Welcome to your lunchtime update on the last day of 2020 from the team at the News Letter. I hope you enjoy this specially selected round-up of news, sport, features and opinion pieces.
It is fitting that at the end of a very bleak year we celebrate those who have made a difference across Northern Ireland in all walks of life. The Queen's New Year Honours List recognises the service of people from a diversity of backgrounds and our reporters have been catching up with as many of these inspirational individuals as possible.
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The Northern Ireland Protocol governing trade between Great Britain and the region comes into effect when the Brexit transition period ends at 11pm on New Year's Eve.
Kingsmills massacre survivor Alan Black has dedicated his MBE – announced tonight – to the community which helped him survive the trauma, and the 10 families bereaved in the atrocity.
In June, the head of the World Economic Forum (WEF), Klaus Schwab, told world leaders to use the Covid-19 crisis to implement a "great reset" of capitalism.
The secretary of state repeatedly met with one of the UK's largest cigarette manufacturers well into the 1990s – despite regular advice from health officials not to do so, declassified documents reveal.
Two and a half years before Bertie Ahern became Taoiseach, the British Embassy in Dublin profiled him as the potential occupant of that position and someone whose republican background could help him sell a compromise deal.
Ulster's joint appearance record holder Darren Cave has praised the impact of young centre duo James Hume and Stewart Moore as Ulster have won all nine games this season in the Pro14.
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