News: Backlog of school repairs hits £217m 
THE state of under-funding in the north’s education has left as many as 28 schools with unfinished repairs estimated at more than £1 million each. 18/11/2008
Sport: Canavan: Anti-doping rules unfair on the GAA 
PETER Canavan has questioned the GAA’s involvement with the Irish Sport Council’s anti-
doping code following the suspension of a Kerry player who failed a drugs test due to the use of salbutamol. 18/11/2008
News: Popular writer made immense contribution to north’s culture 
TRIBUTES have been paid to veteran Irish News columnist and respected author Owen Kelly who has died at the age of 71. Although he lived in west Belfast Mr Kelly was from Draperstown and last night Conor Kelly said his father had “remained rooted” in south Derry. 18/11/2008
Living: Search is on for the greatest grandparents 
GRANDPARENTS are saving families £3.9 billion every year by providing two-thirds of all childcare in the UK for free. Research indicates that 82 per cent of children also receive some care from grandparents and the childcare provided allows more than half of all UK parents to return to work. 18/11/2008
Business: Further jobs gloom as carpets firm cuts back 
There was more gloomy news on the jobs front yesterday as the global recession hit another major employer in the north. Portadown-based Ulster Carpets announced it was to shed 35 full-time jobs. 18/11/2008
News: Schofield left ‘Eoghan’ 
EOGHAN Quigg had daytime TV host Philip Schofield in a muddle yesterday when the presenter described the X Factor contestant’s name as “the leftover bits from a Scrabble game”. 18/11/2008
News: Exhibition sheds light on Belfast in the war years 
Imagine a life of rationed food, power
black-outs and the fear of German bombers attacking from the skies overhead. Rebecca Black looks at how for those living in Belfast 70 years ago, this was a nightly reality. 18/11/2008
News: Evidence for inquests not withheld claims hospital 
ALTNAGELVIN hospital has said there is nothing to suggest that evidence vital to an inquest into the death of a baby after just 24 days was deliberately withheld by anyone at the facility. 18/11/2008
News: Fourth hearing in three months 
THE inquest into the death of baby Ronan O’Brien at the age of just 24 days is the fourth to open into baby deaths at Derry’s Altnagelvin hospital over a three-month period in 2006.
Coroner John Leckey ordered the inquests because it was unusual to have such a number of baby deaths in such a short period of time. 18/11/2008
News: ETA terrorist fights extradition attempt 
A convicted Basque terrorist is to fight attempts to have him extradited back to face new charges in Spain, a court in Belfast has heard. 18/11/2008

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