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Thu 10 Oct 2009North devolution talks to resume
The North's First Minister, Peter Robinson, and Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, are to resume talks today over the devolution of policing and justice powers to Stormont.
The ministers held their fifth meeting in 10 days with British prime minister Gordon Brown at Downing Street yesterday and announced that fewer items remained unresolved. Sinn Féin has accepted the deal, but the DUP wants more clarification over the settlement, believed to be worth £800 million.
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