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From July 3 1739 News Letter (July 14 in modern calendar):

The young man who died in a motorcycle crash in the early hours of yesterday morning, was Ross Willetts from Loughill in Tobermore.

50A Station Road, Craigavad, Holywood, is a magificent residence with stunning sea views located on a prestigious coastal stretch within seconds walk of the coastline.

A claim that a senior NIO civil servant was paid compensation for offence caused by a portrait of the Queen “demands a full explanation” from the government, Jim Allister has said.

Tuesday demonstrated the ability of politics to effect radical change.

Peter Tatchell says, “It was intolerable that Northern Ireland denied its citizens the same rights as exist for people in the rest of the UK.”

The Grand Secretary of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland, Rev Mervyn Gibson, used a speech at Donemana to accuse republicans of not only rewriting history, but trying to “re-invent the English language” itself.