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and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.

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This is BBC Newsline and these are the headlines this

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Emergency services are at the scene at the higher crashes through a shop

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Politicians talk of pro-Brexit alliances

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and not electoral pacts, but what does that really mean?

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You can package this one whatever way you like, but this will end up

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becoming a feud by the public as a Nationalist pack.

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Petrol bombers attack a house in Ballymena

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with four people inside, including an 11-year-old boy.

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Someone could have been killed here. You can see the damage to the house,

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you can see the damage to the gas line. If that had have went up, it

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wouldn't have just been that family and that property, it would have

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been the whole neighbourhood. Library users will see

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their services cut back as budget Rural patients are facing long

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journeys to visit their GP, As one Irish league boss resigns, we

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hear from the two managers chasing local football putts biggest prize.

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Some cooler weather around this weekend, but that's just a taster

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First, to that incident in south Belfast an hour ago.

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A car has crashed through the window of business

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It happened on the Lisburn Road just over an hour ago.

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Which is a busy arterial route lined with shops and businesses.

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Our reporter Dan Stanton is at the scene.

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Yes, the actual car has just been taken away a moments ago, where it

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will now be assessed by police accident investigators. As you can

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see, there is a clear up operation now going on inside the shop, with a

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will have to assess if it can reopen and when to customers. We have been

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speaking to witnesses here at the scene, including a woman who was at

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the entrance to the shop and a woman who was at the entrance to the shop

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on the card came. She said she car and tried to

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run out it. She said was too shocked to talk to the BBC, but doubt inside

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the shop have been talking to us. This is what if you have them had to

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say if you months ago. All of a sudden, I heard the crash. I thought

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Id bomb had gone off on a first heard it. I went out and saw that

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the car had come straight through. Donohoe, I don't anything. I just

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saw all the commotion. Then I phoned the police and the ambulance

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straightaway and members of the public help the guy lying on the

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ground. Thankfully, everyone seemed to be OK. All the customers seem to

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be OK. I checked in the seemed fine. I think one guy was being treated

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for shock. He seems to be doing OK. I understand there was an elderly

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couple inside the car. They had been treated by ambulance staff for

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shock. I understand they are at the Royal Victoria Hospital at the

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moment, are being assessed. There was a customer inside the shop who

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was slightly injured and they understand he has actually left the

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scene and didn't need any further treatment. Dan Stanton reporting

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from south Belfast. Just four days into the Westminster election

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campaign and we have had top of electoral pacts and alliances. In

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the face of a possible unionist pact,

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The SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, says the Alliance party should

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rethink its rejection of an anti-Brexit coalition to fight

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the general election in Northern Ireland.

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In the face of a possible unionist pact the SDLP,

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Sinn Fein and the Green Party have already held talks about coming

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together to fight pro-Brexit candidates in the Westminster poll.

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The intention is to send a message to the Prime Minister.

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But the Alliance leader Naomi Long says it would be regarded

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as a nationalist pact and her party will not get involved.

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Here's our political correspondent Gareth Gordon.

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this is the kind of happiness a packed empire. From Sinn Fein with

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help from the DUP. Kuyt Brexit be about to do the same? For the SDLP,

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Sinn Fein, Alliance and the Green Party. I don't think any general

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election is a substitute for a referendum on the final deal.

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Regardless of what decision is made from this proposed pact, Northern

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Ireland's boy should be heard. The whole Brexit campaign was about

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taking back control, the people of Northern Ireland should have a say

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on their future. Jaime might it work as Michael at the two constituencies

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for example. Any Brexit referendum, these places had a majority remain.

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If the SDLP do decide it could help Sinn Fein at the general election.

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Here, though as a majority of 17,000. That could see Sinn James

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Anderson eight. The SDLP say they are not interested in a so-called

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sectarian pact only involving Sinn Fein. But the alliance decision to

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reject the idea could prove fatal. Can the Alliance Party be persuaded

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to change their mind? You can package this one whatever way you

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like, but this will end up becoming viewed by the public as a

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Nationalist pact. That is dangerous. It is not only sectarian eyes think

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the debate around Brexit, but potentially disenfranchise as

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Unionists were not happy with the idea of a hard Brexit but would not

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vote for a Nationalist pact. Are you saying that because you are getting

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all these moderate unionist votes no glove I'm saying it because I

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believe it. The man who thought up this alliance says they should think

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again. Their roles as of ideas out there. Potential candidates and

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constituencies who would be very pro-remain and anti-Brexit. I think

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Naomi needs to think about us. We all have to set aside our own narrow

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political ambitions for a fuel leaks. Corridor remains open to any

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political party who wish to discuss the idea, analyse the political

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positions and then go away and make individual decisions as political

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parties. The political alliance would be progressive in its nature.

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He believed a Brexit like pack could emerge. If it looks to Nationalist,

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I don't think the STL P can run with it. That doesn't mean that there can

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to be a number of unilateral actions that would allow for candidates who

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were former remain and he would be in favour of some form of special

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designated staters from Northern Ireland to have a free run across a

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range constituencies. The parties have big decisions to make before

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the voters get their turn. Gareth Gordon, BBC Newsline.

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A family home in Ballymena was petrol-bombed overnight.

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Our reporter, Aileen Moynagh, has been to the scene

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He broken window, the evidence of an attack on a house on Alfred Street

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place in Ballymena just before 4am this morning. Inside a house at the

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time were a woman, her ex-partner and two of the Jordan. An

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18-year-old woman and an 11-year-old boy. Through the smashed window, a

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petrol bomb was thrown, causing a fire inside and scorch damage to an

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outside wall. When the Fire Service arrived, the fire was out, but there

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were concerns about a gas leak, because of gas pipes underneath the

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kitchen window. No one was injured in the attack. When the local MLA

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knows the family is booked to them about what happened. The shocked and

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horrified that something like this could happen to them, to their

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property and is unable to do. They are surprises as happened in the

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don't know why. Paul Frew says the local community will support the

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family through this, but there is a sense of confusion as to why this

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family was targeted. There is a complete shock and surprise to us

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why they would have picked this family and this property. Of course,

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that is for the police to investigate. I certainly would

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condemn it and the people who think that this would be a good thing to

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do. This could have ended up horrendously wrong. Someone could

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have been killed here. You can see the damage to the house, the gas

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line, if that had went up, it wouldn't have just been that

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property and the family within it, it would have been your whole

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neighbourhood. In a separate incident, a car was burnt out close

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to this roundabout. At this stage, the police say they are not

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connecting the two incidents. We headed west with Shane Harrison.

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All quiet at the moment in the quiet man country. I live at Ashford

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Kassel, were tomorrow, Rory McIlroy is to get married.

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Libraries face the prospect of fewer staff, fewer new books

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and reduced opening times because of a finance cut.

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There's a 5% reduction in their annual

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funding from the Department for the Communities.

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Our education and arts correspondent Robbie Meredith reports.

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For some of our libraries, each chapter might be ending. Libraries

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Northern Ireland lost ?2 million last year and the need to save

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another one point family manse this year, that will mean buying less. We

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will be spreading the cuts around. We'll be spending a bit less on

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newspapers, children's books, adult books, online resources, and so on.

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We also need to look at our staffing costs. That means many libraries

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opening a bit less frequently in the near future. We're looking at

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introducing summer opening hours in the majority of our libraries, which

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would be slightly less than the opening hours for the rest of the

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year. Despite changing times and many more people using home

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technology, libraries here are still relatively popular. Last year, 25%

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of adults used one on a regular basis and almost 50% of children

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visited one, and that doesn't include school libraries. The one in

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Belfast was busy today, with readers of all ages. We started using the

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library and borrowing the big for my child's, for her, and all the

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activities that either for reading and socialising and helping

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gathering people together and it was also a very good way for us to get a

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little bit introduced to the culture. Over Easter, I have been

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most days for two or three hours, because I find that I work much

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better here than at home. It is good for children to come and have

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support for their homework. I have used it since they were babies.

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There were almost over 100 libraries right across Northern Ireland. If

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their opening hours cut even just buy a fewer hours week, that will

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have an impact on readers young and old in every town, and city. Robbie

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From cuts in library provision to cuts in rural doctors' surgeries.

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We've reported before on difficulties in getting Gps to

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This evening the focus is on Roslea in County Fermanagh.

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Its only surgery closed last week - leaving the village without a doctor

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Our south-west reporter Julian Fowler has been speaking

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to doctors and patients about the recruitment crisis

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When a rural GP and firm and a retired in the 1990s, around 40

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doctors apply for the post. When the GP here retired last year, not one

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doctor responded to the job advert. Now the surgery has closed and

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patients transferred to another surgery. Last night, a public

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meeting was held to protest against the closure. Don't normally protest

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in public, but today my temper is rising. Our probably be back to see

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you. We cannot afford to take taxis there and paper baby-sitters when we

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have to go down and wait around with children. This is outrageous and we

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will not accept it! APPLAUSE

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People say the changes will mean they will have to travel further and

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wait longer to see a doctor. I will then have to go a round trip of over

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30 miles for any medication or anything I need. We have a little

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boy with medical needs and the GP surgery was a lifeline for us. I

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know I'm going to have to wait. In your experience, how long is the

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weight? Well, you could be waiting up to three weeks if you want to see

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the doctor. I am 87 years of age and its... It's not a good idea for me

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to have to drive down there. Doctors say the difficulties in recruiting

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GPs to small rural surgeries in the Senate the Thames. Young doctors now

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want to work in group activities, they are aware of their obligations

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in terms of governance and providing a safe service only feel that that

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can best be done where they have peer support. It also affects things

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like annual leave, being able to take leave and it is difficult to

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find law comes and doctors working single-handed practices have found

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that attempts to much to bear. This practice is now taken only patients

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of three doctors who have retired in the last year. There are plans to

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replace the 1970s building with a new medical centre. GPs say that

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with so many vacancies, the least attractive practices have no future.

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My own dad was a single-handed GP for many years and it was... Of its

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time, it was a good model, but practice has become so complicated

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and the pressures are so high that I think you're going to find

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increasingly doctors are going to come together and form larger groups

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and almost inevitably, that will mean that small villages full no

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longer have the local surgery. World are plans train more GPs, the

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recruitment crisis facing single doctor practices remains. With more

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GPs approaching retirement, it's likely that other rule surgeries

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will have to close. Julian Fowler, BBC Newsline.

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A County Londonderry care worker has pleaded not guilty to four counts

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51-year-old Freda Boyd from Drumeen Drive in Garvagh,

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is accused of ill-treating four different people while

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they were in-patients for mental health disorders

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A solicitor said she would be contesting the four charges.

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Former Boxing world champion Carl Frampton says people don't

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have the right to send abuse on social media, after his family

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were targeted in two separate incidents.

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His wife Christine received death threats on Facebook and he received

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abuse on Twitter for wearing a GAA top.

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Hillsborough Castle has been awarded almost ?5 million

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of Lottery money to make it more accessible to the public.

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The money will be spent on a new visitor centre

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When the work is complete, the venue will be open all year round.

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A squeeze on the public purse has led to an increase in borrowing

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by a growing number of community or social businesses.

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One lending organisation has had its busiest period in 16 years.

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Our business correspondent Julian O'Neill reports.

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Aside old industry, new businesses are beginning. This is the foundry.

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A hub for social enterprise start-ups. Rows of office space for

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early stage ventures like website design, all sharing the goal of

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providing jobs. We want to go out and find the diamonds still in the

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community and give them the opportunity to come in and build

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their own businesses, and create local employment uncertainty this

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part of the city really achieve what it can do again. This Lady dreams of

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her own specialist clothing business, garments without buttons,

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clothes, scenes are labelled her children with autism. Momentum has

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been great and they are very helpful. I cant believe that I only

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came here last September with a small idea and now I am ready to

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manufacture. The enterprises here have a common thread, operating like

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Private businesses, but supporting a community or a social purpose. Many

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of them have hatched help from an organisation which has had its

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busiest few months in 16 years, lending almost ?2 million to 18

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projects. We do not charge arrangement fees, settlement fees,

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we are after it the social enterprise ourselves. We concentrate

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all lending activity, all our lending energy in the areas of the

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mainstream banking sector are not particularly keen to get involved

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in. But our space. The lender believes cuts in public funding

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largely explains a record period for loans, it hopes the money will prove

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to have been well invested in the ventures it backs become a success.

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Julian O'Neill, BBC Newsline Belfast.

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A joint British-Irish ceremony is to be held in Belgium in June

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to mark the centenary of the Battle of Messines Ridge in

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Unionist and nationalist soldiers from across Ireland fought side

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The ceremony will be at the Island of Ireland Peace Park in Messines

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The shared event will mark the service and sacrifice

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of soldiers from the 36th Ulster division and the 16th Irish division

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On Wednesday's programme, we met seven-year-old

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He has autism and barely spoke until he watched the astronaut

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Tim Peake blast into space just over a year ago.

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Hayden's mother told us he's been talking about all things space

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Well, the story has been watched almost 50,000 times

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online since our broadcast and now even Major Tim Peake

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What planet do you want to go to? Myers. Can you tell them where Myers

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is? It's the fourth planet away from the Sun.

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online since our broadcast and now even Major Tim Peake

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"Delighted that Hayden is making such great progress.

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Next stop, Mars for that brave young lad."

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You can watch that report, it's still on our Facebook page.

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Now there are big preparations on the west coast of Ireland ahead

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the wedding of golf star Rory McIlroy.

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Our Dublin correspondent Shane Harrison is there.

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It would be pushing it to say that security is very tight at the moment

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for the wedding tomorrow, but tomorrow it will be a different

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story. Rory and Eric are used to Raqqa. They have spent the last two

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new receives here and tomorrow we expect the likes of singers from

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Westside and one direction to be here along with golfers. Graeme

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McDowell is playing a internment in America. Pierce Brosnan got married

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here. As my colleague has been finding out, he has been listening

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to what local people have been saying about tomorrow pot event. One

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of sport's most eligible bachelors is about to tie the tie the knot.

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Rory McIlroy and his fiancee have been engaged since late 2015. They

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will marry at the picturesque Ashford Castle in County Mayo. He

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often shies away from the spotlight, but tomorrow, golf's quiet man will

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struggle to dodge the attention. The attention is bringing a welcome

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boost to the village. It will draw down tourists from Northern Ireland.

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It will be wonderful. They are badly in need of it. Lastly, there were a

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lot of people staying here and putting up marquees and forests and

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whatnot. Friends and family of the couple will rub shoulders with stars

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in the world of sport and music. This usually sleepy fishing village

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is now the centre intense media interest. There is speculation that

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Ed Sheerin, Rory pot friend is going to make an appearance here tonight,

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even though he is playing in Manchester. The real speculation is

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that the main entertainment is going to be the legend that is Stevie

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wonder. Or maybe years just calling in to say loves them. I like it,

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Shane. It's going to be a great weekend. And now the sport.

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36 games played in this season's Irish league, only two to go.

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And just a single point seperates Crusaders at the top, and Linfield,

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who've won the league 51 times - the most successful club

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However if Linfield slip up against Coleraine this weekend,

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then this year's Championship could be all over by 5:00pm tomorrow.

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If the pressure is on Crusaders, they are certainly not showing it.

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Nice and relaxed comedy team had their final training session last

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night, knowing this year's championship could come down to one

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goal, one mistake, just one piece of brilliance. COMMENTATOR: A second

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opportunity! What is the overriding opportunity right now? I think we

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are keen to get on with it. Do you enjoy it? Absolutely not. The

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emotions of football are tough. Somatic state, trying to win

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something. You only get yourself in this position now and again. -- so

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much at stake. He had to say in the moment all of the time and that's

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what we are trying to do. We are not getting ahead of ourselves, we are

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just dying to play one game of football and deal with them as they

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come along. In the history of the Irish league, only two clubs have

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managed three successive titles. The class of 2017 ready to pounce if

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Crusaders slip up. Typically take care of our own business. We are

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going to Coleraine now. You should be one of those occasions. We are

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waiting to difficult. Especially down there, once again, our boys

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should go down and relish. Sometimes it's not about performance, it's

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about digging out points. Is it going to take three winter when the

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fleet? I think so. Linfield are a top team. We have to look after our

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own camping on with what we do. We have to see of best is good enough

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and if it's not, never mind. If their side failed to claim all three

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points and Crusaders do, then it's all over for another year. If

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Linfield win, then this year's title race will go to the very final game

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the season. Some breaking football news this

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evening and Cliftonville are looking for a new manager

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after the resignation The former Cliftonville player has

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been in full-time charge at Solitude since October 2015,

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after impressing Despite only one win in nine,

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Cliftonville are currently fourth in the table,

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and will be involved in the end-of-season playoff's

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for a European place. Little has been strongly linked with

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the vacant job at the Rovers. The Belfast Giant's season may be

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over, but there's more top-class ice hockey taking place at the SSE

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Arena. For the very first time,

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Belfast hosts Division 1B The Great Britain team will be

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hoping to gain promotion, but face tough opposition

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from the likes of Japan, For over a decade, Colin Shields has

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been scoring goals here for the Belfast Giants. He is the team pot

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all-time leading scorer, but now the focus of the Scottish born forward

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isn't helping Great Britain win World Championship promotion on home

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ice. Something a little bit different not only for myself, but

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for the fans and the people Belfast and Great Britain to see us. We are

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looking for a dead. Is an exciting challenge. Something to push as

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Elizabeth over the finish line and awfully we will take home a gold

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medal. Will be the first time in a long time that they have hosted the

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championship and hopes how they can win hands gain promotion. Every year

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that you can win it, it's whatever level you are at, it's great. To win

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it as the home nation would be brilliant. We have to handle that

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and make sure we stay focused. I think they have a great chance. I

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really believe that. I know the guys believe that. There is a real

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camaraderie and excitement in the grip. I hope we bring it and the

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liver. This is the latest major ice hockey event to be held in Belfast

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following on from a successful American tournament and another

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opportunity to showcase the city. Supporting Northern Ireland is not

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just about the capping Giants, it's about support as a whole and

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something bigger for the community. It's good to see other events with

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the World Championships and the friendship are forthcoming to

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Belfast. It is a thumping else the fans can enjoy can enjoy the city.

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Showing them a little bit of a different style of hockey. Hopefully

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they will come out and support and we dusted pictures. The first game

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is against Croatia on Sunday. The first game is against

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Croatia on Sunday. Antrim's Mark Allen produced

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a superb first session to take a 5-3 lead over John Higgins

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in their second-round match at the World Championship

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at the Crucible theatre in Sheffield.The world number

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11 hit three centuries against the four-time champion

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including a run of 129 in frame six. After not potting a ball

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for more than 40 minutes, Higgins regrouped to snatch

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the final frame of the session. The two remaining sessions take

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place tomorrow with Allen You can also keep in contact with us

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via Facebook and Twitter. The weather for the weekend

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ahead with Cecilia Daly. He real change in our weather is

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coming next week when it is going to get a lot colder. This weekend,

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we'll see a of cold weather compared to the last couple of days. A lot of

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dry weather around, good news for gardeners. Not completely rain free.

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For instance, tonight we have trips and jabs of rain around. Not

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particularly heavy on lasting too long and it will generally be quite

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cloudy. Perhaps a little bit cooler compared to recent nights. Let's

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look at Saturday. A lot of dry weather to come. There will, once

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again, be a lot of cloud around, too. If you're up early tomorrow, it

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will be damp places. Most of that rain edges away quite quickly and

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then we'll see a little better brightness coming through. The best

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chance of sunshine tomorrow afternoon will be over and trim.

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Slightly lower temperatures than today. Still a very light winds. The

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cloud will be thicker over parts of terror on. The risk of one or two

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showers at any time through the course of the day. Not bad

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motorcycle racing weather. A lot of dry weather. A few are out and about

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tomorrow night, no more than the odd spot of rain. Otherwise, fairly dry

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and not to Chile. Similar temperatures to tonight. Let's move

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on to Sunday. Fairly cloudy to begin with, with the few bits and pieces

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of rain around. Temperatures edged back up. A few fancy getting out in

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the garden this week, it will not be completely dry, but if your amount

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of dry weather around and not as cold as next week when we get this

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blast of cold air. Originally, that comes from the Arctic. One of the

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coldest times of year in the Arctic and that's why we can see

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temperatures in single figures, even snow. Enjoy your weekend.

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