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Subscribe              I N S I D E R           Jul 1, 2023             Ben Lowry Editor The weather was forecast to get bad a week ago after an almost perfect early June.Yet while there has been rain it has also been pleasant.   Today is the anniversary of the Somme. I first went to the site of that tragic battle on its centenary in 1916. I am reading a book about 1914 and it helps to reassure me that global problems today are minor compared to that year.    Here is a story about the many Somme commemoration parades this weekend   It was another anniversary yesterday, one that I remember well because the killings happened in Belfast city centre the day after I left school   There has been a lot of interest in this story about an academic who said she was "delighted" to have heard the explosion that killed Lord Mountbatten   The student fees political/legal drama in America has reminded me why I support the (much milder) system of student fees in the UK.  I was one of the first generation to take out a loan here   The police might be rethinking their policy of allowing uniformed officers to march in gay pride   Here is our editorial on why the desire for such participation is understandable but it should be denied even so.    On our opinion pages, the writer and former soldier Ken Wharton wrote about the rewriting of history   We also ran two essays on the Windsor Framework, Owen Polley on how NI has been left behind  and the DUP's Lord Dodds on a possible solution    Here is Kyle White on the sad death of the biker Damon Rees   -- Ben Lowry Editor              Ben Lowry: Remembering two killings in the centre of Belfast on the last day of June 1990   Read more +     Ben Lowry: The system of student fees in the UK is a fair one but Stormont politicians won't admit that   Read more +           Over 100 parades across NI to mark Battle of the Somme sacrifice in 1916                     Read more +     Subscribe today             Full access   Subscribe for unlimited access to all our articles, 70% fewer ads, daily puzzles and our desktop & mobile app. Your first month free . Cancel anytime.     Find out more     Gift access   Give someone a subscription for a year's unlimited access to all our articles, 70% fewer ads, daily puzzles and our desktop and mobile app. From just £94.90 for 12 months.    Find out more

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Parades Commission takes organisers of major Orange parade to task over 'failure to engage' with nationalist/republicans

Customers should review electricity and gas suppliers as all subsidies now removed

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Subscribe              Jun 30, 2023           Have you considered subscribing to the News Letter? Our most popular Digital + plan costs £10.99 with a range of benefits including ad free articles and access to the newspaper edition app on mobile, tablet and desktop. Check all the options here           Parades Commission takes organisers of major Orange parade to task over 'failure to engage' with nationalist/republicans           Customers should review electricity and gas suppliers as all subsidies now removed           Pride flag bomb hoax: Alliance Party says one of its councillors was target and that the alert 'is an echo of dark days'           Noel Doran: Longest serving daily newspaper editor in UK and Ireland prepares to step down           Travel advice has been issued ahead of a number of parades on Saturday July 1           BBC Weather apologises for 'technical issues' showing low temperatures           DUP leader questions whether Sinn Fein are 'doing enough' to support prison service and PSNI recruitment           'Ballot box counts more than opinion polls on Northern Ireland Protocol': DUP           Heaton-Harris announces sex education victory at Stormont's annual LGBT reception           Belfast Polaris submarine veteran likens Titanic wreck tourism to sifting through the remains of the Twin Towers               Glenavon and Northern Ireland youth goalkeeper signs multi-year deal with Premier League club Wolves     The 28-year-old left New Zealand to come and race in the British Superbike Championship in 2020                           Ken Wharton: Grief and loss of IRA victims rises up to challenge Sinn Fein's rewriting of Troubles history             Editorial: ​Beware of the flurry of polls in Northern Ireland since 2016     Letter: Singapore has much to offer but it's is not an example for Northern Ireland to follow     Letter: Chris Heaton-Harris is not delivering for Northern Ireland - where is our freeport?                           View more news

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