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Bloody Heroin kit was dumped in park

Parents are being urged to be vigilant after a bloody heroin kit was found next to a playground in the Falls Park. The drug paraphernalia – which included used needles, bloodied swabs and a metal spoon – was found behind the playpark on Tuesday morning by park rangers.

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It’s black to the future as buddies meet again

What’s the story? It’s just another day in the office for special agents J (Will Smith) and K (Tommy Lee Jones), protecting Earth from all manner of nasty extraterrestrials hell-bent on invading and destroying our planet.

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Relaxing in style in County Donegal

GROWING up in Derry, you tend to take having a county like Donegal on your doorstep for granted. Day trips to beach-side towns like Buncrana, Greencastle and Moville in the Inishowen Peninsula were such a regular occurrence as a child that I never really appreciated the beauty and history of Donegal like tourists from further afield would.

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Council set to take old Mackies site

A bright new future for vacant commercial land on the Springfield Road looks set to become a reality. As previously reported in the Andersonstown News, the Invest NI-owned land at the old Mackies site has been lying derelict for a number of years, attracting anti-social elements who have used the sprawling interface territory as a springboard for launching cross-community riots.

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Just a fish out of water

What’s the story? General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) is the tyrannical, bloodthirsty dictator of the small yet powerful North African country Wadiya.

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Writing on the wall for Co Tyrone Lenadoon paint unit

SAOR Uladh – or Soar Uladh as they were calling themselves on this wall in Lenadoon for a while – are inviting us to join our local unit. Squinter will come clean and say that he didn’t know Saor Uladh existed, much less that they had a unit in Lenadoon.

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