The weather has been pleasant today but is set to be stunning much of this week all over Northern Ireland, particularly Tuesday and Wednesday. This is a time of year when you can think about turning the heat off for a few months but I explain here why I think it is a relatively good time to buy home heating oil just now - albeit only in relation to the horrifically expensive last three months, it is still very costly. A former attorney general says that an Alliance Stormont plan to ban shooting with dogs would leave dog walkers "starkly exposed" to criminal liability. Our reporter Adam Kula has unearthed to extent to which Tourism NI, which is tasked with promoting Northern Ireland, is often reluctant to use our country's very name, instead referring to 'the north'. I was in Newtownards on Thursday when crowds crammed into the central square to see the king and queen at the end of their successful three-day visit to Northern Ireland. Enjoy your reading, and the rest of the bank holiday weekend,
Ben |
