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• Belfast hotel 'not closing for business' - Facebook post sparks speculation

  11-04-2018 22:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A well-known Belfast hotel has moved to reassure customers it is not closing for business.
  
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• International watchdog to release findings on Salisbury nerve agent attack

  11-04-2018 21:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The international chemical weapons watchdog has handed its report on the Salisbury nerve agent attack to the UK Government after completing its investigation, the Foreign Office has disclosed.
  
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• Londonderry £27m transport hub approved

  11-04-2018 20:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Plans to redevelop a former Victorian railway station in the city have been given the go-ahead.
  
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• Watch: Four arrested after van stolen and police attacked

  11-04-2018 20:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have arrested four men after a van was stolen from a supermarket in the Co Antrim village of Crumlin.
  
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• Dublin lord mayor beats Israel ban due to 'spelling error'

  11-04-2018 19:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Authorities are reported to have allowed Mícheál Mac Donncha to enter the country despite a ban.
  
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• Alliance Party defends leader Naomi Long's rugby rape trial tweet

  11-04-2018 18:42 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Alliance party has defended a tweet by leader Naomi Long which threatened to collapse the rape trial of the two Ireland and Ulster rugby players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding.
  
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• Formula One: The drive to make a dream come true

  11-04-2018 18:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Meet the NI woman who had the drive to crack a career in F1.
  
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• The Overtones singer Timmy Matley dies aged 36

  11-04-2018 18:06 via bbc.co.uk
  The singer has died aged 36, after developing malignant skin cancer.
  
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• Arlene Foster sought to delay closure of flawed RHI scheme

  11-04-2018 18:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Arlene Foster has confirmed she sought to keep a flawed green energy scheme in Northern Ireland open for several weeks.
  
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• Richard Miskelly murder: Bangor man Magee sentenced to 10 years in prison

  11-04-2018 17:08 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Bangor man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he admitted beating a 24-year-old to death outside a house in Newtownards.
  
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• 'Normal People' Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville to shoot film in Belfast this summer

  11-04-2018 17:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Ballymena actor Liam Neeson is set to begin production on a new film in Belfast later this year.
  
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• PM on Syria: Use of chemical weapons cannot go unchallenged

  11-04-2018 17:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Theresa May has said “all the indications” are that the Syrian regime was behind a chemical attack on its own people as the United States prepares to launch air strikes.
  
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• US Peacebuilders honoured with Freedom of the City of Belfast

  11-04-2018 17:00 via youtube.com
  
  
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• Appearance of Ireland captain Rory Best at rugby rape trial sparked social media frenzy

  11-04-2018 16:54 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A social media frenzy sparked by the attendance of Rory Best threatened to undermine the rape trial just days after it began.
  
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• Rugby rape trial reporting restrictions lifted - 'This is the end' says judge

  11-04-2018 16:43 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Reporting restrictions that were imposed by a Crown Court judge presiding over the trial of two Ireland and Ulster rugby players accused of rape were lifted on Wednesday.
  
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• Reporting restrictions on Belfast rape trial lifted

  11-04-2018 16:43 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jurors at the rape trial of two Ireland rugby internationals were not told about a pornographic video exchange hours after the alleged attack.
  
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• Family home of missing woman Lisa Dorrian destroyed in fire

  11-04-2018 16:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The family home of missing murder victim Lisa Dorrian has been gutted in a fire which has caused extensive structural damage.
  
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• Tories apologise for turning post blue with ‘unacceptable’ sweary letter

  11-04-2018 16:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Conservative party has apologised for sending a campaign letter addressed to “Mr Youmustbe F******joking” to an elderly couple.
  
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• Police officers and soldiers connected to loyalist killings, court told

  11-04-2018 15:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Off-duty police officers and soldiers were allegedly involved in an "extraordinary pattern" of loyalist killings in Northern Ireland, the Court of Appeal heard on Wednesday.
  
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• Former Foster adviser ‘thought RHI minutes had been kept’

  11-04-2018 15:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A former special adviser to DUP leader Arlene Foster has said he thought minutes had been taken of a key Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) meeting in Northern Ireland.
  
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• SDLP MLA takes aim at Sinn Fein over Mallon criticism - 'He never put anyone in their grave'

  11-04-2018 14:24 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  SDLP MLA Claire Hanna has taken aim at Sinn Fein after former Deputy First Minister Seamus Mallon was criticised on Twitter.
  
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• Lions legend Willie John McBride calls for return of Jackson and Olding

  11-04-2018 13:49 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  British and Irish Lions legend Willie John McBride has said that Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding should be allowed to return to playing for Ulster and Ireland following the conclusion of their trial.
  
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• Photos: Appeal after UDA-linked shooting in north Belfast

  11-04-2018 12:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have appealed for information after a shooting in north Belfast believed to be linked to the UDA.
  
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• Young Northern Ireland drivers may be allowed only one passenger at night and have to show R plates for 2 years

  11-04-2018 12:21 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Drivers in Northern Ireland under the age of 25 could be limited to one passenger at night under new proposals from the Department of Infrastructure.
  
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• Price of Ulster Fry jumps for second year running

  11-04-2018 12:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The price of our beloved Ulster Fry has been sizzling over the last 12 months as food costs rise for the second year.
  
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• Former speaker confident assembly can be restored

  11-04-2018 11:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The former speaker of the Stormont Assembly says the issues are not insurmountable and the assembly will be restored
  
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• 2,400 lives saved in Northern Ireland by ending of the Troubles

  11-04-2018 11:41 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An estimated 2,400 lives have been saved in Northern Ireland since 1998 after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.
  
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• Real-life story of Belfast girl many believed could communicate with spirits

  11-04-2018 11:06 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  In the early 1990s, in a humble terrace house in Artana Street in the Holy Land area of South Belfast, a series of unusual - to say the least - experiments were carried out by renowned engineer Dr WJ Crawford to prove claims by a local family that they were in contact with the spirit world.
  
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• Peter Robinson rejects Wells claims he was betrayed by DUP on health minister job

  11-04-2018 10:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Former First Minister Peter Robinson has rejected claims from DUP MLA Jim Wells that he was promised he could return to his job as Health Minister after resigning.
  
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• Man who pooed on police station counter caught in Northern Ireland wearing stolen hat

  11-04-2018 09:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A young man broke into a police station, defecated on the counter and then stole a number of items including officers' hats, vests and radios.
  
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• Unionist majority will not be around for very much longer - Mike Nesbitt clarifies comments reported in Australia

  11-04-2018 08:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Mike Nesbitt has spoken out to clarify a number of remarks he was said to have made which were reported in an Australian newspaper - including that unionists "would not be worse off in a United Ireland" compared to a post-Brexit UK.
  
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• Tyrone mum Anne McCann crushed by her car in driveway community plunged into mourning

  11-04-2018 08:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Co Tyrone community has been left in shock after a mother-of-three was crushed to death by a car.
  
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• Arlene Foster's ex-Spad admits email to relatives on RHI improper

  11-04-2018 08:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A former special adviser to the DUP has said it was "inappropriate" for him to have emailed relatives with details of changes to cost controls in the Renewable Heat Incentive - months before they were announced.
  
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• Sinn Fein chief McDonald wants new Ireland 'unionists can live in'

  11-04-2018 08:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Mary Lou McDonald has said that she wants to build a united Ireland that DUP leader Arlene Foster could live in.
  
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• Hold your babies close, says dad of little Carson Carter killed in holiday hit-and-run

  11-04-2018 08:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The father of a nine-year-old boy who was killed in a hit-and-run in Tenerife urged parents everywhere to hold their children tight as he bid farewell to his "wee buddy" yesterday.
  
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• UDA blamed after person is shot at in north Belfast

  11-04-2018 08:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sources in Belfast last night claimed the UDA was behind a gun attack in the north of the city.
  
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• Sunday rule to see Northern Ireland hockey club miss out on promotion

  11-04-2018 08:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A champion hockey team from Co Down have passed up the chance for promotion - partly because the club won't play on a Sunday.
  
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• Linwoods to cut 90 jobs in latest blow to the Northern Ireland economy

  11-04-2018 08:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Food company Linwoods is making 90 of its 250 staff redundant as it faces falling demand for white bread and other changing tastes.
  
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• Ulster Rugby fans fund press ad calling on club to reinstate rape trial players Jackson and Olding

  11-04-2018 08:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An advertisement paid for by fans of Ulster Rugby has been placed in today's Belfast Telegraph, calling on the club to reinstate players Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding to the squad.
  
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• Quarter of Northern Ireland people still traumatised by Troubles, says report

  11-04-2018 08:05 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  One in four people is still badly affected by the impact of the Troubles, 20 years after the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, new research indicates.
  
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• Smiles, yes, but Good Friday Agreement reunion lacked euphoria of 1998

  11-04-2018 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Their hair may have been a little greyer; their walking slower and their voices somewhat weaker, but most of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement were still looking healthier than their stalled 20-year-old peace deal at a remarkable anniversary reunion in Belfast yesterday.
  
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• Poll: Was the Good Friday Agreement a success or failure?

  11-04-2018 07:54 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  We asked our online readers to reveal if they would vote differently now. Here are some of your responses.
  
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• Man on mission leads cops on high-speed chase

  11-04-2018 04:30
  Police received a call at about 10:30 p.m. from a downtown Belfast pub that a man had ordered a beer, picked it up, walked to his car and driven away over the protests of a bartender who followed him outside, Belfast Police Chief Mike McFadden said. The man, later revealed to be Luke Morzenti of Gile, Wis., was reportedly driving a small vehicle with a canoe on the roof, which McFadden said made him easier to find.
  
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