Up to £22,000 worth of damage has been caused to two police CCTV cameras. The poles damaged are located on the Falls Road and in Glenavy, at the Lisburn Road-Airport Road junction. The damage was caused in the early hours of last Friday morning when vandals pulled the cameras off their poles and the electrics were also set on fire.
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How children’s suffering bridges the generations
If a book can be a lifeline then the greatest book about addiction and its crushing effect on families must be Breaking Night, an unforgettable memoir of life in a Bronx home where both parents are hopeless crack addicts.
Brothers lose 10 stone
TWO brothers from West Belfast are celebrating a fantastic achievement after losing an incredible ten stone between them in just five months. 21-year-old Jonathan McCrudden and his 15-year-old brother Lee have credited their local Slimming World class as giving them the help, encouragement and advice they needed to help them reach their weight loss goal.
Man arrested as police seize drugs in RVH
YOUTH workers have warned young people against using illegally obtained prescription drugs after a police apprehended what is believed to be a quantity of diazepam tablets from a man in the grounds of the Royal Victoria Hospital.
Easter lily lock-up
THE administration of Maghaberry Prison has been condemned for putting republican prisoners under 24-hour lock-up over the Easter weekend for refusing to remove their Easter lilies. A spokesperson for the Family and Friends of Republican Prisoners Maghaberry group claim the prisoners were locked up on
RSF ‘nonsense’ over GAA ‘sell-out’
REPUBLICAN Sinn Féin have been accused of talking “nonsense” after an astonishing attack on the GAA during the party’s Easter commemoration at Milltown Cemetery on Sunday. The party, which is aligned to the Continuity IRA, which burned a digger at Casement Park two years ago after contractors working on the Andersonstown
