:00:23. > :00:27.Good evening. The headlines: Nine men are
:00:28. > :00:33.acquitted of the murder of the UDA leader, Tommy English.
:00:33. > :00:36.Drug addicts, alcoholics and liars, the judge's verdict on the two
:00:36. > :00:40.supergrass brothers. The father of this little boy
:00:40. > :00:44.pleads with Martin McGuinness for the truth of what happened to his
:00:44. > :00:51.son. Near 250 -- nearly 250 jobs lost at
:00:52. > :00:56.Peacocks. Exclusive details of the Windsor
:00:56. > :01:04.Park deal. And another mild day tomorrow but
:01:04. > :01:10.as the weekend approaches, when it's there that way?
:01:10. > :01:15.Nine men charged with murder were acquitted at the UVF supergrass
:01:15. > :01:20.trial in Belfast. The judge cleared 12 of the 13 defendants on all
:01:20. > :01:25.charges against them. Mr Justice Gillen said the supergrass
:01:25. > :01:33.witnesses, Robert and Ian Stewart, allied to the police and court and
:01:33. > :01:37.their evidence was flawed, confused and unreliable. We will examine the
:01:37. > :01:44.consequences for future supergrass cases. First, a report from the
:01:44. > :01:50.Crown Court. After 72 days in court, 11 men walk
:01:50. > :01:55.free, acquitted of all charges. The trial nipped into 35 charges, the
:01:55. > :02:00.most serious being the murder of Tommy English on Hallowe'en night
:02:00. > :02:07.in 2000. He was shot dead at his home in Newtownabbey. One man was
:02:07. > :02:10.convicted, 36-year-old Neil Pollock, depicted wearing glasses, guilty of
:02:10. > :02:14.possessing items of use to terrorists and perverting the
:02:14. > :02:19.course of justice. The evidence against him did not come from the
:02:19. > :02:23.supergrasses. Although acquitted, Mark Haddock, an alleged one-time
:02:23. > :02:28.commander in the UVF and alleged Special Branch informer was
:02:28. > :02:31.detained on custody on other matters. The brothers have failed
:02:31. > :02:41.to persuade the judge that he could believe them. From the beginning,
:02:41. > :03:00.
:03:00. > :03:05.he did not mince his words. He They were chatting this morning but
:03:05. > :03:08.when Neil Pollock was found guilty, their demeanour became more serious.
:03:08. > :03:13.When the judge applied his concerns about the evidence, their demeanour
:03:13. > :03:23.changed again and they began to smile and nod once more. The judge
:03:23. > :03:44.
:03:44. > :03:54.listed his problems with the It led him to conclude their
:03:54. > :04:05.
:04:05. > :04:08.evidence was unreliable. The judge When a judge dismissed the charges
:04:08. > :04:13.against the 12 of them then there was applause from the public
:04:13. > :04:17.gallery. Neil Pollock stayed sitting in the dock while at the
:04:17. > :04:21.others were free to go. They exchanged handshakes with him when
:04:21. > :04:25.they went. When they went outside there was a cheer from their
:04:25. > :04:31.supporters. Campaigners on their behalf were quick to condemn the
:04:31. > :04:36.Supergrass system. The question has to be asked, what happens in the
:04:36. > :04:42.future? Here are 12 men who have been freed. Westerns have to be
:04:42. > :04:47.asked about the deal that was given to the brothers. -- questions.
:04:47. > :04:52.Leaving moments later, the widow of Tommy English. Not happy about it
:04:52. > :04:55.but we need to get our thoughts together. Almost five months of
:04:55. > :05:02.trial, heavy security and costs likely to run to millions.
:05:02. > :05:06.Supergrass evidence, in this case, utterly discredited.
:05:06. > :05:10.This was the first supergrass trial for more than 25 years and it ended,
:05:10. > :05:15.as we have heard today, with the judge branding the witnesses as
:05:15. > :05:23.liars and ruthless criminals. Could this spell the end of the
:05:23. > :05:26.Supergrass system? Robert and Ian Stewart have left
:05:26. > :05:30.Northern Ireland and are now leading secret lives. They have
:05:30. > :05:34.been given new names and legal protection, banning the publication
:05:34. > :05:39.of any details that could reveal their new identities or were they
:05:39. > :05:43.live. This self-confessed UVF members have walked into and a
:05:43. > :05:50.police station in 2008 and admitted their involvement in the murder of
:05:50. > :05:55.Tommy English eight years earlier. They also agreed to give evidence
:05:55. > :05:58.against nine other men charged with the killing. Their evidence was a
:05:58. > :06:04.foundation for the first so-called supergrass trial to be held here
:06:04. > :06:09.for 26 years. It was made possible by legislation introduced
:06:09. > :06:16.throughout the UK seven years ago. The serious organised crime and
:06:16. > :06:19.police that means a criminal can enter a written agreement to be,
:06:19. > :06:23.and assisting an offender and have the prosecution by giving evidence
:06:23. > :06:27.against other alleged criminals. They must come clean and admit all
:06:28. > :06:33.crimes they have been involved then. Between them, Robert and Ian
:06:33. > :06:37.Stewart admitted more than 100 crimes. They also take part in more
:06:37. > :06:41.than 300 police interviews that produced thousands of pages of
:06:41. > :06:44.material used by prosecution lawyers. At the end of their trial
:06:44. > :06:48.last year, the brothers were told they would normally have been
:06:48. > :06:53.sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for their crimes, but that
:06:53. > :06:58.was reduced to just three years in recognition of the help they
:06:58. > :07:02.provided. It was not just the 13 men in the dark who were on trial
:07:02. > :07:07.as a result of their evidence. It was also the legislation that put
:07:07. > :07:12.them there. Critics say it encourages criminals to lie and
:07:12. > :07:17.point the finger of blame at others in return for a reduced sentence.
:07:17. > :07:21.Supporters say it is legally safe and a potent weapon against crime.
:07:21. > :07:26.Acquitting 12 of the men of murder and other terrorist charges today,
:07:26. > :07:32.Mr Justice Gillen said he could not rely on the evidence given by the
:07:32. > :07:36.two brothers. He said telling lies had become part of the Daily way of
:07:36. > :07:41.living for Robert and Ian Stewart and that they had lied to the
:07:41. > :07:45.police and the court. The judge made it clear that his problem was
:07:45. > :07:49.with the credibility of the witnesses, not the legislation that
:07:49. > :07:59.formed the basis for the case. Mr Justice Gillen said his judgment
:07:59. > :08:09.
:08:09. > :08:12.should not be seen as criticism of The judge's demolition of the
:08:12. > :08:14.witnesses in this case is an embarrassment for the police and
:08:15. > :08:19.prosecution service but they will take comfort from the fact that the
:08:19. > :08:22.judge criticised the way bases and not the legislation. In a statement
:08:22. > :08:27.tonight, the Public Prosecution Service said it is satisfied it was
:08:27. > :08:33.right to take the case to court. The PSNI said it will continue to
:08:33. > :08:37.use legislation to investigate serious crime and terrorism. It
:08:37. > :08:41.will not be long before the system is tested in the courts again.
:08:41. > :08:46.Another so-called supergrass trial is due to get under way later this
:08:46. > :08:51.year, based on the evidence of a self-confessed UVF leader. Dozens
:08:51. > :08:57.of loyalist paramilitaries could be in the dock, charged with a range
:08:57. > :09:01.of terrorist offences, including murder.
:09:01. > :09:05.The supergrasses appeared from time to time throughout the Troubles. In
:09:05. > :09:11.the early 1980s, dozens of defendants appeared it on -- in the
:09:11. > :09:15.dock on the word of informants from both communities.
:09:15. > :09:18.The early to mid- 80s was a turbulent time right across
:09:18. > :09:23.Northern Ireland. The Conservative government and the security forces
:09:23. > :09:27.were struggling to counter an ever increasing terrorist threat. Part
:09:27. > :09:33.of that strategy was getting as many terrorist suspects as possible
:09:33. > :09:40.before the courts and getting a conviction. Enter the informer. The
:09:40. > :09:44.RUC's chief constable called them converted terrorists. They were
:09:44. > :09:49.known as assisting offenders. On the streets and on the gable walls
:09:49. > :09:58.of the communities they came from, they were branded as supergrasses.
:09:58. > :10:03.Jim Gibney, a seniors in Fein Syvret -- adviser, was jailed for
:10:03. > :10:07.six years on the evidence of a supergrass in the 1980s. At the
:10:07. > :10:12.heart of it there is a lie and that is spun, invariably, by the
:10:12. > :10:17.supergrass himself. That is picked up by the police, who used it in a
:10:17. > :10:22.testimony against those that are being accused. The judge then picks
:10:22. > :10:26.it up and uses it to convict those people who are in the dock in front
:10:26. > :10:30.of him. That is what happened to me and that is what happened to over
:10:30. > :10:36.500 others from a republican and loyalist background, back in the
:10:36. > :10:43.1980s. During the early 1980s, people protested against what they
:10:43. > :10:48.call the show trials. It is claimed informers were offered cash
:10:48. > :10:52.inducements and deals were struck at a political level. At that time,
:10:52. > :10:57.Supergrass trials, held here at Crumlin Road Court House, were the
:10:57. > :11:03.biggest in British political history. 22 IRA suspects were
:11:03. > :11:10.jailed for a total of 4,000 years. By the mid- 1980s, the Supergrass
:11:10. > :11:16.system had collapsed, at midst concerns -- and its concerns and
:11:16. > :11:21.complains that they were being used as political tools to implement
:11:21. > :11:25.government security policy. We have legislation, a statutory basis for
:11:25. > :11:32.what is being done. We have a human rights act in place. We have
:11:32. > :11:35.improved disclosure for the defence. There are are improved safeguards
:11:35. > :11:40.built in. On the other side, we have had the right to silence
:11:40. > :11:44.eroded in the meantime. That has an implication in terms of the
:11:44. > :11:48.evidence. We are still attended by the same sort of floors of the
:11:48. > :11:52.process in the 1980s, in terms of lack of corroboration and the
:11:52. > :11:57.motivation of people giving evidence because basically, they
:11:57. > :12:04.are looking at much reduced jail terms and a new identity somewhere
:12:04. > :12:08.else, at the taxpayers' expense. The Supergrass trials of the 80s
:12:08. > :12:16.drew worldwide media attention, both during REM and light year,
:12:16. > :12:22.when they collapsed. -- during them and like here. Mid-term supergrass
:12:22. > :12:27.and all that it evokes still resonates strongly in the legal
:12:27. > :12:35.system and the wider community in Northern Ireland.
:12:35. > :12:41.There will be more on what happened today on BBC Newsline at 10:25pm.
:12:41. > :12:44.Still to come... 250 people are to lose their jobs
:12:44. > :12:50.at Peacocks. Local scientists hoping to make a
:12:50. > :12:53.breakthrough in the treatment of Reynard-Ford our practice. --
:12:53. > :12:57.rheumatoid arthritis. The parents of the a nine-year-old
:12:57. > :13:01.boy killed during the Troubles said the Deputy First Minister, Martin
:13:01. > :13:06.McGuinness, knows he did it. Gordon Gallagher died when he triggered a
:13:06. > :13:10.bomb left in his garden in Londonderry in 1973. The IRA
:13:10. > :13:15.admitted it was their bomb but claimed soldiers had fitted it with
:13:15. > :13:18.a detonator, which caused the explosion. A recent report from the
:13:18. > :13:22.historical inquiry team found the IRA are responsible. Jennifer
:13:22. > :13:28.O'Leary has been speaking to the boy's family. You may find this
:13:28. > :13:38.report upsetting. Gordon Gallagher was playing
:13:38. > :13:48.
:13:48. > :13:56.cowboys and Indians when he He said, Daddy, could you get me a
:13:56. > :14:05.drink? My brother-in-law said, I can never remember if I gave him a
:14:05. > :14:15.drink or not. I was in shock. My brother in law said he wet his lips.
:14:15. > :14:24.He wet his lips with a class. A damp cloth. -- a class. I came out
:14:24. > :14:28.and phoned. That was the last day saw of him alive. At the time, IRA
:14:28. > :14:38.admitted to planting the bomb but claimed the army had attached the
:14:38. > :14:38.
:14:38. > :14:48.detonator. It was ridiculous. That went on for a couple of months.
:14:48. > :14:50.
:14:50. > :14:54.Somebody came and told the truth. He said that they did it. 39 years
:14:54. > :14:59.on, these people are still looking for answers and our on-site --
:14:59. > :15:03.asking questions of this month. is really incumbent on all of us to
:15:03. > :15:10.help them as much as we come from a legal perspective, a political
:15:10. > :15:16.perspective, a moral perspective. I think the family have said they are
:15:16. > :15:22.not interested in prosecutions. They have no desire for retribution.
:15:22. > :15:29.They have no desire for vengeance. They simply want what all families
:15:29. > :15:31.want in his historical cases. They want to find out the truth. Martin
:15:31. > :15:37.McGuinness was injured at the time and had no information about the
:15:37. > :15:41.killing. Whether he was in jail or not, they could ask questions and
:15:41. > :15:47.tell us who did it. He was second in command, as far as I was told.
:15:47. > :15:51.He could find out. The family say they are appalled the Deputy First
:15:51. > :15:57.Minister is not politically motivated and are hopeful they will
:15:57. > :16:00.be given information about the death of their son.
:16:00. > :16:04.The group Republican Action Against Drugs has admitted murdering Derry
:16:04. > :16:09.man Andrew Allen two weeks ago. The 24-year-old father of two was shot
:16:09. > :16:12.dead in a house in Buncrana, County Donegal. He'd been living there for
:16:12. > :16:16.about six months, one of a number of men forced out of Derry by the
:16:16. > :16:19.group last year. On the night of his murder, three men fired shots
:16:19. > :16:23.through a bedroom window. A car was found burnt out a short distance
:16:23. > :16:25.away at Fahan on the road to Derry. Nearly 250 people are to lose their
:16:25. > :16:33.jobs with the closure by the clothes retailer Peacocks of 19
:16:33. > :16:42.shops. But about 140 workers are being kept on. To explain, I'm
:16:42. > :16:45.joined by our business and economics editor Jim Fitzpatrick.
:16:45. > :16:51.Peacocks went into administration last month, but there was a new
:16:51. > :16:56.buyer for it. There was a buyer. The axe has been hanging over them
:16:56. > :17:00.since January when they went into administration. The Newbury -- new
:17:00. > :17:06.buyer is a very big high-street name. When that access for on, it
:17:06. > :17:10.has caused more damage here than elsewhere. Across EU care -- UK,
:17:10. > :17:14.about 6,000 jobs have been saved and a similar proportion of stores.
:17:14. > :17:17.The Northern Ireland, two thirds of the jobs are going and two-thirds
:17:17. > :17:23.of the stores are closing, including this flagship one in
:17:23. > :17:27.Belfast, which employs 41 people. They are keeping 10 stores open but
:17:27. > :17:31.it is very tough on the high street in Northern Ireland at the moment.
:17:31. > :17:38.We are the empty shops capital of the UK with almost one in seven
:17:38. > :17:45.stores vacant. We also hear to news about them selling of the state-
:17:45. > :17:55.owned assets. And a local interest for as in the energy company Bord
:17:55. > :18:00.
:18:00. > :18:03.Gais. Bord Gais are an energy company. They have about 130,000
:18:03. > :18:07.domestic and small business customers. They are owned by a big
:18:07. > :18:12.company has said today that their parents will be interested in
:18:12. > :18:18.having a look at perhaps buying the Bord Gais energy company throughout
:18:18. > :18:21.Ireland. There are regulatory issues. The regulators on both
:18:21. > :18:27.sides would have to look at it but it does raise the prospect that
:18:27. > :18:29.there would be one gas company here rather than a two competitors.
:18:29. > :18:33.Assembly members who are also councillors are facing cuts to
:18:33. > :18:36.their allowances. The BBC has learned the Environment Minister is
:18:36. > :18:40.planning to cut council pay by two thirds for those who are also MLAs.
:18:40. > :18:42.And he's proposing an outright ban on double-jobbing by 2015. With the
:18:42. > :18:50.latest, I'm joined by our political correspondent Martina Purdy.
:18:50. > :18:54.Martina, what more can you tell us? The environment minister will be
:18:54. > :18:58.delivering a tough message tomorrow when he meets the Local Government
:18:58. > :19:05.Association. He will take action within weeks on this mission --
:19:05. > :19:09.issue. If you what are Anna MLA and a councillor, you can get extra
:19:09. > :19:13.money by doing both jobs. He will issue of regulation that will
:19:13. > :19:20.reduce the councillor Lallans by two-thirds. So around �7,000 of
:19:20. > :19:25.your pay by April. He can reduce pay on his own. He cannot introduce
:19:25. > :19:28.an outright ban on his own. He needs executive approval and
:19:28. > :19:38.legislation for that. I'm told it has been agreed that the band
:19:38. > :19:40.
:19:40. > :19:44.should be in place by 2015. That affects around a third of MLA has.
:19:44. > :19:50.We will see big changes in the next few years. Anything else coming up
:19:50. > :19:55.in a speech tomorrow? He will spell out his frustration with the slow
:19:55. > :19:59.progress on council savings. They have promised to share services and
:19:59. > :20:01.he wants them to quicken the pace. Sport is all about local football
:20:01. > :20:04.tonight. Glentoran didn't just announce their new manager today,
:20:04. > :20:14.but a likely move to new grounds. And there's more. Mark Sidebottom
:20:14. > :20:16.
:20:16. > :20:21.is in south Belfast. There is breaking news. By will get to it in
:20:21. > :20:27.just a moment. First, let take you to developments in East Belfast.
:20:27. > :20:30.The new manager is Eddie Patterson. The story all but eclipsed already
:20:30. > :20:36.with confirmation from the club that they are now targeting a move
:20:36. > :20:40.to a new sites in Belfast Titanic quarter. Almost as quickly as he
:20:40. > :20:49.had taken his seat, the story of his appointment had been overtaken
:20:49. > :20:54.with confirmation that this area in east Belfast has been targeted as
:20:54. > :20:57.the new oval 2016. We haven't concluded negotiations I cannot
:20:58. > :21:03.make public were those negotiations are words or whether that will be
:21:03. > :21:07.the case. But we have had a lot of support. I understand the fighters
:21:07. > :21:13.in the Titanic quarter. Can you confirm or deny that? I can tell
:21:13. > :21:18.you that we are in negotiations. That is an option. That is one of
:21:18. > :21:25.the two options. A visit the preferred one? Yes, that it would
:21:25. > :21:29.be the preferred option. As for the existing ground, we understand
:21:30. > :21:35.negotiations are ongoing between the club and the new developer.
:21:35. > :21:41.preference would be that this would be redeveloped as a community asset.
:21:41. > :21:46.Such as? So it just social housing. I think it would be a very good
:21:46. > :21:50.thing for East Belfast. And the new manager, well, he will leave the
:21:50. > :21:55.business to the boardroom. He was getting on with winning over the
:21:55. > :22:00.fans. One in particular who targeted him with a cricket ball
:22:00. > :22:05.four years ago. It happened. I have no qualms of that. I get on well
:22:05. > :22:08.with the majority of supporters. Basically, all they want to do is
:22:08. > :22:12.see their team performing on a weekly basis in the way they have
:22:12. > :22:22.come accustomed to in the tradition of the football they have normally
:22:22. > :22:23.
:22:23. > :22:26.played. If we can do that, there is no problem. But it is a challenge.
:22:26. > :22:36.And, Mark, some breaking news tonight of a deal between Linfield
:22:36. > :22:37.
:22:37. > :22:47.and the IFA on the funding of football here. The deal has been
:22:47. > :22:47.
:22:47. > :22:52.done at between team two and -- between Linfield and Queensland
:22:52. > :22:58.Reds. That team has been done. By have been given the details of that
:22:59. > :23:06.deal. By come Government to you now. It will be a 41 year deal between
:23:06. > :23:10.the two clubs. Linfield will continue to own the ground. Under
:23:10. > :23:14.the previous deal, it was entitled to 15% of revenue from the gate and
:23:14. > :23:22.other commercial turnover such as television. That will no longer be
:23:22. > :23:27.the case. Significantly, the club will now receive a one-off and a
:23:27. > :23:30.repayment of �200,000 per year. It is likely to cause outright
:23:30. > :23:35.consternation with the rest of the Irish League clubs who will say
:23:35. > :23:41.that is profoundly unfair. The signing of of this winds are parked
:23:41. > :23:47.a has set in the process the process whereby the second tranche
:23:47. > :23:51.will be made available for the rest of local football. The wrath three
:23:51. > :23:57.target projects year. One is the development of the Oval, the new
:23:57. > :24:01.over which we have just seen. The second one would be the development
:24:01. > :24:06.of a national football academy. That could potentially take place
:24:06. > :24:10.at the new oval ground or on the Shore Road. And thirdly, and very
:24:10. > :24:15.significantly, at the read about that of renting our football club
:24:15. > :24:19.to the tune of millions of pounds. That is significant because of vote
:24:19. > :24:24.Derry City is legally within Northern Ireland, Derry City
:24:24. > :24:28.football club plays its football under the offices of the Football
:24:28. > :24:35.Association of Ireland in the League of Ireland. And that would
:24:35. > :24:39.cause massive consternation. Important to qualify that those
:24:39. > :24:46.last three projects are not yet done deals. There would be and
:24:46. > :24:51.still is much trading to be done over that 31 million pot for that
:24:51. > :24:54.second tranche. Nonetheless, this is a hugely significant day and
:24:54. > :25:02.development in terms of local football. I hope you got all of
:25:02. > :25:05.that. Politics and football all rolled into one.
:25:05. > :25:07.A County Antrim company is to benefit from a �1 million
:25:07. > :25:09.government grant to create a test which could help treat those
:25:09. > :25:12.suffering from arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis, a painful and
:25:12. > :25:14.debilitating illness, affects an estimated 20,000 people here. Now a
:25:14. > :25:17.test is being developed using research by the bio-medical
:25:17. > :25:20.department at the University of Ulster, which would help rule out
:25:20. > :25:30.drugs which work for some and improve treatment for others by
:25:30. > :25:31.
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:25:36. > :25:41.barely hold a knife, she suffers from the debilitating condition
:25:41. > :25:47.rheumatoid arthritis. The I was very poorly. I was not able to get
:25:47. > :25:50.upstairs on my feet. I had to crawl upstairs. I was not able to do
:25:51. > :25:54.anything with my hands. It has taken eight years of trial and
:25:54. > :26:00.error for her to find the right track. Some of the drugs I have
:26:00. > :26:04.tried in the past, I have had a lot of difficulty with. They can reduce
:26:04. > :26:09.your white blood cells, which makes you a lot more prone to infections.
:26:09. > :26:13.That can be difficult to cope with. Some of the other drugs can make
:26:13. > :26:20.you feel very ill. So it was great to find one that eventually worked
:26:20. > :26:24.for me. The unfortunately, finding the right track can take time. But
:26:24. > :26:29.a new test being developed in conjunction with the University of
:26:29. > :26:34.Ulster could speed up diagnosis and treatment for arthritis sufferers.
:26:34. > :26:38.Because we are all unique, each of us will respond if it --
:26:38. > :26:42.differently to different treatments. Some of us will respond to a drag,
:26:42. > :26:47.some of us want. This is a test that will allow you to identify two
:26:47. > :26:51.will respond on who will not. can combine a lot of tests that
:26:51. > :26:55.have been discovered at the University on to a single test
:26:55. > :27:01.platform and determine whether a rheumatoid arthritis patient will
:27:01. > :27:05.respond to a certain dread. If they respond to it, we know we are
:27:05. > :27:08.giving the patient the Right Rev that the right time. It is hoped
:27:08. > :27:13.the new Test could be ready within the next few years. Too late for
:27:13. > :27:18.this lady, but she says of it works, it will make a huge difference to
:27:18. > :27:28.the lives of sufferers. Now time for the weather with Barra
:27:28. > :27:30.
:27:30. > :27:35.It has been a mild day. A short time ago, we had temperatures of 13
:27:35. > :27:40.Celsius. This was the picture today. You can see a lot of cloud around.
:27:40. > :27:45.It will stick with us this evening and through the day tomorrow. It is
:27:45. > :27:50.mostly dry apart from some damp weather later this evening. He will
:27:50. > :27:55.be forgiven for thinking as a daytime temperatures. Highs of 11
:27:55. > :28:00.degrees Celsius tonight. That sets us up for a mild day tomorrow. It
:28:00. > :28:10.will be a dry day. We will have cloud around, but the cloud will
:28:10. > :28:11.
:28:11. > :28:15.break. There may be a glimmer of sunshine. Further west, it will
:28:15. > :28:20.stay rather have played -- grey, cloudy and become damp again with
:28:20. > :28:26.winds becoming stronger. Temperatures in the West are up to
:28:26. > :28:31.14 degrees, but in the east, we could see up to 15 Celsius. Well
:28:31. > :28:36.above average for the time of year. Into the second part of the day, we
:28:36. > :28:43.will eventually see this and pushing its way southwards. It will
:28:43. > :28:50.bring rain and it will turn a cold. Tonight, temperatures 10 degrees,
:28:50. > :28:53.tomorrow, five degrees. Friday will be a cooler day than today. Those
:28:53. > :29:00.temperatures on Friday it will be more around average for the time of
:29:00. > :29:07.year. It looks like it will be a fairly decent day. Largely dry and
:29:07. > :29:10.bright. Similar conditions on Saturday. We will hold on to the
:29:10. > :29:16.north and -- more normal temperatures. Generally a dry day.
:29:16. > :29:26.Sunday could be more unsettled. We may see the temperatures coming
:29:26. > :29:27.
:29:27. > :29:30.Finally, a reminder of the stories making the headlines.
:29:30. > :29:33.Nine men have been acquitted of the murder at the UVF supergrass trial.