:00:00. > :00:00.but here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.
:00:00. > :00:15.The Agriculture Minister says agencies are working together
:00:16. > :00:16.to try to help those affected by flooding.
:00:17. > :00:18.It follows an emergency meeting between three
:00:19. > :00:21.Last night's rain wasn't as bad as predicted,
:00:22. > :00:23.but dozens of homes and businesses are still affected.
:00:24. > :00:25.Our agriculture and environment correspondent
:00:26. > :00:30.The flood is no respecter of heritage or history.
:00:31. > :00:34.Here the water encircled a 300-year-old listed thatched
:00:35. > :00:42.The water has been seeping in for a week, bad news
:00:43. > :00:44.for a property the walls of which are made of clay.
:00:45. > :00:48.The walls need a certain amount of damp to stay up but not this
:00:49. > :00:57.So far the Rivers Agency has managed to save this house
:00:58. > :01:05.The line of sandbags here is keeping the bulk of the floodwaters away
:01:06. > :01:09.from the house but if those pumps were not running 24 hours a day,
:01:10. > :01:14.within 20 minutes this house would be inundated.
:01:15. > :01:20.On the Allen farm they are pumping to save sheds and livestock.
:01:21. > :01:28.The brothers believe silt deposits where the Bann enters
:01:29. > :01:35.Lough Neagh makes the river back up and threaten their livelihoods.
:01:36. > :01:39.We are pumping it over sandbags, circulating the water and keeping
:01:40. > :01:46.the yard dry so the water doesn't come in here.
:01:47. > :01:48.In Cookstown, three ministers met this evening
:01:49. > :01:51.?1.3 million is available to Northern Ireland,
:01:52. > :01:55.the spin-off from a Westminster flood fund, but first the Executive
:01:56. > :02:00.must agree it will be spent on flood relief and then departments must
:02:01. > :02:09.We had some discussions about how to use the money to make
:02:10. > :02:18.We all have different ideas as ministers.
:02:19. > :02:20.We will have a further discussion next week at an Executive meeting
:02:21. > :02:23.to decide how to make most effective use of the money.
:02:24. > :02:26.It is the effect on livelihoods that makes this a pressing issue.
:02:27. > :02:28.Adrian McKernan had been renovating this cottage for his son.
:02:29. > :02:33.He returned from Australia after three years to move in.
:02:34. > :02:46.I came home with great hopes for a life here but I don't know,
:02:47. > :02:53.These are tough times for those affected, the lack of answers
:02:54. > :03:03.A number of families in Londonderry remain out of their homes tonight
:03:04. > :03:07.It follows reports of a suspicious object on the Lone Moor Road,
:03:08. > :03:12.A local youth club has been opened for people in the area
:03:13. > :03:14.who are unable to get to their homes.
:03:15. > :03:21.Our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish, has more.
:03:22. > :03:28.The police moved in this afternoon to cordon off the road at Southway,
:03:29. > :03:32.which is one of the main routes into the Creggan estate. That led to
:03:33. > :03:38.traffic disruption as schools ended for the day. Police say the alert
:03:39. > :03:42.began early this afternoon after a suspicious object was reported. A
:03:43. > :03:47.number of homes overlooking Southway were evacuated. Those residents were
:03:48. > :03:54.provided with accommodation at Long Tower Youth Club. I didn't like
:03:55. > :04:00.coming out of my home because I had a stroke I'm recovering from and I
:04:01. > :04:06.have a cold at the minute, so it isn't nice getting put out. We got
:04:07. > :04:13.put out before. Older people, people who are sick, who are bedridden, it
:04:14. > :04:20.throws up challenges, in this extent we have been fairly lucky that not
:04:21. > :04:25.too many houses had to be evacuated but you spoke to someone who
:04:26. > :04:31.suffered a stroke recently, and it can throw a lot of challenges.
:04:32. > :04:33.Politicians condemned the disruption to community and business life.
:04:34. > :04:35.Ryanair is to begin flights from Belfast International Airport
:04:36. > :04:39.It's the first time the airline has operated from that airport.
:04:40. > :04:41.The company says it represents a multi-million-pound commitment
:04:42. > :04:45.with more destinations to be added before the end of the year.
:04:46. > :04:50.Where could depend on Stormont acting on Air Passenger Tax.
:04:51. > :04:53.Ryanair are looking at other routes and this is where we get into this
:04:54. > :04:57.situation of those other routes can only be delivered with support
:04:58. > :05:06.in the form of this regressive APD tax being removed.
:05:07. > :05:14.A woman has been arrested after 17,000 diazepam tablets were found
:05:15. > :05:17.in a house in West Belfast. They were found in the Beechmount area.
:05:18. > :05:20.Now, this year on BBC Newsline, we're looking at major events that
:05:21. > :05:22.shaped our history which are marking their centenary year.
:05:23. > :05:24.Tonight Donna Traynor tells the story about how love
:05:25. > :05:27.conquered all between a veteran of the Somme and his wife
:05:28. > :05:30.They were Winnie Carney and George McBride.
:05:31. > :05:33.George McBride recorded an interview for the Somme Centre in the 1980s
:05:34. > :05:39.and this report begins with his words from that recording.
:05:40. > :05:44.I came from the Shankill Road and she was a Roman Catholic.
:05:45. > :05:48.And she fought in the Dublin rebellion.
:05:49. > :05:50.Both were socialists, both were in the labour movement
:05:51. > :05:54.George McBride, a Shankill Road Protestant,
:05:55. > :06:06.We met in Yarrow Street, then we marched up to Captain Stack's
:06:07. > :06:12.But on the morning we joined up we all went down
:06:13. > :06:19.Winnie Carney, from County Down, joined the Labour and
:06:20. > :06:23.Republican-orientated Irish Citizen Army.
:06:24. > :06:27.She was a radical, somebody who had very strong views,
:06:28. > :06:33.Winnie Carney was one of six children and well-educated.
:06:34. > :06:36.She'd become interested in politics through the women's suffrage
:06:37. > :06:40.movement and then trade union activity.
:06:41. > :06:44.At Easter 1916, at the age of 29 she was at the side of one
:06:45. > :06:48.of the leaders of the rebellion, James Connolly, playing a vital role
:06:49. > :06:56.She also had a Webley, she knew how to use them
:06:57. > :06:59.and that was there for her protection if it became necessary,
:07:00. > :07:04.so she was known as the typist with the Webley but she also
:07:05. > :07:06.played an essential role in terms of communications.
:07:07. > :07:08.George McBride walked a very different path and was in a very
:07:09. > :07:13.different place by July 1st 1916 - the Battle of the Somme in France.
:07:14. > :07:22.Men were being killed and then a kind of disorder set in.
:07:23. > :07:28.It seemed more like a riot that a battle.
:07:29. > :07:33.George McBride survived the French battlefields.
:07:34. > :07:35.He was a German prisoner of war and when the fighting
:07:36. > :07:38.He became a member of the Labour movement,
:07:39. > :07:40.and then, as he explains, something extraordinary happened.
:07:41. > :07:47.Well, in the Labour Party I met a Miss Winifred Carney.
:07:48. > :07:52.I came from the Shankill Road and she was a Roman Catholic.
:07:53. > :08:04.And she fought in the Dublin rebellion.
:08:05. > :08:06.Both were socialists, both were in the labour movement
:08:07. > :08:12.And the stories I hear about the couple are that they were very much
:08:13. > :08:14.in love. The latest guidelines on the amount
:08:15. > :08:17.of alcohol it's safe to drink Good Morning Ulster will be speaking
:08:18. > :08:21.to the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Michael McBride, and getting
:08:22. > :08:23.reaction to his recommendations. Now with the weather forecast,
:08:24. > :08:32.here's Geoff Maskell. It is a chilly night to come and the
:08:33. > :08:36.Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for snow and ice.
:08:37. > :08:41.Temperatures will drop sharply in the first half of the night,
:08:42. > :08:47.recovering later as this rain moves in that rings rest of the chance of
:08:48. > :08:52.sleet or snow over hills. It will be a chilly start to Friday,
:08:53. > :08:56.brightening a little later on in the day but some of those wintry showers
:08:57. > :09:02.could persist through the morning. It will be a cold day, we expect top
:09:03. > :09:06.temperatures between three and 5 degrees, but are not getting the
:09:07. > :09:09.worst of the weather, that's the north-east of Scotland where they
:09:10. > :09:16.have strong winds and snow and an amber warning. Things get drier and
:09:17. > :09:18.brighter further south and east. Across Northern Ireland there will
:09:19. > :09:26.be more cloud than to date but also brighter spells, not war with highs
:09:27. > :09:30.of 5 degrees. A chilly end to the week and a chilly night into
:09:31. > :09:36.Saturday. We hope for a drier weekend to give the chance for grown
:09:37. > :09:39.to dry out a little. There will still be showers around, the East
:09:40. > :09:43.Coast taking the brunt of the rain through Saturday, some of the
:09:44. > :09:50.showers turning wintry over high ground, and as we head through the
:09:51. > :09:54.weekend into next week there is a downward dip in temperatures. Next
:09:55. > :09:56.week may be the coldest week of the winter.
:09:57. > :10:01.Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am during Breakfast here on BBC One.