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Principals say plans to cut the education budget by ?50 million

will result in teachers losing their jobs.

It would mean of ?160,000 which would equate to staff redundancies.

After talks fail, there is now little chance of an anti-Brexit

The Fermanagh village left without a GP where people

have the option of online consultations at a price.

A health trust says it was given special permission by Stormont

I win free interest with pain the bravest is the minute I might have

to go. The special football team from

Londonderry who have just played their first competitive match. And

the Arctic air moves away from us over the next 24 hours, so lest cold

weather is on the way, but that'll also mean less sunshine.

Politicians have been accused of holding children

to ransom with plans to cut the education budget.

The details were revealed yesterday by the Secretary of State, who said

he intends imposing a budget if the Stormont parties do not reach

an agreement on forming a new power-sharing executive.

Education would take the biggest hit, with a cut of 2.5% -

Our education correspondent Robbie Meredith has been getting

reaction from some school principals.

There is set to be no taking away then adding in many schools. The

education budget is the second largest behind health. A cut above

two and a half percent would mean a cat reduction that reduction. If

that money goes to schools less of it will mean changes in the

classroom. It will mean ?160,000 less for my school which will equate

to teaching staff redundancies. I will not be able to offer the

curriculum that the current the offer. But my biggest content would

be the impact on the education of young in my school. -- biggest

concern. Now he might have to save even more money. We have been

looking at cutting 60 hours of support. We might have to increase

that cut further sub will be cutting to staff. News of the cut came when

the Secretary of State but there is also anger towards Stormont. The

angle was said to reflect the political priorities and education

is getting a cut of 2.5%. If our young people and education is not a

political priority. Saying there is no money no longer makes sense to

us. Not .5 only in wasted 0.5 billion wasted on a R H I scandal?

And you're telling me I have to lose teachers? When this becomes a

reality, losing assistant and teachers will be the only way that

many are able to cope with this cut. Stormont's finances have been

operating under emergency procedures because the last Executive failed

to produce a budget. The Secretary of State said

he published his plan to give clarity to the officials

running government departments. Sinn Fein say any cuts

are ultimately due to But the DUP has accused Sinn Fein

of dodging hard decisions. Here's our economics and business

editor John Campbell. Our public services have taped a

series of tight budgets. And that is set to continue. And the separate

bat Secretary of State's and it would get more money but not enough

to make a major impact. It would mean cuts for education, justice and

economic. It said to reflect the priorities of local party. There was

not UK Government numbers but rather at reflecting the advice at the head

of the Northern Ireland civil service after his assessment of the

position which takes account of the priorities of the political parties

prior to the dissolution of the assembly. The Sinn Fein leader

acknowledges there are tough budget decision to come, but says that the

blame lives at Westminster. Let us remember that the Tory cat did not

happen because the -- Tory cat did not happen. They can into thousands

and tens they came into power. Let's be assured that they will be

difficult but isn't come because the Tories have set their mind against

attacking public services. The DUP leader said the DUP -- the failure

to set a budget is Betty Sinn Fein. Iran having stability so that we can

create more jobs in Northern Ireland, Sinn Fein has decided that

it would rather stick to what seems to be a growing political wish list,

instead of dealing with the real issues that matter to the people of

Northern Ireland. But even if Sinn Fein and the DUP do a deal, would go

budget be much different from the Secretary of State has proposed?

It's very likely that any devolved assembly would do anything

dissimilar. There's one reason for that is because the sending... Mr

broken showers budget contains ?50 million which hasn't yet been

allocated -- Mr Burkinshaw. That could be used to release the impact

on education. But whoever sets the budget they won't have much more

room for remover. Stormont's finances will remain tight for the

next few years. There's been much talk of pacts

since the general election Yesterday, it seemed the DUP-Ulster

Unionist one had run into problems. Today, it's the anti-Brexit pact,

with the Green Party saying it now won't go into one with Sinn Fein

and the SDLP. Our political correspondent

Stephen Walker is at Stormont. There was hope from the anti-Brexit

campaign that all kinds of parties would come

together but what happened Well Island agreement is made clear

that they could not join this pact for a variety of reasons for this.

For example they wanted the SDLP MP Alistair MacDonald to step back in

south Belfast. They also said they were a whole series of issues

including abortion and the issue of whether candidates would take

proceeds at Westminster. Here is the Green party leader. The principle of

talking about Brexit is about the government of next four years. We

have a clear progressive vision for Northern Ireland and we don't feel

the party is quite met that vision. What has been the reaction customer

well both SDLP and Sinn Fein say that they are very disappointed.

They would have liked this alliance of anti-black parties to come

together. The SDLP said they could not just do it -- and anti-black

parties to come together. -- anti-Brexit parties to come

together. Our fundamental position is we should fight Brexit where ever

we can. That includes Westminster, that is part of the reason that it

is very difficult to deal with Sinn Fein. Tonight for the general

election campaign, both the against Brexit's pact pack have their own

difficulties. As well as the unionist pack.

You're watching BBC Newsline and still to come...

This evening we return to Roslea in County Fermanagh -

a village which is now without a doctor for the first time

That's because no-one applied to take over the GP practice.

Our health correspondent Marie-Louise Connolly has been

there to find out about a new, alternative doctor's

facility - but patients will have to pay for it.

What is happening here in Roslea is typical of what is unfolding in lots

of rural areas across Northern Ireland. No doctor wants to come to

work in a single GP run practice. Perhaps because it is too expensive,

too much responsibility, even to lonely. So why GPs are looking after

themselves that matter while GPs are looking after themselves, the

question is who is looking after the people in these rural areas? It's

been a fortnight since this GP practice" people living here are

expected to travel 35 miles round trip to the nearest GP. The local

pharmacy in the heart of the village of offering an alternative service

which links people up via the Internet with a doctor working out

of a private practice in bow fast. -- Belfast. I've had a nauseated

stomach and saw aside for the last three weeks... White macro there is

a charge for this today staff and the public were pulling it to the

test. If I have to do it, I have to do it. It out only option. Do you

think a lot of people can afford to pay for this? No, definitely not.

This goes against the ethos of the NHS. According to the pharmacist who

won't benefit from the payment, it's what they have been forced to. It's

just a stopgap, it's not an ideal solution. It allows people to have

some option to come in here. This only hope they can come in here so

city of we can help them. While some people might see this as a positive

opportunity, others may take a more cynical view and see it as creeping

privatisation of the health service. Just miles from here over the

border, people have no other choice but to pay 50 euros to see their GP.

While the side of the border has not quite reached this stage, people in

Roslea are experiencing what it might feel like to have to pay for

their health care. The Southern Health Trust says it

got special permission from Stormont to offer a much higher than normal

salary to attract senior staff but it failed to

attract new recruits. Last night, more than 800 people

went along to a meeting to protest against plans to limit

the opening hours of A city centre hotel in Newry. The

high turnout is a measure of the opposition to losing the overnight

AMD service. One of those who have lobbied the hospital -- AMD service.

With loss beds in surgical, coronary care and also maternity beds. All of

this has resulted in consultants being asked to stand over and

emergency department that does not have the capability to deal with

what their being asked to do. They are not prepared to work any more

and they see the writing on the wall and they are not prepared to take a

long-term posted hospital that is being continually downgraded. The

trust says there is no shortage of money and they have searched home

and abroad to get the senior staff at they need. We got special

permission to offer the job here at a very elevated salary, far in

excess of any other post in Northern Ireland and I'm aware of. Despite

that we were unable to fill the job. The trust says that more and more a

and the doctors are being drained. The fear among some is at the same

will happen to Daisy Hill Hospital as happened in Belfast City Hospital

accident and emergency several years ago. It too could not certainly

start its emergency department which led to its close. What's happening

is that people are going to have to go all the way up to Craigavon. .

White two it serves as clear tee the trust says it is doing its best to

keep the Department open. A riding school for children

with disabilities says its work is being put at risk by the actions

of those who attacked its horses Eight of the animals

from the Fort Centre near Maghera were injured and badly spooked

after they were corralled into Some rides had to be cancelled

following the incident. For a link, contact the sources

means a lot. He is a local people which caters -- people. Every week

his school sends pupils to the Fort Centre. It has been here for 40

years. It's a wonderful experience for the kids, they all benefit. It's

a great sensory experience, the touch of the smell -- the touch and

the smell of the horses. It all very very beneficial for all of them. At

the weekend, the work was jeopardised. The centre believes a

group of youths released the horses and subjected them to abuse. They

seem to corral the horses out into the lane and they split the horses.

They seem to have tried to get on them and write them. You can see

from some of them that there are markings and scrapes. The horses and

ponies are slowly recovery. -- recovering its a second time in a

year that this is happen. Macro every body knows with the centre 's

deep used for. Of a curtailed, the programme is able to continue but

those running it are left wondering why anybody would want to put at

risk this life enhancing work. Some news in brief,

and a 69-year-old woman has died after a crash involving a car

and a lorry in Strabane. Margaret McLaughlin who lived

locally was a front seat Her husband, who was driving, is in

a stable condition in hospital. The police are looking

for witnesses to the incident A 20-year-old man was

arrested at the scene. Bail was refused for 34-year-old

Stephen Paul Lynch A former state pathologist has told

Belfast Coroner's Court that a man shot dead by soldiers in 1971 had no

injuries to suggest he was holding an explosive

device when he was killed. At the time, four soldiers made

similar statements that the man they'd shot at was blown

into the air by a blast. Belfast, 1971. Burning vehicles,

petrol bombs, stonethrowing and the army out in force. In February of

that year, Bernard Watt was shot dead after coming across a riot near

Berkeley Street in the Ardoyne. He had been on a night out with his

friend. -- Butler Street. Statements from soldiers were read out in

court. One claimed he had shot at a man who was holding a bomb. The

another can describe the man is being blown six feet in the air.

Referring to the four soldiers statements in the original

postmortem examination's findings, FSO Jack Green had this to say.

Dr Jack Crane went on to say that he was surprised that no forensic

testing for explosives or volatile substances had been carried out an

Bernard Watt's. He said that in view of the allegations made by the

soldiers, he would have expected test to be carried out. The inquest

concludes tomorrow. from Oxford Bulls from Londonderry

became a recent Internet sensation. Our Northwest reporter was there to

see how they got on. There was a warm welcome for the visitors. They

took on the local team in their first ever competitor again. I think

it sends out a very important need message that just because the

children have Down's syndrome that they can do and are able to do

things that people think they can. In the community, there was the

huddle to share tactics. The excitement was building. We have

kids with autism and if you are the things and there's not enough

support to them. It was a visit from Republic of Ireland international

James Maclean that paid the wake of his game. -- paved the way for this

game. His session with the bones raised awareness when it was posted

on the Internet. The response was phenomenal, we could delegate every

day for two years. Adam Morrison hissed at the big night was in some

late practice. How much are you looking for it to the game? 100

goals this season. 100 goals, amazing excavation at it proved to

be a thrilling game with great performances from all the children.

The result? Everyone was declared a winner. Parents and supporters said

that the night will live long in the memory for all involved. Already the

Oxford Bulls have had many offers for challenge matches, the length

and breadth of Ireland. And there are tentative talks of premiership

games too. So it looks like Adam in all his friends will have to get

plenty of practising in the coming weeks. I hope these cats were

watching that. -- the top cats were watching

that Tommy Breslin insisted he will not be in charge of Cliftonville for

more than the next month. He returns for the crunch match with Lingfield.

Breslin will also lead the North Belfast side in the European

play-offs and is speaking to our reporter. It will be a big game. My

job is to try and lift the club, the fans, the players and to try and get

a liberal of life and a bit of momentum. When we asked? Late Sunday

night, I had reservations, I slept on it and it's one of those, you

know I'm dammed if I do, I'm dandified own. -- I'm dandified

don't. And Derry City are in action again

tonight playing their rearranged fixture at home to Limerick -

we will have the full-time score Roberto Duran, one of boxings

all time greats paid a first ever The four-weight world champion who's

in Belfast on a promotional tour made a surprise visit

to Glengormley Amateur boxing club where he put some budding fighters

through their paces. in the ring he went by the name of

hands of Stone. Family and private streets of Panama, Roberto Duran

went on to conquer the world at four different weights over five decades.

Now in his mid-60s, the hands of Stone have softened a little, but

the Latinos vote heroes -- the letting folk hero's legend remains.

Roberto, welcome to Belfast. What is it like to be here for the first

time? He is very happy, very happy to be here. He wasn't expecting to

have many fancier, to be honest and now that he has come to the gym, he

feels like he is home with friends. Many say that you were the greatest

of all time. What is the secret to being the greatest? Three things are

very important in life and boxing. Hunger, desire, and they need to

become a champion. It's really exciting to see him coming along and

it can to do good for the club and all. These included eating?

Of his 119 fights, he won 70 by knockouts. Glengormley had never

seen is like before, boxing might never see it again.

I was trying to see some of you weather pictures but the one behind

you beach then on. That's from this morning. We all experienced that

bitterly cold winter day. This is how the Glen Shane parcel of this

morning. There was sunshine around and there will still be a coating of

snow in some of the hills and there are still a few wintry showers,

particularly in the West. In a lot of places it's a fine, sunny

evening, though still very cold in that win. The wind will drop

overnight and so will the showers so a lot of places will have a cold,

clear night. Gardeners, there could be a frost in some places. If you're

up early, there could be a frost on your car windscreen. The sun will be

up very early, about six o'clock or earlier. Stilton showers working

over Donegal in in and the north-west tomorrow -- still some

showers. The wind will ease a little bit as the day goes on and would not

be quite as bitter. So a giant morning, some sunshine around. More

cloudy in the afternoon, still some brightness and could be some dry,

sunny weather in the east with a few spots of rain across the West.

Temperatures slightly up on today. Tomorrow night with a few spots of

rain and cloud it will not be as cold. Things gradually turning a bit

milder but also much cloudier. Thursday will be a cloudy breezy day

with spots of rain. But good news for Friday and Saturday, but we will

see temperatures into double figures and we should also have some

sunshine. Our late summary is at 10:30pm, goodbye.