Top stories of the week

A Troubles veteran has spoken out about his ongoing battle with depression and suicidal thoughts in a bid to highlight the need for better support for ex-servicemen and women who are suffering mental ill health.

A year into her leadership of Sinn Féin, Mary Lou McDonald came to Belfast on Monday to give a speech to an audience of ‘civic unionists’.

The Brexit impasse over the border and the backstop reminds me of the run up to the Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement (GFA).

Our reproduced old News Letter report yesterday, from 280 yeas ago, referred to the king’s opening of Parliament in February of 1739.

The Loughinisland killers’ getaway car was of no forensic value whatsoever by the time it was crushed the year after the 1994 UVF atrocity, scientists have finally confirmed.

After reading a story in the News Letter last month about the importance of good neighbours, Belfast woman Paula Tabakin felt compelled to pay tribute to her neighbour Anne Morgan.

This week on Twitter I came across a video from Highways England, warning drivers of the danger of driving too close to the car in front.

Gabrielle Gardiner – who along with her fiancee set up a group to save dogs from the Chinese meat trade – talks to GRAEME COUSINS about her passion for animals