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Good evening from BBC Newsline. The headlines this evening: Children | :00:21. | :00:25. | |
abused at two psychiatric hospitals, the shocking details emerge more | :00:25. | :00:31. | |
than 20 years on. Three hours of deliberations by the jury in the | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
Jennifer Cardy trial that no verdict yet. | :00:34. | :00:38. | |
The second UVF supergrass appears in court to give evidence against | :00:38. | :00:42. | |
14 men. The results of inquiry into a | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
minister adviser who offered political favours for sex. | :00:45. | :00:50. | |
It has been said to be a battle between Stormont and Tesco. I will | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
explain why other retail levy could be bad for small businesses, too. | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
We will have more settled weather. Will it last through the weekend? | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
Shocking allegations of physical and sexual abuse of children at two | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
psychiatric hospitals over 20 years up to the mid- 1990s. The details | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
are contained in a report which was produced three years ago but not | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
made public until the Irish News published a them this morning. This | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
afternoon, the Health Minister told his committee he is appalled at the | :01:24. | :01:29. | |
abuse. We will be talking live to Edwin Poots but first we have this | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
report. Children with mental illness and | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
behavioural problems were treated here in Lisburn. When it closed | :01:39. | :01:46. | |
around 20 years ago, services were transferred here. Now there are | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
claims children suffered horrific abuse at the hospitals in the 1980s | :01:50. | :01:56. | |
and 1990s. The news carries details of a confidential report which was | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
published three years ago. It was alleged three members of staff | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
sexually abused girls between 8 and 13. The investigation also found 14 | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
cases where it was claimed young patients were up sexually abusing | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
other children. The report authors said staff humiliated children when | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
disciplining them. This was alleged to have happened in 11 cases. The | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
issue was an unexpected item on the agenda of the Stormont health | :02:23. | :02:32. | |
committee this afternoon. I am appalled. I want to say how | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
sorry I am for the children and young people in may have been | :02:36. | :02:40. | |
subjected to abuse or mistreatment in these facilities. I would like | :02:40. | :02:46. | |
to reassure the committee that times have changed and safeguarding | :02:46. | :02:55. | |
has been put in. MLA has expressed deep concern. These are all | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
vulnerable children with mental health issues, with eating | :02:58. | :03:05. | |
disorders, children who were abused in the most horrific way, if the | :03:05. | :03:11. | |
newspaper today is even the tip of the iceberg. I was sick reading it | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
to this morning. A senior civil servant said there had been no | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
cover-up. A way we work is not to chase every | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
particular issue but to seek assurance we have a care guidance | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
and standards being applied. It is understood no-one has been charged | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
in connection with the alleged abuse. The Department of Health | :03:33. | :03:38. | |
officials here say police are still investigating. Prosecutions are | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
possible.. The Health Minister joins me now. | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
This report came out three years ago. There was concerns about sex | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
abuse then. Power, it never made the public domain? In terms of how | :03:56. | :04:01. | |
this arose, it was a complaint from one patient in at 2006. As a | :04:01. | :04:07. | |
consequence of that, the department have trawled all of the files. The | :04:07. | :04:12. | |
report was produced in 2009 and these matters have been taking it | :04:12. | :04:18. | |
to a higher authority. The most senior civil servant with in at the | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
Department of Health met with the police and discussed the cases. The | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
police are investigating and we will have to wait and see... I will | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
ask the question again. Why was it not put into the public domain? | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
Normally when you find issues that we believe may have had wrong doing, | :04:37. | :04:42. | |
of a criminal nature, you do not go to the public on it, you go to the | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
police. The police carry out their investigations. Are you doing go to | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
the DPP and follow a due process. That is the correct way of doing | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
things. There were two reports, the second into nursing standards. It | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
singled out an individual and said there have been a concern for rail | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
on a number of years. Nothing seems to have been done about that. | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
terms of all of these things, I would like to register I am | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
appalled and disgusted by what is alleged... Did you know about this? | :05:17. | :05:22. | |
No. A wide using that is the case? I only learnt about it today. It is | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
an ongoing case. I feel I should have known about it. I understand | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
the reasons why I did not. These are details of appalling sexual and | :05:32. | :05:38. | |
physical abuse over 20 years a new did not know about it? Let us be | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
clear. There is no issue here whatsoever that anything was being | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
covered up or hidden. What came to light was about one individual. As | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
opposed to the department covering up, they went through files and had | :05:54. | :05:58. | |
enough concern to go through them in detail and hand the evidence to | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
the police. That is not a cover-up, that is ensuring you follow a | :06:03. | :06:07. | |
process. In that respect, due process has been followed. We need | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
to see what the outcome of the investigation is. What action has | :06:12. | :06:16. | |
been taken to look at what happened to the other children who were in | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
these hospitals being treated at the time? As any processed -- | :06:22. | :06:28. | |
process been implemented? In terms of the investigation, that has been | :06:28. | :06:32. | |
handled by the police. In terms of how we care for individuals, that | :06:32. | :06:38. | |
will be done on a one-to-one basis. If care and requirement is needed | :06:38. | :06:44. | |
for these individuals, I that will be offered to them. Why has it not | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
been offered? This report came out three years ago. Are you content | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
your department has handled this the way should have? Many of these | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
people are largely vulnerable adults at this point. It may have | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
been something they have forgotten about a, they may have no at | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
recollection of it, in some instances, you may not wish to | :07:05. | :07:09. | |
raise something with them that is no longer in their minds. You have | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
to be careful how you handle up these cases. Thank you. | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
The jury in the Robert Black trial has been sent home for the night. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
It has been considering the case against a convicted serial killer | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
who is accused of murdering nine- year-old Jennifer Cardy in 1981. | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
Our reporter is at Armagh courthouse. At what time was the | :07:32. | :07:39. | |
jury sent home? The jury were sent home shortly | :07:39. | :07:47. | |
after 3:30am this morning. They had been sent out to consider their | :07:47. | :07:53. | |
verdict at 11:45pm. The summing up was done yesterday. That time, | :07:53. | :08:00. | |
justice reminded them they had to make their judgment clearly and | :08:00. | :08:05. | |
passionately. As you can imagine, there is a lot of evidence to be | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
sifted through. The judge just cleared up a few points before | :08:10. | :08:16. | |
sending them out, reminding them of their responsibility. He told them | :08:16. | :08:21. | |
there were two charges, one of kidnapping, one of murder. Their | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
first efforts should be towards returning at unanimous -- unanimous | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
verdict. He explained if they were unable to do that they would be | :08:31. | :08:39. | |
offered a majority verdict. We have not reached that stage. | :08:39. | :08:45. | |
They have not reached a verdict at this stage? | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
No. The judge did explain to them that he felt it was too early at | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
this stage in the case that has lasted so long and has so much | :08:54. | :08:59. | |
evidence, he felt it was too early to offer them a majority verdict at | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
this point. Whether that will happen tomorrow at some point, we | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
will see. The case has lasted over one month. It has been a long and | :09:07. | :09:11. | |
difficult process for the family. It ever's father, mother, her | :09:11. | :09:20. | |
brother and sisters were here. -- Jennifer's father. I suppose as | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
many as possible will be here tomorrow. Robert Black was returned | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
to prison where he is being held during the time of the trial. He is | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
being held in isolation. For everybody, it is a waiting game. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
Thank you. The second of the two main witnesses in the UBS to | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
progress trial has been given evidence. Ian Stuart is four years | :09:46. | :09:50. | |
older than his brother who was on the stand for seven weeks. The | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
brothers are testifying against 40 loyalists. Our reporter is | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
following the case. After almost two months and amid | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
continuing security, the first appearance of the second to UPS | :10:04. | :10:11. | |
supergrass. On the evidence of both of them a rest this whole trial. | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
41-year-old Ian Stuart entered wearing a black suit. He wears | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
glasses and speaks quietly and is smaller and slighter than his | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
younger brother. He gave evidence for 26 days. Ian Stuart identified | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
the men in the dock he claimed were UVF members and who took part in | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
the murder 11 years ago of the UDA man at Tommy English. The judge had | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
warned him not to look at the dock as he remembered names. Stuart | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
stared at the judge or his answers and told him why he and his brother | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
had given themselves -- themselves up to the police. I could not deal | :10:49. | :10:59. | |
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He also described the afternoon of Hallowe'en at 2,000 when he and a | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
group of others met at a flat here to plan the Tommy English murder. | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
He told how he, his brother and to that other men hijacked a taxi, how | :11:19. | :11:24. | |
it was used by a murder team of four other men to drive to the home | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
of Tommy English in the Ballyduff estate where he was shot dead in | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
front of his children. He is expected to complete his evidence | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
tomorrow. Then barristers for the 14 defendants begin their cross- | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
examinations. That is a process his younger brother Robert found very | :11:39. | :11:45. | |
difficult to endure over seven weeks. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
A review concerning a Stormont special adviser who was sacked | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
following allegations about his private life has found no evidence | :11:53. | :12:00. | |
that his activities influenced government policy. It found the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
former Church of Ireland clergyman has used his deeper mark -- | :12:03. | :12:10. | |
departmental computer for sexually explicit correspondents. | :12:10. | :12:15. | |
One moment he was an influential adviser, the next his private life | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
was in turmoil following allegations he had abused his | :12:18. | :12:25. | |
position for sexual favours. recent allegations regarding | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
special adviser Brian Crowe have been made his position untenable. | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
It is for this reason I have decided to terminate his employment | :12:36. | :12:41. | |
with immediate effect. At the time Brian Crowe issued a public apology, | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
admitting his use of online pornography but denying he | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
delivered favours for sex. A review of this highly unusual case has | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
been published. It said e-mails of a personal and sexually explicit | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
nature were found on a hard drive of his computer. They indicated he | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
had mixed his private life with official business. Crucially, | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
regardless of how he conducted his private life, he carried out his | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
official duties in a manner consistent with normal practice. It | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
adds, there was no evidence he in appropriately influence or sought | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
to influence policy making. Brian Crowe has been detained -- has | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
maintained a public silence. The Ulster Unionist Party will be | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
relieved about the outcome. It said it welcomed the findings which it | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
Still to come: as the waters recede camp more be done to prevent floods | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
like this? And on the eve of the Irish | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
presidential poll, we look at the legacy of Mary McAleese. | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
A woman has died after being knocked down by a bus in | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
Enniskillen. It happened in Wellington Road this morning. The | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
police have appealed for anyone who saw what happened to contact them. | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
As the flooding recedes the being ever more misery, we return to the | :14:09. | :14:15. | |
simple questions - can we predict which areas are more likely to | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
flood? Our Environment correspondent might have some of | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
those answers. Is there a predictable pattern? There has not | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
been in the past couple of weeks. The village that was flooded quite | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
badly recently, renewed it could flood because it has before and it | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
is in a flood plain. It flooded because the river overflowed but | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
why did the river overflowed then? It was not the worst rain they had | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
and that has been one of the problems. Most of the flooding was | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
a random flooding caused by conduits or trains getting blocked | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
up. Quite hard to predict. Although people say it is the winter and to | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
expect flooding, some of the worst flooding has been in the height of | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
summer. If you cannot predict it, cat can you do much to stop it? | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
can at least a plan to do with it and one of the big problems in | :15:12. | :15:22. | |
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Northern Ireland, for different agencies are involved. Three | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
different ministers dealing with it. Four different budgets. A lot of | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
the experts would say it is no way to start to put together an anti- | :15:32. | :15:39. | |
flooding plan, because everybody works to their own agenda. Take for | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
example the cases of people that have been flooded three or four | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
times and they are finding it more difficult to get home insurance. | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
For those people, should they be thinking -- we be thinking of | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
building more permanent defences? Rebroadcast a story of a woman | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
whose house had been flooded for the third or 4th time and we were | :16:02. | :16:11. | |
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told no defences would be built to protect them. Thank you. | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
Next to the war of words between Tesco and the Finance Minister over | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
his proposed levy on big retailers. Sammy Wilson said he would not be | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
bullied. Tesco has said he is planning the wrong tax at the wrong | :16:24. | :16:32. | |
time. Jim Fitzpatrick is live in Belfast city centre. | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
Retell, it is one of our biggest employers. One in 10 work in that | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
sector and the Finance Minister wants to put 20 % hike in rates on | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
big retailers and give the money to small businesses. When Sammy Wilson | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
picks a fight with the biggest retail lot of all, Tesco, it is | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
bound to make the headlines. Behold the Finance Minister in full combat | :16:56. | :17:06. | |
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mode. Tesco's response to this has spent absolutely pathetic. By his | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
own admission, the Minister deliberately picked to this fight | :17:10. | :17:17. | |
with Tesco. That is clever politics. Whenever objections come from a | :17:17. | :17:22. | |
broader base. The hike in rates affect big city centre operations | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
like Marks and Spencers and that could be bad for small retailers | :17:25. | :17:33. | |
also. Everything works well together. If you look at one sector | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
and damage it, it will have a negative and packed for the entire | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
city. Backers of the Levy are the Northern Ireland retail trade | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
association but they are funded and controlled by what are known as the | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
symbol retailers and the whole cell groups behind them. They stand to | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
benefit because their stores are small but the owners of the central | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
brand are bigger food retailers than Tesco on the island of Ireland. | :18:00. | :18:05. | |
We represent independent retailers of all kinds. We have nothing to | :18:06. | :18:11. | |
apologise for. This is not about competition. This is about a level | :18:11. | :18:17. | |
playing field. Getting an extension to the Small Business Rate scheme | :18:17. | :18:24. | |
which is supported by every organisation. To say that we are | :18:24. | :18:31. | |
somehow representing rivals of Tesco is not true. Retell employs | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
80,000 people in Northern Ireland, more than one in 10 of the working | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
population. With high street sales down, anything that affects the | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
future of this sector is of interest and importance to more | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
than Sammy Wilson and Tesco. The question is whether or not the | :18:47. | :18:52. | |
scheme is best suited to help small retailers. Take bids, they would | :18:53. | :18:59. | |
have to pay an extra �100 -- �100,000 in year in rates. Will | :18:59. | :19:04. | |
they recoup that by cutting jobs or will they even close one of their | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
flaws and escape the rate hike altogether? | :19:07. | :19:12. | |
The recession has hit the retail trade perhaps it has had a bigger | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
impact on the building trade. Young people who want to train cannot get | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
real work experience because employers cannot afford them and of | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
course there are fewer of those employers still in business. A | :19:24. | :19:29. | |
further education college has found a way to help the apprentices and | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
the groups at the same time. Even when these lads one | :19:34. | :19:38. | |
apprenticeship places they found employers could not give them work | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
experience because of the recession and the cost of insurance. That is | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
why a college has offered their services to community groups and | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
charities. The first project was an old boiler house being converted. | :19:51. | :19:58. | |
That project was where we started to look at other buildings that we | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
were not using call which needed to be refurbished. We have been very | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
happy that it has been as good as it has been. This is the sort of | :20:10. | :20:14. | |
wasted space which survival the college did not have the money to | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
renovate and that is when the apprentices came in to learn more | :20:17. | :20:25. | |
about plumbing, bricklaying and plaster. You learn more. You get | :20:25. | :20:34. | |
used to cites. It is just like a normal job. But while this is | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
giving free label -- Labour to charity groups, the construction | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
trade will be watching to make sure they are not losing business. | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
find that many of these organisations, funds are tired, so | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
they would not be doing these jobs if they were having to pay for them. | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
They provide the resources, we provide a labour force. Ironically, | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
these young men could went up with a wider range of skin its -- skills | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
than their classmates who have been lucky enough to get placements in | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
one trade. Mary McAleese will be packing her | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
bags soon, preparing to leave Aras an Uachtarain at the end of her 14 | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
year tenure as Irish President. Seven candidates are hoping the | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
electorate will pick them as her successor when the polls open | :21:21. | :21:31. | |
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Standing side-by-side with the Queen at the Garden of Remembrance. | :21:31. | :21:39. | |
Honouring those who died fighting for her island's freedom. For many, | :21:39. | :21:44. | |
these images define the greatest achievement of the McAlees prayer | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
doesn't say. One of which dedicated itself to building bridges, so it | :21:48. | :21:54. | |
is hard to believe that 14 years ago when she stood for election, | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
leaked documents suggested Mary McAleese was putting -- pushing a | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
Sinn Fein agenda. It enraged the lot of voters that just because she | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
was from north Belfast and she was a Catholic his family had suffered | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
extensively throughout the Troubles, that she was then being depicted as | :22:12. | :22:21. | |
this so-called tribal timebomb. Actually, won support from people | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
who would not have dreamt her have voting for her up to that point. | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
was ironic that the biggest controversy to engulf her | :22:29. | :22:34. | |
presidency stemmed from these comments she made after attending a | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
Holocaust memorial service in 2005. They gave to their children an | :22:39. | :22:43. | |
irrational hatred of Jews in the same way that people in Northern | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
Ireland transmitted to their children an irrational hatred of | :22:47. | :22:53. | |
Catholics, in the same way that people give an irrational hatred to | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
those of different colour. remarks provoked a storm of | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
criticism. I thought it was unfortunate that she should have | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
said that and initially there was no attempt of withdrawal. People | :23:04. | :23:10. | |
forget that. It was only later that she acknowledged it was clumsy and | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
ice will real dangers if that was left on the record. But she moved | :23:16. | :23:20. | |
on. She was very committed to this idea of bridge-building and she | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
made a lot of good efforts in the direction. Building bridges was to | :23:25. | :23:34. | |
be a formidable task. I do not like the President of the Irish Republic. | :23:34. | :23:40. | |
I do not like her because she is dishonest. Undeterred, Mary | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
McAleese reached out to Unionists and loyalists hosting guarding | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
parties and forging a close friendship with the UDA leader | :23:49. | :23:54. | |
Jackie McDonald. I had never called her President. It has always been | :23:54. | :24:04. | |
Mary. I was at her inauguration. I was more worried about her than | :24:04. | :24:13. | |
myself. She insisted that I went down. Fair play to her for doing | :24:13. | :24:19. | |
that. And for many the risks paid off. Insuring she would be | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
remembered as one of foreign's great presidents. If she | :24:22. | :24:30. | |
overwhelmed us with her know how, the way she could carry it off. Not | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
fussy but perfect in the role. She is ending on such a high note. I do | :24:36. | :24:45. | |
not know what she will do with herself now. She will miss it and | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
we will miss her. So much. Certainly a hard act to follow. | :24:54. | :24:58. | |
Tomorrow's Hearts and Minds will have more on the Mary McAleese | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
legacy on BBC Two at 7:30pm. On Friday we will have results of the | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
Friday we will have results of the presidential poll. Now the weather. | :25:06. | :25:11. | |
It looks like we will hold on to the more settled, slightly drier | :25:11. | :25:16. | |
conditions for the couple of days. Just looking at the satellite | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
picture and Northern Ireland did not fare too badly with lots of dry | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
and bright weather. Elsewhere in the UK, there were further showers | :25:24. | :25:29. | |
in Scotland, the West of England and the west coast of Ireland. This | :25:30. | :25:37. | |
evening, those showers will fizzle away. Temperatures stay on the mild | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
side with seven for nine degrees. Around midnight, the wind could | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
pick up and it could be asked to gale force but it will ease. | :25:46. | :25:53. | |
Tomorrow is looking like a great die -- des. Minute drive. Lot of | :25:53. | :25:57. | |
brightness filtering in. Good spells of sunshine particularly in | :25:57. | :26:04. | |
the north and around the east coast. Temperature wise, just hitting the | :26:04. | :26:10. | |
teens, 13 in the east and 11 and 12 elsewhere. The cloud will start to | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
thicken in the West and start to push eastwards. There might be | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
spots of rain across the West that they will ease. The East holding on | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
to the best of the bright weather. Overnight, high pressure will build | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
and they could be some fog on Friday but that will clear. Friday | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
looks like the best date of the week. It will be dry and bright | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
with good spells of sunshine. Highs between 10 and 12 degrees. This | :26:38. | :26:45. | |
weekend, cloud will increase. Winds will increase also. Temperatures | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
will be 14 or 15 degrees. It is looking like rain on Saturday and | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
the remnants of that rain might still be with us on Sunday. | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
Finally a reminder of the stories making our headlines. Details have | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
making our headlines. Details have emerged of sexual and physical | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
abuse of children into psychiatric hospitals more than 20 years ago. | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
The Jennifer Cardy murder trial, the jury had been sent home for the | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
night. The second of two brothers giving | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
evidence in the loyalist Supergrass trial has taken the stand for the | :27:20. | :27:22. | |
first time. European leaders have gathered for | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
an emergency summit in Brussels, aimed at tackling the euro-zone | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
debt crisis. Hour late summer is at 10:25pm. You can keep up-to-date | :27:33. | :27:40. |