TUV leader Jim Allister claims Doug Beattie and Sir Jeffrey Donaldson’s failure to discuss Northern Ireland Protocol is ‘astounding’

Stormont's high-street vouchers were used in 3.7 million transactions in Northern Ireland, injecting almost £137 million into the economy, new figures show.

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