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PM claims ‘seamless border’ central to Belfast Agreement – but it doesn’t say that

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Tom Anderson with his eldest daughter, Isobel.

‘He was a big man with a big personality, just a great guy’

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Road closed

POLICE ALERT: Road closed after serious collision

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Prime Minister Theresa May in Belfast.

Theresa May’s Belfast speech suffused with a strong pro-Union message

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Ian Paisley foreign trip furore: voters voice their views

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Ben Lowry: PM tried to reassure unionists but the pressure will be on the Union in event of No Deal

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IRA survivor’s warning on veteran suicides

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PSNI investigating claims that it gave people’s personal data to suspected paramilitaries

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Is Northern Ireland set for another burst of sunny weather this weekend?

NI weather: will the sunshine return over the weekend?

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File photo dated 4/12/12 of a general view of a Burger King restaurant in Belfast, as the fast food chain has stopped sourcing burgers from the Irish supplier at the centre of the horsemeat contamination scandal, it has announced. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Wednesday January 23, 2013. See PA story CONSUMER Horsemeat. Photo credit should read: Paul Faith/PA Wire

Burger King for B&Q site

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Politics More Politics >>

PM claims ‘seamless border’ central to Belfast Agreement – but it doesn’t say that

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Prime Minister Theresa May in Belfast.

Theresa May’s Belfast speech suffused with a strong pro-Union message

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DUP MP Ian Paisley apologising to the House of Commons in London for failing to register two family holidays funded by the Sri Lankan government, which he previously estimated was worth �50,000. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Thursday July 19, 2018. He faces a 30-day suspension after it was recommended by the parliamentary watchdog. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

Ian Paisley foreign trip furore: voters voice their views

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Prime Minister Theresa May visits The Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast on Friday. "It would be churlish not to recognise that Mrs May tried to alleviate unionist concerns as well as nationalist ones in a talk that she gave during her Northern Ireland trip. But there was an alarming passage in the PM's speech, which as Lord Empey has highlighted, over stated the extent to which the Belfast Agreement prohibits a slightly harder border."'' 'Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Ben Lowry: PM tried to reassure unionists but the pressure will be on the Union in event of No Deal

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Crime More Crime >>

Several injured in attack on bus in Germany - police

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Clare O'Neill and her baby Eliza, after the four-week-old girl was inside an Audi which taken in a car-jacking in Birmingham.

First picture: mother and baby reunited after horrific car-jacking ordeal

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Youths in Londonderry's Bogside who petrol bombs at police and random passing vehicles and also lit a fire on a main flyover. Photo: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Police appeal for info on white van petrol bomber

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Three men released following anti-terror arrests in north Belfast.

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Farming More Farming >>

10% of Air Ambulance call outs related to farm incidents

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Farm Safety Week – The Farm Safety Partnership View

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Co Fermanagh farmer Peter Gallagher gives evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee at Parliament Buildings, Belfast. Photo: PA

NI farmers accuse EU of playing political 'football' over cross-border trade

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Farming still one of the most dangerous occupations

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Education More Education >>

Demolition of disused school buildings ‘a terrible shame’

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Sectarian arson attack on East Belfast school

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First Catholic school conversion to integrated is blocked

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‘Nothing agreed until everything is agreed’ on single transfer test

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Business More Business >>

Questions left unanswered on post Brexit landscape

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HSENI Chief Executive Keith Morrison with Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Operational leader Glenn O'Rourke inside an air ambulance at Air Ambulance HQ in the Maze site, Lisburn.

10% of Air Ambulance call outs related to farm incidents

Farming
NI's Rory McIlroy will be one of the star attractions when The Open comes to Portrush in 2019

The Open: tourism chiefs hoping for sell-out and predicting £80m windfall when tournament comes Portrush

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CBI NI director Angela McGowan

Province ‘dangerously close’ to recession warns CBI

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Transport More Transport >>

POLICE ALERT: Road closed after serious collision

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Traffic and travel news

Motorway fire: warning to drivers over reduced visibility

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The strike action is due to take place next week.

Ryanair cancels 600 flights to three European countries

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Stoneyford Road, Lisburn. Image: Google

Police alert: Road re-opens after two-vehicle collision

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Environment More Environment >>

NI hosepipe ban set to be lifted

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The Irish Navy's LE Orla docked in the Foyle as the big wheel is about to keep on turning as the Foyle Maritime Festival opens.

Anchors Aweigh! as Foyle Maritime Festival 2018 launches into action

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It is thought that NI Water may have quoted from laws only applicable to England, Scotland and Wales when putting the hosepipe ban in place (Photo: Shutterstock)

NI Water hosepipe ban: this is exactly why it doesn't have legal authority

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Northern Ireland's water provider say they will not purposely reduce water pressure in homes during the heatwave (Photo: Shutterstock)

NI Water pledge not to reduce water pressure during heatwave

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If you use a hose in Northern Ireland right now, you could face serious consequences (Photo: Shutterstock)

This is what will happen if you break the hosepipe ban in Northern Ireland

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IRA survivor’s warning on veteran suicides

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Col Philip Ingram from Co Tyrone, overcame post traumatic stress disorder and suicidal thoughts

Colonel: I pointed the pistol at myself ... then my dad came into my head

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Scene of a Castlewellan landmine explosion which killed three UDR soldiers in 1980. Photo: Pacemaker

‘Veteran suicide rates in our allies are rising ... we need to find out if it is the same here’

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‘Humanitarian’ call for direct rule over NI health system

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A soldier inspects the remains of the army bus which was blown up by the IRA at Ballygawley in 1988, killing eight soldiers. One survivor tells the News Letter today how the resulting PTSD almost claimed his life and how he came out on top

Security fears stop veterans asking for critical mental health support

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