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• Man shot multiple times in Derry

  12-09-2018 23:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man was shot multiple times in the legs in Londonderry on Wednesday evening.
  
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• Two charged in connection with £750k drugs haul

  12-09-2018 22:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Two men have been charged with conspiracy to supply Class A controlled drugs and conspiracy to supply Class B controlled drugs.
  
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• Sinn Fein's Michelle O'Neill makes Dublin meeting with help of colleagues

  12-09-2018 20:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein deputy leader Michelle O'Neill has not allowed a broken leg to stop her carrying out her party duties.
  
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• Cancer patients hopeful over drugs boost

  12-09-2018 20:42 via bbc.co.uk
  Cancer patient Lynette McKendry told BBC News NI she was hopeful the move would help those undergoing treatment.
  
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• Video: UK Government must not 'subcontract' role in Northern Ireland warns Foster

  12-09-2018 18:28 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The British Government must not "subcontract" its role in restoring power-sharing in Northern Ireland, DUP leader Arlene Foster has said.
  
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• Entries now open for new look Belfast City Marathon

  12-09-2018 18:18 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Entries have now opened for the 2019 Belfast City Marathon.
  
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• DUP adviser felt ‘expendable’ over RHI scandal

  12-09-2018 18:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A former DUP special adviser who was heavily involved in Northern Ireland’s botched green energy scheme has said he felt “expendable”.
  
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• Brexit: Tory MPs say technology key to avoiding hard Irish border

  12-09-2018 18:05 via bbc.co.uk
  There is no need for physical checks if "established" procedures are used, Brexiteer MPs say,
  
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• RHI: Read evidence from Arlene Foster's former Spad Andrew Crawford

  12-09-2018 17:36 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Evidence given to the RHI inquiry from Dr Andrew Crawford, former special adviser to DUP leader Arlene Foster, has been published online.
  
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• Same-sex couples in Northern Ireland subjected to 'unlawful discrimination', court told

  12-09-2018 16:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Same-sex couples denied the opportunity to marry in Northern Ireland are being subjected to unlawful discrimination, the Court of Appeal was told.
  
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• Trimble: Brexit does not breach the Good Friday Agreement

  12-09-2018 15:19 via bbc.co.uk
  Former UUP leader David Trimble has played down the potential for violence after Brexit.
  
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• No injuries after tanker crashes on M2

  12-09-2018 15:02 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A tanker has overturned on the M2 northbound.
  
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• CervicalCheck cancer test review 'finds huge failings'

  12-09-2018 14:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Ireland's health minister says failure to disclose audit results to patients was a "breach of trust".
  
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• Hooded Men appeal outcome ‘gives legal all-clear for brutal interrogations’

  12-09-2018 14:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man thrown from a British military helicopter during the Troubles has warned that a failure to declare his treatment as torture has given a legal all-clear for brutal interrogation tactics around the world.
  
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• Speed limits outside seven Northern Ireland primary schools to be cut to 20mph

  12-09-2018 14:32 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Speed limits outside seven primary schools in Northern Ireland are to be cut to 20mph, it has been announced.
  
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• Solution for Enniskillen bomb memorial reached

  12-09-2018 13:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A memorial to the victims of the Enniskillen bomb is set to be erected, after an earlier monument was controversially removed.
  
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• Barristan Selmy to join Baratheon at Castle Ward Game of Thrones Winterfell festival

  12-09-2018 13:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Irish actor, Ian McElhinney, known for his role as Ser Barristan Selmy in Game of Thrones, has been confirmed to join Mark Addy at the Winterfell Festival at Castle Ward.
  
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• ‘Boring’ plans for Irish border will solve Brexit problem, says ex-NI Secretary

  12-09-2018 13:36 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Brexiteer proposals to resolve the Irish border issue are “boring” and “nothing new” but offer a commons-sense solution to the problem, according to backers.
  
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• The Irish border: Brexit's 310-mile problem

  12-09-2018 13:08 via bbc.co.uk
  BBC News NI's Jayne McCormack explains what could happen with the Irish border after Brexit.
  
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• Rees-Mogg's Brexit plan for Northern Ireland divides opinion

  12-09-2018 13:08 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein has dismissed as "pure fantasy" a proposal from a group of Conservative hard Brexiteers on the future of the Irish border.
  
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• Baldrick or brilliant? Rees-Mogg's cunning Brexit plan for Northern Ireland divides opinion

  12-09-2018 13:08 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein has dismissed as "pure fantasy" a proposal from a group of Conservative hard Brexiteers on the future of the Irish border.
  
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• Northern Ireland Citizens' Assembly set to meet next month

  12-09-2018 12:19 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland's Citizens' Assembly is set to meet next month for the first time.
  
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• Crumlin Road courthouse hotel plan approved

  12-09-2018 11:20 via bbc.co.uk
  The courthouse is one of Northern Ireland's best-known listed buildings and was built in 1850.
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic alerts: Tanker crashes on M2

  12-09-2018 11:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic alerts: M2 reopens following tanker crash

  12-09-2018 11:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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• Player ratings: Northern Ireland 3 - 0 Israel

  12-09-2018 11:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A dream debut for Gavin Whyte and a superb display by captain fantastic Steven Davis. Northern Ireland ran out a comfortable 3-0 victory over Israel last night at Windsor Park. Steven Beacom rates the team.
  
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• Rees-Mogg's band of Tory hard Brexiteers unveils plan for Northern Ireland

  12-09-2018 10:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Conservative hard Brexiteers have released proposals which they believe could allow the UK to leave the EU’s single market and customs union without the need for a hard border in Ireland.
  
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• Spurs captain Hugo Lloris admits being twice the drink-drive limit

  12-09-2018 10:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Tottenham’s World Cup-winning goalkeeper Hugo Lloris has admitted being more than twice the drink-drive limit when he was stopped in the early hours by police in central London.
  
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• Belfast council approves hotel plan for Crumlin courthouse site

  12-09-2018 10:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Developers have been granted permission to transform Belfast's former Crumlin Road Courthouse into a new hotel.
  
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• Border commitment 'must be honoured' says Sir Keir Starmer

  12-09-2018 08:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Sir Keir Starmer says Ireland can not pay the price for Theresa May's "failed Brexit negotiating strategy".
  
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• More 'smart apartments' projects planned for Belfast city centre

  12-09-2018 08:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The company behind a new seven-storey apartment complex on Belfast's Ormeau Road has said the £18m project is the first of three residential developments that it intends to build in the city centre.
  
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• Tributes for Kenny Andrews who died in Lough Erne jet ski tragedy

  12-09-2018 07:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The family of a Bangor man who died in Lough Erne have thanked the emergency services who found his body.
  
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• Rees-Mogg: I have a Brexit plan for Northern Ireland

  12-09-2018 07:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jacob Rees-Mogg has said his Brexiteer Tory organisation ERG will unveil an alternative plan for Northern Ireland today.
  
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• Dying Northern Ireland boy Orin waited three days for bed at hospital

  12-09-2018 07:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Londonderry boy dying of pancreatitis waited three days for a bed in a Belfast hospital before one became available, an inquest has heard.
  
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• Rat infestation warning near Belfast Primark site

  12-09-2018 07:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast City Council says it has "doubled" its vermin control efforts in the city centre in the wake of the Primark fire, as one expert warned that rotting food left in cordoned-off shops is a "paradise for rats".
  
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• Northern Ireland school lockdown after pupil posts 'gun video' on Facebook, court told

  12-09-2018 07:48 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A pupil who posted a video of himself on Facebook apparently holding a gun and saying he was going to "shoot up" his school caused a police lockdown at the building, a court was told yesterday.
  
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• Businesses behind Primark fire cordon in Belfast will pay no rates

  12-09-2018 07:44 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Traders unable to open their premises in the aftermath of the fire at Primark in Belfast are to have their rates liability reduced to zero.
  
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• Northern Ireland superfan Chris getting huge tattoo of players and boss

  12-09-2018 07:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An award-winning local artist who is in demand all over the world has begun his latest big challenge - immortalising a selection of Northern Ireland players on a client's arm.
  
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• Lafferty's delight after going a full year without gambling

  12-09-2018 07:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Former Armagh All-Ireland winner Oisin McConville has congratulated Northern Ireland striker Kyle Lafferty for reaching the milestone of 365 days since he last placed a bet.
  
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• Bangor cancer campaigner Melanie's tears of joy at treatment U-turn

  12-09-2018 07:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Bangor woman who campaigned for access to life-saving cancer drugs cried tears of joy last night after learning of a Department of Health U-turn that will improve access to promising new treatments.
  
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• Taoiseach apologises to family of Donegal murder victim

  12-09-2018 07:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The taoiseach apologises to the family of Danielle McLaughlin who was murdered in India.
  
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• Man charged with fatal Bray boxing club shooting

  12-09-2018 00:59 via bbc.co.uk
  The shooting happened at Bray Boxing Club in County Wicklow
  
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