:00:13. > :00:13.Good evening. membership. That's all from the BBC
:00:14. > :00:15.This is BBC Newsline, on the day the UK
:00:16. > :00:23.officially triggered its exit from the European Union.
:00:24. > :00:29.We are of course fully committed to ensuring that the unique interests
:00:30. > :00:33.of Northern Ireland are protected and advanced.
:00:34. > :00:36.The response from Stormont is mixed - Sinn Fein say it's a disaster,
:00:37. > :00:39.while the DUP call it a good day for democracy.
:00:40. > :00:41.I'm live on the border at County Tyrone -
:00:42. > :00:43.what will today's move mean for areas like this?
:00:44. > :00:52.And what will it mean for our export market?
:00:53. > :00:54.We'll assess the political and economic fallout
:00:55. > :00:57.with our correspondents in Belfast and Dublin.
:00:58. > :01:07.Five years ago, this state of the art building in the grounds of the
:01:08. > :01:12.Royal Victoria hospital was hailed as a beacon for delivering health
:01:13. > :01:16.care. But what's happened to it, and why, after all this time, at a
:01:17. > :01:21.majority of the 12 floors still empty?
:01:22. > :01:23.Rain for many this evening, mild tonight, and tomorrow is mostly dry
:01:24. > :01:29.with temperatures up to 15 degrees. First Brexit, and in her letter
:01:30. > :01:32.to Brussels which started the process of leaving
:01:33. > :01:33.the European Union, the Prime Minister talks
:01:34. > :01:35.about the UK's unique relationship with the Republic and the importance
:01:36. > :01:42.of the peace process. Later in the Commons,
:01:43. > :01:44.Theresa May said she expected that all of the UK's devolved
:01:45. > :01:46.administrations would see a significant increase
:01:47. > :01:50.in their decision-making power. Our first report is from our
:01:51. > :01:52.political correspondent Enda McClafferty, and it begins
:01:53. > :02:06.with the Prime Minister. The Article 50 process is now
:02:07. > :02:10.underway. And in accordance with the wishes of the British people, the
:02:11. > :02:17.United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. It was an
:02:18. > :02:22.announcement they knew was coming, but didn't want to hear. The Prime
:02:23. > :02:27.Minister's words may have been welcomed by many at Westminster, but
:02:28. > :02:32.not at Stormont today. The Yvette -- effect this is good to have is
:02:33. > :02:38.massive, and we are trying to say to the British Government that this is
:02:39. > :02:41.not good for the North. We need some sort of free border that people can
:02:42. > :02:52.travel without the worry of being stopped at checkpoints. But today,
:02:53. > :02:57.the Prime Minister pledged there would be no return to the borders of
:02:58. > :03:02.the past. And she said Stormont had nothing to fear from Brexit. No
:03:03. > :03:07.decision currently taken by the devolved administrations will be
:03:08. > :03:11.removed from them, and it is our expectation that the devolved
:03:12. > :03:14.administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will see a
:03:15. > :03:18.significant increase in their decision-making power as a result of
:03:19. > :03:22.this process. We want to maintain the common travel area with the
:03:23. > :03:28.Republic of Ireland, there should be no return to the borders of the
:03:29. > :03:31.past. And she put that in writing, in the letter to the president of
:03:32. > :03:38.the European Council which triggered Article 50, saying we wanted to
:03:39. > :03:43.avoid a return to a hard border with Republic, and wanted to maintain the
:03:44. > :03:47.common travel area. We on this bench are convinced she
:03:48. > :03:52.is the right leader for these challenges. And can I also commend
:03:53. > :03:57.her for putting in article five of the principles that she set out in
:03:58. > :04:00.her letter, Northern Ireland, the relationship with the Republic, and
:04:01. > :04:05.can I commend her on the way that has been put forward.
:04:06. > :04:10.But back in Stormont, Republicans and nationalists had a difficult
:04:11. > :04:15.message. This will be a -- the biggest economic catastrophe since
:04:16. > :04:21.partition. I know we will get a fear hey -- fair hearing in Dublin and in
:04:22. > :04:25.Brussels, but can we get a fair hearing in London? Yellow macro this
:04:26. > :04:32.is going to be detrimental to people on the island of Ireland, so we need
:04:33. > :04:35.to get special status for it because we have unique circumstances which
:04:36. > :04:39.need to be recognised. The Secretary of State was on his own border
:04:40. > :04:44.mission, reassuring businesses in Newry about trading with their
:04:45. > :04:48.neighbours. We want to see an ambitious free trade agreement with
:04:49. > :04:54.the EU, barrier free, tariff free, and recognising how that benefits
:04:55. > :04:58.both the UK and the EU as well. There will be no stopping this
:04:59. > :05:03.process now that heat has started. These people here will be hoping
:05:04. > :05:07.that they at least can help shape the negotiations, to ensure that
:05:08. > :05:11.their lives to not change post-Brexit. -- now that it has
:05:12. > :05:16.started. Our political editor joins us from
:05:17. > :05:21.Stormont. On those negotiations, with no Stormont ministers in place,
:05:22. > :05:25.who will represent Northern Ireland, how will Northern Ireland be
:05:26. > :05:29.involved in shaping how Brexit affects us? Yellow macro the views
:05:30. > :05:33.of the Stormont politicians will frankly be I think fairly limited in
:05:34. > :05:37.terms of this debate. Even if they manage to do a deal and
:05:38. > :05:41.get back into their power-sharing Executive, the main players will
:05:42. > :05:44.probably be the British and Irish governments and the European
:05:45. > :05:59.Commission. If there is a bit of good
:06:00. > :06:03.news for those concerned about a hard border, the European Commission
:06:04. > :06:05.has made it clear that they -- it feels a strong emotional attachment
:06:06. > :06:07.to the Northern Ireland peace process, and it doesn't want to do
:06:08. > :06:11.anything to harm peace and dialogue here, so it has bought into that on
:06:12. > :06:13.the part -- sense, on the behalf of London and Dublin, that it was to
:06:14. > :06:16.keep the border as open as possible. The Prime Minister said today, she
:06:17. > :06:18.talked about unique interests, but how much of that is just rhetoric?
:06:19. > :06:21.There are a number of parties here that say that Northern Ireland
:06:22. > :06:26.should have special status within the EU, that is effectively being
:06:27. > :06:30.counted out by the Government which says the UK is leaving as a whole. I
:06:31. > :06:34.suspect in the end we will be talking about special arrangements
:06:35. > :06:39.rather than special status, that maybe something London and Dublin
:06:40. > :06:43.would find favourable, and also it might not scare those regions of the
:06:44. > :06:47.EU who will be concerned about according any kind of president to
:06:48. > :06:48.Northern Ireland that could be applied to regions within their own
:06:49. > :06:49.countries. In particular, since
:06:50. > :06:50.the Good Friday Agreement, the border is no longer a barrier
:06:51. > :06:53.to the free movement of trade and services,
:06:54. > :06:56.we have the work of north-south bodies, and many shared
:06:57. > :07:00.health services. While the Prime Minister says
:07:01. > :07:02.Northern Ireland's links with the Republic should be
:07:03. > :07:04.maintained, what happens after Our reporter Louise Cullen
:07:05. > :07:13.is in the village of Caledon, on the Tyrone-
:07:14. > :07:20.Monaghan border. And just outside the village on the
:07:21. > :07:27.Newbridge, which reopened in 2010 after the road had been closed for
:07:28. > :07:32.many years. -- the new rage. -- Bridge. But here and many areas like
:07:33. > :07:37.this, the border has loomed large for many years before that, not just
:07:38. > :07:41.in its checkpoints and watchtowers, but the violence it has brought and
:07:42. > :07:45.the bomb attacks. Now the border is looming large again, and not just in
:07:46. > :07:50.the minds of locals but also in the minds of our exporters and business
:07:51. > :07:54.people. What will it mean for them? They are not only concerned about
:07:55. > :07:58.what this place will look like post-Brexit, but also now looking at
:07:59. > :08:02.new opportunities beyond the European Union. Julian O'Neill has
:08:03. > :08:07.more. The stakes are high for exporters.
:08:08. > :08:11.The EU and the republic especially at big markets, and many firms hope
:08:12. > :08:17.new arrangements will not damage business. Once free from EU, the UK
:08:18. > :08:21.will also pursue trade deals independently. This company, which
:08:22. > :08:29.makes construction machinery, has dealers in the likes of Singapore,
:08:30. > :08:35.and seize opportunities. The the growth in Asia and South America,
:08:36. > :08:41.and Europe hasn't grown in ten years, so I think focusing more on
:08:42. > :08:44.the high growth areas in the world for our business that will give us
:08:45. > :08:48.better opportunities. It has been said today marks the
:08:49. > :08:51.point of no return, and the Government will seek to strike a new
:08:52. > :08:57.trade deal with the EU by the time Brexit happens in two years' time.
:08:58. > :09:01.But there are anxieties are among the many larger scale local
:09:02. > :09:07.businesses. Ultimately, there is concern about the risk of tariffs,
:09:08. > :09:13.disruption to supply chains, and uncertainty around European workers.
:09:14. > :09:17.Local trade unions were almost unanimous in opposing Brexit, and
:09:18. > :09:23.taking stock today, I worried about the prospect of a good deal. 85,000
:09:24. > :09:30.workers work in the manufacturing sector, and 58% of their exports go
:09:31. > :09:36.to the EU. So can anybody tell us that if we are the high Brexit
:09:37. > :09:40.proposed, that any of those jobs will be affected? But nobody knows
:09:41. > :09:45.what is to come. It is like any other business deal, both sides are
:09:46. > :09:48.talking the worst position, and compromise will be somewhat better,
:09:49. > :09:53.I think, than has been mentioned in the press at the moment. It was
:09:54. > :09:59.business as usual here after the referendum, and so it will be until
:10:00. > :10:02.March 2019. Between now and then, negotiators potentially hold the
:10:03. > :10:14.fortunes of firms like this in their hands. John Campbell is with me.
:10:15. > :10:17.What is the timetable for Brexit no? This day next month, the leaders of
:10:18. > :10:21.all EU countries apart from Theresa May will have a summit and basically
:10:22. > :10:24.set their framework for negotiations. Some sort of talks
:10:25. > :10:29.will begin fairly shortly after that, but then we are likely to be
:10:30. > :10:36.into the talks about talks sort of scenario. Then, really the
:10:37. > :10:40.substantive negotiations don't really start until the autumn of
:10:41. > :10:44.this year. You've got French and German elections to get out of the
:10:45. > :10:47.way, so then we will have an intense year of talks which will run from
:10:48. > :10:52.the autumn of this year until the autumn of 2018. They will end at
:10:53. > :10:56.this did -- that stage because any deal will need six months to be
:10:57. > :11:00.voted on by various European national and regional parliaments,
:11:01. > :11:07.and then two years from now, despite anything that has happened, we will
:11:08. > :11:12.be out. We saw Louise there, a lot of concerns have been expressed
:11:13. > :11:15.about the border. What is the UK's stands, and the EU's stands about
:11:16. > :11:22.it? Yellow macro the worry is to do with customers. We will be pulling
:11:23. > :11:26.out of the EU customs union, so there's got to be some sort of
:11:27. > :11:32.Customs enforcement. But nobody wants that, so the Irish and British
:11:33. > :11:35.governments, the EU's chief negotiator, the local parties, all
:11:36. > :11:41.say there should be no hard border, and that is also the position we saw
:11:42. > :11:44.articulated today by the European Parliament's Brexit coordinator. We
:11:45. > :11:50.are very clear, the Brexit agreement needs to fully respect the Good
:11:51. > :11:58.Friday Agreement in all its aspects, and that means also that we will
:11:59. > :12:06.never accept a hard border again, between Northern Ireland and the
:12:07. > :12:10.Irish Republic. So you've got consensus there, all the players say
:12:11. > :12:14.they don't want a hard border. But how are customs going to be placed?
:12:15. > :12:18.We haven't heard how they're going to put that into effect, and that's
:12:19. > :12:21.going to be one of the more interesting things. And it's
:12:22. > :12:23.something they're going to have to come to fairly early, because the
:12:24. > :12:27.European Commission said there are three issues to be sorted before we
:12:28. > :12:33.talk about trade deals, and that is the rights of EU citizens, it is
:12:34. > :12:38.what the UK has to pay way out, and it is what happens to the Irish
:12:39. > :12:43.border. On a separate board -- matter, Stormont. A senior civil
:12:44. > :12:48.servant has been given the power to look after its finances, how is that
:12:49. > :12:53.working today? Warm David Stirling is now in control, and what he did
:12:54. > :12:56.today was he sent letters to all of the department is laying out what
:12:57. > :13:00.they're spending totals for the next four months ago to be. -- David
:13:01. > :13:06.Stirling. Macro there have no surprises because there has been
:13:07. > :13:10.intensive negotiations for the last few weeks and months leading up to
:13:11. > :13:15.this, similarly he is saying it is business as usual for now, services
:13:16. > :13:19.will continue operating, but he is emphasising this is not the same as
:13:20. > :13:23.having a budget. His powers are limited, if there are any unexpected
:13:24. > :13:28.circumstances, he is very restrained as to what he can do in terms of
:13:29. > :13:32.releasing fresh money. The officials think this cannot go on for a couple
:13:33. > :13:36.of months, and would prefer it was not more than a couple of weeks. At
:13:37. > :13:40.some stage a budget will have to be passed, and the question is whether
:13:41. > :13:45.it is by a local Finance Minister or buy a direct rule minister.
:13:46. > :13:48.The Republic's government says its key priority with Brexit
:13:49. > :13:50.is to continue the free flow of trade north and south,
:13:51. > :13:52.and to ensure that an invisible border continues to exist.
:13:53. > :13:56.Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison joins me.
:13:57. > :14:06.What's been said there today? Today is a daily Republic did not want, it
:14:07. > :14:10.got involved in the referendum campaign last summer, urging the UK
:14:11. > :14:16.to stay in the EU. Of the remaining 27 EU States, it is the one that is
:14:17. > :14:21.going to be most badly affected by Brexit, and the only one with a land
:14:22. > :14:24.border with the UK. The Minister for foreign affairs said today he was
:14:25. > :14:29.encouraged by Theresa May's letter to Brussels, and her references to
:14:30. > :14:35.Ireland and peace process, while ender Kenny, who is in Malta
:14:36. > :14:42.attending a meeting of the European People's party, gave this reaction.
:14:43. > :14:47.-- Enda Kenny. This will not be easy. We have set out our main
:14:48. > :14:52.objectives, and I am glad to see these are reflected in the British
:14:53. > :14:55.Prime Minister's letter to the European Council, including the
:14:56. > :14:59.special relationship with Britain, and the preservation of the peace
:15:00. > :15:03.process, the protection of the Good Friday Agreement, there return to a
:15:04. > :15:06.hard border, and from Britain's perspective, they do not want to do
:15:07. > :15:09.any harm to Ireland and its opportunities for the future. Asked
:15:10. > :15:15.about what kind of border there would be post Brexit, he said it
:15:16. > :15:18.would not be one driven by technology, but one that represented
:15:19. > :15:22.a political challenge that required creativity. He said the best minds
:15:23. > :15:28.in Ireland and the UK were working on the issue in an imaginative way.
:15:29. > :15:32.The focus in Dublin will turn to Friday, and the president of the
:15:33. > :15:39.European Council, the heads of Government, his presentation of the
:15:40. > :15:43.draft guidelines, and what parties like Sinn Fein have been campaigning
:15:44. > :15:47.for Northern Ireland to be given special protected status within the
:15:48. > :15:51.EU, I understand is much more likely he is good to recognise the special
:15:52. > :15:55.and unique circumstances of Northern Ireland. As other people have been
:15:56. > :15:56.saying, there is a recognition at European level of the Irish
:15:57. > :15:58.concerns. And there's a special
:15:59. > :16:00.Brexit programme here on BBC One this evening.
:16:01. > :16:12.Tara Mills explains. Nobody wants a return to the borders
:16:13. > :16:15.of the past. But what will it look like in the future? Tonight we will
:16:16. > :16:19.hear from the five big parties, and we will be live on the border.
:16:20. > :16:20.That's here on BBC One at half past seven.
:16:21. > :16:23.This is BBC Newsline, and still to come on the programme:
:16:24. > :16:25.We'll hear from the new Derry City football captain,
:16:26. > :16:40.who says it's an honour to succeed the late Ryan McBride.
:16:41. > :16:43.Five years after it was due to open, most of the new Critical Care
:16:44. > :16:46.building at the Royal Victoria hospital in Belfast remains closed.
:16:47. > :16:48.The development cost ?150 million, and the BBC understands that
:16:49. > :16:51.millions of additional funding are required to bring the 12-storey
:16:52. > :16:59.The first two floors house the emergency department.
:17:00. > :17:07.Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly has the story.
:17:08. > :17:14.From the outside, this 12 story building looks like it is business
:17:15. > :17:19.as usual. Inside, however, it is a different story. While it was due to
:17:20. > :17:23.open in 2012, work continues to get this entire building up to standard
:17:24. > :17:29.and fit for purpose. Work that involves new contractors. Five years
:17:30. > :17:35.on, and corridors, theatres and rooms which should be bustling with
:17:36. > :17:39.patients and staff, instead are empty. Serious building problems
:17:40. > :17:44.have meant that this state of the art hospital has remained a building
:17:45. > :17:50.site. While it all started with corroded pipes, multiple problems
:17:51. > :17:54.followed, including plumbing, waste and electoral sick -- electrical
:17:55. > :17:59.systems. According to health unions, it has taken so long, must have
:18:00. > :18:03.forgotten the building exists. Yellow macro ?150 million of public
:18:04. > :18:08.money, patients primarily are the people losing out on this.
:18:09. > :18:13.So our members will be asking questions as to how this situation
:18:14. > :18:25.has been allowed to develop. In a statement, the Belfast Trust
:18:26. > :18:27.In a statement, the Belfast Trust said...
:18:28. > :18:42.but not all of the building's affected.
:18:43. > :18:47.The new emergency department opened in 2015 to cope with winter
:18:48. > :18:51.pressures. But legal proceedings between various contractors and the
:18:52. > :18:55.trust have dominated through much of the build, with the source
:18:56. > :18:59.describing litigation as acrimonious.
:19:00. > :19:03.We are talking about transforming health, and yet ?150 million has
:19:04. > :19:06.simply done nothing, it's cost us more money to replace parts of this
:19:07. > :19:13.building and not brought it into public youth. -- use. So we need to
:19:14. > :19:18.get to grips with it. Things can go wrong, we accept that, but they need
:19:19. > :19:22.to be fixed and five years is too long. Since 2012, senior officials
:19:23. > :19:26.in the Department of Health including health ministers and those
:19:27. > :19:30.in the Belfast health trust have been informed. A new deadline for
:19:31. > :19:35.the opening of the rest of the building is now the end of the year.
:19:36. > :19:38.A 17-year-old boy who was found lying in an alleyway in East Belfast
:19:39. > :19:42.The police say they're investigating an incident in the Castlereagh Road
:19:43. > :19:45.area at around half past one this morning.
:19:46. > :19:47.A pensioner is being treated in hospital, for injuries
:19:48. > :19:49.he suffered during an aggravated burglary at his home
:19:50. > :19:55.He was tied up, attacked and had his head covered with a pillowcase.
:19:56. > :19:57.By men who got into his house at Slieveshan Park.
:19:58. > :20:03.It's believed the attackers escaped with a sum of money.
:20:04. > :20:06.The Public Records Office has just unveiled a unique set of recordings
:20:07. > :20:08.about life inside prisons here during the Troubles.
:20:09. > :20:11.The films were shot over the past ten years, and involve
:20:12. > :20:12.former prison officers, inmates and probation officers.
:20:13. > :20:33.A new light has been shone into an emotive issue. With a unique set of
:20:34. > :20:43.recordings recalling life who spent -- for those who spent time in jail
:20:44. > :20:52.during the years of conflict. This is the prison hospital, which is for
:20:53. > :20:55.better or worse being preserved. Half ?1 million has now funded a
:20:56. > :21:00.public archive of three and a half hours of audiovisual recordings. A
:21:01. > :21:08.former prison officer recalls the hunger strikes. It's quite emotional
:21:09. > :21:11.being here. It is a little unsettling and a little ghostly
:21:12. > :21:18.perhaps, the whole world knows really what happened here. It was
:21:19. > :21:24.difficult not to feel, you know, human pity for what was happening
:21:25. > :21:28.here. Or perhaps even some sympathy. But at the same time, one had to
:21:29. > :21:34.carry on with one's duty and try not to think too much. I wouldn't go so
:21:35. > :21:43.far as to say that if there are ghosts, they are here. I think there
:21:44. > :21:48.are ghosts in the Maze itself, a ghost of another time. It's taken so
:21:49. > :21:54.long, because the subject is politically sensitive, it's also
:21:55. > :21:57.psychically sensitive. These are dramatic places, and I think funders
:21:58. > :22:03.probably wanted the dust to settle in the peace process big -- before
:22:04. > :22:05.the invested in this. The aim is to use the memory archive for research
:22:06. > :22:10.purposes in future generations. Derry City have announced the man
:22:11. > :22:13.to succeed the late Ryan McBride as football club's captain -
:22:14. > :22:14.Mark Sidebottom has It's been such difficult days
:22:15. > :22:27.for the club, Donna. Good evening - goalkeeper
:22:28. > :22:29.Gerard Doherty is the man entrusted He, his team-mates and the fans know
:22:30. > :22:33.the best way to honour Ryan McBride's memory is to get back
:22:34. > :22:55.playing the game he loved. Gerard Doherty is one of the most
:22:56. > :23:02.senior players at the club, first Johnny in 1998. He rejoined from
:23:03. > :23:05.Derby County in 2008 and has made 374 up appearances. -- first
:23:06. > :23:12.joining. He now takes over the role of club captain after the death of
:23:13. > :23:15.Ryan McBride. One word sums up how he remembers the quiet and
:23:16. > :23:23.unassuming centre half. An absolute warrior. As soon as he put the
:23:24. > :23:27.armband on, he was work -- ready for war and he went out and lead by
:23:28. > :23:31.example. We try to follow that. I couldn't believe the amount of
:23:32. > :23:36.people and well-wishers coming forward for Ryan, it shows what
:23:37. > :23:41.respect people have for him. Since his death ten days ago, there's been
:23:42. > :23:45.a huge oak outpouring of grief for Ryan McBride. The first game back
:23:46. > :23:53.since his death will no doubt prove difficult. Manager Kenny Shiels said
:23:54. > :23:59.it will be a night high in emotion, and one number will dominate. We are
:24:00. > :24:03.going into the game having won four games out of four, which is a good
:24:04. > :24:08.statistic, and we would like to make it five because it is the number
:24:09. > :24:14.five, and it is our fifth game, and five's been very dominant in our
:24:15. > :24:25.thoughts. A number of tributes will be paid to Ryan McBride's memory on
:24:26. > :24:29.Friday evening. That game is live on Friday evening. That's on BBC radio
:24:30. > :24:31.Foyle. The Republic of Ireland's 15-game
:24:32. > :24:33.unbeaten run at home ended last night in Dublin,
:24:34. > :24:35.Martin O'Neill's men losing 1-0 to Iceland
:24:36. > :24:37.in an international friendly - on a night when the manager
:24:38. > :24:49.took a look at some He did make a lot of changes,
:24:50. > :24:54.particularly in the second half,, I mean from the Atlantic -- Icelandic
:24:55. > :24:59.viewpoint they will probably think it was great, I am not happy with
:25:00. > :25:04.the way we set up a wall, we were trying to defend it as best we can,
:25:05. > :25:06.and I think we should do a little bit better. Big games are being
:25:07. > :25:07.decided on set pieces. Finally - Ulster prop
:25:08. > :25:10.Rodney Ahyou has had a two-week ban He'll now be available
:25:11. > :25:13.for Friday week's fixture The weather forecast is next,
:25:14. > :25:28.with Geoff Maskell. We've had a bit of everything today,
:25:29. > :25:32.we started off with grey skies and a little bit of rain, and that was a
:25:33. > :25:37.scene caught by one of our Weather Watchers over Belfast. By the end of
:25:38. > :25:41.the day we've had some decent, bright spells across the eastern
:25:42. > :25:46.half of Northern Ireland. Overnight though just about everywhere is
:25:47. > :25:50.going to see a bit of rain. Even once the rain clears, the legacy of
:25:51. > :25:54.the cloud will make it a very mild night, in some places temperatures
:25:55. > :26:00.could stay in double figures. It set us up for a reasonable to two -- day
:26:01. > :26:04.tomorrow, certainly very mild. We will always see a bit of rain
:26:05. > :26:08.particularly across the county Down coast, because we have a weather
:26:09. > :26:13.front sitting out to the east. For us as we go through the day, plenty
:26:14. > :26:16.of cloud around, always a few showers popping up here and there,
:26:17. > :26:22.but we will increasingly start to see a few breaks opening up in the
:26:23. > :26:27.cloud. Where we get any prolonged sunshine, that will help the
:26:28. > :26:31.temperatures up to 14 or maybe 15. But first night into Friday, that
:26:32. > :26:36.front gets a bit of a kink in it, introducing some rain into the
:26:37. > :26:39.second half of the night. It'll be quite extensive and quite
:26:40. > :26:45.persistent. It means that Friday is going to get off to a wet and soggy
:26:46. > :26:49.start, but once the low pressure driving that weather moves after the
:26:50. > :26:54.North, it drags the rain with it through the morning, and then we are
:26:55. > :27:00.into something a bit brighter, not a bad afternoon, certainly some sunny
:27:01. > :27:04.spells around on Friday afternoon. Come the weekend, we've got this
:27:05. > :27:08.ridge of high pressure, giving us a degree of protection from these
:27:09. > :27:11.Atlantic Systems, although it's not helping us out too much on Saturday
:27:12. > :27:16.morning because we have some rain there. It would gradually fizzle out
:27:17. > :27:21.during the morning, and Sunday starts off quite bright, but by the
:27:22. > :27:26.end of the day we will see the next Atlantic low starting to drive in
:27:27. > :27:29.some wind and rain. So it's not bad, but it is certainly a far cry from
:27:30. > :27:31.the beautiful weather we saw last weekend. Where has all that high
:27:32. > :27:40.gone? -- high pressure. You can keep in contact with us
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