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Good evening. The headlines on a BBC Newsline. Islamic militants | :00:24. | :00:30. | |
have kidnapped a local man at a gas depot in Algeria. Farmers here fear | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
a knock-on effect from horsemeat in burgers scandal. | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
And animal charities Investigation Branch Northern island a corridor | :00:39. | :00:42. | |
for cruelty in the legal horsemeat trade. | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
As Martin McGuinness visits the Short Strand, we're from national | :00:47. | :00:53. | |
grassroots about the ongoing processs. I think it is a piece | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
thing. They don't want peace. Cliftonville's match winning goal | :00:59. | :01:03. | |
was good, but will show you an even better one. | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
And it's cold tonight, but turning wet and wintery for the end of the | :01:08. | :01:16. | |
week. A man from Northern island is among | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
several people who have been abducted by a suspected Islamist | :01:20. | :01:24. | |
militants in North Africa. He was working as a gas facility in | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
Algeria when it came under attack. Our reporter is working on the | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
story. What do we know about the attack? It happened at around 5am | :01:35. | :01:40. | |
at our times. The gas facility is close to the Libyan border, around | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
700 miles south-east of the capital, Algiers. The plant is near the town | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
up of In Amenas and is run by the Norwegian company and the state oil | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
company of Nigeria -- of Algeria. Armed Islamic militants attempted | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
to ambush a bus taking workers to the plant before moving on to the | :02:01. | :02:07. | |
site. We know that they have taken a number of workers hostage. | :02:07. | :02:12. | |
Algerian state media is saying that two people, one of whom is British, | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
have been killed and several people have been injured. The exact number | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
of hostages is unclear at this stage. But eight Look -- a group | :02:22. | :02:27. | |
linked to Al-Qaeda in the region is claiming responsibility. Have you | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
been able to find out anything more about this hostage from Northern | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
island? Unfortunately, we don't know whether the man from Northern | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
island was injured in the attack. We know he is 36, married, and | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
travelling on an Irish passport. He is being held in the compound with | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
the other hostages. The exact detail of the situation remains so | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
unclear because of how remote the area is. Even BP are saying they | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
are finding it very difficult to make contact with the site and it | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
understands that the armed individuals are still controlling | :03:04. | :03:09. | |
the plant. This afternoon, the Prime Minister got involved and | :03:09. | :03:15. | |
chaired a Cobra meeting, describing the situation as sensitive and | :03:15. | :03:21. | |
ongoing. In the meantime, Eamon Gilmore and the Republic's | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
Department of Foreign Affairs called for the release of the man | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
from Northern island. They say that they will be providing support to | :03:28. | :03:35. | |
his family and using it or resources to obtain his release. | :03:35. | :03:42. | |
But both London and Dublin have appealed to the man -- to the media | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
not to release further details about the man. A dangerous part of | :03:46. | :03:53. | |
the world, why? In the 1990s, Algeria had a very bloody Islamic | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
insurgency. Some of those fighters have become Al-Qaeda's North | :03:59. | :04:03. | |
African franchise. They have a track record of the kidnapping | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
people in the area. They are considered to be the -- to be part | :04:08. | :04:15. | |
of this kind of terrorist group's modus operandi. It is a revenue | :04:15. | :04:22. | |
raiser for Al-Qaeda in the Margaret. They raised millions of dollars. -- | :04:22. | :04:28. | |
in the Maghreb. They use the money to buy weapons and ammunition to | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
support their general goals of getting rid of Western influence in | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
the area and overthrowing the Algerian government and Western | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
friendly governments and imposing Sharia law. On top of that, it is | :04:40. | :04:45. | |
an unstable region. France is involved in military action in | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
neighbouring Mali. On the other side of art -- of Algeria, you have | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
Libya which is also volatile and awash with weapons. So the | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
situation in In Amenas is very fluid but the Algerian army is | :05:01. | :05:06. | |
trying to release your pop -- the hostages. If I have any details, I | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
will bring them to you. Several big supermarkets in | :05:11. | :05:16. | |
Northern island have removed beef burger Rangers from their shelves | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
as an investigation continues into how horsemeat got into the food | :05:19. | :05:26. | |
chain. The meat has been chased -- has been traced to one supplier in | :05:26. | :05:32. | |
the UK and two in the Republic. We are led to believe that there is no | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
issue with processors this side of the border. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
This is one of two processing plants in the Republic at the | :05:39. | :05:45. | |
centre of an -- of a widening Irish and UK investigation after some of | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
the beef burger ranges supplied to supermarkets were found to contain | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
horsemeat. Product ranges were removed from shelves. Experts can - | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
- confirmed that there is no risk to public health. On all the public | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
-- the information available, nobody is going to die or get ill. | :06:06. | :06:15. | |
It is about us buying product that we think is something and it isn't. | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
Of all the supermarkets, only Aldi do not have a presence in Northern | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
island. When the authorities in the South examined the low-value Tesco | :06:25. | :06:34. | |
Berger, they found the course content was 29%. -- Tesco Berger. | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
The Food Standards Agency say they do not suspect a wider problem. | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Only in so far as the product has come on sale in Northern island, | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
there is nothing that the industry could have done here that would | :06:46. | :06:54. | |
have contributed to that. Some shoppers seemed alarm. It is pretty | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
me off, definitely. You want to know what you're feeding your kids. | :06:58. | :07:03. | |
That is desperate, it really is. We don't know what else could be in it | :07:03. | :07:09. | |
that we don't know about. About 60% of local farming deals in beef. The | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
industry said that this was an episode that the industry should | :07:13. | :07:18. | |
learn from. We have concerns that this has got into the food chain. | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
But at the same time, consumers will realise the importance of | :07:23. | :07:29. | |
locally sourced and locally produced produce. Back in County | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
Monaghan, there is a real fear that contracts could be cancelled and | :07:33. | :07:41. | |
jobs lost. My dad works on the forklift as he is afraid. Will the | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
big companies cancelled their orders? There are enough places | :07:46. | :07:54. | |
closing already. Without so were Crest Foods being closed. | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
without Silvercrest Foods. The company said it had never knowingly | :07:59. | :08:09. | |
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The food scare has raised wider questions about how horses are | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
moved and slaughtered for meat. Tonight on BBC Newsline, we can | :08:15. | :08:20. | |
reveal that the USPCA has been holding a long investigation into | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
the trade and believes that Northern island has become a black | :08:24. | :08:32. | |
market trade -- trading post. -- Northern Ireland. Our reporter has | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
been following the USPCA investigation which has uncovered | :08:36. | :08:44. | |
animal cruelty on a huge scale. These courses were found carouse in | :08:44. | :08:54. | |
poor conditions. They were signed over to the US PCA's. -- the USPCA. | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
It took the animals away and said it believed they were going to be | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
transported to a meat processing plant either in the Republic or in | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
England. In a County Antrim, more than 50 animals were also rescued. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
These discoveries increase the USPCA's suspicions and they began | :09:15. | :09:21. | |
to suspect something sinister. Choral that huge numbers of horses. | :09:21. | :09:29. | |
They were in appalling condition. We have supplied the images to the | :09:29. | :09:35. | |
BBC. These animals were unfit for Transport. Many of them were | :09:35. | :09:41. | |
starved. We were taken to mass graves in Northern island. Last | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
year, BBC Newsline explicitly covered a court hearing in Scotland. | :09:47. | :09:54. | |
To Northern island men were convicted of moving horses without | :09:54. | :09:59. | |
valid passport. The USPCA works closely with a Scottish | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
counterparts and sees this lorry which had a dozen horses on board. | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
These are legitimate cause passport so. They should be held by every | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
horse owner. They identify animals with microchips embedded in the | :10:16. | :10:20. | |
horse's skin. They are subject to be checked every time a horse is | :10:20. | :10:25. | |
transported. The horse passport scheme is meant to provide the same | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
kind of traceability as farmers have when they transport and | :10:29. | :10:38. | |
slaughter cattle. The findings in Scotland showed that a vet's | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
signature had been forged. In some cases, the USPCA believed that | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
microchips were implanted into horses on lorries. The horse | :10:49. | :10:52. | |
passport system is in total disarray. We believe the | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
authorities became aware of this north and south of the border, two | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
years ago. They knew they could not allowed to use -- they could not | :11:02. | :11:08. | |
continue to use the horse passport system, it needs to be abolished, a | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
new system needs to be found. US PGA claims that courses selling | :11:14. | :11:22. | |
for as little as �50 at auction are changing hands for -- because of | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
the forged passports of making them sellable as Prime horsemeat. There | :11:27. | :11:33. | |
are taken for processing outside Northern island. Some are destined | :11:33. | :11:38. | |
for continental Europe, where people routinely eat horsemeat. | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
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Ulster and Scotland were used as cot -- as corridors of cruelty. The | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
main criminal activity took place on the mainland. He. The USPCA | :11:57. | :12:03. | |
believes action must be taken. In a statement this evening, the | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
Department of Agriculture said that its officials routinely check | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
courses leaving or entering Northern island. It said it was | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
aware of the identification and welfare issues and it was assisting | :12:15. | :12:20. | |
in both investigations in the Republic and in Britain. | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
A man who had his conviction for the Murdoch of two soldiers at | :12:25. | :12:32. | |
Massereene Barracks quashed, will face a retrial. He was told that | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
the retrial was in the interest of justice, despite that -- despite | :12:37. | :12:43. | |
defence claims that it could amount to an abuse of the legal system. He | :12:43. | :12:50. | |
was retained in custody. His defence team it is supposed to make | :12:50. | :12:56. | |
an application to the Court in London. This could delay the trial. | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
Still to come, and exclusive love at a revolutionary way to screen | :13:01. | :13:07. | |
for lung cancer. -- an exclusive look. | :13:07. | :13:10. | |
The Deputy First Minister has challenged Unionist ministers to do | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
more to end violence on our streets. Martin McGuinness was on a visit to | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
the nationalist Short Strand interface area, scene of some of | :13:20. | :13:25. | |
the worst violence in the -- recent flag protests. What to local people | :13:25. | :13:31. | |
make of what has been happening? Martin McGuinness described Short | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
Strand as a small up, isolated community which bore the brunt of | :13:36. | :13:41. | |
sectarianism. He said he had come to speak to a very proud people, | :13:41. | :13:47. | |
but where was Peter Robinson? want to make it absolutely clear | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
that as I stood front and centre against the activities of violent | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
republicans, we also need to be standing together against those | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
anti-democratic violent so-called loyalists who are try to confound | :14:04. | :14:09. | |
our institution and damage the political process. Away from the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
interfaces, the people of nationalist west Belfast have been | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
watching from a relatively safe distance. We began by asking people | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
up in this church in the Falls Road. I'm not frightened. But my | :14:27. | :14:36. | |
relations live on the Short Strand and they are terrified. My honest | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
opinion is that it has been there and it should stay there. I don't | :14:42. | :14:49. | |
understand why they have to have protests about it. I don't know, | :14:49. | :14:57. | |
they are silly people. They were offered full flight, and it should | :14:57. | :15:07. | |
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have worked. Opinion seemed divided. He is only a flag, what say flag? | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
It's more than a flag. It's a piece thing, and they don't want peace. | :15:14. | :15:19. | |
Would you prefer to have a flag on City Hall? Not personally. Do you | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
think the decision to have written designated days is right? I think | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
on balance, it is what is the policy in the rest of the UK. | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
think it's right. There should be in the flats. There should be any | :15:32. | :15:38. | |
discrimination. At this Irish language Culture Centre, two | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
figures criticised the protests and Unionist politicians. I figure | :15:43. | :15:47. | |
should stop. Political Unionism should get its act gather and show | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
leadership on the ground. It is a shared city. We are in a very | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
different space and people need to start exploring the reality of that | :15:57. | :16:02. | |
rather than hankering to the old days. That has gone for ever. But | :16:02. | :16:12. | |
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for now, we can only watch and hope Micheal Martin was writing in a | :16:19. | :16:29. | |
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newspaper this morning and joins us now. It is symptomatic of a wider | :16:29. | :16:35. | |
problem with the politics of Northern Ireland. The Good Friday | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
agreement was more than just about the absence of violence. The full | :16:39. | :16:49. | |
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realisation of the agreement's potential has not happened. It cuts | :16:52. | :16:59. | |
both ways. We have to work on a cross-community basis. What has | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
happened is an acceptable and disgraceful that needs to stop and | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
I would condemn the violence at and the violent street protests. | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
Equally, I would say that the situation is not about victory of | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
one side over the other ball the assertion of one position over the | :17:18. | :17:24. | |
other. There is a genuine need for politicians to show people that on | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
bread-and-butter issues politics works. There has been a | :17:28. | :17:33. | |
preoccupation for far too long with flags and emblems and parades as an | :17:33. | :17:43. | |
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alternative to real politics. Child poverty levels are too high. If it | :17:45. | :17:50. | |
-- is this a broad attack on storeman's agenda and therefore a | :17:50. | :17:55. | |
veiled attack on Sinn Fein and your opponents in the Republic? No, I | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
have been a lifelong Republican and committed between -- committed to | :18:02. | :18:07. | |
unity on this island. I was involved in talks in relation to | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
aspects of the peace process and I am anxious to see it work. I have | :18:11. | :18:21. | |
been frustrated over time as a role in the demolition of justice and I | :18:21. | :18:26. | |
saw hope the executives and politics was not realising the | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
opportunity there to change the situation for many people and that | :18:29. | :18:38. | |
is fundamental to... And an underlying issue. Mr Martin, thank | :18:38. | :18:43. | |
you for joining us. People with suspected lung disease, | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
including cancer, often have to undergo surgery to have their | :18:47. | :18:53. | |
condition diagnosed. A new technique means doctors can look | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
inside the Lions and detect humour which does not involve a stay in | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
hospital. It has been offered to patients at the south-west acute | :19:02. | :19:06. | |
hospital in Enniskillen. We went to find out what difference it is | :19:06. | :19:12. | |
making. A first for Northern Ireland. | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
Diagnosing lung disease often involves surgery and a stay in | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
hospital, but this piece of equipment can look inside the lungs | :19:20. | :19:29. | |
and allow the patient home the same day. You can see that there is a | :19:29. | :19:36. | |
device. Also, through a channel, we can pass a needle - a fine and | :19:37. | :19:42. | |
hollow needle - to take biopsies. The bronchial endoscope allows | :19:42. | :19:46. | |
consultants to make a faster diagnosis which mean streak and can | :19:46. | :19:51. | |
also begin sooner. The majority of patients we see for this procedure | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
have suspected lung cancer. It is a priority that they are investigated | :19:56. | :20:01. | |
quickly so the treatment can commend as quickly as possible. | :20:01. | :20:07. | |
Stephen Hogan said having the procedure was simple. The biggest | :20:07. | :20:14. | |
difference for me was knowing where I am that with the diagnosis. Also, | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
for the doctor as well, and the referral to the Oncologist and then | :20:19. | :20:25. | |
I know what my treatment options are. So, it actually gives you a | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
sense of relief and saves a lot of time. 900 people in Northern | :20:31. | :20:35. | |
Ireland are diagnosed with lung cancer each year. 90% of them are | :20:35. | :20:41. | |
smokers. Unfortunately, we see younger patients presenting with | :20:41. | :20:47. | |
lung cancer. It can affect any age and that emphasises the importance | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
of stopping smoking. Although this new service may speed up the | :20:53. | :21:00. | |
diagnosis the message to smokers is that it is never too late to quit. | :21:00. | :21:04. | |
Paul McGinley has told BBC Newsline that he hopes to bring a little bit | :21:04. | :21:08. | |
of Gaelic games into the Ryder Cup dressing room next year. Tell us | :21:08. | :21:13. | |
more. He is the son of a former Donegal | :21:13. | :21:22. | |
Gaelic footballer and he broke his kneecaps which prompted him to take | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
up golf. He is now captain of the European Ryder Cup side. The | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
appointment may not win him an All- Ireland medal, but it has already | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
won him lots of plaudits. It was one of the proudest days of | :21:36. | :21:46. | |
:21:46. | :21:47. | ||
his life. Thank you. And the backing of the world's best golfer | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
certainly helped. Rory McIlroy and a host of Europe's finest indicated | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
that McGinlay was their top choice for camped in and out choice was | :21:55. | :22:00. | |
simple. I played with him in the Seve Trophy and it was my first | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
ever experience in a team atmosphere as a professional. He | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
was a great captain, probably the best captain I have ever played | :22:09. | :22:14. | |
with. I enjoyed playing under him the most. He makes you feel so good | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
about yourself. He said, I want you to lead out the team. He makes you | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
feel confident and he is very good at that. Last night, in front of | :22:25. | :22:32. | |
the world's media, Paul -- Paul McGinley spare go back -- about | :22:32. | :22:41. | |
Gaelic games. His father played for Donegal but he did reveal Gaelic | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
football will form a small part of the Ryder Cup in 2014. Everybody | :22:47. | :22:54. | |
who knows Gaelic games... It is very parochial and, for me, it is | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
the best game in the world. I think it is fantastic, what it stands for | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
and what it gives to communities across Ireland. There is no doubt | :23:04. | :23:12. | |
about it, it is part of my DNA and I would like to think I can get it | :23:12. | :23:17. | |
into the team room in Gleneagles. It remains to be seen whether | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
Darren Clarke will form part of the set-up. But they are hoping for | :23:23. | :23:30. | |
back-to-back Irish captain's. think it would be right for him to | :23:30. | :23:39. | |
play. He's a big name. I hope 2018 is too early for me. I hope I will | :23:39. | :23:46. | |
play. It will not be how I see it, but hopefully one day I will be | :23:46. | :23:52. | |
Ryder Cup captain. A bat on a, until next October, rests on the | :23:52. | :23:56. | |
Paul -- shoulders of Paul McGinley, the Ryder Cup's first ever Irish | :23:56. | :24:04. | |
captain. Ballinamallard win has been | :24:04. | :24:08. | |
tempered by the news that one of its best players is in talks with | :24:08. | :24:13. | |
Linfield about a possible transfer. After moving nine points clear at | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
the top of the table, Cliftonville are keen to hold on to their inform | :24:18. | :24:23. | |
striker. Among the highlights at last | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
night's encounter was this smart save it. The game's stand-out | :24:30. | :24:40. | |
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moment came from this subtlety and club stealing boys away for | :24:45. | :24:54. | |
Solitude. I love playing football. I play it every day. I just have to | :24:54. | :25:03. | |
focus on my matches. I would love to see him playing. I would love | :25:03. | :25:08. | |
him to stay until at least the summer and village best campaign of. | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
He will go with our blessing if it works out for him. He is a | :25:13. | :25:23. | |
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Barcelona. It ensured Ballymena We understand a Kilcoo supporter | :25:32. | :25:40. | |
has received a life ban from the GAA for racial abuse. It is also | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
emerging that a second fan is being investigated following those | :25:44. | :25:54. | |
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allegations. It was a miserable day out there | :25:58. | :26:03. | |
today and took a chilly one also. The question on everyone's lips is | :26:03. | :26:09. | |
when will we see snow? There is still a degree of uncertainty. | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
Suffice to say we will see wet and wintry weather heading our way | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
towards the end of the week, but the wintry conditions may well be | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
confined to higher ground. Keep tuned to the forecast. We will | :26:23. | :26:30. | |
bring all the latest as we get it. No it snow on the horizon tonight. | :26:30. | :26:38. | |
It is a largely cloudy picture with rain lingering around. Temperatures | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
will hover around three or four degrees Celsius. The cloud will | :26:44. | :26:49. | |
kick the temperatures up. Tomorrow, the odd pocket of frost where there | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
are breaks in the cloud but it is a largely frost-free picture. A | :26:54. | :27:01. | |
cloudy and damned one though. In the West, some brightness early on. | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
Feeling noticeably breezy. The rain lingers in the East. Temperatures | :27:07. | :27:14. | |
are average for this time of year, but we could see pretty severe | :27:14. | :27:18. | |
gusts on the east coast. The clouds thickening in the evening. The | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
front moving in from the West is what we are focusing on as it could | :27:22. | :27:28. | |
bring wintry conditions. It will bring pretty heavy rain. The rain | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
has prompted the Met Office to issue an early warning for rain at | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
which could lead to localised flooding. Up to 40 mm of rain could | :27:40. | :27:46. | |
fall which would cause disruption on the roads. The rain will | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
continue to track northwards on Friday. Staying wintry and cold for | :27:50. | :28:00. | |
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