Democratic Unionist Party leader Dr Ian Paisley addresses the media at Castle Buildings on the penultimate day of peace talks April 8. The Democratic Unionists are boycotting the talks because they see it as weakening the province's link with Britain. British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been holding a series of meetings with parties involved in the peace talks after negotiations broke down with Ulster Unionists rejecting the draft peace proposal put forward yesterday. Blair arrived at Stormont saying "There are still a lot of very hard questions to resolve".

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