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but here on BBC One it's time for the news where you are.

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The Agriculture Minister says agencies are working together

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to try to help those affected by flooding.

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It follows an emergency meeting between three

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Last night's rain wasn't as bad as predicted,

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but dozens of homes and businesses are still affected.

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Our agriculture and environment correspondent

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The flood is no respecter of heritage or history.

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Here the water encircled a 300-year-old listed thatched

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The water has been seeping in for a week, bad news

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for a property the walls of which are made of clay.

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The walls need a certain amount of damp to stay up but not this

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So far the Rivers Agency has managed to save this house

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The line of sandbags here is keeping the bulk of the floodwaters away

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from the house but if those pumps were not running 24 hours a day,

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within 20 minutes this house would be inundated.

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On the Allen farm they are pumping to save sheds and livestock.

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The brothers believe silt deposits where the Bann enters

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Lough Neagh makes the river back up and threaten their livelihoods.

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We are pumping it over sandbags, circulating the water and keeping

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the yard dry so the water doesn't come in here.

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In Cookstown, three ministers met this evening

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?1.3 million is available to Northern Ireland,

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the spin-off from a Westminster flood fund, but first the Executive

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must agree it will be spent on flood relief and then departments must

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We had some discussions about how to use the money to make

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We all have different ideas as ministers.

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We will have a further discussion next week at an Executive meeting

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to decide how to make most effective use of the money.

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It is the effect on livelihoods that makes this a pressing issue.

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Adrian McKernan had been renovating this cottage for his son.

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He returned from Australia after three years to move in.

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I came home with great hopes for a life here but I don't know,

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These are tough times for those affected, the lack of answers

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A number of families in Londonderry remain out of their homes tonight

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It follows reports of a suspicious object on the Lone Moor Road,

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A local youth club has been opened for people in the area

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who are unable to get to their homes.

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Our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish, has more.

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The police moved in this afternoon to cordon off the road at Southway,

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which is one of the main routes into the Creggan estate. That led to

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traffic disruption as schools ended for the day. Police say the alert

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began early this afternoon after a suspicious object was reported. A

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number of homes overlooking Southway were evacuated. Those residents were

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provided with accommodation at Long Tower Youth Club. I didn't like

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coming out of my home because I had a stroke I'm recovering from and I

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have a cold at the minute, so it isn't nice getting put out. We got

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put out before. Older people, people who are sick, who are bedridden, it

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throws up challenges, in this extent we have been fairly lucky that not

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too many houses had to be evacuated but you spoke to someone who

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suffered a stroke recently, and it can throw a lot of challenges.

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Politicians condemned the disruption to community and business life.

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Ryanair is to begin flights from Belfast International Airport

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It's the first time the airline has operated from that airport.

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The company says it represents a multi-million-pound commitment

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with more destinations to be added before the end of the year.

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Where could depend on Stormont acting on Air Passenger Tax.

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Ryanair are looking at other routes and this is where we get into this

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situation of those other routes can only be delivered with support

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in the form of this regressive APD tax being removed.

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A woman has been arrested after 17,000 diazepam tablets were found

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in a house in West Belfast. They were found in the Beechmount area.

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Now, this year on BBC Newsline, we're looking at major events that

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shaped our history which are marking their centenary year.

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Tonight Donna Traynor tells the story about how love

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conquered all between a veteran of the Somme and his wife

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They were Winnie Carney and George McBride.

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George McBride recorded an interview for the Somme Centre in the 1980s

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and this report begins with his words from that recording.

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I came from the Shankill Road and she was a Roman Catholic.

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And she fought in the Dublin rebellion.

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Both were socialists, both were in the labour movement

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George McBride, a Shankill Road Protestant,

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We met in Yarrow Street, then we marched up to Captain Stack's

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But on the morning we joined up we all went down

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Winnie Carney, from County Down, joined the Labour and

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Republican-orientated Irish Citizen Army.

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She was a radical, somebody who had very strong views,

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Winnie Carney was one of six children and well-educated.

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She'd become interested in politics through the women's suffrage

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movement and then trade union activity.

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At Easter 1916, at the age of 29 she was at the side of one

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of the leaders of the rebellion, James Connolly, playing a vital role

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She also had a Webley, she knew how to use them

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and that was there for her protection if it became necessary,

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so she was known as the typist with the Webley but she also

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played an essential role in terms of communications.

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George McBride walked a very different path and was in a very

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different place by July 1st 1916 - the Battle of the Somme in France.

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Men were being killed and then a kind of disorder set in.

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It seemed more like a riot that a battle.

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George McBride survived the French battlefields.

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He was a German prisoner of war and when the fighting

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He became a member of the Labour movement,

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and then, as he explains, something extraordinary happened.

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Well, in the Labour Party I met a Miss Winifred Carney.

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I came from the Shankill Road and she was a Roman Catholic.

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And she fought in the Dublin rebellion.

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Both were socialists, both were in the labour movement

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And the stories I hear about the couple are that they were very much

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in love. The latest guidelines on the amount

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of alcohol it's safe to drink Good Morning Ulster will be speaking

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to the Chief Medical Officer, Dr Michael McBride, and getting

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reaction to his recommendations. Now with the weather forecast,

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here's Geoff Maskell. It is a chilly night to come and the

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Met Office has issued a severe weather warning for snow and ice.

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Temperatures will drop sharply in the first half of the night,

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recovering later as this rain moves in that rings rest of the chance of

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sleet or snow over hills. It will be a chilly start to Friday,

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brightening a little later on in the day but some of those wintry showers

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could persist through the morning. It will be a cold day, we expect top

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temperatures between three and 5 degrees, but are not getting the

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worst of the weather, that's the north-east of Scotland where they

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have strong winds and snow and an amber warning. Things get drier and

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brighter further south and east. Across Northern Ireland there will

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be more cloud than to date but also brighter spells, not war with highs

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of 5 degrees. A chilly end to the week and a chilly night into

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Saturday. We hope for a drier weekend to give the chance for grown

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to dry out a little. There will still be showers around, the East

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Coast taking the brunt of the rain through Saturday, some of the

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showers turning wintry over high ground, and as we head through the

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weekend into next week there is a downward dip in temperatures. Next

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week may be the coldest week of the winter.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am during Breakfast here on BBC One.

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