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8 June 2017

Voting is underway in the snap Westminster election, where 109 candidates are standing across Northern Ireland's 18 parliamentary constituencies.

Voting is underway in the snap Westminster election. 109 candidates are standing across Northern Ireland's 18 parliamentary constituencies. Polling stations opened at 7 o'clock this morning and will close at 10 o'clock tonight, with the count taking place through the night. It's a first-past-the-post election and here to remind us of the DOs and DON'Ts Virginia McVeigh is the chief electoral officer.

And The mother of a teenage girl who died of an ecstasy overdose in 2013 says her daughter would be alive if she had known what was in the drug she was taking. A number of UK music festivals are set to allow people to test their illegal drugs this summer. It's after a number of drug-related deaths in recent years. Today, The Royal Society for Public Health is calling on ALL music festivals where drug use is common to provide safety testing facilities as standard. Ann Marie Cockburn lost her daughter Martha after she consumed a quantity of ecstasy - just weeks before her 16th birthday.

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Thu 8 Jun 2017 07:00

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