Browse content similar to 20/03/2014. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
That's all from the BBC News at Six, so it's goodbye from me and, on BBC | :00:00. | 3:59:59 | |
One, we Good evening. The headlines on BBC | :00:00. | :00:17. | |
Newsline. A County Antrim gas fitter is jailed | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
for two years, for causing the deaths of these teenagers. Four | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
simple screws could easily have avoided the tragedy. | :00:24. | :00:33. | |
The sentence sends out a clear message that shoddy workmanship will | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
not be tolerated and will be punished by the court. | :00:37. | :00:45. | |
Could plans for a John Lewis store be back on, after a new developer | :00:46. | :00:50. | |
buys this site? Belfast is due to get a city Wi-Fi | :00:51. | :00:56. | |
system next year but people may have to pay to lose it Koech and use it. | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
-- to use it. What's it all about? Northern | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
Ireland's record goal scorer takes to the big screen, in the Odyssey | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
Arena. We're heading back in to some more | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
wintry weather. Cold and blustery, with sleet and snow showers for the | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
next few days. I'll have the full forecast just before 7pm. | :01:17. | :01:21. | |
In the first case of its kind in Northern Ireland, a gas fitter has | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
been sent to jail for health and safety breaches that led to two | :01:25. | :01:27. | |
deaths. George Brown from the Ballygawley Road in Aghadowey got a | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
four-year sentence, for the manslaughter of Aaron Davidson and | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
Neil McFerran who were poisoned by fumes from a boiler that Brown's | :01:34. | :01:46. | |
firm had fitted. The judge said the cavalier attitude to the dangers of | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
carbon monoxide was reprehensible. David Maxwell reports. Poisonous | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
gases from this pack killed two young men. It should have been | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
secured with four small screws, but failure to do that cost Aaron | :02:02. | :02:13. | |
Davidson and Neil McFerran their lives in August 2010. They were | :02:14. | :02:37. | |
having a break with another friend at a holiday apartment here in | :02:38. | :02:37. | |
Castle Rock ahead of their exam results. When their parents could | :02:38. | :02:38. | |
not contact them, they came here and found two boys dead, the other | :02:39. | :02:39. | |
seriously ill. All had been poisoned by the colourless odourless gas | :02:40. | :02:40. | |
called carbon monoxide. Within days, this man's name was made public, | :02:41. | :02:40. | |
George Brown was responsible for fitting the boiler. The health and | :02:41. | :02:41. | |
safety executive warned the public to switch off devices installed by | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
him or his gasp shock. An extensive investigation was carried out, and | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
the case took three years to reach its conclusion. Something a judge | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
criticised today. It is better to do the investigation thoroughly. Today | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
is testament, rather than brushing it and making mistakes. The lesson | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
is to gas engineers, shoddy workmanship, you will have to pay | :03:05. | :03:12. | |
for it. Householders, get a gas certified engineer, make sure | :03:13. | :03:17. | |
appliances are serviced. Get a carbon monoxide monitor. Brown | :03:18. | :03:22. | |
pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter and 19 health and | :03:23. | :03:26. | |
safety breaches. He sat with his head down as the judge sentenced | :03:27. | :03:31. | |
him. Referring to the dangers of carbon monoxide, the judge said his | :03:32. | :03:37. | |
cavalier attitude to the silent killer was reprehensible. The judge | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
said it was a wholly tragic, avoidable disaster, caused by sheer | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
laziness. The perils of Aaron Davidson and Neil McFerran were in | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
court. They were too upset to speak. The police welcomed the sentence. No | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
centre is the judge will give will bring the boys back. It is important | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
to acknowledge that. We are pleased we got the guilty verdict and guilty | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
plea last month. From what the judge described as a litany of shoddy | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
workmanship, Brown was sentenced to four years. He has spent half that | :04:17. | :04:24. | |
time in jail. He was fined ?19,000. A 14-year-old boy was killed in a | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
collision involving a van in Banbridge this morning. It happened | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
as the teenager was walking along the Scarva Road, just before eight | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
o'clock. The driver, who was arrested, has since been | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
The Alliance party's Euro candidate has landed in controversy, by | :04:39. | :04:42. | |
declaring her preference for a united Ireland. Anna Lo made the | :04:43. | :04:49. | |
remarks in the Irish News. Her party has brushed aside the controversy, | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
but the DUP says she should apologise for appearing to liken | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
Northern Ireland to a colony. Our political correspondent Martina | :04:56. | :05:07. | |
Purdy has the details. Anna Lo has been an Alliance success | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
story. Now she is standing for Europe with the catchphrase, aim | :05:15. | :05:26. | |
high, boat though. -- vote Lo. It is such a small place, to be part | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
of the United Kingdom. It is very artificial. I think, together, | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
working with the UK, we are better placed. Economic league, socially | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
and politically probably. She also told the Irish News she was | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
anti-colonial. Unionists have condemned the remarks. She is | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
entitled to her personal convictions. She is not entitled to | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
make a fundamental wrong assertion that Ireland is a colony. It is not, | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
it is part of the United Kingdom. She needs to apologise. The fact is | :06:11. | :06:17. | |
the Alliance party, when you vote for them on the 22nd of May, your | :06:18. | :06:24. | |
vote will be deemed to be a pro united Ireland vote. That is the | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
reality. In a statement, Alliance said: | :06:28. | :06:38. | |
This format Alliance member said these comments are damaging, | :06:39. | :06:46. | |
particularly for the East Belfast MP. It is extremely damaging | :06:47. | :06:53. | |
because, where is she going to get the votes to retain her? To elect | :06:54. | :07:00. | |
her as MP for East Belfast? Only from the unionist population. If | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
they see or believe or perceive that the Alliance party is becoming a | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
nationalist party should, she will not get votes from Unionists. Sinn | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
Fein says the remarks aren't rational. It is disgraceful, | :07:18. | :07:27. | |
unforgivable, that we have senior politicians. It is a sensible bit -- | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
debate. Anna Lo was not available for interview today. Her party | :07:35. | :07:39. | |
leader is set to answer questions this evening on the BBC. And | :07:40. | :07:44. | |
tonight's edition of The View will have an interview with Alliance | :07:45. | :07:53. | |
leader David Ford. That's here on BBC One, after our | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
late 10:25 news. An increase of almost 50% in | :07:56. | :07:55. | |
allowances for local government councillors has been welcomed by the | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
association which represents them. But a long-serving councillor has | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
told BBC Newsline it's not needed. The hike is part of the move to cut | :08:01. | :08:04. | |
the number of councils from 26 to 11 next year. Eunan McConville has | :08:05. | :08:10. | |
more. A meeting of a cross-border body | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
this morning, to give councillors the chance to share ideas on things | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
like tourism strategy. The sort of work councillors now say is part and | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
parcel of their job. A job they argue will become even more | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
demanding when new super councils come into effect. Even only doing 50 | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
hours a week, this is less than the minimum wage. Councillors do not say | :08:38. | :08:47. | |
to their constituents they are off at the weekend. At the moment, | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
councillors are entitled to just under ?10,000 a year. That will go | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
up to over ?14,000. The main reason for this increase is that under the | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
new system, councillors will have more responsibilities. What are | :09:06. | :09:10. | |
they? There are four main areas. The first and most important is | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
planning, councils will be in charge of planning policy. Urban | :09:16. | :09:25. | |
regeneration. And this possibility for helping new businesses. | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
Finally, car parking. Nonetheless, not all councillors believe the | :09:27. | :09:32. | |
increase is warranted. Each has their own local offices. People used | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
to come to me with problems, they are now going to the local offices. | :09:37. | :09:43. | |
The role of the counsellor is significant. Compare it with | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
councillors who do a similar role in the councils in England. Not one of | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
them gets more than ?5,000 a year. Most were surprised to find out it | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
was only ?10,000, that doesn't seem like a lot of money for quite a lot | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
of work. But this point is interesting, it is the level you | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
would pay a second-tier councillor in Britain. We don't tend to think | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
of Stormont as a council, but end of it that way. It is a metropolitan | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
council. This is a second-tier authority. | :10:19. | :10:28. | |
The increase in allowances, just one element of how councils are | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
changing. Representatives will be elected in May. Initially, they will | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
run in tandem with the existing councils, but they have ten months | :10:39. | :10:41. | |
to get everything up and running. You're watching BBC Newsline. Still | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
to come: Conor Macauley goes in search of an internet connection. | :10:48. | :10:55. | |
There are big plans for Belfast to get free Public Wi-Fi, but it is | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
already available in lots of additional towns. We have come to | :11:01. | :11:01. | |
find out if, and how, it works. The Londonderry woman who was | :11:02. | :11:12. | |
captured on mobile phone footage being left on a bus lay-by by police | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
officers while she was incapacitated, says they should be | :11:18. | :11:18. | |
sacked. Bridget Mongan told the BBC she was horrified when she saw the | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
phone footage of the incident at tea-time on St Patrick's Day. Here's | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
our north west reporter Keiron Tourish. | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
The mobile footage has provoked much debate. The woman who says she was | :11:30. | :11:33. | |
drunk was carried a short distance and left in a bus lay-by. She | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
believes the police officers should have taken more care of her. I got | :11:38. | :11:48. | |
upset. I found out a bus had pulled up beside me and I could have been | :11:49. | :11:53. | |
killed. Investigators from the police ombudsman began their enquiry | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
yesterday. They will view this CCTV footage as well. It shows the | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
boyfriend of the woman being taken away shortly before the | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
controversial incident. We can see the woman running at the police | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
car, as they detain her partner. The police officers are again seen | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
moving the woman to the bus lay-by before they get into their car. A | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
short time later, a number of people come out and help the woman inside. | :12:20. | :12:32. | |
Shoppers today give their reaction. I don't really know the full story. | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
Until I do, I think it would be wrong to make a judgement. | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
Obviously, she was vulnerable and they should have taken more care. It | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
is a disgrace. It wasn't pleasant viewing. But you don't know what has | :12:48. | :12:49. | |
happened in the lead up. The police aren't making any official comment. | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
It is understood the police officers aren't due back at work | :12:52. | :13:33. | |
The plan to build a John Lewis department store at Sprucefield near | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
Lisburn could be revived with a new owner of the site. Last year a | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
planning application for the store was withdrawn. The owners said there | :13:42. | :13:44. | |
was too much uncertainty surrounding planning policies. But now, INTU, | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
which is of the UK's biggest shopping centre operators, has | :13:49. | :13:50. | |
bought the Sprucefield Retail Park, and the adjacent site earmarked for | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
John Lewis. What have the new owners been saying about their plans? INTU | :13:54. | :13:58. | |
could not be clearer or explicit, they want to build a department | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
store here, and that really means John Lewis. They say they have gone | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
into this project with their eyes open. They say they have worked with | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
politicians and planners to try and make it happen and they will give it | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
three or four years, and if it does not happen, they will sell this | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
development to somebody else. What do the planning policies say? The | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
planning policy for retail is very simple, it can be summed up with the | :14:25. | :14:29. | |
phrase, town centres first. That sets the bar very high for any kind | :14:30. | :14:34. | |
of out of town development. I think they are going to have their work | :14:35. | :14:38. | |
cut out trying to convince the planners they should be allowed to | :14:39. | :14:41. | |
build anything here, but the exact plan they will come up with remains | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
to be seen. Explain the politics of all of this. Well, the planning | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
policy, that town centre first policy, is the responsibility of the | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
Empire Mintz minister -- the Environment Minister. We know that | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
the DUP are very keen on seeing John Lewis here in Sprucefield, and in | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
fact Peter Robinson is on the record saying, this should not be an | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
environment for just the environment -- Environment Minister, it should | :15:12. | :15:16. | |
be for government as a whole. How exactly this will all play out, and | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
whether that ends up with a John Lewis here at Sprucefield, it is | :15:22. | :15:32. | |
still a long way to run. The digital revolution has been | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
progressing quietly in a lot of our towns and cities. Many of them are | :15:37. | :15:42. | |
already well ahead when it comes to providing free Wi-Fi or internet | :15:43. | :15:44. | |
access for laptops, tablets and smartphones. Belfast is due to get | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
its own system next year, but people may have to pay to use it. | :15:49. | :15:51. | |
You cannot see it, but this town is encased in a giant bubble. For the | :15:52. | :15:54. | |
last six months am a people have been ready to access free Public | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
Wi-Fi on the streets here, part of a scheme to make it available in towns | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
across Northern Ireland. This is a repeater box, it takes the signal | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
from land lines and beams them out all across the town centre. There | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
are 16 boxes like this doesn't around the streets. The traders push | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
for it, and they believe it will make this market town in March the | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
place to shop. I think, especially the younger generation, on their | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
iPhones and iPods, they will want to use that, they want to be connected | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
all the time. There is a repeater box here on this street for the | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
Wi-Fi, and we're going to see if we can log into the service. And there | :16:35. | :16:41. | |
it is. Free Wi-Fi. And there is live coverage of the House of Commons. It | :16:42. | :16:48. | |
may be available, but not everybody knows, and only some are using it. | :16:49. | :16:55. | |
It takes to log -- long to log on. It is quicker just to use 3G. I am | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
surprised at how well it uses the operator works. It is -- I am | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
surprised at how well it works, you are good to go. The scheme is part | :17:08. | :17:13. | |
of a general roll-out. So far, the Department for social development | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
has approved ?564,000 to be set aside to install Wi-Fi in 22 towns | :17:20. | :17:25. | |
across Northern Ireland. The rolling costs, ?5,000 a year, are being | :17:26. | :17:32. | |
picked up by local councils. This man helped set up a free Wi-Fi | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
system in Derry. Their users get access for everyone our in 24. He | :17:38. | :17:43. | |
has no doubts about the benefits. One of the complaints that I have | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
heard is, the lack of good open Wi-Fi hotspots. In the United States | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
and other countries, they are used to it. By 2015, Belfast will have | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
its own wireless network as well, but the likelihood is that it will | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
not be entirely free. It is expected in initial notes -- initial period | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
will be free, but people will be expected to pay for continued usage. | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
The city centre will be covered, and other areas like train, bus stations | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
and stadiums, they also have access to the service, which will be run by | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
a private company on a five or ten year contract. | :18:20. | :18:28. | |
A ?19 million government scheme has been introduced to help first-time | :18:29. | :18:31. | |
buyers onto the property ladder. It will enable housing associations to | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
put 600 homes onto the market. The first of them used to be owned by | :18:36. | :18:44. | |
the Ministry of Defence in Lisburn. The scheme will operate like | :18:45. | :18:46. | |
co-ownership, with buyers taking on just part of the mortgage | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
repayments. The scheme will enable housing associations to provide 600 | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
new homes over the period of the next six years. I think that is an | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
important contribution in terms of housing provision, and also a boost | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
or the construction sector, which has been under a lot of pressure in | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
recent years. Critically ill children including | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
new born babies are to benefit from a new specialist ambulance service | :19:12. | :19:16. | |
which will operate round the clock. To support the two new vehicles a | :19:17. | :19:20. | |
dedicated team is also in place. We asked the minister if this move | :19:21. | :19:23. | |
signalled that children's heart surgery is being moved to Dublin. | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
But I can just show you the inside of the children's ambulance here, | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
you will see that the most obvious difference is this piece of | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
equipment here, and this is a specially designed incubator for | :19:38. | :19:43. | |
brand-new born babies. This is a state of the art ambulance dedicated | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
solely to children. What we would have done previously it had a normal | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
amulets stretcher, and we would have taken a temporary light weight | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
stretcher, and we would have strapped it to the stretcher, put | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
the child inside and then conveyed the child to the local hospital down | :20:02. | :20:09. | |
to the specialist unit in Belfast. I asked the Health Minister if this | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
dedicated ambulance, along with another vehicle before the summer, | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
is an indication that the surgery is to be centralised in Dublin. I think | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
we need to recognise that when it comes to paediatric care, we cannot | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
do everything here in Northern Ireland because he do not have the | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
population to do it, and therefore we need to make sure that where we | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
are using services outside of Northern Ireland, that the treatment | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
is not compromised by having a poor service of transport. Each year, | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
around 600 children are transported between hospitals by ambulance. | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
According to staff, this extra seats were not just for specialist staff, | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
but parents as well. We try to take one parent with us so they are not | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
sitting on the back door wondering what is happening to their child. | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
The ?2 million package also means for additional paediatric intensive | :21:01. | :21:08. | |
care beds. Now sport, and there's a rather | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
unique tribute to Northern Ireland's all-time leading goals-scorer | :21:12. | :21:14. | |
tonight. Yes, we are at the Odyssey Complex for a very special screening | :21:15. | :21:19. | |
here of the work of one David Healy. It was inevitable that he would | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
always hit the big screen. David Healy, tonight you are on screen | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
five. It is almost a this is your life of your goals. You must be | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
flattered. Very flattered, very humbled. The main reason I am here | :21:32. | :21:39. | |
is to raise a profile of the McDonald's trust and hopefully raise | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
a few pounds. You have got 36 goals. We can't take a look at a few of | :21:45. | :21:55. | |
them. -- we can take. Pick one. I know this is not the one in Spain or | :21:56. | :22:01. | |
Luxembourg, but it is always the England one, so to beat England at | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
any level, I played for Northern Ireland at all levels, said to beat | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
them at Windsor Park was extra special. Are you missing it at all? | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
I am. That is the reality of football, it has to come to an end. | :22:18. | :22:22. | |
I miss playing for Northern Ireland's probably more than most. I | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
was fortunate to play. All good things have to come to an end. You | :22:26. | :22:33. | |
have rejoined. Just tell us what you are going to be doing in terms of | :22:34. | :22:38. | |
the new role. I spoke to Michael, the manager, and the technical | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
director, Stephen Robinson, who is a fantastic young coach, he has asked | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
me to come in and help out, so hopefully in the next couple of | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
years, I will help with the squad development for the younger players, | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
and hopefully, for them to go on and do what I didn't represent country. | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
We wish you well and all the best. -- what I did and represent their | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
country. Rugby, and the Ulster team to face Edinburgh at Murrayfield in | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
the Rabo Pro 12 match tomorrow has been named, and Stephen Ferris will | :23:15. | :23:17. | |
start a match for the first time since November 2012. He is one of | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
six changes to the team that beat Scarlets last weekend. Jared Payne | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
is selected at fullback with Tommy Bowe, who has scored three tries in | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
two matches, picked on the right wing. Craig Gilroy is left wing, | :23:29. | :23:37. | |
Darren Cave outside-centre and Luke Marshall returns to inside centre. | :23:38. | :23:38. | |
Paddy Jackson starts at out half, with Michael Heaney named at | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
scrum-half in place of the injured Ruan Pienaar. The full team list is | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
available on BBC Sport online. The Odyssey will be packed this time | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
tomorrow night as the Belfast Giants continue their quest for all four | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
ice hockey trophies up for grabs this season. They're looking to add | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
the Challenge Cup to their collection but will have to beat the | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
holders, the Nottingham Panthers. With two trophies tucked away in the | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
cabinets, the Giants are halfway towards ice hockey's grand slam, but | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
it has been a month since they clinched the league and conference | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
titles come up and now they have to raise their game for the Nottingham | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
Panthers. I am not worried about if they are ready or not. I am not | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
worried about that. You are right, maybe people might wonder about that | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
come a but these guys, you know, they want to play these big games, | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
and they are big game players and that is what they like and what they | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
enjoy, and they are looking forward to it. The Panthers have won the | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
Challenge Cup for the past four years and will be keen to put a dent | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
in Belfast's near-perfect season. I expect them to come out hard. They | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
have a good team. They have won it before. Anytime there is a civil | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
where on the line, teams are going to come out hard at you. -- civil | :24:51. | :24:57. | |
where. They will come hard and it will not be a team we have seen the | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
last couple times we have played them. With five wins already over | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
the Panthers this season, the Giants surely have the psychological | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
advantage. That is all happening this season -- | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
this weekend. I am going to get a bucket of popcorn and go look at | :25:18. | :25:25. | |
screen five. Enjoy ourselves! Today is the United Nation's International | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
Day of Happiness. After this morning's rain, the sun came out! It | :25:29. | :25:42. | |
really was four seasons in one day today. By the time we got to this | :25:43. | :25:46. | |
afternoon, some decent spells of brighter weather, and this evening, | :25:47. | :25:49. | |
the showers are continuing through the late afternoon and are turning | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
increasingly wintry tonight as the temperatures drop away close to and | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
below freezing in some places overnight tonight. The Met Office | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
has issued a yellow warning for the risk of ice. That is enforced from | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
midnight tonight through until nine o'clock tomorrow morning. Friday | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
starts quite chilly. A little bit of rain around to begin with, but then | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
not a bad morning. It dries out a little bit before lunchtime | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
tomorrow. Then, this next weather front starts to work its way in | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
through the day. That rain starts to fall increasingly as hail or sleet | :26:26. | :26:29. | |
and hail snow as we go through the date works its way eastwards, and by | :26:30. | :26:34. | |
the time we get to rush hour tomorrow evening, we could have some | :26:35. | :26:38. | |
quite interesting driving conditions. Do stay tuned to BBC | :26:39. | :26:44. | |
radio Ulster for all of the latest traffic and travel updates for your | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
dry home tomorrow evening. As we go through the evening on Friday, the | :26:49. | :26:53. | |
showers continue again. Temperatures rub away again. Colder than tonight, | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
-- temperatures drop again. Colder than tonight. Saturday morning, | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
starts quite cold, but not the worst day. It brightens up a bit for a | :27:05. | :27:09. | |
time. Always the risk of showers as the go through the day, but not a | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
total wash-out. By the time we get to Sunday, it is a similar setup to | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
begin with, some showers around to begin with, but a ridge of high | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
pressure will effectively kill off their showers during the second half | :27:23. | :27:26. | |
of day. The Outlook for the next few days, it is not the best, but we do | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
at least have a break of the time we get to Sunday afternoon. Always | :27:33. | :27:36. | |
looking on the bright side! Our late summary is at 10:25pm. You can also | :27:37. | :27:40. | |
keep in contact with us through Facebook and Twitter. From BBC | :27:41. | :27:42. | |
Newsline, goodnight. | :27:43. | :27:46. |