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I'm Michelle Hussein.

This time we have the musings of one of our correspondence on being a stay-at-home dad to his newborn daughter and the stereotyping he's come up against,

while another of our correspondence has had to confront her own preconceptions thanks to a

rather unusual set of builders.

We have two pieces from Northern Ireland, one on pride in cross-border sport, and another looking ahead to the return of

Game of Thrones a lot of which is filmed in Northern Ireland. We begin with the

policing emergency of the moment, knife crime. Murders and violent assaults in London and elsewhere have received wide attention and sparked considerable fear.

Glasgow is often mentioned in the debate about what can be done.

There a special unit has been working for years to combat what was an epidemic

of knife carrying. But as John Fousythe discovered when he went to visit, those

involved are under no illusions about the challenges they face. In strict

accountancy terms the Scottish Violence Reduction Unit could set its 1.2 million

budget against the estimated average cost to us all of a single homicide of 1.9 million.

So, the logic goes, the VRU money is well spent if it spares us even one violent death in a year.

One of those homicides avoided could have been Callums, or his colleague Allen, or someone they might have bumped into along the way in their knife carrying days.

Often, as is already well known across the United Kingdom, offenders and victims tend to be mirror images of each other,

a toss of the coin which ends up in the dock and which in A&E or the morgue.

Callum and Alan are mentors at the street and arrow cafe in the Glasgow Dental Hospital in

Socky Hall Street.

It's 730 in the morning and the first customers are drifting in for their bacon rolls and flat whites served up by former offenders.

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