The specially-commissioned films that were shown at the main exhibition hall, now the Queen's University Physical Education Centre (PEC), show the government promising funding for new jobs, schools, the expansion of Aldergrove Airport and the continued development of the new city of Craigavon.

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Scottish National Party education spokesman John Swinney asked the executive to consider the situation of one of his constituents, a student at Loughborough University studying physical education, sports science and social science - a course not available at a Scottish University.

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