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• Challenge Cup: Belfast Giants draw 3-3 with Fife Flyers in first leg

  16-12-2017 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  The Belfast Giants draw 3-3 away to Fife Flyers in the first leg of their Challenge Cup quarter-final in Kircaldy.
  
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• Gritter truck crashed into field while salting roads

  16-12-2017 19:33 via bbc.co.uk
  A gritter truck hit black ice and crashed into a field while salting roads in County Antrim.
  
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• Heartbreaking taxi stories prompt Belfast cabby to help families in need this Christmas - Belfast Live

  16-12-2017 19:16
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  Heartbreaking taxi stories prompt Belfast cabby to help families in need this Christmas
  Belfast Live
  A Belfast cab driver so moved by stories of need from passengers, has taken matters into his own hands to help the needy,. Dad-of-five, John Kelly, is planning a a food and toy drive, saying it's time for him to give back to the community who supported ...
  
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• European Champions Cup: Leinster 22-17 Exeter Chiefs

  16-12-2017 18:36 via bbc.co.uk
  Leinster come from 14 points behind to claim back-to-back wins over Exeter Chiefs in their Champions Cup match at the Aviva Stadium.
  
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• Irish Premiership: Crusaders beat Glenavon in thriller

  16-12-2017 18:25 via bbc.co.uk
  Crusaders win 4-3 away to title rivals Glenavon to stay six points behind Irish Premiership leaders Coleraine.
  
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• Fears pre-Christmas burglary gangs are travelling from county to county - Belfast Live

  16-12-2017 17:22
  Belfast Live
  Fears pre-Christmas burglary gangs are travelling from county to county
  Belfast Live
  Burglar gangs are feared to be targeting towns and residential areas around Northern Ireland in an organised plan that is moving from county to county. The PSNI has reported suspicious activity in Co Armagh and Co Down and are urging the public to keep ...
  
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• Gritter truck overturns into field while salting roads in Antrim

  16-12-2017 17:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A gritter truck in Ballynure overturned on the Church Road on Saturday morning.
  
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• Woman three times drink-drive limit reversed into town's Christmas tree - Belfast Live

  16-12-2017 16:54
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  Woman three times drink-drive limit reversed into town's Christmas tree
  Belfast Live
  A woman more than three times the drink-drive limit reversed a car into a town's official Christmas tree, a court has heard. Mary Delargy, 43, of Harbour View Apartments, North Street, Ballycastle, had gone to the shops in a Peugeot 206 car on November ...and more »
  
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• Tony Blair indicates halting Brexit more important than Labour election win

  16-12-2017 16:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Stopping Brexit is a more important priority than Labour winning the next election, former prime minister Tony Blair suggested as he criticised the party’s strategy under Jeremy Corbyn.
  
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• PDC World Championship: Brendan Dolan loses 3-1 to Robert Thornton in first round

  16-12-2017 14:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Fermanagh man Brendan Dolan loses 3-1 to Robert Thornton in the first round of the PDC World Championship, having beaten Alan Ljubic.
  
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• Two men attacked and robbed at house in west Belfast - BBC News

  16-12-2017 14:23
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  Two men attacked and robbed at house in west Belfast
  BBC News
  Two men have been attacked and robbed during an aggravated burglary at a house in west Belfast. The incident in the Forfar Street area on Friday evening was carried out by two masked men. One of the men was armed with a gun. Police said the assailants ...
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  Masked men steal cash during attack in Belfast homeBelfast Newsletter
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• Two men attacked and robbed at house in west Belfast

  16-12-2017 14:21 via bbc.co.uk
  One of the men who carried out the burglary in the Forfar Street area of Belfast was armed with a gun.
  
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• Men in balaclavas attack two people at West Belfast house - Belfast Live

  16-12-2017 14:07
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  Men in balaclavas attack two people at West Belfast house
  Belfast Live
  Detective Sergeant Ruston said: “Entry was gained to the property shortly before 6:15pm and it is believed two males wearing balaclavas, one of whom was armed with a weapon, attacked two people in the property before stealing cash and a wallet from ...
  
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• Police appeal after aggravated burlgary in Belfast

  16-12-2017 13:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police are appealing after two men broke into a house in Belfast before attacking two people.
  
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• Man appears at Londonderry court on explosives charge

  16-12-2017 13:01 via bbc.co.uk
  A court hears components for a bomb and accelerant were found in a bag at a house in Londonderry.
  
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• Man charged after security alert in Londonderry

  16-12-2017 11:39 via bbc.co.uk
  A man charged with possessing explosives in suspicious circumstances is due to appear at court in Derry.
  
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• Man (39) charged with possession of explosives following Derry security alert

  16-12-2017 11:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man has been charged with possession of explosives in suspicious circumstances after a security alert in Derry.
  
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• European Champions Cup: Kiss targets last eight spot for Ulster

  16-12-2017 11:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Ulster chief Les Kiss feels back-to-back wins over Harlequins have given them hope of reaching the European Champions Cup quarter-finals.
  
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• Ugly Christmas trees and parking fees

  16-12-2017 10:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Rejuvenated Christmas trees and parking fee plans make the front pages of the weekly papers.
  
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• Missing cat's owners tell of joy at support by the public

  16-12-2017 09:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The west Belfast "family" of missing cat Spencer have been inundated with support following their £1,000 search for their beloved pet.
  
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• Rea's wife on how she keeps bike champ's feet on the ground

  16-12-2017 09:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The proud wife of Superbike star Jonathan Rea has revealed how she keeps his feet firmly on the ground - despite his hat-trick of world titles.
  
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• Fury McGurk's families not told Haggarty named killers

  16-12-2017 09:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A solicitor representing families of the McGurk's bar bombing victims has written to the Chief Constable after it emerged that UVF supergrass Gary Haggarty provided information to police on the atrocity.
  
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• Outside probe of Glenanne Gang would cost £60m: PSNI chief

  16-12-2017 09:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Chief Constable has warned that outsourcing an investigation into the UVF's Glenanne Gang would cost £60m and called on politicians to do more to help resolve issues of the past.
  
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• Little Lucas is family's best Christmas gift ever after tragic loss of daughter

  16-12-2017 09:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland musician Rodney Beggs already knows who is going to be number one this Christmas - his beautiful new son Lucas.
  
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• Northern Ireland sporting stars hail work of charities at annual bash

  16-12-2017 09:34 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sporting stars from across Northern Ireland attended a gala festive lunch yesterday in aid of charity.
  
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• Father's anger as teenage driver who killed two avoids jail term

  16-12-2017 09:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The father of a teenager killed in a car crash hit out yesterday after the driver who caused his death was given a suspended sentence.
  
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• Legendary hotelier never forgot humble roots

  16-12-2017 09:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Pioneering businessman Sir William Hastings, who was the cornerstone of Northern Ireland's hospitality industry before, during and after the Troubles, has died - just weeks after scrutinising plans for the new £53m Belfast hotel that will be his legacy.
  
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• Hammond ‘trying to appease Brussels’ over Brexit transitional deal

  16-12-2017 07:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Philip Hammond has been accused of trying to “appease” Brussels by saying a transitional deal after Brexit would mean the UK sticking to EU rules, including on immigration and the role of European judges.
  
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• Bittersweet insights into Van Morrison's Belfast - Irish Times

  16-12-2017 07:01
  Irish Times
  Bittersweet insights into Van Morrison's Belfast
  Irish Times
  The black armband became such an emblem of Belfast's bad times, that it is startling to read, in Gerald Dawe's introduction to his lovely and lively little book about Van Morrison's connections to the city, that when the great soul singer Otis Redding ...
  
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• Home for the Holidays, with Ghost of Paul Revere

  16-12-2017 02:35
  Our Town Belfast invites the community to this year's second Home for the Holidays dance Wednesday, Dec. 27, beginning 8 p.m. at United Farmers Market of Maine, 18 Spring St. There will be fun, food and dancing well into the evening as everyone meets up with visiting friends and family and shakes off the holiday blues with one of Maine's hottest music acts - The Ghost of Paul Revere. Maine's own holler roots band's 2017 tour shows in Gardiner and Portland are already sold out, so the dance is th
  
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• Frosty start for Britain as shoppers and drivers warned over ice

  16-12-2017 01:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Britain woke to another frosty morning on Saturday after temperatures plunged as low as minus 6C (21F) overnight.
  
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