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• Spectacular own goal for Brown
  "This is a spectacular own goal for Brown. He is out of touch with the overwhelming views of football supporters throughout the UK. All the national supporters groups oppose this move and see it as a threat to the status of their nations to field independent football squads.
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• Wednesday's football as it happened
  England draw with the Czech Republic, while Scotland are held by N Ireland and Georgia beat Wales.
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• International Preview: Scotland - Northern Ireland
  There's always a little added spice when two UK Home Nations face off and Northern Ireland's trip to Hampden Park to tackle Scotland will be no different.
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• China’s iron Olympic grip starts to slip
  The mystery of the half-filled stands at many events at the 2008 Olympic Games has been solved, according to Chinese internet users, who say it is the result of a policy to prevent the gathering of large and possibly uncontrollable crowds.
  www.timesonline.co.uk
• DVD Report
  New Releases | Tom Russo Not getting enough of presidential politics? And still the hanging chad discourse continues. A couple of months after its pay-cable premiere, the Bush-vs.-Gore dramatization "Recount" (2008) arrives on DVD, complete with featurette cameos by key players in Florida's 2000 presidential election fiasco. The attention the disc's content is given is in line with the film's ...
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Blog and News Digest

• Contract move costs NI Water £3m
  NI Water admits it will have to pay up to £3m to alter a contract with a company hired to run customer billing.
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• Report critical of prison staff
  An inquiry into the suicide of a NI prisoner has recommended the governor and deputy governor be subjected to a disciplinary investigation.
  news.bbc.co.uk
• It is time to understand the issue. Please read this and send to...
  ...they scream all the time and so fourth.  Well I got news for you, that ... this to poor black neighborhoods.  In this video, BBC journalists...
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• From Kivu to Gaza: How the Media Choose the Conflicts They Cover
  J’allais même partager avec vous ce que m’avait confié à Nairobi l’un de mes amis pigiste pour la BBC à qui ce noble réseau de...
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• Pact will 'empower NI electorate'
  The Conservative leader says a pact with Ulster Unionists will give NI voters a greater say in politics.
  news.bbc.co.uk
• China woman loses fight for home
  A well-known Chinese activist has lost her six-year battle to save her traditional-style Beijing home from demolition.
  news.bbc.co.uk
• NI links up to underwater cable
  Northern Ireland is to be linked to an underwater transatlantic communications cable for the first time.
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• NI people get New Year's honours
  Fifty-one people from Northern Ireland receive CBEs, OBEs or MBEs in the Queen's New Year honours list.
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