Belfast news

• Pilot killed after plane crashes in Co Waterford field

  27-03-2017 22:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Investigations have been launched after a man died when the light aircraft he was piloting crashed into a field in Co Waterford.
  
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• Winston Rea trial 'delayed over documents stand-off'

  27-03-2017 22:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Lawyers for a veteran loyalist facing prosecution over two murders are refusing to sign an undertaking about handling US documents in the case, a court heard on Monday.
  
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• West Belfast scrambler bike tragedy: Gary Lewis jailed for 18 months for causing death of Valerie Armstrong in Colin Glen Forest Park

  27-03-2017 21:58 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A teenager has been jailed for 18 months for causing the death of a mother-of-three hit by a scrambler motorcycle in west Belfast.
  
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• Woman's body found in Cork apartment

  27-03-2017 19:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A murder investigation is under way following the death of a 39-year-old woman in Cork.
  
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• Dublin link to suitcase body investigated

  27-03-2017 19:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police have ruled out any connection between the woman's remains and a recent missing person.
  
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• Cafe Italia dinner fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County on April 1

  27-03-2017 19:02
  The 6th annual CafA© Italia dinner fundraiser benefitting Habitat for Humanity of Waldo County, will be taking place at the Waldo County Shrine Club on Saturday, April 1, thanks to the generosity of event sponsors Bangor Savings Bank, Belfast Bay Inn, Jam Brook Builders, and Penobscot Bay Dentistry. The event begins at 5:00 p.m. with appetizers being passed to guests as they peruse the raffle baskets filled with treasures and gift certificates from a variety of local businesses.
  
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• Stormont crisis: No appetite for another Northern Ireland assembly election, James Brokenshire says

  27-03-2017 18:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland Secretary of State James Brokenshire has said there is "no appetite for another election" after the deadline to form a new devolved power-sharing executive at Stormont passed.
  
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• Body recovered from River Foyle

  27-03-2017 16:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Foyle Search and Rescue has recovered a body from the River Foyle.
  
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• Seriously squeezed

  27-03-2017 16:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What happens now that Stormont has failed to pass a budget for the new financial year?
  
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• Divided loyalties: The Belfast girl supporting both Northern Ireland and Norway

  27-03-2017 16:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  While households up and down the country were jumping with joy at Northern Ireland's two-goal trouncing of Norway at Windsor on Sunday, one household was a bit more undecided on how to celebrate.
  
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• Naomi Long: Not once have all parties been around the table together - no-one was chairing the talks

  27-03-2017 13:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Alliance party leader Naomi Long has revealed that in the past three weeks of negotiations at Stormont not once did all party leaders sit around a table together and there was "no-one chairing the talks".
  
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• What was in the news when Your Ma was your age?

  27-03-2017 12:49 via bbc.co.uk
  What was in the news when Your Ma was your age?
  
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• Stormont crisis: Monday Assembly sitting suspended after talks breakdown

  27-03-2017 12:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The scheduled Assembly sitting at Stormont to appoint Northern Ireland's First and deputy First Ministers will not go ahead as planned following the collapse of crisis talks on Sunday.
  
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• Northern Ireland political crisis: Secretary of State due to make statement on next step for Stormont

  27-03-2017 12:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A war of words has erupted between the DUP and Sinn Fein over how the political talks broke down.
  
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• Man arrested after woman found dead at house

  27-03-2017 09:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man has been arrested after the discovery of woman's body at a house in Cork.
  
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• Northern Ireland GP practices 'face privatisation'

  27-03-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Dozens of GP surgeries across Northern Ireland could be in danger of being privatised, campaigners in Belfast have warned.
  
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• NI Water reveals new business charges

  27-03-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Water charges for businesses are to go up by an average of 1.65% from April, NI Water has said.
  
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• Belfast Zoo confident of accreditation after work to tackle concerns

  27-03-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The new manager of Belfast Zoo has said past problems that dogged the facility and saw its membership of an international standards body suspended have been addressed.
  
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• Alex Kane: Gerry Adams playing high-risk game that could bring final collapse of Stormont

  27-03-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The official deadline was 4pm today. But yesterday afternoon, Michelle O'Neill issued a blunt statement (an "enormous bloody spanner" was how one talks delegate described it to me): "Today we have come to the end of the road.
  
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• UUP 'yet to decide on future Executive role'

  27-03-2017 08:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The sole contender to be the next leader of the Ulster Unionist Party said no decision has been taken on whether or not it will be part of a new Executive at Stormont.
  
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• How Adams milked the funeral of Martin McGuinness

  27-03-2017 08:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Let's pray that the canonisation of Martin McGuinness promotes good politics in Northern Ireland. Because it has delivered a deadly blow to democratic politics in the Republic of Ireland.
  
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• Watchdog to probe rising £9.5m costs of Gobbins cliff path

  27-03-2017 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Northern Ireland Audit Office says it plans to look at Mid and East Antrim Borough Council's spending on The Gobbins cliff path in "more detail than normal" during this year's annual audit of the local authority's accounts.
  
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• Ruth Dudley Edwards: McGuinness asked how I'd deal with the Northern Ireland situation: 'I'd intern you and Adams,' I said

  27-03-2017 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  I first met Martin McGuinness in 1996. I lived in London and had come late to political journalism, having written my first article in 1994 because I was horrified at the mostly wimpish coverage of the IRA in the Republic.
  
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• Latest phase of Greenway open as £40m project back on track after bonfire row

  27-03-2017 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Scores of people have attended the opening of a new section of the £40m Connswater Greenway in east Belfast, which was caught up in controversy earlier this month after bonfire materials were dumped on it by loyalists.
  
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• Ian Paisley left £650k in his will, including an apartment by the sea

  27-03-2017 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Former First Minister Lord Bannside left an estate worth almost £650,000 to his widow Eileen when he died in 2014, it has been reported.
  
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• Assembly on precipice as Sinn Fein pulls plug on efforts to strike a deal before deadline

  27-03-2017 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The future of the Assembly was plunged into doubt last night after Sinn Fein dramatically pulled out of talks.
  
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• Iran-backed group planned assassinations - Bahrain

  27-03-2017 07:41 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Bahrain is claiming a 14-member group backed by Iran planned assassinations in the island kingdom.
  
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• NI Water increases charges to businesses by average of 1.6%

  27-03-2017 07:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  NI Water is raising its prices for 80,000 business customers, including farmers, from April.
  
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• Trump's son-in-law to head White House business ideas office

  27-03-2017 05:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  US president Donald Trump is to announce a new White House office run by his son-in-law which aims to overhaul government functions using ideas from the business sector.
  
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• BT fined record £42 million over 'serious breach' of Ofcom rules

  27-03-2017 04:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  BT has been hit with a record £42 million fine by the telecoms watchdog and is facing compensation costs to rivals of £300 million over delayed high-speed cable installations.
  
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• Theresa May and Nicola Sturgeon at odds over second Scottish independence poll

  27-03-2017 01:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Nicola Sturgeon and Theresa May have clashed over the prospect of a second Scottish independence referendum following talks about the Brexit timetable.
  
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• Davis praises NI 'game management'

  27-03-2017 00:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland captain Steven Davis praises the team's "game management" as two first-half goals set up a crucial 2-0 World Cup qualifier win over Norway at Windsor Park.
  
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