A WEST Belfast grandmother said she will not be intimidated out of her home after a number of shots were fired through her front door and kitchen window on Saturday night. Julia Stokes, a settled member of the Travelling community from Mill Race off the Monagh By-Pass, told the Andersonstown News that the attack wasn’t linked, as has been claimed, to any feud between her family and any other Traveller family.
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La Salle lends a hand
DE LA Salle College is set to welcome bookworms of all ages to the school as it opens its state-of-the-art library facility to the public. Principal Paul Barry said the College is keen to help the community continue their love of reading after the recent closure of the Andersonstown Library, which he described “as a great loss to our community”.
School report is an ‘opportunity’
St Louise’s College won’t be amalgamating with another school – that’s the message from Principal Carmel McCartan, who was responding to the Northern Ireland Commission for Catholic Education’s report containing recommendations for the future.
Flasher hunt
POLICE in Dunmurry police are appealing for the public’s help in identifying a male who has been involved in a number of ‘flashing’ incidents in the Poleglass area in recent months. “A number of people have reported being approached in the Colinvale/Altan Close and Glenkeen areas by a brown-haired male in his late teens or early 20s who exposes himself before running away,” said a police spokesperson.
Corner shop in the firing line
THE OWNER of a Lenadoon shop that has been targeted in six separate robberies – four of them armed – in the space of just a few months has called for the full rigours of the law to be applied to the perpetrators before someone is seriously hurt.
West Belfast celebrates Oscar success
THE celebrations for Twinbrook film director Terry George are set to continue this weekend as he returns home to Ireland after picking up an Oscar for his short film ‘The Shore’. The film took the top prize in the Best Live Action Short Film at the 84th Annual Academy Awards on Monday night, causing much celebration among his West Belfast family and friends who were assembled at the Anchor Bar in Killough,
