Britain seeks 'flexibility and imagination' on post-Brexit Northern Ireland border

By Nick Miller
Updated August 17 2017 - 12:08pm, first published 12:00pm
Damian McGenity looks out from his hilltop farm across a valley of chessboard fields in County Armagh in Northern Ireland??????s south.?? He fears Ireland??????s peace agreement is threatened by a ??????hard?????? Brexit.
Damian McGenity looks out from his hilltop farm across a valley of chessboard fields in County Armagh in Northern Ireland??????s south.?? He fears Ireland??????s peace agreement is threatened by a ??????hard?????? Brexit.

London: Britain wants to avoid putting border posts back between Northern Ireland and its southern neighbour, it says in a new 'position paper' released on Wednesday ahead of the next round of Brexit talks.

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