Edwin Poots MLA

Ex-councillor Luke Poots' official council picture

'Banning me from council is a breach of my human rights' - Luke Poots

A proposed badger cull in Northern Ireland has been paused.

UFU says decision to pause plans for badger cull is a major blow

Letters to editor

Letter: Edwin Poots seems to show incongruous thinking on attitudes to terror

Minister Poots is pictured with Patrick Gracey, Brian Chambers and Stewart Finlay from Finlay Foods in Moira

Poots meets with agri-food industry to discuss the supply chain pressures and ch...

Shirley Palmer, CEO of The Simple Series

Ballymena entrepreneur joins GEN UK team as ambassador

Eric Randall from Bryson Recycling and Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs Edwin Poots pictured at Bryson Recycling in Mallusk

Bryson’s separate collection model could save councils £12m a year

Carrier bag levy to increase from 5 pence to 25 pence

Helen’s Bay was judged to be of an ‘Escellent’ standard for bathing. Photo: Pacemaker Press.

Northern Ireland’s bathing waters get ‘Excellent’ grades in new compliance repor...

Letter to the editor

An intemperate diatribe from Jim Allister against the kindly Edwin Poots

Wrightbus CEO Buta Atwal met the Minister and explained the turnaround of the company since its takeover in 2019

Poots visits Wrightbus to discuss their ambitious plans for a hydrogen economy

Minister Poots with Neil Bacon from All Blinds and Curtains

Minister launches the £1m Rural Business Development Grant Scheme for 2021

Gordon Dunne and son Stephen. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye .

Like father like son for Dunne family as councillor co-opted as DUP MLA

Agriculture Minister, Edwin Poots.

Edwin Poots discusses NI Protocol with Lord Frost and Brandon Lewis

Multi-million investment for CAFRE

Rural Affairs Minster Edwin Poots MLA pictured launching the £1million Micro Food Business Investment Scheme at the Food Innovation Centre, Loughry Campus of the College of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Enterprise

Equipment fund for micro food firms

New regulations in first step of transition for local agriculture

Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons MLA has brought forward to the Northern Ireland Assembly new regulations aimed at ensuring the continued smooth delivery of direct agricultural support to farmers in 2021.

Una Culkin

Edwin Poots following his appendix surgery last month

DUP’s Edwin Poots to step down as minister tonight for cancer surgery and recupe...

Puppies can’t get rabies vaccinations until 12 weeks old and can’t travel to Northern Ireland until 15 weeks old. Yet they are normally placed in homes from eight weeks old

Volunteer puppy raisers for Guide Dogs in terrible position due to Brexit deal

The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Michael Gove in the House of Commons on Monday. Sammy Wilson says his "answers then reveal that this brave face could be cover for an eventual climb down and acceptance of Brussels' more outrageous demands"

Sammy Wilson: London talks tough about the European Union, but then gives in to ...

Magheraglass landfill site has been transformed.

Massive tree planting project transforms old Tyrone landfill site

Charlie Poots

Tributes paid after death of Charlie Poots - father of DUP MLA Edwin Poots

Pupils from schools across NI help DAERA Minister Edwin Poots MLA plant the first of 1,000 tree saplings at CAFRE’s Loughry College, Cookstown as part of the new ‘Forests For Our Future’ programme, which aims to plant 18 million trees by 2020

Forests of the future planted by children

DAERA Minister Edwin Poots pictured launching CAFRE’s new tractor driving simulators at Greenmount Campus. The £100,000 investment will enable students to learn within a safe environment and are the first such simulators to be used in an NI college. Pictured (from Left-right) are; students Chesney Ferguson, Erica Stewart, Minister Poots MLA, Katie Hepburn, Scott Starkey, Matthew Jenkins and Christopher Robinson. Photo Diarmuid McLaughlin

NI’s first tractor driving simulators

Poots confirms £293m for Direct Payments

Sinn Fein's Gerry Kelly pictured outside the Policing Board headquarters in Belfast

Gerry Kelly ‘has not rowed back’ on Sinn Fein leader’s police chief remarks

DUP representatives Edwin Poots MLA and Sir Jeffrey Donaldson have welcomed the granting of full planning approval for the new health centre project at Lagan Valley Hospital.

Green light for £30m health centre plan