A building firm employed by Belfast City Council to upgrade a New Lodge play park pulled its employees from the site last week after an extortion bid on workers. On their first day on the Victoria Parade site last Thursday (9 January), two men approached the contractors and demanded protection payments. The builders immediately left […]
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Community ‘disgusted’ by extortion bid on workers at much needed park
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‘Loyalist criminality will be exposed by UPRG’
A North Belfast UPRG member has said his group plan to expose the ‘criminal conspiracy that lies behind efforts to marginalise the current loyalist leadership in the area’. John Howcroft says they will use the next edition of their quarterly publication to outline what he says is the criminality of those who have taken to […]
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£400k funding shortfall won’t delay 174 opening
The development of a multi million pound cultural centre in North Belfast has suffered a setback after £400k of expected funding fell through. Rev Bill Shaw says the shortfall will not put back the official opening of the 174 Trust’s Duncairn Cultural Arts Centre, but it is money that will now have to be found […]
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It’s three cheers for the Four Corners
Belfast’s 4 Corners Festival has returned for a second year based on the theme of providing stories by ‘them-uns’ for the enjoyment of ‘those-uns’. Organised on a cross-denominational basis by Fitzroy Presbyterian and Sacred Heart Parish – and supported by congregations from all denominations across Belfast – the festival aims to encourage people to leave […]
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Ardoyne men to appear again over parade protest
Eleven Ardoyne men are to appear in court again next week to hear a judge’s verdict on charges of taking part in an illegal protest. Paul Carson (49) and Aiden Ferguson (33) both of Highbury Gardens, Damien Fennell (31) of Duneden Park; Gerard Lagan (52) of Butler Walk, Peter Lagan (53) of Jamaica Street, Daniel […]
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‘Drug dealers’ ordered out says McCord
A man whose son was murdered by the UVF has said he will “make representations” on behalf of anyone named on a list of alleged drug dealers who a criminal gang have said they will kill if they don’t leave the country. Raymond McCord said he was approached by a man on Sunday morning and […]
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