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Over £300,000 cannabis haul is discovered in Hughenden house

Three men and a woman have been charged in relation to a seizure of cannabis worth £330,000 in a North Belfast house. The men, aged 23, 30 and 48 and the woman, aged 38, appeared in Belfast Magistrates Court on Saturday (May 3). The accused, who are all foreign nationals, were remanded in custody to […]

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Loyalists stoking interface trouble

BY Evan Short                        e.short@belfastmediagroup.com A DISSIDENT loyalist faction has been accused of stoking interface tensions after it claimed a fight between two youths was part of a sectarian rampage. Politicians, community workers and police have all dismissed the claims that a group of ‘up to 50 armed republican youths’ stormed through Tigers Bay last week […]

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Duncairn Culture and Arts centre opens its doors

BY Evan Short The £3.5 million Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts was officially opened this week on the Antrim Road with four days of events arranged to herald its arrival. The former Presbyterian Church has been restored to create an arts space for the North Belfast community that has been hailed as one of the […]

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Hate crime sparked clashes at interfaces

An attack in which a group of Ardoyne teens were beaten by men as they watched a cross community football match is being investigated as a hate crime by the PSNI. The incident at the Hammer Pitches on the Shankill last Friday (April 25) sparked a number of other altercations at interfaces later that evening […]

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PIPS founder stands down after 11 years

The man who founded one of the north’s leading suicide charities after the death of his son eleven years ago is to leave the organisation to “find his laughter again”. Philip McTaggart, who along with others founded PIPS in 2003, has spoken openly about the impact of the job and how, after a decade of […]

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‘True legends and true greats’ will celebrate Reds historic back-to-back league victories at Solitude

Cliftonville’s historic back to back premier league title will be celebrated at Solitude on Saturday after it was confirmed Crusaders requested the season ending fixture between the two teams be moved from their ground to the home of the Reds. A packed stadium is expected to salute the Reds’ triumph – the first time the […]

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