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POLICE have arrested“a number o people” inColeraine over a picture onFacebook which showed twoyouths apparently burning apoppy.

The two males were holdinga lit lighter to the edge o thered paper which makes up apoppy in a photograph whichhas sparked outrage on thesocial networking website.

  Yesterday the picture,  which emerged on Sunday,  was removed rom the website.

Arrests overburnt poppy

  A MURDER investigationhas been launched inLondonderry following thedeath of a 51-year-old man who had been stabbed.

The attack happened inthe Francis Street area of the city at around 1.30pm onTuesday.

The victim was taken tohospital for treatment butlater died.

  A 34-year-old woman wasarrested last night and ishelping police with theirinquiries.

Stab attackvictim dies

Robinson callsfor the long viewSHORT-TERM solutions are notthe way to handle an economiccrisis, Peter Robinson told aDublin audience last night.  Addressing a gathering o 

accountants, the frst ministerpraised the Republic’s avoidanceo “simplistic” measures in

handling its grave fnancialdifculties.

Speaking against thebackground o the economiccrisis in Greece, he said suchsolutions are “no substitute orthe difcult, long-term measuresthat are being taken”.

Mr Robinson acknowledgedthat Northern Ireland had itsown problems, including anover reliance on public sector

employment.The DUP leader also said that

strong inormal ties and goodinrastructure will make ora better working relationshipbetween Northern Ireland andthe Republic.

Mr Robinson said a goodroad, avourable exchangerate, a successul rugby teamand a good speed dial contact

  with a ministerial colleague will do more or relations thanany amount o North SouthMinisterial Council meetings.

In other comments in thespeech, he said that the NorthernIreland economy is expected togrow by around one per centthis year and by two per cent in2012.

BY REBECCA BLACK

r.black@nesletter.co.uk

 

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VIEwERS’ favourite JulianSimmons ill be back onour screens tonight afterrecently undergoing ve-hour heart surgery to savehis life. Make-up artistSamantha weightman isseen putting the nishingtouches to the UTVpresenter in his dressingroom.Julian said: “Vieers havebeen fantastic and sentsuch fabulous get ellmessages – I’ll be sayinga special thank you to allof them at 7pm, beforeEmmerdale. I’ve never feltbetter and can’t ait toget back on screen.”

Julian’sall set forTV returnafter op

  A 56-YEAR-OLD man, be-lieved to be Liam Adams, wasextradited from the Republiclast night and handed over tothe PSNI.

Police said the transfer fol-lowed a Dublin High Courtdecision last week to trans-port the man to NorthernIreland to face serious sexualoffence charges.

The man was arrested on18 warrants, including charg-es of rape, gross indecencyand indecent assault and isexpected to appear beforeLaganside Magistrates Courtthis morning.

Man isextradited

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