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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Noel Thompson and Donna | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
Traynor. The headlines this Wednesday | :00:19. | :00:24. | |
evening: Workers braced as hundreds of jobs set to go at Ulster Bank - | :00:24. | :00:34. | |
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we have the very latest. Passengers have a lucky escape as a | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
bus crashes into a stop in Belfast city centre. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
Police still don't know what caused a mystery blast in Londonderry | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
which was heard several miles away from the city. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Will the Stormont executive have to learn how to subtract one | :00:49. | :00:52. | |
department? On a big European week for Ulster | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
rugby, a World Cup winner commits his long-term future to Ravenhill. | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
And a cold front coming south tonight will bring some wet weather, | :00:58. | :01:06. | |
but for how long? I'll tell you shortly. | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
First tonight, speculation is mounting that the Ulster Bank is | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
poised to make a major announcement which will see hundreds of staff | :01:12. | :01:19. | |
north and south of the border. - - lose their jobs. Our business | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
correspondent, Kevin Magee, joins us live from outside the Ulster | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Bank's headquarters in the centre of Belfast. Kevin, what can you | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
tell us? The chief executive to date had a meeting with the first | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
and Deputy First ministers to discuss lending but it is also | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
likely that the issue of job losses was also discussed. A major | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
announcement is expected tomorrow and staff arriving at work tomorrow | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
expect to be told the extent of the expected job cuts on both sides of | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
the border. A what might be the extent of the losses? Well the most | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
realistic estimate is between 609 hundred people could lose their | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
jobs on the island of Ireland. That works out at between 10 and 15 per | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
cent of the total workforce. The bank employs around 6000 people, | :02:11. | :02:18. | |
2000 of them here in Northern are none. So between 203 hundred people | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
here could be affected. There are where a lot of job losses a few | :02:23. | :02:30. | |
years ago, will staff be surprised that the extent of this round? | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
is correct, staff have been here before. What they do not know it is | :02:34. | :02:39. | |
the extent to which the job cuts will take place. What they will be | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
interested to know is the extent and also the circumstances behind | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
them. Are they likely to be voluntary or compulsory | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
redundancies? Two people were taken to hospital | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
in Belfast this afternoon when a Translink Metro Bus crashed into a | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
bus shelter. It happened on Queen Street in the City Centre. Will | :02:59. | :03:05. | |
Leitch reports. Translink said the accident | :03:05. | :03:10. | |
happened just after a quarter past took this afternoon as people were | :03:10. | :03:15. | |
waiting for the bass. The single- decker bus appears to have pulled | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
out around another double-decker and then tried to cut sharply into | :03:20. | :03:25. | |
the stock. For whatever reason, in pulling in the bus struck the bus- | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
stop, knocking it over partially and shattering panes of glass. | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
Fortunately none of the three passengers waiting inside the | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
shelter were seriously hurt. The bust did not strike the passengers. | :03:38. | :03:44. | |
Workers in nearby shops came out to help immediately after the accident. | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
Two women were taken to hospital thought to be suffering from minor | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
cuts and bruises and shock. The other was able to walk away. | :03:55. | :04:05. | |
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just pulled out. I thought he had gone into the kerb. Then the | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
pavement slabs had left it up. Police were taking measurements at | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
the scene at this afternoon as the debris was cleared up. Queen's | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
Street has now been reopened. Translink say there will be a full | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
investigation. The cause of a loud explosion in | :04:24. | :04:27. | |
Londonderry yesterday evening is still unclear. People living in the | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
Spencer Road and Fountain Hill areas of the city had to leave | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
their homes. They were only allowed back in this afternoon. The police | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
carried out extensive searches for much of the day. Our north west | :04:42. | :04:50. | |
reporter, Keiron Tourish, reports. Police were trying to establish the | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
exact location of the explosion occurred at around teatime | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
yesterday. Last night it led to the evacuation of several homes. | :04:59. | :05:05. | |
Residents stayed with relatives or in a local church hall. But some | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
opted to stay in their homes in spite of the alert. We had | :05:09. | :05:18. | |
different reports that a tyre blew up on a lorry. We knew the general | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
area it came from. The police have now confirmed that a number of | :05:23. | :05:29. | |
officers where in the area yesterday afternoon. Around about | :05:29. | :05:34. | |
the same time there were reports of masked men being seen near by. | :05:34. | :05:40. | |
Police say that is why they took the decision to evacuate the area | :05:40. | :05:45. | |
after the loud explosion. But across the River Foyle on the City | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
side, some businesses here are convinced there is a more innocent | :05:49. | :05:54. | |
explanation. Workers at a tyre depot rushed outside after hearing | :05:54. | :05:59. | |
allowed bang just around 5 o'clock. Moments earlier a large lorry had | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
driven past. There was a cloud of white smoke so I went down to see | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
if any damage had been done. The place was covered in it rubber from | :06:09. | :06:16. | |
the tyres. The hold will pulls off the lorry. Even the man next door | :06:16. | :06:25. | |
thought it had been a bomb. It broke all the windows. We had bombs | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
before or during the Troubles but I never heard anything like this. We | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
were convinced that there had been a bomb in the street. Thank God | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
nobody was hurt. At lunch time today residents were allowed back | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
into their homes and businesses opened again in this part of the | :06:42. | :06:46. | |
waterside. This area of waste ground will still be cordoned off | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
for the next few days as police searches continue. | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
A shake-up at Stormont is on its way with the Department responsible | :06:55. | :06:59. | |
for our universities and colleges set to be scrapped. The First and | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
Deputy First Minister say it's just the start as they seek more | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
efficient government. Some other Executive parties are complaining, | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
but their efforts at negotiations proved to be a lesson in power. Our | :07:09. | :07:15. | |
political correspondent, Martina Purdy, has this report. Being | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
summoned to the castle for talks can be a bit like going to the | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
headmaster's office. You can state your case but it is clear who is in | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
charge. And there was a problem to be resolved - who should be justice | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
minister. Should it be David Ford? He got the job to stop him fighting | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
between the DUP and Sinn Fein. Here is what the first minister had to | :07:38. | :07:43. | |
say about the problem. This issue is one of the mechanisms of | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
government and we do not wanted to get in the wake of the real | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
business of government. We were not going to allow this to lie around | :07:54. | :08:00. | |
until the last day. ABBA Castle other solutions were explored. Keep | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
David Ward in the job a little longer. But other parties cried | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
foul, saying the Alliance party was getting the job from the DUP and | :08:09. | :08:14. | |
Sinn Fein and not from the voters. I'm not the teacher's pet. We | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
agreed with them a programme that would be put into implementation by | :08:19. | :08:25. | |
an alliance Party minister. We have also disagreed with both of them at | :08:25. | :08:33. | |
times. But the Alliance Party won its second peak - - second place in | :08:33. | :08:41. | |
the elections. The other parties cried it was not fair. We listen to | :08:41. | :08:47. | |
what we have considered to be legitimate complaints articulated | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
by the SDLP and Ulster Unionists about a party that had less | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
electoral support in the assembly elections. Off after talks it is | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
now being proposed that the employment and learning department | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
be scrapped. This pleased the Ulster Unionist Party. We have been | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
successful in highlighting that inequality and we are pleased that | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
other parties have listened. But the SDLP is still upset that the | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
rules of the Good Friday agreement were put aside in the first place | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
and is not convinced that the solution is going to work either. | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
There is a sense that people are making it up as they go along to | :09:26. | :09:33. | |
fix situations that are lies. That is not a principled approach to | :09:33. | :09:37. | |
democratic politics. Party is like these can submit their views to the | :09:37. | :09:42. | |
first and Deputy First Ministers by 5pm on Monday. But Peter Robinson | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
and Martin McGuinness are powerful enough to do what they want and do | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
not seem to anticipate a backlash from the universities and colleges | :09:51. | :09:55. | |
that their department is being scrapped. | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
Our education correspondent, Maggie Taggart, has more on that. There is | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
no anticipated backlash but what are people sank on the ground? | :10:07. | :10:14. | |
is not what I have been hearing. The problem is not getting rid of a | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
department, but if you scrap this department, who takes on the | :10:18. | :10:23. | |
different duties of that department. If you're talking about jobs, | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
higher and further education, the most natural department is the | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
Department of Education, and further education. But everyone I | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
have spoken to today opposes that. People in further education | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
colleges and universities have spoken to me to date and the | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
majority of people involved seem to think they would be better off not | :10:47. | :10:55. | |
in the Department of Education. They want to be linked to the jobs. | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
The before, at further-education and training, beware in separate | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
departments. So to save money, is this not just an exercise in | :11:03. | :11:09. | |
reverting back to what was there before? Further and higher | :11:09. | :11:11. | |
education and school education used to be together. But the latest | :11:11. | :11:16. | |
thinking is that you should align be jobs and employment prospects | :11:16. | :11:22. | |
with the organisation's training or education young people for that | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
employment. That seems to most people to be the most natural mix. | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
And what is your reckoning on the way that the portfolios will be | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
shared out? It has been said that these two departments will take | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
over the duties. But it has not actually been set in stone. There's | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
bound to be a lot of lobbying from the universities and colleges who | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
do not want to be seen as second best. They are worried that other | :11:53. | :11:58. | |
departments may see them as the Cinderella of education. Clear | :11:58. | :12:02. | |
early more to come on this. And later in the programme, we | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
focus on secondary school education and what could be a wholesale | :12:05. | :12:09. | |
change in rural areas. You're watching BBC Newsline, still | :12:09. | :12:16. | |
to come on the programme. As three Fermanagh schools announced plans | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
to close, can rural secondary schools survive? And out with the | :12:23. | :12:29. | |
old and IND with the new. Getting ready for the digital switch-over. | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
The trial of two men accused of murdering the PSNI officer Stephen | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
Carroll has been told that he died from a bullet wound to his head. | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
The state pathologist for Northern Ireland reported the findings after | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
carrying out a post mortem examination. Constable Carroll was | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
shot after responding to a hoax emergency call in Craigavon in | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
March 2009. Our reporter Natasha Sayee is following the case and has | :12:49. | :12:58. | |
The state pathologist took to the witness stand today and confirmed | :12:58. | :13:01. | |
he had carried out a post-mortem examination on the body of | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
Constable Stephen Carroll the day after the killing. He said that he | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
was a help the man for his age barb that he had died as a result of a | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
bullet wound to the head, which would have been rapidly fatal. The | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
court heard from a number of forensic police officers, who had | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
carried out searches in the Craigavon area after the killing. | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
One told the court that during searches in a pine Bank estate, he | :13:27. | :13:34. | |
had find an AK- 47 assault rifle, wrapped in clingfilm and hidden | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
underneath an oil tank. The prosecution claimed this is the | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
weapon that was used to kill Constable Carroll. Police officers | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
who had searched the homes of the accused also gave evidence and told | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
the court that they had seized a number of items ranging from | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
clothing to mobile phones to video cameras, as well as swabbing the | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
properties for DNA and gunshot residue. In the dark, Brendan | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
McConville from Craigavon and John Paul Whitten from Lurgan sat with | :14:04. | :14:10. | |
their own files, taking notes and conferring. They both denied the | :14:10. | :14:15. | |
murder and the trial continues in the morning. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
The two men charged with the murder of Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
last year have appeared in court. The daughter of the Tyrone GAA | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
manager, Mickey Harte, was found dead in her hotel room on her | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
honeymoon. The police believe the newly-wed was strangled after | :14:27. | :14:31. | |
interrupting a burglary. Avinash Treebohun and Sandip Moneea have | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
pleaded not guilty to murdering the 27-year-old last January. The trial | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
is due to start on 22nd May. It is not certain if Michaela's husband, | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
John McAreavey, will have to attend. The police have failed in a court | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
action to force the BBC to handover video of a Real IRA parade in | :14:52. | :14:55. | |
Londonderry last Easter. The PSNI claims the material could help them | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
identify the 10 masked men, one of whom delivered a speech threatening | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
the Queen ahead of her visit to Dublin, and anyone supporting the | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
police. The court was told the nearest police officer to the event | :15:06. | :15:11. | |
was more than a mile away in Strand Road. The judge ruled against the | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
police, saying they failed to prove the video would be of substantial | :15:14. | :15:20. | |
value to their investigation. Are we about to see the beginning | :15:20. | :15:22. | |
of the end for rural secondary schools? Recommendations on the | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
future of all Catholic post-primary schools are due to be published | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
next month. The principals of three schools in County Fermanagh have | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
already told parents that the only way they will survive is by merging | :15:32. | :15:42. | |
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into one. On their own, none of these schools | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
meet the criteria for pupil numbers or offer the full range of courses | :15:46. | :15:56. | |
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for 11-19 year olds. This school The principles of these schools | :16:01. | :16:05. | |
have told parents they support the plan for a merger, to form one | :16:05. | :16:10. | |
Catholic post-primary schools in rural South East Fermanagh. They | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
say they have to take account of the educational and financial | :16:13. | :16:17. | |
challenges and to make sure new arrangements were viable | :16:17. | :16:22. | |
unsustainable. It would mean the closure of two schools. It is a sad | :16:22. | :16:28. | |
day for the community here. It is a sad day for me personally. Myself | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
and a previous principal work so hard for 32 years to keep the | :16:32. | :16:37. | |
school open and to protect. We left no stone unturned to keep the | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
numbers up and to keep the quality of the education of, and to enable | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
the students and the community to achieve. Parents told me that the | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
closure of the school would be a tragedy. They could not understand | :16:49. | :16:53. | |
why they school with good results should have to close. They have | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
been told the plan will proceed if the Catholic grammar schools in | :16:57. | :17:02. | |
Enniskillen end academic selection. If this merger goes ahead it could | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
ensure the survival of one of the school's most likely in Lisnaskea. | :17:07. | :17:12. | |
There are no guarantees. A final decision rests with the Department | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
of Education and they could still decide that in future, all | :17:15. | :17:21. | |
secondary pupils in Fermanagh are taught at a school in Enniskillen. | :17:21. | :17:27. | |
A World Cup winner has committed his future to Ulster Rugby. | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
Now, the sport. Four years ago, Ruan Pienaar was | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
part of the all-conquering Springboks squad. Today, the | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
talented South African signed a contract extension which will keep | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
him at Ravenhill until June 2014. After careful consideration, | :17:40. | :17:50. | |
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second-choice scrum half Paul Marshall has also put pen to paper. | :17:52. | :18:00. | |
He is one of Ulster's most influential players. He has decided | :18:01. | :18:07. | |
to sign a new two-year contract. am excited to stay longer. I have | :18:07. | :18:14. | |
enjoyed my first two seasons over here. I am glad that the club is | :18:14. | :18:20. | |
moving forward. We are starting to show our true potential. It would | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
be special to be part of it for another two years. It is an | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
ambitious club and everybody knows where they want to be in the next | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
couple of years and what they want to achieve. It will be special for | :18:30. | :18:35. | |
me to be part of those plans. Ulster fans have reason to cheer. | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
The scrum half position looks strong as Paul Marshall has also | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
signed a two-year extension. When you do negotiations you weigh up | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
all your decisions. I feel like I am enjoying rugby at the minute and | :18:49. | :18:52. | |
outside rugby as well, I have so many things here that I laugh and | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
growing up in Ulster, you want to play for Auster. -- that I'd love. | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
I want to play for Ulster. I want to enjoy rugby and keep trying to | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
play well. The friendliest of rivalries is set to continue for | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
another few years. Following his public pre-Christmas | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
spat with Barry Hearn, Antrim's Mark Allen has told BBC Newsline | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
that he and the man in charge of world snooker have now settled | :19:16. | :19:22. | |
their differences. Allen had called for Hearne to resign, but they've | :19:22. | :19:32. | |
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since shaken hands and now agree to disagree. | :19:33. | :19:39. | |
Mark Allen has never been shy about speaking his mind. The gaffer tape | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
moment during last month's UK Championship was his a humorous way | :19:43. | :19:48. | |
of telling the public that he would not be silenced. His criticisms of | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
Barry Hearn's running of the sport attracted attention at the time but | :19:52. | :19:56. | |
now, a face-to-face meeting between the pair to clear the air appears | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
to have resolved some of the issues. He saw me as a silly little boy and | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
I saw him as a dictator. We know now that neither of those are true. | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
It is one of those things. I will have to concentrate on playing | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
snooker and he will have to concentrate on making the money. | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
The last bit comes with a blunt bottom line. It is my way or the | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
highway, as they say. Mark is entitled to his opinions. The | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
little chap we had was very good at opening his mind to, where does he | :20:30. | :20:34. | |
want to be? Does he want to be a superstar in an ever-expanding | :20:34. | :20:40. | |
global sport? Or does he want to go back to billiard rooms and snooker | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
parlours and eat out a living? His prize money this year is probably | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
double what he earned in the last couple of years so why must be | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
doing something right. We had a very frank and open and friendly | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
exchange of views. What is the biggest worry you would have about | :20:55. | :21:00. | |
the changes he is proposing? Getting away from the traditions of | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
the sport, shot clocks and people being rowdy and drinking. I do not | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
think that is what people need. I think he knows that but he also | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
knows that as a business you have to try new things. Snooker was a | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
dying sport for many years before Barry took over. He has to try new | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
things but hopefully before -- after he tried them and realises | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
they are not for everyone, he might go closer to the traditions of the | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
sport. He calls it as he sees it. Mark Allen got engaged on Christmas | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
Day so if he is a man of tradition I imagine he got what -- down on | :21:37. | :21:43. | |
one knee! It's just 10 months until the | :21:43. | :21:50. | |
digital switch-over. It is based at the changing the way we get a | :21:50. | :21:54. | |
signal to our TV from analogue to digital. It means we will have a | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
lot more channels to watch, but if your TV is not ready by October, | :21:57. | :22:07. | |
you won't be able to see a thing. Television has come a long way over | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
the years. Constantly evolving, with technology -- with technology | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
as time has gone on, it has got ready for its biggest change to | :22:16. | :22:21. | |
date, the digital switch-over. 85% of people in Northern Ireland | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
already have digital television sets. There are a large proportion | :22:25. | :22:29. | |
of the population who are not go through with it at all. Those are | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
the people we are trying to get through the help scheme. 300,000 | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
people in Northern Ireland are entitled to some kind of help, | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
technically and financially. They include the over 75s. Those are | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
spoke to are not sure if they are ready for the switch-over or not. | :22:48. | :22:56. | |
Never heard of it. I see things on the TV but it doesn't register with | :22:56. | :23:03. | |
me. I just put the television on and if there is anything I want to | :23:03. | :23:09. | |
see it is on. How can you tell if you are ready? It all depends on | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
what you can see on your television. If you can see a menu that looks | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
something like this and you have more than 10 channels, then you do | :23:18. | :23:22. | |
not need to do anything. Even if you don't have all of these | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
channels at the moment, it doesn't mean you need a new TV set. Unit -- | :23:28. | :23:37. | |
you do need to get ready. The basic thing is, 95% of televisions will | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
have eight review box but then if they were built in the last three | :23:41. | :23:51. | |
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years. Brash a free you barks. Anything prior to that. -- You will | :23:53. | :23:59. | |
need to buy a set-top box. For those who are still not sure, | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
there is a bath during Northern Ireland this month with more | :24:02. | :24:12. | |
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I still can't even programme the It is like summertime. Explain | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
everything! We got temperatures more normal for | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
springtime. Double figures for many of us. The bad news is it will get | :24:29. | :24:35. | |
cooler over night. Today we had a lot of cloud around. A cloud | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
prevented the sunshine from coming out. But temperatures did not | :24:38. | :24:45. | |
struggle. This evening, a cloud sticks around. Patchy light rain at | :24:45. | :24:50. | |
times, especially during the early hours of Thursday, with a cold | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
front pushing south. It will clear up by breakfast time tomorrow. We | :24:58. | :25:03. | |
will manage to avoid any frost. A cloudy start tomorrow but after | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
that, we can look forward to bright and sunny weather. It will feel | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
colder with cool air coming in behind the cold front tonight. As | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
we go into the second part of the day they cold front drifts south | :25:17. | :25:23. | |
bringing cloud and sunshine afterwards. Light when but it will | :25:23. | :25:33. | |
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be cooler. -- a light wind. It will not feel too bad outside. More of | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
the same into the evening. Clear skies for the first part of | :25:39. | :25:44. | |
tomorrow evening means it will feel much colder, especially in parts of | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
the East, where we will have clear skies. Temperatures dipping below | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
zero for a while. Temperatures recovering by Friday morning. There | :25:56. | :26:03. | |
could be a touch of frost under clearer skies in some places. | :26:03. | :26:11. | |
Friday will be a similar day, more cloud but bright and sunny spells. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
Fairly light winds and temperatures of around seven degrees. More of | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
the same into the weekend. Mostly dry. Cloudy at times but sunshine | :26:20. | :26:25. | |
and fairly light winds. Cold by night and cooler by day. By Sunday, | :26:25. | :26:31. | |
we could see highs of five degrees. Bring out the winter willies for | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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that! Followers on Twitter. Hundreds of jobs could be cut at | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
Ulster Bank, 0 and third of the border. | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
Passengers and pedestrians had a lucky escape today when a -- | :26:53. | :26:58. | |
crashed in Belfast city centre. It is not clear what caused the | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
huge buying in Londonderry which led to a security alert in the | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
Waterside area of the city. A private company which are fitted | :27:06. | :27:09. | |
more at low grade breast implants than any other has refused to | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
replace them. It says Pierre p in plans were approved by the medical | :27:14. | :27:18. |