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BY SAm mcBride Political Correspondent
sam.mcbride@newsletter.co.uk

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News Letter, Monday,

October 3, 2011

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Lizzie Kennedy, who has re-opened her cookery school at Drumbo

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Andy among lucky ones

A BelfAst soldier who lost both his legs fighting the taliban in Afghanistan has said he considers himself to be one of the lucky ones. Andy Allen was speaking to the News letter on the tenth anniversary of the start of the war in the strife-torn country. the Royal Irish soldier was just 19 when in 2008 he lost both his legs in an attack, four months into his tour of duty. But he says if he could go back, he would still join the army. See pages 4 & 5

If stormont continues to survive but not deliver it risks losing credibility with the public, secretary of state Owen Paterson has warned. Bluntly telling local politicians that it was time to move beyond the politics of the peace process, Mr Paterson said that people want devolved government to do more than merely exist. In a tough message to MlAs, the Conservative cabinet minister told the tory conference in Manchester that survival and stability cannot be ends in themselves for the stormont set-up.

speaking as, four months after Mays election, pressure mounts on the stormont executive to agree a programme for government, he said: Now its time to move beyond the politics of the peace process. Over the next four years the assembly will come under intense public scrutiny over what it actually delivers. And if it doesnt, it risks losing public credibility. Mr Paterson, who has led the calls for Northern Ireland to be given the power to cut corporation tax, also announced that he would be establishing a joint ministerial working group on the issue. Turn to page 8 Janet devlin, from Co Tyrone, last night won through to the live show stage of PiCTUre: Ken mcKay/iTV/Talkback Thames/PA Wire the X-Factor. See PAGe 3

Terror chiefs dad buried

lVf terror chief Billy Wrights father was laid to rest yesterday in Portadown. David Wright, 78, led a high profile campaign for a public inquiry into the murder of his son Billy by the INlA within the Maze Prison in 1997. Billy Wright led the loyalist splinter group, the lVf and , was thought to have directed up to 30 murders but was never convicted of murder. DUP MPs Jeffrey Donaldson and David simpson were among the 400 mourners. See page 7

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