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This is BBC Newsline and these are the headlines

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We're on the trail of a serial child abuser now living in Canada -

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he admits his crimes, for which he's never

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For that, I have got no... Other than I thought an opportunity and I

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took it. We also speak to one

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of the abuser's victims, who says he's still having

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nightmares about it He should be in hell, seriously, he

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should be. Why should I live in hell on my own? And I was the victim.

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Prosecutors consider appealing the jail terms given to a couple

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who abused a vulnerable woman in their home for eight years.

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The BBC to invest an extra ?11 million in its operation

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Pioneering the possiblities of 3-D printing here in Belfast.

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And cloud amounts are the main issue at the moment,

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First on BBC Newsline, an untold story from a dark

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It sheds light on an apparent failure by the police

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to charge a Belfast man who, in 1985, admitted abusing children

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The abuser left Northern Ireland and got on with his life abroad.

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His victims were left behind to pick up the pieces.

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Here, with the first of two exclusive reports,

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is our investigations reporter Kevin Magee.

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This was a search that brought us to Canada.

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The man's past first came to light at the recent Historical

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Institutional Abuse Inquiry, but his identity was protected.

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BBC News Northern Ireland legally challenged that decision and won.

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We can now tell you his name is Henry Clarke, a man

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We went to a remote part of Canada to find him.

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I'm on the trail of a Belfast man who now lives in Canada.

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He's a church pastor, husband, father and,

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as we can reveal for the first time, a serial child sex abuser.

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But he's never been brought to justice, even though

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he confessed his crimes to the police in Northern Ireland.

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We're making a 4,000 mile journey to confront him.

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Two flights later, we took to the road and drove

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for hundreds of miles north, leaving Canada's major cities behind,

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searching for the church pastor who emigrated

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The trail eventually took us to the edge of the Canadian

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wilderness, a vast tract of land that stretches

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We have found out that there's a Henry James Clarke living

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We have discovered he's originally from Belfast

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and we have a current address for him.

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The place Henry Clarke has chosen to live in is hundreds of miles

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In winter, temperatures can drop to -50.

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Hi, may I speak to Mr Clarke, please?

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I think if you and I could sit and have a chat?

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This is the first time he's been challenged publicly about abusing

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young boys in his care at three different children's homes

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where he worked in Northern Ireland in the late 60s and 70s.

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One of his victims was a 12-year-old boy at the former Bawnmore

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How many children did you abuse in Bawnmore?

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But you shared with me today that the young man

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But I remember one and I remember it quite well.

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And this happened in your parent's house.

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You brought a vulnerable child to your parent's home.

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You introduced him to your parents and then abused him in their house.

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Other than I saw an opportunity and I took it.

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He's Billy Brown and he was a 12-year-old resident at Bawnmore

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As a victim, he's waived his right to anonymity.

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He says he wants the truth about the abuse he suffered to be made known.

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How was it in his head to pick me to come and ask me

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Anybody who says they do, they need their head looked at.

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He was in his own mother and father's house.

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And for him to get into bed beside me and done what he done.

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He shouldn't even have got to Canada.

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Why should I be in hell on my own and I was the victim?

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In 1985, while visiting Northern Ireland, Henry Clarke

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was questioned by police and confessed to abusing Billy

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It would have been in the mid 80s, we were on holiday in Belfast

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and two detectives from the RUC came to talk to me and on that day,

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I admitted I had interfered with a boy at Bawnmore,

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From there, he made a further admission.

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He wrote to the RUC telling them he'd abused a third boy -

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this time a Boys Brigade camp in Newcastle, County Down.

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When I was in Northern Ireland, I omitted to mention a boy that

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I had interfered with sexually, and I wanted to deal

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with everything, and so I wrote to them and admitted

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that there was another boy that I had missed,

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or omitted telling them about, and asked them to take

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Well, I realised at that time my behaviour was wrong

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And I believe that, in my mind, that I would probably finish up

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going to prison or something of that nature, but there

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This time, the police didn't even attempt to have him prosecuted.

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And not only did they fail to press charges, they also failed to tell

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the Canadian authorities that there was a self-confessed paedophile

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living in their jurisdiction - much to Henry Clarke's surprise.

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So you thought that the RUC would have told the Canadian authorities?

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I did. I expected them to.

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Does it feel just to you that you have lived a full

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life here in Canada, while your victims'

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lives were blighted back in Northern Ireland by your actions?

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That I've had a good life and they've had a bad life?

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I hope they haven't had a bad life, I really do.

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I couldn't take it back and I was hoping that by my honesty

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that it would be dealt with and I would have the freedom

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I thought that the system would deal out to me

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And he should have had it done years ago.

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I can't understand it. Why?

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With no charges brought against him and the Canadian authorities

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unaware of his confessions, Henry Clarke continues to live

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out his life in Canada, where he has been a pastor

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for the past 30 years, moving around the country

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So Henry Clarke, having admitted child sex abuse

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to the authorities not once but twice, expected

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I'll be looking for answers on tomorrow evening's programme.

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There are organisations offering information and support to anyone

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affected by the sexual abuse of children.

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Their details are on the BBC's Actionline.

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This is BBC Newsline and still ahead on the programme:

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Can Rory McIlroy achieve golfing green is by winning a career grand

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slam? Join me for a special interview ahead of the Masters in

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Augusta. The Public Prosecution Service

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is considering appealing against the sentences handed down

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yesterday to husband and wife They were jailed for 15 years and 18

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months respectively for abusing a vulnerable woman who they kept

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as a virtual prisoner. Today there've been calls

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for an inquiry into how the Bakers were able to get away

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with their abuse for so long. Just how was Keith Baker

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able to keep and abuse a vulnerable woman, known

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as she was to the police and social services

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in England, for eight years? Ask those who knew him and knew

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the faily set-up described in court Ask those who knew him and knew

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the family set-up described in court as "grossly unconventional" and one

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word keeps cropping up - "control." It was Baker's second partner,

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Mandy Highfield, who brought the abuse to an end just before

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Christmas 2012. Baker had gone to England

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and she took the chance to escape from his control,

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something that for years, she told If you wanted to go to the toilet,

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you'd have to tell him that you wanted to go to the toilet

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and he would get somebody to stand at the bottom of the stairs to make

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sure you didn't go If you wanted to make a cup

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of coffee, you had to tell him you were making a cup of coffee

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and he'd come and stand there, just You couldn't do nothing

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without tellng him, The woman was reported

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missing to Suffolk police Suffolk Constabulary

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gave us this statement: Lord Morrow has been

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following this case since 2014. He has written many letters

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and tabled many questions, but says Now he wants an inquiry

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into what went wrong. We need to know why this was allowed

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to continue for so many years, it seems to be that one department

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doesn't know what the other is doing and there has been no joined up

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thinking or strategy. It is time some questions were asked. I would

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hope that these agencies, including the police, will take a look at

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themselves now and reflect on this and I suspect when they do that,

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they will come up with the answer, we could have and should have done

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better year. This evening it emerged prosecutors are considering

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appealing against the sentences handed down to the Bakers yesterday.

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They said the PPS is considering if there is a basis to refer the

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sentences handed down in this case to the Court of Appeal on the

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grounds they may have been unduly lenient.

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A charity which enables 20,000 vulnerable people

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to live independently, says its budget has been cut by 5%

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Supporting People say the cut means loss of ?3 million

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to its programme providing housing related support services

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At Stormont today Sinn Fein said there has been plenty of engagement

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in the latest phase of inter party talks but no progress.

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Michelle O'Neill, its Stormont leader, said both the DUP

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and the British government need to change their attitudes

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if there is to be any prospect of agreement.

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We have had a lot of meetings and engagement but not a lot of

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progress. It is clear the DUP and the British Government have failed

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to focus on the key issues of the recent election. Our position is

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clear, we will not return to the staters call. -- staters call.

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The police service is changing its recruitment process

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to try to address the low number of Catholics signing up.

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The changes include reducing the length of the selection

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procedure from 12 to 6 months and allowing candidates to take

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the initial test online rather than in an exam centre.

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The PSNI has ruled out the reintroduction of

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the controversial 50/50 recruitment policy which operated from 2001

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to 2011 and significantly boosted the number of Catholic recruits.

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It's reported that in three recent recruitment drives 31%

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of those who applied were from a Catholic background.

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The European Parliament has approved negotiating guidelines for the UK's

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exit from the European Union, ruling out any trade

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deal until the terms of withdrawal are settled.

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During the debate Sinn Fein's Martina Anderson challenged

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the Taoiseach to act as the voice of Irish people north and south

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The DUP's Diane Dodds said the triggering of Article 50 had

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And the Ulster Unionist MEP Jim Nicholson said he wouldn't

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accept either a hard border with the Republic or an internal

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border within the UK, and he had this rebuke for the EU

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Commission's Chief Brexit negotiator.

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I hope you're listening and not twiddling with your telephone

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With the greatest respect, can I say to you clearly,

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The BBC is to invest an extra ?11 million

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in Northern Ireland over the next three years.

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Making the announcement today, the director general Tony Hall said

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it was the biggest single investment the BBC had made here

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Our arts correspondent Robbie Meredith has more.

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As of now, we are investigating how are charging of Michael Farmer.

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Today's investment should mean more of this.

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This is what our younger audiences want, more money and more money in

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news and sports online but the second area is 50% increase in the

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money spent in Northern Ireland for Northern Ireland services, more

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drama, comedy, documentary is that reflect the life of Northern

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Ireland. So good news, but the most recently

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published accounts for BBC Northern Ireland show that it

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brought in ?99 million in licence But that just over ?73 million

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was spent by the BBC here in return. So are local licence fee payers

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being short changed? Part of what we are paying for is

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the entire BBC. You are paying for the sports rights for the FA Cup,

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the World Service, the entirety of the UK's output of the BBC. It is

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the balance we have got to work. The BBC is also renewing

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a partnership with Northern Ireland Screen, which will mean hits

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like The Fall and Line Of Duty There is fact and then there is the

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truth. That was the most watched drama on BBC Two ever and has no

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move to BBC One. It is an air and will come back and be made in

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Northern Ireland. Moar returning series and drama, children's comedy,

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factual, film, all of those areas, which are not only of importance for

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the audience to consume but I helpful in terms of developing our

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economy. Ablest, though the BBC has announced much more substantial

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additional effort in Wales, and Scotland, given the scrutiny over

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how the BBC spends the licensee, the fact that more of it will be staying

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here will be widely welcomed. A group of foootball clubs

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from north and west Belfast have joined forces in a cross-community

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initiative to address mental health A number of young men

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in some of the clubs have taken their own lives

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in the last year. Our reporter Kevin

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Sharkey has the story. A new campaign with a simple

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message for footballers. 28 clubs in all have come

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together from west Belfast Different communities,

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similar losses to suicide. Craig Volkmann was involved with the

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football club, Johnny Little, Woodvale has had four deaths through

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suicide over the last number of years. Twice in the last year and a

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half, and under 19 player. Taking their own life. It really brings it

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home. It is so close to home. There are many services based on the

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community providing help for people suffering from mental health issues.

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The big difference with this initiative is that it provides that

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help in the heart of local football clubs. It's OK to ask for help, it's

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OK to talk. Imagine a future in which a new

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technology could be used to create everything from entire houses

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to replacement human organs. Well those days are just

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about upon us thanks It uses printers to build up layers

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of materials to create objects. Our economics and business

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editor John Campbell The technology's been

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around since the 1980s, but in recent years it's grown

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from a niche market to something It's particularly used in precision

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engineering sectors, like aerospace. And increasingly in the medical

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sector, which is where They take 2-D scans and turn

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them into detailed 3-D What we are doing is 3-D printing

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something from patients's CT scans. We take a patient's CTD data made up

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of two slices and we reconstructed in the 3-D visualisation in the

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office to give to the surgeons. While they look at the three

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visualisation, we put it into the 3-D printer and it will reconstruct

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layer by layer at the CT scans to create one of physical model of a

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patient's pathology. And here's one of the surgeons who's

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recently started using the models. There is no surprises. We know

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exactly what we are getting. We have got a 3-D model there, we are not

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going to say we weren't expecting that bit of bone it to be there or

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that bit of bone to be somewhere else. We know exactly what we are

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getting. There were about 45,000 3-D printers

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sold worldwide last year. The cheapest ones, for home use,

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can be had for under ?200. There are also big industrial

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printers used by major companies, So is there much scope for local

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firms to use the technology? Experts at Queens are

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working in this field. And they say the speed

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and versatility of the technology Local companies can produce

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prototypes quickly and efficiently and to bring it to their customers

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for review. If the customer doesn't like it, they can quickly go back

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and change the design and reproduce a new prototype. In the past that

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may have taken months, with 3-D printing that can take a matter of

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days. Meanwhile, Axial 3-D has recently

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landed fresh investment, which will allow it to refine

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its products and grow the company. The final day of practice for the US

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Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia was cut short

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because of bad weather today. In an interview for BBC Newsline,

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the Holywood man told Stephen Watson -- Rory McIlroy he's

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never felt as comfortable and well prepared ahead

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of the On the verge of something special. A

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win for Rory McIlroy at golf's most iconic tourist would feel a career

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grand slam. The Masters is the only one of the sports's for majors he is

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yet to win and Rory McIlroy sounds confident. I feel more relaxed this

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year coming into it and I have in previous years. I feel we build up

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hype around it hasn't been quite as much as in previous years, but I

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feel I have been able to prepare quietly and they have come up here

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and had a couple of good trips. I have played a lot of golf around

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here. Mentally, I am in a good place, my game is any good shape, it

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is just a matter of going it and hitting the shots when they have

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come up here and had a couple of good trips. I have played a lot of

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golf around here. Mentally, I am in a good place, my game is any good

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shape, it is just a matter of going it and hitting the shots when the

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only did to win all the majors. Nearly 20 years on from that BBC

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interview, he knows what's within touching distance. It would be a

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lifelong dream, to be the best golfer in the world and win majors.

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I have done most of that and this would honestly complete that. It

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would pick me any place in golf history that very few people have

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gone before. I realise that, but I have two park that someone else this

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week and just try in women's golf tournament. If I do that, all that

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other stuff will take care of itself. McIlroy has had a chance to

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win the Masters before. In 2011, he blew a four shot a final-round lead.

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But that experience was all part of the learning curve. I have to treat

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it as a single goal to lament and not think about the consequences. I

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want to win a green jacket and that would be the same whether I am going

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for a slam or my first major arm attends major. I just want to win

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the Masters. It is the only one that's missing. And I may feel some

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work pressure because of that, at the same time, everyone I have

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beaten before in this field and I might necessarily not to beat them

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around as golf course, I feel I have the ability to. McIlroy was one of

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just the few golfers to squeeze in nine holes and a very early practice

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this morning before the threat of thunder and lightning meant because

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it had to be evacuated. If McIlroy is to try and win the Masters at his

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ninth attempt, it's not just the mental pressure and the expectation

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he will have to battle but the windy weather.

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Angie Phillips is here with the latest weather news.

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Lots of dry weather it still in the forecast over the next few days

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because we have high pressure in charge at the moment and to date

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that high was centred to the south-west of it. That meant we had

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a slow around this northern edge coming off the Atlantic which

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brought moisture in the form of cloud and that cloud was big enough

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to give a futurist during the first part of the day. The cloud by no

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means solid, some breaks here and there, particularly in eastern areas

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and towards the north coast. Finally forgetting it in the water there.

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Back to this evening and one or two bright intervals but generally a lot

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of cloud. Once again through the night that cloud will close in

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places. Clear it does over the hills and the north, odd pockets of

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gazelle. For many of us, the dry weather holds and it will be a mild

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night with loads of six 8 degrees. Tomorrow, mucking around with cloud

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once again. Large amounts of cloud, but that mainly dry steam is with

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us. If you have some dreadful first thing in the morning, it would be

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long before they fade away and things become largely drive.

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Hopefully the cloud Wilson out at times, lifting up as we go through

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the afternoon, particularly late afternoon. We may see a few bright

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intervals. Temperatures 11, 12 degrees, possibly a degree higher

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somewhere in the east if we get those bright spells. That takes us

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into tomorrow night, a lot of cloud around which could thicken to bring

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some drizzle. A frost free night. Friday, doing it on again. A few

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patches of drizzle in the morning, thicker cloud and then as it dies

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away in the afternoon, we see some bright or sigh intervals starting to

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break through. Towards the weekend, it is not until later on Sunday some

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rain on the way. Variable cloud and a few bright spells.

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Our late summary is at half past ten.

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