Winston le Brun, a Jerriais speaker, said the language was "vital" for children.

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Meanwhile, Sinn Fein's Mitchel McLaughlin and Bairbre de Brun will lead a delegation to lobby MPs in London on Thursday ahead of a half-day Westminster debate on the reform of the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

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French centre-right MEP Agne Le Brun said it would give a "new lease of life" to producers in France.

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Brun said the union plans to take out a loan to cover the added cost.

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Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble has banned Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness and Bairbre de Brun from North-South Ministerial Council meetings because of a lack of movement on IRA disarmament.

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Speaking at a security conference in Jerusalem, Brigadier General Itai Brun cited photographs of victims foaming at the mouth and with constricted pupils and other unspecified symptoms.

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He also took issue with another part of Mr Trimble's weekend speech - a section which attacked the performance of the Health Minister Bairbre de Brun, and also criticised the Education Minister Martin McGuinness.

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