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Good evening. This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Monday evening.

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The worst team in Europe, why teenagers here are twice as likely

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to have permanent dental damage. see a whole range of dental disease

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coming in, from Ron -- rampant decay in pre-school children to

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children at primary school coming for treatment in the need of an

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number of extractions. He duped people into buying Turkish holiday

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homes he did not own. The victims of these gamma speak out. The first

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taste of winter arrives. Is the road surface ready to keep us

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moving. First, the spending cuts, tomorrow, the tax rises, a chill

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wind continues to blow through the Republic's economy. Rory is on a

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roll, a spectacular finish in Hong Kong kit HGV in the race to be

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European No. 1. And because that is here for another 24 hours are so,

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still some wintery showers, but eyes is the main concern. Teenagers

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here are among the worst in Europe for oral hygiene. Or when it comes

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to younger children, 60 per cent of by years-old at some form of tooth

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decay. A report, funded by Queen's University, has also found huge

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differences in treatment with people in affluent areas benefiting

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more from braces. According to dent this, if they were paid to provide

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preventative treatments, the problem would not be as serious and

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they are accusing the Department of Health of striking it speed by not

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implementing a new contract with dentist. Our health correspondent

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reports. They are shocking, but these pictures highlight where

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adolescents here are now among the worst in Europe for oral hygiene.

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We see a whole range of dental disease coming end, from rampant

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decay in pre-school children, two children at primary school coming

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for treatment for the first time, it in need of a number of

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extractions, which is tragic, because those same children are

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likely to have problems with the succession of tea. They are likely

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to need orthodontic treatment, but equally, they will be reluctant to

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have that treatment. Here on Belfast's Falls Road, the majority

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of patients are having extensive treatment, including extractions

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and fillings. The big Scot but is this the drinks. It started out

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with just a few fillings, nothing major, but then I ignored it when

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Mike he got worse, and in the end, it ended up with me having to have

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two root canals, which was not good. The report, funded by Queen's

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University, also found dramatic differences in treatment depending

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on your postcode. Those who are West does macro less well-off were

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less likely to have had a orthodontic treatment, compared to

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more affluent people. What are health system may be doing, is

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widening its social inequalities, so if we are improving the

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appearance of those adolescents with the highest social classes,

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why we are extracting and providing very intrusive treatments to the

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lower social classes, we may in fact be widening health

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inequalities in oral health. I must say but brace is doing a fantastic

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job. A dentist like this one at say the imbalance could be addressed if

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they were paid to educate about oral hygiene, as opposed to just

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removing and filling teeth. Then does realise that money is tight,

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especially in the Health Service, but we want a real emphasis on

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prevention and at the moment, we, getting paid for doing fillings and

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extractions, but we are quite happy to sit down and try to focus on a

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new system which rewards us for prevention. Dentists are currently

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negotiating a new dental contract with the Department of Health.

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Discussions began five years ago. Is it about getting more money. We

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wanted see better dental health for our population and it would make a

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dentist lives easier. Bottomley, it would make patients lies much more

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comfortable as well. To get to be rid of the problem, in England a

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new contract is been tried, were a small number of dentists are being

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paid for the quality of the treatment provided, as opposed to

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quantity. But the good be considered here. Joining now from

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our for a studio is Donnacha O'Carolan. That is a dreadful a

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dental check-up. Who is to blame for that record? I would not agree

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that it is a dreadful record. would not agree? So many teenagers,

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among the worst in Europe for oral hygiene? We have made massive

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improvements over the last five years. It is disappointing that

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members of the profession have told you that they do not get paid for

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prevention. We have brought in several preventative programmes

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that have been successful, for example, I can outline some of them.

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We brought into pay schemes in the most deprived areas. We have

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brought other's games, but we pay dentists for putting on. We pay

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vendors other payments for or giving preventative advice and

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giving the advice that the vendors have been talking about, we

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increase those payments in the last five years. In some cases, we have

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increased them by 100 per cent. question was put to dent his, do

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you think the dentists are being greedy? They are currently paid a

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monthly payment to secure and maintaining the oral health of

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children under 18, so they should be already providing the has

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prevented it of treatments? If I could give an example of a teenager,

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someone who is a teenager in a deprived area, we pay for the

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fillings, extractions and we also pay the debt is over �80 a year to

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give the Tiber prevented have advised that your reporter was

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talking about. Can I Alpine the progress being made. If we talk

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about the extractions, they have dropped from 40,000 in 2004, down

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to 25,000. It is still a lot, but they have dropped dramatically, but

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this is because of these preventative schemes. The report

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does not get a clean bill of health. We did not be better to put a dent

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his back into the schools? The strategy that you implemented is

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not really working? It is working. That dramatic drop in the number of

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extractions has not been seen as poor in the UK. The number of

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fillings has dropped by more than 20,000 in sex macro years. Those

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are dramatic improvements in health of... There is more progress to be

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made. Can we do that through preventative programmes in places

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like Sure Start, and nurseries, schools, health visitors, using two

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of the schemes which are evidence- based and are working. As well as

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that, the department has put support into a research tribe that

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has started and will look at using fluoride varnishes to reduce dental

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decay. We have been proactive and we have been successful and I am

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disappointed that the British Dental organisation have misled you.

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Clearly we must do better. Thank you. It has been revealed in court

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that a convicted conman secretly fled Turkey and a friend's but as

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the authorities began investigating his multi-million pound property

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scam. Kevin O'Kane from Portglenone was convicted on Friday of duping

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people into buying homes that he did not own in a holiday resort. A

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reporter has put into some of his victims. It was a properties than

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reading from Northern Ireland to the shores of Turkey were 52 year-

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old Kevin O'Kane it sold homes he had no right to be selling. The

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judge says he must be prepared for a prison sentence. In court, the

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judge granted continuing bail, rejecting O'Kane's claims that he

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is under threat from Turkish gangsters. The court also heard

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that Turkish bank accounts have been credited with �4.7 million,

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all that since withdrawn in cash and now missing. Of the properties

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GAN, the judge said that for now have million pounds was put into a

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bucket with no bottom. He called O'Kane's previous apologies to

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victims are hollow words. The we are here for fair play, to try and

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get a bit of money back for our cells and life goes on. There are

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far -- whenever the authorities decide to do with Mr O'Kane, it

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does not affect us. I will not be richer if he is in jail or at home.

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Dozens of people are involved in this, most from Northern Ireland.

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These people simply hoped and paid for a home in the son and they lost

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tens of thousands of pounds. Some of them have told me they will be

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back in court each day write a bundle sentencing to see if Kevin

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O'Kane loses his liberty. Well, we had our first real taste of winter

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last night. Most of us had its nose showers and it these temperatures

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are very noticeable, especially if you are outside our reporter who is

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at the roads service salt depot in East Belfast. How cold is it with

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you? He it is getting very net a and just before we came on air, he

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we had a quick flurry of snow, but I took the advice of the weather

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team and I have a layered up. This is just a hint of what our winter

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weather could bring. Shortly, we will be hearing from the roads

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service on how they are dealing with his current cold snap. This

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time last year, we or in the middle of the big freeze when temperatures

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in some places in Northern Ireland drop to minus a team, so what we

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have experienced today and yesterday has not come close,

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although it has caused some problems. It was the first snow of

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this winter and although it did not cause major disruption on the roads,

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there were difficulties for some passengers at Belfast city Airport

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and when fly be's de-icing equipment broke down. There Glasgow

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service was cancelled. For most of the day, the airline relied on the

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airport's equipment to keep things moving. The no further delays are

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expected. Still, it is a reminder of just what can happen in this

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weather, bringing back memories of the widespread problems caused by

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the big freeze last year. Although it has created some fantastic

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winter scenes. These were captured by a our district journalists who

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have been out and about today gathering pictures of the snow

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across Northern Ireland. The summer really lovely pictures there, but

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as we all know from last year, the reality is that the cold weather

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causes disruption and no one knows that better than this man from the

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roads service. How readily to deal with this cold snap? From now until

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April we have 300 staff on standby to go gritting. We have 135

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critters available and we have already started getting operations

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tonight, so we are well prepared. We were told that last year, they

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knew ran out of salt. BBC Newsline got a lot of complaints,

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particularly from people in rural areas, woke in they say to them?

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will grit all the main through roads that carried a 80 per cent of

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the traffic. We have brought in extra and resilience stocks to cope

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with any Severe weather, so some the roads there has pointed you we

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are more than prepared for a hard winter. How much does come down to

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personal responsibility for people to take care of their own areas?

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needed to treat all the main roads and I were asked drivers to drive

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carefully where possible. We cannot guarantee that the roads will be a

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ice-free at all times, so there for people to drive with care if in

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these conditions. No doubt we will catch up but he before the winter

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is out! Temperatures tonight are set to tumble, but how low will

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Angie Phillips will be joining me later for the latest weather

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forecast. Also to come on the programme. We take any sort of

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money, except matrimony! We're down at the market, but hear why traders

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fear for their future. Had we heard how he fought depression last week.

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Now, Mark Allen gets off to a winning start at the UK

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Championships. The Irish Government today announced budget cuts of 2.2

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billion euro. Tomorrow, the Finance Minister, Michael Noonan, will

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outline tax rises of a further 1.6 billion euro, including an increase

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in VAT by 2%. It's all part of the economic medicine prescribed by the

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Republic's funding partners in Europe and the International

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Monetary Fund. Our Business and Economics Editor, Jim Fitzpatrick,

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spent the day along the border to discover the effect on cross-border

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trade. A two % rise in price, it is noticeable when it comes to

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expensive items. But this jeweller is delighted with plans to raise

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VAT in the Republic to 23%. Because his shop is in Newry and he is

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hoping to see the return of the cross-border shoppers. It will be a

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huge boost. People will realise down south at prices are going to

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get higher and they will thing to what it was like the year before,

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they welcome back and get better value and they will go away,

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telling neighbours. It is fantastic. While traders in Newry might be

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hoping for a VAT inspired increase in business, the truth is, there

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was less money available to come north. Ireland is into its 4th year

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of austerity budgets and people here in Dundalk seemed almost

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resigned to being hit hard. We have got to the stage were a bit just

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let it go over our heads. You just have to get on. You keep hitting

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the lower paid people. It is just the way society is divided. It's

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like the jungle, those at the top and those at the bottom of the tree.

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We struggle on, that is all we can do. We cut back on luxuries.

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won't be able to afford to go to college next year. With higher fees

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and less of a grant. But the tough measures are winning international

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praise for Ireland. Particularly from funding partners in Europe and

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the IMF, the so-called troika. terms of the budget, it will be

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another step on the road to international brand Ireland being

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restored. Our credibility has improved, we can see that in terms

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of all these measures so that people see we stick to that can be

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agreed, it will be received very positively. International

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credibility does not mean much on the streets of Dundalk. The 100,000

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people walking in the pharmaceutical industry or Google,

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life is good, but for the rest of us, sorry, still gloom. And it will

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be. It is hitting business in Northern Ireland also, like this

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Warrenpoint construction and building supplies firm. There have

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been less people coming north, the VAT has had an impact but it's a

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general lack of money in the economy and people doing smaller

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work. Today, the Dublin government produced spending cuts and tomorrow

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they will introduce tax rises. Austerity is here to stay, north

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and south. Workers suffering from the asbestos-related lung condition

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Pleural Plaques will be able to apply for compensation from their

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former employers from next week. The Finance Minister, Sammy Wilson,

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says after a series of legal hurdles, the law to allow workers

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to pursue claims will become effective from December 14th. The

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Executive has already set aside �2.5 million for claims against

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government-owned companies. decades, the law allowed for claims

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against employers for this disease and we have fought this all the way

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to the House of Lords and we're putting his back the way it should

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be and has been for many decades and bringing justice for those many

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vulnerable and sick people suffering today. At every

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children's nativity play this month we'll hear the cry, there's no room

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in the inn. In Newtownards at the moment there's no room in the

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square, at least not for the market traders. While the area is

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refurbished, the Road Service won't allow the Saturday market to

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relocate to one of its nearby car parks. Claire Savage has been

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speaking to traders who believe their livelihoods are being put at

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risk. We take diners Club, any sort of money, except matrimony.

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Newtownards is known for being a market town but at temporary site

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cannot be found whilst Conway Square gets a makeover from January.

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Arts Council blames the Road Service for not allowing the market

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to use one of their car parks. One trader who has been here for 35

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years hopes the Minister responsible, Danny Kennedy, will

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intervene. Traders come from all over and they come to get one day's

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pay. They want to earn a living. And the market has been here for so

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long, it is a meeting place, people love it. And if they don't work

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with us, it will close. Other traders are worried. This is our

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livelihood. If we cannot get trade in here, we will lose big money.

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There will be a lot of people out of work and could be signing on to

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the dole if they don't get somewhere. No market, no money, we

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will lose our livelihood. And by law prevents a nearby car park

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being used. I don't think it would be a problem, having this in a car-

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park? You would not miss that too much of that is what they want to

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have it. This market would be missed. I can remember as a child,

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here and loving it. The Department of Regional Development says it is

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looking at the issue but the car- park traders want to use generates

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much-needed revenue. At a time when existing resources are heavily

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stretched. And we will keep a cross that story. The race to become the

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most successful European golfer will go all the way to the last

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tournament of the year in Dubai. Rory McIlroy is still very much in

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the running to be crowned the top prize money winner. Gavin Andrews

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is here with the sport. King Kong was just one of the headlines

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following Rory's gutsy win in Hong Kong. And the US Open champion has

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current European Order of Merit leader Luke Donald in his sights.

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Rory must win in Dubai this weekend and hope Donald finishes outside

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the top nine in the season finale. It was a bomb at of magic that saw

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the Hong Kong crowd and Rory McIlroy going wild. That wasn't too

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bad! Trailing the leader by three at the start of the day, he saved

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his best to last to pick up his third title of the season. But it

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was the manner of this when that please the 22 year-old most.

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Finally, to get this trophy in my hands, it's very special and means

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a lot. It meant a lot to go out, knowing that I had to play well, to

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get myself in the race and to keep myself in second place in the world

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rankings. There is a lot to play for and to produce that sort of

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golf today is very pleasing. Rory McIlroy will hope to bring this

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form to the Dubai World Championships. His winning cheque

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of just over 340,000 euros keep the race to be coming European No. 1

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very much alive. And Graham McDowell will join him in the

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desert on Thursday. The Portrush man finished in a tie for third

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place in South Africa. He remains 14th in the world rankings.

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Ballyclare's Gareth Maybin won't be in Dubai but he's retained his

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European Tour card for 2012 after a solid performance in Hong Kong. Now

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to football and Rory Donnelly and Cliftonville are on a roll. The

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Reds have now won 13 games in a row. They've jumped to second in the

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table, four points behind Linfield. Thomas Kane reports. The hottest

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property in local football continues to add to his growing

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reputation. Rory Donnelly hit his third hat-trick of the season

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within 18 minutes against Dungannon Swifts. The wonder boy gets his

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15th of the season. Joe Gormley also found the net. He finishes!

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Linfield had just one goal against Ballymoney United but the strike

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was enough to secure all three points. Although Mark McAllister

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was left wondering how he did not manage to double the lead. There

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was plenty of drama and plenty of goals at the Oval. Lisburn

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Distillery thought they were secured victory but substitute

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Richard Gibson rescued a point for Glentoran. For their manager, it

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just was not good enough. They had chances and some players have not

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done that. For me, we have to make changes. Crusaders infected

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Portadown's second home loss of the season, Chris Moore with the pick

:23:26.:23:33.

of the goals. In injury time, a penalty earned Glenavon a point

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away at Carrick Rangers. Snooker and Antrim's Mark Allen has won his

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opening match at the UK Championships this afternoon. With

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that and news of wins for Ulster rugby and the Belfast Giants,

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here's Niall Foster. World No. 12 mark Allen is through to the last

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16 in the work after beating Adrian Gunnell by six frames to 3 ft at --

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6 - 3. He will play the former World Championship runner-up Ali

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Carter on Wednesday. In rugby, Ulster got back to winning ways

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with the help of one of their bigger names. Ulster get their

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first try! Stephen Ferris scored two tries as Ulster defeated the

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Scarlets 24 - 17 at Ravenhill. letter to get the win, because we

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have not fired that well in the past weeks but we're still

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disappointed because I were performance was excellent and we

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made some silly mistakes which can cost us. A Belfast Giants completed

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a weekend elite league double with this fight - 1 victory over Hull

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Stingrays on Saturday and a 4 - 2 win over the Cardiff Devils in

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Wales last night. And Ulster's newest signing, Steffan Terblanche,

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has finally arrived. We'll here from the South African on tomorrow

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night's Newsline. It may have added to the Christmas spirit but the

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snow does cause problems, as we heard earlier in the programme. And

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we're in for more chilly conditions Cold enough for more sleet and snow

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and people have been texting me to tell me about this in parts of the

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North but we will find sleet and snow will not be quite is

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widespread tonight. Those conditions left us with scenes like

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this one this morning. Even low- lying areas had a dusting but the

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hills some most of us know. Even a few inches and places. Ice will be

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the main concern tonight. There is a yellow warning for those icy

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conditions. Particularly on untreated roads and pavements but

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also with further sleet and snow showers. They will continue today.

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Certainly towards the north and parts of the West. A mixture of

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sleet and snow. And they are more less going to continue through this

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evening, drifting in on that blustery westerly wind. And bear in

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mind, where you get sick and snow, they could also wash the grit off

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the road. It will be problematic and cold with temperatures around

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freezing or maybe a couple of degrees lower in sheltered spots.

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The gusty wind overnight eventually eases down tomorrow. Quite breezy

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at first and it is an icy start. You could well be scraping ice off

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the windscreen. Still wintry showers around first thing,

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particularly towards North Antrim. Otherwise, it's a bright start for

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Antrim and County Down. Towards the West, cloudier skies and initially

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wintry showers but you will find they turn increasingly into rain

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into the afternoon and this band of cloud and rain works eastwards

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through the rest of the afternoon at towards evening time. And

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although temperatures recover, it certainly isn't too warm. The wind

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has seized, it will pick up tomorrow night, bringing more

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showers but not as widespread as they have been and not as much ice

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and frost. But still some pockets. A mixture of bright spells and

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mostly rain showers on Wednesday, and it's windy and for the middle

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part of the week it's looking less cold but unsettled with rain and

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brisk wind. Thank you very much. News Justin - within the last few

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minutes, Belfast City Council has voted to accept an apology from a

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Lord Mayor, while all Dundela, over his refusal to present an award to

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