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• Elite League: Belfast Giants 2-3 Cardiff Devils - BBC News

  18-02-2017 22:47
  
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  Elite League: Belfast Giants 2-3 Cardiff Devils
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  Belfast Giants now trail Elite League leaders Cardiff Devils by seven points after a second home defeat in 24 hours by the Welsh visitors. Guillaume Doucet gave the Devils an early lead and Patrick Asselin made it 2-0 at the start of the second period.
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• Elite League: Belfast Giants 2-3 Cardiff Devils

  18-02-2017 22:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Belfast Giants now trail Elite League leaders Cardiff Devils by seven points after a second defeat in 24 hours by the Welsh side.
  
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• Belfast Jewish Community Threatened on Facebook, Calls to Synagogue's Rabbi - The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com

  18-02-2017 22:29
  
  Belfast Jewish Community Threatened on Facebook, Calls to Synagogue's Rabbi
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  The Belfast Jewish Community has come under attack with vicious anti-Semitic threats sent to the leadership via the community's Facebook page, and calls made to the synagogue's rabbi late this past week. The tiny Jewish community, only about five ...
  
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• Four decades on, ‘it’s time to honour’ the punk dreamers of an Alternative Ulster

  18-02-2017 22:00
  
  Bid to commemorate bar which saw debut gig by Stiff Little Fingers and birth of a teenage peace processThe old punks of “Alternative Ulster” are rebelling again, this time over the refusal of a request to recognise the role of bands such as Stiff Little Fingers in uniting Protestants and Catholics at the height of the Troubles.Amateur punk historian Dee Wilson, author of The Punk Trilogy, approached the Ulster Historical Circle with a proposal that a blue plaque should be erected at
  
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• Ballymena beat Carrick in League Cup final

  18-02-2017 20:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ballymena United celebrate lifting the NI League Cup for the first time after beating Carrick Rangers 2-0 at Seaview.
  
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• Jane Austen '£50k' fiver found in NI

  18-02-2017 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The five pound notes are the handiwork of Birmingham micro-artist Graham Short.
  
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• Brexit protest halts traffic at Irish border

  18-02-2017 19:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Protesters set up a mock customs hut and checkpoint to highlight possible border changes post-Brexit.
  
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• Sigerson Cup: St Mary's 0-13 UCD 2-6

  18-02-2017 19:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  St Mary's beat holders UCD by a point to lift the Sigerson Cup for only the second time in their history.
  
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• Boston Flower Show Trips - March 24 and 25

  18-02-2017 19:49
  Plants Unlimited, on route 1 in Rockport, is organizing 2 charter trips to the Boston Flower Show on Friday, March 24 and Saturday, March 25. The Boston Flower & Garden Show kicks off Spring in New England at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. You've probably heard of Comic-Con, the huge celebration of comic books, video games and popular culture.
  
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• Police appeal after woman kicked by man in daylight attack in Belfast city centre - Belfast Live

  18-02-2017 18:34
  
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  Police appeal after woman kicked by man in daylight attack in Belfast city centre
  Belfast Live
  PSNI are appealing for information after a woman was kicked by a man in a daylight attack in Belfast city centre. The incident happened on Bedford Street near its junction with Clarence Street on Wednesday, February 8. PSNI Constable Brolly said: “It ...
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• South Belfast: Woman assaulted with hammer during attempted robbery

  18-02-2017 18:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman is assaulted with a hammer during an attempted robbery outside a south Belfast restaurant.
  
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• Ulster get bonus point win over Glasgow

  18-02-2017 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ulster score five tries and beat Glasgow 37-17 to boost their hopes of challenging for a place in the Pro12 play-offs.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Tony Blair should respect the result of Brexit vote

  18-02-2017 17:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Tony Blair's call for pro-Europeans to form a new cross-party movement to reverse the outcome of the EU referendum is unhelpful, Jeremy Corbyn has said.
  
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• South Belfast: Woman assaulted with hammer during attempted robbery - BBC News

  18-02-2017 15:56
  
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  South Belfast: Woman assaulted with hammer during attempted robbery
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  A woman has been assaulted with a hammer during an attempted robbery outside a south Belfast restaurant. The attack happened on the Lisburn Road shortly after 23:00 GMT on Friday night, police said. A man armed with a hammer attempted to take the ...
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• Skiing trip ends school's rugby cup hopes

  18-02-2017 15:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Friends' of Lisburn fail to field a team for their Schools' Cup quarter-final so opponents BRA go through to the last four.
  
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• One killed, 20 hurt after train derails near Brussels

  18-02-2017 15:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  One person has been killed and up to 20 others were injured after a passenger train derailed and flipped on its side near the Belgian capital Brussels.
  
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• Woman hit with hammer on Belfast's Lisburn road as thug attempts to steal handbag

  18-02-2017 15:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A woman has been attacked on the Lisburn Road in south Belfast by a man armed with a hammer.
  
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• People carrier and black taxi involved in road crash in West Belfast - Belfast Live

  18-02-2017 14:24
  
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  People carrier and black taxi involved in road crash in West Belfast
  Belfast Live
  A people carrier and a black taxi have been involved in a road crash in West Belfast. The collision happened at the junction of the Bell Steel Road and Pantridge Road in the Poleglass area. It is understood one person has been taken to hospital with a ...and more »
  
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• Dunmurry crash: Pantridge Road closed following collision

  18-02-2017 13:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Pantridge Road in the Dunmurry area of Belfast is closed in both directions following a crash.
  
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• Anti-Brexit campaigners stage go-slow amid hard border fears

  18-02-2017 12:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Anti-Brexit campaigners have brought traffic to a crawl on the main road between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
  
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• Anti-Brexit campaigners disrupt traffic in warning against hard border

  18-02-2017 12:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Anti-Brexit campaigners have brought traffic to a crawl on the main road between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
  
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• Irish woman charged over fatal stabbing of fiancé David Walsh in Sydney Australia

  18-02-2017 12:08 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An Irish woman has been charged with stabbing her fiance to death at their home in Sydney.
  
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• New Titanic-themed hotel is earmarked for Belfast's Shankill Road ... - Belfast Telegraph

  18-02-2017 12:04
  
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  New Titanic-themed hotel is earmarked for Belfast's Shankill Road ...
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  A Titanic-themed hotel could be built in west Belfast amid fresh plans to revamp a former church.and more »
  
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• Brexit: Access to potentially life-saving clinical trials ‘at risk’ for 600,000 patients

  18-02-2017 11:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  More than 600,000 patients a year could be denied access to potentially life-saving clinical trials after Brexit, medical research organisations have warned.
  
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• A walk on the wild side in Belfast - Little Atoms

  18-02-2017 11:30
  
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  A walk on the wild side in Belfast
  Little Atoms
  I'm going for a walk. Because it's half-past eight on a Thursday morning, late November, one of those mornings given to you each season to stand for all the rest, bright sun on a hard frost, breath and car fumes mingling outside the school where I have ...
  
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• Meet the artists claiming Belfast's streets - BBC News

  18-02-2017 10:45
  
  Meet the artists claiming Belfast's streets
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  Belfast is a city better known for its history than its artwork, but a new generation of artists are claiming its public spaces as their own. For decades the streets of Northern Ireland have been peppered with political murals depicting the region's ...
  
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• Taking back the streets

  18-02-2017 10:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Belfast is a city known more for its history than its artwork, but a new generation of street artists are claiming the city's public spaces as their own.
  
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• Irish woman charged with Australian murder

  18-02-2017 10:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 25-year-old Irish woman is charged with the murder of a 29-year-old Irish man.
  
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• Woman engaged to marry the man who stole her car and crashed it

  18-02-2017 03:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man who stole a woman's car and crashed it, has now become engaged to the same woman.
  
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• Slim's Healthy Kitchen embarks on drastic cutbacks just months after revealing expansion plans

  18-02-2017 03:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A chain of healthy eating restaurants in Northern Ireland has closed six of its eight outlets in a drastic reorganisation of its business, the Belfast Telegraph can reveal.
  
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• Northern Ireland trawler fleet 'will net immediate rewards following Brexit'

  18-02-2017 03:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's fishing industry is "guaranteed to benefit" following Brexit despite a leaked EU report showing plans for foreign boats to still be permitted to operate in UK waters.
  
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• New Titanic-themed hotel is earmarked for Belfast's Shankill Road

  18-02-2017 03:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Titanic-themed hotel could be built in west Belfast amid fresh plans to revamp a former church.
  
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• Lisburn PSNI cell death accused pair named after reporting restrictions lifted

  18-02-2017 03:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A custody sergeant and a former civilian detention officer who deny causing the death of a police prisoner can now be identified after a judge lifted the reporting restrictions.
  
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• Actress says her GP grandfather 'bumped off' terminally ill patients

  18-02-2017 01:36 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Actress Brigit Forsyth has said her GP grandfather helped "loads" of terminally ill patients end their lives.
  
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• Salmonella bug 'can act as Trojan horse' to fight cancer

  18-02-2017 01:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A common food poisoning bug can act as a "Trojan horse" to help the immune system fight cancer, scientists have discovered.
  
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• Irish man dies after being stabbed in Sydney

  18-02-2017 00:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 29-year-old Irish man has died after being stabbed in the neck in Sydney.
  
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