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£20,000 in pallets go up in smoke

UP TO £20,000 worth of stolen pallets are to be burnt on the monster Lanark Way bonfire on the Eleventh Night. The distinctive blue pallets pictured on the bonfire are the property of pallet rental company CHEP and are said to be worth between £15 and £20 apiece. They are much heavier and stronger than […]

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Dissidents fire shots fired as children play in the street

RESIDENTS in a North Belfast street have been left reeling after six shots were fired at an unmarked security vehicle while young children played in the street. The attack at Oceanic Avenue, just off the Antrim Road, happened shortly before 10pm last Thursday (June 26) as children enjoyed the late summer daylight hours. At the […]

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Dismay over flags outside church

Calls for loyalists to respect Catholic places of worship have been made after flags were put up outside a North Belfast church. St Mary’s Greencastle lies just yards from a bonfire being built and two weeks ago flags were erected at its gates. The move comes shortly after paramilitary flags were erected at Carnmoney cemetery. […]

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£80,000 of public money up in smoke

CLOSE to £80,000 of ratepayers money has been spent on loyalist bonfires in North Belfast and Newtownabbey in the run up to the Twelfth of July. The huge amount of public money on bonfires on which last year alone effigies and images of nationalist politicians were burnt as well as tricolours and religious symbols, includes […]

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Trust blasted over ‘mass tower evictions’

FALLS SDLP Councillor Colin Keenan has called for an urgent meeting with the Belfast Trust after hospital staff were told they have to move out of Trust accommodation in West Belfast. Residents of the Broadway Towers complex were notified by letter that they must leave the accommodation by the end of January 2015 in what […]

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Return parade banned

The Parades Commission has ruled that Orangemen will not be allowed to return past Nationalist homes on the Crumlin Road at Ardoyne on July 12. The determination, released just before noon today (Thursday) as the North Belfast News went to print, will be met with relief in nationalist Ardoyne. Talks between residents and the Orange […]

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