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BN.ie17/11/2006 - 08:53:42A former Democratic Unionist councillor will be sentenced in a court in the North today after admitting fraud during the 2005 elections.Sentencing was delayed last month after former Coleraine mayor Dessie Stewart punched a press photographer on his way in to court in Antrim.He will appear at Newry Crown Court after admitting in September four counts of pretending to be

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BBCNew laws to tackle knife crime as well as a second amnesty have been announced by the government.The Violent Crime Reduction Act makes it illegal to sell knifes to anyone under 18 and introduces a new offence of using someone to mind a weapon.The knife amnesty will begin on 20 November. Almost 900 items were handed in during the first amnesty.Criminal Justice Minister David Hanson said the

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Derry Journal16 November 2006THE INLA is NOT targeting prominent Sinn Fein leaders, the political party linked to the paramilitary group has revealed.Earlier this week, Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness told the 'Journal' that the party was convinced of an "active threat" to members of its leadership.The Mid-Ulster MP revealed that there had been growing concerns for some time of a "coming together

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 12:18:49The Northern Ireland Assembly is to be dissolved next January to prepare for a fresh Stormont election on March 7, the British government revealed today.Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain’s Bill implementing the St Andrews Agreement confirmed the Assembly would be dissolved on January 30 ahead of the full restoration of power sharing.The Bill will enable a

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 15:20:26The British government wants the Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin to indicate next week who will be their choice for first and deputy first ministers at Stormont if efforts to revive power sharing are to remain on course.Following the publication of the Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Bill, it became clear DUP leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Féin's Martin

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BBC16 November 2006A second forensic scientist has called into question the DNA evidence at the Omagh bomb trial.Professor Allan Jamieson said in his view, low copy number DNA was unreliable and the test results were open to interpretation.This technique, where DNA profiles can be obtained from samples with only a few cells, is an important part of the prosecution's case against Sean Hoey.Mr Hoey

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nio.gov.ukThursday 16 November 2006The Northern Ireland (St Andrews Agreement) Bill received its first reading in the House of Commons today and will be debated in both houses of Parliament next week.>>Agreement .pdf file

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Belfast Telegraph**Note: Archive link not working at this time.By Lesley-Anne Henry16 November 2006A new website archiving the Omagh bomb and its aftermath has been officially launched.The Omagh Bomb Digital Archive was due to be unveiled by former Beirut hostage Terry Waite at the town's library this morning.The site is based on the archive collection housed in Omagh Library and includes media

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GuardianMatthew Tempest and agenciesWednesday November 15, 2006Guardian UnlimitedPeter Hain, the Northern Ireland secretary, will tomorrow (Thursday) begin the job of rushing through one of the most urgent pieces of legislation in the Queen's speech - a bill to create a transitional Northern Ireland assembly under the historic St Andrews agreement.The bill would create a transitional assembly

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Newty DemocraWednesday, November 15, 2006 OVER 2,000 people attended the 49th anniversary of Edentubber on Sunday where they heard senior Sinn Féin member Martina Anderson say the St Andrew's Agreement provides an opportunity to move the stagnant political situation forward.Republicans from across Ireland were there to remember the night of November 11, 1957, when Paul Smith from Bessbrook,

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Newshound(William Graham, Irish News) Ministers in a future Stormont executive, including Sinn Féin, will have to take a ministerial pledge fully endorsing the Police Service of Northern Ireland and the criminal justice system. The wording of such a pledge is to be published in legislation tomorrow (Thursday). Political sources have told The Irish News that the pledge will be very

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 08:08:06The family of murdered Donegal Sinn Féin councillor Eddie Fullerton will raise demands for a public inquiry today at a long-awaited meeting with the Taoiseach.Mr Fullerton was shot dead in front of his wife at his Buncrana home in May 1991, in an attack by a loyalist paramilitary gang.The Taoiseach’s decision to meet the Fullerton family comes after intensive campaigning

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 08:12:40The British government is due to publish new legislation today giving effect to the St Andrew's proposals for restoring devolution in the North.The bill will set March 7 as the date for fresh Assembly elections to endorse the proposals, rather than the more risky option of a referendum.It will also introduce changes at the behest of the DUP that the ministerial pledge of

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 09:16:49Sinn Féin is to hold its first-ever meeting with the Scottish Nationalist Party at Holyrood today.A spokesman for Sinn Féin confirmed that Upper Bann Assembly member John O’Dowd will lead a delegation to the Scottish Parliament for a round of meetings with MSPs, including the first-ever talks with the SNP.Talks have also been scheduled with civil servants from the

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BN.ie16/11/2006 - 10:19:48Up to 200 people a year die from lung cancer caused by high levels of radon gas in Ireland – way above the global average, health organisations revealed today.Between 6% and 15% of annual lung cancer deaths across the world are caused by exposure to the gas, which equates to up to 170,000 deaths, according to a report by the World Health Organisation (WHO).In Ireland, up

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Irish IndependentSenan Molony15 November 2006NEW investigations into killings in which Northern security forces are suspected of collusion were promised yesterday.The Police Service of Northern Ireland is to establish a "white team", based in London and comprised of outside detectives and investigators, to examine such incidents throughout 30 years of the Troubles.The announcement was made

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Belfast Telegraph'Significant' statements to follow November 24 political deadline14 November 2006Loyalist paramilitary leaders have begun preparing their members for significant statements that will change the Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando organisations, it can be revealed today.A statement read on behalf of the 'Brigade Command' of the UVF last Sunday said Northern Ireland may be

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Belfast TelegraphBy Linda McKee14 November 2006Many of the serious crimes that took place during the Troubles will never be re-examined, Chief Constable Sir Hugh Orde has warned.The Chief Constable told an audience at Queen's University Belfast last night that there is not the capacity within the Historical Enquiries Team (HET) to deal with all the cases that left people maimed or dead, and

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Newshound(Susan McKay, Irish News) Does anybody think Peter Hain's bid to be appointed second in command of the government of the UK will be scuppered or even damaged by the fact that the secretary of state has been found to have abused his powers, breached the Good Friday Agreement, acted out of an improper motive, withheld evidence and misled the High Court in Northern Ireland? And in

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Newshound(Irish News) The Willie Carson picture of Martin McGuinness in military uniform was taken at the funeral of two Derry teenagers shot dead by the British army on March 14 1972. Colm Keenan (19) and Eugene McGillan (18) were shot close to Dove Gardens in Derry's Bogside on the night that the first Widgery Inquiry into Bloody Sunday ended. Colm Keenan was a particularly close

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Newshound(Seamus McKinney, Irish News) The publication of what is believed to be the only pictures of Sinn Féin MP Martin McGuinness wearing an IRA uniform is a "dramatic reminder" of why republicans must endorse and support police and the courts, it has been claimed. (See previous article) The Irish News yesterday (Monday) published a series of pictures of the MP taken at the funeral of

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BBCA son of former INLA leader Dominic McGlinchey has been released on bail by the High Court.Declan McGlinchey, 30, of Gulladuff Road in Bellaghy, is charged with constructing and possessing a bomb discovered at a garage yard in July.The prosecution is relying on DNA material.After hearing submissions from prosecution and defence, a judge said the evidence was "not the strongest case," and

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Belfast TelegraphParty urged to sever links with PUPBy David McCord08 June 2006A UVF murder victim's father is to meet the UUP's only MP in a bid to persuade her to totally repudiate the party's Progressive Unionist Party link-up.Lady Sylvia Hermon spoke last month of her "deep distress" at her party's Stormont alliance with PUP leader David Ervine.But she also stated that the move would be "

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BBCThe leak occurred at the Thorp complex at SellafieldThe operator of Cumbria's Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant is facing a criminal prosecution over a leak of radioactive material.Acid containing 20 tonnes uranium and 160kg (353lb) of plutonium spilled from a ruptured pipe into a sealed cell at the site's Thorp complex.The spillage, discovered in April 2005, may have happened eight months

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