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RHI Inquiry: Civil servant admits removing line criticising him ‘looks bad’

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Stormont civil servants are now operating without any democratic oversight

RHI Inquiry: Even when civil servants kept minutes, sometimes they were altered

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Constable John Larmour in Portugal 1988, just months before he was murdered

Killers ‘not protected’ after RUC ice cream man murder: Police ombudsman

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Mairead O'Neill

Sister of tragic Mairead O'Neill tells of the pain of losing her 'beautiful best friend'

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Brexit: Jim Nicholson calls on PM and EU to look at other ways of resolving border backstop issue

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WATCH: WW1 soldier’s letters discovered in old suitcase in Belfast

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‘Disturbing increase’: MLA voices concern about use of dogs, cats, cows and other live animals in experiments

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Traffic and travel: collision causing delays on major route

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MISSING: Robert Holmes.

Missing NI's man family issue recently taken photo

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Ambulance

Children from Special Needs school involved in bus crash

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Politics More Politics >>

RHI Inquiry: Civil servant admits removing line criticising him ‘looks bad’

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Stormont civil servants are now operating without any democratic oversight

RHI Inquiry: Even when civil servants kept minutes, sometimes they were altered

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Jim Nicholson MEP.' Pic by Pacemaker

Brexit: Jim Nicholson calls on PM and EU to look at other ways of resolving border backstop issue

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Diane Dodds MEP

Any move to extend Brexit transition period would be ‘hard sell’ for PM, says Diane Dodds

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Crime More Crime >>

Killers ‘not protected’ after RUC ice cream man murder: Police ombudsman

Crime

A scene from the BBC Two film on sex trafficking 'Doing Money'. From left Lily (Alina Serban), Skinny (Voica Oltean), Ancuta (Cosmina Stratan) and Anna (Anca Dumitra). Photographer: Phil Sharp

Survivor’s joy at sex slavery drama coming to BBC Two

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The Northern Ireland Memorial Fund helped over 6,000 people who had been affected by wide range of incidents, including the loyalist atrocity at Greysteel, above, in 1993

Legacy Scandal: ‘We excluded perpetrators from victim fund until told to include them,’ says Daphne Trimble

Opinion

Pharmacy owner fined £25,000 for illegally supplying prescription medicines

Crime

Farming More Farming >>

Case of mad cow disease confirmed on UK farm

Farming

Future funding arrangements under microscope

Farming

Advance Direct Payments begin to issue

Farming

Slurry being applied using a trailing shoe at AFBI Hillsborough

Advice for farmers as closed spreading begins

Farming

Education More Education >>

Northern Ireland schools ‘close to financial tipping point’

Education

Israeli ambassador to the UK Mark Regev speaking in Belfast earlier this year

Queen’s students oppose talk by Israeli ambassador

Education

Orange Order grand secretary Rev Mervyn Gibson pictured at the Museum of Orange Heritage in Belfast

Orange Order defends role in ‘raising educational attainment’

Education

Hillary Clinton during her address at a ceremony at Queen's University Belfast where she received an honorary degree

Hillary Clinton tells Northern Ireland parties to put their quarrels aside

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Business More Business >>

Case of mad cow disease confirmed on UK farm

Farming

Northern Ireand has seen an above average rise in house prices

House price growth stalls as buyers play ‘wait and see’

Business

Progress but market 'softening'

Flybe shares in tailspin as airline issues profit alert

Business

Down Royal currently hosts 12 race meetings every year

Down Royal racecourse management seeking new home as lease expires

Business

Transport More Transport >>

PSNI at scene of road traffic collision

Transport

The incident is believed to be a road traffic collision.

NI road closed as PSNI deal with 'ongoing incident'

Transport

The power supply is due to be restored by 5:30pm.

Power outage at NI vehicle test centre sees dozens of MOT appointments cancelled

Transport

Air Ambulance Northern Ireland. (File Image)

Air ambulance tasked to scene of NI road traffic collision

Transport

There are reports of sheep running loose on the A1.

Sheep causing havoc on A1

Transport

Environment More Environment >>

£300k community farm ‘first’ for Larne

Environment

Best of the Best: The Co Down village of Hillsborough won the overall top honour at this year's Best Kept Awards. Pic by Simon Graham

Village is crowned ‘Best of the Best’

Environment

Folk singer Colum Sands, right, with his son Dara outside the High Court in Belfast.''Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Folk singer Colum Sands loses legal challenge to nursing home plans

Crime

The seafront at Ballycastle

How safe is it to bathe at a beach near you? Full list revealed

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Lurgan Train Station.

Translink gear up for Autumn leaves and possible delays

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Health More Health >>

Abortion: Poll says two-thirds want NI politicians to decide law

Health

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Ambulance had to travel 37 miles to emergency in Larne

Health

Mairead O'Neill

Tragic top model Mairead O'Neill was ‘confident and fragile in equal measure’

Health

Bill Turnbull was diagnosed with incurable prostate cancer in November last year

Bill Turnbull: Cancer a massive pain in the backside and relentlessly boring

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Clann Project handout photo of (left to right) Susan Lohan, co-founder of Adoption Rights Alliance, Dr Maeve ORourke, Clann Project and Rod Baker, Hogan Lovells at the publication of the three-year Clann Project on Ireland's forced adoption system in mother and baby homes which has called for a new process of investigation to be opened

Forced adoption report calls for new investigation

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