Three days ago, a remarkable Westminster power grab took place — but the DUP and Sinn Fein were in complete acquiesce...
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Fish caught in Lough Neagh a few months ago contained toxins produced by the cyanobacteria which turned the water gre...
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Northern Ireland’s chief vet has attempted to have the Belfast Telegraph censured for our coverage of him — but his c...
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Work on the Larne border control post is pushing ahead despite last week’s DUP deal to return to Stormont.
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Stormont’s agriculture department has failed to explain why it hasn’t filed its accounts more than nine months after ...
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Northern Ireland’s chief vet is to retire, it can be revealed, and within months will be picking up a pension worth a...
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A week-long strike by hundreds of government vets could cripple parts of the Northern Ireland economy and dramaticall...
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The North of Ireland Veterinary Association has been criticised for making chief vet Robert Huey a guest of honour at...
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He’s been a cellist, has run an orchestra in Scotland and even launched a classical music label with Sir Richard Bran...
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Disastrous planning has not only destroyed much of Northern Ireland’s countryside with dispersed rural properties but...
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Lough Neagh is so heavily polluted that it would take 20 years to make it environmentally “safe” even if the pollutio...
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Stormont’s mistakes have contributed to the Lough Neagh pollution crisis, a Sinn Fein MP has admitted — and he doesn’...
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Lough Neagh is now so dangerously polluted that its lifeboat crews are unable to train in the water and now cannot en...
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There is confusion from government over whether it is safe to eat fish caught on Lough Neagh’s chronically polluted w...
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Senior Stormont officials knew in 1997 that systemic smuggling of cattle across the border was dangerously underminin...
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Eight months ago, the Head of the Civil Service published a supposedly independent report into a shameful episode in ...
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Across Northern Ireland, vast tracts of land have been poisoned in ways which civil servants admit creates a “high ri...
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A new records system for Northern Ireland’s livestock industry is running years behind schedule and millions of pound...
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A Stormont veterinary inspector who last month won a string of medals at the Balmoral Show is facing multiple charges...
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The scale of illegal waste dumped at a site which is leaching into Londonderry’s drinking water is vastly greater tha...
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Northern Ireland’s widely-derided new £14m online planning system was so problematic that before its delayed launch B...
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Thousands of pages of documents which the Belfast Telegraph found lying at a major crime scene had been drawn to the ...
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Just minutes after climbing through the broken bars of the vast galvanised gates on Mobuoy Road, I was standing in wh...
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Government vets are like power station engineers or sewerage treatment plant workers — unseen by most of us but criti...
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The man who for 15 years was the Executive’s most senior spin doctor has laid bare the impossibility of persuading th...
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Brexit has emphasised how politics impacts the way in which we live our lives: what we eat, where we travel, whether ...
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In late 2016, a dying man summoned to his hospital bed someone who would hear and record how he had transported toxic...
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Civil servants have published a 69-page report into how a government vet was hounded out of her job for whistleblowin...
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