Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Good morning

Today's news:

* ‘Stop those cars making residents lives hell every weekend’ - ‘these are young fella’s in their cars showing off, spinning their wheels and burning rubber’

* The government has made a U-turn in relation to the use of red diesel in ploughing matches, it has emerged.

* A rates relief scheme for small businesses in Northern Ireland has been extended for a further year, the finance minister has announced.

* Campaigners for more transparency on who finances Northern Ireland’s parties say the monitoring of political funding here still allows for foreign cash to leak into the system.

* Russia invasion of Ukraine: Northern Ireland-built NLAW anti-tank missiles may have halted dreaded 40-mile-long-convoy, says ex-NATO Colonel.

Opinion:

* Sammy Wilson: The UK plans to thwart Vladimir Putin’s cronies do not go far enough.

* Morning View: Protests should be allowed outside abortion clinics in Northern Ireland.

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