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Sammy Wilson: If EU refuses to ditch Brexit backstop then UK can leave without a deal

Opinion

MPs in the House of Commons, London after they rejected Labour's motion of no confidence in Theresa May's Government by 325 votes to 306. Sinn Fein were among the only voluntary abstentions in that division, and the previous day they were the only fully voluntary abstentions on the Withdrawal Agreement. Photo: House of Commons/PA Wire

Sinn Fein MPs were the only real abstentions in key Brexit vote

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Ireland's Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, let the cat out of the bag on Tuesday when he admitted that Brussels would try to force Dublin to put in place a hard border, says Lord Empey, and he realised that the present Irish government didn't want to be the one to put up a border

Lord Empey: Dublin has failed to work with London on Brexit and is over reaching, as it has done in the past

Opinion

Under strand 3 of the 1998 Belfast Agreement London and Dublin should establish a Northern Ireland Brexit Stakeholder Forum which includes trade unions, says Owen Reidy

ICTU: In absence of devolution, Northern Ireland needs a Stakeholder Forum to examine Brexit

Opinion

DUP MP: We would be open to considering time-limited backstop

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PM survives as no confidence motion is defeated

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SAS soldier hailed a hero after Nairobi terror raid

News

Michael Stone in Supreme Court bid to overturn parole ruling

Crime

Arlene Foster MLA and Nigel Dodds MP meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May in Westminster.

Arlene Foster welcomes ‘useful discussion’ with Theresa May ahead of confidence vote

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Shaw's Bridge in Belfast

Appeal for mystery couple who reported woman's assault - to again contact police

Crime

Politics More Politics >>

Sammy Wilson: If EU refuses to ditch Brexit backstop then UK can leave without a deal

Opinion

MPs in the House of Commons, London after they rejected Labour's motion of no confidence in Theresa May's Government by 325 votes to 306. Sinn Fein were among the only voluntary abstentions in that division, and the previous day they were the only fully voluntary abstentions on the Withdrawal Agreement. Photo: House of Commons/PA Wire

Sinn Fein MPs were the only real abstentions in key Brexit vote

News

Ireland's Foreign Minister, Simon Coveney, let the cat out of the bag on Tuesday when he admitted that Brussels would try to force Dublin to put in place a hard border, says Lord Empey, and he realised that the present Irish government didn't want to be the one to put up a border

Lord Empey: Dublin has failed to work with London on Brexit and is over reaching, as it has done in the past

Opinion

Under strand 3 of the 1998 Belfast Agreement London and Dublin should establish a Northern Ireland Brexit Stakeholder Forum which includes trade unions, says Owen Reidy

ICTU: In absence of devolution, Northern Ireland needs a Stakeholder Forum to examine Brexit

Opinion

Crime More Crime >>

Michael Stone in Supreme Court bid to overturn parole ruling

Crime

Shaw's Bridge in Belfast

Appeal for mystery couple who reported woman's assault - to again contact police

Crime

Ciaran Toman on the Banbridge Road Lurgan where offensive graffiti has been removed

Sectarian and hate-fuelled graffiti removed, say SDLP

Crime

PSNI

Military service medals stolen during burglary

Crime

Farming More Farming >>

Focus on ‘Farming for future years’

Farming

Pacemaker Press Belfast 10-01-2019: George Haslett pictured at Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland.'Picture By: Arthur Allison Pacemaker.

‘I was on a high but life can change in a blink’

Farming

Owner Jamie Beattie with office manager Jill McGeown display some of the toys available at the rural business

Little tractors are key to firm’s big expansion

Farming

The dead calves which were dumped in Stoneyford

Six dead calves found dumped in Co Antrim

Farming

Education More Education >>

New £45m Southern Regional College campus in Craigavon gets go-head despite opposition

Business

James Maxwell.

New Carrick principal ‘looking forward to new challenge’

Education

Concerned parents attending the public meeting

Anger by parents at plan to close campus at split school

Education

Belfast City Hall is lit up in red lights in support of those campaigning for an Irish Language Act in Northern Ireland, on January 12, 2019. Photo: David Young/PA Wire

Republic pupils opting out of Irish lessons to study foreign languages

Education

Business More Business >>

ICTU: In absence of devolution, Northern Ireland needs a Stakeholder Forum to examine Brexit

Opinion

Motorists from Northern Ireland travelling into the Republic of Ireland must carry with them specific motor insurance documents after a 'No Deal' Brexit.

N.I. motorists must carry car insurance Green Cards if travelling to Republic of Ireland after 'No Deal' Brexit

Business

A view of the proposed new SRC campus.

New £45m Southern Regional College campus in Craigavon gets go-head despite opposition

Business

Traffic

Traffic and travel: Collision causing major delays for Belfast-bound traffic

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Transport More Transport >>

Traffic and travel: Collision causing major delays for Belfast-bound traffic

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The Met Office issued the warning of ice on Wednesday morning.

Risk of ice: Drivers advised to ‘exercise caution’

Transport

Car stopped in traffic

Traffic and travel: Road closed after accident

Transport

The street was closed after a road traffic collision.

P.S.N.I. close N.I. street after collision

Transport

Avoid traffic delays across NI today

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Environment More Environment >>

Log burners and house coal to be banned in fight against air pollution

Environment

Flood defences beside the Connswater River in east Belfast

Flood threat to 45,000 Northern Ireland properties

Environment

Sinn Fein Cllr Fergal Lennon at the River Closet where there appears to be thousands of dead fish

Call for probe after major ‘fish kill’ in Co Armagh river

Environment

The Nature Friendly Farming Network said food security could be at risk without action

Farm campaigners call for minimum environmental standards after Brexit

Farming

A red squirrel foraging for food in the woodlands outside Mount Stewart in Co. Down

Red squirrels reclaim Ards peninsula

Environment

Health More Health >>

Homeless people in NI ‘20 times more likely to die from drug misuse’

Health

Photo of an examination taken of a packet of painkillers lodged in a woman's throat, which remained undetected by doctors for almost three weeks. Pic: BMJ Journals/PA Wire

NI woman had plastic pill packet lodged in her throat for 17 days

Health

Altnagelvin Area Hospital

Payout of £5 million for child left with cerebral palsy

Crime

Larne Stroke survivor and volunteer George Stewart, receiving his nomination certificate from Stroke Association committee member Peter Deazley.

Larne volunteer recognised by stroke charity for ‘empathy with new members’

Health

Police surround GP Out of Hours Service at Craigavon Hospital

PSNI say man at GP Out of Hours stand-off was ‘taken to safety’

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