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News   Sport   What's On              I N S I D E R           Jan 15, 2024             Ben Lowry Editor Good morning everyone, It is a wintry morning but only frost, not snow, where I am in Greater Belfast. It was on a recent dreary January morning that Jonny McCambridge's thoughts turned to booking a summer holiday. This story about the BBC series on Ulster bands is getting a lot of readers as is this report on one of the oldest Orange Order Worshipful Masters stepping down after 65 years. There has been media and political interest in Sinn Fein MLA Gerry Kelly's denial of a prison shooting after neither confirming nor denying it during more than three years of libel case. Follow the links within this story and you will see a clash between Dr Graham Gudgin and Jim Allister on whether the DUP should return to Stormont. And in this essay the DUP deputy leader Gavin Robinson explains the party's approach. Meanwhile, with a general strike in Northern Ireland days away, I write about how barely a politician or commentator is challenging the strikers. The barrister Austen Morgan writes here that he does not expect Ireland to win its legacy legal action against the UK. Our biking expert Kyle White pens an analysis of the latest postponement of the Ulster Grand Prix, saying it could go forever. And the former Labour activist Erskine Holmes says that looking back on 2023 he remembers his friend Brian Garrett, who died.             Chris Heaton-Harris and Stormont parties to resume power sharing talks   Read more +     Urgent appeal to find missing youngster Grayson Magill   Read more +           Met Office Yellow weather warning for snow and ice in place until Tuesday morning                     Read more +           Thanks for reading and enjoy the week ahead, Ben Lowry Editor                         Join the News Letter's Facebook page for updates and comments on the latest stories around - click here to have a look

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