The development of a payments scheme for victims and survivors who have lived with severe and permanent disablement as a result of the Troubles is both positive and overdue.

All health and social care facilities in Northern Ireland should move to facilitate one face-to-face visit per week by one person, Health Minister Robin Swann has stated.

A £130,000 road improvement scheme has commenced on Belfast Road/Hardford link/Church Street/Blair Mayne Road junction in Newtownards.

It is vital for us all to be regularly reminded of exactly what’s at stake in the battle against Covid-19, just as we heard from our Prime Minister and from the First & deputy First Minister last night. That’s why frontline health workers are joining me regularly at this podium.

The Department for Communities has announced that two State Care Monuments will be closed to the public to enable essential conservation works over the next 18-24 months and that additional measures will be put in place at a further three sites until conservation works can be completed.