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In pictures: Murder victim laid to rest

Crime

Martin Howe QC speaking at the NI Affairs Committee

Brexit: Backstop ‘amounts to UK hands tied behind its back’

Business

The aftermath of Saturday night's attack

Londonderry car bomb: Raids uncover ‘suspected firearm’ in Brandywell area

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Margaret Ritchie has been told the name SDLP will not disappear as a result of its new connection with Fianna Fail

No big exodus expected from SDLP: Margaret Ritchie

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NI temperatures hit low of minus six today

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Man’s hammer assault on mother’s ‘brutal’ attacker

Crime

Man acquitted on weapons charge

Crime

Pro-life group ‘looks forward to tackling’ Sinn Fein again

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UUP MLA Rosemary Barton

Call for more Irish nurseries ‘out-of-date’

Education

Scales of Justice

Serial thief tells judge he wants to go to prison

Crime

Politics More Politics >>

Brexit: Backstop ‘amounts to UK hands tied behind its back’

Business

Margaret Ritchie has been told the name SDLP will not disappear as a result of its new connection with Fianna Fail

No big exodus expected from SDLP: Margaret Ritchie

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A protest by the Tyrone Pro-Life Network last year outside a Sinn Fein office.

Pro-life group ‘looks forward to tackling’ Sinn Fein again

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Muckamore Abbey Hospital is at the centre of a criminal investigation into abuse

Muckamore Abbey: NIO accused of ‘disinterest’ in abuse scandal

Health

Crime More Crime >>

In pictures: Murder victim laid to rest

Crime

The aftermath of Saturday night's attack

Londonderry car bomb: Raids uncover ‘suspected firearm’ in Brandywell area

News

Man’s hammer assault on mother’s ‘brutal’ attacker

Crime

Scales of Justice

Man acquitted on weapons charge

Crime

Farming More Farming >>

HSENI announces appointment of new Chief Executive

Farming

Kenny with two sows he bred to look 'iron age' for Game of Thrones

Meet the Ulsterman who brings animal magic alive on screen

TV and Film

John and Eileen Hall

UTV Rare Breed’s success continues

Farming

Focus on ‘Farming for future years’

Farming

Education More Education >>

Call for more Irish nurseries ‘out-of-date’

Education

East Antrim MLA Stewart Dickson.

No East Antrim schools in ‘enhancement programme’

Education

The fifth surviving News Letter, dated January 9 1738 (which is in fact equivalent to January 20 1739 in the modern calendar)

Reported This Week 280 Years Ago (Jan 21 1739): News from East-India and South-Sea Companies

Nostalgia

UUP MLA Rosemary Barton

Wave of schools get infrastructure cash: see full list

Education

Business More Business >>

Brexit: Backstop ‘amounts to UK hands tied behind its back’

Business

Fat Fish MD Joshua Neilly, left, with Mark Bleakney from Invest NI

Marketing firm Fat Fish builds Newry team

Business

Santander

Santander to close three NI branches

Business

Around 3,500 ATMs are protected out of more than 50,000 across the UK

‘Super premiums’ will help protect ATMs in remote areas - Link

Business

Transport More Transport >>

Traffic and travel: Ice and snow make treacherous driving conditions for NI motorists

Transport

The Scene at Causeway Airfield at Aghadowey on Saturday afternoon. Pic Matt Steele/McAuley Multimedia

Emergency services praised after light aircraft crashes on runway

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One of the images released by the P.S.N.I.

These photos show the aftermath of the four vehicle road traffic collision on N.I. road

Transport

The most popular colour of car in Northern Ireland has been revealed

Here's the most popular car colour in Northern Ireland

Transport

The Duke of Edinburgh who has been involved in a road traffic accident close to the Sandringham Estate but was not injured. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Prince Philip crash road may have speed limit cut

Transport

Environment More Environment >>

‘We could wreck the world’

Environment

Residents ‘a priority’ says Islandmagee gas project firm

Business

Carrick Town Hall

£0.7m upgrade for Carrick town centre

Business

Jonny and Paula Hanson with son Joshua (8) and daughters Bethany (6) and Sophia (3) along with Noreen Christian. Photograph: Columba O'Hare/ Newry.ie

Still time to buy shares in Larne community farm

Environment

Jim Allister's property overlooks the site

‘£300k in monthly builder wages not being paid thanks to hotel hold-up’

Crime

Health More Health >>

Muckamore Abbey: NIO accused of ‘disinterest’ in abuse scandal

Health

A sick child

Brexit 'poses a risk to children's health'

Health

An engineer working to fix a fault on the air ambulance. Pic: Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia

Air Ambulance tasked after boy falls on ice

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The entrance to Kintullagh Care Home in Ballymena

Commissioner’s ‘deep concerns’ after inspection at ‘yet another’ Runwood care home

Health

Muckamore Abbey Hospital in Antrim where a number of staff have been suspended by the Belfast Health Trust. ''Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Muckamore Abbey abuse probe: MP in formal push for public inquiry

Health

1730s News More 1730s News >>

The fifth surviving News Letter, dated January 9 1738 (which is in fact equivalent to January 20 1739 in the modern calendar)

Reported This Week 280 Years Ago (Jan 1739): Details of ship losses in storms

Nostalgia

The advertisement from the back page of the Belfast News Letter ofJanuary 20 1739, bottom right, is hard to read due to the great age of the paper. It is from the fifth surviving News Letter, dated January 9 1738 (which is in fact equivalent to January 20 1739 in the modern calendar). The paper was founded the year before, in 1737, but the first year's editions are all lost.

The News Letter report from 1739 does indeed refer to Straid in Co Antrim

Nostalgia

The fifth surviving News Letter, dated January 9 1738 (which is in fact equivalent to January 20 1739 in the modern calendar)

Reported On This Day (Jan 20 1739): Sailors thwart hanging; Jews die in plague; negroes kill surgeon; bull found in Straid

Nostalgia

Belfast News Letter front page from December 22 1738, which is equivalent to January 2 1739 in the modern calendar. The new year then began in March

Reported This Week 280 Years Ago (Jan 2 1739): Hare treated cruelly;Kildare dean helps poor; Rasharkin farm for sale; Price of Goods

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