Claire Sugden

East Londonderry MLA Claire Sugden

Rural transport must be improved says East Londonderry MLA Claire Sugden

Team GB's Hannah Scott will be honoured with a day of celebrations in her home town of Coleraine today

MLA Claire Sugden would welcome homecoming reception for NI athletes

Dairy cows. Photo: Allan Hutchings

Milk costing more to produce than Northern Ireland farmers are paid: UFU

Cutting the first sod to officially mark the beginning of over £11 million construction works at Coleraine Grammar School are (L to R) Willie Oliver, President of the BoGs; Permanent Secretary at the Department of Education, Dr Mark Browne; Principal, David Carruthers; Head Boy, Jordan McAuley and Head Girl, Kia McCartney

Work begins on £11million building project for Coleraine Grammar School

The Consumer Council has revealed that people with food allergies and intolerances are impacted by high costs and lack of availability when buying free-from food and drink

Consumer Council reveals that availability of free-from products is an issue

Pacemaker Press 26/04/23 Thousands strike at Belfast City Hall on Wednesday. Most schools in Northern Ireland are to close today due to a teaching strike over pay. All five teaching unions in Northern Ireland are joining the strike action, with the National Association of Head Teachers striking for the first time in its history in relation to pay. The full-day strike action follows a half day of strike action in schools in February, with members in further-education colleges joining their teacher colleagues. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Unionist MLA calls for 'elected ministers' in place to break strike deadlock

MLAs better understand NI issues, and know they won’t be re-elected if they don’t perform

Claire Sugden: I was at school in 1998, now I want to help protect the deal

Thousands of workers in the education and health sectors in Northern Ireland take part in strike action on February 21. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Urgent talks called for ahead of April 26 strikes by teachers and civil servants

Glenn Irwin wining the Anchor Bar Superbike race at the North West 200 last year. Photo Stephen Davison/Pacemaker Press

Celebrations as North West 200 saved from oblivion

Hezlett Primary School, Castlerock. Image via Google StreetView

Principal warns of potential disaster from 'lollipop' crossing cuts

Claire Sugden

Cost-of-living crisis: Charity runs out of money after surge in demand

Royal Mail postal workers on strike outside the Belfast delivery office in Tomb Street, Belfast. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Royal Mail strikes are hindering some businesses in NI and benefitting others

Nurses on the picket line at the City Hospital in Belfast on Thursday in a 12-hour strike, which is the largest action of its kind in NHS history. Pic Colm Lenaghan/ Pacemaker

No criticism of nurses strike from Northern Ireland politicians

Letter to the editor

The days of unionists as top dog are gone forever

Independent unionist Claire Sugden looks likely to retain her seat despite a fall in first preferences from 2017

Election 2022: All to play for in East Londonderry

Train at Downhill beach in East Londonderry

Election 2022: Familar battle ahead in East Londonderry

Niall Deeney takes a look at the East Londonderry constituency, which reveals some of the old certainties of Northern Ireland’s politics on full display

Niall Deeney

The report says Northern Ireland needs ‘a bespoke loneliness strategy’ and a public awareness campaign

Loneliness strategy ‘needed for elderly and those in rural areas’

The Department for the Economy said over 99.5% of eligible applicants received their Spend Local cards before the scheme ended. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Calls for extension to Spend Local scheme

The centre of Belfast. The number of shoppers in Northern Ireland in November was down only -5.2% on 2019 figures. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Study shows NI making best high street recovery in UK

A vacant shop in Coleraine town centre has its windows transformed into this colour scene depicting Causeway Speciality Market

Call for retail rules to be relaxed in NI town

Shoppers are eagerly awaiting the launch date of the NI High Street Voucher Scheme

Northern Ireland High Street Voucher Scheme: What we know so far

Retailers in Northern Ireland are set to get a huge boost from the high street voucher scheme when it launches

Everything you need to know about Northern Ireland's High Street Voucher Scheme

Justice warrior: Claire Sugden at home in her garden

True advocate for justice

A mock-up of the voucher card

Worries raised about barring teenagers from High Street coronavirus voucher

Claire Sugden

'Do more to help small businesses', says Sugden as 2,500 go bankrupt since 2016

Aaron McCormick, 22, from Co Londonderry, was killed in Afghanistan on Remembrance Sunday in 2010. Photo credit: MoD/PA Wire

Heartbreak for bereaved families of NI soldiers as Taliban regain control

Cartoonist Brian John Spencer’s take on the decline of the DUP

Sam McBride: Deep instability now looms, and the DUP civil war is central to it

As Edwin Poots looks ahead, the political landscape is beyond bleak.

Sam McBride

The new legislation is “about giving premises choice and flexibility to cater for their particular market,” Hospitality Ulster said. Photo: Cathal McNaughton/PA Wire

Industry welcome for new licensing laws bill

Bar Staff serving Drink

Assembly bill proposes wide range of relaxations in licensing laws for NI pubs

East Londonderry MLA Claire Sugden. Photo by Lorcan Doherty / Press Eye.

Unionism put all its eggs in DUP basket and now they're cracked: Claire Sugden

Ruby Peacock and son Russell view an image of Bertie’s statue in Coleraine

Tributes paid to Ruby Peacock, wife of late NI football great Bertie

Road closed after collision

Devastation after man and woman killed in NI collision - two other people in veh...

New legislation will bring Northern Ireland into line with other UK regions where coercive control is already a criminal offence

‘You don’t need to have bruises to have been abused’: Coercive control to become...

Huge drop in cost of jailing someone in NI

Sir Patrick Coghlin (centre) examined the RHI scheme with Dame Una O’Brien and Dr Keith MacLean

No naming of those behind RHI Inquiry delay

First Minister Arlene Foster and Deputy First Minister Michelle O'Neill

Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill already not answering MLAs’ questions on time

Arlene Foster and Michelle O’Neill putting on a united front on Saturday afternoon after being appointed first minister and deputy first minister

Sam McBride: Stormont has returned with less internal scrutiny and with weaker l...

Claire Sugden said some unionist voters are not being served by either the DUP or UUP

Claire Sugden: I would consider starting new unionist party

Club secretary Lewis Gregg and club leader Michael Torrens thanking Claire Sugden MLA for coming along to the annual parents night

Garvagh Young Farmers’ Club host annual parents’ night

Coleriane Coastguard station was broken into and ransacked

Disgust as thieves raid NI coastguard station

Ian Patterson. Pic supplied by McAuley Multimedia

‘Ian was a very lovable chap who was loved by everybody’

Dr Susann Huschke is to sit on the advisory panel of a review into legislation which outlaws the purchase of sex in NI. Former Justice Minister Claire Sugden has expressed concerns.

Ex-justice minister's sex trade warning after '˜Doing Money' drama

Claire Sugden, East Londonderry independent unionist MLA and ex-justice minister, joined Jim Allister in wondering how much was improperly spent

Concern at delay in identifying fraudulent legal aid claims

PACEMAKER BELFAST. East Londonderry MLA Claire Sugden

Sugden: '˜Two big parties not ready for justice portfolio yet'

Former Justice Minister Claire Sugden says officials were nowhere near ready to launch the review of sentencing when she was advised to announce it. Photo by Lorcan Doherty / Press Eye.

Ex-minister '˜frustated' by year long delay on sentencing review

The PSNI said 77 incidents of vigilante-style groups have been brought to their attention since last June

PSNI have questions to answer over '˜paedophile hunter' groups: Sugden

Victor Kennedy escaped prison officers during a visit to the Causeway Hospital in Coleraine

Prison service in dock after murderer escapes custody

NI Probation Board

Northern Ireland probation staff warned of republican threat

Claire Sugden was speaking after the three-year jail term imposed in the case of the Eddie Girvan killing

Sentencing review must go ahead: Sugden

Edwin Poots

DUP say SF needs to '˜knuckle down' in negotiations

Government silent on whether anti-terror measures include NI

Colin Horner who was shot dead in Bangor on Sunday. Pacemaker

Plan to tackle paramilitaries '˜meaningless' after murder

Danny Kinahan  a pro-Remain MP  has rejected overtures towards the UUP by the SDLP about forging an anti-Brexit alliance

Pro-EU unionists say no to '˜anti-Brexit pact'

Claire Sugden. Photo: Pacemaker Belfast

Political crisis forced me to break promises, says Claire Sugden

Claire Sugden

Political impasse forced me to break promises, says ex-Justice minister