He has not played for six weeks because of a combination of illness, a hernia operation and a knee injury.

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Well at the time I assumed that they would involve BSkyB spinning off its Sky News operation in some way, since it was the combination of Sky News and News International's newspapers that was of greatest concern to Ofcom.

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This combination of public posturing and quiet co-operation is already well-established in local government in Northern Ireland.

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