Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Hello from the team at the News Letter

With snow flurries sweeping across the Province we hope everyone is safe and well at the start of the New Year.

The Met Office have issued a yellow weather warning for snow and Ice this Friday but wintery weather has already been spotted across Northern Ireland.

In the news today:

* DUP MLA Diane Dodds has branded the person who mocked the death of her son as “beyond belief”.

* Man shot twice in each leg in gun attack.

* The return of children to school will lead to a further increase in Omicron transmission in Northern Ireland, a teaching union has warned.

* Northern Ireland Protocol: ‘Inevitable’ Stormont will collapse if issues not resolved says Givan.

Opinion:

* Ruth Dudley Edwards: Don’t underestimate my friend Kenny Donaldson and his victims’ group IVU.

* An important project to help preserve Northern Ireland’s best old structures

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