A blitz on internment bonfires is expected to take place in the coming days after the PSNI agreed to back community efforts to put an end to the beacons for anti-social behaviour. On Monday night (August 4) a packed Recy in the New Lodge heard top cop Bobby Singleton vow to ‘robustly’ police the fires […]
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Bonfire builders told to expect crackdown
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Sinn Féin will fight against ‘Tory cuts’
A West Belfast Sinn Féin councillor has spoken out against welfare cuts and said the DUP must take some of the blame for deprivation in the Protestant community. Jim McVeigh, who is the party’s leader on Belfast City Council, reiterated that the party are “implacably opposed to the Tory cuts agenda in the North” and […]
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Man exposes himself in Milltown Cemetery
A man exposed himself to two children and made lewd gestures to a woman in two separate incidents in a West Belfast cemetery at the weekend. Police are investigating after the man exposed himself to two girls, aged just eight, and made the obscene gestures towards a woman sitting alone at a grave in Milltown […]
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Heroin kit discovered
The discovery of a used heroin kit in derelict land in the Whiterock has caused anger locally. The grim discovery at Brittons Parade was made last Thursday by some young people who unearthed the discarded kit, made up of used and sealed syringes, sachets of citric acid, alcohol prep pads, vials of saline water and […]
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‘More of the same’ from housing minister say PPR
By david whelan nbnjournalist@belfastmediagroup.com A GROUP set up to fight for equal social housing has accused Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland of ‘more of the same tactics’ after a damning report into his conduct last week. Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) said that the findings by the scrutiny committee only served to support […]
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Residents could face £60,000 legal bill
A judicial review against the granting of planning permission for the new Casement Park could cost residents between £13,000 and £60,000 – even if they win. MORA (the Mooreland and Owenvarragh Residents’ Association) will have their appeal against the Department of Environment, who granted planning permission for the £70 million redevelopment, heard in the High […]
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