Michael Cousins Acting Managing Editor

Good morning

In the news today:

* DUP’s Diane Forsythe more likely to be elected in South Down than Edwin Poots: Alliance candidate Patrick Brown.

* Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI): Take a look at the officers new uniform.

* An investigation is under way after a fire broke out at an elderly woman’s house.

* Stormont must not become paralysed by repeated DUP threats to collapse the institutions, Conor Murphy has warned.

* Jim Wells: I have to accept my DUP career has ended in humiliation.

Opinion:

* Owen Polley: Doug Beattie’s tweets furore makes it harder for UUP to have a good Assembly election.

* Letters: The killing of two RUC officers in Londonderry was the backdrop to Bloody Sunday.

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