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Nurses in NI strike vote to strike for the first time in 103 years

Nurses have "spoken clearly" - that's the message from the Royal College of Nursing's director after members voted to strike.

Nurses have "spoken clearly" - that's the message from the Royal College of Nursing's director after members voted to strike.
It's the first time in the College's 103-year-history that such action has been taken in the UK.
Plus, Advice NI warns Northern Ireland could be on brink of a welfare mitigations disaster.Northern Ireland is on the brink of a welfare mitigations disaster - that's the latest warning from Advice NI.Experts warn of a looming crisis of child poverty, hunger and mass evictions caused by end of mitigations for bedroom tax and benefit cap. These measures will end in March 2020 - a date campaigners are describing as a "cliff edge".

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