Doug Beattie is prepared to send the Ulster Unionists into a post-election power-sharing Executive even if the Northern Ireland Protocol remains in place after the votes are counted.
Having left Belfast at the age of nine, Sir Kenneth Branagh said he was humbled to be honoured by the city which encouraged him to 'celebrate language and stories'.
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