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That's it for now. We're back with the late news

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Good evening. The Linfield manager David Jeffrey has announced that

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he's to leave his job at the end of the season. A number of restaurants

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and shops had to be evacuated last night. It started in the kitchen of

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the bistro bar. The restaurant was busy for Valentines Day and night,

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no one was injured. It took 40 firefighters three hours to bring

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the blaze under control. Police say they don't believe the fire was

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started deliberately. The Linfield manager David Jeffrey has announced

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that he's to leave his job at the end of the season. He was appointed

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manager in January 1997, and to date has led the team to nine league

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titles and seven Irish Cups. Nial Foster reports from Windsor Park.

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The news that David Jeffrey's 17 year reign here at Windsor Park came

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like a bolt from the blue when it was announced on the Linfield

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website, shortly before the fixture this afternoon. It also came as a

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surprise for Linfield fans. I'm shocked because he's doing a

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wonderful job. I don't see who is going to come in and replace them.

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He's a lovely man through and through, in his playing days and his

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days at manager and the trophies he has one, there's nobody better than

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him. He's done the job. The record has been fantastic. The success he

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has brought a Linfield has been enormous. I don't think they will

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replace NEC. Speaking after the match, he wouldn't be drawn on the

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matter. I've made the decision, and it was important that I communicated

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that early. But my focus and my only focus is trying to wrestle the

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Gibson cup back to Linfield football club. So if you don't mind, I will

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talk about my decision at the end of the year. There's no doubt it feels

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like the end of an era for the Blues. More than 30 local residents

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have held a demonstration against plans by Queen's University to build

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new accommodation in South Belfast. The application to house foreign

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students there is currently under consideration. Dan Stanton has more

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details. Voting with their feet, these local residents are opposed to

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plans to knock down this large house and replace it with flats for just

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over 150 students. We've got a total of 2200 in the village. This would

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create another student village. We would be sandwiched in between. It

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is not students but the concentration of students in this

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area that causes the problems. Even just this week past, I've been woken

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twice in the middle of the night by noisy students coming up the road. I

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am a conservation architect by profession. I am an adviser in

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conservation issues. If these buildings, original buildings, are

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demolished and replaced, then the whole raison d'etre of having a

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conservation area is undermined. It will be destroying the suburban

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town/ -- townscape, the gardens, the hedges. The application is currently

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being considered. A decision is expected soon. Queen's have already

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modified their plans but say accommodation is needed for foreign

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students to study here in the city. The controversial subject of

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euthanasia is the hard-hitting topic of a play which premiers at the

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Opera house in Belfast later this month. Assisted suicide, a subject

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of great debate at home and abroad. The thorny issue is brought home to

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Northern Ireland when a young journalist returns from London to

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Belfast to find his father, Tom, is terminally ill. He wants to end his

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life, his family have other ideas. It raises those questions, everybody

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sometimes would say, if that ever happens to me, put something in my

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tea. With Tom, it is a situation where it happens to him so he has to

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face the reality of that. The writer drew upon personal experience and

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then developed the play with others. The end result is this. It is

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looking at assisted suicide and euthanasia. It's a really difficult

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topic but the rate -- the way it does it is really accessible. I was

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attracted to not only fantastic stage action but also through live

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interviews we've recorded and performed or played during the

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production. I think the playwright has written a very compassionate

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play, a very intelligent play. It is a serious subject. Yes, it has every

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right to be on stage. Produced by Accidental Theatre, the play opens

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on the 25th. Let's see if the rain is going to continue tonight and

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tomorrow. We had a few showers today but most

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of those are dying out. As temperatures fall, we do have a

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warning for ice forming in some untreated areas tonight and into

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tomorrow morning. Most of the showers will clear away, so largely

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dry night. The chilly start to Sunday but overall it's not going to

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be to buy the day. Plenty of good weather for getting outdoors. The

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chilly start, some mist and fog around which lifts quite quickly.

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Elsewhere, it's a much better picture right across Britain.

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Certainly a well-deserved, better, brighter, sunny day to enjoy. Across

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Ireland it is going to turn increasingly cloudy and wet, as the

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next system pushes up. It brings rain at first and eventually pushes

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northwards for everyone. Tomorrow evening will cloud over but staying

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largely dry. It won't be until tomorrow evening that we see the

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next rain coming into parts of the West. An unsettled picture into

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Monday. The new week getting off to an unsettled start. Spells of rain,

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rather cloudy but the winds change direction, they'll be coming from

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the south. We will keep you updated on all the weather on BBC News line

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and on our Twitter page. We will be back tomorrow evening. In the

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meantime, you can keep up to date with local news on BBC Radio Ulster

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or on our local

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