It has been chilly some nights this month, and a Met Office forecaster explains how you can get ground frost in June.

Here is today's full King's Birthday Honours list for Northern Ireland.

Recipients include Inspector John Caldwell, who was nearly murdered by terrorists, and Gavin Robinson's wife, who worked to establish prenatal mental health services in NI. 

Both Bronagh Hinds, who helped form the Women's Coalition, and the father of  Daithi Mac Gabhann, Mairtin, the organ campaigner, say they made a conscious decision to set aside personal politics and accept their own honours.

Clodagh Dunlop, who emerged from locked-in syndrome, gets an MBE. When she recounts how she could only blink to communicate it gives you a sense of how terrifying it would be to be in that trapped state.

Noleen Simpson, murder of Katie, whose accused murderer Jonathan Creswell killed himself before trial, speaks of the family's heartbreak after three women were sentenced for offences related to her death.

In politics the Ulster Unionist candidate in Fermanagh and South Tyrone says the outgoing MP there Michelle Gildernew turned her back on the constituency and it failed when she failed this week to become an MEP across the border.

Meanwhile, Sinn Fein's candidate to replace her, Pat Cullen, declines to answer our question on whether she will live in the constituency as she declined to answer our question on her view on IRA violence.

I write here that with Ireland's Future taking place today, the disastrous election result for SF is not their first and shows that unionists should not accept the notion that republicans will always prevail.

In golf Rory McIlroy roared into first place in the US Open first round but fell back yesterday.

Enjoy your reading and your Saturday,

Ben