Stormont

Stormont advises against non-essential travel between Northern Ireland and Great Britain

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Stormont ministers are to issue guidance advising against non-essential travel between Northern Ireland and both Great Britain and the Irish Republic after a bid for an outright ban on GB travel was voted down. People arriving in Northern Ireland will also be advised to self-isolate for ten days. A Sinn Fein proposal for a temporary … Read more

Britain at its best: Discovering the history of County Down, from Stormont to the Queen’s residence

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Where else in the world can you drive half an hour from a capital city airport and find an enchanting Gothic tower on a hill overlooking an ancient wood? What’s more, a tower to which the greatest Victorian poets dedicated poems? I arrived at Helen’s Tower, 11 miles from Belfast City Airport, in darkness. When I … Read more