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How low. This is BBC Newsline. Her the headlines.

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It has emerged that 26 people have died with the pseudomonas infection

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over the past four years. The prison services to take on up

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to 200 new staff in its first recruitment drive in 20 years.

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The Executive denies trying to bury bad news about its own performance.

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As Castlecourt is sold, what does the departure of one of the world's

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biggest retail developers tell us about our local economy?

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A County Tyrone gentleman's legacy to to -- to charity is finally

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restored. The weather has been very settled,

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but it changes on the way. I will have details shortly.

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Good evening. Until the recent deaths of four babies, not many

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people outside hospital had heard of pseudomonas. Now we know that it

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has contributed to the deaths of 26 people in the last four years.

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Every year, around 85 people are diagnosed as having the infection.

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We can all carry it on our skin, but it only has a serious impact on

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those who are very ill. Since last December, four babies have died

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consider mourners. The first was an Altnagelvin Hospital and three

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others died in the Royal Jubilee Maternity Hospital in January. The

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latest news from the Public Health Agency is that seven babies are

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being treated for the infection in the Royal Jubilee. Six others have

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traces of it on their skin and in Altnagelvin Hospital, Creek Tavern

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and Antrim Hospital, five infants have also been found to have it on

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the skin. Our health correspondent is following the story and she

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joins us from Stormont, where the Health Minister Edwin Poots

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preached his committee this afternoon. 30 people appears an

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awful lot. How did the Minister explain the figures? While the 30

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people on the surface does appear to be quite a lot, as the Health

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Minister explain to the community this afternoon, that figure should

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be read in the context that every year in Northern Ireland, between

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80 and 95 people are diagnosed with the bacterial infection pseudomonas.

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What the Minister did say, and he was very keen to indicate what the

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figure highlights, is that pseudomonas is very much on the

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radar of health professionals with in the hospitals. There were 80-95

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people diagnosed with the infection, around 26 people we know over the

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past reviewers had died with with the infection on the death

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certificate and then there were the four deaths of the babies. The

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Minister was keen to highlight that pseudomonas was on their radar.

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2008, 10 people died as a result of the pseudomonas, 2009, three people,

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to 20 10th 10 people died and already there are three this year.

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Therefore, for the trusts to have got a letter highlighting

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pseudomonas, it is some think they would have been aware off and aware

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of the dangers. Communication wasn't raised today and the

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question, did the Chief Medical Officer communicate information

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about the bacterial infection quickly enough. What was said about

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that? It is very important. It in dos asked that question, did the

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Chief Medical Officer act quickly enough when he heard from

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Altnagelvin Hospital that a baby had died from the pseudomonas

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infection? Of course, nearly every day more information emerges and as

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it emerged today, we know that pseudomonas was on their radar and

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they were aware of the infection. The Chief Medical Officer said

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there had been numerous communications over the years and

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once again, on 22nd December he alerted his staff that each side

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had died. One dyke -- one child had died, but does not constitute an

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outbreak. He says he was perfectly right in the action he took.

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identified to a wide range of staff that -- both with in the

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organisation's - the risks to babies and the actions required to

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be taken. We did not wait. We were very keen to get out the

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information as early as we possibly could. What is the latest on the

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independent review? The independent review is underway and we know the

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remit. It is to investigate the action taken as soon as the

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outbreak was announced, to identify the reasons behind the outbreak, to

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report on the experiences of all the families involved. We should

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report that at this stage, there have been no new cases reported of

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pseudomonas since 24th January. Thank you.

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The Health Minister has other problems on his plate. Health

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promotion targets set by the Executive have proved challenging

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and Mr Poots will be under pressure to ensure targets and have missed

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in the last term I met in this session. Our political

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correspondent has been examining how well the Executive is

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delivering on its pledges. Moving forward. The DUP's big slogan at

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the last election. The party, along with Sinn Fein, have been in the

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driving seat at Stormont for some time, pledging improvements in

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schools, hospitals and jobs. So, where are they heading and how fast

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I they delivering? I think we have done exceedingly well, much better

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than was the case under direct rule in meeting targets. Others have not

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been prepared to set targets, in case they might be found lacking.

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We have set a challenging target. Well, he would say that with 90?

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What do others say? Success is measured by the First and Deputy

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First Minister's economic policy unit which has just published his

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report, which uses the traffic analogy to measure targets. When it

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comes to measuring government success, green is good. Targets are

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on time were have already been met. Amber means progress is slower than

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expected and red means the target was missed. So, how did the

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Executive do last term? There were successes, promoting safer roads

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and flatter management, but other targets were missed. Reducing the

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number of smokers, halting obesity and cutting suicide rates. There

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has been criticism about these failures and how the information

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came to light. MLAs were given a report yesterday when they were

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busy discussing good news. A �600 million spending programme by the

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Executive. 1 MLA claims this was a deliberate attempt to bury bad news.

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The normal protocol for such a statement of such importance would

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be to bring it to the floor of the Assembly, to give an opportunity

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for MLAs to reference the good points and some of the bad points

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and also to include the relevant committee in the process. That, as

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far as I'm aware, has been overlooked. This is nonsense, says

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the Deputy First Minister. The is impossible to very bad news. Let us

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put it in perspective, the music overall is good. Two-thirds of the

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target reach. There is a problem with in health and that will

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require attention over a longer time frame. We will know in a few

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months when a new report is published, if there has been more a

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green lights. The Indian owned group which is

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closing a call centre in -- Armagh is opening a new one in the Irish

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Republic. But -- earlier this week, HCL announced the loss of 170 jobs

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it is part of a programme of redundancies that will affect about

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255 staff in Belfast and Armagh. The countries in the two

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developments were unconnected. The Prison Service will tomorrow

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launch a recruitment drive for up to 200 new staff. They will replace

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the officers leading as part of the redundancy scheme. The new custody

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officers will start on the salary of �18,000. It is the first

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recruitment campaign for 20 years. There are more than 1,700 prison

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officers in Northern Ireland and the Prison Service wants 540 of

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them to retire early, to make way for new recruits on lower salaries.

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A redundancy scheme has been introduced for officers aged over

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50. Many qualify for lump-sum payments of more than �100,000,

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plus an annual pension of �18,500. So far, 371 officers have

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volunteered to leave and that number is expected to rise by the

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time applications close on Friday. The Prison Service will tomorrow

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launch a recruitment drive to bring in new staff to replace those

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leaving. Up to 200 jobs will be available for custody officers, who

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will be responsible for maintaining security and supervising the

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movement of prisoners. Prison officers to take redundancy can

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apply to be re-employed in the new roles. Sources say that is unlikely

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to happen, because the new jobs will not be as financially

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attractive. Custody officers will start on a salary of �18,000,

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rising to a maximum of �23,000. The officers targeted in this

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redundancy scheme can earn up to �38,000 per year. Applicants will

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also have to pass a number of test to be shortlisted for an assessment

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centre. Those appointed, will undergo regular, on the job

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training and testing to move up the salary scale. Unlike the Patten

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reforms of policing, they will not be a 50-50 recruitment process, but

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advertisement will welcome applications from Catholics, who

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currently make up 10% of the Prison Service workforce. They will also

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target women, who account for 22% of staff. The redundancy scheme and

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the recruitment of new staff are key parts of a programme of radical

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reform of the prison service that has been widely criticised in

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recent years. The aim, as a new approach as well as new faces.

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The giant retail developers Westfield has sold the stake in

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Castlecourt shopping centre in Belfast to their Investment

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Partners in the centre. The company said the property was no longer

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core to their business. So what does that say about the retail

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scene in Northern Ireland? Our correspondent is at Castlecourt.

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Why should we care who owns Castlecourt? First of all, because

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Castlecourt has been very important to the regeneration of Belfast. In

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the 1980s, the government put money into the centre to get the city

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back on its feet. In recent years it has had different owners, most

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recently it has had two owners, one of them West filled and the others

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effectively at pension fund called Hermes real estate. Weston -- West

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could have sold to Hermes real estate and that means the retail

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specialists are gone. These people develop a huge shopping centres in

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London and asked a commercial estate agent earlier why was that

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Belfast was not seen at that kind of development. Belfast, like

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anyone UK, is going through difficult times from a property

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perspective. Belfast is a city within the retail hierarchy of the

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UK and it isn't a London, a Birmingham and the pecking order of

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things means that Belfast is having to wait its time it as far as

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recovery is concerned. Now, we know that Hermes real estate have got a

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rock-bottom price for this. Be paid �107 million for a stake in three

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shopping centres, so they got a good price and Westfield have said

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that Castlecourt was no longer core to its business, in other words

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Belfast did not really matter. Those close to Westfield are saying

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that these guys were here, had a lot of money to spend and wanted to

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develop the place, but they were thwarted by planning policy in

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Northern Ireland and effectively they are gone and that kind of

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development we will not see. Be unemployment figures came out

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today, by one measure thereat, by another they are down, can you

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explain? I will try. It is a bit of a head knelt to. The official

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figures first of all, in terms of the Labour Force Survey, it is down

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not 0.1%, which means unemployment here officially is less than the UK

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average. If we look at the dole queues, the number of people

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claiming Jobseeker's Allowance, but has gone up by 600 to 61,500 people.

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Some economists prefer to use the claimant count, because it is a

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hard figure and those are real people. The lesson here is do not

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rely on one figure. We know that we have the highest level of economic

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activity here, according to the jobless claimant count figure, we

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are the second worst in the UK. If you take the whole picture as a

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whole, it is much more complicated than same we are better than

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Catching a taxi at the weekend could cost you more.

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A major shake-up in taxi fare regulations could see customers

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paying more for their cabs. Some operators say the proposals by the

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Department of the environment could be disastrous.

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The proposals apply to all taxes, public or private hire. By

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increasing the maximum basic rates, which is what you see on the knee

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to when you get into the taxi, it will cost more to travel by taxi at

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the weekend and evenings. The price will rise to �3.40 on week nights.

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It will rise to �4.20 from 8pm on Friday night until 6am on Monday

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morning. The weekend rate is a high of 40% -- hike of 40%. Some taxi-

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drivers have slammed the door on the proposals. It is going to be a

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disaster to the taxi industry across Northern Ireland, not just

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Belfast. What you think of it? put it up to �4.20 over the weekend,

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you are going to chase business away. Those who resisted, those who

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do not want regulation, especially some of these large firms, they

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have to ask themselves serious questions about why they resist

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good regulation to protect taxi- drivers and to protect consumer

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rights. What do those people who would be using taxi during premium

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and hours think? I think for the students that live here, it will

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match them a bit. It is disgraceful. This proposes to set a maximum fair

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level that the taxi driver can charge. There will be no problems

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with the taxi driver charging less than that, and we believe that

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brings competition into the market and clarity for consumers.

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consultation will continue into of February 17th.

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The First and Deputy First Ministers have revealed they both

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suffer from hearing difficulties. At the opening of a new support

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services office for the charity Action On Hearing Loss, Martin

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McGuinness said he suffers from to knitters in his right ear. Peter

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Robinson has less than 20% hearing in his left ear. Could not hear

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anything at all with my left ear. Worker in the morning, no illness

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or accident associated with it, and my first reaction was alarm. Then

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you start to work round it, I saw a specialist. It requires you to work

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around the issue, made sure that you are facing people and if they

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are speaking save - Maxi can pick it up properly. We sit together at

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the Executive table. His left ear is better side -- decide my right

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here. Sometimes I haven't got a clue what he is saying!

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That's why they get on so well! There are a lot of potential jokes

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there. A positive outcome to a problem we

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highlighted just before Christmas. Two charities claimed that Derry

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City Council owed them thousands of pounds in unpaid ground rent. They

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Raymond Saville Conolly de Montmorency Lecky-Browne-Lecky from

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County Tyrone spent his life raising money for those less

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fortunate than him. This flamboyant gentleman, won a violin's most

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renowned female impersonators, was passionate about the arts. When he

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died 50 years ago, he wanted two charities you helped actors and

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musicians to benefit after his death. He left them a number of

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ground rents in Londonderry, with the council to pay �600 here. More

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than a decade ago, the payment stopped and the charities gave up

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hope of getting the money. When I last talks to Richard and she

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Attenborough, who are in charge of the charity, they told me I should

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not expect to get anything. Things changed after Christmas, following

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a report on BBC Newsline. The council and the charities got

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talking. We did receive correspondence from Derry City

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Council. We replied to that and gave them the information in detail

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regarding how the ground rent was paid. They responded by paying the

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outstanding ground rent for a period of 12 years. We had no idea

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at all that anyone was owed anything, so when the BBC ran the

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story, I asked people to have a look and we had to research our

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files and to liaise with the legal team acting on behalf of the

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charities, because we cannot pay out money without invoices. We

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subsequently substantiated the claim, and repaid the charities

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what they were due. In total, the two London based charities each

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received nearly �3,500. Immediately, I'm thinking that we have an

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actress's has the two has died and she has three small children. We

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want to help them intensively. She cannot drive them to school at the

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moment, so we are transporting them. That money does a huge amount to

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help. It is wonderful. It has come at a fantastic time for us, because

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last year we had 80% more people apply to was in crisis,

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professional musicians who while or have experience an accident. This

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Czech means -- this cheque means we can help people at a difficult time

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in their career. Not only have these charities both received money,

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but both charities are going to continue getting money, several

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hundred pounds the year, for many years to come. That is what Browne-

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Lecky wanted. Tomorrow, we'll be taking a closer

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look at ground rents in general. It is still months away, but the

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organisers of this year's Irish Open Golf Championship were hard at

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work at Royal Portrush. They had a familiar face helping them.

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I was up at Portrush today with a delegation of senior European Tour

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officials. Who better to show them round the Dunluce course on the

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North coast then our Open champion Darren Clarke. He lives in Portrush.

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The venue has been stepping up his preparations for this year's

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championships. The man who will be in charge of

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running the Irish Open was very impressed today. Tournament

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director was given a guided tour of the spectacular Royal Portrush

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links. It was given by Darren Clarke. This is one of the best

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golf courses in the world, and I have not been here for 13 years

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since the last British Open. It is just fabulous. They have a lot of

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new facilities. It is one of the hidden gems, one of the best golf

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courses in the world. Those who know the golf course are going to

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love it, and those who do not know it will be amazed. Darren Clarke is

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one of Royal Portrush's official ambassadors for the Irish Open,

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which is coming to Northern Ireland for the first time in 65 years.

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They wanted somebody's opinion for the golf course, and I am at home

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at the moment. I can show them the obvious short cuts, had to cut

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corners. A massive teams of green keepers is already working round

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the clock to make sure the causes in pristine condition. Nothing will

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be left to chance. This is the basic way of repairing bunkers on a

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links course. It is all stacked up on top of each other at a nice

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angle. It could be a week to do one bunker. Not a day goes by when the

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phone is not winning, inquiring about tickets and what is going on

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with the golf course. Everybody is talking about it. There is a real

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buzz at the moment. Portrush is confident that it will stage one of

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the best sporting events in Ireland this year.

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You can see the full interview with Darren Clarke on the BBC sport

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website. The address is bbc.co.uk/sportni.

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Eugene Laverty suffered a fractured hand in a crass during World

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Superbike testing in Australia today. The Toomebridge rider he was

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practising for his new Aprilia team tweeted afterwards that he came off

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his back at just under 200 mph. He hopes to recover in time for the

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start of the 2012 series next week. It is only a matter of months

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before the start of the Olympics in London. The demand for tickets has

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been huge, but 18 local people will get in for free. But there is a

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catch. They are building the showjumping circuit and have to

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raise �35,000 to pay their own way. We caught up with them as they

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prepared for a fund-raising exhibition in Belfast.

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Rehearsing for the gig of a lifetime, these local volunteers

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known as the Mossvale Arena party get to build the jumps for the best

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riders in the world. They beat off competition to get to the Olympics.

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The course designer insisted on having a team from Northern Ireland.

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They are first class, not only are they quick, but they are good,

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experienced. Some of the guys are designers in their home right. I

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have worked with them around the world, and they are the best.

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Needless to say, the team are delighted to be going to the Games.

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Everybody aims to get to the Olympics. I am very honoured to

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work with Bob. I am glad to have the privilege of working with him

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that such a prestigious event. There is a lot of hard work going

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into it. Will volunteers, and we have a lot of money to them to pay

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our way. The need to raise �35,000. At other such events, the teams get

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expenses, but not at the Olympics. A spokeswoman said there was not

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the money to pay all 70,000 volunteers. But the Olympic Games

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could not happen without them. Certainly cannot fault their

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commitment. Good luck to them! Now with the

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A mixed day, largely settled it with some spots of light rain here

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and there. This evening and overnight, the cloud sticks with us.

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It will be six or seven Celsius, so no frost to worry about. The high

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pressure has begun to shift southwards, and as it does so, it

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will be followed by rain from the West. That will be from the

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beginning of the day, concentrated on the North and West. Into the

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afternoon, it looks like much of Antrim and Belfast and County Down

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will stay dry, but rather cloudy. The rain moves over during the

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second part of the day. The West has a wet today, with temperatures

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at about ten Celsius, above average for this time of year. Parts of

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County Down will stay dry for most of the day. Friday will be cooler,

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but there will not be any frost to worry about. Eventually, the rain

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begins to merge its way in again. Temperatures will stay up, possibly

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11 degrees Celsius. Enjoy those figures, because it is all going to

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change. Wild Air pash -- pushes southwards, and it will become

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Calder. You will notice it if you are out and about. Sunday is

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shaping up to be drier, brighter, but perhaps a bit crisper. For the

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