Belfast news

• Women Who Rock do so at Crosby

  05-10-2017 22:42
  Necessary Music Productions brings its popular Badass Women Who Rock concerts the Crosby Center, 96 Church St., Saturday evening, Oct. 14. Doors open 5:30 p.m. and the music will run from 6 to 10 p.m. With a lovely sound system and stage, large dance floor, seating for hundreds and location only a block from the center of town, Belfast finally has a great music venue again. NMP is partnering with the Crosby Center to bring Vicky Andres & Life Itself, Sugarbush and Random Ideas to the city.
  
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• Nicola Sturgeon: Scotland and Ireland 'are Brexit allies'

  05-10-2017 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  First minister Nicola Sturgeon says the countries are united on virtually every issue of substance relating to Brexit.
  
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• Northern Ireland v Germany LIVE: Match updates as Germans dominate at Windsor Park

  05-10-2017 19:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland take on Germany as they bid to seal their spot in a play-off and keep alive their outside hopes of topping Group C.
  
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• Northern Ireland 1-3 Germany: Magennis nets late goal to leave GAWA in full voice

  05-10-2017 19:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's play-off place is still uncertain after Germany rubber-stamped their spot at the 2018 World Cup finals with a 3-1 win at Windsor Park.
  
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• Former addict says authorities 'gambling with people's lives'

  05-10-2017 19:30 via bbc.co.uk
  More than 600 people in Belfast are on a waiting list for help for drug and alcohol addiction.
  
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• Rockland hires new patrol officer

  05-10-2017 18:37
  Griffith was born and raised in the Midcoast, graduating from Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport. She attended college in Boston before returning to Maine.
  
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• Royal Mail workers to hold 48-hour strike in row over pensions, pay and jobs

  05-10-2017 17:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Royal Mail workers are to stage a 48-hour strike in a “watershed” dispute over pensions, pay and jobs, prompting the threat of legal action by the postal group.
  
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• UVF behind Cantrell Close threats which forced Catholic families out: Chief Constable George Hamilton

  05-10-2017 16:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Chief Constable George Hamilton said the UVF was behind threats which forced Catholic families from a shared housing scheme in south Belfast.
  
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• RHI overspend 'as low as £60m', court hears

  05-10-2017 16:02 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Projected overspend in Northern Ireland's Renewable Heat Incentive scheme could be as low as £60m, the High Court heard today.
  
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• Belfast on shortlist of destinations in new Eurowings flight route competition

  05-10-2017 15:42 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast has made its way onto a shortlist of 10 cities in a competition to be selected as a new destination for German budget airline Eurowings.
  
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• Kelo the parrot - NI football team's biggest feathered fan

  05-10-2017 15:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Meet Kelo, the Northern Ireland football team's biggest feathered fan.
  
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• If the clothes fit

  05-10-2017 14:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Pupils should not be sent home for breaking school uniform rules, says NI's Commissioner for Children.
  
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• Northern Ireland car sales down by 5% compared to 2016

  05-10-2017 14:09 via bbc.co.uk
  This is the first time in six years that the key September market has fallen.
  
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• Obvious contrasts, similar views in Belfast mayor's race

  05-10-2017 13:58
  Who knows Belfast better - a lifelong resident and five-term mayor, well-known in the city and involved with city and state government for more than three decades, or a relative newcomer, both politically and as a member of the community, who has knocked on more than 2,000 doors around the city this year to ask residents what's important to them? That's one lens through which the current race between incumbent Mayor Walter Ash and challenger Samantha Paradis can be seen. Age is another.
  
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• Leaf it out!

  05-10-2017 13:52 via bbc.co.uk
  About £4m spent on a new train to clear slippery leaves from the railway lines in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Translink spend £4m on train to keep tracks clear of leaves

  05-10-2017 13:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Translink NI Railways has invested £4 million on a new train to keep Northern Ireland's railways clear of leaves.
  
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• Alliance MLA Armstrong was 'branded a baby killer' after miscarriage nightmare

  05-10-2017 13:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Alliance MLA Kellie Armstrong said she was branded a "baby killer" because she had to have an abortion after suffering a miscarriage.
  
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• 5 of Neil Diamond's greatest hits ahead of Belfast gig

  05-10-2017 12:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Legendary singer Neil Diamond will perform his 50th anniversary tour at Belfast's SSE Arena on Sunday.
  
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• Famine Song at Glasgow Orange march - can you help Scottish police identify these men?

  05-10-2017 12:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police Scotland has appealed to the public to help identify a group of men after the anti-Irish 'Famine Song' was sung at an Orange Order march in Glasgow.
  
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• Lord Mayor welcomes Prince William to Belfast

  05-10-2017 12:28 via youtube.com
  
  
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• 'Gesture of goodwill' - UVF flags removed in Belfast estate where Catholics forced to flee

  05-10-2017 12:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  UVF flags in a Belfast shared housing development, in which residents have been threatened, have been removed as a "gesture of goodwill" a community group has said.
  
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• Northern Ireland pharmacist White suspended over tragic mistake that led to death of Ethna Walsh

  05-10-2017 12:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Northern Ireland pharmacist convicted of supplying the wrong drugs to a grandmother who later died has been suspended from practising for seven months.
  
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• Police trying to trace 'male nurse' who stopped at Belfast crash - Belfast Live

  05-10-2017 12:03
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  Police trying to trace 'male nurse' who stopped at Belfast crash
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  East Belfast police are appealing for help to identify a 'male nurse' who stopped to help following a four car crash on Albertsbridge Road on September 21. Officers say the man helped a driver involved in the smash - which happened at the traffic ...
  
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• Shots fired at Northern Ireland home - man escapes shooting

  05-10-2017 11:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man has escaped injury in a gun attack on a Northern Ireland home.
  
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• 'Dodgy sausage' to blame over 'north not British' spat, jokes Labour's Owen Smith

  05-10-2017 11:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The shadow Northern Ireland Secretary Owen Smith jokingly blamed the "north isn't British" spat between Arlene Foster and Michelle O'Neill on a "dodgy sausage".
  
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• Derry care home protest against proposed health cuts

  05-10-2017 10:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Protesters against proposed cuts to a Londonderry care home accuse local politicians of failing the elderly.
  
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• Belfast £12m riverside office block with apartments plan for Gasworks site

  05-10-2017 10:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Northern Ireland property developer is set to build a £12m waterfront office block and cafe in south Belfast, it can be revealed.
  
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• 'EU rats out' Banbridge graffiti linked to attack on Bulgarian family - 'despicable' say police

  05-10-2017 10:08 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Graffiti stating "EU rats out" along with a swastika has been linked to an incident in which a Bulgarian family's car was attacked.
  
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• Recruitment initiative launched for Belfast hotels - Insider Media

  05-10-2017 09:59
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  Recruitment initiative launched for Belfast hotels
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  An initiative designed to help two of Belfast's newest hotels recruit almost 200 staff has launched. Belfast City Council, the Hastings Grand Central Hotel Belfast and the Dalata Hotel Group's Maldron Hotel Belfast City – both of which are due to open ...
  
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• Memo to Michelle O'Neill: we're all 'west Brits' now

  05-10-2017 09:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The legal challenge to the UK Government on the circumstances by which a border poll can be called broadens the front on which the campaign for a unified Ireland is being waged.
  
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• Pink Floyd star Roger Waters announces Dublin concert

  05-10-2017 09:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Pink Floyd star Roger Waters will perform in Dublin next year, it has been announced.
  
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• Mourners at Steven Sunstrum funeral told: 'We will miss your smile'

  05-10-2017 09:12 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral took place yesterday of a teenager who died following a road accident in Belfast last week.
  
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• Northern Ireland man who posed as barrister to defraud woman facing jail term

  05-10-2017 09:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Co Down man who admitted posing as a barrister to defraud a vulnerable woman has been remanded in custody.
  
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• May Rose Gibney's mum says goodbye to her 'little angel'

  05-10-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The devastated mother of a six-month-old baby girl who lost her fight against a rare medical condition has laid her "precious little angel" to rest.
  
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• Family's anguish after thugs use lurchers to maul their pet terrier

  05-10-2017 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A family have been left heartbroken after their pet dog was savaged by two lurchers in a late night attack outside their home in Co Armagh.
  
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• Bangor crash driver put blame on his sat nav

  05-10-2017 08:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A driver who caused a three-car pile-up after he followed his sat nav's directions has been banned for a year and fined £400.
  
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• Belfast Presbytery reaches out after threats to Catholics - Belfast Telegraph

  05-10-2017 08:52
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  Belfast Presbytery reaches out after threats to Catholics
  Belfast Telegraph
  Presbyterians in east Belfast have expressed their concern and support for Catholic residents in a cross-community estate who have been subjected to sectarian threats. Loyalist paramilitaries have been blamed for intimidation at Cantrell Close, off the ...
  
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• A mother's heartache

  05-10-2017 08:49 via bbc.co.uk
  A Belfast woman whose three sons took their own lives contemplates what could have been done to save them.
  
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• Prince William weathers the rain as Belfast gives him a warm welcome

  05-10-2017 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Prince William was greeted by cheering crowds and a sea of Union flags as he swept into Belfast city centre yesterday to officially open the headquarters of mental health charity and social enterprise Inspire.
  
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• Northern Ireland toddler Cameron Tindale might still be alive had brain scan result not been delayed, say family

  05-10-2017 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A letter containing the delayed results of a brain scan carried out on an ill toddler - who was the grandson of an MLA - only arrived on the day he was buried, an inquest heard.
  
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• Lax security could have seen Theresa May knifed, says DUP's Foster

  05-10-2017 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Arlene Foster has raised questions about the security at Theresa May's address to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester and said the Prime Minister "could have been stabbed".
  
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• Doug Beattie's grandson Cameron 'might still be alive' had brain scan result not been delayed

  05-10-2017 08:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A letter containing the delayed results of a brain scan carried out on an ill toddler - who was the grandson of an MLA - only arrived on the day he was buried, an inquest heard.
  
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• Ex-PM Heath would have faced police quiz on seven child sex allegations – report

  05-10-2017 06:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Former Conservative prime minister Sir Edward Heath would be questioned over allegations that he raped and indecently assaulted boys as young as 10 were he alive today, a controversial police report has said.
  
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• Tory conference showed the sort of politics NI badly needs - Belfast Newsletter

  05-10-2017 01:12
  Belfast Newsletter
  Tory conference showed the sort of politics NI badly needs
  Belfast Newsletter
  Prime Minister Theresa May delivers her keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference at the Manchester Central Convention Complex in Manchester. The conference ranged from many fringe meetings to major speeches. Photo: Peter Byrne/PA Wire ...and more »
  
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