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GOOD MORNING

The 9 at 9 It’s Saturday! Stretch it out, put on the kettle and catch up with the morning’s stories.

EVERY MORNING,TheJournal.ie brings you the stories you need to know as you wake up.

1. #ROYAL FAMILY: The Sun newspaper in the UK has published images of Queen Elizabeth as a child performing the Nazi salute.

2. #COURT: A 24-year-old man charged with the murder of Paul McCauley - the civil servant left in a vegetative state in the wake of an attack in 2006 – is to appear at L’Derry Magistrates’ Court today.

3. #IRISH WATER: The Examiner reports that three elderly people were victims of a conman who was pretending he worked for Irish Water and was making cash demands.

4. #WORK: The Equality Tribunal awarded a man €28,000 in compensation following an incident where he was splashed with acid by a co-worker.

5. #CANCER DRUG: Oncologist John Crown said he would campaign for a cancer drug, which a woman is pleading the government to pay for, to be made available saying it works better than conventional treatment, reports The Irish Daily Mail.

6. #RIP: F1 driver Jules Bianchi has died from injuries he sustained in a crash at last October’s Japanese Grand Prix.

7. #MANCHESTER: A man has been jailed for stealing a woman’s handbag as she lay dying on the roadside after falling from a bridge.

8. #ISLAND LIFE: The population of one of the Aran Islands is beseeching education minister Jan O’Sullivan to provide for a second teacher for their island’s one primary school.

9. #BARTER: Need a holiday but have no cash? A new Cork-based company wants you to trade two hours of language-training for one night’s bed-and-board.