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independent child sexual abuse inquiry. Join me now

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that a man murdered on the outskirts of west Belfast last week

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was killed by a paramilitary organisation.

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Detectives investigating the murder of Joe Reilly

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returned to the scene in Poleglass tonight.

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of the gunmen running away from the scene

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Construction of a, almost the minute it happened. Two officers, dressed

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in similar clothing to the gunmen, retraced the route they took as they

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ran away from the victim's home. It is vital if you saw the two gunmen,

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described as wearing sports windcheater jackets with desserts

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have weighed the front, one was wearing a Celtic scarf across his

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face, with dark rimmed glasses. Joe Reilly has been singled out from two

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other people who were in his home at the time. They were forced to lie

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down on the kitchen for while the victim, Captain Oliver Morley, was

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shot twice in the chest around 8pm last Thursday. -- by the victim,

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kicked in the living room. Detectives were still trying to

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establish a clear motive for the shootings at the time. Seven days

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on, and after following up several lines of inquiry, a clearer picture

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is starting to emerge and it involves both drugs and

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paramilitaries. The motive I am looking that is in relation to drugs

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and I believe that Joseph Riley has been murdered by a paramilitary

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organisation. At this stage, it is too early to say which is involved.

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A dissident paramilitary organisation? I don't want to get

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into the specifics of the organisation I am looking at. I want

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to identify the two suspect. I am not following is a Tyrion inquiry at

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the moment. Police were asking motorists as they saw the two gunmen

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leaving the scene of what detectives described as a cold-blooded summary

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execution. The BBC has learned that a woman

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was reported to police and charged in connection

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with using abortion pills, The unprescribed purchase

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and use of the drugs And there are warnings that women

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are putting their health at risk by taking abortion

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pills bought online. Buying and using abortion pills

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is illegal But there is concern

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about their availability online. We purchased drugs which arrived

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from India to an address here. That is despite Northern Ireland's

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strict abortion laws that prevent

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the termination of any pregnancy, unless the mother's life

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or health is at serious risk. The drugs were analysed for us

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at Queens University. We can say with 100% surety,

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it is that pharmaceutical compound. They found the pills were capable

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of causing an abortion. But they are not licensed

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for use in the UK. As with all drugs, there are risks

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associated with this drug's use. Of particular concern

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would be the heavy bleeding, which is a relatively

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common adverse effect, and a number of women would require

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a blood transfusion. If you're talking about heavy blood

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loss as a result of using these, is that potentially

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life-threatening? That means some women who use

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the drugs will require treatment. We have learned that

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at least one woman was reported to police

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after she requested medical help. The Department of Health did issue

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guidelines earlier this year that stated that medical staff

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did have a duty to secure the apprehension,

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prosecution or conviction of anybody involved

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in an illegal termination. However, the guidance is not clear

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because it also says that they do not have to pass on

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that information if they have

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a reasonable excuse not to. Whenever we want women to seek

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medical advice, we have been telling them do not say

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that they have taken the pills, because the medical professionals

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are obliged to report this to the police and it is very clear

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in the most recent Northern Ireland guidelines that there is a

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"don't ask, don't tell" policy Campaigners have been

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pushing for a relaxation but that remains a divisive

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and sensitive issue at Stormont. and our politicians have been

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holding against the tide of some people, like Amnesty International

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and other groups, who are actively trying to quite

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forcibly change the law. We made numerous requests to speak

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to the Justice Minister, and she was due to give interviews

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at an NSPCC event. Has the NSPCC invited

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you here today? When it became clear that we wanted

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to talk about abortion, however, her press officer

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had us thrown out. Why is she not prepared to answer

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any questions about an abortion? I am not answering any more

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questions while you film, please. The Health Minister also refused

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requests for interviews. But in a statement,

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her department said their primary concern

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for any woman was care. The DUP leader and First Minister

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Arlene Foster says her party will continue to block attempts

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to introduce same-sex marriage here. Mrs Foster said in an interview that

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online abuse from some activists had made it less likely that

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the DUP would change its stance, and her party would continue to use

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an Assembly-blocking mechanism I've been hearing more

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about Mrs Foster's remarks from our political

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editor Mark Devenport. These latest comments came in one of

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a series of interviews that Arlene Foster is giving in the run-up to

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her party conference, which is this weekend. In an interview with the

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press Association, she was asked about her party's position on Same

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Sex Marriage Bill and whether they might, in the future, decide not to

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use a petition of concern to block Private member 's' attempts to

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change the law on that score. She indicated that the DUP remains

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committed to a traditional definition of marriage and would use

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the tool, the petition of concern, which allows it to veto any attempt

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to change the law. She also said in that interview that she and her

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colleagues have been subjected to what she called a vicious abuse

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online by LGBT activists and she said that abuse would not change

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your position, indeed she said it might actually harm the position of

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the DUP in ensuring that they would not opt for any change on that

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score. And is this a surprise?

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I do not think so, really. If you look at the detail of their Assembly

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manifesto, there was one line were they said they remained committed to

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the definition of marriage and resisting any attempt to redefine

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it. So I think it has always been pretty clear on that score that they

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will continue to veto this. There has been talk about maybe limiting

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the use of a petition of concern, but Arlene Foster says in the end of

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leaders matter about which party feels very strongly, so why would

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they not use that petition they can? Other political parties have

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criticised Arlene Foster's comments. Alliance leader Naomi Long said

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the DUP should not use the mechanism of a Petition of Concern to overrule

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a democratic majority, and both she and Sinn Fein

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said they were committed to bringing forward legislation

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on marriage equality. The job losses announced

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by the bike retailer Chain Reaction have provoked

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a furious political reaction. The company is to cut

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around 300 jobs It was locally-owned

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until earlier this year when English firm Wiggle bought it

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for more than ?70 million. The former finance minister

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Sammy Wilson has accused the new owners of blatant

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and cynical asset stripping. This report from our economics

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and business editor, John Campbell. It is this sort of work which will

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no longer be done locally. Wiggle has spent millions on a huge new

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warehouse in the centre of England so it makes commercial sense to hold

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Dutch logistics in the one place but that does not cut much ice with the

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East Antrim MP. This is not because the company of uncompetitive. It is

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simply because a bigger company bought out a competitor, wanted to

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strip its assets, has spare capacity in other parts of its organisation

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and intends to move to that spare capacity. The South Antrim MP met

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the company today. He says he can understand from other explanations

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for the cuts but he believes misleading language was used at the

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time of the takeover. The one worry when we heard about the merger was

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that there might be job lay-offs, things might get moved to another

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location. So I raised it at the time and we got nearly cast iron

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assurances that no, they were here forever and a day, this was their

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home, where they would be employing people in the future. But you always

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that with a doubt and know the absolute worst has happened and we

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have got to fight really hard to make sure that jobs stay here, that

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we build the business here and we hope that in size and an answer.

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Chain Reaction's main reaction sets on the edge of this small village,

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where there is less focus on political rhetoric and more concern

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about the wider economic impact. Some of the warehouse workers live

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nearby and staff coming to and from work are regular customers at the

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village shop. Nobody here wanted to talk today, but they are worried

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about what it will mean for trade. Nobody from the company was

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available to speak to the media today, but they have again

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emphasised they will be retaining around 300 jobs in Northern Ireland,

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and the company have again said they do need to centralise warehousing

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and Wolverhampton if they are going to keep this business competitive in

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what is a very tough field. as one of Northern Ireland's biggest

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employers, Bombardier, is to bring forward a wave

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of redundancies which had been

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announced for next year. The aerospace company said

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in February it was axing the posts

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over two years but it now aims to shed all 1,080

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posts "within the next few months". The company says the move

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will help reduce costs The Secretary of State James

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Brokenshire says he won't consider funding Troubles-related inquests

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until there is reform of the system. Sinn Fein has repeatedly called

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on the government to provide ?10 million to investigate

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80 deaths, after the DUP vetoed

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the Executive from doing so. In an interview for the View

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tonight, Mr Brokenshire questioned the effectiveness

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of the current inquest system. I wanted to see that this is done

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properly, to get that sense of answers being given to the families,

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to the victims in this way. It is about the fact that I think we have

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a system that does not work effectively to be able to do that,

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because of the number of inquests that can be processed, and indeed

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the need for reform as to how we are able to manage the inquest system,

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which the lord Chief Justice himself referred to.

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Well, for more about what's on The View tonight,

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Yes, Tara, that's just the start of it - we'll hear that,

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And I will also be asking about his refusal to release funds to fund

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investigations into paramilitary. Johnny straight after the news.

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The weather latest now, with Geoff Maskell.

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We have had quite a cloudy day today, up until this point. Through

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this evening and overnight, this band of rain since slowly size,

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bringing out the clouds a little bit. It means we will see some

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clearer skies, helping the temperatures to drop away. A mist

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and fog to begin the day tomorrow, but in many places quite a bright

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start. What happens as we go through the day is that that cloud and rain

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that are sanctified through the evening will return, so we will see

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some cloudier skies encroaching as we go through the afternoon and then

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that rain will follow on. The rain is always fragmenting stop as we

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take a wider view, you can see exactly what is going on. What the

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big area of high settling down our weather quite nicely. The breeze

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running around the top of that. Through the day, that rate rises up

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and this weekend that high pressure does give us some protection, but we

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are always on the edge of it, always on the border with a certain friend

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of the day. On Friday night, a bit of mist forming as we go into the

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early hours of Saturday morning. The daylight hours on Saturday, though,

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are likely to stay mostly dry for many places. Temperatures in double

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figures, 1230 degrees today. On Sunday, that the risk of rain

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increases as the front just edges ever closer to us. Plenty of cloud,

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but those temperatures quite reasonable. As we look towards the

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Halloween weekend itself, then mostly dry through Monday. If a

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little bit cloudy. You should be OK for trick-or-treating.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25 in the morning

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