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A last-minute offer by a Stormont department has failed to stop criminal barristers across Northern Ireland going on strike today for the first time.
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‘They basically stopped paying us,’ one barrister said. ‘Can you imagine being a teacher and not getting paid for six months?’
Fresh tributes have been paid to former Lord Justice of Appeal Sir Liam McCollum who died on Monday aged 90.
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INBETWEENERS star Belinda Stewart-Wilson will be among the performers at the NSPCC Carols by Candlelight concert at Taunton Minster on December 15.