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King Charles is flying to Northern Ireland on the latest leg of his tour of the nations that make up the United Kingdom as thousands of people have lined up through the night to pay their last respects to his mother’s coffin in Edinburgh

As he tours the four corners of his fractious new kingdom, Charles III faces the most testing task of reconciliation in Northern Ireland. Scotland, which Charles visited on Monday, may be angling for a new referendum on independence but armed resistance there to the Crown waned centuries ago.

Loyalists laid flowers by a huge mural of a young Queen Elizabeth in a fiercely British corner of west Belfast, looking back at what they saw as a glorious past, and forward to what they feared was an uncertain future.

The Sinn Fein leader was flying back from San Francisco today after attending a number of engagements in the US

Ms McDonald had been speaking at a number of events in the US in recent days

Hundreds attended the ‘Time for Truth’ demonstration in Belfast on Sunday.

The party said they did not attend as they do not have "political allegiance to the British crown".

Party vice president Michelle O’Neill attended a rally for Troubles victims in Belfast while the proclamation ceremony was held in Hillsborough.

A total of 426 trees are being axed across three flood alleviation schemes in Belfast, Newry and Newcastle