And so the Thorp nuclear reprocessing plant is to shut down by 2010. Are we supposed to be grateful, now that BNFL has been forced at long last to end the nuclear madness that saw shipments of radioactive waste steaming through the Irish Sea like giant timebombs? Free article

The 35th Anniversary of the first Civil Rights march from Coalisland to Dungannon took place on Saturday and was marked appropriately, with another march. This time, the route was reversed to point out that the British government has reversed the dearly won right to vote by cancelling the Assembly elections. Free article

A North Belfast father has told how his son was one of three teenagers attacked by a gang of unionist paramilitaries carrying baseball bats and golf clubs, as they walked along Alliance Avenue on Saturday afternoon, 23 August. Free article

Another Ulster Unionist Council meeting has been scheduled for September, which is being billed as a 'showdown' between David Trimble's supporters and those of Jeffrey Donaldso et al. On Tuesday, Trimble declared that the meeting would mark a true "defining moment" for the Ulster Unionist Party. Free article

A delegation made up of Sinn Féin's five TDs today visited Castlerea Prison on Wednesday morning to meet with the republican prisoners still being detained there by the State. Free article