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A radical plan by Northern Ireland's most senior judge to deal

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with inquests into controversial Troubles-related killings

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The Stormont Executive failed to sign off

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The Lord Chief Justice Sir Declan Morgan wanted funding for a five

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year programme to hear the inquests, but a proposed bid for the money

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Our home affairs correspondent Vincent Kearney has

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Dozens of outstanding legacy inquests were main to be heard. --

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remain to be heard. They include some of the Troubles's is

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controversial killings with security force involvement and collusion

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allegations. The Lord Chief Justice announced three years ago a plan to

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deal with the inquests for the victims. He said all inquests would

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be heard in five years. Among those was the daughter of one of those

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killed in Barry Murphy in 1971. The Lord Chief Justice was very

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positive. He gave that family in that they come home. The rest of the

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valley firm of the families too. The plan is now on hold. The BBC has

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established at the Department of Justice spoke Declan Morgan about

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his plan and then submitted to papers on the issue to the Stormont

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Executive in March. The papers included a proposal to ask the

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Secretary of State to release more than ?10 million of funding stop the

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government had promised its to do with the past. But the issue was an

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included on the agenda for discussion at the last meeting of

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the Executive in March. The discussion, no agreement, no

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funding. Last week, the judge in charge of the coroner's cord broke

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the news in a letter to legal teams representing the families. Mr

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Justice Cockburn submitted the letter last month. He said the Lord

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Chief Justice is still awaiting a decision. As a result the letter

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said it's all clear -- unclear when Sir Declan's plan can be

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implemented. The Lord Chief Justice is understood to be disappointed by

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the Executive Mike 's failure to act on the present. This man's son was

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with him on the day he was killed. He is now seriously ill in hospital

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and this delay fears that he will now load longer see the outcome. I

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promised him before he died that the case would be close, and I now feel

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if I'm letting him down because of what I have promised him. He's not

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going to see what he is fighting for four Justice, for his dad. Under the

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sector's rules, the funding proposal needed agreement of the for deputy

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ministers. Several pros have told the ministers that First Minister

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Arlene Foster blocked its inclusion. In a statement this afternoon the

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DUP said that the proposal would have impacted on the proposal of the

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Executive to address the needs of the victims. The new executive with

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the addressing the issue next week after it is formed. It is said that

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the British Government has a responsibility to fund the legacy

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request, according to Sinn Fein. A 34-year-old man has pleaded

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guilty to the manslaughter Margaret Evans, who was known

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as Margo, was found dead in June 2014 at the house she shared

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with her son. Alun Kinney Evans had previously

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denied murdering her but today he changed his plea to admit

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manslaughter on the grounds The final televised debate

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of the assembly election campaign has taken place involving

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the five main parties. The DUP's Arlene Foster,

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Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, Mike Nesbitt of the UUP,

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Colum Eastwood of the SDLP, and the Alliance Party's

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David Ford all took part. They discussed a series of issues

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including who should be First Minister, hospital waiting

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lists, the past and Our political correspondent

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Stephen Walker watched the debate. In the BBC's Studios, politicians

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from the five main parties were put through their paces by audience

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members and presenter Noel Thompson. It was the issue of who should be

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First Minister that brought the first clash. Between Mike Nesbitt

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and Arlene Foster. What Arlene has is a five word plan, do not mention

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Peter Robinson. I have... I have a 1-point plan, though. The Ulster

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Unionist 1-point plan is make it work. Make Stormont work. That is

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what I'm hearing. I would like to come back on that. Busy Mike has

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different versions of the letters because we've sent three different

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letters... That is version four, and that is version three. That's talk

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about that. Unlike Mike Nesbitt, I remember the bad old days of

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pushover unionism. I remember what it was night in 1998 when we had a

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connection to the IRA. I remember what happened on the issues of

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prisoner... David Ford said the ultimate Oliver Houston the First

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Minister was about trying to frighten people. It is rather sad

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that it is now the third election in the road in the DUP's campaign has

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been based on the politics of fear, not looking forward, but looking

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back, and the first question you asked, we get this discussion,

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looking back to what happened in the bad old days not looking forward to

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the future, not looking about growing our country, building a

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united community, not looking to meet needs for the children to stop

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emigrating to stop just days who's biggest and he was not. Tension

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between Martin McGuinness was on display -- between him and Colin

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eastward. Column really doesn't know what he wants to do because on the

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one hand he is telling people that he is fighting this election on the

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basis of being a government, but on the other hand he is saying... The

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people will speak! With all of the challenges that we face and the

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reality that we had to negotiate the trees as a programme for government

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with the needs of government. People. David Ford. Not like the

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south, by the way, where they have used to go into government. The

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leaders also faced persons in the past and the economy. This debate is

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over and the election campaign now enters its final hours. Voting is on

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Thursday and counting begins on Friday, but it's likely to be

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Saturday before we start to get a glimpse of what the new assembly

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looks like. Stephen Walker, BBC newsline, and the leader' debate in

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Belfast. Two people remain in a critical

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condition in hospital The crash which involved three cars,

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happened on the Collin Road between Ballyclare and Ballymena

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yesterday evening. The double killer Hazel Stewart has

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been denied legal aid for her attempt to keep police

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pension benefits given to her after the death

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of her first husband, Stewart is serving a minimum

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18-year jail sentence for murdering the police officer

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and Lesley Howell, the wife The National Crime Agency is seeking

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a court order to make The fallout has continued over

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a tweet posted by the Sinn Fein president at the weekend

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in which he used the 'N' word. He apologised and said he was trying

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to compare the plight of US slaves to the treatment of

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Irish nationalists. Today the DUP leader Arlene Foster

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said his social media message was a massive test of leadership

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for Sinn Fein. Our political correspondent

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Enda McClafferty reports. Even by his own admission, Gerry

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Adams lives life on the edge when it comes to Twitter. But this latest

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tweet is one he went to go away. The Sinn Fein president has hoped his

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apology yesterday for using the N word would draw a line under the

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controversy, but today his political opponents upped the ante. What is

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does is call into question once again Gerry Adam's leadership of

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Sinn Fein, and Gerry Adams' fitness to be a political leader in Ireland

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in this day and age. In any other political artsy in the other country

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the world in any dramatic Arctic society, anyone trying to defend

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remarks like this, it is usually the end of their political career. The

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DUP leader Arlene Foster were those that Foster suggesting Sinn Fein

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needed to do more than except what was a half-hearted apology. This is

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a big challenge for the Sinn Fein leadership, it is a similar service

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to one faced by Jeremy Corbyn faced in the Labour Party with

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anti-Semitic behaviour in the Labour Party, and Gerry Adams needs to set

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up to this issue, as the Sinn Fein, and everyone is watching how they

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deal with it. But in response, the Sinn Fein said unlike the DUP they

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have been unequivocal in word and stayed in their opposition to racism

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and they described Arlene Foster's remarks as a cheap political swipe.

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Jerry's human just like the rest of us, is just an honest mistake, I

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think that Gerry Adams's credentials in standing up for people

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marginalised and discriminated in society, right across, suggests to

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me that on this occasion this was an aberration. It was something that no

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doubt Gerry regrets. The bigger concern for Sinn Fein might be the

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controversial treat coverage in the US stop it has been covered by some

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of the big news organisations. I think it will do Northern Ireland

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damage in America, and we look to America for inward investment, to

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create jobs and wealth that I want for people of northern Ireland. In

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explaining why he wants to draw a comparison between the plight of

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slaves in America and the Irish nationals here, Gerry Adams claimed

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he was a founding member of the civil rights movement. But not

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according to the commentator Brian Feeney. In 1964 he was 18, and

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everyone knows who the family members were. He set up the Civil

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Rights Association. Gerry Adams was involved in protests about housing

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and associations and flats and joined the association, but

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certainly wasn't involved in founding the Civil Rights

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Association. The Sinn Fein president went back on Twitter this morning,

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telling his 100,000 plus followers of his media engagements today.

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There seems to be one tweet still missing from his account, which will

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follow him for longer than you might like.

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Angie Phillips has the latest weather forecast.

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Hello. Good evening. After a couple of bright showery days we have a

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little bit of a change on the way for tomorrow, but staying mainly dry

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tonight, initially with some clear spells but tonight a little bit more

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of a breeze from the south and abysmal cloud starting to edge in.

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At least that means it won't be too cold, maybe around four or 5 degrees

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or so in the countryside. Through tomorrow it is a slightly different

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day. Cloudier skies very last couple of days, the breeze picking up

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against them and for some of us a little bit of rain in the forecast

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as well. In the morning, still not too bad. There will be a fair amount

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of cloud, but Sunrise held at this point in time, but the breeze

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continuing to pick up. That is ahead of a weather front pushing in to the

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west of Ireland and west of Scotland, becoming quite naturally

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in places as it does but there will be probably some persistent bursts

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to the north-west. Clouding over towards the north of England,

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north-western parts of Wales but other than that it is dry in the

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west of England and Wales -- rest of England and Wales. Decent averages

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as well, light winds, highs of ageing in the south-east. Northern

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Ireland, the afternoon, the rain starts to get its way in the west,

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mainly light, and it continues to push its way eastwards later in the

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day, becoming even more patchy, so part of the east may not see it at

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all. Even then, only a few spits in spots. Fairly most averages, 13

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degrees will stop things improve, the fund moves away and on Thursday

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and Friday we are back to dry weather, variable a crowd, and some

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brightness around as well. Our next BBC Newsline

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is at 6:25am in the morning You can also keep updated

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with News Online.

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