :19:08. | |
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Tony playing? Was he any good? was, but very demanding. He said to | :19:11. | :19:17. | |
me, sorry, I won't be there for the match because I am learning to ride. | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
I did not think he would be such a success as today. How did you lose | :19:22. | :19:31. | |
him to racing? He thought it would be better than playing football. | :19:31. | :19:39. | |
This is the shirt, in the colours of Moneyglass. It is the blue and | :19:39. | :19:46. | |
yellow. Do you want to do the needful? Have I think there will be | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
a round of applause. We might be able to put on the boots. Who | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
knows? The Carling football despite Carling Premiership football season | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
has got under way. Linfield manager David Jeffrey has been giving an | :20:02. | :20:07. | |
enough -- in-depth interview to BBC Newsline. After a decade and a half | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
in charge at Windsor Park, by highs, the lows and the new appointments. | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
David Jefferies -- David Jeffrey is Linfield's longest serving manager. | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
He continues to divide opinion. For I do not know what people think | :20:25. | :20:32. | |
of me. In some ways I do not take it personally because it might be | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
that other teams don't like Linfield so they don't like the | :20:35. | :20:45. | |
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manager! But nobody can take away the time that I and the staff | :20:47. | :20:54. | |
around me have been at Linfield. We have won 29 trophies, 5 doubles. We | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
have won a clean sweep. They will never take that away. | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
He has just appointed a successor to Noel Bailey, one of the few | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
Catholics took captain the club. -- to captain. | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
Michael's religion has nothing to do with it. He is a Linfield player | :21:14. | :21:20. | |
and a very good one. He has matured phenomenally well. He was very much | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
the natural candidate. But clean sweep in 2006 was a high | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
point for Jeffrey but during his time as manager he has suffered a | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
marriage breakdown. Did the job contribute to this? It would be | :21:37. | :21:42. | |
wrong to say that the pressures of football do not affect your life, | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
but it would also be wrong, very wrong, to say that the journey | :21:48. | :21:55. | |
which my life has taken has been influenced so much by football. | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
As he embarks on a new season, it is the same old goal - more | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
silverware. Linfield away on Saturday. Full | :22:06. | :22:11. | |
coverage on BBC Radio Ulster at 3 o'clock. | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
There is a rumour that in a few minutes Tony McCoy is going to try | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
to kick a few points over the bar. I will believe it when I see it. | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
Enjoy the rest of your evening! Sporting moments and even the | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
simple things in life can be preserved forever in a photograph | :22:30. | :22:36. | |
and from tomorrow at a whole array of those images will be on show at | :22:36. | :22:37. | |
Belfast's first photography festival. | :22:37. | :22:42. | |
It is about creating a stage for local and international talent and | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
there will be a host of exhibitions. Our reporter has been to take a | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
look at one of them. This is one of a number of places | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
where you can check out some really fantastic photographs. With me is | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
one of the festival's organisers. Give me a flavour of what it is | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
about. The whole idea is to create an event which will have wide | :23:08. | :23:13. | |
appeal but what we are dealing with is a unique event, in that this is | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
the first ever international photographic festival to take place | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
in Northern Ireland. It was the dream of one individual two years | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
ago and it has taken two years to put together. The idea is that we | :23:25. | :23:29. | |
have a history of photography in Northern Ireland and we need to | :23:29. | :23:36. | |
make people aware of that. We have people like Donovan Wylie and what | :23:36. | :23:40. | |
we wanted to do with the festival was create a platform. We brought | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
not only local talent but fresh new talent from university accompanied | :23:46. | :23:50. | |
with international talent. These photographs are at surely from | :23:50. | :23:58. | |
Chicago, aren't they? A day are. -- they are. This was one of the | :23:58. | :24:05. | |
surprises for me. Probably this is in my top five. Really stunning. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
The presentation alone really does them justice. This is what we are | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
trying to do throughout the festival is reach out to a wider | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
audience with images like this that people can think, I can do that. | :24:19. | :24:24. | |
But everybody will have their own favourites. So lots going on. If | :24:24. | :24:33. | |
you have an eye for nice pictures and a head for numbers, -- are 36 | :24:33. | :24:42. | |
events over 10 days. -- and there are 36 events. | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
Time to find out if a change is on We had a nice day today, the sun | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
made a return, and we know how brilliant the local photographic | :24:55. | :25:01. | |
talent is because we have so many pictures sent in. It sounds like | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
some of those venues for local photographs will be something to do | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
if we had some rainy weather, which we will have tomorrow. Sunshine has | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
been the main thing, particularly across eastern areas. This is the | :25:14. | :25:23. | |
satellite picture at the moment. We are likely to catch some nice | :25:23. | :25:31. | |
sunset. This was last night. It will turn increasingly damp, the | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
cloud thickening up. Not too much rain initially but by morning it | :25:35. | :25:41. | |
will be more persistent and it will be quite wet. Look at the | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
temperatures, marched milder compared to last night and it will | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
probably feel quite sticky. -- much milder. It may make for some | :25:55. | :25:59. | |
interesting scenes in the morning. This is how it looked a couple of | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
mornings ago. Tomorrow morning, if you are driving over the hills, it | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
is likely to be quite misty with some hill fog are round. Persistent | :26:09. | :26:19. | |
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rain mainly down into the Belfast area. There will be some surplus of | :26:19. | :26:26. | |
water around if you are driving. Not particularly cold, though, | :26:26. | :26:30. | |
temperatures of 14 or 15 degrees in the morning. The rain gradually | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
peters out from the South, but it will be dull and gloomy, especially | :26:36. | :26:43. | |
over the moors. It changes later in the day, gradually brightening up | :26:43. | :26:48. | |
from the south and west, the rain turning more to showers, but those | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
becoming fairly few and far between as the afternoon wears on. Probably | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
quite a close field today. Some fresher weather for Friday, | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
temperatures of 17 or 18 degrees, but it is dry. A great start if you | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
are taking part in the walking Festival. At the weekend it will be | :27:08. | :27:17. | |
. Several thousand people from Northern Ireland could be affected | :27:17. | :27:21. | |
by the collapse of a holiday company which operated out of | :27:21. | :27:25. | |
Belfast International Airport. Up to 5,000 homes are lying | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
unfinished as a result of the property clash forced. | :27:30. | :27:35. | |
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is wheeled into court | :27:35. | :27:38. | |
charged with the killing of protesters. | :27:38. | :27:44. | |
More have -- more phone hacking allegations - Heather Mills says | :27:44. | :27:48. |