It was a mix of sunny and cloud, just as all week it has been wet with good spells, a reminder of why I do not like August. But we have missed the worst of Storm Lilian.

The rain has badly battered the Isle of Man Grand Prix, from where Kyle White is reporting for us. Let's hope the weather is better for the Last Saturday next weekend. Here are details on the six venues.

The arrest in the Republic of a man who was one of the Colombia Three over the historic murder of RUC officers is an unexpected legacy development.

Keir Starmer's visit to Belfast was overshadowed by the sudden resignation of Doug Beattie as Ulster Unionist Party leader, amid recriminations with his party officers.

Here is our political editor David Thompson on the UUP turmoil, and here is a column by Owen Polley on how being moderate can go hand in hand with being firm on the Union.

Alf McCreary looks back in dismay at the ructions in a party he has followed since the 1960s. My column is on how it is nonsense to say that the party is finished.

Across the Pond, I thought Kamala Harris was pulling ahead of Donald Trump until this endorsement from RFK. And staying in North America, Roamer writes about Mitchell Smyth, an Ulsterman who moved to Canada and who could "tell a yarn or two".

And here is Trevor Ringland expressing (entirely justified) dismay that our Northern Ireland Olympian heroes did not get an open top bus through Belfast city centre. We will write more about this omission in the coming weeks.

Enjoy your Saturday and your reading,

Ben