Stricter lockdown for NI is needed says union chief + Military will work in NI’s Nightingale Hospital

Jan 21, 2021

Good morning

In today's news:

* UNISON’s regional secretary in Northern Ireland, Patricia McKeown, has said it is now time for the Northern Ireland Executive to impose a “stronger lockdown”.

* Lockdown measures seem unlikely to the eased in Northern Ireland later today when Stormont ministers meet.

* A 35-year-old man has been charged with assaulting police during a police probe into the UDA in west Belfast.

* Government says ‘goods are moving effectively between GB and NI’ - but hauliers warn of ‘deep-seated problems’.

* Some 3,500 relatives of people killed during the Northern Ireland conflict have urged the British and Irish governments to fully investigate the decades of violence.

* Northern Ireland’s two largest parties have appeared to back Health Minister Robin Swann’s decision to draft in army medics to bolster the stretched health service in the battle with coronavirus.

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Michael Cousins
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