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Archive | September, 2018

Summer’s bountiful harvest is celebrated in Colin

THE strong green-fingered growers at Colin Allotments celebrated a successful end of summer harvest on Thursday by sharing the bountiful fruits (and vegetables) of their labour with the local community. The Colin Harvest Festival brought people from all over the community together for the celebration. Visitors were treated to displays from traditional musicians, the Colin […]

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Call for Botanic Christmas lights

BUSINESS owners on Botanic Avenue are calling for the extension of the city’s Christmas lights to the area to help tackle the yearly lull in winter trade. As Christmas lights are erected in Belfast city centre, shoppers flock to the area for the winter festivities, making it the busiest time of year for most traders. […]

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Pic of the Day Monday September 10

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Glenanne Gang film is set for West screening

A GROUNDBREAKING film by West Belfast Director Seán Murray is set to be screened this week. Unquiet Graves, The Story of the Glenanne Gang, details how members of the RUC and UDR, were centrally involved in the murder of over 120 innocent civilians during the 1970s. Directed by Seán Murray, the film details how members […]

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Don’t deport us back to Iraq

TWO junior Iraqi doctors who fled their war-torn nation due to death threats made to one of their lives, say they hope the Home Office will reconsider its decision to imminently deport them due to complications with their visa. Speaking from their home off Lisburn Road’s Chadwick Street, Yosra Taleb Abdalla who shares the property […]

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Council U-Turn on ‘English Only’ Signage Policy after legal challenge

ANTRIM and Newtownabbey Council has performed a dramatic U-turn on their ‘English Only’ street-naming policy after a legal challenge in the High Court today, Friday. The policy, which was brought forward by Council following a request by local residents from Abbeyville in Newtownabbey for dual Irish and English language street signs in their local streets, […]

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