Deadline for using Spend Local cards extended for people whose cards arrived late and for delayed applications

Dec 22, 2021

Michael Cousins

Acting Managing Editor

Good morning from the News Letter

In the news today:

* Vast NI spending hike during Covid crisis ‘just shows up the folly of united Irelanders’ Sammy Wilson

* Northern Ireland is braced for a new round of anti-Covid measures as Stormont ministers meet today to discuss the impending peak of omicron cases.

* UK Cabinet Minister Liz Truss has threatened to suspend the NI Protocol if the EU does not end the role of the European Court of Justice as the final arbiter on the matter

* Department confirms NI centenary stone removal as ‘no permission sought’.

* Volunteers rolling out community Christmas dinners once again for 2021

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