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As rural villages go, Coagh in Co Tyrone is not much more than a collection of a few houses, a couple of shops and a small petrol station along the banks of the Ballinderry River.
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Mallie, once the voice of The Troubles on radio, looks backwards and ahead for Northern Ireland
Mallie, once the voice of The Troubles on radio, looks backwards and ahead for Northern Ireland
Jamie Bryson says the incoming DUP deputy first minister will be “debasing themselves” by becoming joint head of an administration with a legal duty to build and operate border posts.
David Wilshire, who has died aged 80, was a Conservative MP on the libertarian Right of the party who represented the Surrey constituency of Spelthorne from 1987 to 2010. He took over from Humphrey Atkins, Margaret Thatcher’s first Northern Ireland Secretary, and handed the seat on to Kwasi Kwarteng, who would be Liz Truss’s short-lived Chancellor.