Hello from the News Letter

In the news today:

* Arlene Foster wades into Jim Wells South Down Assembly election defection row

* Pastor Rusty Thomas says ‘rise of feminism is to blame for 56 genders’ 

* Police investigating attack on South Belfast SDLP candidate Elsie Trainor as hate crime

* Police appeal for information following death in fire at property
Opinion:

* Morning View: An imaginative plan for a ferry from Bangor to Belfast
* William Matchett: War crimes are not unique to the Russians

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