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The late monarch’s wish was passed on to former Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble and deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon.

Police said the injuries are believed to be linked to a disturbance involving a large group of males.

Amid Northern Ireland peace process efforts, Bertie Ahern asked Tony Blair to look at the issue to close ‘an unhappy period in Anglo-Irish relations’.

A Department of Finance official expressed concern at the spending ‘on discretionary items such as flowers’ during cutback efforts.

The UK’s Atomic Energy Research Establishment assessed the feasibility of the proposal in the late 1950s, archives show.

The terror attacks in the US had inevitably heightened sensitivities in the EU on how peace money was spent in NI, according to archive documents.

Potential locations included Windsor Park, Sprucefield, the North Foreshore and Craigavon.

The briefing said that Ken Maginnis was ‘in many ways the most attractive (in personal terms) of the UUP upper echelon’.

The idea would have seen an international football stadium being built for the team.

Mark Harper said autonomous vehicle technology has ‘a huge number of potential uses’.

Doctors had to ‘remove foreign objects’, give treatment for fractured penises and care for people with swollen testicles.

The Australian chef died in hospital on Christmas Day aged 54, his family have confirmed.

The latest version of Breathe RM uses an algorithm that can predict when patients are going to get ill up to 10 days in advance.

Research suggests children between the ages of 14 and 17 are three times more likely to take up smoking if people around them smoke.

Funding would come from producers of goods rather than through public money.

From tomato shortages and the end of the Caramac to KitKat cereal and ‘Bistro Greggs’, the year was one of highs and lows for the British consumer.

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Lady Carnarvon, who farms at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, said ‘we cannot eat the trees that politicians propose we plant’.

Reports of attention-grabbing pledges emerged as Rishi Sunak battles to overturn a major polling deficit.

Met Office meteorologist Simon Partridge said the storm was named as a warning to people coming home from the Christmas holidays.