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The day-to-day running of a busy international airport is never going to be an exact science, and Graham Keddie, managing director of Belfast International, freely admits he’s no scientist.

Strike action by non-teaching staff at schools across Northern Ireland was stepped up on Thursday morning with three more unions joining the walk out.

It’s somewhat appropriate that as Declan Donnelly and Anthony McPartland prepare for their annual trip Down Under to crown this year’s king or queen of the jungle, one of their old chums has beaten them to the punch and ascended to the throne of morning television.

For almost as long as there has been the institution of the church, there have been controversies over how a church conducts itself, is organised and the message it delivers to its congregation.

It’s the village in the Sperrins that time forgot. Cranagh in Co Tyrone is in desperate need of improved broadband and bus services or this rural way of life could be lost forever.

A new 600-pupil integrated post-primary school in the Mid Down area is set to open at the start of the next school year.

Chris Quinn was in Amsterdam on Sunday. It wasn’t a business trip, unlike his visit to Brussels during his first few days as the new NI Commissioner for Children and Younger People where he met with Commissioners from across Europe. This was the business of continuing his passion for healthy body, healthy mind. Running the Amsterdam marathon.

Some visitors to Belfast on Sunday may have been perplexed at the display of a huge Palestinian banner looking down over the city from Black Mountain.

A Magherafelt woman who has been living, working and raising her family in the Israeli capital Tel Aviv for the last 20 years has said she’s been left “stressed, scared, horrified and heartbroken” after the city came under attack from Gaza-based Hamas militants over the weekend.

The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) has started the search for a new leader, almost a year and a half after the previous one left.