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• Fiore Art Center deadline looms

  20-02-2017 23:53
  The Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm, a program of Belfast-based Maine Farmland Trust, offers an expanded selection of residencies for its second year including six, month-long residencies for visual artists; and a new, one-time, historic writing residency, focused on researching and then writing the story of the farm. Information about and applications for the 2017 residencies at the Joseph A. Fiore Art Center at Rolling Acres Farm can be found online at mainefarmlandtrust.org .
  
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• Odyssey Pavilion Belfast solar farm 'size of 12 tennis courts' - Belfast Telegraph

  20-02-2017 21:57
  
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  Odyssey Pavilion Belfast solar farm 'size of 12 tennis courts'
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  Work is under way to build a huge solar farm on top of the Odyssey Pavilion in Belfast - equivalent in size to 12 tennis courts. SSE Airtricity is working with the Odyssey Trust to develop the solar photo-voltaic array. When completed next month, it ...
  
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• Police 'dig up garden of double murderer Christopher Halliwell'

  20-02-2017 20:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Specialist police officers have begun excavation work at what is believed to be the former home of double murderer Christopher Halliwell.
  
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• DUP accused of 'scaremongering' ahead of Northern Ireland Assembly election

  20-02-2017 20:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The DUP has been accused of 'whipping up fear' within unionist communities ahead of the election.
  
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• Guinness guzzler

  20-02-2017 20:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A journalist finds the man who was pictured as a toddler in 1997 drinking Guinness in a pub.
  
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• Evening school welcomes 27 pupils, overhanging snow drift dismantled, ...

  20-02-2017 19:46
  "The evening school under the auspices of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union was started last Friday evening under favorable conditions. The school numbered twenty-seven pupils.
  
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• Radio 4 presenter Steve Hewlett dies after cancer battle

  20-02-2017 19:36 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  BBC Radio 4 presenter Steve Hewlett has died at the age of 58.
  
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• Vitaly Churkin: Russian ambassador to UN dies suddenly in New York

  20-02-2017 18:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Vitaly Churkin, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations, has died suddenly in New York.
  
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• Man spared jail over Filthy McNasty's altercation with doorman

  20-02-2017 18:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 20-year-old Belfast man was spared jail on Monday after an incident at Filthy McNasty's which left a doorman with a dislocated kneecap.
  
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• Man jailed for super-imposing faces of women onto sexually explicit photos and posting on internet

  20-02-2017 17:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man who super-imposed the faces of two women on to sexually explicit photographs which he then put on the internet has been jailed for three months for a "vile" campaign against two women for four years.
  
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• Rusty finds his 'forever home' after a year with Dogs Trust Ballymena

  20-02-2017 16:58 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  He was a long term resident at the Dogs Trust Ballymena - but now Rusty has found his 'forever home' in Banbridge.
  
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• Edward Heath: Police chief ‘120 per cent convinced’ former primer minister was a paedophile

  20-02-2017 16:44 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The head of the police force investigating reports of child sexual abuse by Sir Edward Heath reportedly believes in the allegations “120 per cent”.
  
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• Suspect 'threatened Catholics' before family man killed in loyalist shooting

  20-02-2017 16:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A suspect in the sectarian loyalist shooting of a young father in Northern Ireland vowed to clear all Catholic "taigs" from the area, a lawyer told an inquest.
  
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• British IS fighter 'carries out suicide bombing in Iraq'

  20-02-2017 16:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A British Islamic State fighter has reportedly carried out a suicide bombing near Mosul.
  
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• Garmin review: GPS giant puts wheels in motions to dominate cycling tech world

  20-02-2017 15:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Golf, according to those in the know, is losing players across the world. Cited by experts following the announcement that Nike was to ditch the sticks, it was claimed that millions around the world were doing the same and the market was not as lucrative as it once was.
  
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• Why this Belfast teen learned the fine art of inseminating dairy cows

  20-02-2017 15:25
  A dairy cow chews on grain in a barn at Keene Dairy Farm Belfast on Tuesday. Karagen Stone recently received a fairly unusual certification.
  
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• Sunday World wins 'Scrooge' libel appeal against Kilkeel man Gordon Coulter

  20-02-2017 14:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Sunday World has won its appeal against a £50,000 libel award to a Co Down businessman referred to as "a Scrooge".
  
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• Delivery driver robbed at gun point by masked men in Carrickfergus

  20-02-2017 13:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A delivery driver has escaped injury after he was robbed at gun point in Carrickfergus. Co Antrim.
  
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• Ill Arlene Foster refuses questions at DUP manifesto launch in Belfast

  20-02-2017 12:58 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  DUP leader Arlene Foster refused to take questions from the media at her party's manifesto launch as she was too ill.
  
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• Arlene Foster hit with 'man flu' at DUP manifesto launch - party says leader too ill to take Press questions

  20-02-2017 12:58 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  DUP leader Arlene Foster was too ill to take questions from the media at her party's manifesto launch a spokesman said after the politician admitted she had been hit with the dreaded "man flu".
  
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• Two Belfast roads in UK's top 10 most congested - BBC News

  20-02-2017 12:51
  
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  Two Belfast roads in UK's top 10 most congested
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  Two of the UK's 10 most congested roads in 2016 were in Belfast, data shows. But Belfast did not feature in the 10 most congested cities in the UK - despite being ranked third in the UK by data company Inrix in 2015. The southbound Lisburn Road from ...
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  Belfast's A1 named as one of most congested roads in Europethe Irish News
  Northern Ireland has most congested road in UK o
  
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• Coleraine: Mother and son shot in house by masked man

  20-02-2017 12:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A mother and her son have been shot in Coleraine, County Londonderry.
  
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• Dublin shooting: Man dies in incident in north of city

  20-02-2017 12:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Man in his 50s dies following shooting in north Dublin
  
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• Man forced from car in south Belfast hijacking

  20-02-2017 11:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man has been forced from his car in a hijacking in Belfast.
  
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• Surfers save child swept out to sea while body-boarding in Portrush

  20-02-2017 11:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 12-year-old boy was saved by two quick thinking surfers after he was swept out to sea in Portrush.
  
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• Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill 'has no problem condemning criminality' after cousin convicted of fuel laundering

  20-02-2017 10:14 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Michelle O'Neill has said she has "no problem" condemning criminality after her cousin was convicted of fuel laundering.
  
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• Belfast has most congested road in UK outside London

  20-02-2017 10:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast has the most congested road anywhere outside of London, it has been revealed.
  
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• Odyssey Pavilion Belfast solar farm 'size of 12 tennis courts'

  20-02-2017 09:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Work is under way to build a huge solar farm on top of the Odyssey Pavilion in Belfast - equivalent in size to 12 tennis courts.
  
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• Rebel Catholic bishop Buckley buries Protestant Peggy (107), 'a shining example of tolerance'

  20-02-2017 09:08 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 107-year-old Presbyterian who requested to be buried by an independent Catholic clergyman sets a shining example to the rest of Northern Ireland, mourners at her funeral heard.
  
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• Belfast actor Boyle lifts award for role in Harry Potter And The Cursed Child

  20-02-2017 09:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Belfast-born star of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child has scooped another top theatre award.
  
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• Little cancer battler Ethan Thompson (4) takes to ice as families enjoy Giant night of fun

  20-02-2017 08:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A little boy fighting cancer has been joined by his brothers on the ice at a Belfast Giants match - all thanks to Co Down golfing hero Rory McIlroy.
  
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• Carlingford Lough Greenore to Greencastle ferry service begins in summer

  20-02-2017 08:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A new ferry service linking the Republic with Northern Ireland on Carlingford Lough is due to commence this summer.
  
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• Boycott threat by small parties sees UTV do U-turn over debate's time slot

  20-02-2017 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  UTV has been accused of trying to "shaft and sideline" the smaller political parties by proposing to screen their leaders' election debate shortly before midnight.
  
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• Unionist chiefs Nesbitt and Dodds trade insults

  20-02-2017 08:42 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A bitter war of words has broken out between the two main unionist parties over the quality of the leadership they are offering voters.
  
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• United Ireland: Michelle O'Neill telling same old Sinn Fein story, blasts DUP's Frew

  20-02-2017 08:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Michelle O'Neill has been accused of remaining wedded to the republican ideals of the past after expressing hope that Ireland will be reunified during her tenure as Sinn Fein's leader at Stormont.
  
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• Tyrone priest's anger as burglars target home during Mass

  20-02-2017 08:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Co Tyrone priest said he has been left frightened and upset after his home was broken into as he celebrated Mass on Saturday evening.
  
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• Sinn Fein's Conor Murphy lobbied Bell to keep RHI scheme going after DUP man’s stand-up row with Foster

  20-02-2017 08:33 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Conor Murphy urged Jonathan Bell to keep the Renewable Heat Incentive open - even after Mr Bell had an angry showdown with Arlene Foster and was struggling to have the scheme shut down, it has emerged.
  
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• Ryan Phillips killed as two motorbikes crash in lane near Sprucefield

  20-02-2017 08:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 27-year-old man has died following a collision involving two off-road motorcycles at Sprucefield.
  
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• Man killed as two motorbikes crash in lane near Sprucefield

  20-02-2017 08:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man in his 20s has died following a collision involving two off-road motorcycles at Sprucefield.
  
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• Family's agony at death of Conan Anderson as Belfast police begin murder probe

  20-02-2017 08:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The family of an east Belfast murder victim have spoken of their devastation at his death almost two weeks after he sustained catastrophic head injuries.
  
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• Mum and son shot by gunman in attack on home in Northern Ireland

  20-02-2017 08:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A mother and son have been injured in a paramilitary-style shooting in their home in Northern Ireland.
  
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• NHS 'needs medicine'

  20-02-2017 07:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A County Antrim GP who is retiring after 50 years says he believes the health service needs to change.
  
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• Free Derry museum opens

  20-02-2017 07:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The new Museum of Free Derry opens its doors after a multi-million pound refurbishment and extension.
  
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• Potluck for Gerry & Bill Plamondon

  20-02-2017 06:58
  Pasta dinner for Gerry and Bill Plamondon at Belfast Area High School. Gerry Plamondon has an aggressive form of throat cancer.
  
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