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THE dangers o fu or ‘atrisk’ people who reuse toget vaccinated have beenemphasised in a stark warning.

“Flu can cause seriousillness and result in a stay inhospital or even death,” thePublic Health Agency saidyesterday. “It is also importantto realise that the fu virus candier every fu season andthat is why it is vital to get the jab every year.”

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MLA probed overuse of vote records A POLITICIAN is under investi-gation ater challenging constit-uents over their ailure to vote.

By doing so, Upper Bann MLA Sam Gardiner revealed that he was checking electoral records tosee whether those who contactedhim or help had voted.

Last night the Electoral Ofceconfrmed to the News Letterthat it is investigating the UUP veteran, who is Stormont’s old-est MLA at 71, over his use o electoral registers.

The case centres on allega-tions by two o Mr Gardiner’sconstituents – Peter Marks andDylan Lyness – that the MLA  was less than helpul when theyasked or assistance and that on

both occasions the reason given was that they had not voted inMay’s elections.

It is legal or MLAs to have ac-cess to electoral registers whichshow who has voted – thoughnot how they voted – or elector-al reasons and parties use theseto target non-voters with litera-ture.

However, under The Represen-tation o the People (Northern

Ireland) Regulations 2008, anyother use o the registers is an o-ence which attracts a maximumfne o £5,000.

Mr Gardiner, who said he had“a record o helping everyone”,has apologised to the two men  who complained and said thatboth incidents had been mis-takes.

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PORTADOWN man David  Wright – the ather o LVFleader Billy Wright who wasmurdered by the INLA in theMaze Prison on December 27,1997 – died yesterday.

The death o Mr Wright, who was in his 80s, was confrmedlast night and his uneral willbe in his home town tomorrow aternoon ater a service inKillicomaine Baptist Church.Interment will be in themunicipal Seagoe Cemetery, where his son was buried aterone o the biggest uneralsPortadown has ever seen.

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Union lays downa marker on CAPTHE Ulster Farmers ’ Unionhaswr i t tentoEU Agr icul tureCommissionerDac ianCio los toexpress i t sconcernsonthe EUCommission leaked proposalsonthe reorm o the Common  Agriculture Policy (CAP) post2013.

UFUpresident JohnThompsonsaid: “Since the initial leakeddocument became availableat the end o August,the UFU

Policy Committeeshave been  very careully considering theimpact that these proposals  would have onNorthern Irelandagriculture.Following the UFU’sExecutive Committee meetingthisweek the unionhas decidedtowri te directly to AgricultureCommissionerCiolos and tomeet withCommissionstain Brusselstohighl ight our concernsoverthe EUCommission’s proposalinadvance o them being fnalisedand released ofcially on12thOctober.

“Whileweunderstandthatthere  willbe substantialspecifc detailstilltoemerge, thereareanumbero key issuesthat are causing usmajorconcern–most signifcantlyis the lacko emphasison oodsecuri ty .The unionhasa lwayssaid that ood security isone o the most signifcant globalissuesacingtheworldtodayandwe haveconsistentlystressedthattheCAPneedstoshow itscommitment toarmersby providing meaningulfnancialsupportinordertoensurethat armersare able toproduce

enoughood toeed the growingpopulation.The EUCommissionoriginallysetoutthat oneoitskeyobjectiveswastoensureviableoodproductionandyettheir proposalsappear to be contrary to th is .Surely the EUCommission mustrecognisethatinorder todealwiththe issue o ood security armingneedsto be proftable,especially when armersare aced wi thadysunctionalsupplychain.”

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