Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Hello from everyone at the News Letter

Latest news today:

* Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson has this morning claimed a major victory over the NI Protocol, as a result of a challenge from a group he runs.

* The Met Office yellow weather warning for the Province for Friday has been extended.

* Pro-Union politicians are maintaining pressure upon Sinn Fein over what they see as the party’s latest snub to unionism – with Sammy Wilson contrasting it against the time he facilitated a memorial to the GAA.

Opinion:

* Lord Empey: The DUP has not faced up to its central role in creating the Northern Ireland Protocol.

* Morning View: The education minister is right to prioritise keeping Northern Ireland schools open

Sport:

* Isle of Man TT return edges step closer as rider entries open.

* Bolton insist Dion Charles ‘has grown up’ since posting discriminatory tweets.

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