Gregory Campbell MP has called for an investigation into BBC NI sick day total. #BBCNolan

Staff at BBC Northern Ireland took almost 5,000 days off sick - in the last year. That's according to a Freedom of Information request obtained by the Belfast Telegraph. It works out at an average of 7.9 - nearly eight days per employee. It is also nearly double the UK average for the whole labour market - which, according to the Office for National Statistics, in 2014 stood at 4.4 days. The BBC said its sickness absence had dropped by 14% in the last five years