Dec 20, 2020

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


	Mobile PSNI checkpoints could return to enforce 8pm curfew in first week of lockdown, says NI Policing Board member Mike Nesbitt

	Mobile police checkpoints to enforce an 8pm curfew could be on the cards during the first week after Christmas, a member of the Policing Board has suggested.

Arlene Foster tells public: Don’t set your standards on Covid-19 by what Michelle O’Neill does

Arlene Foster has urged the Northern Ireland public to set their own standards for protecting others from Covid – rather than adopt the standard set by the deputy first minister.

Sam McBride: 2020 has seen Sinn Féin reach its zenith, but also revealed its key weaknesses

In the history books, 2020 will be recorded as the year of a seminal moment for Sinn Féin and for Ireland.

Ben Lowry: Brian Desmond Hurst, his success and its reminder about the random nature of all of our lives

Recently we ran a story about Brian Desmond Hurst, the film director.

How damning that our Stormont system is so dysfunctional, Michelle O’Neill is presiding over a major new lockdown

News Letter editorial of Saturday December 19 2020:

Ben Lowry: The Covid-19 restrictions will be used to undermine grammar schools in Northern Ireland

Twenty years ago there were groups of experts to defend Northern Ireland’s grammar schools.

Unionist anger as council backs border poll motion

Unionist members of Mid Ulster District Council have voiced their anger after the council supported a motion in support of a border poll.

Former pub premises set to open again – as a church

The doors of a former pub in rural east Antrim may be set open again, but this time as a church.

Arlene Foster lambasts government partner over Covid breach denials

Arlene Foster has urged the Northern Ireland public to set their own standards for protecting others from Covid – rather than adopt the standard set by the deputy first minister.



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