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Article‘I was not pre­pared to turn my back on the com­munity I rep­res­ent’

Carla Lock­hart has quit the DUP fol­low­ing weeks of spec­u­la­tion over her polit­ical future, say­ing she “must remain true to my prin­ciples and the trust those who elec­ted me have placed in me”. The Upper Bann MP said: “I was not pre­pared to...

ArticleScale of MP’S pop­ular­ity with voters means this really hurts the DUP

Los­ing Carla Lock­hart is a far graver blow to the DUP than it might seem even to many of those who fol­low polit­ics closely. The Upper Bann MP was never a big beast of the party, was given restric­ted oppor­tun­it­ies to do major media inter­views,...

ArticleGivan’s Trans­formed NI reforms cri­ti­cised

The Edu­ca­tion Min­is­ter has hit back at claims by the Alli­ance Party that his Trans­formed NI reforms will add to the work­load of teach­ers. Paul Givan was speak­ing as an Alli­ance motion was brought to the Assembly call­ing for the min­is­ter...

ArticleMotor­ist accused of racist hit-and-run and attemp­ted abduc­tions in west Bel­fast

A motor­ist allegedly knocked down and tried to abduct strangers as part of ran­dom sus­pec­ted racial attacks in west Bel­fast, a court has heard. Police claimed Paul Nel­son (38) tar­geted the vic­tims after mak­ing unwar­ran­ted accus­a­tions...

Article‘It feels like all this movie magic has fallen upon the city’: Hol­ly­wood star Ger­aldine hails Bel­fast’s film boom

ArticleAcaster told model Hall he could be a traitor in celebrity game show

Comedian James Acaster has revealed he told US model and act­ress Jerry Hall he “could” be a traitor dur­ing an out­take from The Celebrity Trait­ors. The 41-year-old sur­prised fel­low con­test­ants dur­ing the BBC show by out­ing him­self as a...

Article‘I was not pre­pared to turn my back on the com­munity I rep­res­ent’

Carla Lock­hart has quit the DUP fol­low­ing weeks of spec­u­la­tion over her polit­ical future, say­ing she “must remain true to my prin­ciples and the trust those who elec­ted me have placed in me”. The Upper Bann MP said: “I was not pre­pared to...

ArticleThe woman who walked away... MP’S rapid jour­ney from darling of the DUP to deeply polar­ising dis­ruptor