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A female bus driver was hospitalised after being headbutted by a man in Londonderry on Friday evening, it's emerged.

Two people have been injured after being struck by a vehicle outside the City Cemetery in west Belfast.

Last week this column returned to a long-standing theme of these pages: entrenched Northern Ireland Office (NIO) ministerial weakness that is no match for the partisan Irish ministers (see link to that column below).

Last week this column returned to a long-standing theme of these pages: entrenched Northern Ireland Office (NIO) ministerial weakness that is no match for the partisan Irish ministers.

Dr Anne McCloskey of Aontú (‘Sinn Féin happy for the bad Brits to do its abortion dirty work,’ Aug 31) exposes the cruelty of abortion.

A simple solution to the backstop problem would be to change the Withdrawal Agreement to allow for a referendum in five years time for the people of Northern Ireland to vote specifically if they want to keep the backstop or not.

Last week in Cyprus a gang rape, which made global headlines, was then said not to have happened.

Belfast Pride did not even exist as an event a relatively small number of years ago.