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Subscribe              I N S I D E R           Aug 5, 2023             Ben Lowry Editor   We were supposed to have rain until lunchtime but it has mostly passed by mid morning.   Today we speak to people who actually like the Northern Ireland weather of whom to my surprise I have over time become one!  It was the 70th anniversary yesterday of Harry Ferguson losing a $ million on a coin toss in the merger of his tractor company with an American one This letter writer thinks we are widening roads too much.  I could write a treatise explaining why I disagree but it is an interesting perspective. I have long been pro big infrastructure, and paying for it, but another setback for HS2 and the ongoing success of Dublin Airport reminds me that we seem unable to think big on such things in the UK including Northern Ireland Brian Rowan's book on the "inside story" on the Troubles got many favourable reviews but Prof Henry Patterson casts a more critical eye here, saying it does little to challenge republican success in persuading people there was no alternative to terror The many voices who enthuse about the anti slavery campaigner whose statue was unveiled in Belfast don't mention his Christianity, says this minister There were vehicle tragedies all week. the farmer David Vance died on a quad bike  while Judith McMullan in south Armagh had just got a Harley Davidson motorcycle and across the border two school girls were killed going to a dance   Last week we carried an obituary on Dr Mary Bew. David McNarry did not know she was his fellow Belfast Agreement colleague Lord Bew's mother Finally, the Church of Ireland has moved out of premises that were part of the former News Letter offices -- Ben Lowry Editor              Ben Lowry: The UK including Northern Ireland will not think big when it comes to major infrastructure   Read more +     A coin toss 70 years ago cost Harry Ferguson $1m as the NI inventor gambled the future of his company   Read more +           Church of Ireland move from the old News Letter building in Donegall Street Belfast                     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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