Unionists rebut SF claim about support for the Protocol

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Welcome to your daily update from the team at the News Letter.
Leading the news this morning:
* Unionists rebutt SF claim about support for the Protocol.
Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald has drawn fire after claiming the general public do not back efforts to axe the NI Protocol – including “many within wider unionism”.
* The DUP’s big beasts publicly disembowelled me, says Edwin Poots.
Outgoing DUP leader Edwin Poots has exposed the continued bitter divide inside the party with a departing salvo in which he accused the party’s top brass of having disembowelled him.
* Covid-19 vaccine was an ‘underlying cause’ in one death in Northern Ireland.
A Covid-19 vaccine was an underlying cause in one death in Northern Ireland earlier this year.
* PSNI confirm name and age of man killed in road traffic collision.
The PSNI has confirmed the name of the man who died following a two vehicle road traffic collision on Wednesday morning.
Stay with us during the day for all the latest news.
Michael Cousins
Deputy digital editor

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