Philip McGuigan

SDLP and Alliance MLAs on Stormont's environment committee yesterday joined their unionist counterparts in signalling support for Edwin Poots' carbon reduction targets.

EDWIN Poots's claim that the carbon reduction targets in Clare Bailey's climate change bill would cost the north an extra £1 billion a year have been "thoroughly discredited", according to the Green Party leader.

THE DEPUTY chairman of Stormont’s agriculture and environment committee plans to make the 400-km round-trip to Cop26 by bike in an effort to raise awareness of the climate crisis and active travel.

A STORMONT MLA has told how he suffered a cardiac arrest while undergoing routine hospital tests earlier this month. 

A council chief has faced calls to fully explain the decision to withdraw staff from Irish Sea border checks. Mid and East Antrim chief executive Anne Donaghy declined to answer a series of questions about the controversy.

RESIDENTS on Rathlin are said to have "deep misgivings" after former Labour MP Kate Hoey adopted the island's name in her official House of Lords title.

ENVIRONMENT minister Edwin Poots has dismissed assembly calls to bring forward climate change legislation that includes binding carbon reduction targets within three months.

THE number of cyclists killed or seriously injured on the roads in Northern Ireland continues to increase, new figures have revealed.

A SINN Féin assembly member has revealed how a gambling addiction left his children "without necessities" and "ruined many a Christmas".