Saturday 25 May 2013
A few thoughts for consideration by Alex Attwood, our roads minister. Keep the 'R' plate 45mph restriction as now, but institute a new 'M' plate that would signify that the driver is still a 'rookie', but has completed further tuition on the skills needed for driving at speed.
And, instead of reducing the age at which a licence can be obtained, can I suggest it should be raised to 25 - an age at which hot blood has cooled somewhat?
bob stephens
Belfast
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A soldier has been stabbed in the throat in the French commercial district of La Defense outside Paris.
One of Apple's first computers, a functioning 1976 model, has been sold for a record 516,000 euros (£441,000).
Forty eight people have been rescued from a passenger boat after it hit a rock on a Welsh island, coastguards have said.
Leinster put past disappointments behind them to scoop an elusive RaboDirect PRO12 title in head coach Joe Schmidt's last game in charge, with a 24-18 win over Ulster.
Leinster put past disappointments behind them to scoop an elusive RaboDirect PRO12 title in head coach Joe Schmidt's last game in charge.
Dylan Hartley is in danger of missing the British and Irish Lions tour after he became the first player to be sent off in an Aviva Premiership final.
The Saturdays have lit up the stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Northern Ireland.
Fantastic Four star Ioan Gruffudd gets on better with big-name actors than "wannabes".
David Beckham has a host of plans he wants to fulfill with his family now he has retired from playing soccer.
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