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  Oct 10, 2021  
     
 

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A round up of the most popular news stories this week.

  
     
  Ex-RMP officer recalls taking rifle from accused veteran  
     
  A Royal Military Police officer who attended the scene of a Troubles shooting has recalled taking a rifle from accused veteran Dennis Hutchings, but cannot confirm the weapon was his, a judge has heard.  
     
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Doug Beattie sets UUP sights on first minister job as he insists ‘we are back’
 
Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie has insisted the party is back and can once again take the first minister’s job at Stormont.
 
     
 
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‘Failure to act on informer tip-off should be examined in Omagh bomb probe’
 
A failure to act on an informer tip-off or use intelligence and surveillance evidence about previous terror attacks are among the reasons for a judge directing a fresh investigation into the Omagh bombing.
 
     
 
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‘Solution mode’ assurance from EU praised by DUP
 
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson hailed what he described as the “change in tone” from the EU.
 
     
 
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VIDEO: Ex Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith says the Northern Ireland Protocol should be replaced
 
In this clip, Iain Duncan Smith says that the Irish Sea border is not working.
 
     
 
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Major milestone: Northern Ireland on brink of quarter million positive coronavirus tests
 
According to the Department of Health, Northern Ireland is teetering on the brink of a major milestone in the Province’s counter Covid campaign.
 
     
 
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No comment from new NI fire chief Peter O’Reilly as bomb inquiry evidence mounts
 
The Northern Ireland fire brigade and its new chief commander have declined to comment as harrowing evidence mounts in the inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing.
 
     
 
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Ben Lowry: Echoes of 2019, as Boris Johnson fails to proclaim his unionism in his keynote speech to Tories
 
There was an interesting symmetry to the Conservative conference this week and the last one that the party held, two years previously almost to the day.
 
     
 
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Ben Lowry: Echoes of 2019, as Boris Johnson fails to proclaim his unionism in his keynote speech to Tories
 
There was an interesting symmetry to the Conservative conference this week and the last one that the party held, two years previously almost to the day.
 
     
     
     
   
     
     
     
   
   
   
 
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