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In the UK the Upper Bann constituency held by the DUP s Carla Lockhart has recorded the largest number of signatures at 6,073.
The West Belfast seat of Sinn Fein s Paul Maskey has the lowest figure locally, with just 1,442 putting their name to the petition calling on the Government to use all the powers it has to move urgently to protect UK trade and to ensure all UK goods and produce can freely flow to and from every part of the United Kingdom .
The top six constituencies backing the petition are all DUP seats.
The seventh is North Down, where the MP is Alliance s Stephen Farry, who backs the protocol.
FIRST Minister Arlene Foster is calling for people on both sides of the Border to work with the authorities to find the people behind the recent security alert on the Fermanagh-Cavan Border, which she described as an utterly futile act . Ten days after the first report of a security alert in the Wattlebridge area of Newtownbutler was raised (on January 13), the PSNI confirmed that it had concluded on Sunday, January 24. A device that was discovered at a bus shelter in the area has been declared a hoax, with four rounds of ammunition also recovered. They have now been taken away for forensic examination.
A Sinn Fein MLA has been accused by unionists of lauding terrorists after posting a tribute video to republican hunger strikers.
West Belfast MLA Orlaithi Flynn shared the clip on her Twitter page on Monday, extending her thoughts to the families of our fallen volunteers .
Stormont DUP junior minister Gordon Lyons retweeted the video with the comment: Another generation lauding the evil actions of terrorists and not a word about innocent victims and the many Christmases that were taken from them and their families. Time to build a better NI, looking forward rather than celebrating those who sought to kill and destroy.
A FORMER Fermanagh Unionist Councillor has been described as “a leading member of the UDA” who enlisted the help of a British Army officer to enable the Loyalist paramilitary group blow up Aghalane Bridge in 1972. Jack Leahy, a well-known publican in Lisnaskea and a member of the Ulster Unionist group on Fermanagh District Council, was identified by Captain Vernon Rees in an audio interview taped by the Imperial War Museum. Rees admitted that he agreed to Leahy’s request to keep troops away from the bridge for four hours while Loyalists bombed Aghalane. Furthermore, Rees – responsible for British Army security along the south Fermanagh Border in the early 1970s – passed his agreement through Special Branch.