Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Good morning from the News Letter

In the news today:

* Two men have been arrested and cannabis worth an estimated £375,000 has been seized following an operation by the PSNI.

* Cows could be set for some rarefied grazing on the Mountains of Mourne as part of efforts to repair wildfire devastation.

* Firefighters’ efforts were focused on a large fire at a metal scrapyard in Belfast yesterday which could be seen off the coast of Scotland.

Declassified files:

* Tony Blair told the head of the Orange Order to call for an immediate end to the Drumcree parading dispute hours after three young brothers were killed in a loyalist firebomb attack.

* The British government believed that Gerry Adams was on the IRA Army Council at the time of the first ceasefire in 1994.

Opinion:

* Criticism of Gerry Adams Supreme Court ruling by legal and political experts seem to have been vindicated

* Ruth Dudley Edwards: My list of people from 2021 to banish to a desert island

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