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of the German flag in tribute to those who lost their lives

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The public is being warned not to visit patients

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at Altnagelvin Hospital unless absolutely necessary

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because of a major outbreak of the winter vomiting bug norovirus.

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The virus has also forced a large hotel in County Cavan

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Our Health Correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly, reports.

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It couldn't have come worse time for this popular hotel in County Cavan.

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During what must be their busiest time, the hotel said it has no

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option but to close it was. In a statement on behalf of the hotel,

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the health Executive in the Republic said the Hotel closed on the 19th of

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December two to an increased incidence of Noura virus infection

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amongst residents, staff and patrons of the hotel. It said public and

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environmental health staff met with hotel management and agreed

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additional measures, including a full deep clean of the hotel, would

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be required. The Health and Safety Executive and hotel management said

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they regret the inconvenience the closure would cause but considered

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the action necessary to safeguard public health. Noura virus, which

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causes diarrhoea and vomiting, is one of the most common stomach bugs

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in the UK and is unusually prevalent in Northern Ireland for this time of

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year. While it is extremely unpleasant, it is highly infectious.

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So much so that five wards have been temporarily closed at Altnagelvin

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Hospital. The spike in cases is worrying. This is the highest

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incidence of this disease we have experience for many years and it

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leads to problems with patient access to services and patient

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output. Patients are suffering within the hospital and staff are

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suffering. This means we have a downturn in staff levels, which

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means care for patients is increasingly difficult. Still

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sitting around doing nothing? I am sick. While there is nothing funny

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about this so-called Winter vomiting bug, this health video advises the

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public that if they are sick, not to visit patients. Some trusts have had

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to cancel operations and with the party season now in full swing, the

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current surge in cases could get worse before it gets any better. As

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there is no cure, the best advice is to let it run its course. According

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to the public health agency, to avoid dehydration, drink plenty of

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fluids, remember to wash your hands frequently and, most importantly,

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rest up. A 45-year-old man caught

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at a bomb-making factory on a County Fermanagh farm has been

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given an 11 years prison sentence. Barry Francis Petticrew will spend

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a further three years on licence. This is the forum where police found

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equipment with the potential to make one of the biggest bombs ever used

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in Northern Ireland. When officers searched these premises featuring an

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undercover operation in 2014, they discovered ammunition, pipes, timer

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units and large quantities of fertilisers. Barry Pettigrew was

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spotted leaving some of these items. The man, who is originally from

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Belfast, realised he was being watched, he tried to escape across

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the countryside. When court he told police I am not involved in

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terrorism, this house belongs to a friend of mine. He later admitted

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the three charges against him. Police say many of the components

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seized are used by terrorist groups, the pedigree denied being linked to

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any organisation. He said he was pressurised into his actions. George

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Gordon care QC said the find was linked to dissident republican

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activity and the farm was a bomb making factory. He described the

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suspect as a man who allowed himself to be associated with dissident

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republicans, some of whom may have intended to use the deadly arsenal.

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Sentenced to 11 years in jail and a further three on licence, he gave

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the thumbs up signal to supporters in the gallery. The judge asked for

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the items to be destroyed police say removing the terrorist Hall has

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prevented bloodshed, loss of life and consequent heartache.

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The Prime Minister says other EU member states are well aware

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of the sensitivities of arrangements on the border after the UK

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She was giving evidence to a Committee of MPs.

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Earlier this evening our Political Editor, Mark Devenport,

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Well, Theresa May, was answering questions from this Liaison

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Committee and the charity Northern Ireland affairs committee asked

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about Brexit and Northern Ireland. She repeated what has been a

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government mantra, the government doesn't want to see a return to the

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borders of the past and she said Naidu did Dublin. Mr Robinson said

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this isn't about London and Dublin, it is about the wider EU. Other

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member states are very well aware of the sensitivity of the issue in

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relation to the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of

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Ireland and want a solution that works for both sides. The continuing

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fallout from the chaotic scenes yesterday to do with the renewable

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heat incentive scheme. What has happened today? The Speaker of the

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Stormont Assembly road to MLAs last night explaining that he understood

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their frustration about those chaotic scenes but he explained his

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legal advice was that if there had been a joint request from the first

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and Deputy First Minister is for Arlene Foster to make her statement

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he couldn't stop unless he got a joint rescinding of that request. A

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degree of logic but that didn't stop the criticism. The former deputy

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speaker contrasted the speaker's performance with that of his

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predecessor. He said he failed to rise above the shambles and there

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was criticism from Eileen Bell, an alliance MLA, she was speaker of the

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transitional Assembly a decade ago. I was very disappointed, horrified

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at the whole process. The members, none of them were sure what was

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going to happen. The Speaker, when he came in and took the chair, it

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looked like he didn't know what would happen. The one thing I know,

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even though it was a transitional Assembly, the one thing I know is

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you have to to beat the speaker, the Speaker has to control everything.

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When it comes to the controversial scheme itself, the finance and

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economy ministers are trying to limit the costs of the skin. I

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assume that as a matter of urgency? You would assume so. We won't get

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the full details until January. Arlene Foster has said she hopes

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that at least half of this projected ?400 million loss over 20 years can

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be recouped. The finance minister, using Twitter, as he does, said he

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met today with the economy minister to ensure robust action is taken to

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minimise losses and a steward of the public finances he will ensure that

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any plan to close RHI stacks up and brings this sorry episode to a

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close. The scheme was closed down in February, this kind of plan to

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minimise losses should have been put in place long before now.

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Stormont spent more than ?10 million on agency workers in

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the Northern Ireland Civil Service at a time when it was

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More than 3,300 civil servants left under the voluntary exit scheme.

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But during that time hundreds of agency workers were hired,

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Details were released by the Department of Finance

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The department said it did not know if some people who took

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redundancy packages returned to the Civil Service

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as agency workers but said it 'is permissible under the rules'.

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The Police have recovered a gun from a house in south Belfast.

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Construction workers, who had been refurbishing

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the property on Annadale Crescent, discovered the firearm yesterday.

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Further police searches were carried out this afternoon.

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Northern Ireland Water has appealed to the public not to throw leftover

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food or cooking oil down the kitchen sink or toilet.

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?5 million has been spent in the past two years dealing

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with thousands of blockages in our sewers.

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Their main concern is fatbergs as Helen Jones reports.

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You don't have to poke around too long to find this. Lumps of

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congealed fat and waste which clog up our sewers. Northern Ireland

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water wants to keep a lid on it. Everyone is putting their dinner in

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the offing, getting ready for the festive activities and in houses

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they are cooking large meat joints and the like. There is a lot of

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waste of that, fat, oil and grease that occasionally people put into

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the sewer, not realising the danger, the consequences. A fatberg, when

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the grease enters at the sooner it is in a liquid form. When it

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solidifies and gathers inappropriate material down the sewer, it can

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cause a blockage. Over time that can get bigger and bigger and you can

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get them up to a couple of metres in diameter which comes like a large

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rock, a large obstruction which has to be cut out. Lived long enough you

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could be dealing with this. A 15 tonne fatberg the size of a

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double-decker bus in the sewers of London. If you are of a delicate

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disposition or you are having your dinner, you may want to look away

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momentarily. This is what happens when your dreams get clogged up. It

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is not nice. It is a prop. I wouldn't be this close if it wasn't.

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Here is a timely message song in the style of Mariah Carey. All we want

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for Christmas is clean sewers. We will try to make his Christmas wish

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come true. Ice hockey and the Belfast Giants

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are through to the Challenge Cup Semi Final after beating

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on the Manchester Storm The Giants won with a goal

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in overtime to win Looking ahead to the rest

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of the week on BBC Newsline and we have three children's

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choirs singing Christmas Now the weather forecast

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with Geoff Maskell and we're Good evening and welcome to a

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roller-coaster week of weather. We had at temperatures of -5 this

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morning, heavy rain this evening and overnight at the start of wintry

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showers that will set the tone for the next 48 hours. All of that

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before a weather warning for one of the busiest travel days of the

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holiday period. First, a little pause after the rain clears out of

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the East, before the start of the wintry showers that will set the

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tone for the next couple of days. It will picture with a very cold

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breeze. The shows are coming straight out of the Arctic. They are

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called. A mix of hail and thunder over high ground, sleet and snow as

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well. Some brightness between showers but it is cold comfort with

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temperatures between four and 5 degrees and the wind factor. We are

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in that shall re-sown with the gale force winds coming in and across the

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North. A camera picture across central England and Wales with

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warmer temperatures under the rain across the South. For us, no such

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warmth. Temperatures really know. An ice risk as we go overnight into

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Thursday and the wind never drops off as those wintry showers continue

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to be driven in through the day on Thursday. Not quite the intensity,

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but not feeling very nice. Then we get to the end of the weekend storm

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Barbara will work her way in and she will bring costs of up to 70 miles

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an hour as we go through the main part of the travel day on Friday.

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For that reason, the Met office has issued a severe weather warning. If

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you have any travel flexibility, you might want to travel on Thursday or

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Saturday, rather than Friday. Our next BBC Newsline is at six

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twenty five in the morning

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