| After another changeable week it was glorious weather yesterday not only in Northern Ireland but around these islands. The effect of Storm Ashley is only due to get bad about now, Sunday lunchtime Our reporter Adam Kula has found that journeys between Lisburn and Bangor now take minutes longer than they did due to the new Grand Central Station. I was shocked recently to learn that the trains are no longer through ones. I have used the line since childhood, indeed our past office in Portadown and my family's North Down home is on it and I did travel on train between both on occasion. Being able to stay on the train was one of the joys. We will be covering more on this new station arrangement. In this column I touch on other failures by Translink such as not having ticket machines at main stations long ago. It is one reason I prefer the better private coach services to Dublin Airport than Translink, who did not even accept online bar codes, which the private firms did two decades ago. I always now use Dublin to go to America, where I will be on US election day. I explain here why I see Donald Trump as favourite. I am saddened by the death of Neil Faris, the lawyer and former Labour Party supporter. His background was such that no-one could question his credentials as a critic, at times in essays for us, of the legal processes that are in effect demonising the security forces and helping sanitise terrorists. He was not just a man of obvious high intelligence, but immensely civilised and likable, and I was not surprised to see the Presbyterian church in Ardglass already full to overflowing with a wide range of people when I arrived on Wednesday afternoon for the funeral. This is the first of two excerpts of the book 'Ireland Out Of England,' the book by the Ulster Canadian academic Professor John Wilson Foster, who is an distinguished critic of some received thinking on a so-called 'New Ireland' Here is another Adam Kula story about how civil servants are being urged to show support for the transgender movement in a new language guide. Finally, Helen McGurk here interviews an acclaimed ballerina Melissa Hamilton who is coming back to the Opera House Enjoy your weekend and your reading, Ben | 
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