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In the news today:

* Burning car forces train to make emergency stop - passengers and staff escape injury from ‘reckless endangerment to life’.
Translink have confirmed there has been an incident involving a burning car on the train track near Bellarena.

* ‘Off message’ Sinn Fein councillor deletes offensive Duke of Edinburgh post.
On a day when the Sinn Fein leadership surprised many with courteous tributes to the late Duke of Edinburgh, one party councillor was slammed by Sammy Wilson over a “disgusting” social media post.

* Churches: We plead with our political leaders to come together for the common good.
An open letter to political leaders in Northern Ireland, UK, Ireland, and EU (the full list of recipients is at the bottom of the letter).

* Arlene Foster hits back at Michelle O’Neill’s ‘nonsense’ criticism of Lord Morrow riot comments.
Arlene Foster has criticised Michelle O’Neill for dismissing as “nonsense” a claim by the DUP chairman that the current crisis is on a par with the Ulster Workers’ Council strike and the Anglo-Irish Agreement backlash.

*Stormont ministers to keep pushing Government over scheme for Troubles victims.
Stormont ministers have vowed to continue pushing the Government for more money to fund a scheme for Troubles victims after the resolution of a legal stand-off over who should foot the bill.