Doug Beattie rules out single NI unionist party - UFU: Climate Change Bill ‘a step towards destroying NI farms’

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In the news today:
* UUP leadership favourite Doug Beattie rules out single NI unionist party.
The prospective leader of the Ulster Unionist Party has ruled out the possibility of a single unionist party in Northern Ireland.
* More than third of NI adults have had both doses of Covid vaccine.
Nearly half-a-million people in Northern Ireland, more than a third of the entire adult population, has now had two coronavirus vaccine doses.
* Petition launched to save ‘our own wee Disney world’ scores almost 5,000 signatures - and numbers are growing.
An online petition to save Barry’s amusements in Portrush has hit almost 5,000 signatures.
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Michael Cousins
Deputy digital editor