Clinton details economic recovery plan for North

FORMER US president Bill Clinton has outlined an imaginative economic strategy to lift the North from its economic woes.

While the statesman, 64, acknowledged the financial situation in the region was not good, he said he would far rather wrestle with those problems than the bloodshed and violence of the Troubles.

Delivering an address at the University of Ulster in Derry, Mr Clinton pointed to sectors that he believed could drive the region’s economic recovery, including fish farming, arts and crafts and tourism.