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• Disabled woman could lose independence after hit and run smash - Belfast Live

  12-08-2017 22:39
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  Disabled woman could lose independence after hit and run smash
  Belfast Live
  The parents of a disabled woman fear she could lose her independence after her specially adapted van was damaged in a hit and run incident. Leah Batchelor was driving along the Knock dual carriageway in East Belfast when another car crashed into the ...
  
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• Ulster Grand Prix: Hickman earns treble as Anstey & Harrison take Superbike wins

  12-08-2017 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Peter Hickman clinches a superb Ulster Grand Prix treble as Bruce Anstey and Dean Harrison earn dramatic Superbike wins.
  
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• M2 reopens after crash

  12-08-2017 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  The road was closed between Sandyknowes and Greencastle.
  
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• Uncle Henry's is a Maine institution that keeps reinventing itself

  12-08-2017 18:57
  Almost 20 years ago, Nathaniel Bernier had an unusual dilemma, and he solved it the way many Mainers do: by reaching out to Uncle Henry's Weekly Swap or Sell It Guide. At that time, the midcoast man had an uncommon pet: a 5-foot-long iguana named Pablo.
  
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• Irish Premiership: Champions Linfield off to winning start

  12-08-2017 17:53 via bbc.co.uk
  Linfield kick off the defence of their Irish Premiership title with a 2-0 win over Carrick Rangers while Cliftonville beat Ards 6-3.
  
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• Derry hosts Apprentice Boys parade

  12-08-2017 17:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The parade marks the anniversary of the ending of the 105-day siege of the city in August 1689.
  
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• Trevor Deely: Fresh searches for man missing for 17 years

  12-08-2017 16:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Trevor Deely, 22, was last seen walking home from a Christmas party in December 2000.
  
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• Apprentice Boys of Derry: Thousands descend for march to mark siege of city

  12-08-2017 14:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The largest loyal order parade held in Northern Ireland has taken place in Londonderry.
  
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• Irish League Live: Gormley nets a double on return as Cliftonville and Linfield cruise to victory

  12-08-2017 14:43 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Joe Gormley announced his return to the Irish League with a double as Cliftonville won an action-packed game against Ards 6-3 at Solitude.
  
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• Riders critical after Dundrod death

  12-08-2017 14:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Riders Stephen Lynd and Gavin Lupton remain in a critical condition after Dundrod 150 crashes, following the death of Jamie Hodson on Thursday.
  
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• Funeral of Regency Hotel shooting suspect Kevin Murray takes place in Co Tyrone

  12-08-2017 14:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral has taken place of a Co Tyrone man who was a suspect in a gun murder at a boxing weigh-in during a bloody gangland feud.
  
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• Hickman hat-trick as Anstey and Harrison share Superbike titles at Ulster GP

  12-08-2017 14:08 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Dean Harrison clinched victory in the closing Superbike race as Peter Hickman grabbed a hat-trick at the Ulster Grand Prix.
  
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• Man freed in Putney Bridge jogger probe

  12-08-2017 13:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man arrested by police hunting a jogger who knocked a woman into the path of a bus has been released with no further action.
  
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• Same-sex marriage an inevitability, but Christian blessing a long way off

  12-08-2017 11:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  On his first visit to Northern Ireland the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar was telling us something that even the dogs in the street know, namely that it is only a matter of time before same-sex marriage here becomes a reality.
  
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• Softening the border: An artist's approach

  12-08-2017 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Women's groups have been working to 'Soften the Border' with woolly jumpers and knitted dolls.
  
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• Softening the border

  12-08-2017 10:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Women's groups have been working to 'Soften the Border' with woolly jumpers and knitted dolls.
  
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• Walk for Nephrotic Syndrome

  12-08-2017 10:00
  Two-hour walk, in conjunction with NephCure Kidney International, begins and ends at Steamboat Landing, Belfast. Register onsite at 1 p.m.; walk at 2 p.m. Music afterward with DJ Jason Moody; live music by Sam Ladd from 6 to 8 p.m. Bounce house and face painting by Kids Unplugged.
  
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• Victims slam Belfast terror tour for 'profiting from misery and death'

  12-08-2017 10:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A "political tour" of Belfast hosted by former republican and loyalist prisoners has been angrily condemned.
  
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• Never mind Route 66 ... take a road trip to the north coast instead

  12-08-2017 10:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  You can now get your kicks ... on the Causeway Coast.
  
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• Harrowing story of how one young victim prepared for his 'punishment' by getting tea towels to mop up the blood from his wounds

  12-08-2017 10:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Let's call him Jacko. He told me he remembered when he was four being sent to the shops by his drunken mother and seeing a pile of old wood including a piece with a large nail sticking through it - he jumped on it "… to see what it would feel like".
  
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• Restrictions placed on one of Northern Ireland's most controversial parades

  12-08-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Marchers in one of Northern Ireland's most controversial parades have had restrictions placed on them after protests against the event.
  
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• Northern Ireland mum fighting MS: Russian medics are now my last hope

  12-08-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A young Co Down mum is bravely undergoing a gruelling stem cell transplant in Russia in what she believes is her last hope of enjoying some quality of life.
  
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• Jessica's joy as balloon tribute to her grandad becomes internet sensation

  12-08-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A pink balloon sent up to her grandad in heaven by a little girl in north Belfast came to earth more than 100 miles away, south of the border in Carlow.
  
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• Bessbrook crash: Community in mourning as young boy dies from injuries after road accident

  12-08-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A village was in shock last night at news that a child had died after being hit by a car.
  
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• Frederick's 'Night Stories' at CMCA

  12-08-2017 05:42
  The Center for Maine Contemporary Art, 21 Winter St., will present the groundbreaking exhibition, "Linden Frederick: Night Stories," Saturday, Aug. 19, through Nov. 5. The much-anticipated exhibition pairs 15 newly created paintings by Belfast's noted realist painter with 15 new works of fiction by some of America's most acclaimed writers. The exhibition, and the accompanying book, "Night Stories: Fifteen Paintings and the Stories They Inspired," have been eight years in the making.
  
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• Rise and Run at Hutchinson Center

  12-08-2017 01:18
  Calvary Chapel Belfast will present Christian rock band Rise and Run in concert Thursday, Aug. 24, at 6 p.m. at the University of Maine's Hutchinson Center, 80 Belmont Ave./Route 3. The Bangor-based band recently released its first full-length album of seven original songs, recorded at Halo Studios in Windham, with the help of a Kickstarter campaign. Courier Publications' A&E Editor Dagney C. Ernest can be reached at 594-4401, ext.
  
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