The Health and Agriculture Ministers have jointly urged the farming and rural community to protect themselves from Covid-19 through vaccination.

Economy Minister Gordon Lyons today announced that US employment and immigration law firm, Ogletree Deakins, is setting up a 78 person legal support centre in Northern Ireland.

Finance Minister Conor Murphy has extended emergency protection for business tenants having difficulty paying rent on commercial leases as a result of the pandemic until March 2022.

The Executive has agreed to help vulnerable people fleeing Afghanistan, and approved measures to resettle refugees here.

A doorstep trader who took £4,000 from a consumer for garden maintenance work, which he failed to complete, has today received a suspended custodial sentence.