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This is BBC Newsline. Tonight's top stories.

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Michael Conlan is one of two Northern Ireland boxers

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to breach betting rules at the Rio games.

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The death of this man at Maghaberry prison could have been prevented -

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taking her abuser to court. old speaks out about

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The stigma around sexual abuse is that nobody talks about it. And

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because it is not being talked about, perpetrators can get away

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with it. The challenges elderly parents with

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disabled children You have too beg and battled to get

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things done. Also on tonight's programme:

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The Ulster Orchestra celebrates 50 years with

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50 concerts all over Belfast. Darren Clarke reveals how the North

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coast will play a prominent role in Europe's bid

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to retain the Ryder Cup. And after a warm day, a windy night

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to come with gale force gusts on the north coast tomorrow.

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Two Irish Olympic fighters are among three athletes found to have

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breached the rules by betting on boxing contests at the Rio Games.

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have both been severely reprimanded and Steven Donnelly from Ballymena

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by the IOC's Disciplinary Commission.

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If Michael Conlan thought his rear elements couldn't get first after

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losing his fight in controversial circumstances, he was wrong. The

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Belfast boxer it has been found to have violated Olympic Games rules

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governing betting at the competition. The IOC disciplinary

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commission severely reprimanded three boxes, two from the Ireland

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team and one from Great Britain. In the case of Michael Conlan it was

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found he had violated the rules and was sanctioned with a severe

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reprimand. During the interview, the committee

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said that Michael Conlan said that while he had signed the conditions

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and contract for the games, he had not read them so he was not aware of

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the betting prohibition. It was stated...

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Michael Conlan did not bet on his advice. Ballymena boxer Steven

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Donnelly bet against himself in a welterweight bout, fight that he

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subsequently won. None of the boxes were found to try to manipulate the

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events at the games. The Olympic sanctions are likely to have any

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major impact as both bosses have left the amateur scene and are

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pursuing professional careers in the sport.

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The death of a prisoner at Maghaberry

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could have been prevented, according to a new report.

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The South Eastern Health Trust says it accepts mistakes were made

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in the treatment of Patrick Kelly, who died

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after taking an overdose of prescription drugs.

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The 46-year-old was known to be at risk of self-harm

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and had previously attempted to take his own life.

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A report by the Prisoner Ombudsman says he wouldn't have died

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if medical staff had followed correct procedures.

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An overdose that was foreseeable, a death that was preventable, the

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stark findings of a report into the death of this prisoner in March last

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year. Patrick Kelly was heavily dependent on prescription

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medication. When he arrived here who asked not to be allowed to keep

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those tablets because he feared that he would take them all at once. That

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request was only he did for a few days. After that, he was given his

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prescription drugs without any measures in place to prevent him

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taking an overdose. He died a few days later. The report published

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today identified failings by the Prison Service, but most of its

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recommendations are for the south-eastern Health and Social Care

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Trust, who are responsible for the medical care of prisoners in this

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prison. They are the staff who changed his status from superbikes

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will to imposition of medication, and measures will be recommended to

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make sure that they are checked and taken whilst he is held in custody.

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They'll trust accept the findings and says that it will take action,

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where staff have not met professional standards. The most

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important thing is that we learn from the tragedy to ensure that we

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improve our practice and improve our services with a future. I think

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there are lessons to be learnt. And yes, we do have problems within the

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Prison Service, but I am keen to address them. The problem in itself

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is something that is quite stark but it is how we move forward in dealing

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with that problem. Following the publication of this report, the

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Kelly family said that they are taking legal advice. In a statement,

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they said they hoped that lessons will be learnt by the Prison Service

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and the health service from this tragedy so that the same may never

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be visited on another family. to complete the return leg

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the go-ahead for the Orange Order of its parade along

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the Crumlin Road on Saturday. It follows an agreement

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between the order and the Crumlin Ardoyne Residents

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Association, CARA, In a statement, the Commission said

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that agreement presents an opportunity for a resolution

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of the decades-long quarrel. However, another group -

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the Greater Ardoyne Residents Collective - GARC -

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has applied for permission to stage a protest of up to 150 people

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during the parade. A county Antrim woman sexually

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abused as a teenager has waived her right to anonymity

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to encourage other victims Claire Hinton's abuser

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Thomas Thompson, pleaded guilty at Antrim Crown Court to unlawful

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carnal knowledge of a girl under 14 and inciting a child to commit

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an act of gross indecency. Our North East reporter

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Sara Girvin was in court. Today, Claire Hinton got the justice

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she had been waiting 18 years for. Her abuser, Belfast man Thomas

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Thompson was given a three-year suspended sentence at Antrim Crown

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Court. Claire Hinton met him in 1998 at a church youth club when she was

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13 and he was 24 and married. She said what happened to her as a

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teenager has shaped the rest of her life. I depended on drugs and

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alcohol quite a lot in my early teenage years. As an adult, it

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affected my mental health are greatly, suffering from panic

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attacks, depression, anxiety, sleepless nights, waking up

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screaming, so it has affected me right from the age of 13 to the age

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of 31, now. The legal process has been the most difficult thing I have

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ever been through. But I also got a result at the end of it. There was a

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year ago, I even contemplated suicide. Having to deal with this

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every day, it became just too much for me. Thankfully, I am still here,

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and I am still fighting, every day. In court, the judge said that Thomas

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Thompson had taken sexual advantage of a young and vulnerable girl.

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After a sexual encounter at a derelict house, Thomas Thompson

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said, don't tell anyone, my wife will come after you. Outside court,

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Claire Hinton said she had no regrets about coming forward and

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encouraged other victims to speak out and seek help. The stigma around

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sexual abuse is that nobody talks about it. And because it is not

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being talked about, perpetrators can get away with it, so I do not for

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one second regret coming forward, because if it prevents other

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perpetrators from trying to do what they are doing.

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A man accused of murdering a County Armagh man's alleged

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to have confessed to his ex-partner while he was in the police station.

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The witness told Belfast Crown Court that Stephen Thomas Hughes

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from Moyraverty Court in Craigavon rang her

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shortly after he was taken into custody.

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The body was found in a recycling bin here in July 2000 14. His ribs

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had been broken, his breastbone fractured, and his brain damaged. A

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postmortem examination revealed it may have taken 48 hours for him to

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die. In court today two witnesses gave their account of what they saw

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and heard over several days at the beginning of July 2000 and 40. The

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ex-partner of Stephen Hughes and the mother of his son the jury told that

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the accused to convert a before the discovery of the body. She said that

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he had borrowed a Hoover. During that visit, she said she had noticed

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blood on his trainers. Three days later, the police arrived at the

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house of Stephen Hughes and Shauneen Boyle and they were taking into

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custody. He said that he told her that he was going to jail for a very

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long time and that he had killed "wee Owen". She said she then told

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Stephen Hughes he was never going to see his child again. A neighbour of

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Stephen Hughes in Moyraverty Court was next to give evidence. She

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described how he and her partner and two Cuban has spent the previous

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evening with Stephen Hughes and Shauneen Boyle at their house. She

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recalled that all four adults had been drinking and planning a picnic

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for the next day. She went on to tell the court she went upstairs to

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go to the toilet and heard snoring. She looked into an open bedroom and

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saw Shauneen Boyle on her knees next to a man on a bed. She said it

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looked like she had a child's medicine syringe in her hand. She

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described the room as smelling of "to". Stephen Hughes had said that

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is just wee Owen, a little alcoholic man. It was said that he had drank a

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bottle of vodka and two bottles of Buckfast and that he was sleeping

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off his hangover. The trial continues.

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A 44-year-old man is still in hospital after he was arrested

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in a car boot in Lisburn. after man's body was found

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The body was discovered in Limehurst Way on Monday.

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The victim has been named locally as Gerry Mulligan.

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A climber who got stuck on a cliff in gale-force winds has been rescued

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by a team who tied ropes to rocks, climbed over the edge

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The Maritime and Coastguard Agency have released this helicopter

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The man got into difficulty at Fair Head

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He had become stuck during high winds,

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but his climbing partner managed to raise the alarm.

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A Coast guard rescuer was lowered down the cliff face on ropes

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Plenty to come tonight, including a big birthday

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whose musicians have been playing all around Belfast today.

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Child abuse survivors say they felt so "belittled" during a recent

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meeting with the leader of the Catholic church in Ireland

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that they almost walked out. They told a Stormont committee that

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Archbishop Eamon Martin had given the impression that he felt

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the Church was now the victim. They also claimed the Executive Office

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had let them down by failing to prepare for the establishment

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Here's our political correspondent, Gareth Gordon.

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They were abusing church and state run institutions and now they claim

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the executive is letting them down in their fight for compensation. For

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three years they have told their stories at the historical abuse

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inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hart. He will report in January and will

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recommend a financial compensation scheme. A panel of experts set up by

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the victims themselves has proposed how such a scheme might work, but

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they claim that for nine months, ministers have refused to meet them

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to discuss it. This is a very vulnerable group of people and it is

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very surprising that a junior minister would preach such a

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vulnerable group in such a way. The Catholic Church will be expected to

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contribute to any compensation scheme but the victims claim that in

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a recent meeting with the leader of the Church in Ireland, Archbishop

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Eamon Martin, his attitude seemed to have changed. The church just

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literally for Buzz off, and in fact, there was a point when we were going

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to get up and leave the meeting, because we were more or less told

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that the church hadn't done what it had done in the 50s and 60s then

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things could have been a lot worse for us. In other words, we will make

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this feel so belittled in that meeting. Then I had said, what do

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you expect us to do, what did you want us to do and I said, well, we

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did not ask to be abused, sexually, physically, mentally and

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emotionally. A spokesperson for the Zeca div said that ministers remain

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sensitive to the views of abuse victims but it would be

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inappropriate to engage in consultation which would pre-empt

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the inquiry findings. It added that during the course of the inquiry,

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ministers had met and continue to meet victims' groups.

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Older carers are calling on the Assembly to do more

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to help them plan the future for their children.

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Many parents continue to look after their children

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with disabilities, well into their seventies and eighties.

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But they say the system does little to help them sort out

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what will happen when they can no longer care for them.

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I've been to meet Sherol Matthews and her son, William.

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This is the last school photo taken of William Matthews before his

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accident. He was just six years old when he was hit by a car. For his

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mum, Sherol, these pictures are paying for many years later. Life

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just changed in the second and it was a very long haul after that. He

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was in hospital for, really, five months. Sherol has been his carer

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round-the-clock for almost 30 years. After the trauma of his accident

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there were many adjustments to make to their lives. It was difficult

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just to register that we have actually lost the William that we

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had, but we have got the new one in his place with lots of different

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character, qualities, etc, but we are so thankful that he is still

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with us. Custard cream? On top of caring, there was another battle to

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be fought, with social services, to get respite. And it is a fight that

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Sherol bid to see simplified. It has been easy, but I was just like the

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power to get on with it, and there has been some support, but it has

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been sparse. I just live, day to day, and have a good faith that

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keeps me going and that is really how I have survived. She was among

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several families at Stormont this week trying to put pressure on

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Assembly Members to force health trusts to do more to help families

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who are caring way beyond retirement age. In Northern Ireland we are the

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only part of the UK that doesn't have the rights of carers enshrined

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in law, and we're hoping that soon we will change that and we'll get

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the support of all parties here, to get a carers' bill. Sherol once

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William to stay in this house, something that in theory, he is

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legally entitled to do. Whether that happens is something she watched to

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know sooner rather than later. I am not the only person in this

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situation and we all feel the same way about it. If you have to beg and

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battled to get things done. And on tomorrow night's programme

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we'll hear from the 93 year old woman still caring for her son

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who has Down's syndrome. A senior civil servant has

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apologised to a Stormont committee for a lack of oversight in a green

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energy scheme which has left The Renewable Heat Scheme paid firms

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to switch to woodchip boilers, but it was overly generous

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and poorly managed. Our Agriculture and

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Environment Correspondent He is the spent most of today on the

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back foot. We don't understand why, as a matter of fact, and it is not

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acceptable. Andrew McCormick was up before the Public Accounts Committee

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to answer questions about a fully managed renewables scheme that has

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left the Northern Ireland taxpayer with a massive bill. A generous

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subsidy guaranteed for 20 years for companies that switched from oil to

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wood pellet burners has left the public purse up to ?350 million

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lighter. We owe an apology to the committee and others for the things

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that have gone wrong and a lot has gone wrong in this case, some very

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serious mistakes and failings. The scheme was shut down after

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whistle-blower allegations of abuse and claims that some companies were

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running boilies 24-7 just to claim the subsidy. Independent auditors

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have visited scores of sites and check hundreds of installations. It

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says that some of them should never have been approved. The committee

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referred to some of those inspections. He said auditors found

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what had been described as burners being run all day to dry wood chip

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that was then fed back into those selfsame burners on an

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everlastingly. Doctor McCormack agreed that that was not acceptable.

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He came under pressure from this MLA. He said that he had no

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confidence that he had grasped the nettle. Try to give us some

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confidence that you have done something, that we will not get any

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more nonsense about what we will do in the future. I want to know what

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we have done now. This was a scheme that was meant to cost 1600 and ?16

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million. It has now got up to twice that. -- 616 million.

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A plan to amalgamate three post primary schools in west Belfast

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It represents a major shake up of the educational

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fabric of the area, and reflects wider concerns

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that there are too many schools in Northern Ireland

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They are three full-year names in the West Belfast educational

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landscape. Now these nonselective single sex schools could be set to

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merge, to form one new college catering for 1500 pupils. Currently

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the school only takes boys in sixth form. What is important to us is

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that the community in West Belfast is that every proposal in its final

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stages ends on the minister's desk, and that it is vital that it meets

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the needs of every single child within that community. The Council

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for Catholic Maintained Schools is behind the proposal. It says that

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consulting with school governors, staff and parents. However, concerns

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have been raised by union officials are only non-grammar schools are

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involved. We are limiting the possibility for the future estate in

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West Belfast to nonselective. If you had to grasp the opportunity to look

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at the entire educational provisional in West Belfast and look

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at the possibilities of what we could have created rather than

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simply reacted and said, just take these three, you will come together

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to form one, single school. It should have been an all-encompassing

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plan for the entirety of West Belfast. These plans are still set

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to get an early stage, but they will come into effect by September 2000

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and 18. They reflect a wider trend across Northern Ireland as planners

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deal with too many schools and not enough pupils. It may prove

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difficult to persuade everyone that this is the best solution to that

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problem. Our arts correspondent Robin

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Meredith joined the book -- the Ulster Orchestra to find out how

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they got on. An unusual venue and an early start for a birthday party.

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And a musical wake-up call for Belfast commuters. I am into punk

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rock music, so it is unusual to listen to. I could not believe it

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when I walked in, I just had to stand and watch. So that's the first

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of 50 performances across the city to celebrate the half-century of the

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orchestra. So after the busiest bus station in Belfast, were next? On

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the Falls Road, the music was German but the greeting was, appropriately,

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in Irish. At lunchtime it was back to the city

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centre for one of the day's big gigs as the full orchestra came together.

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Everyone is minding their own business, going to the job and have

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a little snack and they have the Arkestra in the middle, so it is

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wonderful. I want to say thank you to people for all of the support

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they have given to the orchestra for 50 years, and we want to show some

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inspiration on our 50th anniversary. It seemed crazy and brilliant enough

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to get out and do 50 concerts and meet as many people as we possibly

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can. Then it was time to go again, the acute some new members at the

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Belfast Children's Hospital. -- to recruit some new members.

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Gavin is here with this evening's sport.

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Gavin as the countdown to the Ryder Cup continues,

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Yes, our cameras have been given behind the scenes access

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at the Hazelteen national course in Minnesota.

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A short time ago Europe's captain Darren Clarke agreed to take

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Stephen Watson on a tour of the players team room.

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What back to the inner sanctum of Team Europe, and everywhere there

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are the transit details at Darren Clarke has gone into to give his

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team the best chance to win this Ryder Cup. From the images of some

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of the great players to inspirational quotes on the wall,

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one from Darren himself, one unit, one team. And another from Winston

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Churchill. And then the iconic image on the wall of the giant 's

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Causeway. Why is it so important to you to have this from Northern

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Ireland as one of your central pieces? For me it means a lot, to

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Rory, it means a lot, but for the team, my thoughts for the ethos of

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the team is shoulder to shoulder, taken from the rugby guys. If we are

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shoulder to shoulder, we are together, one unit, one team. If one

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of those rocks falls down then the next beside it will fall down. And

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that is not going to happen in this team, because these guys are such a

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close-knit group, they are so tight, and they have really got the whole

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thought of shoulder to shoulder and one team. I am proud to be from home

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and this to motivate the European team has been unbelievable. We're

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going now inside the locker room... Everything seems to be just

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completely and utterly thought through down to the finest detail

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down to the nameplates with the Giants on them. Yes, just,

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everything is all mixed up for everybody. It is all up there, one

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unit, one team. My locker is down at the very end. Thankfully, I don't

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need my clubs this week. That is a good thing, because I would not be

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helping if I had my clubs! This is a collage of different iconic scenes.

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And a little bit further behind you, the physios have their areas where

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they treat the guys after they come off the course, they have got ice

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packs, the bike is up there, these guys are the pinnacle of our sport,

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and it is my job to look after them with the respect that they deserve,

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and they deserve to have whatever they want this week. And if that, in

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some small way, helps them perform, that is what I am trying to do.

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sacked as manager of Newport County. international Warren Feeney has been

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The Welsh side are currently bottom of League Two

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is the new manager of Glentoran. boss Gary Haveron

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His first game in charge will be at home to Linfield this Saturday.

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And now the weather forecast with Geoff.

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Dick drying day today. Temperatures in the low 20s. Going into this

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evening and overnight tonight, that Breeze is -- it has been a perfect

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drying day-to-day. The temperatures the Mike down to lows of 10 degrees.

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The real story of the weather tonight is the breeze. By the time

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you get to dawn tomorrow morning we could see 60 miles an hour gusts

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along the north coast. That is being driven by this area of low pressure.

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These isobars are packed tightly together. That westerly breeze will

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be whipping in during the day, driving those showers home. There is

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some good news. Some of those showers could be quite heavy, but

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there will be decent spells of bright weather to go with it. But

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keep an eye on those temperatures, 14, 15, were today, we saw highs of

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22. The breeze will still take the edge off the temperatures. At least

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there will be some brightness to look at. Overnight, a cooler day,

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and an even cooler night with temperatures down to single figures.

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And as we head into Friday, we continue that theme of getting

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gradually cooler. Again, showers will continue. There will be some

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brightness but a little more crowd around as we go through the day.

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That is going to hold temperatures back a bit. A reason for some

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optimism at the weekend with this ridge of high pressure, before

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things go downhill. We start Saturday with some light and patchy

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rain, but it will fizzle out on Saturday afternoon. Sunday is set up

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to be quite a nice day. Temperatures of 13, 14 Celsius, before it goes

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downhill. Make the most of the next few days. I will be back with our

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late news. See you then. Have a good evening. Goodbye.

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