:00:15. > :00:26.This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Tuesday evening...
:00:27. > :00:31.Another death under investigation in the Royal's emergency department.
:00:32. > :00:34.A murder trial hears how this man was beaten until he was
:00:35. > :00:37.unrecognisable. We find out how families here are
:00:38. > :00:41.worse off than they were a decade ago.
:00:42. > :00:44.Look out there is a Wallaby about. In fact, to act on the loose in
:00:45. > :00:47.County Down. It's foggy and soggy in Sochi, where
:00:48. > :00:52.Kelly Gallagher couldn't quite match yesterdays heroics at the Paralympic
:00:53. > :00:55.Games. And there's more frost and fog to
:00:56. > :01:07.come tonight, but the sun'll come out tomorrow. Full details shortly.
:01:08. > :01:10.BBC Newsline can reveal another elderly female patient at the Royal
:01:11. > :01:14.Victoria Hospital has died on a hospital trolley, where a delay in
:01:15. > :01:17.treating her could be a contributing factor in her death. That brings the
:01:18. > :01:27.number of such recent incidents to six. Our health correspondent is
:01:28. > :01:29.with me now. What can you tell us? Concern has been raised over the
:01:30. > :01:33.treatment of an elderly woman brought to the Royal Victoria
:01:34. > :01:38.Hospital's emergency department last month. It was during the night. The
:01:39. > :01:41.emergency department was extremely busy. Concern has been raced because
:01:42. > :01:47.it took four hours before the lady was seen I a consultant. She died
:01:48. > :01:54.several hours later. There is concern because she died alone and
:01:55. > :01:59.none of her family had been contacted. So concerned are certain
:02:00. > :02:04.members of staff within the emergency department that they have
:02:05. > :02:10.sought legal advice over how the department is being run. Also, over
:02:11. > :02:17.their own jobs and also, over patient safety.
:02:18. > :02:19.There were other developments at the Royal today.
:02:20. > :02:22.Just weeks after telling this programme that he would not resign,
:02:23. > :02:24.the Chief Executive of the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has
:02:25. > :02:34.announced he's quitting and moving to a new post in
:02:35. > :02:37.England. While it's there to treat critically
:02:38. > :02:40.ill patients, most recently the emergency department itself has also
:02:41. > :02:43.been in a critical condition. There's been a litany of problems.
:02:44. > :02:46.In October, the BBC revealed the College of Emergency Medicine
:02:47. > :02:48.report, which described the ED as being "non sustainable." There were
:02:49. > :02:51.also "breached waiting time targets," "too few senior medical
:02:52. > :02:54.staff," a major incident was called in January, and then news that
:02:55. > :02:57.waiting times had possibly contributed in the deaths of five
:02:58. > :03:04.patients last year. After all that, Colm Donaghy insisted he wouldn't
:03:05. > :03:11.resign. If I feel that I can't continue to deliver added benefit to
:03:12. > :03:15.the population of Belfast and to the patients who depend on us for care,
:03:16. > :03:18.I think that is the time when I would go. At the helm, Colm Donaghy
:03:19. > :03:21.is running what's effectively a billion pound industry. Spending
:03:22. > :03:25.about ?3 million daily with a staff of over 20,000, the Belfast Trust is
:03:26. > :03:33.the second largest in the UK. From this former health trust chair, it's
:03:34. > :03:37.a thankless task. He has nothing to prove. He did an excellent job in
:03:38. > :03:40.the Southern trust and the Northern trust. This is the most difficult
:03:41. > :03:44.job in Northern Ireland that he took on. I do not think anyone else could
:03:45. > :03:50.do it any better. I do believe they will struggle to get someone to take
:03:51. > :03:54.it on. According to politicians, the health service requires stability.
:03:55. > :03:57.There are issues around bed shortages. They need more staff.
:03:58. > :04:03.There are clear recommendations that need action. The BBC understands
:04:04. > :04:05.there may be further change come June, when the department's
:04:06. > :04:08.permanent secretary Andrew McCormick is involved in a reshuffle. And with
:04:09. > :04:12.the Health Board's Chief Executive John Compton retiring next month,
:04:13. > :04:18.the spotlight will be fixed on one man. I think the leadership must
:04:19. > :04:22.come from the ministerial level. I think the minister needs to take
:04:23. > :04:26.positive decisions to safeguard and secure at the delivery of services
:04:27. > :04:28.for the patients within all of Northern Ireland. Colm Donaghy's
:04:29. > :04:32.future remains in health, when he's due to take up the post of Chief
:04:33. > :04:41.Executive of a foundation trust in England.
:04:42. > :04:45.The key witness in the trial of two men accused of beating and Armagh
:04:46. > :04:48.man to death say it was the victim who started the fight. But the
:04:49. > :04:51.witness, the former girlfriend of one of the defendants, said what had
:04:52. > :04:57.happened had become more than a fight.
:04:58. > :05:02.Lindsay Bell was walking along this path with Michael Wilson and her
:05:03. > :05:07.then boyfriend, Gareth McKinney, when she spotted Lee Smith comment
:05:08. > :05:11.across this bridge. She says she saw him and Michael Wilson, who not a
:05:12. > :05:19.soldier, square up to each other. -- who is now a soldier. She said a
:05:20. > :05:22.fight began and she urged Gareth McKinney to break it up, but
:05:23. > :05:32.instead, he joined in and the two men quickly overpowered Mr Smyth.
:05:33. > :05:38.They said -- she said Michael Wilson Kempthorne punching and kicking. The
:05:39. > :05:42.prosecution say he was prone and defenceless. When he was found, he
:05:43. > :05:49.was covered in blood to such an extent that a police officer said he
:05:50. > :05:54.was unrecognisable. The court heard that Mr Smyth, who was 30 at the
:05:55. > :05:57.time, had been an injecting heroin user who had been treading heavily
:05:58. > :06:02.that day. His former girlfriend gave evidence about how he had been
:06:03. > :06:06.involved in an argument at a party the evening before. She said when
:06:07. > :06:11.they got home, summary through a garden ornament at their house and
:06:12. > :06:16.it smashed off a wall. -- somebody through a garden ornament. He went
:06:17. > :06:20.out angry. He said at one point, the police came across him and forced
:06:21. > :06:24.him to drop a stick that he had been brandishing.
:06:25. > :06:27.The poorest households here may be about ?1,000 a year worse off than
:06:28. > :06:30.they were a decade ago. That's according to research from the
:06:31. > :06:33.financial consultancy PwC, which looks at the impact of rising prices
:06:34. > :06:39.and falling wages. Our economics and business editor John Campbell has
:06:40. > :06:43.been looking at the figures. What was the report specifically
:06:44. > :06:46.looking at? We know one of the most painful economic trends of the past
:06:47. > :06:51.few years has been the fact that the price of everything has been going
:06:52. > :06:55.up, particularly food and fuel. Wages have not kept pace. What PWC
:06:56. > :07:00.wanted to see is who has been hardest hit. What they found is that
:07:01. > :07:04.the poorest households saw a cumulative price rise of 40%,
:07:05. > :07:11.meanwhile richer households saw prices going up by 32%. The reason
:07:12. > :07:15.the less well-off households have been hit hardest because they have
:07:16. > :07:19.to spend a larger proportion of earnings on food and fuel, the very
:07:20. > :07:24.things that have seen the steepest price rises. We have this issue with
:07:25. > :07:28.fuel prices. There is a phenomenon known as fuel poverty. It means if
:07:29. > :07:32.you have to spend more than 10% of your household income on fuel, you
:07:33. > :07:37.are defined as being in fuel poverty. In Northern Ireland we have
:07:38. > :07:41.a particular problem with that. 42% of households are defined as being
:07:42. > :07:46.in fuel poverty. In England it is to 15%. It is a problem for us. Part of
:07:47. > :07:50.that is down to our reliance on home heating oil? Ella Mike PWC point to
:07:51. > :07:56.the fact that the gas network year is under developed in comparison to
:07:57. > :08:01.other parts of the UK. It means consumers have to rely on home
:08:02. > :08:09.heating oil, which can be expensive. If you think, you get the best value
:08:10. > :08:13.from a big Phil of oil. Households cannot do that so they cannot get
:08:14. > :08:17.such good value. If you have to buy an oil drum, those are really bad
:08:18. > :08:22.value. Are things going to get better or worse? It is a mixed bag.
:08:23. > :08:29.If you look at the fact that inflation has eased and it is at 2%,
:08:30. > :08:33.the employment market is improving, but there are still a few years of
:08:34. > :08:37.austerity to come. There are more cuts to come and a few of those will
:08:38. > :08:41.be focused on welfare and Social Security. That will be a hit for the
:08:42. > :08:45.poorer households. You're watching BBC Newsline, still
:08:46. > :08:48.to come... We hear high benefits chits are
:08:49. > :08:53.leaving thousands of families here without a home. -- we hear how
:08:54. > :08:56.benefits cheats. Tributes have been paid to a woman
:08:57. > :08:59.from County Down, who died after falling from a cliff while on
:09:00. > :09:03.holiday. Mary Bradley Verhoeven was heavily involved with charity and
:09:04. > :09:09.church work in her home town of Dromore. Chris Page reports.
:09:10. > :09:12.Mary Bradley Verhoeven was a big part of her community. She was
:09:13. > :09:16.involved in churches, charities and much else. Mrs Verhoeven was on
:09:17. > :09:21.holiday in the island of Cape Verde, off the coast of Africa, when she
:09:22. > :09:24.fell from a cliff. She was 61. The fact she touched many lives comes
:09:25. > :09:30.across in this book of condolences, which has been placed in a shop run
:09:31. > :09:33.by a charity she worked for. Gail Redmond is chair of the charity, Via
:09:34. > :09:43.Wings, and a close friend of Mrs Verhoeven. I don't truthfully think
:09:44. > :09:49.there are words that would put in a contribution which would show fully
:09:50. > :09:53.the work she did. She was a supporter, a carer and a giver, but
:09:54. > :09:56.she was my friend and an amazing friend. Among those who knew her,
:09:57. > :10:06.which seemed to be most people in this area, there's a deep sense of
:10:07. > :10:11.loss. Devastation. The line that comes up constantly is there will be
:10:12. > :10:14.a hole in the community. She had a son and a daughter with her husband,
:10:15. > :10:18.Marc. Mary Bradley Verhoeven was well liked, well respected and much
:10:19. > :10:21.admired here in Dromore. News of her sudden death has caused great
:10:22. > :10:27.sadness in this town. Arrangements are now being made for her funeral.
:10:28. > :10:31.The Minister for Education has confirmed that GCSE and A-level
:10:32. > :10:35.exams here will stay much the same, at a time when England and Wales are
:10:36. > :10:39.making dramatic changes. John O'Dowd says he wants pupils in Northern
:10:40. > :10:42.Ireland to have a choice of exam styles. But in primary schools, he
:10:43. > :10:46.is facing criticism about computer based tests. This report from our
:10:47. > :10:51.education correspondent, Maggie Taggart.
:10:52. > :10:54.It's largely business as usual in Northern Ireland, in the face of
:10:55. > :10:58.radical changes elsewhere in Great Britain. One big decision in England
:10:59. > :11:02.is to go from lettered grades to numbers. Northern Ireland will stick
:11:03. > :11:05.with the alphabet. A major change in England will use "all or nothing"
:11:06. > :11:09.linear exams after two years. Northern Ireland will retain both
:11:10. > :11:12.linear and bitesize modules. Michael Gove wants AS-levels to stand alone,
:11:13. > :11:18.Northern Ireland will continue to count AS and A2 towards the final
:11:19. > :11:28.A-level. And from a situation of unlimited re-sits, only one will be
:11:29. > :11:32.allowed. The Education Minister in England, Michael Gove, was accused
:11:33. > :11:35.of making radical changes without enough consultation. Seems the
:11:36. > :11:41.Education Minister here is keen to get agreement from all involved
:11:42. > :11:43.before going ahead. A review showed little appetite for change. There
:11:44. > :11:47.are worries that local pupils could be disadvantaged, but also a feeling
:11:48. > :11:53.that keeping AS exams will be a boon. If you look at the comments
:11:54. > :11:56.from Cambridge and Oxford University is in relation to AES and A-levels,
:11:57. > :12:00.they would wish to see them maintained and we are retaining
:12:01. > :12:04.them. It gives an advantage to our young people. The ill fated NILA and
:12:05. > :12:07.NINA tests in primary schools had major problems because of too little
:12:08. > :12:10.preparation, and too few computers. There may be agreement on the
:12:11. > :12:14.A-levels and GCSEs, but unhappiness about the computer based tests.
:12:15. > :12:20.There are occasions when it can be the case when I agree with a
:12:21. > :12:23.cautious attitude. I wish the same attitude had been taken in regards
:12:24. > :12:26.to computer-based assessment, which is a failure. The NILAs and NINAs
:12:27. > :12:31.will no longer be compulsory until the system passes all tests.
:12:32. > :12:34.Tenants who falsely claim housing benefits are cheating homeless
:12:35. > :12:37.families out of a chance of a permanent address. A BBC Spotlight
:12:38. > :12:41.investigation has found thousands of social houses are being used in
:12:42. > :12:47.benefits scams, and many of them are lying empty. In some cases, a couple
:12:48. > :12:50.use the empty house to claim they live at separate addresses to get
:12:51. > :12:54.extra benefits. In others, people are sub-letting properties they are
:12:55. > :13:05.claiming housing benefit for. Enda McClafferty has the details.
:13:06. > :13:08.Darren Keenan, his partner and their three children are one of the
:13:09. > :13:13.thousands of families who have been waiting for a permanent. They have
:13:14. > :13:16.moved 13 times in the past 12 years and are having to move the game.
:13:17. > :13:21.Their landlord is selling the house where they live. I have been
:13:22. > :13:28.begging. I have been round formalises begging me to let them --
:13:29. > :13:31.begging them to let me live in abandoned houses. I never thought
:13:32. > :13:36.this is where we would live up 12 years ago, still moving from house
:13:37. > :13:41.to house. Darren has been told by the Housing Executive that there are
:13:42. > :13:45.no social houses available. But alternate's spotlight, we ask if
:13:46. > :13:53.that really is the case. -- on tonight's Spotlight. There could be
:13:54. > :13:59.enough homes as there are two has thousands of families, but they are
:14:00. > :14:03.occupied by fraudsters. Tenancy fraud is the biggest scam in England
:14:04. > :14:07.and where, costing 1.8 billion pounds every year, but nobody in
:14:08. > :14:13.Northern Ireland has ever looked for it. That was until the Auditor
:14:14. > :14:17.General for Northern Ireland examined the problem last year. He
:14:18. > :14:23.was not able to find any record of tenancy fraud. It was not coming up
:14:24. > :14:26.on the agenda is of board meetings of the Housing Executive or housing
:14:27. > :14:34.associations. No cases were being reported. Yet, we knew from England
:14:35. > :14:39.and where is that there was a huge problem. Based on the figures for
:14:40. > :14:44.England and is, he estimates they could -- there could be at least
:14:45. > :14:48.2500 homes taken up here by those willing to cheat the system.
:14:49. > :14:54.Spotlight's investigation suggests the number could be higher. The
:14:55. > :14:59.Housing Executive says tenancy fraud is a priority but admitted more
:15:00. > :15:02.could have been done in the past. Might it be that this has not been
:15:03. > :15:06.properly addressed in the past because the Housing Executive did
:15:07. > :15:10.not want to see what they would find? Ella Magna Housing Executive
:15:11. > :15:15.has never shirk its responsibility and has always tried do the right
:15:16. > :15:23.thing. There has now been a strategy put in place to tackle fraud.
:15:24. > :15:29.That is on BBC One tonight at 10:35pm.
:15:30. > :15:32.Lady Justice Hallett has been appointed to conduct an independent
:15:33. > :15:36.review of the On The Runs scheme, following the collapse of the John
:15:37. > :15:39.Downey trial - one of the men accused of the IRA Hyde Park
:15:40. > :15:42.bombing. Lady Hallett, who will report to the Secretary of State
:15:43. > :15:45.Theresa Villiers, has a legal career spanning four decades. Grammar
:15:46. > :15:49.school and Oxford educated, she was called to the Bar in 1972. She
:15:50. > :15:53.became a QC in 1989. In 1998, she became the first woman to chair the
:15:54. > :15:58.Bar Council. The following year, she was appointed a High Court Judge. In
:15:59. > :16:02.2005 she was appointed to the Court of Appeal, the fifth woman to hold
:16:03. > :16:06.the position. In 2009, she took on her most public role having been
:16:07. > :16:11.chosen to act as the coroner at the inquest into the deaths of 52 people
:16:12. > :16:16.in the London bombings. Lady Hallett's report is due to be
:16:17. > :16:18.completed by the end of May. Investigations are underway into
:16:19. > :16:21.dredging for sand on Lough Neagh, with the government admitting it is
:16:22. > :16:27.happening without proper planning approval. About one million tonnes a
:16:28. > :16:29.year are removed for use in the construction industry, as our
:16:30. > :16:34.business correspondent Julian O'Neill reports.
:16:35. > :16:38.Lough Neagh - the biggest lake in the British Isles and a source for
:16:39. > :16:41.sand. Several companies have been dredging here for decades, scooping
:16:42. > :16:47.up a major commodity for the building trade. But now it emerges
:16:48. > :16:52.this enterprise should require planning consent. It's a bit like
:16:53. > :16:55.mining and according to conservationists, the Department of
:16:56. > :17:05.the Environment has been failing to properly regulate what's been going
:17:06. > :17:10.on in plain view. They have known that something is happening. These
:17:11. > :17:14.sand operators have been on official DoE committees for years. It is not
:17:15. > :17:21.as if they were hiding it. The DoE has capitulated and we want to know
:17:22. > :17:24.why. It is not a job creation apartment, it is a Department for
:17:25. > :17:27.the environment. About 300 jobs are directly or indirectly linked to
:17:28. > :17:33.this activity. One MLA who has raised the issue says it must be
:17:34. > :17:36.allowed to continue. It should certainly be allowed, because it is
:17:37. > :17:45.the backbone of our construction industry. Our concerns are that it
:17:46. > :17:49.is being dredged illegally. -- there are concerns. It has been regulated
:17:50. > :17:52.for years. It needs monitoring and we need a partnership approach. A
:17:53. > :17:54.spokesman for the dredging operators described the issue as a
:17:55. > :17:57.technicality. According to the department, there is no evidence
:17:58. > :18:08.dredging is harmful to ecology but it has commissioned studies. The
:18:09. > :18:11.minister, Mark Durkan, says enforcement investigations are
:18:12. > :18:14.taking place as there does seem to have been breaches of planning
:18:15. > :18:20.regulations. He has been asked to meet those involved and it could be
:18:21. > :18:30.he brings dredging into line with the law, or the law into line with
:18:31. > :18:34.dredging. Now, if you live in County Down,
:18:35. > :18:37.look out - there are two wallabies about! The mother and her joey
:18:38. > :18:40.escaped from privately-owned land in Clough, near Newcastle. We sent Mark
:18:41. > :18:44.Simpson on the search for the missing marsupials.
:18:45. > :18:52.Dave four of the search for the Walkabout Wallabies. They escaped in
:18:53. > :18:56.Clough on Friday and have not been seen since. In nearby Newcastle, it
:18:57. > :19:04.is the talk of the town. People have been searching. Several times. We
:19:05. > :19:07.were out this morning at four. I saw on Facebook last night about them. I
:19:08. > :19:12.thought I would have a little look around where we are because we are
:19:13. > :19:18.close. But there was no sign. There does not seem to be anything yet. We
:19:19. > :19:23.are keeping our eyes open and we are hopeful it will turn up because I
:19:24. > :19:28.understand there was a baby. The joy is only four weeks old. Anyone who
:19:29. > :19:35.spots them is advised not to approach them, but to immediately
:19:36. > :19:38.contact the police. Eight wallaby is unlikely to attack a person. It
:19:39. > :19:45.would be protective towards its young. The creature would be easily
:19:46. > :19:49.spooked by dog walkers or whatever, into its proximity. How many do you
:19:50. > :19:58.think we have in Northern Ireland? We have quite a few. They seem quite
:19:59. > :20:01.good at getting out. There was one in Moy a few years ago which turned
:20:02. > :20:08.up in Derry. There was one in Lurgan. Now there is one in Clough.
:20:09. > :20:11.There are a number and they seem adept at getting out. The problem
:20:12. > :20:16.for the search teams is that there are so many different places to
:20:17. > :20:20.look. Miles upon miles of countryside. And if that was not bad
:20:21. > :20:33.enough. You have also got the more mountains. The animals may well be a
:20:34. > :20:38.long way from home. It is day one of Cheltenham. How are
:20:39. > :20:44.the Irish doing? They are doing quite well. They have
:20:45. > :20:48.begun well. Irish trainer Willie Mullins was, as expected, among the
:20:49. > :20:51.winners. In the very first race of the day, the Supreme Novice's
:20:52. > :20:54.Hurdle, Ruby Walsh rode Vautour to victory. And the same rider was on
:20:55. > :20:57.the odds-on favourite Quevega as it romped to a historic sixth
:20:58. > :21:01.consecutive Mares' Hurdle title, beating a record that had stood
:21:02. > :21:04.since the '30s. In the big race of the day, Irish trainer Jessica
:21:05. > :21:06.Harrington landed the prestigious Champion Hurdle, when the Barry
:21:07. > :21:20.Geraghty-ridden Jezki held off AP McCoy on My Tent Or Yours. It means
:21:21. > :21:25.everything. We have been lucky enough to win a couple of
:21:26. > :21:29.Championship races and then to win this is fantastic. I had great faith
:21:30. > :21:33.in the horse. I thought he was improving during the winter and
:21:34. > :21:39.things had not quite gone his way. In a way, AP, because things went
:21:40. > :21:48.wrong last time, he did not give him a hard race and maybe that made the
:21:49. > :21:51.difference today. Yesterday she was on top of the world. Today, Kelly
:21:52. > :21:55.Gallagher took a tumble. The snow on the slopes around Sochi
:21:56. > :21:58.is proving very tricky to handle. Factor in a blanket of fog and
:21:59. > :22:02.conditions even for sighted skiers are trying, and because of that many
:22:03. > :22:09.back home are marvelling at Kelly's achievements to date, not least the
:22:10. > :22:16.students from a Jordanstown school. From the hijinks and celebrations of
:22:17. > :22:21.yesterday, it was back to earth with a bump this morning. Kelly is in
:22:22. > :22:26.trouble. She caught the edge. But win or lose, on the shores of
:22:27. > :22:30.Jordanstown she is proving to be an inspiration. All of these students
:22:31. > :22:34.who today visited the Sports Institue of NI, where Kelly trains,
:22:35. > :22:42.are either visually impaired or deaf. She is like us. She accomplish
:22:43. > :22:54.that. She showed that nothing is impossible if you stick at that. She
:22:55. > :23:00.is good. Were you proud of her? Yes. It might inspire people from here to
:23:01. > :23:05.do it like her and just get them enthusiastic. Has got you
:23:06. > :23:09.enthusiastic? It has, considering that I can't see. I felt like she is
:23:10. > :23:14.like us, she can't see very well and she is able to do this. If she can
:23:15. > :23:21.do that, I could at least try to do something. It is going to be really
:23:22. > :23:30.hard for her to see with the sun and the snow and she is really fast,
:23:31. > :23:35.like 70 or 80 miles an hour. Weather permitting, Kelly and her guide,
:23:36. > :23:41.Charlotte Evans, have two more chances to win gold.
:23:42. > :23:44.Last night was a pretty poor one for Irish Premiership sides in the
:23:45. > :23:47.Setanta cup. While in the Irish Cup, Glenavon are through to the
:23:48. > :23:53.semifinal. A dramatic night at the Oval. First,
:23:54. > :24:00.Jordan Stewart was brought down. Glentoran were awarded a penalty.
:24:01. > :24:05.Magee took responsibility. He rifled it in and Glentoran had the lead at
:24:06. > :24:09.half-time. In fact, they were in the lead for almost the entire match.
:24:10. > :24:18.With just two minutes remaining, Chris Lindsay found the net. On the
:24:19. > :24:29.90th minute, Glenn Aven won. -- Glenn Avant one. The Glentoran
:24:30. > :24:34.manager was deeply unhappy. James McGrath had not been sent off. They
:24:35. > :24:38.made the excuse that the ball had not been under control. His next
:24:39. > :24:45.touch was to put it into the net so if that is not control I do not know
:24:46. > :24:53.what is. They got it wrong. They are saying that earned turn are going
:24:54. > :25:01.through a sticky patch. There is three players on the bench, so it is
:25:02. > :25:10.not as if you can say that they are relying on youngsters. I am just
:25:11. > :25:21.thankful that our boys did us proud. Also last night, Ballinamallard and
:25:22. > :25:26.Crusaders. Coleraine -- Crusaders and Coleraine exited the sitar to
:25:27. > :25:28.cut. E.
:25:29. > :25:31.Finally, a statement from Ulster Rugby late this afternoon has
:25:32. > :25:35.confirmed Nick Williams has returned to training following the conclusion
:25:36. > :25:36.of an internal disciplinary process. Is the good weather going to
:25:37. > :25:46.continue? More blue sky to come tomorrow. This
:25:47. > :25:52.was the picture to weeks ago in County Fermanagh. This is the same
:25:53. > :25:55.picture to date. You can see that the water has disappeared and the
:25:56. > :25:59.road is back, so much better conditions for many of us through
:26:00. > :26:03.today. Tonight, the clear skies will stay with us. It will be quite
:26:04. > :26:08.chilly. Temperatures will fall to freezing and below across many
:26:09. > :26:15.places, maybe as low as minus four. There will be a frost and maybe of
:26:16. > :26:20.fog forming. Tomorrow will have a chilly start but will brighten up
:26:21. > :26:24.into the afternoon. Some of the fog we see tomorrow morning could be
:26:25. > :26:26.stubborn to peer and could cause visibility problems on the roads
:26:27. > :26:32.first thing, something to bear in mind. In the afternoon, for many of
:26:33. > :26:36.us the sun will be back out with clear blue skies. Temperatures back
:26:37. > :26:43.up into double figures, A-level or 12 degrees. The wind stays quite
:26:44. > :26:50.light. A good day for doing some gardening. There is a good sunny end
:26:51. > :26:53.of the day towards the South East. For the north-west, cloud building
:26:54. > :26:55.in. It will not bring rain but it will bring a milder night tomorrow
:26:56. > :27:01.night. Temperatures will probably fall to lows of three degrees. Some
:27:02. > :27:06.areas could be up to six degrees. Not as chilly tomorrow night, into
:27:07. > :27:12.Thursday. The cloud will stay with us on Thursday. Quite a bit of it,
:27:13. > :27:16.in fact. It will brighten up towards County Down and Belfast. For parts
:27:17. > :27:21.of the north and west, we may get a touch of light rain or drizzle over
:27:22. > :27:25.the Sperrins or the Donegal Hills. Most places will stay dry. The
:27:26. > :27:29.cloudy conditions will stay in place into Friday and that we get. The
:27:30. > :27:36.breeze picks up. There may be light rain or drizzle but the emphasis is
:27:37. > :27:41.on dry weather to come. We are back at 10:25pm. Stay in
:27:42. > :27:43.touch via Facebook and Twitter. Good night. Goodbye.
:27:44. > :27:52.felt very pleasant. Temperatures are now falling
:27:53. > :27:56.with loads of running, swimming and cycling events.