and the speech. it was of significance and there was a clear offerfor us significance and there was a clear offer for us but at the same time is there to recognise we could have made more off of the visit if we had a functioning assembly. and we had those images of the president actually there with a sitting first minister and deputy first minister. we either need to see the du p returning quickly to the institutions or otherwise we will need to look to what our party has been campaigning forfor need to look to what our party has been campaigning for for many years for summerfor him been campaigning for for many years forsummerfor him been campaigning for for many years for summerfor him reform of the institutions in line with the principal of the good friday agreement that have locked the executive over many years notjust today but between the number of years. so we need to get away and built much more a shared and integrated society rather than one based upon division. fii int
and this was important to us as well. it needs to be affordable. the biggest health unions are ready to recommend the government s offerfor england. now, members will vote on it. having that pay rise earlier could have been useful in stopping people leaving jobs in the health service for better paid work elsewhere. but people today will at least be glad that they have an offer that is worthy of consideration. it is a reasonable offer. it certainly isn t all that we would have asked for, but it is enough that we can put to our members. before the strikes, nhs staff in england, wales and northern ireland had an average pay award of about 4% for this financial year. in wales, ministers raised that to 7%, though this has been rejected by some unions. in scotland, a pay offer averaging 7.5% has been accepted by most unions. in northern ireland,
gee, thanks. ken bruce, those familiar, rich tones have been part of radio 2 since the 1980s. we re all here. hello. here, on a rare day release from the studio. he has been part of the bbc. # ken bruce bbc radio 2. ..for1t6 years. are you sad to be going, ora relief? it s a big change. but, you know, i don t do things on whims. so i ve been thinking about this and planning it. so today is just the natural culmination of some planning that i ve been doing, and itjust feels like the right time to move on. the biggest show in radio, you re walking away from it. absolutely gone of my own accord. i wanted to go at this time and i understand the bbc were in the process of preparing an offerfor me to continue, but i d made my decision before that.
are you sad to be going, ora relief? it s a big change. but, you know, i don t do things on whims. so i ve been thinking about this and planning it. so today is just the natural culmination of some planning that i ve been doing, and itjust feels like the right time to move on. the biggest show in radio, you re walking away from it. absolutely gone of my own accord. i wanted to go at this time and i understand the bbc were in the process of preparing an offerfor me to continue, but i d made my decision before that. i mean, you ve got a room filled with cards. how does this make you feel? well, it s lovely. it s touching, but you can t let it get to you. otherwise you can t do yourjob. the last show s just about to begin. any regrets? no regrets. in the words of robbie williams, tom rush, the walker brothers, no regrets. and the final song, the beatles, and a very ken bruce goodbye.
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