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Holyhead Port. Screengrab from Google Streetview. THE UK Government says it’s working to avoid further “rigmarole” and Irish Sea red tape after it was revealed that some Welsh-bound products are having to be shipped via a 1,400-mile three-state detour following Brexit. The plight of one Caernarfon business owner was raised in the Commons on Wednesday after facing eye watering hikes in the cost of deliveries due to transport companies avoiding Holyead Port. While the 170 mile journ...

The UK Governments Brexit plan to avoid 1,400 mile shipping rigmarole for Welsh products The Irish Sea freight woes highlighted in Westminster 11:15, 11 MAR 2021 Sign up to FREE email alerts from NorthWalesLive - Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. OurPrivacy Noticeexplains more about how we use your data, and your rights. You can unsu...

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Decision to stop work on border control posts can only be overturned by courts - Foster Arlene Foster has rejected the suggestion that DUP Agriculture Minister Gordon Lyons could be overruled by the wider Stormont Executive. By Press Association Wednesday 3 Mar 2021, 7:10 AM Mar 3rd 2021, 7:10 AM 19,329 Views 17 Comments Source: PA Images ...

The EU officially cut ties with the EU last year when the transition period ended (Image: EXPRESS) He said: “We will do everything we need to do, whether legislatively or indeed by triggering Article 16 of the protocol, to ensure that there is no barrier down the Irish Sea." It also comes as the European Commission is now expecting permanent post-Brexit border control posts to be ready in Northern Ireland by the middle of this year. Commission spokesman Daniel Ferrie claimed the UK had obliga...

READ MORE On social media, he wrote: "Focus has to be on achieving agreed practical solutions." Sinn Féin deputy leader Michelle ONeill said the DUP "must own the consequences of Brexit" and the Northern Ireland Protocol is a "direct consequence of Brexit". She added that the "solo run by DUP Minister for Agriculture Gordon Lyons instructing his officials to halt work on further infrastructure, and charging at the ports is clearly a stunt". Ms ONeill added there was no alternative to the North...

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen (Image: GETTY) "This is in and around a number of areas, first of all further infrastructure, any further infrastructure builds; the additional recruitment of staff; and also the charging at the ports." The move was in response to the "practical difficulties" caused by the Protocol, Mr Lyons explained. He was also concerned about what will happen when the current grace periods which currently govern protocol bureaucracy end at the start of April. Bre...

Spokesman Daniel Ferrie said the UK had obligations to meet under the Northern Ireland Protocol, which governs trade from the rest of the UK.

It doesnt diminish: The legacy of the 1981 hunger strikes, 40 years on This Monday will mark 40 years since Bobby Sands went on hunger strike. By Sean Murray Saturday 27 Feb 2021, 12:05 AM Feb 27th 2021, 12:05 AM 31,842 Views 40 Comments ON PAGE 9 of The Irish Times of Friday 27 February 1981, a headline read: “H-Block fast generates little...

Larne port in Northern Ireland \ Houston Green Current Agriculture Minister in Northern Ireland (NI) Gordon Lyons has instructed DAERA officials to stop work on the construction of permanent border control facilities at local ports. The move comes in response to ongoing concerns within Unionism about the operation of the NI Protocol, the agreement reached by the UK and EU as part of the Brexit withdrawal agreement. Under the protocol, NI is within the EU single market for goods, meaning agri-...