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BBC News NI understands a pay award backdated to this August is currently being considered by union representatives.

When she refused, they copied the post to a blogging website, backdated it, and then claimed she had plagiarized it in an example of copyright infringement.

The proposed release of long term prisoners would involve inmates sentenced to over four years and would be backdated to 2016, the last time the rules were changed.

The union said that when compounded, the offer works out at 15%, is backdated, pensionable and includes drivers who retired or left the industry during the dispute.

The pay deal includes a 4% backdated pay rise for 2023-24, on top of the existing increase they have already received worth an average of 9% for the last financial year.