Ben Lowry
Editor at Belfast News Letter
Editor of the News Letter, the world's oldest continuously published daily English language newspaper. All views expressed are my own
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Published 4th May 2025, 12:46 BSTWatch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowThis video lasting 20 minutes shows the entire Belfast Marathon passing by just past the start line. Thank you for signing up!Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Sorry, there seem to be some issues.
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Reform UK has had stunning success due to issues such as immigration. Sarah Pochin and party leader Nigel Farage after the party won the Westminster seat in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election at DCBL Halton Stadium, Widnes, Cheshire. Pic: Peter Byrne/PA WireShock by election and council results are notoriously unreliable in telling you what is happening in UK politics.
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People enjoy the warm beach weather at Helen’s Bay, Co Down, one of the hottest April days on record reaching 24.1C in the west of Northern Ireland. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEyeThis paper today has a lot of heavy news in it about political and cultural and legal disputes, at home and abroad.
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Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! nowMore glorious weather is coming to Northern Ireland, including perhaps the hottest temperature of the year. Thank you for signing up!Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Belfast News Letter, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later.
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DJ Provai from Kneecap in a republican balaclava. Imagine a band wearing a loyalist one that evoked the UVF and UDA and everyone just taking it as a harmless joke (VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images)Imagine for a moment that there was a rap band from a loyalist part of west or north Belfast.
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I predicted years ago that the coming Loughgall inquest (basically a public inquiry) would turn on SAS. Some said I was exaggerating, but the recent Clonoe inquest did just that. Here's @JeffDudgeon 's devastating 3000 word critique of that finding https://t.co/NfvuYCYT5G
Today in 1987 the SAS ambushed & killed eight Sinn Fein-IRA terrorists as they carried out a bombing & shooting attack on Loughall RUC station in County Armagh. Sinn Fein-IRA’s largest death toll in a single incident. https://t.co/YjrFvIKfGD
RT @NewsLetter_Pols: 'Free speech and scrutiny vindicated' - @TGastonMLA cleared as Stormont investigation confirms it's his job to ask que…
RT @News_Letter: The books are on sale in east Belfast between 10am and 4pm today https://t.co/drRriCpLT6
