Belfast news

• Sinn Fein accuses Belfast City Council of 'facilitating an illegal bonfire' after staff and vehicles used to move pallets from Sandy Row site

  14-06-2017 20:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein has said it is concerned that Belfast City Council staff and vehicles were used to transport bonfire materials from a site in the Sandy Row area of the city.
  
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• Labour's Owen Smith appointed as shadow Northern Ireland secretary

  14-06-2017 20:26 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jeremy Corbyn's former leadership rival Owen Smith has returned to the shadow cabinet.
  
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• Leo Varadkar becomes Republic of Ireland's taoiseach

  14-06-2017 19:56 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ireland's youngest taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, begins announcing his cabinet after his election by 57 votes to 50.
  
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• Tim Farron resigns as Liberal Democrats leader: 'Find myself torn between living as a faithful Christian and serving as a political leader'

  14-06-2017 19:32 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Tim Farron has announced he has resigned as leader of the Liberal Democrats.
  
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• History of The Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad

  14-06-2017 19:25
  "The History of the Belfast and Moosehead Lake Railroad- Celebrating 150 Years," will be the topic of the Belfast Historical Society's meeting at 7:00 pm on Monday, June 26, in the Abbott Room at the Belfast Free Library. Joey Kelley, railroad enthusiast and volunteer with the Brooks Preservation Society, which currently runs the rail line, will present its history.
  
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• Wicklow Mountains dismembered woman named

  14-06-2017 19:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Irish police say they believe the woman was murdered in a house in south Dublin before being moved.
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire: At least twelve people confirmed dead after huge fire destroys 24-storey London building

  14-06-2017 18:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  At least twelve people have died in the Grenfell Tower blaze and more are feared dead after a huge fire destroyed the tower block in west London.
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire: At least twelve people confirmed dead after huge blaze destroys 24-storey London building

  14-06-2017 18:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  At least twelve people have died in the Grenfell Tower blaze and more are feared dead after a huge fire destroyed the tower block in west London.
  
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• Police investigate 'potentially dangerous' letter warning individuals to leave Belfast

  14-06-2017 18:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The PSNI is investigating letters distributed in north Belfast warning individuals to leave the area immediately.
  
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• Grenfell Tower fire: Man breaks down in tears on live TV as he describes 'father throwing his children out of window'

  14-06-2017 18:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man broke down in tears on live TV as he described how a father threw his children out of the window in the Grenfell Tower blaze.
  
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• Manufacturing jobs boost with 282 NI posts

  14-06-2017 16:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Invest NI announces a £22m expansion of businesses working in food, pharmaceuticals and transport.
  
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• Paddy Barnes: Accepting MBE was a bad decision

  14-06-2017 16:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast boxer Paddy Barnes has said his decision to accept an MBE has backfired, saying he had hoped it would bring the people of Northern Ireland a little closer together.
  
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• Serial rapist's jail term reduced to six years after Belfast court rules 10-year sentence was 'manifestly excessive'

  14-06-2017 16:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A serial rapist has failed in a bid to overturn his convictions for a catalogue of sex attacks on his younger sister.
  
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• Revealed: Significant numbers of young people in Northern Ireland worry about their mental health

  14-06-2017 16:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Significant numbers of 11-16-year-olds in Northern Ireland are concerned about their mental health, according to a government report.
  
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• Jon Snow corrects claim DUP 'demand' ban lifted on Orange marches

  14-06-2017 15:53 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow has corrected a misleading assertion he made that the DUP was to demand the lifting of a ban on Orange Order marches.
  
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• Woman accused of forcing Hungarian into Northern Ireland sex trade granted bail

  14-06-2017 14:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A woman accused of kidnapping another Hungarian woman and forcing her into the sex trade in Northern Ireland has been granted High Court bail.
  
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• Sinn Fein to hold talks with PM May and Taoiseach Varadkar

  14-06-2017 14:44 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein is set to hold talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and new Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in the coming days to highlight that the proposed government deal with the DUP and the Conservative party will "undermine the Good Friday agreement".
  
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• Prime Minister Theresa May to hold talks with Northern Ireland's parties to allay concerns over DUP deal

  14-06-2017 14:44 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Prime Minister Theresa May is set to hold talks with Northern Ireland's main political parties in a bid to allay concerns about the government deal with the DUP.
  
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• Ex-PSNI man faces trial over pistol, ammo and silencer charges

  14-06-2017 14:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An ex-policeman is to stand trial accused of trying to buy a pistol, ammunition and silencer on the dark net, a judge ordered today.
  
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• US Congressman Steve Scalise shot in gun attack on baseball practice in Virginia

  14-06-2017 14:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Virginia police say multiple people have been injured after a gunman opened fire on Congressional Republicans during early morning practice in the Del Ray neighbourhood of Alexandria.
  
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• London fire: Safety check call for Northern Ireland tower blocks after Grenfell inferno

  14-06-2017 13:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's Housing Executive has been asked to carry out safety checks on tower blocks here following a tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in London which claimed the live of at least six people.
  
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• London fire: Health and safety checks to be carried out at Northern Ireland tower blocks in response to Grenfell inferno

  14-06-2017 13:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's Housing Executive has said it is undertaking health and safety inspections of each of its 32 tower blocks following a tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in London which claimed the lives of at least six people.
  
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• Abortion: NI women not entitled to NHS terminations in England

  14-06-2017 13:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Supreme Court rules women from Northern Ireland are not entitled to free NHS abortions in England.
  
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• Revealed: £30k a month bill to broadcast empty Stormont Assembly

  14-06-2017 13:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  It has been revealed the Northern Ireland taxpayer is forking out over £30,000 a month to watch Assembly proceedings - even though the institutions have been effectively moth-balled.
  
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• Theresa May and DUP deal could be delayed until next week

  14-06-2017 12:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  DUP sources say it would be inappropriate because of the unfolding tragedy of the Grenfell Tower blaze.
  
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• Calls for probe into former Belfast mother and baby homes - 43 infants died of malnutrition in one year

  14-06-2017 12:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Calls are growing for a public inquiry into Northern Ireland's former mother and baby homes after it has emerged that 43 babies died from severe malnutrition at two Belfast homes in a single year.
  
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• London fire: Six killed in Grenfell Tower blaze and number likely to rise, say police

  14-06-2017 12:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Six people have died after a huge fire destroyed a tower block in west London. Police said the figure was likely to rise.
  
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• London fire: Six killed, 74 in hospital, 20 critical after Grenfell Tower blaze and number likely to rise, say police - Theresa May 'deeply saddened'

  14-06-2017 12:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Six people have died and twenty are in a critical condition after a huge fire destroyed a tower block in west London.
  
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• Tory deal announcement with DUP postponed in wake of London fire - reports

  14-06-2017 11:57 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  DUP sources have said the announcement of any deal between the party and the Conservatives for it to work a minority government has been postponed due to the London tower block fire.
  
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• NI jobless figures drop for 14th consecutive month

  14-06-2017 11:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The number of people claiming unemployment benefits in NI drops for a 14th consecutive month.
  
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• Rory McIlroy to play Scottish Open at Dundonald Links

  14-06-2017 11:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rory McIlroy adds the Scottish Open at Dundonald Links to his schedule as he works his way back from injury.
  
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• Northern Ireland woman claimed £63k benefits she wasn't entitled to

  14-06-2017 11:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Northern Ireland woman has been convicted for claiming £63,063 benefits she was not entitled to.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects free NHS abortions for Northern Ireland women in England appeal

  14-06-2017 11:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The UK's highest court has narrowly rejected an appeal by a mother and daughter in their legal battle for women from Northern Ireland to receive free abortions on the NHS in England.
  
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• London inferno miracle as baby ‘dropped from ninth or 10th floor’ caught by member of public

  14-06-2017 10:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A baby was caught by a member of the public after being dropped from Grenfell Tower as it was engulfed with flames, a witness said.
  
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• General election 2017: Investigation into alleged voter fraud

  14-06-2017 10:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  SDLP officials complain of alleged 'stolen votes' in last week's general election.
  
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• Sealing the deal; wise words from Kenny Rogers and storing up bonfire trouble

  14-06-2017 09:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  That hand of history is poised and the city council is accused of storing 1,500 pallets for loyalists building a bonfire.
  
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• Stormont's return key to united Ireland strategy, says Sinn Fein chief Adams

  14-06-2017 09:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Gerry Adams has dismissed speculation that Sinn Fein had lost interest in Stormont as his newly-elected MPs headed to London.
  
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• Sinn Fein to sell Martin McGuinness prints for £529

  14-06-2017 09:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein is set to raise up to €300,000 by selling prints of former Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness.
  
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• Northern Ireland girls as young as 13 seeking abortions in England

  14-06-2017 09:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Children as young as 13 have travelled from Northern Ireland to England to access abortions, it has emerged.
  
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• Banbridge crash claims life of Ian Cameron - second man fights for his life

  14-06-2017 09:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Co Down man has died in a road crash that left another man fighting for his life.
  
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• Managing DUP mavericks could prove to be party's sternest test

  14-06-2017 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say - lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked."
  
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• Loyalist hopes over DUP's deal 'may see rise in parade tensions'

  14-06-2017 08:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  There are fears that this year's marching season could see tensions rising due to the political situation, a security source has told the Belfast Telegraph.
  
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• DUP risks being fall guy in any deal: Lord Trimble

  14-06-2017 08:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The DUP is taking a "significant risk" in entering a possible deal with the Conservative Government, Tory peer Lord Trimble has suggested.
  
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• Ruth Dudley Edwards: Forget scaremongering, let's just all keep calm and carry on

  14-06-2017 08:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  There is, as David Trimble said on the BBC Today programme yesterday morning, a "fair amount of scaremongering" going on about how a deal between the Conservatives and DUP could threaten the peace process and much else.
  
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• London fire: We warned of Grenfell Tower block catastrophe say residents - deaths confirmed and more than 50 in hospital

  14-06-2017 08:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A residents group for Grenfell Tower - the London tower block ravaged in a devastating fire - said its warnings fell on "deaf ears" after it highlighted safety concerns at the Kensington apartments.
  
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• Noon Yoga

  14-06-2017 07:41
  University of Maine Hutchinson Center, 80 Belmont Ave., Belfast. Stretch and strengthen muscles, reduce stress and recharge for the rest of the day.
  
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