🏞 Local Holiday: Easter Monday (Regional Holiday) 🏞

Easter is probably the most important holiday of the Christian year, celebrating the Resurrection of Jesus

Except Scotland

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🧵 2/24

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📰 News: How rescue of US airman in remote part of Iran unfolded 📰

The operation to extract him from the ground in hostile territory was hugely complex and involved multiple US government agencies.

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🧵 3/24

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🗞 News: 'Two weeks will make such a difference': UK first as NI brings in miscarriage leave 🗞

Northern Ireland becomes first part of UK to bring in legal entitlement for parents affected by miscarriage at any stage of a pregnancy to have paid leave.

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🧵 4/24

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🗞 News: Man, 20, dies in traffic collision near Dervock 🗞

Police say they received a report of a one-vehicle road traffic collision on the Castlecat Road shortly before 01:00 BST on Sunday.

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🧵 5/24

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🗞 News: 'It's all a bit much isn't it?' - the rise and rise of Vittorio Angelone 🗞

Belfast comedian Vittorio Angelone spoke to Talkback on BBC Radio Ulster about a wide range of topics from his childhood to his comedy.

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🧵 6/24

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🌄 Sun: Sun Times 🌄

🌅 Sunrise: 06:43 (dawn: 06:06)
🌞 Noon: 13:26
🌇 Sunset: 20:09 (dusk: 20:47)

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🧵 7/24

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⛵ Tides: Carrickfergus Tides ⛵

02:27 - High Tide (2.93m)
08:21 - Low Tide (0.46m)
14:50 - High Tide (2.95m)
20:33 - Low Tide (0.56m)

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🧵 8/24

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🌖 Night Sky: Waning Gibbous Moon 🌖

Over half the moon is illuminated but less will show tomorrow.

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🧵 9/24

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🌌 Night Sky: No significant aurora activity 🌌

🟢 11.7 - Aurora is unlikely to be visible by eye or camera from anywhere in the UK.

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🧵 10/24

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🚀 Night Sky: Launch: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-35 🚀

Monday evening at 23:03 UTC
A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

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🧵 11/24

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🚀 Night Sky: Launch: Minotaur IV | STP-S29A 🚀

Tuesday morning at 11:30 UTC
STP-S29A is a mission under the U.S. Department of Defense's Space Test Program (STP) that will deliver technology demonstrations to orbit and contribute to future space system development, with this launch delivering up to 200 kg of STP cubesats to Low Earth Orbit.

The main payload will be STPSat-7, an ESPA class satellite based on the Aegis Aerospace M-1 satellite bus used on the STPSat-4 mission for hosting research and technology demonstration payloads for the Department of Defense (DoD). One of the payload is U.S. Naval Research Laboratory's (NRL) Lightsheet Anomaly Resolution and Debris Observation (LARADO) instrument, used to detect and characterize lethal non-trackable orbital debris with lasers in orbit.

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🧵 12/24

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🚀 Night Sky: Launch: Long March 8 | Unknown Payload 🚀

Tuesday evening at 13:30 UTC
Details TBD.

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🧵 13/24

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💵 Finance: Exchange Rates 💵

💵 GBP/USD: $1.33, +$0.00 🟢 ↗️
💶 GBP/EUR: $1.15, +$0.00 🟢 ↗️

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🧵 14/24

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🔑 Finance: Crypto 🔑

₿ BTC: $68,992.00, +$2,157.00 🟢 ↗️
Ξ ETH: $2,127.10, +$88.58 🟢 ↗️
◎ SOL: $81.48, +$1.79 🟢 ↗️

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🧵 15/24

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🥇 Finance: Precious Metals 🥇

🥇 Gold: $4,665.09, -$6.66 🔴 ↘️
🥈 Silver: $72.46, -$0.48 🔴 ↘️

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🧵 16/24

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🎉 Parade: Woodburn Browning Club (Outward) 🎉

Monday, 6ᵗʰ April 2026 at 09:00

Location: Carrickfergus
Outward Route: Woodburn Orange Hall,Woodburn Road,Ellis Street,Minorca Place,Irish Quarter West,Albert Road,Harbour Car park
Outward Times: 09:00 to 10:00
Return Route: Top of Woodburn Road,Woodburn Orange Hall
Return Times: 19:00 to 19:30
Contentious: False

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🧵 17/24

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🎉 Parade: Carrickfergus Campsie Club 🎉

Monday, 6ᵗʰ April 2026 at 09:00

Location: Carrickfergus
Outward Route: Shaftesbury Drive,North Road,St Brides Street,Albert Road,Lancastrian Street,North Street,High Street,Castle Street,A2 . Marine Highway,Harbour Drive ( King Williams Statue)
Outward Times: 09:00 to 09:40
Return Route:
Return Times: to
Contentious: False

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🧵 18/24

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🎉 Parade: Woodburn Browning Club (Return) 🎉

Monday, 6ᵗʰ April 2026 at 19:00

Location: Carrickfergus
Outward Route: Woodburn Orange Hall,Woodburn Road,Ellis Street,Minorca Place,Irish Quarter West,Albert Road,Harbour Car park
Outward Times: 09:00 to 10:00
Return Route: Top of Woodburn Road,Woodburn Orange Hall
Return Times: 19:00 to 19:30
Contentious: False

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🧵 19/24

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📑 Words: Oswald Chambers 📑

"The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone."

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🧵 20/24

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