COUNCILLORS have agreed to an investigation into Belfast City Council’s controversial involvement in the collection and storing of pallets gathered for monster bonfires in South and East Belfast. Last month, it was revealed that up to 3,000 pallets had been removed by Council staff and were being stored for bonfire sites in Hope Street near […]
Archive | July, 2017
Bonfires: Council investigation launched into storage of material for loyalists
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MMA: Cage fighter Andy ‘Taz’ Young visits Carrick Hill
THE north’s only professional cage fighter – double world champion Andy ‘Taz’ Young – was in Carrick Hill this week to promote a healthy living lifestyle. The Newtownards pugilist was pictured with local people using the community gym and has promised to come back to speak to the young people using the summer scheme. Andy […]
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Family and friends pay bench tribute to Marco
A SPECIAL bench has been unveiled at Valley Leisure Centre in Newtownabbey by friends and family in memory of a Yorkshire man who loved playing football there. Mark Hemingway passed away suddenly from pneumonia on Christmas Day in 2015. The 43-year-old worked as a boiler and gas engineer and first came to the north in […]
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Anger after flags erected at shared housing estate
NATIONALIST residents living in one of North Belfast’s first shared space social housing communities have expressed dismay at the appearance of unionist flags on lampposts this week. Residents of Fortwilliam Parade in the Glandore area awoke last Tuesday morning to find union and Ulster banner flags had been put up overnight. That is despite anyone […]
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