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28/01/2016

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A 20-year-old woman has died in a crash in County Armagh.

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The accident between a car and a lorry happened at around

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3:30pm on the Legacorry Road in Richhill.

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She's the eighth person to die on our roads in the first month

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The female driver of the car was taken to hospital

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Break across Northern Ireland in the last few weeks, it has been

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horrendous. We wonder where it will end. Almost on a daily basis, there

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are accidents. Just last week it was two young men.

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And in Co Tyrone there has been a two-vehicle collision

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The Moor Road, near Ashbrook Care Home, has been closed.

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Naomi Long says she considered not returning to politics

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after her general election defeat in East Belfast last May.

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The Alliance deputy leader was tonight one of three candidates

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chosen by the party to fight the seat in the forthcoming

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But she admitted that it was only at Christmas that she finally

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After me, I find myself very tired and exhausted. It had been a

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bruising five years and I took the time to think about it and to thank

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my passion because they did not want to come back simply because people

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expected me to. I wanted to come back because I felt I had something

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to contribute and there was something I wanted to do which I

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felt could make a difference. After reflecting on that, I'm convinced

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there are still work to be done and is still a

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role for the Alliance Party in the assembly and I want to be part of

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that. I'm not somebody who could go off and have a nice life for myself.

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There's been anger in Londonderry after two handguns were found

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A controlled explosion was carried out on the vehicle which was parked

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close to the graves of people who recently died.

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Here's our North-West reporter, Keiron Tourish.

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This has been a deeply distressing time for Fiona Kelly. Her husband

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and father both died on the stately beaks ago. The car at the centre of

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the cemetery alert was parked on the yards from her husband's grave and a

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controlled explosion was carried out on it after two semiautomatic

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handguns were found. Totally distressed. Disgusted.

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Saddened that someone would come to a cemetery where people are supposed

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to be resting in peace. In the past, people have never bothered anybody

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who died. Why now? What is it all for? It is terrible that people are

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coming to see the graves of loved ones and they couldn't even get in

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yesterday. There has been a wave of revulsion

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across the city as forensic teams carried out their follow-up

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operation. My reaction has to be the same as

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everybody else's. A sense of outrage. Why are these things

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happening in this day and age in our communities? People who are abusing

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the sanctity of the cemetery so as to maybe take life. I certainly have

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to condemn it. The PSN I say they are delighted to

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have taken to weapons of the streets in recent days that they say the

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dissident republicans remain determined to kill Paul officers and

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asked people to remain vigilant. -- police officers.

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Northern Ireland's most senior organ transplant doctors have told the BBC

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that Northern Ireland isn't ready yet for an opt-out donor system -

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that's where the public have to register their wishes

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not to donate their organs when they die.

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The move, which is the opposite to the current system,

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had been proposed by an Ulster Unionist MLA.

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Here's our Health Correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly.

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Imagine waiting for someone to donate you one of their organs.

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Lucia Quinney knows all about it - in her 16 years she's had

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All these different things that young people

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start to think about that they'd want to do with their life.

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With her own Facebook page and plans for a blog,

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Lucia wants to encourage people to join in the conversation

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She prefers the current system where people sign up

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It means to know that a donor and possibly not even

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the donor but the donor's family has made that decision,

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To know it was something they wanted to do.

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The organ donation debate is back in the headlines after an attempt

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to change the law here to an opt-out system was blocked by DUP

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and Sinn Fein members of the Stormont Health Committee.

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The proposal brought by an Ulster Unionist MLA had meant

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that those who didn't want to donate organs would need

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But showing a united front, for the first time

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Northern Ireland's most senior clinicians involved in this

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speciality came together and told the BBC that the opt-out system

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We have a good system, we want to do whatever will make it

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better and we're not convinced just yet that

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the public in Northern Ireland have the inside understanding

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We are concerned it will make things worse.

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Wales adopted the opt-out system in December last year.

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With a population of over three million, so far,

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around 86,000 of those have opted out.

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According to campaigners, it's early days.

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While health service showing overwhelming majority of people

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believe in organ donation, actually doing something

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about it is a completely different matter.

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The challenge for health professionals

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and politicians is coming up with a system which encourages

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people to turn those thoughts into action.

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The Deputy First Minister says he believes the Government

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is reluctant to move to break the deadlock on legacy issues

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In an interview on The View programme, Martin McGuinness

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describes the Secretary of State as being "not keen" to resolve

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I made the point when I had the conversation with Theresa Villiers

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that if it was a matter of waiting until after the assembly elections,

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what needs to be done between now and then, so that we are not then

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facing the public with this prospect that there will be no talks. This

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needs to be resolved immediately after the assembly elections.

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And you can see that full interview with the Deputy First Minister

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A Belfast landmark has opened the doors on a major expansion -

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one which the city hopes will brings tens of thousands of new visitors.

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The Waterfront Hall's extension has generated much debate over its looks

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but, as our business correspondent Julian O'Neill has been finding out,

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The new Waterfront has been taking shape for months.

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?30 million has been spent doubling its size so Belfast

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Today, organisers of major UK conferences got a first look

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inside as the venue pitched for business by showcasing

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I love it, it is so close to the airport, easy into the city.

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I think the important thing is that it is

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There's now room for conferences hosting 5,000 people at a time,

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meaning Belfast can better compete for money-spinning national

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30 conferences are already booked and there's confidence

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We have found once we can get a client into the building and city,

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They are so impressed by the venue, the welcome they receive

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We took our decision when we didn't even see the plan so you can see

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what a big risk it was but we're absolutely delighted.

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Business visitors can spend big, and Belfast hopes that by 2020

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conferences will have delivered a ?100 million windfall.

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Almost 20 years old, it marks the beginning of a new era

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for the waterfront with new hotels springing up

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There is a lot riding on the business it hopes to do.

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The partner of the late motorcycle medic Dr John Hinds has said

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she's hopeful that an air ambulance will be in place

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A public consultation on the service was completed last week.

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In her first interview since the death of Dr Hinds last

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year, Janet Acheson has told BBC Newsline the service would be

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a fitting tribute to the "flying doctor".

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Special recognition for the work of her partner -

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Janet Acheson receives an Irish Motorcycling Award

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for the contribution of Dr John Hinds.

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His death last July shocked the racing community.

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Now Janet wants to see a lasting legacy for the flying doctor.

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Nothing will compensate me for John's loss but he got a lot

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of fulfilment out of saving people's lives and limbs at road racing.

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And hopefully that will bring that for everyone

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It is time-critical medical attention and that was the beauty

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in some ways of Irish road racing because the medical team were there,

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If you have your accident in the hills or in the mountains,

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on a roadside somewhere that's not beside a hospital,

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you don't get that time-critical intervention.

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Dr Hinds lost his life in an accident while providing

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medical cover during practice at the Skerries road races

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If there is anything good that comes out of his death,

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it is hopefully that there are lives saved that would otherwise have died

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without it and that is the long-term goal.

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In some ways this is much bigger than John.

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John's unfortunate death has brought this into the spotlight in a way

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that I don't think it would have been otherwise.

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And hopefully in the not too distant future we

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will come in line with the rest of Europe and the world

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and have that life-saving service.

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Thousands of children will get their transfer test results

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this Saturday and on tomorrow's Good Morning Ulster programme

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families affected and the teaching unions will be talking

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about their experience of the selection procedure.

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That's tomorrow on BBC Radio Ulster starting at 6:30am.

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And with some really wintery weather out there,

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let's have a look at the weather now with Angie.

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We have lots of potential hazards and the weather over the next few

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days, including our next named storm, Gertrude. Tightly packed

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isobars bringing stormy conditions and spells of rain. We have another

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couple of batches of rain to move through tonight. The risk of

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localised flooding particularly in the West. We see those winds gusting

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up to 70 or 80 mph. They are potentially damaging and an amber be

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prepared warning is in place. There could be power lines down and main

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structural damage. The highest winds tomorrow are still during the

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morning time. Eventually the skies brightened. In the meantime, the

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weather front moves across England and Wales as a band of showery rain.

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It brightens up across northern England, Scotland and Ireland with

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those Boston showers turning when three of the Scottish Highlands.

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Quite stormy for the northern isles letter on. For Northern Ireland,

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still quite a blustery afternoon. You could see gusts up to 60 mph.

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Plenty of squally wind. Even colder tomorrow night and into Saturday.

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Sleet and snow forecast and icy conditions. We could see blizzard

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conditions and any early warning for snow is in the forecast.

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Our next BBC Newsline is at 6:25am during Breakfast here on BBC One.

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You can also keep updated with News Online.

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