As well as being used as a reception area, the trust has used the building as a school canteen for the Cotswold Chine School, which it also runs.

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Once the assembly's executive of up to 12 ministers is running Ulster's schools, hospitals, housing and other services, there will be plenty of occasions on which a small, local dispute such as a current row in County Fermanagh over the appointment of two Catholics to a Protestant school's canteen could cause a crisis at Stormont.

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