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The Latest Breaking News from Edwin Poots

Donaldson: I want DUP back in the Executive, but protocol must be sorted first

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson said he is hopeful the UK Government will take ‘decisive action’ after Thursday’s Assembly election.

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South Belfast Assembly election 2022 - Candidates in Northern Ireland's most diverse constituency

A look at what to expect from the constituency in the upcoming Northern Ireland Assembly election

Belfast Live

Lagan Valley Assembly election 2022 - Constituency candidates as Jeffrey Donaldson seeks return to Stormont

A look at what to expect from the constituency in the upcoming Northern Ireland Assembly election

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DUP minister Edwin Poots 'considers renaming department HQ to mark Queen's Jubilee'

The department declined to comment due to the current Assembly election campaign

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Arlene Foster launches scathing attack on DUP MLA Jim Wells as he backs TUV election candidate

"Jim is still living in the 1970s - sad but there it is"

Belfast Live

DUP's Jim Wells backs TUV Assembly election candidate Harold McKee

The outgoing DUP MLA praised the TUV candidate as a "politician of conviction, not expediency"

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DUP's Jim Wells says whether he will run in election as deadline looms for candidate nominations

He had previously said he was keeping his options open after being deselected as a DUP candidate

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Newry, Mourne and Down District Council considers legal case against Edwin Poots

Belfast Council has initiated similar action

Belfast Live

Environment chiefs 'accept case to answer' over Harland & Wolff gas caverns licence

Edwin Poots licenced the project ahead of COP26 knowing it will create a marine dead zone and extend support for fossil fuels

Belfast Live

The Earth's Corr: Still so much to be done on our biodiversity issues

We need an inquiry into how environment bosses are actually performing

Belfast Live

Legal fight over looming badger cull in Northern Ireland

Wildlife groups are fighting the move with the help of crowdfunding

Belfast Live

Pass on fuel duty cuts to struggling agri-food sector - NI agri minister

“It’s only right and fair the prices at the pumps come down whenever crude oil prices decrease, as quickly as they were raised."

Birmingham Post

Edwin Poots to green light badger cull over TB in cattle

It follows a new scientific study published last week that found badger culling has had no effect in reducing bovine TB in cattle

Belfast Live

DUP councillor Paul Rankin co-opted to replace Edwin Poots as MLA for Lagan Valley

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson has previously said he intends to run as a candidate in the constituency for the Assembly election

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Stormont will never be the same again if TUV succeeds at election, Jim Allister says

The party leader hailed a "rising tide" of support for TUV in recent opinion polls and declared that "TUV is here to win"

Belfast Live

Brendan Hughes: Edwin Poots switch to South Belfast another sign of DUP turmoil

Having failed to gain the party nomination for South Down, DUP MLA Edwin Poots has opted for South Belfast

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Clare Bailey: Green Party policies dismissed by rivals as 'too wingnut' now appearing in their manifestos

MLA Clare Bailey speaks to Belfast Live ahead of the Green Party conference

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Northern Ireland Assembly passes net-zero carbon emissions climate change legislation

While there is an overall net-zero target for 2050, there is a separate reduction target of 46% for methane emissions, which are largely associated with the agricultural sector

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Assembly passes climate Bill committing Northern Ireland to net zero by 2050

The legislation tabled by Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots will now go forward for Royal Assent.

Belfast Live

The Earth's Corr: Putin's dirty war should end our fossil fuel reliance

Banks are being called out for their role in supporting the Russian fossil fuel companies helping fund the invasion of Ukraine

The Independent UK

Edwin Poots to take South Belfast Assembly seat

The MLA, who currently represents Lagan Valley, said the family of the late Christopher Stalford asked him to do so.

Belfast Live

Christopher Stalford to be replaced by Edwin Poots in South Belfast, DUP leader announces

Agriculture Minister says he was asked by Christopher Stalford's family

The Independent UK

Leak about Donaldson-Beattie meeting did not come from within DUP, Poots claims

The former DUP leader said suggestions he was involved in leaking the story were an ‘absolute and utter lie’.

Belfast Live

Ukraine crisis: Edwin Poots warns of possible food shortages

"Ukraine is a supplier of cereals to Northern Ireland and consequently that has implications for the chicken, pork and diary industries in particular"

The Independent UK

Invasion of Ukraine may ‘lead to food shortages this year’

Edwin Poots told the Stormont Assembly that the consequences of the Russian action would be ‘significantly greater’ than the consequences of Brexit.

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