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