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away. That's all from the BBC News at Six. On BBC One, we now join the | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
This is BBC Newsline. The top stories this Friday evening: The | :00:00. | :00:21. | |
Secretary of State says the On The Run letters scheme is over. Bombs | :00:22. | :00:27. | |
are found at postal sorting offices in Lisburn and Londonderry. The | :00:28. | :00:31. | |
couple married in hospital appealing for all of us to sign the organ | :00:32. | :00:40. | |
transplant register. A transplant, it's not nice. The story of the | :00:41. | :00:49. | |
French flight forced to make an emergency landing when a woman on | :00:50. | :00:56. | |
board whent -- went into labour. Ireland must see off the Italians in | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
Dublin before they can think about Six Nations glory in Paris. A | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
beautiful afternoon today. Not quite so nice for tomorrow. But improving | :01:04. | :01:08. | |
on Sunday. The controversial on the run scheme is over as far as the | :01:09. | :01:14. | |
Government is concerned. That was the message today from the Secretary | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
of State, Theresa Villiers. Her words were welcomed by Unionists, | :01:18. | :01:19. | |
but dismissed by Republicans as meaningless and an act of bad faith. | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
This report from our political correspondent Gareth Gordon. The | :01:24. | :01:31. | |
issue of on the runs has left many victims with a sour taste in their | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
mouths. Today the Secretary of State offered them a sweetener. In total, | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
of the 200 or so cases considered under the scheme, 38 have been | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
looked at since t general election in May 2010 and of these, 12 | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
received letters saying they were no longer wanted. No letters have been | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
issued by the Northern Ireland office since December 2012. And as | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
far as this government is concerned, this scheme is over. But what does | :02:03. | :02:07. | |
it mean and what will lap to the cases -- happen to the cases in the | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
system. What happens to them will be a matter for the judge-led inquiry | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
to decide. We have no plans to issue letters in relation to those cases. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
You could have told us this in 2012. What has changed? The UK Government | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
sees the scheme as at an end. We recognise the grave concerns and I | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
have been making clear today that these letters don't confer immune is | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
the, if evidence emerges in relation to terrorist offences, people will | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
be prosecuted. Did they not know that any way? It is port to ensure | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
that the pub -- important to ensure that the public and the resipt | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
sippient -- recipients of letters know they're not a get out of jail | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
card. It is understood if fresh evidence emerges, due process will | :03:03. | :03:07. | |
operate and these letters do not provide protection from arrest or | :03:08. | :03:10. | |
prosecution if there is evidence sufficient to justify arrest or | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
prosecution. The letters are in the same, will they be rescinded? When a | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
litter is a statement of -- letter is a statement of fact, rescinded is | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
not the right concept to talk about. It suggests they have had a status | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
they don't have. Her words were welcomed by unionist. Now they know | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
they cannot count on the those letters any more. But Sinn Fein said | :03:34. | :03:41. | |
the comments smacked of a partisan approach. More often it is | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
unhelpful. This is pandering to unionist and is a sign of bad faith. | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
The case of John Downey led to the resignation of the First Minister. | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
Now he wants more information from the police. I think the one area and | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
it wasn't for the Secretary of State to pick it up, that is still left to | :04:04. | :04:09. | |
be dealt with is whether there are ongoing investigations into the | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
cases where letters have been issued. That is a vital area. | :04:12. | :04:15. | |
Because without those investigations into the cases, then largely it is | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
immunity. The capeses are closed -- cases are closed. So we want that | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
clarification. It is more Nan a week since a judge-led inquiry was | :04:26. | :04:28. | |
announced into the Downey case and still no judge has been appointed. | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
We are work Ogg than with the Lord Chief Justice. He would have to be | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
appointed soon. : We are working on that now. Is there a problem getting | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
a judge? We are going to be working hard to make sure that we get the | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
judge appointed as soon as possible. But these things can take time and | :04:50. | :04:55. | |
we will announce as soon as we can who will lead the inquiry. If the | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
intention was to bring clarity, the Secretary of State probably hasn't | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
succeeded. As the parties head to Washington next week, it is clear | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
opt runs still have the -- on the runs still have the ability to | :05:11. | :05:20. | |
destabilise the peace process. The First and Deputy First Ministers | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
have condemned those who sent letter bombs which were intercepted by | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
Royal Mail staff in Londonderry and Lisburn. It's understood the | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
packages were addressed to Maghaberry Prison. Chris Page | :05:29. | :05:31. | |
reports. For the second time in 24 hours, the army and the police were | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
called to posal offices. -- postal office. In Lisburn Royal Mail staff | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
had to wait as the security forces dealt with a letter bomb. Yesterday, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
there was a similar operation at this sorting office in Londonderry. | :05:46. | :05:54. | |
There, workers intercemented cepted another device. If they have any | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
other cause or anything they want to talk about, they have an open | :05:58. | :06:01. | |
democratic society in which they can do that. If there is a case they | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
want to make, let them do so. Coming up with devices like this won't | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
advance anything. It is understood staff here in Lisburn reported the | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
package just after they had received a briefing about the incident in | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
Derry. It is understood both letter bombs were addressed to Maghaberry | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
prison. These people won't listen to me. But what we need is action from | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
the police to get to the bottom of who is involved and get them behind | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
bars where they deserve to be. They're of no benefit to society and | :06:37. | :06:42. | |
need to be taken out of society. The First Minister and the deputy First | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
Minister condemned those behind the bombs. They said the people who | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
stent the packages - sent the packages have no respect for the | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
postal service, the community or the future. Still to come on tonight's | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
programme: Find out why the current crisis in the south of Ukraine has a | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
special historical meaning for some of our city streets. A couple who | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
were married last week in the Belfast City Hospital are appealing | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
to the public to sign the organ donor register. Ciaran Murphy needs | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
a double lung transplant and doctors have told him the operation is now | :07:19. | :07:21. | |
critical. With two separate organ donation bills now being proposed in | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
the Assembly, Mr Murphy is calling on politicians to remember what's at | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
stake. Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly reports. When | :07:28. | :07:39. | |
most of us become ill and end up in hospital, the expertise of medics is | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
usually enough to get us back on our feet. But for some people, that is | :07:44. | :07:48. | |
not enough and in fact not only do they need medical ais assistance, | :07:49. | :07:57. | |
but they're depending on the public. Married just over a week ago Ciaran | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
and Katrina are cherishing every moment. Time is running out. This is | :08:06. | :08:12. | |
the reality of waiting for a transplant. It notice nice and | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
it's... In a state of limbo that's... Makes every day such a | :08:20. | :08:25. | |
struggle. The wedding was brought forward when Ciaran's health | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
deteriorated in January. The ceremony took place at the city | :08:30. | :08:34. | |
hospital. It could have been anywhere. It was just about us and | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
the commitment that we were making to each other. The staff within the | :08:38. | :08:44. | |
trust were fantastic. Organ donation is a contentious issue with two | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
political bills proposed. One offers a soft opt out system, while the | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
other maintains the current opt in organ register. Like most things, in | :08:55. | :09:01. | |
this country, things do political unnecessarily. But... I think when a | :09:02. | :09:07. | |
person stops and considers what it is we are discussing here, it's | :09:08. | :09:15. | |
people's lives. It's a chance for someone to have a new life. There | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
have been difficult conversations including telling their daughter her | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
daddy might die. For Ciaran's sister the reality is stark. This is | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
reality for us now. Ciaran is going to die. I would appeal for people to | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
put themselves in our shoes and this is not Holby City, this is right | :09:37. | :09:41. | |
here and we are appealing for people to have the conversation. The couple | :09:42. | :09:47. | |
remain upbeat and say without hope, their lives would be shattered. A | :09:48. | :09:53. | |
machine used for laying roads which was owned by the Quinn Group has | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
been destroyed in a fire in County Fermanagh. It's the second night in | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
a row that property once belonging to the bankrupt ex-billionaire Sean | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
Quinn has been targeted by arsonists. Our south west reporter | :10:04. | :10:10. | |
Julian Fowler reports. This tarmac spreader was parked in the village | :10:11. | :10:18. | |
yesterday afternoon. It belongs to Quinn Tarmac and had been tired to a | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
local contractor carrying out roadworks. The police say it was set | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
on fire at about 9pm. The machine, which would cost in the region of | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
?150,000, was destroyed. The night before, firefighters dealt with an | :10:35. | :10:39. | |
attack at the Quinn Glass factory, when a generator was set alight. The | :10:40. | :10:44. | |
company has not commented on the the latest incidents, but following | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
Wednesday's arson attack the glass factory is operating normally. Sean | :10:49. | :10:53. | |
Quinn lost control of his business empire in 2011. Since, there has | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
been a campaign of vandalism, which Mr Quinn has conKemed -- condemned. | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
The latest incidents began in December after Quinn Group was | :11:05. | :11:11. | |
rebranded and a fuel tanker was drif sbon the -- driven into the | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
company's head quarters. And then a bus was set on fire. Last month a | :11:18. | :11:23. | |
pet Rop bomb attack -- petrol bomb attack took place at the company's | :11:24. | :11:28. | |
headquarters. After plans were announced to sell Quinn Roof Tiles, | :11:29. | :11:36. | |
damage was caused to equipment at Lagan Group quarries. The police | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
appealed for information about the latest attacks, but so far those | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
responsible for the three year long campaign have not been caught. An | :11:45. | :11:52. | |
auxiliary nurse who sexually assaulted an elderly patient has | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
been jailed for five years. 58-year-old David Hull from Main | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
Street in Carrowdore pleaded guilty to two charges of assaulting the | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
woman when she was a patient at the Ulster Hospital. The judge said Hull | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
had committed a serious breach of trust. A plan for a shared education | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
campus in Armagh has hit a major obstacle - as one catholic grammar | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
school has decided to opt out of a joint site and stay in its current | :12:19. | :12:21. | |
grounds. As our education correspondent Maggie Taggart | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
reports, the Government wants to see at least ten shared campuses created | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
to promote better community relations. The proposal was for St | :12:27. | :12:40. | |
Patrick's, the royal school and the city of Armagh high school to form | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
an educational village. There was speculation the campus would be | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
located at the former St Luke's hospital. Since Patrick's has now | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
decided to re-develop its current site rather than move to a joint | :12:57. | :13:02. | |
campus and will take in pupils from the nearby school. I'm in the | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
grounds of St Luke's hospital that was proposed as a site for the | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
shared campus. That is now said to be unavailable. But we have been | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
told the trust has not been approached by the educational and | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
community village body. No one involved agreed to be interviewed, | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
but the Royal school said it is disappointed the plan has to be | :13:28. | :13:32. | |
reconsidered. The city of Armagh high said it was surprised at the | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
news and is looking to submit a birthed for fund -- bid for funding. | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
The options are more flexible than expected and the Government rules | :13:43. | :13:49. | |
will allow for shared facilities. The educational and community | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
village body says the decision by St Patrick's does not jeopardise the | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
plan and it will continue to work on the project. One positive slant on | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
this is that instead of a single location for a shared campus, | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
schools across the city would co-operate in a cross community way | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
and that would mean the whole city would be a shared campus. That is | :14:11. | :14:19. | |
what is called the broader vision. An Air France flight from Paris to | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
Detroit was forced to make an emergency landing at Belfast | :14:24. | :14:25. | |
International Airport yesterday afternoon after a woman on board | :14:26. | :14:28. | |
went into labour. The pilot turned the aircraft around 250 miles across | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
the Atlantic Ocean. Andy West reports. | :14:32. | :14:41. | |
The flight seen here just after landing. The alarm was raised when | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
it was thousands of feet above the Atlantic. A heavily pregnant woman | :14:48. | :14:52. | |
on board had gone into labour. It was carrying 300 passengers and | :14:53. | :14:55. | |
making its way from Paris to Detroit. It was 250 miles off the | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
coast of Ireland when the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
at Belfast International Airport, just 45 minutes away. It is a | :15:05. | :15:10. | |
colossal plane compared to the aircraft that usually land here and | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
it was so heavy it had to dump fuel before touching down. The aircraft | :15:15. | :15:21. | |
landed here about 4:15pm, we had an ambulance here waiting. The medical | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
personnel went on board to assess the passenger and she walked off the | :15:26. | :15:28. | |
aircraft and got into the ambulance. The ambulance left within | :15:29. | :15:35. | |
about 15 minutes of the Eric Heiden arriving. The woman was rushed | :15:36. | :15:41. | |
through to the maternity ward and we are told mum and baby are doing | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
well. We don't know yet whether she had a boy or girl, but one thing is | :15:46. | :15:51. | |
for sure, whether the Internet until confluent bash intercontinental | :15:52. | :15:56. | |
infant grows up in France or America, it will always be to say it | :15:57. | :16:03. | |
was born in Northern Ireland. The crisis in Ukraine has been | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
making headlines around the world in recent weeks but it has also | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
resonated with people in parts of Belfast where some of the Balkan | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
place names have a familiar ring to them. BBC Newsline's Mervyn Jess has | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
been finding out about some of the city's historic links with the | :16:19. | :16:21. | |
Ukraine and Crimea. It may be thousands of miles away, | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
and all over our new screens at the moment, but you don't have to look | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
that for in Belfast to find links with the Ukraine. Here, just off the | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
Falls Road in the west of the city, we have a better street and | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
surpassed Wall Street. For several weeks the crisis in Ukraine has | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
played out on our news outlets and place names that struck a chord with | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
people here. Over the years housing redevelopment schemes in Belfast | :16:54. | :16:55. | |
have seen entire streets disappear, along with place names like | :16:56. | :17:03. | |
Inkerman. And balaclava for stop Tom Hartley is an expert on the history | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
of the city cemetery which itself has historic ties with conflict in | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Crimea. It is one of the earliest military | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
graves, it belongs to Peter McKay at the Battle of balaclava, Russian | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
calvary tried to break the tradition lied and they were met by the 93rd, | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
and by the first time the British Army Unit we using a rifle musket so | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
they broke the charge of the calvary. All of this was seen by | :17:29. | :17:36. | |
another man. He is the first war correspondent and he wrote about the | :17:37. | :17:42. | |
thin red streak when he was reporting and it becomes the thin | :17:43. | :17:45. | |
Red Line. That linkage with battle names | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
continues across the city like here in the Shankill with the word Crimea | :17:50. | :17:58. | |
figuring prominently. This is the resting place of | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
Sergeant Jon Bryan. Became known as the charge of the light Brigade. He | :18:05. | :18:08. | |
was probably sent here as a soldier was in those days, Crimea Street is | :18:09. | :18:18. | |
about a quarter of a mile down the road. | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
The focus on the threat of a modern day wore in Crimea has resurrected | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
links with battles fought long ago in that part of the Balkans. | :18:27. | :18:33. | |
Stay with us. Find out why it is a -- for points on the boards of | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
Ireland want to win the Six Nations. All this week on BBC Newsline we're | :18:36. | :18:46. | |
marking the 100 years since the beginning of World War One. While | :18:47. | :18:49. | |
the bloodiest battles were taking place hundreds of miles away in | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
France and Belgium our reporter Julie Mccullough has been finding | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
out that it could also be dangerous here in Northern Ireland, if you | :18:56. | :18:57. | |
stood out for the wrong reasons. When German man Paul George went to | :18:58. | :19:18. | |
white spots lead mines after all those German colleagues had left | :19:19. | :19:22. | |
people began to get suspicious. He was regarded as the mysterious | :19:23. | :19:27. | |
German living here. He had a military background, was an awards | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
regiment in Germany, so there are offers three people wondering what | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
he was doing, especially round about the time of the crisis and the | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
period leading up to the start of the First World War. | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
An arrest wasn't too far behind, and he was charged with espionage. He | :19:44. | :19:51. | |
had maps, railway timetables, he also had a picture of the British | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
fleet, a postcard, and a camera. He had all sorts of things which seemed | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
to show clearly he was a spy. During his trial he said all the | :20:04. | :20:10. | |
items he had were available in the public domain, and the jury found | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
him not guilty. However, that was in the end of the story. Shortly | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
afterwards he was arrested by the military and we believe he ended up | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
interned in the Isle of Man. Certainly it says on the records he | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
was taken to an ailing concentration camp. To this day it is unclear what | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
happened to him when the war ended. And questions continue to be asked | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
about why he had stayed here in the first place. | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
There will be more on that story on BBC Radio Ulster tonight at 11.50pm. | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
Now sport. And Ireland may have their eyes on the prize in France | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
next weekend but first they must do the job against Italy in Dublin. | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
Yes, if Ireland are to win the Six Nations championship this year, they | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
must bounce back from the defeat to England with a win over Italy at the | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
Aviva tomorrow. That would set up a tilt at the title in Paris. Thomas | :21:04. | :21:12. | |
Niblock reports. Great atmosphere at Twickenham. | :21:13. | :21:21. | |
Grand Slam hopes crashed into the English a few weeks ago but Alan can | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
still win the six nations championship, but it will come down | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
two points difference. Realistically Ireland will have to win big in | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
Dublin and achieve something they couldn't achieve last year. | :21:34. | :21:41. | |
The cake is good. Italy have beaten Ireland. | :21:42. | :21:48. | |
You have got to be really where other people are talking about that | :21:49. | :21:51. | |
and your players might start to be distracted. You can get the best | :21:52. | :21:56. | |
points differential you like, if you don't get the results, then you go | :21:57. | :22:01. | |
on anyway. We need to go to Paris with three wins out of four. | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
Therefore to be in with a chance, we have got to get over the line and | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
get to Italy. One of the advantages we will have is we are the last game | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
next Saturday, we will know exactly what is required of us. If we are at | :22:16. | :22:19. | |
a position where we are still fighting for the trophy, and that is | :22:20. | :22:23. | |
why we have got in short we focus on the result first. | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
Iain Henderson will make his first start replacing Peter O'Mahony and | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
despite Tom IBO back with Ireland and Simon Sieber very much on form | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
for Munster, Andrew Trimble stars his fourth consecutive game in the | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
championship. Really good opportunity for both of | :22:41. | :22:44. | |
us. I have been loving being involved the last few weeks. I have | :22:45. | :22:51. | |
done enough to keep my place. He has been coming off the bench little | :22:52. | :22:54. | |
bit, making massive impact. No surprise to see him in there. I'm | :22:55. | :22:58. | |
sure he will take the opportunity on Saturday. | :22:59. | :23:01. | |
Rhino disco has recovered from injury meaning he will earn his | :23:02. | :23:09. | |
140th. -- Brian O'Driscoll. Sent him into one side, this weekend is all | :23:10. | :23:16. | |
about when attention turns to France. Big day for Brian and the | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
boys. Rory McIlroy is just underway in his | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
second round at the World Golf Championship event in Miami. He has | :23:27. | :23:31. | |
dropped one shot and he is two shots of the outright lead. Graeme | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
McDowell is one shot further behind living level par for the tournament | :23:38. | :23:47. | |
in conditions in Florida. In Gaelic football, first play | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
second in Division One of the National League this weekend as | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
Derry travel to Cork. Brian McIver's side have five points out of a | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
possible six going into this game, much to their manager's delight. | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
I thought the way we were preparing and the way these lads, it was a | :24:01. | :24:03. | |
possibility we could get to this particular stage. We are still only | :24:04. | :24:12. | |
in March, a lot of football to be played. It is good to be living at | :24:13. | :24:20. | |
the top of the table clash, as opposed to a relegation situation. | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
We are going to be down in good form and hopefully we will turn it in | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
good form. Partially-sighted skier Kelly | :24:26. | :24:28. | |
Gallagher will be aiming for gold as she competes in the first of her | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
five events at the Winter Paralympics in Sochi tomorrow. The | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
Bangor woman, along with her guide Charlotte Evans, go in the women's | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
downhill. The duo have formed a strong partnership, winning medals | :24:40. | :24:48. | |
at the World and Europa Cup. We think we know what we are doing in | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
terms of training and preparation and we are doing everything we can | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
to make sure we are doing that every day, and that all those days are | :24:55. | :24:58. | |
going to add up into knowing at the time when the games come, when we | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
have done our last race, we put everything into that and then you | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
can be proud of yourself because you know the two of us have worked so | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
hard for it, it is what we deserve. We wish her and Charlotte all the | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
best. The snow is starting to melt, so fingers crossed it is colder | :25:16. | :25:16. | |
there than here. Good evening. After a dodgy start to | :25:17. | :25:29. | |
day it didn't turn out to badly. Dry and bright just about everywhere, | :25:30. | :25:35. | |
after some early showers. As we go through into this evening, the skies | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
and stay clear through the first half, temperatures dip off quite | :25:39. | :25:51. | |
sharply. As we start tomorrow, it will be quite a grey, damp and windy | :25:52. | :25:58. | |
start. It will brighten up as we go through the day. This is the picture | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
we will be waking up today. The rain will not last for long. It clears | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
away and leaves not a bad day. A windy day though, strong, southerly | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
breeze. While the temperatures are 11 or 12 degrees in me not feel like | :26:12. | :26:21. | |
that in the breeze. All eyes turn to Dublin for the rugby. Ireland | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
against Italy. It could be quite a great, cloudy afternoon. Quite mild. | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
Breezy, thou my nightlife a little bit interesting for the kicking | :26:35. | :26:52. | |
game. It will be quite mild night, 34 degrees overnight. What is | :26:53. | :26:55. | |
driving our weather is the tail end of this low-pressure system. -- | :26:56. | :27:01. | |
three or four degrees overnight. The high-pressure system gets more | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
firmly established next week. As we start Sunday morning there is | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
dampness and drizzle around. The best of any brakes on Sunday will be | :27:15. | :27:22. | |
for Derry and Northwest. By the time we get to Monday, a much brighter | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
picture. Dry and clear, solution temperatures. -- some decent | :27:28. | :27:35. | |
temperatures. , the high-pressure is in charge and we have some more | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
settled conditions to look forward to. | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
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