Executive to meet today. ‘Robust and extreme’ Cov id-19 restriction recommendations to be discussed.

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All eyes will be on Stormont this afternoon as the Executive meet to discuss further coronavirus restrictions. Health Minister, Robin Swann, declined an opportunity to confirm or deny a suggestion he will recommend a pre-Christmas lockdown intervention.
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In other news police have issued an appeal for witnesses after a ‘young’ motorcyclist was killed in late night collision. In a statement the PSNI say that the collision, involving a black ZNEN motorbike and a silver-coloured Volkswagen Polo, was reported to police just after 6pm yesterday.
And Sammy Wilson writes 'I refused to be corralled into the arrant nonsense of unconscious bias training. If ever there was an example of an unnecessary abuse of public money this is it'.

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Michael Cousins

Deputy digital editor