Documents show DUP minister Edwin Poots’ officials building Irish Sea border – which he says he opposes

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Subscribe              Nov 8, 2020           Top Stories A round up of the most popular news stories this week.           Documents show DUP minister Edwin Poots' officials building Irish Sea border – which he says he opposes           Edwin Poots' officials are heavily involved in constructing the Irish Sea border infrastructure, new documents reveal – despite the DUP minister's insistence he fundamentally opposes that border.                 Joe Biden as US president would be a disaster for the UK   Donald Trump claims voting irregularities are being carried out by supporters of Joe Biden's Democratic Party, to determine who will be the next US president.           Ben Lowry: If this is the end of the Trump presidency, then good riddance   American presidential terms begin in January, two months after the election in November.           Boris starts study into rail tunnel between Scotland and Northern Ireland   Unionists have given a warm welcome to a plan by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to conduct a review of a possible rail tunnel between Stranraer and Larne.           Sam McBride: DUP and Sinn Féin unity around a slogan is empty – they still can't agree a plan to tackle the pandemic   The oft divergent DUP and Sinn Féin positions on the pandemic have over recent weeks settled into one of their infrequent periods of apparent unity.           Fancy an LVF duvet or an IRA phone cover? Multinational retailer Redbubble has what you want   A giant multinational retailer is marketing hundreds upon hundreds of pieces of paramilitary-themed apparel, the News Letter has discovered.           Civil servant memoir: 'As officials explained the impact of loyalist strike, Brian Faulkner decided to go'   In the sixth part of his memoir, SINCLAIR DUNCAN recalls 1974 Ulster Workers' Council Strike:           Unionism has been largely mute about the major trade border that is being set up in the Irish Sea   The former DUP leader Peter Robinson wrote the second in his bi weekly columns for the News Letter yesterday.           Supermarket evacuated as firefighters respond to gas leak concerns   Emergency services are at the scene of a suspected gas leak in Portstewart.                 View more news

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