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John McDonnell: I still long for a united Ireland

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Northern Ireland model, Mairead O'Neill, who died suddenly at the beginning of the week.

Mairead O'Neill funeral fundraising page raises more than £10,000 in a day

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UFU chief executive Wesley Aston insisted that he had not connected his actions with what subsequently emerged in this newspaper

RHI Inquiry: Weeks before leak to News Letter, UFU boss sent emails to DUP Spad

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The UFU's senior policy officer Christopher Osborne at the inquiry

RHI Inquiry: Burning oats more profitable than selling them

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Brexit: Theresa May ‘may not have to depend on DUP votes’

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Brexit: Sinn Fein tells Theresa May to end ‘toxic marriage’ with DUP

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Homeless Polish man subjected to ‘brutal and relentless attack’

Crime

Sinn Fein’s Liadh Ni Riada: My poppy vow was inspired by Martin McGuinness

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CTA

MISSING: Robert Holmes.

Family concerned for well-being of missing NI man

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The front page of the second surviving News Letter, dated October 6 1738 (which is October 17 in the modern calendar). The papers was founded a year earlier, in September 1737 but all of the editions from the first 13 months are lost

Reported On This Day 280 years ago in the News Letter

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Politics More Politics >>

John McDonnell: I still long for a united Ireland

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UFU chief executive Wesley Aston insisted that he had not connected his actions with what subsequently emerged in this newspaper

RHI Inquiry: Weeks before leak to News Letter, UFU boss sent emails to DUP Spad

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The UFU's senior policy officer Christopher Osborne at the inquiry

RHI Inquiry: Burning oats more profitable than selling them

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Micheal Martin said the DUP position on Brexit negotiations was 'damaging'

Brexit: Theresa May ‘may not have to depend on DUP votes’

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Crime More Crime >>

Homeless Polish man subjected to ‘brutal and relentless attack’

Crime

David McGowan was found dead in a police cell in Lisburn

PSNI sergeant cleared of manslaughter charge

Crime

PSNI

Man (34) arrested under Terrorism Act

Crime

Convoy Orange Hall was extensively damaged by fire in October 2014.

Lodge welcomes prison sentence for man convicted of burning down Orange hall

Crime

Farming More 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

Tickets selling fast for Farming Life awards 2018 - full list of finalists

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

Education

Business More Business >>

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

Visitor numbers to Belfast are still growing but not enough to meet the increase in hotel rooms a report claims

Belfast hotels must work hard to fill rooms in 2019

Business

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

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

Environment

Health More Health >>

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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The Department of Health said it didn't hold information on the number of non-UK staff it employed

Northern Ireland health bosses don’t know nationalities of their staff

Health