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So many years are wasted by waiting

Leah’s story
LEAH Corr (23) is a mother of a three-old-child and has been on the waiting list for a Housing Executive home for three years. In January she contacted the Andersonstown News along with two of her neighbours – Georgina Lagan and Kelly Duffy

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While families watch and wait, close to 1,000 homes lie empty

THERE are almost 1,000 residential properties in West Belfast lying vacant even as demand for housing rockets towards crisis point. A figure of 986 homes – many of them recession-linked repossessions – was revealed in the Assembly recently by Finance Minister

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3,000-plus and climbing: crush on local housing waiting list worsens

A LOCAL MLA has said the housing crisis is so bad in West Belfast that some people on the housing waiting list are resorting to drastic measures to improve their chances of getting allocated accommodation – including paying dissident paramilitary groups to send them bullets in the post.

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Our Tommy faces fight of his life

A YOUNG West Belfast boxer is facing the fight of his life as he battles to recover from a vicious assault in time for this summer’s Olympics. Lenadoon lad Tommy McCarthy was left hospitalised after he was caught up in a melée at a city centre nightclub.

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Fake notes flood shops

The owner of a local shop has warned businesses to be on the alert after he received this fake £20 Isle of Man note, above, and a £50 note taken out of circulation after the Northern Bank robbery in 2004.. And more worryingly, the Andersonstown shopkeeper says the fake note, purporting to be issued by the Isle of Man Government, passed unnoticed by a counterfeit detector pen.

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Search for devil-dog that mauled family pet Shep

A POLEGLASS couple who witnessed their much-loved family pet being viciously mauled by a pit bull-type ‘devil dog’ said the crazed animal needs to be found and destroyed before it targets a child.

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