SOUTH Belfast MLA Alex Maskey has expressed frustration with Roads Minister Danny Kennedy after he ruled out a relaxation of the Urban Clearway restrictions on the busy Lisburn Road.
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PSNI target on booze related crime fails dismally
A PSNI target of reducing violent, drink related crime by three per cent has been blown out of the water by a shocking increase of almost 18 per cent.
Offender advised to leave Lower Ormeau
A SOUTH Belfast man jailed last week for downloading a sickening haul of child abuse images left the Lower Ormeau area while awaiting sentencing after being told by community representatives that his presence was ‘inappropriate’.
Hazardous waste dumped in estate
Illegal dumping of asbestos and other hazardous materials in a burnt out factory in Newtownabbey is becoming a serious environmental and safety concern for local residents. The former fish factory in Dandy Street in Bawnmore was targeted twice by arsonists last November. Since then illegal flytippers
Serial armed robber ‘had a wish to get back to prison’
A serial armed robber from Ardoyne had a “wish to get back to prison” when he robbed a Carrickhill pharmacy last year, a judge has said. Mark Patrick Paul Toal (27), who used to live in Velsheda Park, was jailed for seven years for robbing the Medicare Pharmacy at Carrickhill
Empty houses to be postered
The Irish Republican Socialist party (IRSP) has vowed to poster every empty house in North Belfast in a bid to highlight the number of homes sitting unoccupied despite housing need in the area being at crisis point.
