Speaking outside Belfast City Hall, the DUP's Nigel Dodds said unionists were determined not to help the new lord mayor.
Whatever the future holds for the new Lord Mayor, one thing is certain: he is presiding over a deeply divided city.
It has been a long journey for the new Lord Kinnock from his earliest days as a rebellious youngster in the south Wales valleys.
On Friday, a 12-strong guard, as well as the ship's commanding officer Commander Patrick Mowatt, have been invited to be part of the mayor's inauguration ceremony at Brangwyn Hall when councillor June Stanton will be sworn is as the city's new Lord Mayor.
Players of Clue FX, Hasbro's latest version of its classic game, move new suspects Lord Gray and Lady Lavender around the Tudor mansion.
However, the 25-year-old is confident he will be fit for England's first Test against New Zealand at Lord's.
Sidebottom's last one-day international was against New Zealand at Lord's last June and he missed most of the Test series and all of the one-day series against South Africa with side injuries.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) the main debate of the day is on the UK economy and the government's role in promoting growth - and it will provide the first big outing for the new Infrastructure Minister Lord Deighton.
She claimed figures of 3-6 from four overs in England's victory in the ICC Women's World Twenty20 final against New Zealand at Lord's last year and a match-winning 5-22 in the second one-day international against India in Bangalore in February which propelled her to third in the ICC women's bowling rankings.
Andrew Mango, whose new work will replace Lord Kinross's as the definitive English-language Ataturk biography, dispels the myth completely.
The awarding of city status - there are three new ones and a lord mayoralty for Armagh - is a decision taken by the Queen on ministerial advice.
But peers stopped short of blocking the introduction of any new members - after Lord Steel accepted an amendment to his motion by Labour's Lord Hunt that urged restraint instead.
BBC: House of Lords: Peers warn against influx of new members
In general their lordships are rather less eurosceptic than MPs, but this will be the first parliamentary opportunity for Ukip to weigh in - and watch out for their new star turn, Lord Stevens of Ludgate.
Though exceptions exist--New Line's Lord of the Rings franchise won several Oscars a few years back--nominations are typically awarded to the smaller budget, often artistic films, aptly dubbed Oscar bait, from the studio's specialty divisions (Paramount's Vantage or 20th Century Fox's Fox Searchlight, among others).
The Department for Work and Pensions is still working on the details of the new scheme, but Lord Freud said that most people would be expected to go to the service after four weeks of sickness absence unless there is a specified reason not to, such as a serious long-term illness.
The Assembly, housed in cramped offices in Cardiff's swanky new bay development, has fired Lord Rogers, the architect who was to build it a new home.
Lord Strathclyde, the new Tory leader in the upper house, indicated during this week's skirmishing that he will honour Lord Cranborne's deal with Mr Blair.
The Welsh office is incorporated into the new constitutional affairs department under Lord Falconer.
Little did Toynbee suspect that as he was writing his premature obituary, a new generation was adopting the Lord of the Rings as its own.
As well as Lord Triesman and Thompson, the new board will include Premier League chairman Dave Richards, Football League chairman Brian Mawhinney, Lord Coe, Paul Elliott and chief executive Andy Anson.
Roads minister Lord Whitty welcomed the new measures which come into force on Thursday.
He is being replaced by Lord Hill who is new to the Lords but old to politics.
Lord Heseltine's new report once again emphasises the importance of aligning political will with local action in the cause of economic regeneration.
Lord Sharkey's new motion is called the Alan Turing (Statutory Pardon) Bill.
Crossbencher and former hospital consultant Lord Patel said the new body must be seen as an independent "big hitter" rather than being an "obscure" sub-committee.
Lord Steel says the new Borders rail plan is very similar to the one he proposed in the 1960s and it would have been much cheaper if they had not removed the track.
He secured the agreement of his colleagues on the LEP to write to the prime minister suggesting Birmingham could pilot Lord Heseltine's new localist agenda, in partnership with the region's public and private sectors.
Lord Freud said the new system would be ready to accept entrants by the end of 2013 and the hope was to have a large number of people transferred to it by the end of this Parliament in 2015.
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It's a great personal achievement to set a new highest score and doing it at Lord's makes it special.
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