NI road closed as PSNI deal with ‘ongoing incident’

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18 Oct, 2018 NI road closed as PSNI deal with 'ongoing incident' An "ongoing incident" has resulted in the PSNI closing a busy Northern Ireland road. Latest News RHI Inquiry: Civil servant admits removing line criticising him 'looks bad' A senior civil servant has admitted that it "looks bad" that a colleague's criticism of his division was removed from a key internal document – but insisted that it had not been an attempt to massage the truth of what had gone on. Legacy Scandal: 'We excluded perpetrators from victim fund until told to include them,' says Daphne Trimble In the latest essay, DAPHNE TRIMBLE says that when the political landscape shifted to a DUP/SF led executive, responsibility for the Northern Ireland Memorial Fund moved to OFMDFM. A bitter pill for the board, of which she was a member, to swallow was the insistence from OFMDFM that they include perpetrators or they would cut all funding Brexit: Theresa May 'may not have to depend on DUP votes' Ireland's opposition leader has said the British prime minister appears to have acknowledged she does not have to depend on the backing of the DUP to push through a Brexit deal. The first woman to climb on the tusks of America's largest performing elephant Following Friday's short introduction here to pioneering American journalist and author Nellie Bly, Roamer shared several readers' collective curiosity about the reference to her elephant training! Sport Update Sunflower Trophy: Jeremy McWilliams teams up with Ryan Farquhar for Supertwin races Jeremy McWilliams will be back in action on Ryan Farquhar's KMR Kawasaki at the Sunflower Trophy meeting this weekend. Rangers striker Kyle Lafferty set to miss Hamilton game as Irish FA row escalates Rangers forward Kyle Lafferty looks set to be ruled out of Sunday's game against Hamilton as his row with the Irish FA took a new twist. RANGERS: Kyle Lafferty ruled out as Irish FA confirm they have invoked FIFA regulation Rangers forward Kyle Lafferty has been ruled out of Sunday's game against Hamilton as the Irish FA confirmed they have invoked a FIFA regulation after the striker ruled himself out of the recent double header with Austria and Bosnia & Herzegovina. And finally... Tony Wright sings us chapter and verse at the MAC Musician and MAC artist in residence, Tony Wright is 20 years into a remarkable career as a musician who is poised for a new show as well as the release of an accompanying memoir titled after his stage name VerseChorusVerse about a strange trip across America at the behest of his publishers. See all the day's news here

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