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Senior figures at the Magee campus of the University

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of Ulster have demanded an urgent meeting with the Employment and

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It follows the announcement that he has shelved

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plans to expand the campus because of a threatened funding shortfall.

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Earlier this week other Stormont departments warned of budget cuts

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due to a failure among the parties to agree on welfare reform.

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Our Education Correspondent Maggie Taggart reports.

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For decades, there has been pressure to expand university provisioning

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County Derry, and recent promises seem to be satisfying local demand.

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The target was an extra 1000 students by next year, but it looks

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like the expansion. At 650, at least for the foreseeable future. When we

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play fast and loose with the budget, there are consequences, and

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duplications that the expansion has, this would be a consequence of it.

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People have to wake up to the consequence of it. People have to

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wake up to the consequences that an impromptu protest at the campus.

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Given the fact that the case has not reached his table yet, how can any

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minister suggested this will be pulled when he has not looked at the

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finer details? It is irresponsible, he has too retracted, and the people

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of the city will not be happy with that call. Last month, it won

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permission for a new 11 million pounds building at the Magee campus.

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We were aware that there were budget cuts, but we had no discussions on

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impact on specific projects. University wants an urgent meeting

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to discuss this announcement. The Minister will meet University of

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Ulster and that will happen next week, but he is adamant that any

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help of expansion in this climate are unrealistic.

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Well that stalemate over welfare reform has been described by the DUP

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as having the potential to derail devolution.

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Peter Robinson said Sinn Fein were in "shameless denial"

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However Gerry Adams in turn criticised unionists for failing to

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Our Political Reporter Stephen Walker has more.

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Stormont is having a face-lift. The roof is being repaired. But Gerry

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Adams thinks it needs more than cosmetic changes. He believes that

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the political process needs to be shaken up from its foundations. The

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biggest party in the executive is not committed to what it signed up

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to when it went into government with Sinn Fein and the other parties.

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That confidence has been eroded. Sinn Fein also insist that welfare

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reform changes must be opposed and they want the executive to appear

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united. But Unionists think that Gerry Adams is all talk and no

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action. We can all bluster, it is very, very easy to do, but it gets

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us nowhere, particularly when Sinn Fein stick with this message of

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us nowhere, particularly when Sinn Fein stick with this message Brits

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out but leave the open cheque-book behind. It is a bit rich coming from

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Gerry Adams when because of the Republicans, politics didn't move on

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whilst they robbed banks, killed people and they did not decommission

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weapons. A big problem that Gerry Adams and Sinn Fein created a lot

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of. The Alliance party also criticised Gerry Adams saying that

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his claims are nonsense. Tonight, the First Minister said that the

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failure to implement the reform is the problem is likely to bring down

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the devolved institutions. His party colleagues think that Gerry Adams'

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comments are a smoke screen. People are losing jobs, public services are

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being cut, this is a diversionary tactic to divert from the fact that

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Sinn Fein are not stepping up to the market and responsible government.

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Sinn Fein says that the political process at Stormont needs to be

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restored, but today, this was the only visible sign of rebuilding.

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A 51-year-old Londonderry doctor has appeared in court charged with

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Dr Lee Casey, a GP from Mansefield Grove is denying the charges.

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The assaults are alleged to have taken place on two teenage girls

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The Speaker of the Assembly Willie Hay is to be

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The future Lord Hay says he's "delighted, but humbled".

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Will Leitch looks back at his political career.

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Order, order I would ask people to be careful of their language

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Willie Hay has been a DUP politician for 30 years.

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Originally a councillor and later mayor of Londonderry,

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the Foyle MLA has been speaker of the Assembly since 2007.

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And in that time he's seen his fair share

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You always seem to know who the culprits are going to be.

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Now Mr Hay is one of 22 men and women whom the Queen has

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It's not clear when he'll take his seat as Lord Hay and leave the

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He was hard on everyone, never turned a blind eye to DUP

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colleagues, he respected the role of speaker.

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He never turned a blind eye, he knew that if the speaker did not have

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authority, respect, it wouldn't matter who was in the chair, whether

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it was the Deputy Speaker, he was very, very insistent that this role

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It is never an easy job, you have to face up to issues, I am

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a person that never runs away from dealing with a difficult issue or

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He'll sit with his Democratic Unionist colleagues

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in the Lords on the cross benches, even though in one of those quirks

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of politics, Mr Hay is Donegal born and holds an Irish passport.

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The Red Arrows are the star attraction at tomorrow's

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annual air show in Newcastle, County Down, however they're not

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Our reporter Mervyn Jess joined one of the teams on a practice flight

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yesterday and because of limited room in the cockpit had to film much

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There is nothing Mickey Mouse about this aircraft, now is

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the moment of truth, I now have to get strapped into the ejector seat.

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Tighter than my normal mode of transport.

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The Vampire was the last aircraft flown by the RAF

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squadron at Aldergrove when it was disbanded in 1957.

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Now, the jets are part of the Norweigan

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Yesterday they flew me down to Newcastle to practice

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their "loop the loops" on what they described as a dry run.

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It is like the world is on my shoulders! We are upside down over

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Newcastle Bay! That is something else! I have never seen the Strand

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After all the G forces my stomach could handle,

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it was a low level, hedge hopper of a ride back to Aldergrove...

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Thank you for that, I'm so glad we didn't have to use

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Rory McIlroy is the halfway leader at Golf's US PGA championship.

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He is currently nine under par and two shots clear.

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Darren Clarke failed to make the cut while Graeme McDowell

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Whether you're heading to the links or the airshow,

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Good evening, much quieter and much try after the early downpours and

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thunderstorms and it should stay dry for the rest of the night. Clear at

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times, one or two light showers and also temperatures could get a in the

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countryside. A bit cool and fresh with some early mist. Saturday,

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starting lovely with bright, sunny weather. The chance of a shower in

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the south-east, but most places will be dry and showers will be over

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Donegal. Showers will make their way in from the West in the afternoon

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tomorrow. High-pressure across Britain and Ireland so lots of fine

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weather to come. Wet and windy weather clearing and during the

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afternoon, some showers will arrive across western counties of Ireland

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and it is from the west that we see the showers tomorrow afternoon. Some

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showers moving from the West, they may not reach the east and

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south-east, but some rain before the end of the day. In the sunshine,

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temperatures reaching 20 degrees. Sunday, this is when the remnants of

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Hurricane Bertha will affect parts of Britain, particularly southern

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and eastern areas of England and Scotland with some very wet and

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unusually windy weather following on behind. For Northern Ireland, one or

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two splashes of rain, particularly in eastern areas, so some showers

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around and it will turn cool and blustery into the new week. Have a

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great weekend.

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