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This is BBC Newsline. The headlines this Thursday evening:

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it's suspected to be the fifth killing involving a feud

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One man's arrested and a farm searched in connection

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with the murder of South Armagh man Paul Quinn nine years ago.

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tells staff the company is better off if the UK stays in the EU.

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Once again, we're focusing on legal highs. We hear from a mother whose

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young son ended up in a coma from substance abuse. And I'm here to

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find out more about the difficulties in out -- outlawing these drugs.

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A council in England wants to charge people taking part in a Park Run.

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Could it happen here? A change

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in our weather tomorrow The good news?

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It should be a lot brighter! He was hit in the head as up to six

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shots were fired outside a pub. It's strongly suspected

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that the attack is the fifth murder linked to a feud

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between two drugs gangs. But it's believed today's victim

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was targeted by mistake. Here's our Dublin

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correspondent Shane Harrison. Once again, murder on the streets of

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Dublin. The victim, a man believed to be in his 20s, was shot outside a

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pub in the Sheriff street area. It is strongly suspected at this

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early stage of the investigation that it was mistaken identity.

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It is understood that as many as six shots worse -- fired, and that the

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murdered men died -- man died from bullets to the head. Another man was

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reported as seen running away towards the financial centre.

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Dublin has seen a spate of recent gangland killings.

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Over Gardai say it is too early to say whether today's murder is linked

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to the ongoing feud, it is known that a member of the hutch gang was

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regularly seen in the area of today's shooting.

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A report was received at 1225. The fact that our established on arrival

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were that this mail had been shot by a lone gunmen who left by bicycle.

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-- this man. Seconds prior to the shooting the victim was seen to run,

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but was a very short distance, and the shooting took place and the

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gunman left the scene. Four other men have so far died in

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the feud that began with the murder in September last year, and has

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since claimed the life of David Byrne and Eddie hutch.

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And no dog in last month. He was a friend of Gerry Hutch, also

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known as the monk. There has been a more visible police

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presence in areas associated with criminal gangs, but it seems those

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with murder on the minds are not deterred.

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-- on their minds. And Shane joins me now

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from our Dublin studio. We understand that Gardai are

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abut this attack? We understand that Gardai are

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getting closer to identifying the We understand that Gardai are

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victim, they believe he was a man that was often homeless and who

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a partner. They are appealing

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a partner. area at the time to come forward.

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a partner. They are looking for a man of strong

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build wearing dark clothes, who was seen cycling away

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build wearing dark clothes, who was then abandoning his bike. There are

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also reports, then abandoning his bike. There are

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Gardai press office, but a gun believed to have been

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Gardai press office, but a gun shooting may have been found in a

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wheelie bin in And there have been arrests over

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an explosives seizure in Dublin? That's right, two men are

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custody, one in his 30s That's right, two men are

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his 40s, they were arrested last That's right, two men are

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night travelling towards the city centre, and inside the car Gardai

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found commercial explosives. centre, and inside the car Gardai

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linked to a group calling itself as the IRA but who are known in the

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media is the new IRA. It was linked to the bomb attack on the prison

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officer Adrian Ismay in East Belfast last month, and police forces on

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both sides of the border had been expecting an

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both sides of the border had been and republican activity because of

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the anniversary of the Easter 1916 rising.

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A man in his 50s has been arrested by Gardai investigating the death

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The 21 year old was beaten to death in a barn near the Monaghan-Armagh

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The arrest came during a major security operation at a farm near

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The Quinn family have blamed Provisional IRA

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Could a vital clue lie buried here? Today, Gardai at Alnmouth -- trying

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to on earth did. The search is based on this farm

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which straddles the Monaghan-Armagh border. This afternoon, some kind of

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buried object, possibly a vehicle, was detected. Paul was beaten to

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death by a gang in a shared in October 2007. His family blame the

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IRA. -- shared. Just hope and pray, every day, that

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justice will be done and done through the courts. Not done like...

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I wouldn't want any of them taken off and murdered. But I would like

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to see them behind bars. A man in his early 50s arrested as

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part of today's operation is still being questioned. For the Queen

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family, it is another anxious wait, after almost a decade of waiting and

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hoping for justice for the sun. -- for Paul Quinn's family.

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One of Northern Ireland's largest companies says it would be better

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for its business if the UK remains in the EU.

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A Bombardier boss has circulated a memo to five thousand staff saying

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he wanted to help inform their decision in June's referendum vote.

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One third of bombardier products go Julian O'Neill reports.

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One third of bombardier products go to Europe, so perhaps no major

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surprise it backs staying in the EU, but now it is in black and white to

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workers. In it, boss Michael Ryan says...

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Business body the CBI was today discussing the virtues of EU

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membership, endorsed as it now is by a major force in local

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manufacturing. I'm encouraged they have come out, a

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number of companies are clearly sensitive around this, but

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ultimately this is about the future of further investment, in this case

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bombardier. Bombardier has hundreds of suppliers

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in Europe and has had big research grants from the EQ. The "Leave"

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campaign says Mr Ryan's memo constitutes inappropriate voting

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advice. Start selling the C series, that

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would be a great start rather than telling people how they should vote.

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Michael Ryan says the firm is nailing its colours to the match

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because -- more -- mast because its employees have been asking whether

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companies stands. The answer, from one of Northern Ireland's most

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important firms, cannot have been made any clearer.

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Still to come before seven: The Ulster Unionist Party

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launch their manifesto - we'll take a look at their

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Yesterday we heard from the mother of a teenager who died

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a year ago after taking what are called legal highs.

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Tonight the mother of a boy who was just eleven years

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old when he started on the drugs describes the night

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And Donna has been to the County Antrim laboratory

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which analyses the drugs to hear about the problem in enforcing

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Here, scientists have been carrying out tests for UK police forces,

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tests on substances that mimic the effects of cocaine, cannabis and

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ecstasy. The criminals keep one step ahead of the authorities by

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constantly changing the formulas. More on that in a moment. But first,

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we have been speaking to the mother of a 13-year-old boys who ended up

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in a coma because of substance abuse. Starting with the legal

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highs. He was crawling around the floor

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hallucinating. Wanting water, I was constantly clearing yellow from from

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his mouth. He was on the verge of a heart

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attack because his heart rate was going sky-high. We were struggling

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to find a pulse with him, or while he was fighting and kicking, by the

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time he arrived at hospital he had stopped breathing.

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Maggie's son started taking legal highs when he was just 11. Soon, he

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said -- she says, he was taking anything he could get his hands on.

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We are not identifying his son, and Maggie is not her real name.

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The doctors didn't think I was going to pull -- he was going to pull

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through. I have to sit and watch him on a ventilator. I didn't think he

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would make it. I am shocked that he did.

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What goes through your mind when you are in the hospital watching your

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13-year-old son on a ventilator? Desperation. You are sitting looking

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at him, you get angry. Because he has done it to himself. And there

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are babies lying on incubators in intensive care and they did not ask

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to be there. And then he has done it to himself.

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And panic, because you are watching the ventilator breathing for him.

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And not knowing whether he is going to live. Despair, I suppose, you go

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through every emotion until there is no emotion left.

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Maggie's son has now recovered and is now in a secure unit getting

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counselling. She hopes the rash Mac that by sharing what her son went

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through, it could -- she hopes that by sharing her son's story, it could

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help others. There are people on Facebook who are

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very sorry, saying it has thankfully not happened to them, but it is

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knocking on their door. Police are investigating what

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happened. Here in Crumlin I am with Mark, who

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heads the team. Legal highs, what is in them?

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Psychoactive substances are chemicals. They are not drugs, the

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chemicals have been purchased from the far east and there can be

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anything in these materials. These are small, clandestine labs which

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are producing these materials without any form of quality control,

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we simply don't know what is in these packets. We test for the vast

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majority of UK police forces now, and we are seeing an increase in the

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number of legal high findings. We are seeing different types of drugs,

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stimulants, other drugs that would be very similar to the likes of

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cannabis, amphetamines and cocaine, and these drugs are coming through

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in road traffic cases and also in some more serious crimes.

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It seems that the criminals are duping the authorities, but they

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keep changing the formula of the substance.

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How can you counter that? We can do it here by continually developing

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new tests. In the past 12 months we have developed over 115 tests for

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new types of psychoactive substances. These drugs are

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continually being developed and evolving into new types of

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substances, which previously had fallen outside of legislation.

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So it is a challenge for us to continue to develop new tests to

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detect these substances. A new law was due to come into

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effect last week specifically targeting legal highs. It has now

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been postponed. But many will be watching carefully to see that when

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it does come into effect, if it stops the trade of these drugs.

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A community centre in New Buildings in County Londonderry will no longer

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be used as a polling station in the Assembly election

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because of loyalist flags which were put up outside it.

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Voting will now be at a primary school, as Kevin Magee reports.

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This is the community centre which was used in last year's election as

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a polling station for the first time. However, the night before the

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election loyalist flags were elected in the car park. Following

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complaints from some voters, the electoral office have decided that

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the polling station for the forthcoming Assembly election will

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return to the local primary school. We received a number of complaints

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from from -- from people. We do not want to see

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from from -- from people. feeling unable to exercise their

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from from -- from people. franchise because they feel

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intimidated, franchise because they feel

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everything possible to ensure that people can vote in an atmosphere

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free people can vote in an atmosphere

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We feel that it is a safer, more neutral venue to

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We feel that it is a safer, more The electronic list says that before

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it took The electronic list says that before

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polling station -- electoral office, it followed all

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polling station -- electoral office, procedures. It says

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polling station -- electoral office, out, and there were no objections.

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Stormont Executive their priority department will be education.

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The Ulster Unionists seem prepared to join

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The Ulster Unionists seem prepared coalition, providing its programme

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for Government is progressive. Their manifesto says education will be the

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party's pirated apartment. They want a new method for transferring years

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seven maths is my pupils, arguing it should be based on continual

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assessment. On health, they pledged to increase

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the number of full-time GPs by 400 over the next five years, and

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address what they call the current crippling waiting lists. On the

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economy, they produced -- promised to implement a strategy to tackle a

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high level of economic activity. Although Mike Nesbitt quit the

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Executive order -- in protest over IRA activity, that is not mentioned

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in the manifesto. That is because the Executive have

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appointed a panel who are not going to report on how to get rid of

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polymeric -- paramilitaries until the end of May. We know what we want

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to hear from that panel, and that is a sanction for those who want to

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continue to use their energy and commitment to fill the own pockets,

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to destroy the economy through organised crime, and to exert very

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evil control over local communities. The Ulster Unionists had a good

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Westminster election, getting two MPs return. The question is whether

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Arlene Foster's arrival as DUP leader will blunt the hopes of a

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storm on comeback. -- storm on comeback. -- storm want.

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Our economics and business Editor John Campbell is looking

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at some of the economic promises and aspirations in each of the main

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John, the next Executive is going to have to make a decision

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on university tuition fees what are the Ulster Unionists

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Do we produce enough skilled graduates? At the moment the

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universities are cutting back the number of student places, they say

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the only way they can reverse that is if it there is an increase in

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tuition fees. What the Ulster Unionists say is that they want a

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fair and sustainable system of student funding. I asked Mike

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Nesbitt what that means, and he says that while he thinks it would be a

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retrograde step to put -- -- I still think that leaves the door open for

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the Steelers to say that fees could go up. -- Ulster Unionists.

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Today we have figures showing that the local economy grew by about 1.4%

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last year, it is good by recent standards. But some economists say

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that kind of measurement doesn't tell us if Government policies

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actually improve people's well-being. So there are some

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experimental indexes looking at say, people's happiness levels of

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anxiety. The Ulster Unionists are proposing that these measures so

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formed part of the targets for the Executive. -- should form part of.

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And a warning for all the parties today about what they will be able

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to do after the election? Yes, this comes from the chief

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economist of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Northern Ireland, he says what we

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have to be aware of, whatever the parties are hoping to do, the

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backdrop is more austerity because the grant we are getting from

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Westminster is falling, and very low economic growth. So while the

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parties may want to spend more money on most things, the reality is that

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they are more likely to be announcing more cuts and more

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reforms to public services over the next four years.

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And the political coverage of the election continues tonight

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with a special edition of The View with Mark Carruthers.

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Tonight we have come as close as we can to the heart of Northern

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Ireland, Castle Dawson, for a one hour election special. In this

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industrial setting we are making the final tweaks to our pop-up studio.

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Our audience will question senior figures from five largest parties on

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the economy, health, voter apathy, education and much, much more.

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That's tonight at 10:45pm. Every weekend, more than three

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thousand people here take part in Park Run -

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an organised, free to enter fun They happen all over the world,

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but now a Council in England wants There are 22 part runs in Northern

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Ireland, and placing -- including at least one in every council area.

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They all take place in -- on Saturday mornings and are all free

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to enter. But a council in England wants to charge runners for the use

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of the local park, so could it happen here?

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I can never see it happening here, the relationships we have with the

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councils is excellent, it is much, much better. Councils are very

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supportive, they are very keen on what we do and the numbers we bring

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to the parks. They invest in us, they spend money on us, they trod --

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don't try to take money from us. The runners are allowed to bring

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their dog or their baby. Rachael has done almost 50 park runs.

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Should people not have to pay for monopolising a park on Saturday

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morning? We don't monopolise the park, with

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are given a safety briefing at the start, you must give way to other

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part users. If you have a dog you have to start of the back, the same

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with a buggy. You see hundreds of people dressed in Lycra, ready to

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run five kilometres. This one I think wants to go and run five

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kilometres! She did 31 while I was pregnant with

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her, I did my last run of 38 weeks and she was born at 39. And she has

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done many sins. You are either very committed,

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Ahmad! A bit of both. Part runs are rising in popularity here, but the

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price is staying the same. There is just a little hint of

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spring at the moment, it is getting a little bit brighter. We are about

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to transition to some rather cooler temperatures over the next few days.

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But before that we have got quite a pleasant evening to enjoy. We have

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had plenty of cloud over us for the last few days, but in the last hour

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or two that has started to burn back. A decent evening to enjoy.

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Overnight, the temperatures will drop away, down to 34 degrees

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overnight. But it will be a good bit cooler than that by the time we get

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into the next couple of nights. -- three or 4 degrees. The signal for

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the cooler there is a band of rain that will work its way south through

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tomorrow. We start off a reasonably dry node, then that rain comes in,

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behind it, the air is much cooler. There will be some stronger breezes

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is that front brings -- come through, but they are temperatures

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are temperatures are not getting above seven or eight. However, if

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you can stay out of the breeze in that sunshine there is plenty of

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warmth in the sun. The clear skies through the day mean it will be

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another reasonably bright evening. Just the chance of a few showers

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across the East coast, the remnants of some rather mucky weather over

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the water tomorrow. For us, the high pressure is in charge, giving us

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another clear, cold night. The weekend will get off on rather a

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chilly night. The chance of a bit of frost on Saturday morning, but once

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the sun gets to work it will be really rather nice. The air

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temperature is not terribly warm, but in that sunshine it will feel

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quite present. -- pleasant. Similar sort of set up on Sunday, we start

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to get our flow of weather coming in from the West, that might introduce

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a bit more cloud, but do you know what? It always feels much more like

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spring when there are some blue skies and run, and this weekend with

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should see some of that. Not bad for park running. Join me at

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half past ten. Have a good evening.

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