| It was sunny in Belfast most of this morning and yesterday. Climate is in the news, with Tom Elliott MLA suggesting that Stormont has not factored in the cost of Net Zero, perhaps £2.3 billion in the next few years. Sammy Wilson MP has criticised the target as undeliverable. If these sums are true then it is a fresh challenge for Stormont, which Owen Polley says is reverting to its old spendthrift ways. And if Stormont won't even raise the trifling £113 million demanded of the government out of up to perhaps £4 billion in Treasury grants, then that will merely fund the soaring gap in the cost of the Casement stadium. It is two years to the day since Christopher Stalford died. This story has tributes to the popular MLA and confirmation that there will be no inquest.
And it is one year to the day since our political editor Henry McDonald died. I remember him here.
Jeff Dudgeon again is a rare voice in raising vital questions about Jon Boutcher's handling of the massive Kenova legacy probe. This letter writer is wondering why he as a civil servant was disciplined for attending a 1985 anti Anglo Irish Agreement protest and yet the head of the civil service Jayne Brady has been allowed recently to give the impression of supporting striking civil servants. Kyle White on the North West 200 chief Mervyn Whyte saying the FHO Racing absence at the event in May is disappointing and confirming that Peter Hickman will race own machines. And the funeral has been held of a well known Orangeman in his 80s Sidney McIldoon, killed in a car crash last week. With best regards until my next message, Ben Lowry | 
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