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• Judge denies Belfast man's request to stop police arrests

  28-11-2016 23:30
  In a lawsuit against local police, a judge denied a Belfast man's request to prevent law enforcement from taking any additional action against him. Bradley P. Williams, 61, filed a lawsuit against Belfast Police Chief Michael McFadden and Waldo County Sheriff's Office Deputy Merl Reed, as well as the city of Belfast and Waldo County.
  
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• Birmingham pub bombings: Families call for government funding for legal fees

  28-11-2016 21:16
  
  The families of the victims of the Birmingham pub bombings express anger about the difficulties they face to secure legal aid.
  
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• 'Record number' of Irish passports issued

  28-11-2016 20:58
  
  A record number of Irish passports - more than 700,000 - have been issued so far this year, officials say.
  
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• BBC Sports Personality Award: Andy Murray heads SPOTY list

  28-11-2016 20:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Andy Murray heads an unprecedented 16-strong shortlist for this year's BBC Sports Personality Award which will be announced in Birmingham on December 18.
  
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• Katie Taylor: Irish star and Brazilian Viviane Obenauf in Manchester fight

  28-11-2016 20:39
  
  Katie Taylor's opponent in her second professional contest in Manchester on 10 December will be Brazilian Viviane Obenauf.
  
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• Woodstock Road, east Belfast: Pledge after vandals smash defibrillator

  28-11-2016 19:55
  
  A Belfast businessman pledges that a defibrillator smashed by vandals at the weekend will be back in working order as soon as possible.
  
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• Teachers' strike: Letters home spark legal warning

  28-11-2016 19:51
  
  A teachers' union warns school principals could face legal action over advice given to parents about an upcoming strike.
  
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• Daisy Hill Hospital, Newry, struggling to recruit top doctor

  28-11-2016 19:48
  
  A hospital in Newry, County Down, is having difficulty recruiting senior doctors to run its emergency department, the assembly is told.
  
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• Irish passports: 700,000 issued in record-breaking year

  28-11-2016 19:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  More than 700,000 Irish passports have been issued so far in 2016.
  
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• Transgender pensioner 'old but happy'

  28-11-2016 19:42
  
  A pensioner who underwent gender re-assignment surgery aged 69 says she lived "in the wrong body" for most of her life because she feared the reaction of friends and family.
  
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• 'I lived in the wrong body'

  28-11-2016 19:42
  
  A pensioner who underwent gender re-assignment surgery aged 69 says she lived "in the wrong body" for most of her life because she feared the reaction of friends and family.
  
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• As a teenager, I asked other students about their satisfaction with school. Here's what I learned.

  28-11-2016 19:18
  It is no secret that many of America's students are not overjoyed with their school experience. But the general distaste for the meatloaf that is school is not predetermined.
  
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• Patrick Joseph O'Neill jailed over paramilitary shooting

  28-11-2016 18:38
  
  A man who admitted taking part in a paramilitary shooting in Belfast is sentenced to five years in jail.
  
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• Baby girl (1) wakes from coma after family prevented doctors from switching off life support

  28-11-2016 17:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A one-year-old baby has woken from an induced coma after doctors wanted to switch off her life support machine.
  
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• Pope Francis 'to visit Northern Ireland in 2018'

  28-11-2016 16:53
  
  Pope Francis will visit Northern Ireland in August 2018, says the deputy first minister.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon starts two-day Irish visit

  28-11-2016 16:49
  
  Nicola Sturgeon has started a two-day visit to Ireland as she looks to strengthen links between Scotland and Ireland in the wake of the Brexit vote.
  
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• #IinformedThePSNI trend hits Twitter in response to Belfast leaflets as loyalist questions their origin

  28-11-2016 16:47 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  People have expressed their support for the PSNI through a hashtag on Twitter after threatening leaflets about providing information to the police were distributed in Belfast.
  
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• Malnutrition 'among underlying reasons' for death of young hospital patient

  28-11-2016 16:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Malnutrition played a part in the death of a young chef who spent months in hospital, a coroner's court has been told.
  
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• First Minister Arlene Foster to meet Pope Francis if he visits Northern Ireland as head of state

  28-11-2016 16:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  DUP leader Arlene Foster would meet the Pope if he came to Northern Ireland in his capacity as head of state.
  
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• County Antrim Shield: Crusaders and Linfield favourites to make final

  28-11-2016 15:02
  
  Crusaders and Linfield will start as favourites to win Tuesday night's County Antrim Shield semi-finals.
  
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• Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams to attend Fidel Castro funeral

  28-11-2016 14:52 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Gerry Adams will be the only Irish parliamentarian to attend the funeral of former Cuban leader Fidel Castro.
  
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• Winston 'Winkie' Rea to be charged over 1991 murder of two Catholic workmen

  28-11-2016 14:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A veteran loyalist will be prosecuted in connection with the murders of two Catholic workmen in Belfast more than 25 years ago, it was confirmed.
  
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• 300,000-signature petition opposing change to abortion law presented to Stormont

  28-11-2016 14:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 300,000-signature petition opposing change to Northern Ireland's abortion law is the largest ever presented to the Stormont Assembly, an MLA has said.
  
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• Report 'recommends abortion law change'

  28-11-2016 14:07
  
  A group examining NI abortion legislation recommends a law change in cases of fatal foetal abnormality.
  
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• Lord Mayor hails the success of the NI Connections Friendship Four

  28-11-2016 13:50 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Banbridge: Woman arrested after man's 'sudden death'

  28-11-2016 13:43
  
  The sudden death of a young man in Banbridge, County Down, is being treated as "unexplained", police say.
  
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• Pope will visit Northern Ireland, says Martin McGuinness after 2018 papal trip to Republic confirmed

  28-11-2016 13:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Martin McGuinness says the Pope will visit Northern Ireland as part of his trip to the island in 2018.
  
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• Security cash-in-transit firm, RMS, creates 100 jobs in Belfast

  28-11-2016 13:35
  
  RMS, a security cash-in-transit company, creates 100 jobs in Belfast over the next five years.
  
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• Ireland captain Rory Best says gap between hemispheres has been filled

  28-11-2016 13:20
  
  Ireland captain Rory Best believes his side have helped fill the void between the northern and southern hemispheres with their historic autumn Test series.
  
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• Police probe sudden death of man (20s) in Banbridge

  28-11-2016 13:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police are treating the sudden death of a man aged in his 20s in Banbridge as unexplained.
  
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• Pope Francis to visit Ireland in 2018

  28-11-2016 12:41 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The pope is to visit Ireland in 2018, it has been confirmed.
  
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• From defection to redemption in Castro's Cuba

  28-11-2016 12:24
  
  The man who made the heartbreaking decision to defect from Cuba to devote his life to Irish boxing
  
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• Pictured: Truck loses roof after hitting bridge in Northern Ireland town

  28-11-2016 12:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  This was the state a truck was left in after it hit a bridge in Northern Ireland and lost its roof.
  
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• Man arrested after defibrillator vandalised in east Belfast

  28-11-2016 11:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man has been arrested after a defibrillator was vandalised in east Belfast.
  
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• RMS to create 100 Belfast jobs with £1.25m investment

  28-11-2016 11:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A cash in transit firm says it aims to create up to 300 new jobs with a fresh £1.25m investment.
  
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• Northern Ireland talent keeps US law firm Baker & McKenzie in Belfast, Brexit won't have impact, says chairman Rawlinson

  28-11-2016 11:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Chairman of US law firm Baker & McKenzie has said the talent in Northern Ireland is keeping it in Belfast and the UK's forthcoming departure from the EU will have no impact on its operations, the BBC reported.
  
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• CCTV captures moment defibrillator vandalised in east Belfast.

  28-11-2016 11:05
  
  CCTV captures the moment that a defibrillator was vandalised in east Belfast.
  
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• Police remove names of 40 perverts from Northern Ireland sex offenders’ register

  28-11-2016 10:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The PSNI has removed the names of almost 40 perverts from the sex offenders’ register in the past two years, it can be revealed.
  
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• Shock after death of Belfast man George Bingham

  28-11-2016 09:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A young west Belfast man has died suddenly.
  
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• Opposition must abandon coalition system, Allister tells TUV conference

  28-11-2016 09:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jim Allister has challenged the Assembly's opposition leaders to end Stormont's system of mandatory coalition government.
  
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• Grammars schools to close during strike by Northern Ireland teachers

  28-11-2016 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A number of Belfast's top grammar schools have been forced to make contingency plans as teachers prepare to strike on Wednesday.
  
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• Grammar schools to close during strike by Northern Ireland teachers

  28-11-2016 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A number of Belfast's top grammar schools have been forced to make contingency plans as teachers prepare to strike on Wednesday.
  
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• Man cleared of Michaela McAreavey honeymoon murder in Mauritius sues for £1.7m

  28-11-2016 08:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man found not guilty of the murder of Co Tyrone woman Michaela McAreavey in Mauritius is seeking damages of almost £1.7m for his treatment by police and the State.
  
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• Jayne Wisener ponders return to Northern Ireland to have children

  28-11-2016 08:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A tinseltown actress who was born in Northern Ireland has confessed she is considering moving home to start a family.
  
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• Fury as sick burglars beat pet dog to death in Armagh village

  28-11-2016 08:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Anger and outrage erupted in a Co Armagh village at the weekend after a family dog was beaten to death by burglars.
  
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• Tributes to Belfast dad Barry Bell-Nevin who died in Saintfield crash

  28-11-2016 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 28-year-old Belfast father who died on Saturday evening following a two vehicle road traffic accident has been named as Barry Bell-Nevin.
  
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• Police seize drugs worth £3.3m in Northern Ireland

  28-11-2016 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  More than £3m worth of drugs have been seized across Northern Ireland over the last two months, the PSNI has revealed.
  
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