:00:21. > :00:27.Good evening. In is BBC Newsline. The headlines. A police officer's
:00:27. > :00:31.mobile phone falls into the hands of dissident republicans. Scrub it
:00:31. > :00:36.out in public, the warning for midwives who smoke at work. After
:00:36. > :00:41.the drowning of a man who went clubbing at the odyssey, a move to
:00:41. > :00:45.ban cheap drink promotions. Why computer technology will make
:00:45. > :00:49.learning easier for children at rural Irish speaking schools.
:00:50. > :00:52.Cleared of foul play. Ulster Stephen Ferris is free to play for
:00:52. > :00:56.Ireland in rugby Six Nations Championship. And there has been a
:00:56. > :01:05.wet end to the day but how long will the rain last? I will tell you
:01:05. > :01:08.shortly. People often lose their mobile phones but it is a different
:01:08. > :01:12.scenario when the phone belongs to a police officer. It is alleged to
:01:12. > :01:15.have end up in the hands of dissident republican, the Irish
:01:15. > :01:20.News today accomplishs photographs from a policewoman's phone and said
:01:20. > :01:25.the mobile contained text messages with details of police operations.
:01:25. > :01:29.The Policing Board wants a report on the matter. According to the
:01:29. > :01:32.Irish News there were hundreds of photographs on the phone featuring
:01:32. > :01:36.the officer who owned it and her colleagues. This picture shows the
:01:36. > :01:40.constable on a speed boat during the Tall Ships visit to Belfast
:01:40. > :01:48.several years ago. There is also a photo of her drinking champagne on
:01:48. > :01:52.a jet. And another picture shows two officers in the Throne Room.
:01:52. > :01:56.The newspaper says the phone ended up with a dissident republican
:01:56. > :02:00.group. We are satisfyed the material is authentic, we are
:02:00. > :02:05.satisfied it does refer to a serving police officer. I think
:02:05. > :02:08.some serious issues arise from it. As well as the photos the phone
:02:08. > :02:12.reportedly contained text messages with details of police operation,
:02:12. > :02:16.the Policing Board says it is concerned about that, and has asked
:02:16. > :02:22.the PSNI for a report. I would have thought there would have been a
:02:22. > :02:25.general ban on using personal phones while they are on duty, as a
:02:25. > :02:29.police officer. Has there been training round that? I don't know,
:02:29. > :02:32.these are all questions which we will be clearly ask the Chief
:02:32. > :02:36.Constable or whoever comes to give us a report. It is understood the
:02:36. > :02:41.phone went missing while the officer was off duty, and she
:02:41. > :02:46.reported the loss to her superiors. In a statement the police say as
:02:46. > :02:52.this was not a work mobile phone, there has been no breech of police
:02:52. > :02:55.network security. The statement goes on. We expect the highest
:02:56. > :02:58.standards of our officers and are committed to investigating this
:02:58. > :03:02.matter thoroughly. The threat from dissident republicans remains
:03:02. > :03:05.severe. Last month they tried to murder a soldier in North Belfast,
:03:05. > :03:09.but police will take comfort from the fact that while dissidents may
:03:09. > :03:16.have had the phone for more than a year they do not appear to have
:03:16. > :03:18.been target police officers by using the information. A senior
:03:18. > :03:21.midwife at the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital has told staff
:03:21. > :03:25.if they are going to smoke at work, they should make sure they are not
:03:25. > :03:30.seen by the public. An e-mail leaked to the BBC says a comet
:03:30. > :03:34.plaint was made about a staff member seen smoking while wearing
:03:34. > :03:39.theatre scrubs, the director of the royal college of midwives says it
:03:39. > :03:43.is shocking. It is all about striking the right balance.
:03:43. > :03:48.Healthcare workers are ebb titled to smoke but only on breaks and
:03:48. > :03:51.only in designated smoking areas, but a few weeks ago during the
:03:51. > :03:56.pseudomonas crisis when hospital hygiene was making headlines a
:03:56. > :03:58.member of the public complained after seeing a staff member
:03:58. > :04:03.smokingout side the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in theatre you
:04:03. > :04:06.would be form. That resulted in an e-mail from a senior midwife. Not
:04:06. > :04:12.reprimanding staff for their actions but instead washing them
:04:12. > :04:16.about where they should light up. Leaked to the BBC, she advices them
:04:16. > :04:19.an employee had been seen smoking wearing theatre scrubs and hat. It
:04:19. > :04:23.goes on the say the woman who lodged the complaint said it was
:04:23. > :04:27.worrying to think staff would return to theatre in the same
:04:27. > :04:32.clothes, the e-mail ends in capitals, advising those who smoke
:04:32. > :04:36.during their break not to smoke in view of the public. Theatre staff
:04:36. > :04:41.should not leave the hospital premises without either putting on
:04:41. > :04:46.Joe shoes or t outside clothing, so I think there is a potential but a
:04:46. > :04:50.small risk of cross infection, in terms of image it is bad enough
:04:50. > :04:54.people have to run the gauntlet of smoking patients at front door,
:04:55. > :04:58.without also having to thread their way through groups of smoking staff.
:04:58. > :05:03.A statement from the Belfast Health Trust says staff who choose to
:05:03. > :05:07.smoke on breaks mustn't leave the building wearing scrub, the staff
:05:07. > :05:11.are encouraged to seek help from the smoking cessation team and in a
:05:11. > :05:16.emergency staff who leave the building wearing scrubs must change
:05:16. > :05:20.into fresh ones before returning to clinical work. Staff members who
:05:20. > :05:25.smoke is very small, but we reiterate they are not to smoke
:05:25. > :05:29.there, there is policies and they must abide by them. According to
:05:29. > :05:32.this particular e-mail, the problem isn't whether or not they should
:05:32. > :05:41.smoke in scrubs but they shouldn't be caught by members of the public.
:05:41. > :05:46.That view will have to change if by 2015 a no smoking policy inied and
:05:46. > :05:52.outside hospitals is rolled out in Northern Ireland. -- inside. That
:05:52. > :05:56.one has got you talking on Facebook. Most poem say no-one, staff or
:05:56. > :06:00.patients should smoke. There is nothing worse than having to fight
:06:00. > :06:04.your way through a cloud of smoke. You can join the conversation. We
:06:04. > :06:09.are updating stories throughout the day on Twitter and you can send
:06:09. > :06:14.your story via e-mail. The pseudomonas bacteria has been found
:06:14. > :06:17.in neo-natal units at three more hospitals. Tests on water tabs in
:06:17. > :06:21.Daisy Hill in Newry, the Erne in Enniskillen and Craigavon Hospital
:06:21. > :06:24.have confirmed the presence of the bacteria. The public health agency
:06:24. > :06:30.says only sterile water is being used on babys and measures are in
:06:30. > :06:35.place to ensure they do not come into contact with the water supply.
:06:35. > :06:39.Currently two babys in the neo- natal unit in Craigavon have it on
:06:39. > :06:42.their skin. No babies at the Erne or Daisy Hill are infected. The
:06:42. > :06:49.parents of the teenage girl who was shot dead in Dublin last night say
:06:49. > :06:55.she was in the wrong place at the wrong time. The guard away say the
:06:55. > :07:01.16-year-old may not have been the intended target of the drive by
:07:01. > :07:04.shooting. They say the teenager was one of four people sitting in a car
:07:04. > :07:10.round 10.30 and was taken to hospital where she died in the
:07:10. > :07:16.early hours of this morning. Drink promotions mean strong alcohol sold
:07:16. > :07:19.at rock bottom prices but even as a pound a shot bar owners can still
:07:19. > :07:24.double their money. Stormont minister says he wants to ban the
:07:24. > :07:28.practice because of the risk, Nelson McCausland met the fan of a
:07:28. > :07:36.young man lost after a night's drinking. He says people need to
:07:36. > :07:39.learn from the tragedy. The family are waiting for their son's body to
:07:39. > :07:43.be recovered. He fell into the river after a night's drinking in
:07:43. > :07:49.the city a fortnight ago. He had been at the odyssey, for where the
:07:49. > :07:52.club was serving vodka shots at a pound a time. A Social Development
:07:52. > :07:57.Minister Nelson McCausland has responsibility for licensing law,
:07:57. > :08:00.he has met the Murphy family and now he intends to ban certain
:08:00. > :08:06.drinks promotions. I would like to see a ban on these promotion,
:08:06. > :08:09.because they are drawing in young people. And introducing them to
:08:09. > :08:13.vodka, short, and I think it's a good idea what he's doing. There
:08:13. > :08:18.have been problems at the Odyssey before, b last year the police
:08:18. > :08:22.spoke to license holders urging them to rethink drink promotion,
:08:22. > :08:26.when 100 football fans rioted after an Old Firm game. There are only
:08:26. > :08:33.round eight clubs in the city that go in for cheap drink promotionings,
:08:33. > :08:36.which the industry has described as irresponsible. We are working to
:08:36. > :08:41.co-regulate, to put legislation in place that is effective but as a
:08:41. > :08:51.industry we want to bring in a code of practise, we have been working
:08:51. > :08:51.
:08:51. > :08:54.on it for some time. It s making it very effective to react to stupid
:08:54. > :08:58.irresponsible promotions. Those kind of promotions can end in
:08:58. > :09:02.trouble. The minister says he was shocked to learn ambulance call-
:09:02. > :09:09.outs increased dramatically on the nights they were on. There were 255
:09:09. > :09:13.calls to the Odyssey last year although not all were alcohol-
:09:13. > :09:17.related. Sometimes a simple story best illustrates the point. A young
:09:17. > :09:22.club goer told me of an experience he had before Christmas, where he
:09:22. > :09:26.was refused entry because he was wearing trainer, as he left, the
:09:26. > :09:33.same bouncers allowed two young men who were very obviously the worse
:09:33. > :09:38.for drink, in. There are fears over possible job losses at the Halifax
:09:38. > :09:42.bank in Belfast. Staff have been told 80 jobs are being located
:09:42. > :09:48.elsewhere, as part of restructuring at the Lloyds Banking Group. Staff
:09:48. > :09:51.have been told that 80 administration jobs at the gas
:09:51. > :09:56.works site will be relocating. Staff have tot been told where the
:09:56. > :10:00.jobs will be going. You are watching Newsline and still to come
:10:00. > :10:07.on the programme. We report on a high tech solution for pupils at
:10:07. > :10:11.rural Irish speaking schools. As international wheelchair basketball
:10:11. > :10:20.comes to Northern Ireland we are live with the London 2012
:10:20. > :10:24.Paralympians. For children outside Belfast, learning in a completely
:10:24. > :10:30.Irish speaking secondary school has not been an option but that could
:10:30. > :10:39.change for some in County Londonderry. There is a plan to
:10:39. > :10:46.give pupils from four primary schools the opportunity to carry on
:10:46. > :10:49.the lessons in Irish. Saint bridge ets is one of four Irish medium
:10:50. > :10:55.primary schools which could send pupils to the first secondary of
:10:55. > :11:01.its kind, a satellite school run by the only completely Irish medium
:11:01. > :11:06.secondary. Four days within the week the pupils will be taught on
:11:06. > :11:13.site, one day of the week they will be taught on site in the mother
:11:13. > :11:16.school in Belfast, the pupils will travel to Belfast one day a week,
:11:16. > :11:21.the advantages of that is they would have the science facilities
:11:21. > :11:27.and you would have the home economic facilities on site, plus
:11:28. > :11:31.those pupils would have a chance to socialise with other Irish speaking
:11:31. > :11:37.pupil wos. There would be two teachers and about 20 pupils in the
:11:37. > :11:40.first year and much of the learning could done with computer link ups.
:11:40. > :11:44.The Irish language culture is to the forehere in south Derry. Even
:11:44. > :11:50.the local community centre t shop Hoare and the Post Office are
:11:50. > :11:53.bilingual so they think a secondary school is the next logical step.
:11:53. > :11:59.There aren't enough pupils to justify a new school but the
:11:59. > :12:04.parents don't want to make do with a unit in an English medium school.
:12:04. > :12:08.They want total immersion in the language. The objectstive one for
:12:08. > :12:13.an Irish medium secondary school in the future. Having said that, the
:12:13. > :12:17.school would have the benefit of mother school, that has built up
:12:17. > :12:22.massive expertise over the years. The main planks of the scheme for
:12:22. > :12:27.us would be this confidence we have from experience, within the primary,
:12:27. > :12:32.that the quality of education will match at least match what is on
:12:32. > :12:37.offer in the English medium. parent the site parents have their
:12:37. > :12:41.eye on is this emtrischool. They think the idea represents value for
:12:41. > :12:45.money, even with the cost of transporting all the pupils to
:12:45. > :12:49.Belfast once a week. The cost involved in transport would be
:12:50. > :12:53.cheaper than the cost of setting up a brand-new stand alone school.
:12:53. > :12:56.next step is to publish a development proposal at the end of
:12:56. > :12:59.this month, after consultation it will be the minister for
:12:59. > :13:04.education's decision whether to go ahead. However, his department
:13:04. > :13:14.recently lost legal action over its refusal to pay the cost of
:13:14. > :13:15.
:13:15. > :13:25.Civil servants at Stormont are breaking their own rules when it
:13:25. > :13:28.
:13:28. > :13:33.comes to employing officials who do not have enough a party. Our
:13:33. > :13:39.reporter has been looking at the detail. -- authority. There has
:13:39. > :13:43.been some concern, but how serious are the breaches? They are serious
:13:43. > :13:46.enough for the department to write a letter to remind them of the
:13:46. > :13:53.rules. There has been headlines about
:13:53. > :13:58.spending and bringing in expert advice from outside. What they are
:13:58. > :14:03.finding is that junior officials are signing off on projects and not
:14:03. > :14:08.doing proper business cases and many projects are going out without
:14:08. > :14:15.competitive tendering. The Finance Minister Sammy Wilson spoke early -
:14:15. > :14:20.- earlier to us. If they are very low of value, the procurement
:14:20. > :14:23.process could be more expensive than simply just getting someone
:14:23. > :14:30.off a list. If there is a time constraint it is not always
:14:30. > :14:35.possible. Even if you look at what has happened with the consultancy
:14:35. > :14:41.contacts we have had, about half of the fall in value between this year
:14:41. > :14:46.and last year has been a result of getting better value per project.
:14:46. > :14:53.But there was a concern that business cases were not being
:14:53. > :14:57.prepared for. There is a level of �75,000, and below that, a
:14:57. > :15:02.department found that more than half of the projects did not have
:15:02. > :15:12.an adequate business case and found that more than one in 10 had no
:15:12. > :15:21.business case at all. 12 % is simply unacceptable. We are talking
:15:21. > :15:31.about very little value here. We have to talk about proportions in
:15:31. > :15:32.
:15:32. > :15:42.the business cases. They just want the civil servants to proper --
:15:42. > :15:59.
:15:59. > :16:01.Rugby, and after the disappointment and controversy following the match
:16:01. > :16:04.against Wales, there was a call in Ireland's favour today.
:16:04. > :16:08.And it is a big relief for the Ulster flanker Stephen Ferris.
:16:08. > :16:11.Stephen Ferris said today he was a happy man after being cleared of
:16:11. > :16:13.dangerous play by a Six Nations disciplinary panel. He now is free
:16:13. > :16:16.to play in Irelands next match against France this weekend.
:16:16. > :16:20.Ferris was yellow-carded in the last minute of the match against
:16:20. > :16:23.Wales on Sunday for this tackle on Ian Evans. It led to a penalty with
:16:23. > :16:25.which the Welsh won the game. But the panel's decision today in
:16:25. > :16:28.London clears Ferris of any wrongdoing. He escaped a ban after
:16:28. > :16:31.careful video analysis. But Welsh second row Bradley Davies is now
:16:31. > :16:34.out of the tournament after he picked up a seven-week ban for his
:16:34. > :16:36.tip tackle on Ireland forward Donnacha Ryan in the same match.
:16:36. > :16:39.Following extraordinary scenes at an Ulster rugby media conference
:16:39. > :16:41.yesterday, the coach Brian McLaughlin has issued a statement
:16:41. > :16:45.of clarification this evening. McLaughlin was upset to be losing
:16:45. > :16:48.his current post as head coach at the end of this season and moving
:16:48. > :16:50.into a role with the Ulster academy. There was clearly tension between
:16:50. > :17:00.McLaughlin and Director of Rugby David Humphreys. Both men expressed
:17:00. > :17:03.
:17:03. > :17:08.different views. Here is a reminder of what McLaughlin said yesterday.
:17:08. > :17:17.I feel that I have been successful in this situation and that I can go
:17:17. > :17:21.forward. I feel I have been able... But this evening McLaughlin has
:17:21. > :17:24.clarified his position and apologised for any misunderstanding.
:17:24. > :17:27.Through a statement issued officially by Ulster rugby he
:17:27. > :17:30.stresses that although he is leaving the head coach role in June
:17:30. > :17:33.he is not leaving Ulster's staff and is fully committed to his new
:17:33. > :17:35.role which he takes very seriously because it indicates the investment
:17:35. > :17:38.Ulster is making in future players. McLaughlin also says that he
:17:38. > :17:40.secured this permanent contract with Ulster last season, which gave
:17:40. > :17:50.him job security. The search for his replacement, underway since
:17:50. > :17:54.December, continues. Confirmation today of news we
:17:54. > :17:57.brought you on last night's programme. Northern Ireland manager
:17:57. > :18:00.Michael O'Neill will bring in Billy McKinlay and Tommy Wright as his
:18:00. > :18:03.backroom team. McKinlay will take up the post of assistant manager
:18:03. > :18:06.but will continue to work at Fulham. Wright will be the goalkeeping
:18:06. > :18:16.coach and combine the duties with his job at St Johnstone, where we
:18:16. > :18:18.
:18:18. > :18:22.caught up with him. He is a man in demand. This has
:18:22. > :18:29.been his professional home for the last few months, Lord to Scotland
:18:29. > :18:35.by his international colleague. Tommy is someone I can work with.
:18:35. > :18:42.We are similar characters. He might disagree but I think we see things
:18:42. > :18:49.the same way. We work well together. I can trust him. I think we are a
:18:49. > :18:54.good team. These two men have formed a dynamic partnership. St
:18:54. > :19:02.Johnstone is currently a top-four team. Training is focused but also
:19:02. > :19:06.find, and that is what Tommy hopes to bring to the International Table.
:19:06. > :19:14.Towards the end, there was negativity about the squad and in
:19:14. > :19:19.the press, so I think we left the spirit of the players as well
:19:20. > :19:26.because they have taken a few knocks. Now with a foot in both
:19:26. > :19:32.camps, Wright will be able to monitor the progress of one of his
:19:32. > :19:37.new players. He joined from Michael O'Neill's former club, Shamrock
:19:37. > :19:42.Rovers. I think Michael will do as good as anyone else. He really
:19:42. > :19:47.knows football and knows what he wants. He wants his team to play a
:19:47. > :19:53.certain way and the way he wants them to. I think he will do as good
:19:53. > :19:56.a job as anyone else can. It all makes for interesting times for
:19:56. > :19:59.both Northern Ireland and St Johnstone.
:19:59. > :20:03.Derrytresk GAA club in Tyrone has been hit with further sanctions by
:20:03. > :20:06.the organisations' headquarters in Croke Park. The club had appealed
:20:06. > :20:08.against playing bans on eight of the team handed out after violence
:20:08. > :20:13.at an All-Ireland junior club football semi-final against the
:20:13. > :20:16.Kerry team Dromid Pearses. Last night the GAA's central hearings
:20:16. > :20:18.committee ruled that Derrytresk be banned from playing in Ulster and
:20:18. > :20:21.All-Ireland competition for five years. Seven of the player bans
:20:21. > :20:23.remain but the eight week suspension against forward Joe
:20:23. > :20:33.McKee has been overturned. Also, the club's original 5,000 euro fine
:20:33. > :20:36.
:20:36. > :20:39.has been halved. It has three days to lodge a further appeal.
:20:39. > :20:42.Teams among the best in the world are training and competing this
:20:42. > :20:45.week in Antrim at the International Wheelchair Basketball challenge. It
:20:45. > :20:55.forms part of their preparation for the 2012 Paralympic Games in London
:20:55. > :20:56.
:20:56. > :21:00.this summer. Our reporter is live at the Antrim Forum.
:21:00. > :21:06.I am in the middle of the Italian team who are about to take on
:21:06. > :21:11.Polland. I have managed to retrieve a few men who had been in action
:21:11. > :21:17.from Team GB. We have a player from Belfast. What does it mean to have
:21:17. > :21:22.this tournament here? In it is fantastic. It is great to have men
:21:22. > :21:26.of this standard in Northern Ireland. It is the first time I can
:21:26. > :21:31.remember a wheelchair basketball being held here. This has brought
:21:31. > :21:37.you right around the world. Yes, I have been a lot of places, Sweden,
:21:37. > :21:42.Israel, with the Great Britain team in the last few years. It is great
:21:42. > :21:49.to travel. Let's continue on the international theme. This is the
:21:49. > :21:54.coach. He is a native of Washington USA. He has been here for 30 years.
:21:54. > :22:01.The boys are about to take the cord. They are enjoying themselves. It
:22:01. > :22:06.has been a well organised competition. We always like to play.
:22:06. > :22:11.The Paralympics in London are just around the corner -- corner.
:22:11. > :22:18.think it is great. There is just eight months left until the
:22:18. > :22:23.competition and that gives us enough time to prepare. Last dip
:22:23. > :22:33.down to you. You are the man who has been putting this all together.
:22:33. > :22:35.
:22:35. > :22:40.What sort of state is sport for a disabled people in? I think there
:22:40. > :22:43.will be a bit of a legacy in Northern Ireland. This is one of
:22:43. > :22:47.four training camps and competitions that will be held in
:22:47. > :22:51.Northern Ireland. This is such a high standard of wheelchair
:22:51. > :22:56.basketball. It is fantastic and I hope it inspires some young
:22:56. > :23:02.disabled people to get into the sport. We have a legacy programme
:23:02. > :23:11.where we are getting some young kids involved in sport. I will
:23:11. > :23:18.leave at the last word to the Italian. Who do you think will win?
:23:18. > :23:21.Great Britain! Eugene Laverty from Toomebridge
:23:21. > :23:24.says he wants to be Northern Irelands first World Motorcycling
:23:24. > :23:26.Champion Joey Dunlop. He has signed to ride for the factory Aprilia
:23:26. > :23:29.team in this seasons prestigious World Superbike Championship. He
:23:29. > :23:31.was officially introduced at the teams launch in Italy last night,
:23:32. > :23:41.alongside five times champion Max Biaggi. Laverty's first race is in
:23:42. > :23:44.
:23:44. > :23:49.Australia later this month. I am really looking forward to 2012.
:23:49. > :23:56.Last year was by rookie season. I learnt many things that could be
:23:56. > :24:01.important to help me fight for the title for 2012. I believe I have
:24:01. > :24:05.the package that will allow me to win races and ultimately the title.
:24:05. > :24:08.I think he might just do it, you know.
:24:08. > :24:12.As you can imagine the Stephen Ferris story is causing plenty of
:24:12. > :24:15.debate. He has been cleared today of a dangerous tackle so was it a
:24:15. > :24:18.yellow card offence? Was it a foul? Did it deserve a penalty on Sunday?
:24:19. > :24:21.Remember Ireland lost the game in the last minute to Wales because of
:24:22. > :24:24.the referee's decision. It has kept us talking in the office this
:24:25. > :24:34.afternoon. If you can enlighten us, join the discussion on our Facebook
:24:35. > :24:37.
:24:37. > :24:43.page. We are all armchair professionals, of course! There
:24:43. > :24:52.should be 10 men on the Welsh side. Even though it hurts me, I think
:24:52. > :25:02.Wales deserved to win. Surrey Brian and Stephen. Sacrilege! Let's take
:25:02. > :25:02.
:25:02. > :25:07.It has already become very wet across Northern Ireland and the wet
:25:07. > :25:14.weather has been edging its way in from the West. It has been sweeping
:25:14. > :25:21.across. It has just started raining in County Down in the last 15
:25:21. > :25:26.minutes. A very wet end to the day. Some heavy rain this evening. The
:25:26. > :25:34.rain we do have will become much lighter. Many parts of England and
:25:34. > :25:39.Wales are expecting temperatures at below minus ten degrees. There will
:25:39. > :25:43.be a lot of unsettled weather but we will avoid the frost.
:25:43. > :25:49.Temperatures will settle later on. It will be a fairly damp day
:25:49. > :25:54.tomorrow and a wet start for many of us. Very little bright mess for
:25:54. > :26:04.many of us tomorrow. Outbreaks of rain will come and go through the
:26:04. > :26:04.
:26:04. > :26:12.day. There will be times where it will be quite dry at -- quite dry.
:26:12. > :26:17.Temperatures will be up on D-Day, - - up on today, maybe eight or nine
:26:17. > :26:26.degrees, but you will still want to wrap up. Further outbreaks of rain
:26:26. > :26:29.to come but it will become drier in the West. Another mild night with
:26:29. > :26:33.temperatures of six or seven degrees and we will be avoiding
:26:33. > :26:40.frostbite there will be some hill mist and fog as we go into Friday.
:26:40. > :26:45.We will still hold on to the messy weather continuing to linger as we
:26:45. > :26:49.head into Saturday. Friday will stay fairly wet and grey and no
:26:49. > :26:54.real sunshine and temperatures could get up to around ten degrees,
:26:54. > :26:58.several degrees above average for this time of year. The weekend will
:26:58. > :27:04.stay unsettled and rather grey with some further patchy rain to come.
:27:04. > :27:09.It will get a little bit drier but very little in the way of sunshine.
:27:09. > :27:16.No frost to come at night. The one thing we will have his hill fog and
:27:16. > :27:21.missed. There is more on our weather website. -- mist.
:27:21. > :27:26.A reminder of the stories making the headlines. Police say an
:27:26. > :27:33.officer who lost her mobile phone did not breach security. The police
:27:33. > :27:37.say this was not a work phone and it was headed into Irish News by a
:27:37. > :27:43.-- dissident republicans. A complaint has been made from a
:27:43. > :27:48.member of the public about smoking in front of hospitals.
:27:48. > :27:52.And a ban on cheap drink promotions has been proposed. The story comes
:27:52. > :27:57.after a man drowned on a night out in Belfast.
:27:57. > :28:03.And Harry Redknapp has been cleared of charges of tax evasion.