ROBIN Newton East Belfast DUP MLA and a member of the Assembly’s Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee has welcomed the Department’s report confirming Northern Ireland business men and women are stepping up to the mark and doing sterling work when it comes to increasing exports.

ROBIN Newton East Belfast DUP MLA and a member of the Policing Board has slammed the two men who threatened a woman and hijacked her car on Saturday afternoon on the Newtownards Road as craven cowards.

East Belfast DUP MLAs Peter Robinson, Robin Newton and Sammy Douglas have condemned the racist attack on a family in Ballybeen this morning.

ROBIN Newton East Belfast DUP MLA and a member of the Policing Board has expressed his disgust following the racist attacks on a family in East Belfast’s Heatherbell Street.

ROBIN Newton East Belfast DUP MLA and member of the Assembly’s Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee, said the 20% of our young people who are unemployed want chances to be successful in 2012. I am worried for the long-term well-being of many young people who are disheartened, disillusioned and fed-up being jobless. I see them frequently in my constituency office. If we let our young people down on this matter we will reap the whirlwind in coming years.

ROBIN Newton East Belfast DUP MLA and a member of the Policing Board has expressed his concerns following shots being fired in Madrid Street in the Short Strand.

ROBIN Newton East Belfast DUP MLA has described the attempted murder bid on the Lower Newtownards Road as a cowardly and despicable act.

Belfast City Hall unionists have come together to present a summons for a special council meeting to discuss the actions of the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Niall Ó Donnghaile (Sinn Féin). On 28th November 2011 in City Hall, the Lord Mayor refused to present a Duke of Edinburgh’s award to a fifteen year old girl. The teenager was a member of the Armed Cadet Forces. The summons, which will be presented to councill officials tomorrow morning at 0900hrs has been signed by members of the Democratic Unionist Party, Ulster Unionist Party, PUP and independent unionist alderman, Frank McCoubrey and reads:

ROBIN Newton East Belfast DUP MLA and the Dup Group on Belfast City Council today expressed his disappointment at the Lord Mayor’s decision not to attend the Council’s annual act of remembrance at the Cenotaph in Belfast.

DUP Group Leader on the Northern Ireland Policing Board, Alderman Robin Newton MLA has commented on the occasion of the PSNI's tenth anniversary.