New Year s Eve revellers who accepted the advice they were far safer from Covid-19 outdoors than indoors were rewarded with prime viewing positions on Sydney Harbour and light queues.
Hundreds of thousands of cancellations are hitting restaurants, bars and harbour cruises as Sydney appears to be locking itself in rather than going out to celebrate New Year s Eve.
Mandelson urges consideration of plan to end all Troubles prosecutions
Nick Lester, PA Political Staff
20 July 2021, 11:11 pm
Controversial Government proposals to ban prosecutions for Troubles murders should be considered “on their merits, however painful it is”, former Northern Ireland secretary Lord Mandelson has told Parliament.
Given the remote possibility of cases being brought to trial, the Labour peer argued that those who carried out crimes were effectively “being shielded by the rule of law, not living in fear of it”.
As such it was “reasonable to weigh alternative approaches”, he said.
He made his comments in response to the contentious plan to introduce a statute of limitations on crimes committed during the Northern Ireland conflict up to April 1998 and would apply to military veterans as well as ex-paramilitaries.