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Thu 09 Sep 2008Crucial meeting of Stormont Executive cancelled
A planned meeting of the Northern Ireland Executive was cancelled this afternoon when Sinn Fein refused to take part because of alleged slippage in plans to devolve security powers to a local minister.
The DUP leader Peter Robinson had threatened serious consequences if the meeting planned for today, the first cabinet meeting to be held in three months, did not go ahead.
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