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Province basks in sunshine
Sophie Wilson from Drumahoe gets that summer feeling on Benone Beach as the temperature gauge continues to rise. All areas of Northern Ireland have been enjoying wall-to-wall sunshine in the current mini-heatwave, with holiday resorts along the north coast, the Antrim coast and Co Down all well above the 20C mark at their peak. However, the rain is never far away, with showers forecast for Monday and Tuesday. See page 4
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Katriona Taylor showing at Fermanagh County Show.

Andy Patterson showing

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Sisters Jessica and Daisy Dunlop get ready for the Heart of the Glens Vintage Tractor Run to be held in Cushendall later today. PICTURE: Steven McAuley/ Kevin McAuley Photography Multimedia

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RESULTS AND PIC

Co Fermanagh supplement

bottom of how retail are set in Northern food prices produce sales are distributed along concerns about food to discern what reallyIreland and the agri-food chain. AS part of its ongoing constitutes changes theyve made shopping, The value for money. investigation Consumer to their into the cost of food Council shopping representative went in To this end I will also behaviour and their on the Northern Ireland local shops to be talking out that consumers and to point opinions about and suggestions those bodies Consumer all of Council is to ask farmers and primary representing groupings involved withinthose for food retailers, supermarke a producers. ts leading supermarke number of the and suppliers. agri food and She continued: The ts about their Consumer be operating retail sectors must pricing strategies and Now, we need to Council is fully supporting the role of so on the same level calls called special offers. some answers from go and get playing field. for the putting in the various place of a food retailers. We will be contacting Its all supermarke Tesco, important t adjudicator, and it is stressed. about transparency, she Sainsbury, Asda, Work already undertaken for this appointmen Lidl and the by the t to Consumer Council Henderson And, to be honest, be made in the very Group, has confirmed the that nine in 10 consumer affairs officer senior However, the work near future. supermarkets are not consumers in every we are now in the Phillipa undertakin McKeown told Farming way they go about open Northern Ireland (NI) are worried g will, hopefully, shed Life. their about the cost of their business. real light on how the It is important that food and we get to the grocery shopping. To date we generated by food retail returns and fresh understand have gained a better ing of consumers

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THE son of a 74-year-old businessman who died after a tragic quad bike accident has described him as a visionary who was at least half a century ahead of his time.

Father-of-five Eric Irvine suffered head injuries after falling from the vehicle shortly after starting it at his family-run sawmill in Trillick, Co Tyrone, on Thursday morning. He was taken to the South West Acute Hospital in Co Fermanagh but died a short time later from his injuries.

Alan Irvine, 41, who has worked with his father at J F Irvine Sawmills since he was 15, last night paid tribute to his father as a great engineer. He was way before his time, he told the News Letter. Away back, 30 years ago, he was making peat briquettes and called them Northland fire

logs. But that was just one of his inventions. He did not realise how great he was. He also made a machine for peeling posts and pointing posts and you would have thought it was bought in a factory. Turn to page 7

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