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The online bike store Chain Reaction is to cut around 300 jobs.

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The Ballyclare-based firm was taken over earlier this year.

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The new owners say they intend to concentrate warehouse

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Our Economics and Business Editor John Campbell reports.

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It has been our biggest retail success story of the Internet era.

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The company is one of the world was mad men online sellers of bicycles

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and cycling accessories. It started in 1995 as a single bike shop owned

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by the Watson family. But having built a world-class operation

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employing more than 400 people, they sold it earlier this year to a rival

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firm. Now, they are planning a shake-up, meaning many staff will be

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moving to Wolverhampton. The company said it was necessary to retain its

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position, remain competitive in the UK as well as increasing local

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markets. That means up to 152 staff jobs and 161 agency positions will

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go. They promised employees they will be treated fairly and in line

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with their values. This afternoon, one regular customer at all that she

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shares in the staff's shock. It is not just the front facing is that we

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talk to as customers on a daily basis, it is all the backroom staff,

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the stock room, the clerical, the admin, everything. If you're into

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bicycles, it is very much a family feeling when you go in and shop. I

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will really, really miss it. A local MLA said that jobs are effectively

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being shifted across the Irish Sea. Distribution would like it is going

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to be transferred to Wolverhampton, in England, so it is with sadness

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that we hear this news, today. We know that this local firm, locally

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owned, had great investment in our local community here. And with this

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takeover, we see what is happening. It is taking away the distribution

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part. The company says it will keep at least 275 jobs here, in rolls

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like Management, IT and seals. It's real building operation will also

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remain in Ballyclare. -- it's a real building. Major loss of that such a

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respected company will shock many people but any competitive murky,

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the new owners were never going to be sentimental about Northern

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Ireland jobs. Staff leaving this site tonight have been reluctant to

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comment, but the trade union have reacted furiously. They see these

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job losses are completely indefensible and may amount to

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corporate asset stripping. The company may refute that, but it is

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still likely that by the time we get to the summer of next year, 300 jobs

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will have gone. A jury at Belfast Crown Court has

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found two people guilty of murdering a disabled Lurgan man

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and dumping his body in a bin. Stephen Hughes and Shaunean Boyle

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were standing trial for the murder The 40-year-old had been badly

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beaten and left unconscious Ita Dungan has been

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following the trial. For five weeks, Owen's parents

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and siblings have listened to evidence of how he was beaten up

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and left unconscious on a sofa

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until he died two days later. The jury had listened to that same

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evidence and had been instructed by the judge to answer the question

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of who killed this man. Was it Stephen Hughes

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and Shaunean Boyle together, After five hours deliberating,

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they came back with their answer. They found both Stephen Hughes

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and Shaunean Boyle guilty of murder. The pair had kicked,

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punched and stamped on the disabled man,

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who weighed just over seven stone. His injuries included 15 broken

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ribs, a fractured breastbone, bleeding to the brain

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and a bruised heart. And it had all happened here,

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at Stephen Hughes's home, Owen Creaney, Stephen Hughes

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and Shaunean Boyle had arrived back in the early hours of the morning,

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having been on a drinking Shortly after, Owen Creaney

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was beaten unconscious. As he lay on a sofa

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upstairs, friends called most of them unaware

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of what was happening. She described foam coming out

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of his mouth and said the smell One day later,

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Owen Creaney was dead. Shaunean Boyle and Stephen Hughes

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then slid his body into a wheelie Shortly afterwards,

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the police arrived. When the verdicts were being read

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out, Stephen Hughes Shaunean Boyle broke down in tears,

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sobbing into her hands. Then, as the judge handed

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down two life sentences, there was an outburst

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from the public gallery, a member of Shaunean Boyle's family

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shouted at Stephen Hughes, Then, as Shaunean Boyle

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was being led away, for the first time during the trial,

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she turned to Stephen and said, The pair will be sentenced

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on the 18th of November. Naomi Long has been

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elected as the new leader The MLA was endorsed

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by party activists tonight Our Political Correspondent

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Stephen Walker was there. Around 150 party members came to

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vote in an election race were there was only one candidate. Naomi Long

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has been and party leader ever since David Ford announced he was stepping

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down. After she was elected, Naomi Long outlined what her priorities

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would be. I am tired of the kind of politics that makes people feel

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excluded, depressed, set up with Northern Ireland. It is a fantastic

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place but we need a change in our politics. It is actually about

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optimism, trying to do the best that we can, not blind to the challenges,

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but celebrating the diversity that we have as a strength, rather than

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treating every division as a weakness. And the new leader got the

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full backing of the party faithful. I am ecstatic, I am so happy, such a

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way forward for the party. She is definitely the best person, most

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capable to lead us forward. I believe this could be a time when

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Alliance will grow stronger, bigger and there will be more depth and

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breadth to it, with the LGBT community, ethnic community and the

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POL community and the Nationalist community. We are a shared future

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party and I believe that may will lead that way. I believe it is a new

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dawn and chapter for the party. I think it will herald a real change

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in how we engage with our constituencies. My only will bring

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it to a grassroots level. When another party activists is one

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thing, but Naomi Long knows that she wants to see the Alliance Party

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grow, they need more members, more votes and seats. And in a crowd as

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political marketplace, that will be difficult. She may be the new leader

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of the Alliance Party, but she is facing some familiar challenges.

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The PSNI has arrested four people as part of an investigation

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into right-wing tensions in north eastern Europe.

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The men, who are aged between 29 and 46, were detained at houses

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A number of searches were conducted and several items removed

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An Assembly committee has been told that a botched green energy scheme

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which landed taxpayers with a bill of hundreds of millions of pounds

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is the "biggest scandal" encountered by politicians here.

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An overgenerous subsidy meant firms piled into the scheme

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designed to get them to switch from oil to wood chip boilers.

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20 years of guaranteed payments has left a huge hole

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The regulators Ofgem E-Serve were before the assembly's

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public account's committee and were heavily criticised.

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You're supposed to be the regulator. It is very clear the department was

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asleep at the wheel, but I am completely horrified that you as

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well were asleep at the wheel in relation to this. No minutes,

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limited records, nor responsibility, no ownership. It is... It is

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appalling. You're bound to accept that. It is public money. We can

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hardly afford the health service and now we have to fork out for this.

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A woman believed to be in her 30s has died in what's believed to have

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been a riding accident in County Down.

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It happened this afternoon on the Moss road near Ballygowan.

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In County Armagh, the A28 Gosford Road in Markethill is closed

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between its junction with the Tandragee Road

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and the Ballyvally Road due to a serious road traffic collision.

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The road is expected to remain closed overnight.

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Now, there was disappointment for County Down's Andrew Smith

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after he failed to win the Great British Bake off.

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The final of the hugely popular series was aired on BBC One

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earlier this evening and our reporter Mervyn

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I will start with 20 and keep an eye on them. I am nervous about this,

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because a tiny imperfection in a cake could mean last in the

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technical... The proof in the pudding was in the eating and

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Northern Ireland's Bake Off finalist was let down by the trade of all

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bakers, foggy bottom. The flavour of that is delicious. However... You

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probably work that pastry a little bit too much. That should fall

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apart. Let's try the Stuart Hogg retard.

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The winner of the great British Bake Off 2016 is Candice!

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He was picked by fellow finalist canvassed during this evening's

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finale. If the aerospace engineer had come through, he would have been

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the first ever Bake Off winner from you. All three finalists rose to the

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occasion. In the end, there could only be one winner but this did not

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sour relations between them. Candice has been fantastic throughout. I am

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chuffed to bits for her. Well done! The competition was a tight, in this

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the last episode of the award-winning programme on the BBC

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before it transfers to Channel 4. Now back in February 18-year-old

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Oran McKenna from Belfast was involved in a road accident

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in which he suffered Tonight and eight months

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on from his horrific accident. Oran came off the bench as captain

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of St Marys CBS College in their winning Mageean Cup hurling

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final against St Killians of Garron Tower at the

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Queen's playing fields. Afterwards Oran spoke

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of his gratitude to the medical The doctors, even though they have

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been pessimistic, they have outlined what the rest isn't everything but

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have been great I was on a Glasgow coma Scale of four, in an induced

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coma, and it was down to the hard work of the Doctor, integrating at

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the side of the road, he saved my life.

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Now, with the weather forecast, here's Geoff Maskell.

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Plenty of cloud cover, so that should help to keep temperatures in

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high single figures. Overnight those of eight or 9 degrees. By dawn

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tomorrow morning, we are going to start to see a few showers working

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their way in. It not last terribly long, with another cloudy but mild

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day. Once those showers little out, a few breaks in the clouds starting

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to open up and that will help the temperatures. Another day, those

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temperatures will be maybe 14 degrees on a south-westerly breeze,

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just drawing in that warmer air. We take the wider view, you can see

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exactly what is going on. An area of high pressure sitting out towards

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the side of the British Isles. To the north, a stronger breeze and

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later on, we will see this band of rain starts to work its way in. That

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comes in overnight onto Friday morning. The cloud cover helps to

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keep the temperature is on the mild side. Come the end of the week, and

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the weekend, that ridge of high pressure starts to extend, to give

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us a little bit of protection from the Atlantic weather systems.

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Friday, a band of rain will slowly moves north, dries out behind it.

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For all of the early Halloween celebrations, it should be trying

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it. Looking pretty good as we cast an eye towards the weekend. Cloudy

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and Miles, temperatures in the low teens. Not too bad and the largely

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fair all the way through the weekend and on into the start of next week,

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with only very little bit of light rain around as we go through the

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next few days.

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