Former UUP chairman asks when party ‘moved away’ from DUP-TUV position on transfer votes?

'Chilling warning that stopped me selling explosives to the IRA' - ex-gangster John Lawson tells how he escaped a life of brutality and crime

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Subscribe              Feb 15, 2022             Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor Thank you for your continued support for the News Letter. If you haven't yet have you considered subscribing? For just £1 a month for 3 months you will get you faster-loading articles, fewer adverts and access to exclusive content. You can find out how to subscribe here, and read all about the offers available to subscribers here           Ex-UUP chairman challenges party over transfer votes for other unionists           Former UUP chairman David Campbell has challenged the party to state when it changed its policy to the current position where it will not ask voters to transfer votes to other unionist parties.                 A fine day for Northern Ireland, as normal life returns           When do Covid restrictions lift in Northern Ireland? Here are the laws being removed today           Ruth Dudley Edwards: Doug Beattie's engagement policy gets a boost from Alliance   I apologise to those readers who hate Twitter, but awful though it can be, it's a fact of life and like all political journalists I have to read it.           Two storms on way to batter the Province   Northern Ireland is set to be hit by two storms in three days as forecasters warn of up to 90mph winds.           UUP rejects DUP-TUV policy to 'maximise unionist vote' in election   The UUP has rejected appeals by the DUP and TUV to urge unionist voters to cooperate with other unionist parties in the Assembly election.           Abuse survivors will get their apology as planned   Stormont parties have agreed a format for an apology to victims of historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland on March 11.           'Chilling warning that stopped me selling explosives to the IRA'   A former Scottish gangster says he had a narrow escape from a potentially deadly business deal when a former IRA member in Liverpool strongly advised him against trying to sell plastic explosives to the Provisionals.           Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy blames DUP as he claims Stormont budget targeting health waiting lists cannot be introduced   A draft three-year budget for Northern Ireland that prioritised action on the region's spiralling health waiting lists cannot be introduced due to the powersharing crisis, the Finance Minister has announced.                 View more news

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