Bungling robbers who held a family hostage last week during a tiger kidnapping which targeted a local bank made off with just the cashiers’ floats. Last Wednesday morning, an armed robber disguised as a postman made his way into the home of an employee of Andersonstown’s Ulster Bank branch. The man called to the door […]
Archive | February, 2014
Frazer in sick ’Murph insult
LEADING loyalist Willie Frazer has sparked fury over comments he made about the murder of 11 innocents in West Belfast in 1971. Speaking after Shadow Secretary of State Ivan Lewis said that David Cameron should meet with the families of those killed in the Ballymurphy Massacre, Mr Frazer said the victims had been killed during […]
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Bare your soles
As someone who sees running as only to be used in life or death situations, it’s with no little bemusement that I look upon the spandex clad army of joggers pounding the streets of North Belfast with scrunched up faces getting whipped to death by the February wind. It’s not that I haven’t tried, even […]
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Bullets fired into empty car follows pipe bombs
The victim of a gun attack that saw two bullets fired into her vehicle last week is pleading with the people behind a campaign of intimidation to end it for the sake of her children. Lindsey Ward, 29, from Spamount Street in the New Lodge says she is living in fear after the gun attack […]
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Kids ‘traumatised and hysterical’ after shotgun attack on home
A mother-of-two has spoken of her determination to stay in her Oldpark home despite a terrifying gun attack last week. Elaine Fleuty was in the kitchen of her Ballymoney Street house last Sunday evening (2 February) with friends and family, when a shotgun blast from the back of the house blew out the window of […]
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A BIG response to Squinter’s recent piece on Buckfast and the fact that it’s not big in West Belfast. Some readers got in touch to say that West Belfast is not opposed to fortified wine, per se – rather it once preferred another brand, of which today little is known. They reminded Squinter that in […]
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