Was the £100 high street voucher scheme for Northern Ireland a good idea or not?
One set of data from Northern Ireland Retail Consortium suggests it was, with the number of shoppers in NI in November at their highest point so far compared to the pre-Covid level, down only 5%, far better than in Great Britain were it was down up to 20%.
That is one of the many stories this weekend, in our bumper Saturday edition.
On our front page is on apparent tensions within the DUP between the leadership and Jim Wells and Sammy Wilson, the former over an election nomination, the latter over Covid policy
As someone who is something of an infrastructure fan, I was struck by this letter from a reader, implying that the UK establishment has deliberately allowed the cost of a bridge to Scotland to be estimated at sky high levels to kill the project
And if your vehicle is used for both agriculture and construction, you will need to flush out the tank to remove traces of red diesel when switching between uses, or opt for full duty-paid fuel
And in our latest extract from 'The Idea of the Union' book the academic Jack Wilson Foster talks about how the Irish have made Dublin their metropolitan capital yet this did not stop anti British rhetoric back home after Brexit.
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