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Wed 01 Jan 2010Brown and Cowen work on blueprint with North parties
TAOISEACH BRIAN Cowen and British prime minister Gordon Brown were late last night trying to agree a blueprint with the main Northern parties that would resolve the DUP/Sinn Féin stand-off over policing and justice, and parades.
Both leaders were again working late into the night at Hillsborough Castle in their push to find an 11th-hour agreement between the DUP and Sinn Féin that would prevent the collapse of the Northern Executive and Assembly.
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