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Good evening and welcome to BBC Newsline.

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The Chief Constable of the PSNI has dismissed claims that the RUC had

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advance warning of the 1993 Shankill bombing.

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Yesterday, the Police Ombudsman confirmed it had received

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a complaint alleging the RUC had information which would have allowed

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George Hamilton was speaking at an event at Queen's University.

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As I sit here tonight, I am 100% convinced that the police service at

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the time had no knowledge of the Shankill bombing that could have

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prevented it from happening. And that statement will be tested,

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investigated and found to be right or otherwise by the Police

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Ombudsman. The chief constable also told

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the event that he wasn't sure that his officers will be able

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to deliver justice to the victims A legal review is being carried out

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into almost one hundred legacy killings and the police have been

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criticised for taking too long to hand over classified

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files to the courts. He said the current infrastructure

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is inadequate to deal with the sheer weight of material

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under examination. When you get a Zune Army of requests

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coming in from the court through judicial reviews, and other

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challenges, and every single one of those is a compelling case and it

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has legal weight behind it and judicial authority for us to do

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this, actually the whole organisation is going to grind to a

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halt and that is the mess that we are in around this.

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A family whose home was badly damaged by fire say it was caused

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by a hoverboard while it was charging.

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Last month some of the major retailers recalled the popular toy

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Our Reporter Louise Cullen has been to the house in East Belfast.

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It is really only as you come into the house here that you can see the

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extent of the damage that was caused when the fire started shortly before

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seven o'clock last night. The ladies in the house say that this

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hoverboard exploded and caused huge amounts of damage. Sitting here in

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the living room where Sharon Massey and her daughters and her

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nine-month-old granddaughter, what happened? I was sitting on the sofa

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feeding my granddaughter and Summer and Courtney were on the sofa on

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their phones and I was feeding her and we heard this almighty bang and

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it completely burst into flames and in a matter of seconds, everything

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was on fire. I just threw the dinner and grabbed the tried and got out

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the door as quick as possible. How long have you had the hoverboard? It

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has been charged a few times since December, it was a Christmas

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present. I have been very careful with it. I would not have charged

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that if there was not someone in the house to watch it. You are starting

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dialysis tomorrow. I have been attending the City Hospital for over

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years and years but I have been on the kidney transplant list for over

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a year and I have an appointment tomorrow, I am receiving dialysis.

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In the middle of it, you need to find somewhere new to live and

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replace belongings. Yes, as if I do not have enough stress. The remains

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of the hoverboard are still in the corner of the living room, you can

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see the damage that has been caused, the entire house is covered in soot

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and Sharon and her family are looking for a new home.

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In a world first, 3D printing technology has enabled

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and County Antrim toddler to get a life-saving kidney transplant.

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The organ was donated by Lucy Boucher's father.

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The printing technology allowed surgeons to build a paper model

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and then work out exactly how they could fit his adult kidney

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Our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly met

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Chris Boucher reading his daughter her favourite book. These two have

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their own unique story. Lucy's health complications began when she

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was four weeks old, suffering heart failure which impacted on her bowel

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and kidneys. While it is common for children to receive dialysis,

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surgeons in London felt a kidney transplant was her best option. With

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her father a perfect match, a 3-D printer enabled the team to build a

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replica of his kidney and her stomach so they could best

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understand how to proceed with the complex operation. It is strange. If

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you think about it too much it becomes a bit hard to get your head

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around and a bit overwhelming that there is now part of you that is

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inside your daughter giving her all this energy and growth and

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visibility to do things that she could not do before. It means she

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does not have to on dialysis. It really... You can get quite

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emotional thinking about it. The pioneering technique made it onto

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the Victoria Derbyshire programme. The family who spoke from the County

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Antrim home linked up with the surgeon in London. This is Chris's

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kidney, you can see the size discrepancy, it is trying to place

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that in the appropriate position inside Lucy's abdomen. It helps us

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with not only planning that approach but thinking about our incision, how

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we are going to approach the vessels and the best light of the kidney

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inside the abdomen. Lucy turned three last week, it is a milestone

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the family thought they would never see. The prognosis is good, we are

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hoping that his kidney will last for more than 20 years, hopefully into

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adult hood. By then, who knows what will happen. While your story

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highlights the health challenges some children have to face, it also

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shows how technology and the health service are constantly saving lives.

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A happy little girl after her life-saving surgery.

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The Assistant Chief Constable has offered to meet the family

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of Gerard Hampson from Londonderry to apologise over the police

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investigation into his disappearance and subsequent death.

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The Ombudsman said there were serious failings in how

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officers reacted to the case and recommended that ten

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Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.

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53-year-old Gerard Hampson, a former Republican prisoner disappeared in

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November 2000 seven. At the time he was wanted by the police in

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connection with an alleged kidnapping in the Republic. Six

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weeks later his naked body was found washed up on the shore of Loch Nate

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Newton Bridge. A postmortem was inconclusive, but a pathologist

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concluded that there must be considerable suspicions around the

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death. It is still unclear how he died. After a complaint from the

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family, the Police Ombudsman identified what he described as

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serious failings in the police investigation. We found that the

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investigation into the disappearance of Gerard Hampson was inconsistent,

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actions that should have been taken were not taken, people did not take

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responsibility for actions that they should have completed and no one

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gripped those initial import and first apps of the enquiry. As a

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consequence of that, the family were left none the wiser as to what had

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happened to him. It was disgraceful. They would not treat a dog in the

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street like they treated my family. Just because he was from a

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Republican background. They cast him off. Doctor McGuire said it was a

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bad investigation that failed the family. He said that these failings

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had not been motivated by a desire from police to cover up a crime. I

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think the failings were because we wanted to speak to Gerard Hampson

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and he was being treated as a wanted person as opposed to a missing

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person. That was wrong, the failings arose from that and we are sorry

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about that. The police say the case of Gerard Hampson remains under

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active investigation and they have pointed to the fact that there has

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been a recent arrest, but they acknowledge and accept that lessons

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need to be learned. There's been strong unionist

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reaction to remarks by the Taoiseach Enda Kenny

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about the UK's possible exit from the European Union

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after a referendum. He said such a move would be bad not

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just for the Republic Our Political Correspondent Stephen

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Walker asked Mrs Foster Of course he is entitled to a view

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but I do not think he is entitled to interfere in terms of the referendum

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and encourage people to vote in a particular way. It is at the end of

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the day and matter that we will have to take under consideration and look

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at the package we end up with in terms of the prime Minster's

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negotiations, we will look at that and decide in the interests of

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Northern Ireland and in the interests of the United Kingdom as

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to whether we should leave the European Union or stay. Do you

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interpret these remarks as interfering? Well, you could

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interpret them as interfering but I preferred to say that he is

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expressing his views. We will take Carol Council on these matters.

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The worldwide cargo handling business Swissport is creating 100

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jobs at Belfast International Airport.

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Swissport says the jobs will include positions in passenger check-in,

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The expansion will bring its workforce at the International

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to around 350, making it the biggest employer at the airport.

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Swissport says its expansion was based on planned airline growth

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at Aldergrove, with Ryanair due to begin operating a new hub

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Last year at the airport grew, passenger numbers by around 10%

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across the year. During that year, there were some increases in

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operations with increased traffic with easyJet and now this year, we

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have the announcement of the establishment of a large Ryan are

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based here at Belfast International and that is generating a lot of

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additional jobs right across the business.

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Ice Hockey and the Belfast Giants are through to the semi finals

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They beat Manchester Storm 6-2 tonight.

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That's a quarter final victory of 11-4 on aggregate.

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The Republic's football fans have been given an extra 6500 tickets for

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the games in France after talks between the Football Association of

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Ireland, the officials say the new tickets will go a little way to

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satisfying the huge demand. Fans applied for more than 275,000

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tickets. The total allocation now is just over 32,000 500.

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Tomorrow the Good Morning Ulster programme talks to a County Down man

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who it's emerged was tested to see if he was a toddler reported missing

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That's tomorrow on BBC Radio Ulster starting at 6:30am.

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The weather is next with Angie Phillips.

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Good evening. We certainly had some very lightly gusty winds today.

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Thankfully the winds are not as strong tomorrow but before we get

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there, they will pick up again through the night and we have some

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wet weather on the way as well, some persistent and heavy bursts of rain

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could linger in the north and west tonight, quite likely cars,

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gale-force in places and we have arranged warning in place,

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particularly for the north-west, there is likely to be disruption,

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difficult conditions on the road with surface water and spray

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tomorrow morning. A Sharon Lee day and it

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will be cooling down after what will be a relatively mild start, seven to

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9 degrees, the winds easing, bright spells, most of the showers in the

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north and west. Further south, more persistent rain, in the Republic and

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parts of England and Wales. Brisk winds and we have warnings in place,

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there could be disruption but it is mild. In the north and west we have

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cooler temperatures, starting to edge in as well as showers, snow

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over the Scottish mountains and in Northern Ireland as the showers

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moving, those temperatures will start to fall back through the

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afternoon and we could see showers turning wintry over the hills. More

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of those wintry showers to come tomorrow night possibly at low

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levels, possibly frost and ice but only temporarily, mild and windy

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conditions returning on Thursday and into Friday with spells of rain.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at six twenty five in the morning

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