Amidst all the ongoing difficult news, I imagine readers who live locally are finding solace in the fine weather.
I write in the paper today about how I find an extra joy in warm sunny days at this point in the calendar, because there is the hope of months of good conditions ahead.
With the clocks springing forward tonight, the evenings will be bright and happy!
Good weather for Mother's Day tomorrow. As someone who lost his dear mother within recent weeks I hope everyone else who has a mum savours that, and enjoys this important day!
This week Charles and Camilla delighted crowds on both sides of the border
This week we remembered some grim times - the bomb outside the News Letter of 1972. There is a video in this which shows the location of that tragic day, near to our current offices. Also links within it it so some other stories we did in the supplement to mark the anniversary
My own column is on how such terror attacks are almost forgotten that even I, someone who has been following news since the early 1980s, and who has spent 22 years at the daily papers in Belfast had struggled to remember which paper was attacked
Days after the News Letter blast, Stormont was suspended. We marked that too this week
And today Henry McDonald talks to a present day NIO minister Conor Burns, who is a unionist who talks about his upbringing in a nationalist area and being openly gay
Our Big Interview this weekend is with Jay Osmond, in Belfast to talk about his upcoming musical at the Grand Opera House
Meanwhile, the Oscars approach for Ken Branagh's film Belfast ... Good luck tomorrow night!
Last night there was another anti protocol rally
Hours earlier Simon Coveney was subject to a menacing security scare, blamed on the UVF
Our editorial condemns this disgraceful incident
The P&O saga rumbles on with a ferry impounded in Larne
In sport, Michael Dunlop was in action at Bishopscourt Racing Circuit on a PBM Ducati Panigale V4R
The full transcript from Paul Doolin's post-match interview after a 2-0 win over Coleraine by Portadown
From Farming Life, amendments made to HMRC's red diesel guidance
Tributes paid to Jim Carmichael - a man who assisted thousands of farmers
