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The headlines on BBC Newsline. Thank you. That is

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The North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds rules himself out of the running

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We hear of the devastation as the full extent

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It will put me on my knees. It will be hard to come back for it.

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I'm live in Dungannon where businesses are

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The plan to use pharmacists to ease the congestion in GP surgeries.

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The traditional Christmas nativity play -

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but is it time for schools to be more inclusive of other traditions?

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Is there an injury crisis for Ulster Rugby? Many players are ruled out

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until the new year. decent dry gaps. I'll be back with a

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full forecast. in a surprise move and within

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the past hour the DUP MP Nigel Dodds, has announced he will not

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stand for leadership of his party. The deputy leader had been expected

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to put himself forward as a Our Political editor Mark Devenport

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is with me. This move seems to have taken people

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in the political world by surprise - There is no doubt that in the circle

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around Nigel Dodds, nobody predicted this. They thought there would be a

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dual leadership would Nigel Dodds taking the main role. Nigel Dawes

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says he has given it a lot of thought and prayed about it and is

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sticking to his view which he previously enunciated that a party

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like the DUP cannot be led from Westminster. -- Nigel Dodds. He is

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endorsing Eileen Foster not just as First Minister Abbott taking over

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Peter Robinson's job as DUP leader. I believe Eileen is the person who

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should take the party forward. Someone who is already acting as

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First Minister in the assembly on two occasions. I believe her working

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with me and the rest of the team in the assembly, Westminster and

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Europe, will provide the positive future for Northern Ireland, for

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unionism. Where does the leadership contest go from here? They did have

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long to think about it because nominations close on Wednesday. The

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election is due to take place on Thursday of next week. It will be

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interesting to see what Sammy Wilson thinks about this. He endorsed Nigel

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Dawes as a natural successor to Peter Robinson. Also Gregory

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Campbell has a mandate at Stormont and Westminster. With that very

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strong endorsement we have seen from Nigel Dodds, we may have no contest

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and may have Arlene Foster come forward and getting those jobs and

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being DUP leader by Thursday of next week. Thank you.

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After the weekend storm the severe flooding is starting to recede, but

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many parts of Ireland and Britain are left with homes and businesses

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Locally counties Tyrone and Fermanagh were hit the hardest

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by Storm Desmond with the incessant rainfall since last Friday.

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At one stage over the weekend rescue teams helped

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BBC Newsline's Tara Mills is near Dungannon where there was

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a lot of damage at the Linen Green shopping village in Moygashel.

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Our cameras have been out capturing the effects of smoke -- of Storm

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Desmond and we will hear from Fermanagh and the north-west in a

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minute. I spent here -- spent the day here talking to retailers who

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have suffered a blow at the busiest time of the year. This thing on

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Sunday morning, 30 shops were flooded and left in up to three feet

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of water. Staff were left to count the cost of the damage and salvage

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what they could. Explain what it was like when you got here. When the

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water levels had subsided, we arrived and got the doors open and

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were met with devastation. The floors were already up and

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distorted. Where the water we each? -- reach? It was right up and the

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cabinets and the frames were damaged. The damage will run into

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hundreds of thousands of pounds but everyone rallied round. 30 men and

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the football team had been out training. They heard we were in

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trouble and they arrived and were like a team of ants. They helped us

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out and it was all done very fast. They helped out some of the other

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tenants as well. Next door at this homeware store, my thousand square

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feet of flooring and thousands of pounds of stock were destroyed. How

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did you feel? Horrified. It is devastating. You can see the people

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in Cumbria that have had their homes flooded and that is worse, but this

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is a local business and we have been here for ten years. The company was

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established in 1951. It is as much of our lives as our homes and you

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take it very personally. The flood was caused by a combination of

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nature and bad luck. The water back to win this nearby grill became

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blocked, forcing the water to go the only place it couldn't be car park.

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Elsewhere, cameras captured the impact of the wind and rain across

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Northern Ireland and although the flooded fields look beautiful, Storm

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Desmond has left a trail of misery in its wake. The environment

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Minister Mark H Duggan has rewarded people payments for those affected.

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Many think it wasn't just the severe weather back was the flooding.

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Residents are one housing development have been asking for

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years for a covert to be fixed. People feared their homes would

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flood. There was two inches of water and

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she blames a blocked culvert. Despite contacting many people, the

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problem hasn't been fixed. We have told them it is an ongoing problem.

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They just pass the buck from one to the other. This was the scene just

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outside where the river rose. More homes were flooded. Everything is

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wrecked. It has come up around the furniture and it is up the bottom

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step of the stairs. Some abandoned their boots to get about while

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others were forced to abandon their car. The core floated away. Is now.

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Many have been struggling through. The level of the Newbridge Road was

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raised after a flooded in 2009. This activity centre put in flood

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defences but the wet tearoom shouldn't be this wet. After

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fighting the raising levels, it came up through the floors. The place is

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quite heavily flooded. This happened in 2009/10. It is a 1 in 50 year

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event and it has happened twice in five years. In Bow, it was a school

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run by a tractor. All but one is now impossible -- all but one road is

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Mammon possible. There are fears there could be even more disruption.

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It has been a double blow for this man. His convenience store flooded

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again. The last time, it was manageable. This time, it is a

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wipe-out job and it will put me on my knees. We will get there and

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there is plenty of volunteers. Water engulfed his village causer in

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misery once again. A number of people had to leave their homes. In

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this business, they estimate the repair bill will be ?60,000. We have

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a lot of parties booked in the next few weeks and we have only just

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refurbished for Christmas. It is all destroyed again. In Strabane, the

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river flooded this house causing major damage. There is more damage

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and it came into the back of the house and onto the road. It got in

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the whole place. The biggest flood I have ever seen. If filled this

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nearby car park yesterday morning. It has destroyed a lot of stock.

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Just excessive damage. Back in this area, they are very resilient. To

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give you a scale of the damage, behind me, that is not the river. It

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came over that banking and swept through this entire area. It has

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dislodged this mobile storage unit and office. The floodwater continued

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on into the fork it -- forecourt of this garage and here is what is

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supposed to be a protective wall which was swept away. People here

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want an urgent upgrade to what they have described as completely

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inadequate flood defences. A pretty miserable weekend for

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money. David Porter

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of the Rivers Agency is with me. Is there anything you could have

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done to prevent against flooding? We gave out a Met Office warning and it

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starts an approach where we prepare for such events. We would go out and

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do grill runs to make sure our inlet grills are as clean as they could be

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to receive the water. Is seems incredible that a grill got blocked

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within one day on Saturday and then it caused this demonstration --

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devastation. There is a vulnerability around grills under --

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and we have a programme to get them cleared. During flood events, we

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would send a squad out to make sure they are kept clean during the

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event. This wasn't done and this is not a known vulnerable grill because

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it hasn't blocked in the past. That will be part of the review to make

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sure if this is resilient for the future. When it comes to agencies

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being responsible for flooding, every time we have a flood, there

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isn't one agency who is in charge. Should we move to that position

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where one person is accountable and one minister? There is to things

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that have happened. The flooding department is in place and that was

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a move into a single department. The three drainage agencies within

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Northern Ireland, transport and I, Northern Ireland water and the

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Rivers agency, they will come together to form the infrastructure.

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It will remove some of those barriers. When it comes to the

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worrying news with Loch earn getting into dangerous levels, put that into

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perspective. It is rising and it is 200 millimetres below the peak we

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experienced in 2009. It needs a considerable amount of water to go

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back up to those levels and we are keeping a close eye on it. Nine of

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the 31 shops were able to open today. They hope to be open at the

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weekend but there will be many months before they are back to

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business as usual. The flood line number should be on the screen now.

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It is back to you in the studio. There is more coverage of the

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flooding and a list of roads affected online. Cecilia will join

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me in the studio with the latest weather shortly.

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You're watching BBC Newsline and still to come on the programme:

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A traditional Christmas nativity play - but is it time

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for school life to to be more inclusive of other faiths and none?

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The children's charity Barnardo's has paid out almost ?200,000 in

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civil claims linked to alleged abuse at a former home in County Antrim.

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The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has been told that

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Barnardo's had a chance to address potential abuse but didn't take it.

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Kevin Sharkey has more on this story.

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Children's home run by Barnardos on the shores of Belfast. Between 1950

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and 1981, children came to this home. The promise, education and

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care. Some former residents say they were abused mentally, physically and

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sexually. In the year since, ?182,000 has been paid out in civil

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claims taken by ten former residents. Today, confirmation that

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hearings at this enquiry over the next two weeks will expose abusive

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activities and practices that have not been public majors -- knowledge

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until now. There was a chance to do something about alleged abuse. It

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was in 1980. There was a complaint of sex abuse and it was passed to

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staff and then to a superintendent at the phone. His decision, he did

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nothing about it. The enquiry heard Barnardos agreed if there was a

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moment, crucial moment when it failed to address potential child

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abuse, that was it. Barnardos has accepted that over a particular

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period of time, it failed to protect children in this house. It describes

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systemic failings at the other home and examination, Sharon Moore.

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Today's occurring brings it on to knew more ground. Barnardos,

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well-known charity being called to account over allegations that

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children in its care were abused. Seeing a GP can involve waiting

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several weeks with many surgeries under particular pressure

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at this time of year. A new scheme that will put

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pharmacists in the GP practice It's hoped having these drugs

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experts on hand will ease the burden on doctors and allow

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for a better management When we think pharmacists, this is

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what most of us expect. A quick visit after an appointment with our

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GP. In future, they will be doing more of the advising and the

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prescribing. When a patient comes to see me, I can review their

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medication and ensure it is appropriate for their conditions and

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ensuring that prescribing is safe and effective. Some work-out of GP

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practices but it is not widespread and the Department of Health 's

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thinks it should be. GP surgeries are under pressure. It is hoping by

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introducing pharmacists, some of that burden can be relieved,

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allowing GPs more time to spend with the sickest patients. It is

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reassuring in the sense that ensuring medicine is safely used and

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efficiently and effectively used but also in terms of extending the

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practice team and enabling patients to be seen by other people within

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the team that doesn't have to be the doctor. ?2.5 million will create 45

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new pharmacy posts next year. The bond of health says it will fund

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over 200 more by 2020. We have had working practice to see if it is a

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good thing. I am omitting extra investment because I think it is

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something that can relieve pressures that our GP surgeries are facing and

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produce better outcomes for our patients. Thousands of hospital

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admissions are down to problems with medication. It is hoped having drug

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exports on hand will promote more efficient prescribing.

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Hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of one

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of the young men who died in an incident on a building site

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Gerard Joe McDermott died alongside his friend Gerard Bradley

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when a slab of concrete fell on them.

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The church was packed for the popular 24-year-old. Many, believe

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what has happened. The priest said the shock and impact of this death

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was felt far and wide. He told the congregation that many people are

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going to miss the presence of Joe in their lives. He was a popular young

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man, he said. He make a deep impression on people wherever he

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was. Both Joe and his friend, Gerard Baddeley, had only just arrived in

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Western Australia. They were working at this building site in Perth when

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a large concrete slab fell on top of them. Workers were left stunned that

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the tragedy which happened at the end of last month. On Saturday,

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hundreds of people attended the funeral for 29-year-old Gerard

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Bradley at send Malachy's Church in Coleraine. The mourners were told it

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was a celebration and thanksgiving for the young man's life. -- Saint

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Malachy's church. A new report says the duty

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of schools to hold daily acts Rather than hold Christian

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assemblies, the Commission on Religion and Belief in

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Public Life says they should cater Nativity plays, readings from the

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Bible, hymn singing and carol singing, all part of school life.

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But is it time for school assemblies to reflect all religions, not just

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Christianity? At this school in east Belfast, they don't see the need for

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change. We have 400 children here and every child takes part in

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collective worship on a weekly basis. We have a lot of

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non-Christian children and we have the option that if parents don't

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want their children to commit to assembly, they can take them out of

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that but not one family in our school take that option. They are

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happy for all of our children to participate and as the children get

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older, to make up their minds what route they choose to follow. Across

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the city, there is a broad approach to assembly. The school has pupils

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from more than 20 different countries, but the principal

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believes all school assemblies shouldn't just be Christian. The

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extent and out of time depends on what type of school you are. If you

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are a Catholic -based school, you may have more time for Catholicism.

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Many schools look at different religions and incorporate them into

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the assemblies. I think it is good practice and it is informative for

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students. The recommendation for all school assemblies to change is only

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a proposal. Nothing is going to happen sooner and if traditionalists

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get their way, nothing will change at all.

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The Ulster rugby team won on Friday night but some key players are now

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Ulster's medical report doesn't make good reading for new director

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World Cup star Iain Henderson suffered

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Another international Dan Touhy fractured his right ankle,

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Darren Cave is out for two games and Peter Nelson's season is over

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after he dislocated his foot in the win against Edinburgh/Henderson's

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injury may keep out of Irelands Six Nations Championship.

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Ulster have back to back European games against Toulouse starting this

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Friday, and former Ulster player Paddy Wallace says

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its another big set back in what has been an already frustrating season.

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Injuries are part of the sport and you have to expect. We have been

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dealt a cruel blow with the loss of a couple of big-name internationals.

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I think it is the next man up mentality and not worry about who is

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out. It is tougher lairs but I think you have to come together and

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produce a performance which is something we have done at home over

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the years. David Healy has only been

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a maanger a number of weeks. But he already knows what its

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like to feel the pressure. After four straight defeats

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his Linfield side bounced back with a victory against Coleraine

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at the weekend. They were staring at the possibility

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of losing five possible games. That didn't happen thanks to Jimmy Kelly

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Gupta was my goal. David Healy's side take up all three points. It

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has been a disappointing month. Today, the players were ready and

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worked hard and were prepared to put their bodies on the line. Coleraine

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were under pressure and we deserved three points. December hasn't

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started well for this team. Despite coming back twice, they finished the

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stronger of the two sides. Elsewhere, Storm Desmond seem to be

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centred in Dungannon. Somewhere in the wind, Stephen O'Flynn scored a

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winner for Crusaders. This strike helped the home side beat Alamein.

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-- Ballymena. On tomorrow's BBC Newsline, we've an

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exclusive interview with motorcycle He lost an arm

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and suffered serious leg injuries But told me he still loves

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the sport and wants to make what A lot of people maybe don't like it

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but I want to raise again. I have my head at August that I will be back

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on a bike. I will get my prosthetic arm on but my goal is to be back

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racing and I want to go back road racing. We will have lots more on

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that story on tomorrow's programme. The storm has passed us but it has

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left its mark. Cecilia is herewith the weather forecast.

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These are the totals of rain that we recorded. The rain started on Friday

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and didn't finish until the early hours on Sunday. That was a major

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part of the problem. 180 millimetres of rain fell in County Fermanagh.

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Not quite a month's worth of rain. As we have seen, the effects are

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still being felt. This week, there will be more rain and wind in the

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forecast. We will need to keep an eye on Wednesday because it is the

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prolonged nature of the wind that leads to the problems. No weather

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warnings are in place at the moment. We have some dry weather to end the

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week. We have already has some wet weather moving in this evening but

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as you can see, it is not lasting too long. A couple of hours worth of

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rain. It is clearing away and the rest of tonight will be fairly dry.

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A few showers around but not a lot of rain falling. Not too cold

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either. Many places starting off dry and bright. There will be some more

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wet weather moving in. To begin with, it is fairly quiet. One or two

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showers across the West but reasonably dry and bright.

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Temperatures not too low. There will be a blustery wind. The next bunch

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of heavy showers will be gathering towards the west and it will move

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eastwards. A couple of hours worth of sharp rain but drying up towards

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the end of the day and turning cooler. By tea-time, these are the

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temperatures and it will be quite cold. Wednesday will see a return to

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mild air and potential slow areas of rain and gusty winds. This is the

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day we will need to keep an eye on. It will become more dry and settled

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towards the end of the week. Some crisp sunshine around and maybe a

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touch of fog. At the moment, it looks like dry and settled

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conditions will linger into next weekend. Our late summary is at

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10:25pm. Thank you for watching. Goodbye.

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