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News: Backlog of school repairs hits £217m subscription

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 subscription

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 subscription

TRUE GENTLEMAN: Author and Irish News columnist Owen Kelly, who died at the weekend. Martin O’Brien, former editor of The Irish News, described Mr Kelly as a gracious and charming man with a fine brain, a nice turn of phrase, and a refreshing and novel take on things

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 subscription

Great Grandparents: Last year's winners James and Elizabeth Dorrian, grandson Daniel McGilton and Specsavers founder Dame Mary Perkins

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 subscription

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’ subscription

MUDDLE: Philip Schofield, who presents This Morning

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 subscription

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 subscription

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 subscription

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 subscription

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 photo gallery 



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