NEWS IN BRIEF: Anti-social behaviour at Bradley s Lake, calls for more road maintenance and further frustration for fishermen
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Anti-social behaviour at County Derry lake
Police are stepping up patrols after a number of incidents of anti-social behaviour were reported at a County Derry lake.
Bradley s Lake, near Tobermore, is home to Moyola Angling Association, who reported that a boat had been taken from its mooring on their premises. Regrettably we ve had another incident of anti social behaviour at Bradley s Lake, said a spokesperson. Our boat was stolen last weekend and taken for a four mile joy ride. The scary part of this story is that the would be pirates would have had to sail down a dangerous weir.
A bridge or tunnel connecting Northern Ireland to Scotland is impractical but not impossible , a leading bomb disposal expert has said,
Former Royal Navy clearance diver Michael Fellows says Beaufort s Dyke, where surplus munitions from the two World Wars and radioactive waste were dumped, is one of many obstacles that could scupper Boris Johnson s plan.
It s estimated that Beaufort s Dyke contains over a million tonnes of munitions dumped there by the War Office and its successor the Ministry of Defence up until the mid-1970s.
As well as conventional weaponry such as artillery shells, the dyke was also used as a dumping ground for incendiary bombs containing phosphorus, which ignite on contact with air, as well as chemical weapons including mustard gas, tear gas, phosgene, and the nerve agents tabun and sarin.
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The DUP will fight to oppose the NI Protocol with every means we have , Sammy Wilson has said.
Other Stormont parties have said Mr Lyons did not have the authority to take such action.
The DUP has argued that it is responding to trade difficulties caused by the protocol.
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image captionGordon Lyons temporarily replaced Edwin Poots as agriculture minister in February
Border Control Posts (BCPs) are used to check food products from GB and are a requirement of the Brexit deal between the UK and EU.
Existing temporary BCPs are continuing to operate.
Commitment on Louth s Narrow Water Bridge project welcomed
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Sinn Féin Councillor and joint Chair of the cross-border Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) Antóin Watters has welcomed an update and commitments from the North’s Infrastructure Minister Nichola Mallon, on the Narrow Water Bridge project as ‘positive and enthusiastic’.
Cllr Watters said: “The Narrow Water Bridge project has been stopping and starting for years and was included in the New Decade, New Approach Deal which saw the institutions in the north restored at Stormont. It is now a year on from the signing of that Deal and although the project was way-laid by Brexit and then Covid, I am pleased that we have commitments from Minister Mallon that this is a priority on her work plan and I feel progress is being made.
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