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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Noel Thompson. The headlines | :00:13. | :00:18. | |
this Friday evening: $WHITE Why a dramatic increase in the price of | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
alcohol is on the cards. A man described as a train spotter is | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
remanded on terrorism charges. Sir Reg Empey angers the Scottish | :00:28. | :00:32. | |
Nationalists with his views on independence. And caught on camera | :00:32. | :00:36. | |
- using CCTV to crack down on poachers. Rory McIlroy has problems | :00:36. | :00:41. | |
with the sand in Abu Dhabi but is still in contention. And we meet | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
the Belfast ice hockey chalking up a giant number of appearances | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
tonight. And finally the last weekend in January has arrived, | :00:48. | :00:58. | |
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find out if the weather will be wintry or hint at spring. The price | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
of alcohol could be about to soar. It's part of an initiative to | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
tackle of alcohol abuse by setting a minimum price, on both sides of | :01:05. | :01:08. | |
the border. Ministers in Belfast and Dublin hope it will be | :01:08. | :01:12. | |
introduced by the end of the year, and will mean that no one can sell | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
alcohol for less than around 50 pence per unit. A unit is | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
equivalent to half a pint of ordinary-strength beer. So will it | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
really have an impact? Natasha Sayee has been finding out. At the | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
moment a unit of alcohol can cost as little as 16 pence. It is cheap, | :01:30. | :01:35. | |
it is plentiful and both Stormont and the republic's Government plan | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
to stem its flow by making drinks like cider, beer and own brand | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
spirits less affordable. In Northern Ireland a bottle of strong | :01:45. | :01:52. | |
cider can be purchased for �2.30. Increasing the minimum price to 50 | :01:52. | :01:58. | |
pence a unit would make it �7. But according to the health ministers | :01:58. | :02:08. | |
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on both sides of the borderer the annual cost of alcohol abuse is 4.7 | :02:08. | :02:17. | |
billion euro. So will setting a minimum price make a difference? | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
is a silly tax, it is hitting the ordinary people. I don't think it | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
will do much good. What about yourself, will it affect how you | :02:27. | :02:32. | |
buy? No. If people are going to drink, they will find the money | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
somewhere. Not if they keep receiving money as registered | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
alcoholics, they will find a way. But the Department of Health think | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
it will worth. Our issue with price is some drinks are very affordable. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
Especially for young people. The effect to set a price would be to | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
increase that price and make the availability of that drink harder. | :02:54. | :02:58. | |
The plans should be in place by the end of the year. When the minimum | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
price of a unit of alcohol will be exactly the same on both sides of | :03:04. | :03:11. | |
the border. A man who has been described as a loner and a train | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
spotter has appeared in court on terrorism charges. He was arrested | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
near Downpatrick by the PSNI's serious crime branch. Our District | :03:16. | :03:24. | |
journalist Claire Savage reports. 27-year-old Ryan Lavery from | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
Downpatrick is accused of collecting information likely to be | :03:27. | :03:35. | |
of use to a person committing or me pairing - epreparing an act of | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
terrorism. The police say he had photograph of vehicles coming in | :03:39. | :03:47. | |
and out of this army baifplts he is accused of having a list of vehicle | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
registration numbers. Today at court, Ryan Lavery's defence argued | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
his client was a train spotter, a loaner and a nerd with no friends. | :03:56. | :04:03. | |
He said of his client, if he was put beside an airt - airport he | :04:03. | :04:11. | |
would take pictures of planes. The accused father wo, at the Baracks. | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
- works. The judge refused bail in case Ryan Lavery committed further | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
offences. He said a mie court judge could decide if he was a train | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
spotter. -- High Court judge. A bail application will be heard next | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
week. The former Ulster Unionist leader Reg Empey has been called | :04:31. | :04:33. | |
grossly irresponsible for claiming that independence for Scotland | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
could re-ignite conflict in Northern Ireland. The present | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
leader, Tom Elliott, recently got into bother when he said the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
Scottish Nationalist Leader Alex Salmond was a bigger threat to the | :04:41. | :04:50. | |
Union that the IRA. Here's Gareth Gordon. In tt Scottish Parliament | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
this week history beckoned. people who live in Scotland are the | :04:55. | :04:59. | |
best people too make decision about their own future O that there can | :04:59. | :05:06. | |
be no doubt. But in the House of Lords a former Ulster unionist | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
leader said independence for Scotland could spell dire | :05:10. | :05:15. | |
consequences for Northern Ireland. We have spent decades overcoming | :05:15. | :05:23. | |
nationalist terrorism. And we after years and years managed to settle | :05:23. | :05:33. | |
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down our community. I don't wish to exaggerate, but if the Scottish | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
nationalists were to succeed, it could reignite the difficulties | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
that we have managed to overcome. Those sentiments have not gone down | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
well in Scotland, where the Scottish nationalists. The words | :05:47. | :05:52. | |
used were daft, crazy and irresponsible. To use such language | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
in a situation in Northern Ireland, but over something as unrelated as | :05:57. | :06:05. | |
Scottish independence strikes me as simply daft. Sir Reg Empey is not | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
usually accused of being like this. One academic said he is surprised. | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
He is a constructive unionist voice normally and if anything a calming | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
influence. I think those remarks sounded very alarmist and almost | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
panic-stricken. And I don't think they were designed to instil self- | :06:27. | :06:31. | |
confidence in the unionist community, which at the best of | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
times needs little encouragement to feel fearful. However much Alex | :06:37. | :06:41. | |
Salmond would wish it was not so, it is clear the independence debate | :06:41. | :06:47. | |
will not be for Scotland alone. Still to come on the programme: I'm | :06:47. | :06:50. | |
live in Newcastle at a vintage car exhibition with a fascinating | :06:50. | :06:56. | |
Titanic twist. And as the countdown to the Six Nations gets underway, | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
I'm at the launch in Hillsbrough with Stephen Ferris, Paddy Wallace | :06:59. | :07:07. | |
and Tom Court. Must try harder! That's the verdict of the Education | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
Minister on the homework he handed out to the boards, asking them to | :07:10. | :07:14. | |
carry out an audit of primary and secondary schools, to help build a | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
picture of which ones, in these times of shrinking rolls, have a | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
secure future. But John O'Dowd is unhappy with the reports and has | :07:20. | :07:22. | |
asked the Boards to resubmit them. I asked our Education Correspondent | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Maggie Taggart if this was all about finding reasons to close | :07:25. | :07:33. | |
schools. Well the minister would deny that. He says he wants to make | :07:33. | :07:38. | |
decisions on the future, but he wants to know the facts first. That | :07:38. | :07:44. | |
is why he asked the five boards the -- to look at each school and they | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
have had three and a half months to come up with figures on the | :07:48. | :07:51. | |
finances, the number of students and the success or otherwise of the | :07:51. | :07:55. | |
schools. So that is what he has asked for. Burrless not happy with | :07:55. | :08:00. | |
the result. Why not stkph He has said that it is far from a list of | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
closures, but he has said that he wants to see what the prognosis is | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
for the schools and what recommendations the boards would | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
like to make. It seems the boards have given him the data and said, | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
right it is over to you, to make up you minds about what should happen. | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
But he wants them to make the proposals about what should happen. | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
There is a suggestion that he is not happy about the extent of the | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
financial information and it has been said to me that it may be cast | :08:29. | :08:38. | |
too rosaway glow for some schools. -- rosy a glow for some schools. | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
There has been some reaction. chair of the education committee | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
said the thing is a mess and although it is obvious some schools | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
will close, this system means that every school is worried and every | :08:50. | :08:57. | |
school is looking over their shoulder and the SDLP said the list | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
is masking a hit-list of schools for closure. That has been denied | :09:01. | :09:08. | |
by the department. Thank you. Love them or hate them, wind turbines | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
are becoming an ever more familiar sight across our landscape. To keep | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
on the right side of the communities who live around the | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
wind farms, developers offer funding for local projects. But as | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
our Fermanagh District journalist Julian Fowler has found out, | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
companies in Great Britain are paying out about four times more | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
than companies in Northern Ireland. It is common practice for renewable | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
energy company to pay money into a community fund so people beside | :09:30. | :09:36. | |
wind farms get something in return. Research today reveals a big | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
disParty between the amounts paid here compared to schemes in the | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
rest of the UK. The money paid depends on the amount of | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
electricity generated. Measured in megawatts a year. According to the | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
research a typical amount paid to a local community is �500 per | :09:55. | :10:02. | |
megawatt per year. In Scotland it is nearer �2,000 and sometimes more. | :10:02. | :10:07. | |
Annual contributions was lower than in the rest of the UK and we found | :10:07. | :10:12. | |
that models of ownship that exist in the rest of the UK don't exist | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
in Northern Ireland. So in Scotland and in England, and Wales, | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
communities might be able to own a turbine, part own a wind farm. | :10:21. | :10:26. | |
village in Scotland which has benefited is Fintry. When a | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
developer approached them to build turbines, they asked for an extra | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
to be added for the community. community council budget was around | :10:35. | :10:41. | |
�400 a year. We're now as long as the wind blows, looking, although | :10:41. | :10:48. | |
we haven't paid for the turbine at say 50 to 60,000 a year. Fintry | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
could receive more, enough to build a new school. These turbines | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
dominate the village in Northern Ireland, but one local community | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
group feels they should have got more. We were promised the village | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
would be able to get a �1,000 per turbine to benefit the community. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
With running projects and different events in our village and that we | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
would haven't to apply for the funding. But things changed when | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
the planning went through and the turbines started to go up. | :11:21. | :11:26. | |
community has to apply for a grant. One local renewable company is | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
advertising for its community fund for projects that are energy | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
efficient, or sustainable. Stormont has seat target to produce five | :11:35. | :11:41. | |
times more electricity from renewables by 2020 and that means | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
more turbines. But local communities will need to be | :11:44. | :11:54. | |
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convinced that they won't miss out Anyone trying to Bauch fish will | :11:59. | :12:04. | |
not just have the B-list to look out for or -- to Porch fish will | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
not just have the B-list to look out for. For those in the know this | :12:11. | :12:18. | |
is happiness. These anglers are hoping to win a | :12:18. | :12:26. | |
prize, but there is a problem. This lake has been decimated in recent | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
years because of poaching. Most of the fish that have been caught a | :12:34. | :12:41. | |
very small. The lake has been hit badly over | :12:41. | :12:50. | |
the last number of years. Myself and my brother would have fished | :12:50. | :13:00. | |
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this lake a lot. Last year we fished the lake and we got nothing. | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
There is no scientific evidence that poaching is affecting the | :13:08. | :13:18. | |
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stocks of fish. There was some legislation in place. It was not a | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
serious problem. In the last five years it has become more | :13:27. | :13:36. | |
significant. Their ages he is hitting back with cameras. Someone | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
is setting and met in the river. They are removing fresh from the | :13:41. | :13:50. | |
river. We have footage of anglers who have exceeded the limit. | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
this case poachers are using stones to create an artificial bank in a | :13:56. | :14:06. | |
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river. We can retrieve the footage to see what is going on. Back here | :14:08. | :14:18. | |
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This week is the 70th anniversary of their arrival of US troops in | :14:20. | :14:28. | |
Northern Ireland. The First Division's started to arrive in | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
January 1942 before they headed on to North Africa. The second batch | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
arrived in 1944 to train for the invasion of Europe. This exhibition | :14:38. | :14:44. | |
is to remember the impact of this day. The UK had been isolated. | :14:44. | :14:54. | |
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Allies in Europe had been beaten. With the arrival of these trips | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
there were powerful allies are visible in Northern Ireland. It was | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
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very heart-warming. And now for the sport. | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
We will be speaking to some of the Ulster rugby players are very | :15:22. | :15:30. | |
shortly. But first let us look at to Abu Dhabi golf Championship. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Rory mac four Roy noticed a mistake himself. He responded like a | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
champion. You saw the stance slightly closed | :15:42. | :15:52. | |
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there. For the second day running Rory McIlroy's radar went wrong. | :15:54. | :16:04. | |
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He paid the price. Two shot penalty. It was interesting. I did not get | :16:05. | :16:15. | |
off to the greatest of start. I battled back really well. I made a | :16:15. | :16:23. | |
stupid mistake on at nine. I played the back nine in very well. Overall | :16:23. | :16:33. | |
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it was not a bad score. That is really brave. This player is | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
leading the Northern Ireland contingent. | :16:41. | :16:51. | |
Graham Lyndall was a big mover. A three under-par round of 69 left | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
him all smiles. Darren Clarke did not make the cut. | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
Ireland's rugby squad are preparing for the start of the Six Nations | :17:02. | :17:08. | |
Championship which gets under way next weekend. | :17:08. | :17:14. | |
We have representatives of the Ulster contingent with us live. | :17:14. | :17:22. | |
We have mapped in here at the launch. -- we have them here at the | :17:22. | :17:27. | |
launch. You are in the form of your life at | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
the moment. That must augur well for the Six Nations? I am feeling | :17:32. | :17:42. | |
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good. I am part of a good team. I am playing well. I am feeling | :17:45. | :17:54. | |
confident and looking forward to the next two weeks. How will island | :17:54. | :18:04. | |
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cope without their talisman? -- how well Ireland cope? There is a lot | :18:06. | :18:16. | |
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of leadership. We will cope all right. The rivalry between Ireland | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
and Wales has been notable. Why is that? You see the players week-in | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
week-out. The competition is so fierce. Each team is capable of | :18:35. | :18:43. | |
beating the other. Much has been made about a game | :18:43. | :18:51. | |
been played on Easter Sunday. Is there an issue? It is not an issue | :18:51. | :19:00. | |
to the players. You are in the form of your life. It is the Grand Slam | :19:00. | :19:10. | |
achievable? We are not looking ahead of Wales. We will rest this | :19:10. | :19:18. | |
weekend. Looking fit and looking formidable. | :19:18. | :19:25. | |
Looking forward to it all starting. Tomorrow afternoon Coleraine fees | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
Crusaders in the Irn Bru Cup Final. Join me for live coverage on BBC | :19:29. | :19:35. | |
Two. We are in a good place at the | :19:35. | :19:45. | |
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moment. January has been good to us. Nothing inspires player more than | :19:48. | :19:56. | |
getting results. This year we have been competing in it every game. We | :19:56. | :20:02. | |
had too many draws in the league. On our day we are moving the ball | :20:02. | :20:10. | |
about well. That will be required in the final. We need to take the | :20:10. | :20:19. | |
game to the opposition. Graeme Walton was the first player to | :20:19. | :20:24. | |
represent the Belfast Giants ice hockey team. Nine years later he is | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
still an important part of his hometown side. Tonight the | :20:28. | :20:34. | |
Dundonald based skater reaches a milestone. | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
Graeme Walton is the kind of guy who set up goals rather than scores | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
them. That has changed recently in training. He has now scored four | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
goals over the past four weeks. That is more than he scored last | :20:50. | :20:55. | |
season. He is about to make his 500 appearance for the Belfast Giants. | :20:55. | :21:05. | |
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It is great. Hopefully in the future more guys will make it. | :21:08. | :21:15. | |
Their defence man is on sparkling form, but after 500 games is he | :21:15. | :21:24. | |
getting to the stage where enough is enough? Some players can play | :21:24. | :21:32. | |
for 30 years. I have got another year after this. You never know. I | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
am enjoying it now. The team that is playing well. We're top of the | :21:37. | :21:47. | |
league. 500 not out and top of the league. All is going well for the | :21:47. | :21:54. | |
Belfast Giants and Graeme Walton. They are hoping for a repeat of | :21:54. | :22:01. | |
2006 when they last won at the Elite League. | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
Carl Frampton has his defence of his title against Kris Hughes. It | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
will be a sell-out in London tomorrow. Carl Frampton is managed | :22:11. | :22:21. | |
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by Barry McGuigan. He is 5 ft 11. He is a southpaw. I | :22:25. | :22:33. | |
have been training with guys who are a bit heavier. I have been | :22:33. | :22:42. | |
sussing them out. I have come across every sort of style in the | :22:42. | :22:50. | |
160 amateur fight. Tomorrow night Tyrone will try to | :22:50. | :23:00. | |
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overcome Derry. The Tyrone boss was keen to achieve early silverware. | :23:00. | :23:10. | |
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You can re- energise yourself. Hopefully we can be part of that to | :23:11. | :23:21. | |
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re energising. I am proud of the players. I told you it would be a | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
busy weekend. We will be hearing a lot about the | :23:28. | :23:34. | |
Titanic this year. Tonight our reporter is in the Newcastle where | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
a ghost of a ship's past has appeared. | :23:38. | :23:46. | |
There are 52 exhibits in this car exhibition. The one that is | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
attracting all their attention is this vehicle. It is a Rolls-Royce | :23:52. | :24:01. | |
from 19 -- from 1910. It has strong links to the Titanic. | :24:02. | :24:11. | |
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The current owner of the vehicle will tell us more. | :24:12. | :24:18. | |
This car was ordered by the chairman of the Harland and Wolff | :24:18. | :24:28. | |
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shipyard. You can just imagine Hemp driving the car down to the | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
shipyard and looking at the progress of the Titanic as it was | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
being built. It would have been a sight to see in those days. What | :24:37. | :24:44. | |
happened in the intervening years? After he died the car was turned | :24:44. | :24:54. | |
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into an ambulance. At one time the car that was used on a golf course. | :24:56. | :25:02. | |
It was then converted into a breakdown vehicle. It was then sold | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
it in the 1950s to a dealer who restored it and sold it to somebody | :25:08. | :25:18. | |
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in America. It was used on a cricket pitch and on a golf course. | :25:18. | :25:26. | |
That is hard to believe. We had hoped to show you more but we have | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
Ramos of time. If you want to get down here it is on tonight and also | :25:32. | :25:41. | |
on Saturday and on Sunday. I wonder how many miles that as to | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
I wonder how many miles that as to the gallon! Here is the weather: It | :25:45. | :25:55. | |
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will be a mixed weekend. At the It will be chilly. A sharp frosts | :26:08. | :26:16. | |
to come. There could be some freezing fog. It will be a crisp | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
and a dry start to the weekend. Cloud and rain will move into | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
effect all of us by Sunday. Here is the weather front that is bringing | :26:28. | :26:38. | |
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in the rain. Cold air is being sacked in a from the Continent. -- | :26:44. | :26:54. | |
being taken in from the Continent. We may get some Hell's know. -- we | :26:54. | :27:04. | |
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may get some us know. -- snow. It is a cold start tomorrow. | :27:14. | :27:24. | |
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It will be dry. During the day the Reina will stay in the West but it | :27:29. | :27:39. | |
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will move eastwards tomorrow night. There may be some sleet for a time. | :27:40. | :27:48. |