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