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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline with Donna Traynor and Noel

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Thompson. The headlines this Wednesday evening: An exclusive

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report - the police consider buying this 'spy in the sky' to catch

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criminals? Final touches for the Programme for

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Government - I'll have the latest. An American forensic expert gives

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evidence at the Massereene murders trial.

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Why a 77-year-old man is still living without electricity near

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Coleraine. The feel-good factor after the

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Republic of Ireland's Euro2012 success, but what impact will it

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have on Northern Irish football? As we are on air the weather is

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changing! Expect a wet night and a few wet days to come. I'll have

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The BBC has learned that the PSNI is considering using small unmanned

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aircraft, commonly referred to as drones, to help combat crime and

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terrorism. Security sources they could be most valuable in border

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areas like South Armagh because they can cover large areas at a

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fraction of the cost of a helicopter. With this exclusive

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report, here's our Home Affairs correspondent, Vincent Kearney: no

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big Canadian manufacturer says it snaps up together as easy as

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children's building blocks. For many years, the army watched

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much of the South Armagh countryside perched in hilltop

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tyres. A political talks leading to the IRA ceasefire, the watch cars

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were dismantled. Now it is this same border terrain that the

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security forces believed these drones will be most valuable. There

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are described as game changing technology. One source told me they

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could act as a modern day watch towers. These are drones are not so

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easy to use in built up her than areas, where they are also governed

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by much tighter regulations. Because of potential risk to other

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aircraft and people on the ground, the Civil Aviation a authority must

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grant permission for them to take to disguise. The Civil Aviation at

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Dougherty has confirmed that it has already had discussions with the

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police about possible Drome deployment. The drones used by law

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in force remittances around the world have already been deployed by

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some police forces in the UK, but there were problems. I droned used

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by police in Liverpool crashed into the River Mersey. In addition,

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there were red faces when police discovered they had not obtained

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their it needed permission from the Civil Aviation aperitif. Yes, it is

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embarrassing for Merseyside police. Not withstanding all that, we

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didn't know about that, and it is embarrassing for us. These thermal

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images were taken from a helicopter camera. The crew directs officers

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on foot, helping them to locate and arrest a suspect. The pictures show

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how cameras in the sky can be used to pinpoint activity on the ground.

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While we don't have any pictures taken from did groan under

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consideration, it is likely they would be every bit as good in terms

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of quality, if not better. What about costs? Policing budgets are

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under pressure and keeping helicopters in the air is not cheap.

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This model costs around �7 million. Adding up the figures, maintenance,

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fewer - - fuel and salaries, running the helicopter cost about

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�1.5 million a year. At least a drone would cost at most �150,000,

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and able to remain airborne for up to seven hours, the running costs

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are substantially lower. The police have said that it constantly

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reviews developments - - availability of new equipment or

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technology, but at this stage has no plans to buy drones. Earlier

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this year the police were given a quarter of a billion pounds of

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additional funding to combat the threat of dissident republicans. If

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they decide to deploy drones, they could use some of the Special

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Security Fund or financing the purchase from the normal policing

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Budget. Because the use of these drones would be considered

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contentious and novel, the policing broad would be expected to be

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Seven years after it was first proposed, the Education and Skills

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Authority, which will replace existing Education and Library

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Boards, has finally been given the green light at Stormont. The

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announcement comes ahead of an Executive meeting tonight to agree

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a Programme for Government. More on that in a moment, First, our

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Education correspondent Maggie Taggart is with me. Remind us what

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this is all about. The education and skills are authority is a way

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of drawing together all the educational parities for reasons of

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economy and efficiency. This will draw it all under one umbrella.

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has it proved so problematic? Because of the opposition of

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Unionist parties in Damien Duff, who were worried that there was not

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going to be enough voice for the controlled schools. They were

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annoyed that they were not included by rights in this new body, and it

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appears that has now been sorted out because the politicians who

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were disapproving have now said that will be OK. We believe this

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will go ahead in July 2012 and will be a big relief for those involved.

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It was satisfied those who were criticising the �12 million already

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spent on this. Than �12 million has been spent doing things, does not

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just been thrown away. That's right. Some staff have been so conduct to

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that organisation. They have now drifted back to do jobs in the main,

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but they had been working on convergence, which has a way of

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getting the education and library boards to work more closely

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together. We can assume that this has complete cross-party support?

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Now it dos. Thank you. There have been other stumbling

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blocks in the way of an agreed Programme For Government, but

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Executive Ministers, we are told, will work long into the night to

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get everything signed, sealed and delivered. The Programme will set

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out the objectives and policies the Assembly will pursue for the next

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years, but it's been a long time coming, as Julian O'Neill explains.

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By tomorrow we should have a clear set of key priorities for the years

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ahead. Seamus Close is a former MLA. There was a draft programme for

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government back in December. Scotland, Wales and the government

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at Westminster can deliver these things in a much shorter period

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than it has taken our lot. So why the hold up? One reason is a multi-

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party system of government. And also the challenge of getting it

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right. It is a difficult time economically, so there are a lot of

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challenges. What it really reflects is the complicated political system

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we have. You can see in the UK how difficult it is to get two parties

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to agree, and we have many more than that. It is a series of

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compromises. Because we don't have one party in charge, it means there

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is a lot of difficult bartering to be done. Sammy Wilson's but it told

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each department roughly how much they can spend. The programme for

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government is still important. except that the finance minister

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said that this is not a magic piece of paper, but an awful lot of what

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is going to happen has already been flight up in the Budget, but in

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many respects we are putting the cart before the horse. We need to

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get her system sorted out once and for all. I hope that today heralds

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a new future. Voters will expect the programme to be backed by

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action. It could be very important if the decisions follow what the

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programme sets out. If it remains a document setting on a shelf, it

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will not be relevant. But should set a strategic direction with the

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executive will make its funding decisions. The executive is meeting

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tonight and it could be a long one. Now to our political correspondent

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Martina Purdy at Stormont. What have you been hearing? What have

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they agreed? I am told that the programme for governments will

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entail more than 70 commitments on social and economic issues. The BBC

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did have a draft document leaked to it some weeks ago in which their

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target of 21,000 jobs have that the next four years was included. I am

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told tonight's document will be much more ambitious and there are

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substantially more jobs. We are hearing about connections - -

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commitments on foreign investment, the film industry here, Creative

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Technology, possibly loans for small firms. They are working on

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the investment strategy which means a building programme for schools

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and roads. It seems to be very intensive and very last minute. Can

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we expect a whole programme to be agreed and to know more about it

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tomorrow, or maybe see the perils? We will have to wait and see, but

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the fact they have gone ahead and set an Assembly session tomorrow

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means that they are fairly confident they will get through

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this tonight. It is hard to say whether it will be before or after

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midnight. Once this document is agreed, it has to go to the

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printers and MLAs are supposed to sit before the media. I can well

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see the details tomorrow. An American forensic expert has

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been giving evidence today at the trial of two men accused of

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murdering two soldiers at Masserene Army Barracks in 2009. Dr Mark

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Perlin said DNA found in the getaway car was almost six trillion

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times more likely to belong to one of the accused than to anyone else.

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Joining us from Antrim Courthouse is Ciara Riddell. So, tell us more

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about what's been happening today, Ciara. The doctor is a forensic

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expert in DNA analysis. He examined the DNA information that was

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provided to him by forensic scientists in the police. But was

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recovered from items taken from the getaway car. The doctors said that

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he compared swabs taken from a seat belt buckle along with samples from

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Colin Duffy's DNA and he found that they were 5.91 trillion times more

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likely to have come from him than anyone else. He did the same that

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DNA samples from Brian shivers, and so from a mobile phone and he found

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that they were 6 billion times more likely to have come from Brian

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shivers than any other person. We heard more about the methods of the

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forensic expert. We were told that he was involved with the team

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responsible for creating the DEC novel - - technology used in

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identifying the victims of the September 11th. We also heard that

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his methods have been validated by a number of agencies and used in

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courts in America and the UK. Still to come on the programme...

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Why a 77-year-old man is living without electricity after 20 years.

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And the feel-good factor in the Republic - the difference a

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football result can make. 100 people joined the dole queue in

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the last month. That means almost 61,000 people are now claiming

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unemployment benefit. A House of Commons report shows that west

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Belfast and Foyle come just after Birmingham as the worst places in

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the UK for unemployment and deprivation. Our business

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correspondent, Kevin Magee, has been listening to the worries of

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You are unemployed at the moment. What is the like? It is terrible.

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When you see your friends are relearning a wage and you have no

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money, it is very hard. Have you had periods of unemployment? Yes,

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for eight months. You are sitting in the House bought and having no

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money is very difficult. Hill long were you unemployed for and what

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was it like? And I was unemployed for two-and-a-half years. It is not

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nice. Her view applied for many jobs? I have applied for about 50

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jobs, but most of the time you do not even hear back from. Is that

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demoralising? It is. When you do not hear back from them, you wonder

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what they will ever before me. left school with exam

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qualifications and thought I would do well. To be honest, I think I

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may have to go abroad. Is that an option he would consider? He yes, I

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will have to. What about people saying that there are jobs out

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there if people look hard enough? Well, I have been looking very hard

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for a job and the are certainly not easy to get. It is difficult to be

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believe that in 2011 someone could be living with no electricity in

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their home. For 77-year-old John McCarter, that is something he has

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had to put up with for more than 20 years.

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Two years after our last visit to Downhill near Coleraine, John's

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neighbours on the Seacoast Road have had their supply installed and

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are now enjoying their televisions, fridges and washing machines. By as

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Nicola Weir discovered, the McCarter home is still in the dark

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ages. To open fires provide heat. Cooking is done from this and gas

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stove, but with no French, the food has to be left out. Conditions are

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far from perfect, with no electricity. It is difficult when

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you do not have something like a fridge, but I can live with that.

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But in the winter time, when you get up and see your breath in the

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air, that is very hard. Just two years ago, the road was opened up

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here to allow everyone living here the chance to have electricity. It

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is ironic that there were electric cables right outside John's front

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door. His landlord will appear in court later this month. He has

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failed to comply he with regulations. He said there was no

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legal relationship between himself One local councillor said someone

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should step in. This is 2011 and the council has the authority to

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step in and help this individual and we should be doing that. Until

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the case is settled, at John McCarter faces his 20th winter

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without electricity. All talk of an economic crisis and

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financial doom and gloom was silenced last night when the

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Republic's soccer team qualified for next summer's European finals.

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Stephen Watson was at the Aviva Stadium last night. A great

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occasion, Stephen? Yes, a fantastic hemisphere. The match was a bit of

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an anti-climax, but it was not really that important.

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The win has brought a feelgood factor that was sole badly needed

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and recalls their success at the 1990 World Cup. Last night's game

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may have been a formality committee but the Republic went ahead in the

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first hour. The equaliser for Estonia in the second half was a

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mere blip. The fans could finally dream of glory days ahead. We can

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wait for the European Championships in Poland and Ukraine. We will be

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there. In the 1998 World Cup, Ireland where the stars of the

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tournament. This goal knocked out England and the team got to the

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quarter finals. It is now almost 10 years since an Irish team qualified

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for a major tournament. After years of unrelenting bad news, this has

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cheered up the nation. It is something that people will be

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talking about. It is very good for the Irish mind set. Apart from

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talking about the weather and the economy, we will now be talking

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about the football. I think it will be good for everybody. It may also

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lead to a boost for business. think we could see increase

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spending that we would not otherwise have heard. For the

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economy that is struggling so badly at the moment, that would be a a

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major lift. Then manager says the team should look to emulate

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Canice's shock victory in the European Championships at seven

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years ago. - - Greece. How will the Republic of Ireland's

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success impact on Northern Ireland football?

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Northern Ireland's Under-21 manager Steve Beaglehole says that it could

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mean more Northern Ireland players switch allegiance. The fans have

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been playing their part to try and stop that happening. They oh hand

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delivered a letter to the Football Association of Ireland, urging the

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two countries to draw up a new agreement. He is fan spokesman Gary

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McCallister. If you believe and integrity and fair play, that

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should apply equally. The ongoing issue has created a lot of division

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and bad feeling and Irish football. Derry is the place where

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footballing loyalties are most divided. One player from the city

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Shane Ferguson last night pledged his future to Northern Ireland.

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There had been speculation that the Newcastle United winger was tempted

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to switch, but a another player from Derry has transferred his

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allegiance. Sunderland's James McClean says his heart is set on

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the Republic. It has been a remarkable here for James McClean.

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He missed pre-season and the first five games due to injury. He just

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wanted to get back playing for Derry city. Little did he know that

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a few months later, he would end up at Premier League side Sunderland.

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A first, the aim was some way to get back in the team and within a

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few weeks, I was playing against Chelsea it and at the likes of Old

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Trafford. It has been amazing. is the sort of form which has led

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to him becoming such a major attraction for other clubs.

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Although he played for Northern Ireland that youth level, he has

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now opted to play for the Republic of Ireland. I made my decision to

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play for the south. He wanted me to change my mind, but I have decided

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to play for the Republic. A former colleague at Derry city says James

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McClean has made remarkable progress. He has been absolute

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fantastic and deserved that move. I hope that he breaks into the

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Sunderland team very soon. Meanwhile, another player is

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attracting interest from Celtic and a host of other teams.

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It is understood that the Irish Football Association will formally

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begin the process of interviewing candidates for the manager's job

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next week. No deadline has been put on the appointment yet, as Northern

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Ireland's next game, a friendly against Norway, is not until

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February. There are four games in Northern Ireland this evening and

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we will have the results of them in a word bulletin at 10:25pm.

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We had another mild day today In fact, that has been a trend this

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month. Barra Best is here with his We do have two weeks to go in

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November, but temperatures have been way above normal for this time

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of here. We have a bit below average rainfall and above-average

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sunshine. You can see this weather from pushing his way up into

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Northern Ireland from the south and it is going to bring a very wet end

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to the day. We could see some localised flooding as a result,

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where this is heaviest. Overnight, temperatures dropping down to four

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or five degrees Celsius. Tomorrow, a bright and dry start. A bit of

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rain breaking and from the West and that is a sign of things to come,

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because as we move through their day, the wind will become much

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stronger and this rain will push right across the country from the

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West. Although temperatures are mailed, at eleven or 12 Celsius,

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the strong winds and heavy rain will make it feel a bit colder than

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that. So, not a pleasant end to the day, particularly around the Russia

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were period, when that rain will possibly be at their heaviest. - -

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their rush hour period. In Friday, we will see further outbreaks of

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rain, some of it heavy again. Alas, not the best conditions to raise

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money for any outdoor children in It is BBC Children in Need night on

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Friday.Over the next few days, we are going to focus on one of the

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difficulties local children and young people face - and how the

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charity's money helps. Kerry Belfast, where parents told her

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about the difference the funding has made.

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At just one month old, this baby and her mum face been the homeless.

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This facility has become invaluable for both mother and daughter.

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has been fantastic. It has been very good for her as well. It has

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meant we have been able to interact with other mothers and babies in

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here is well. The hostel, funded by children in Need, offer support for

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other mothers like her. The respite they get from it mean they can get

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out and about to do other things that they need to do. Upstairs and

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the hostel, Liz is preparing to make a new home for herself and her

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husband, having been forced to sell her home because of financial

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pressures. It is a huge weight off my shoulders. Back in the play

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facility, the children play, unaware of the stresses that their

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parents have faced. They are now hoping for a more settled future.

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