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In-depth investigation and analysis of the stories behind the headlines in Northern Ireland

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    2009/2010 Fantasy Finance

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    Available since today with 6 days left.

    Three fantasy finance managers are challenged to make savings for the 2010 budget.

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    1. 2009/2010 The Class of 2002

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      Claire Savage speaks to teenagers from the class of 2002 about the 11-plus.

    2. 2009/2010 The Libyan Connection

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      Available since Wed, 28 Oct 2009 with 6 days left.

      A report on the fight to win compensation for IRA victims of Libyan-supplied weapons.

    3. 2009/2010 How to Police the Dissidents

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      Available since Thu, 22 Oct 2009 with 6 days left.

      Can the police combat the dissident republican threat? Stephen Dempster investigates.

    4. 2009/2010 Who Will Say Sorry?

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      Available since Wed, 7 Oct 2009 with 6 days left.

      Investigation into child cruelty allegations. Darragh MacIntyre reports.

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Do you want to be in the Spotlight Special audience?

Spotlight is recording a studio audience programme on Tuesday the 17th of November in Belfast. It's your chance to put questions to a panel of politicians. To apply for tickets to be in the audience please phone call our audience line on 0845 300 3080.

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Email your stories to us in confidence or ring us on 028 90 338349.
Email: spotlight-ni@bbc.co.uk

Spotlight Reporters

Claire Savage:
Claire Savage has been a journalist for ten years. Her first job was in local radio before moving on to television reporting. Claire has been at the BBC since 2003, reporting for Radio Ulster and more recently specialising in investigative reports for BBC Newsline. She won the 2005 CIPR radio journalist of the year, and was the best newcomer in the print journalism section. She has broken a series of major stories for the BBC, including the discovery of an £80m shortfall in the Child Support Agency, an investigation into the awarding of a multi-million pound government contract, and a report on a teenager caught in educational limbo who ended up missing five years of school.

Darragh MacIntyre

Darragh MacIntyre has been with Spotlight since 2002. He has reported on subjects as diverse as
clerical abuse and waste smuggling. A 2007 film 'The Hunt for Captain Nairac' was nominated as Scoop of the Year in the Royal Television Society awards. Other memorable programmes include 'The Philip Johnston Story', an exclusive interview with the estate agent who was accused but then cleared of money laundering, and 'The Omagh Fire Tragedy' which revealed what the police and the social services should have known about Arthur McElhill, the man suspected of starting the fire in which he and six other people died. In 2007, Darragh was named Northern Ireland's
Current Affairs Journalist of the Year.

Mandy McAuley

Mandy McAuley began her investigative career with the BBC's 5 Live Report before moving to Spotlight. Her hard-hitting investigations have brought her face to face with paedophiles, loan sharks, drug dealers and paramilitaries. She has won an array of awards for her work including UK Radio News Broadcaster of the Year and an international gold medal at the New York Radio Festivals. Her special investigation into an international dog-fighting ring, for Spotlight and Panorama, earned a Bafta nomination and a prestigious Royal Television Society Award.

Stephen Dempster

Stephen Dempster is the newest member of Spotlight's reporting team. He has been a journalist for 15 years. He started his career at the Newtownards Chronicle, and then joined the Belfast News Letter in 1999. For almost a decade he was the newspaper’s political editor, following the peace process at Stormont and into Downing Street and the White House. He interviewed Tony
Blair and Bertie Ahern, among others, and broke stories on the multi-billion dollar lawsuit brought against Libya by IRA victims and the row over office expenses that led to Ian Paisley junior’s ministerial resignation. For Spotlight, he has reported on the search for two men who went missing from South Armagh - a search complicated by the IRA's role in their disappearance. Stephen’s work has been commended in the Institute of Public Relations’ Press and Broadcasting Awards.

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2009/2010 Fantasy Finance

Three fantasy finance managers are challenged to make savings for the 2010 budget.

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