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A debate on openness and transparency at Stormont wasn't attended by a single minister. With the chancellor saying that the economy's heading for a fall, the executive is pulling in two directions over Brexit, no-one knows where we're going - so was this a good time for the DUP to crack open the bubbly at a champagne reception?

With the NHS' ever increasing need for more money could that cash come from another big pile - the money that goes to farming? That was the suggestion by the Tory MP George Freeman this week at his party's conference when he warned that the 拢3 billion a year that goes to farmers was now up for grabs to be distributed elsewhere.