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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor. The headlines: | :00:16. | :00:23. | |
MLAs to get a �5,000 pay rise, but it's claimed money will be saved. | :00:23. | :00:26. | |
The parents of a teenager murdered 13 years ago ask for help in | :00:27. | :00:36. | |
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finding his killer. We still miss him terribly. | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
It's claimed some farmers are turning a blind eye to badger | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
baiting on their land. We have a first look inside the new | :00:51. | :00:59. | |
Titanic Belfast building. And the sleepy County Down village | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
comes to life. We won't be losing the cloud in a | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
hurry but a change is in store for many years later tomorrow. | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
MLAs look set to get a pay rise of �5,000 from April next year. That's | :01:14. | :01:20. | |
an 11% rise. The decision was taken by an independent review panel. It | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
has also reduced the allowances politicians get to run their | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
offices, and argues that the overall package will save the | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
public more than �3 million. Here's our political editor, Mark | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
Devenport. Why did this review happen and exactly why is it | :01:34. | :01:44. | |
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recommending a pay rise? The three- strong review team was appointed | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
last year in order to take out of the politicians' hands the business | :01:48. | :01:54. | |
of setting their own pay and allowances and to set it | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
independently. They found that over the last decade the MLAs wages have | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
been eroded in real terms so they've decided that the �5,000 pay | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
rise is justified and that will take MLAs from their current pay of | :02:07. | :02:13. | |
just over �43,000 to a new rate of �48,000. The public might not | :02:13. | :02:20. | |
necessarily lightless put the chair says as far as the politicians are | :02:20. | :02:25. | |
concerned, it is up to them whether they take -- take the extra cash. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
He if they wish to volunteer some of their salary back to the public | :02:29. | :02:36. | |
first, we are very happy that they be allowed to do that. Senti 7% of | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
the MLAs said they wanted to be paid more not less. That's right. I | :02:43. | :02:49. | |
would expect that this time next year, MLAs will be accepting a pay | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
increase. If they do that, the panel says we can still save money | :02:54. | :02:59. | |
with all of this. It is not just magic, they have looked at the | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
office costs allowances. That is the money the politicians used to | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
run their constituency offices and that if they jump around 2007 when | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
devolution was restored. The panel has decided that that is simply not | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
justified. They are recommending in terms of office costs that the | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
current cost which is �75,000 per politician should come down to just | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
over �69,000. There are clawing back more than �6,000 per | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
politicians. They have also come up with some other rulings in terms of | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
MLA conditions. One is that all politicians should get their wages | :03:40. | :03:47. | |
paid in their own personal accounts rather than central party coffers. | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
Another ruling in this report is that each individual MLA should | :03:51. | :03:57. | |
only employed one family member on their payroll and finally they have | :03:57. | :04:00. | |
introduced some significant penalties for any politicians | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
double jobbing in councils or in Westminster which would clawback | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
more money. When you put all of this together, the independent | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
review panel team argues there will be saving and they say that saving | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
will be more than �3 million over the course of the next three years. | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
When you compare this to what politicians get in England -- in | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
Scotland and Wales, how do we fear? It as close the gap but it has not | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
closed it completely. The review panel feels that if you look at the | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
job of an MLA band how many there are in relation to voters, they are | :04:35. | :04:41. | |
not up to the scale of their own Welsh were Scottish counterparts. | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
An Assembly member in Wales earns �54,000 and average and in Scotland | :04:46. | :04:51. | |
it is �57,000. Movement today in the Ulster Unionist leadership race | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
as well. If it became clear today that Mike Nesbitt will almost | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
definitely be entering this race. He will launch his campaign | :05:00. | :05:10. | |
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officially tomorrow. He has at least for MLA is on side. -- MLAs. | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
We also expect Danny Kennedy to put his hat in the ring tomorrow. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
Tomorrow could be quite a busy day in the contest. Martin McGuinness | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
has again been talking about considering meeting the Queen. | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
Martin McGuinness said he would meet the Queen as an Irish | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
president. When he was asked whether he would do it as did the | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
First Minister, he said he would have to think about it. -- Deputy | :05:50. | :05:59. | |
First Minister. He says he was to be a deputy First Minister for | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
everybody and this seems to be a clear hint that Sinn Fein are | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
seriously considering a meeting between the Deputy First Minister | :06:07. | :06:12. | |
and the Queen if she comes to Belfast during her jubilee year. He | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
The parents of a teenager who was murdered 13 years ago have welcomed | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
a decision by the police to reopen the investigation. Jonathan Cairns' | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
body was found in Loughermore Forest outside Ballykelly. No-one | :06:20. | :06:30. | |
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has ever been convicted of killing him. Teresa Craig reports. | :06:30. | :06:34. | |
Hazel and Raymond Cairns say not a game -- not a day goes by they | :06:34. | :06:40. | |
don't think of their son. Jonathan Cairns was murdered on 25th April | :06:40. | :06:44. | |
1999. One man was jailed for perverting the course of justice | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
but there has never been a condition for his murder. I could | :06:48. | :06:58. | |
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not believe it was him. He never said a bad word to anyone. We still | :06:58. | :07:07. | |
miss him terribly. Time heals a bit but the thought is always there. | :07:07. | :07:14. | |
is like a knife through your heart all the time. It is like your | :07:14. | :07:23. | |
stomach is being squeezed like a sponge. The body of the Ballykelly | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
teenager was discovered by his cousin the day after he disappeared. | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
His parents are offering a �30,000 reward for information in the hope | :07:34. | :07:40. | |
of finding whoever is responsible for his murder. Earlier today, they | :07:40. | :07:46. | |
met to discuss the progress of the new investigation. We just hope the | :07:46. | :07:56. | |
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perpetrators are brought to justice. They deserve justice. They have | :07:58. | :08:08. | |
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robbed William of his brother and robbed us of a son. Maybe we could | :08:10. | :08:19. | |
have had grandchildren. The police confirmed they are following a | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
number of new leads. They say they believe the killers live locally | :08:22. | :08:26. | |
and have appealed for anyone with information to come forward. The | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
last and Jonathan's parents saw him was outside the local chip shop on | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
the main street less than 24 hours later the body of this and was | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
found just a few miles away. It is hoped this investigation will shed | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
light on what happened. This week, we've been lifting the | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
lid on the world of badger baiting, a cruel and criminal underworld | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
where gangs kill badgers for their own pleasure. Tonight's report | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
focuses on farmers and landowners. One source, who was within that | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
secretive world of badger baiting for many years, has told us that | :08:56. | :09:02. | |
some farmers would encourage such activity on their property. The | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
Ulster Farmers Union says it's not aware of any farmers involved and | :09:05. | :09:08. | |
has urged its members to report suspected badger persecution to the | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
police. Gordon Adair's exclusive report does contain images that | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
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some viewers may find disturbing. Five men walking their dogs across | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
fields. Nothing out of the ordinary and no cause for concern, and less | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
you know what you're looking at. Look more closely at these pictures | :09:34. | :09:44. | |
and look up the tools there can make -- carrying. The men are also | :09:44. | :09:48. | |
have two types of Dogs, small terriers used to going to the sets | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
to pen the badgers and beget specially bred dogs which are used | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
to do the killing after the badger has been unearthed. The digs | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
themselves cannot go on for hours and it can take some time for the | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
dogs to kill the badger. This is happening in broad daylight. We | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
have seen gangs park their vehicles, seemingly totally unconcerned about | :10:13. | :10:18. | |
potentially being spotted. One source co-operated within this | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
world for many years told me that not only would farmers sometimes | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
turn a blind eye but on occasion they would actively encourage the | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
diggers on to their land and ask to be shown badger carcasses. If it is | :10:32. | :10:40. | |
a big set like this, it makes it more horrendous. Ian Hutchinson is | :10:40. | :10:48. | |
the head of crime-prevention for a UK-wide police operation. He says | :10:48. | :10:54. | |
some land Rosas -- landowners have little choice but to let the gangs | :10:54. | :11:03. | |
do what they please. Sometimes the farmers are intimidated. The US PCA | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
give us footage taken when they drove into a farm pretending to be | :11:07. | :11:17. | |
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I have also been shown posting unsocial media sites that shows a | :11:31. | :11:41. | |
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pack -- a picture of a damaged set. Any landowner, fears we have relied | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
on you as the custodian of the countryside. Most of our best | :11:46. | :11:49. | |
information comes from the farming community because they do love the | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
animals and respect them. Any member of the farming community | :11:53. | :12:01. | |
involved in this practice should be ashamed of themselves. One thing | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
that is obvious is that a lot of badger digging takes place on or | :12:04. | :12:11. | |
near dairy farms. Many farmers believe badgers can transmit TB to | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
their animals, potentially costing them thousands of pounds. As the | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
law stands, killing badgers is illegal but farmers are supporting | :12:20. | :12:30. | |
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calls for a cull. I am not aware of any farmers encouraging it. I would | :12:32. | :12:38. | |
be very disappointed if any farmers were. Their livelihood is about | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
looking after animals. I would be concerned if I knew of any farmer | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
that was actively welcoming this on their land. Scientific experts are | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
at loggerheads as to whether or not badgers carry TB and transmit it. | :12:51. | :12:56. | |
It would seem however that few disagree that using dogs to tear | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
badgers apart in the cruellest manner is no solution to any | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
problem. Tomorrow night, with a look at just how those dogs also | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
suffer. -- we will look. We understand this evening that | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
police and USPCA are visiting premises in South Down in | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
connection with badger baiting. We'll have the final part on this | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
badger baiting investigation tomorrow night at 6:30pm. Our | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
earlier reports have sparked a lot of reaction on our Facebook page, | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
where the discussion continues, and if you missed the first report, | :13:25. | :13:32. | |
it's on our news website. This is BBC Newsline and still to | :13:32. | :13:41. | |
come on the programme: I am alive with the former Rangers player who | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
was hoping to save the club until the end of the season. | :13:45. | :13:52. | |
And a first look inside the new The Sinn Fein Culture Minister | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
Caral Ni Chuillin has refused to rule out appointing another ex | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
prisoner as her special adviser. It follows the decision of convicted | :13:59. | :14:05. | |
murdered Mary McArdle to leave the post after only ten months. The | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
sister of the woman she was convicted of killing says she's | :14:08. | :14:14. | |
delighted at the move. Here's our political correspondent Gareth | :14:14. | :14:23. | |
Gordon. We only ever got one brief public | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
glimpse of Mary McCardle in her role as special adviser to the | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
culture minister, probably because the appointment of the woman who | :14:30. | :14:35. | |
was sentenced to life imprisonment for her part in the murder of Mary | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
Travers was so controversial. The teacher was shot in the back as she | :14:39. | :14:45. | |
left Mass with her magistrate father. He was also shot but | :14:45. | :14:50. | |
survived. The family campaigned to have Mary McCardle removed from has | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
dormant post and last night it was confirmed she would be leaving that | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
job. It was like everything had been | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
lifted off my shoulders. As if all the stress and strains of the last | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
10 months and all the feelings that I was worth and we were worth | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
nothing, Mary wasn't worth nothing, her memory was being solid, | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
suddenly it all disappear. Sinn Fein denies it bowed to | :15:17. | :15:22. | |
pressure. He I don't agree with that at all. | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
Mary McCardle is a political ex- prisoner, as am I and many people. | :15:27. | :15:33. | |
The appointment was made for the right reasons then. Mary's decision | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
to read -- to move on is supported by myself as well. | :15:37. | :15:41. | |
And Travers says she wants Mary McCardle to tell her who else was | :15:41. | :15:45. | |
involved in the murder and the name of the person who ordered the | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
operation. Caral Ni Chuillin says she may appoint another ex-prisoner | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
to replace her. A former justice minister in the | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
Republic has rejected suggestions that the Taoiseach Jack Lynch | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
described the 1979 murders of 18 soldiers at Narrow Water, as a | :15:58. | :16:04. | |
'political crime'. The claim was made yesterday by a former senior | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
RUC officer in evidence to the Smithwick Tribunal. The retired | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
assistant chief constable did not specify whether the Taoiseach he | :16:10. | :16:16. | |
was referring to was Jack Lynch or Charles Haughey. Some media reports | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
attributed the quote to Jack Lynch. But in a letter to the Tribunal, | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
Gerry Collins disputed the account and said Mr Lynch was "vehemently | :16:24. | :16:34. | |
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opposed" to the IRA's campaign of violence. | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
We'll have a first look around the new Titanic building shortly but | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
first as the crisis at Rangers football club deepens even more. | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
The former player Sandy Jardine is in Belfast this evening asking fans | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
for financial support to help save the club. He's with our reporter | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
Thomas Niblock. Rangers fans are a fighting club. I | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
am joined by a former Rangers player who is helping spearhead | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
this attempt to safeguard Rangers season until at least the end of | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
the season. Tell me about what you're asking the Rangers | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
supporters in Northern Ireland to Obviously, when the club first went | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
into administration, we were inundated from supporters all over | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
the world wanting to support money to help the club. We weren't quite | :17:23. | :17:31. | |
ready to do anything and had to get ourselves organised. With the | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
players taking a salary cut, we decided to have a bank account | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
which would be controlled by the Rangers Association. All donations | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
would go into that and we would be the administrators on a weekly | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
basis and drip-feed money to keep the club running from now until, | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
hopefully, the end of the season. You are meeting fans tonight in | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Belfast. He met some in Glasgow. Are they and they? | :17:58. | :18:05. | |
No. It is not about anger. Everybody wants to blame somebody | :18:05. | :18:11. | |
and it in about being positive and looking ahead. On Saturday, we had | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
300 officials from all of the Rangers supporters in Scotland. | :18:15. | :18:21. | |
They endorsed it and tonight we are Rover in Northern Ireland were a | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
lot of the loyal Rangers associations will in Dorset as well. | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
Are you have been Rangers would go into liquidation at the end of the | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
season? I am more than happy to say that. I | :18:31. | :18:36. | |
don't think we'll get anywhere near it liquidation. The donations we | :18:36. | :18:43. | |
get will be out of administration. There are three people trying to | :18:43. | :18:48. | |
buy the club and hopefully we will take liquidation out of the picture. | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
Thank you for your time. Day two of the Cheltenham festival | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
belonged to Barry Geraghty with a hat-trick of winners this afternoon. | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
As for the big Ulster interest, that centered on the County Down | :18:58. | :19:07. | |
Village of Ballygowan. Let's go now go live to Claire Savage to tell us | :19:07. | :19:15. | |
just why? I am in the town where Moscow Mannon is named after. It | :19:15. | :19:20. | |
wasn't quite what people had hoped for, 4th place. People are happy he | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
made it that far. You work in Bryan Hamilton's yard. He is the trainer. | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
What is the mood like? Everyone is over the moon with him. | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
Moscow Mannon never lets you down. Unfortunately, the ground wasn't | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
there for him but he ran his heart out. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
You actually broke Moscow Mannon in. Were you disappointed in those | :19:44. | :19:48. | |
final furlongs, you didn't see the sprint which we saw in the previous | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
three wins? No, I'm delighted with him. We | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
can't wait till the next year. He will be even better and better. I'm | :19:57. | :20:02. | |
delighted. Of course, the homecoming party | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
will be planned but any words you wish to say to the trainer and the | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
rider today? I would like to say a big world and | :20:10. | :20:15. | |
to Bryan Hamilton. He has put a lot of effort into that wars. And to | :20:15. | :20:20. | |
Declan, I would like to say well done. | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
Declan was up against one of the best, Tony McCoy, in that race | :20:24. | :20:28. | |
today. It may not have been the fairy-tale ending but nonetheless, | :20:28. | :20:38. | |
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Moscow Mannon will be having a massive homecoming party here. | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
Unfortunately he didn't qualify for an each-way bet. | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
The Sports Minister today confirmed five further countries will use | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
Northern Ireland as their pre- Olympic training base. They're all | :20:49. | :20:54. | |
from the Middle East. Mark Sidebottom has the details. For so | :20:54. | :20:59. | |
long, it has all been about London. Now the Olympic ripples are being | :20:59. | :21:04. | |
felt in Belfast and beyond. The athletes of Sudan, catarrh, Jordan, | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
Kuwait and Egypt will soon be his strutting their stuff on this | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
facility and a little further down the track, Stormont hopes to foster | :21:13. | :21:15. | |
relations with Africa and the Middle East. | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
We need to spend money on attracting people here to spend | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
money here, to come back here to spend money. As well as that, to | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
show what we have to offer and the nation's we are representing. We | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
are going to have a brand which is associated with the Olympics, a | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
great thing. We also need a brand which will have its own legacy and | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
that will be, this is a good product. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
The real benefits are that we will see a Olympic athletes training | :21:46. | :21:52. | |
here on our facilities. It will mean our local athletes will be | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
able to see what calf -- what class athletes are. It puts Northern | :21:57. | :22:03. | |
Ireland on the map and puts the forum on the map. | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
It is anticipated the Cuban boxing team will also set up camp in | :22:07. | :22:15. | |
Northern Ireland. Hopefully more countries yet to come. From east | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
Belfast, back to the warm studio. Now for the first look inside | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
Titanic Belfast. The signature building at the docks is due to | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
open in just over two weeks and 80,000 tickets have already been | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
sold. The six storey structure will house interactive exhibitions about | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
the construction of the ship and its sinking. Chris Page gives us a | :22:31. | :22:39. | |
tour. Just died the ship itself, Titanic | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
Belfast is six storeys high and has taken three years to build. Now for | :22:44. | :22:48. | |
the first time, some of the exhibits have been revealed. There | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
will be nine Galleries, one will be capture working life in the | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
shipyard. Another section will feature this replica of a first- | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
class cabin. The challenge was to capture the grandeur and the | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
tragedy. Three galleries will look at the sinking, its aftermath and | :23:04. | :23:09. | |
how the story has inspired writers and film-makers. One of the most | :23:09. | :23:13. | |
impressive sights is in the banqueting suite, a reconstruction | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
of the Titanic's grand staircase. The staircase is definitely be | :23:19. | :23:23. | |
while moment. We've had people in tears, would you believe. It is | :23:23. | :23:29. | |
such a phenomenal backtracked. It evokes feelings of romance, passion | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
and grandeur. This is just a small preview and | :23:33. | :23:37. | |
the centre will contain much more. Everyone involved in Titanic | :23:37. | :23:42. | |
Belfast is emphasising it will be an interactive experience. It is | :23:42. | :23:47. | |
designed to enable visitors to visualise what happened on the | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
slipways where the Titanic took shape. 80,000 tickets have already | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
been sold. The people behind Titanic Belfast say they are | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
confident expectations will be met and this attraction will transform | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
Belfast's international reputation. And on the anniversary of the | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Titanic sinking on April the 15th we'll have a special programme live | :24:11. | :24:14. | |
from that new building and we'll also be linking with BBC teams in | :24:14. | :24:24. | |
Cobh, Southampton and on board a boat in the Atlantic. That's all on | :24:24. | :24:28. | |
Sunday 15th of April. We'll have more details for you nearer the | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
time. Now the latest weather news, here's | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
We are eventually going to see a change but it will be a slow | :24:37. | :24:41. | |
process through the next 24 hours. While we were expecting some bright | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
spells to develop today, sadly, that ended up not being the case. | :24:45. | :24:51. | |
We were shrouded beneath that gloom. That makes it four days in a row | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
when we have seen little sunshine. For many of us, the sky ended up | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
looking bland and grey, even gloomy in places. That cloud is going | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
nowhere fast. A cloudy evening and night to come. As with previous | :25:04. | :25:10. | |
nights, it might bring some hill fog and there could be some | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
dampness and drizzle in the air but nothing more than that and it is | :25:13. | :25:19. | |
frost-free. Temperatures at around six degrees. A weather front will | :25:19. | :25:24. | |
eventually move its way in but I think it will be late in the day | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
before we start to feel the impact of that. Still a lot of dry weather | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
to come through the day tomorrow. Cloudy, dry start to tomorrow | :25:32. | :25:36. | |
morning, just the odd spot of drizzle starting to edge in two | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
parts of Donegal. For parts of Antrim and down, the cloud could | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
then a little and give a bright spells. That could linger into the | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
afternoon. The cloud starts to pile back in after that. Temperatures of | :25:51. | :25:56. | |
12 Celsius but the cloud begins to thicken and spells of rain in | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
Londonderry. Not a pleasant evening during rush-hour with moderate | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
bursts of rain. That rain transfers eastwards into tomorrow evening and | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
continues on and off through the course of tomorrow night. The | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
breeze picks up as we head into Friday, pushing the rain out of the | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
way and eventually bringing brighter spells from the Atlantic | :26:17. | :26:22. | |
but there will be showers coming in, too. Fat breeze makes it feel | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
chilly even in the sunshine. That stays with us into the weekend with | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
some frosty nights. Brighter skies during the day but there will be | :26:31. | :26:41. | |
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showers around, more so on Saturday. Our late summary is at 10:25pm. We | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
will tell you how there can be bright lights in the night sky over | :26:48. | :26:52. |