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ULSTER Unionist leadershipcandidate Mike Nesbitt hasdismissed a Conservativelink as a way to turn aroundthe partys ortunes.
Mr Nesbitt also pouredcold water on calls orunionist unity and going intoopposition.
He said: I there is a bigidea, it is ourselves; that we arethe masters o our own destiny.
When we oer better policies,better communication, abetter organisation and arebetter resourced, we can hitthe ground and work hardto reconnect with the tenso thousands o pro-Unionvoters who eel they currentlydo not have a party to supportor to represent them.
Tory lin isdismissed
Youre ft or work,thousands are toldTHOUSANDS o incapacity ben-eft claimants in Northern Ire-land have been ound ft to work,according to new Governmentfgures.
O the 9,328 people reassessedto date, 2,202 have been cleared
to commence employment, witha urther 4,262 deemed to have atleast some earning potential.
There are a total o 76,000 re-
cipients in the Province. Com-pared with England, we havealmost twice the percentage oclaimants on disability-relatedbenefts.
Economist John Simpson has
welcomed the reassessments, de-scribing them as a move towardsa more logical system.
Minister or Social Develop-
ment Nelson McCausland saidthe reappraisal o peoples capa-bility was shiting the ocus towhat people can do rather than
what they cant. Around 30 per cent o those
assessed so ar have been oundincapable o any work, primarilydue to ill-health or learning di-fculties.
It has long been argued thatNorthern Irelands high numbero incapacity beneft claimants isa legacy rom decades o violenceduring the Troubles.
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The pride of Northern IrelandPrice: 75p (IR 1.05 EURO) Monday, March 26, 2012
TV personality ZoeSalmon and presenterStephen Nolan tae their
positions at the startingline as thousands joinedthem on the streets ofBelfast city centre forthe Sport Relief Mileyesterday. Huge crowdswere entertained by localbands and cheerleadersas runners, joggers andwalers made their wayaround the city to boostfunds to help transformthe lives of poor andvulnerable people hereand in some of the worlds
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AN elderly man has spoken ohis shock at waking up on thecouch with a robbers handspinning down his chest.
Three men with their acesmasked by scarves ransacked73-year-old Brian HillicksBelast home, demanding20,000.
Mr Hillick, who had beendozing on the settee ater hisdinner on Friday evening,said he woke to fnd one othe men pushing down on hischest.
The pensioner, who was
with his 78-year-old mentallyhandicapped sister, said therehad been a rumour goingaround that he had won20,000 at the bookies butthat it was untrue.
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