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A personal note to News Letter readers from Editor, Ben Lowry

Was the £100 high street voucher scheme for Northern Ireland a good idea or not?
 
 
     
   
     
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  Dec 4, 2021  
     
 
Ben Lowry
 
Ben Lowry
Editor
Dear reader,
 
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%.

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/lifestyle/shopping/study-shows-northern-ireland-making-best-high-street-recovery-in-uk-3482043

 
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
 
Sir Jeffrey Donaldson had appeared to rebuke party members who have been dissenting voices on virus restrictions
 
Meanwhile, with Lord Frost saying disagreements over the NI Protocol have not been resolved, NI fishermen say they are feeling the impact of EU fishing regulations in mountains of red-tape when they land their catches at their home ports
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/ni-fishermen-foreigners-in-their-own-ports-warning-from-dup-mp-jim-shannon-3477309

This week the long-delayed report from the Commission on Flags, Identity, Culture and Tradition seemed to bring no likely solution to some of NI's most enduring disputes
https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/flags-report-solutions-difficult-when-sinn-fein-determined-to-remove-every-trace-of-britishness-3479075
 
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 I write in my own column of my dismay at the apparently receding plan to build a flyover junction linking the Westlink to the M1 and M2
 
In Farming Life, the star of a TV show of the same name, Emma Gray, says she 'felt horrible' after a viewer complained to police about footage of the family with a quad bike
https://www.farminglife.com/country-and-farming/this-farming-life-star-felt-horrible-following-viewers-complaint-to-police-3481509

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 
 
From sport, here's a story on Glenn Irwin and John McGuinness joining Honda Racing for next year's NW200 and Isle of Man TT.
 
And a story on Irish League footballer Conor McDermott (Cliftonville) and his battle to recover from a gambling addiction
 
There is so much else to mention. 
 
This weekend Billy Kennedy reflects on 50 years in journalism 
 
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.
 
The News Letter weekend print edition with Farming Life is in the shops until tomorrow.
 
Thank you for your continued interest in The News Letter, our long established title.
If we can interest you, there's huge value in a subscription to The News Letter, through which you can secure unfettered access to our news, sport, opinion and lifestyle journalism, all produced for you here by our team across Northern Ireland.

We hope you have a good weekend.

Best wishes, Ben Lowry
Editor, The News Letter
 
     
 
 
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