This latest challenge comes against a backdrop of Environment Minister Edwin Poots claiming business people should stop using a "sudden interest in newts and badgers" to snarl up the planning system.

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On Thursday, Environment Minister, Edwin Poots told delegates at the Retail NI conference that business people should stop using a "sudden interest in newts and badgers" to snarl up the planning system.

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Last summer a snarl-up at the passport office made it hard for many people to leave Britain.

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The snarl-up has spilled over from the sidings to dock quays.

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For the most part I was travelling faster than the motorists who were caught up in the usual peak time snarl ups.

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