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Here on BBC One, it's time for the news where you are.

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The Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness says his party

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colleague Mairtin O'Muilleoir has his full support and will not be

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The Assembly's Finance committee called for him to stand aside

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during an investigation into a secret contact

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between a witness to the committee's Nama inquiry and the man

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who was chairing the committee at the time -

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The Finance Minister say he has not done anything wrong.

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Here's our political correspondent, Gareth Gordon.

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As Finance Minister Mairtin O'Muilleoir has one of the biggest

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jobs at storm want. But not long ago he was playing Mairtin O'Muilleoir

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MLA, a member of the finance committee on the day it had

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explosive evidence from this man, loyalist Jimmy Bryson. His colleague

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... Given that there has been reference

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to the finance member then of the committee, Mairtin O'Muilleoir, now

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a minister. People are picked up what he would say, when he would

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say, at what stage you would comment. It is now impossible in any

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fair process for a minister to be carrying on an office and have the

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confidence of the assembly. The call for the minister to step

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aside was backed by all the other parties on the committee bar Sinn

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Fein. The confidence has been so seriously

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eroded and damage that he cannot possibly continue, regardless of

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whether he is guilty of misdemeanours or inappropriate

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behaviour or not. But Mairtin O'Muilleoir claimed --

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but other members were accused of playing politics.

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The committee for standards is investigating this issue and that is

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the place for that investigation to take place. That committee bordered

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on farcical at times today. For all that was said today, the

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committee they cannot force Mairtin O'Muilleoir to resign. That is both

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his party and he has Sinn Fein's full support so far. Emphasising

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that support this afternoon, Mark McGuinness said...

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The committee meets again in a fortnight, but all sides showing

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signs of digging in. A number of pupils at a Newry school

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have been disqualified from an A-level exam

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and had their grades cancelled. The sanctions came after

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an investigation by an exam board, as our education correspondent,

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Robbie Meredith, reports. The BBC understands that around 15

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students here at Our Lady's Grammar School who sat the exam in Sociology

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are affected. It is understood that a number of questions from exam

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taken in late June were shared on social media by some students had to

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the test earlier jitter timetable class. That is not understood how

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the claims came to light but the students were informed of the

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outcome and the sanctions last week. No one from the school was available

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for interview but, in a statement to the BBC, they said they regretted

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the incident. The also said the matter was dealt with by the school

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and the examination board in line with qualifications guidelines and

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the students involved sanctioned. There has been no suggestion, they

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went on, of any breach of examination or individuation

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protocol by the school. The also new that this was a time of difficulty

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for the students and they would offer support to those affected, who

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had had an unblemished record thus far.

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A man with multiple sclerosis says he feels his human rights have been

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violated by a "Do Not Resuscitate" order being put on his medical file.

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Neill Birnie, who's 48, is paralysed from the neck down

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The Northern Health Trust insists the order was discussed

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Our Health Correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly,

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Despite his condition, Neill Birnie wants to live as long as possible.

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Communicating but by a computer, Neill gloves I did joke and has a

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wicked sense of humour. Let me assure you the lights are on

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and I am definitely at home. Mentally alert, in 2014 after being

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admitted to hospital with pneumonia, Neill discovered a DNR order was

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placed on his record. He did not ask for one, nor did his family.

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There was no effort to ask for my opinion. The consultants did at the

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end of my bed flight by two junior doctors saying that I had to face

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facts and I had -- he had consulted with the intensive care unit and so

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he was putting her do not resuscitate order on my file.

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In a statement, the health board said...

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Guidelines emphasise the need for medics to clearly discuss the impact

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of a DNR notice. Equally, a family should be notified of the impact CPR

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can have any person's body. It is terribly distressing because

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someone who has had CP are applied to them, he is maybe elderly frail

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or sick and the CPR can be traumatic.

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A puppy arrived last week for Neill's 48th birthday. They hope it

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will heal the scars. The precious gift of my life was

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considered valueless by the hospital.

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He says is mission is to spread the message that not all chronically ill

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patients are waiting for assisted suicide.

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The police in Brazil claim to have uncovered emails

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between the arrested Olympic official Pat Hickey and a sports

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company in which they discuss the illegal sale of Rio tickets.

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In a news conference this evening, the police gave further

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Mr Hickey, who has stepped aside as the President

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of the Olympic Council of Ireland, denies the allegations.

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Pat Hickey's arrest in Brazil six days ago sparked controversy around

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the world. This evening, investigators in Rio claimed tickets

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had been transferred from the Council of Northern

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Ireland to THG Sports, who didn't have licensed to sell them. Three

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senior officials were asked to attend this police station for

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questioning but one has since been told he's free to leave. Another has

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yet to give his statement and must do so within the next two days. It

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is not clear when the former OCI German Pat Hickey will appear in

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court. -- chairman. It was alleged that Patrick E's wife was told he

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had gone to Ireland when they arrest attempt was made. He says his

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attention -- detention by police was under mere assumptions.

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Two abandoned seal pups that were nursed back to full health have

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Conor Macauley was with them as they took to the water.

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The backyard is not normally the place you'd expect to find seal pups

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but Peril and Coral have been living here for almost two months. The

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biologist it going when they were abandoned. Knows -- now that they

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have had a specialist formula of milk and cream -- crushed fish and

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cream, it is time to send them back although they do not seem that keen

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on the idea. They were underweight at birth which normally means

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certain death unless an expert like Sue intervenes.

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They have to be able to swim with the mother and the water for their

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mother to care for them and they wouldn't have been able to keep up

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and would have got stranded. So they are on their way back to the

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sea, hopefully to hook up with other members of the seal family. But

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after several weeks of hand rearing, there is an inevitable bond. One

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takes off without much persuasion but for the other, parting is a long

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drawn-out affair. Even she is more attracted to other

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seals than us so as soon as she is able to break that bond she will be

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fine. That is more than 20 pups that Sue

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Wilson has helped back into the waves.

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Out into the big bad world. Football now and Dundalk's heroic

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attempt to become the first Irish side to make the Champions League

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group stages narrowly failed as they lost 3-1 to Legia Warsaw

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on aggregate, despite a 1-1 Meanwhile, Brendan Rodgers

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successfully steered Celtic into the group stages

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of the Champions League, despite a 2-0 defeat tonight,

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the Scottish champions beating Hapoel Be'er Sheva of

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Israel 5-4 on aggregate. The weather forecast

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with Cecilia Daly. Skies clearing nicely across

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Northern Ireland and it looks like being clear and dry for the rest of

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the night. A cooler night than recent nights with temperatures

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dropping into single figures, especially in the countryside, and

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that may lead to some fog in the morning. A fresh start as well. But

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a nicer day than today. Dry virtually everywhere and lots of

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sunshine, especially through the morning. It is a fine summer 's day

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across much of Britain and Ireland. Maybe a few showers for Western

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counties of Ireland in the afternoon and some sharp showers across parts

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of southern England. It won't be as hot everywhere across England and

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Wales tomorrow but temperatures will still get close to 30 degrees in the

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London area. I think we will still be happy with the temperatures in

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Northern Ireland after a quite dismal day. We are likely to see

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more showers on Thursday but still semi-decent temperatures. It looks

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like the showers disappear on Friday so another fine day with sunshine

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and temperatures close to 20 degrees. Saturday is dry but with

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more cloud and adventure Lee some but hopefully a good part of the day

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will be tried. At

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