Belfast news

• Civil emergency workers needed to help cope with Brexit ‘disruption’

  09-10-2018 20:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A team of civil emergency workers earning up to £50,000 each is being recruited to help the country cope with Brexit.
  
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• Brexit mitigation measures announced in Irish budget

  09-10-2018 20:10 via bbc.co.uk
  More than €320m has been set aside by the Republic of Ireland's government to get "Brexit ready".
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic: Comber Road cleared after collision

  09-10-2018 20:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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• Raab rules out indefinite customs union as part of Brexit offer on Irish border

  09-10-2018 18:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Dominic Raab “categorically” ruled out an indefinite customs union to resolve Irish border difficulties in the Brexit talks, amid Tory warnings over the Government’s “gung-ho” approach to no deal.
  
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• Border checks could even include lasagne after Brexit , DUP claims

  09-10-2018 18:22 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Democratic Unionist MEP Diane Dodds has said her party will not accept any additional checks within the UK after Brexit – even over lasagne.
  
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• Man jailed after threatening to kill cabin crew member and punching autistic child's seat on Belfast-bound flight

  09-10-2018 17:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man who threatened to kill a member of cabin crew and “repeatedly punched the seat” of a screaming autistic child on board a Belfast bound flight was jailed for five months.
  
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• Pensioners forced to wait for modest boost to welfare payments

  09-10-2018 17:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A 96-year-old widow has accused the Government of forcing pensioners to wait until after the winter months before they see the small boost to their pension.
  
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• Three men from London in 'world of pain' after being accused of raiding Belfast Apple Store

  09-10-2018 16:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Three men from London allegedly stole thousands of pounds worth of equipment during raids on an Apple Store in Belfast, the High Court was told.
  
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• Unionists not representing majority view on Brexit, Sinn Fein claims

  09-10-2018 16:42 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has been lambasted as “not representing” the majority view in Northern Ireland on Brexit.
  
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• Widow of Belfast man shot dead by British soldier launches bid for secret security documents

  09-10-2018 15:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The widow of a man shot dead by a British soldier in Belfast 47 years ago has commenced a High Court bid to gain access to documents stored in a secret security archive.
  
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• Female driver who injured elderly woman in Derry hit and run urged to come forward

  09-10-2018 14:58 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police in Londonderry have issued an appeal to a female driver who injured an elderly pensioner in a hit and run to come forward.
  
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• £145,000 benefit fraud Belfast mum avoids jail - will take 100 years to repay money

  09-10-2018 13:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Belfast mother-of-five who committed one of the biggest benefit frauds in Northern Ireland was spared jailed today.
  
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• Poll: 80% of Belfast Telegraph online readers reject sacrificing Northern Ireland peace process for Brexit

  09-10-2018 13:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A poll of Belfast Telegraph online readers has found that 80% of people do not see collapsing the peace process as a price worth paying for Brexit.
  
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• Q&A: Joe Rooney on upstaging Dermot Morgan and his favourite thing about Belfast

  09-10-2018 12:17 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Joe Rooney: Best-known for his acting role as Father Damo in Father Ted, and his quiff which is the best in the business.
  
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• Arlene Foster: Brexit deal must meet DUP’s red line

  09-10-2018 12:10 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Democratic Unionist leader Arlene Foster has insisted any deal agreed as the UK prepares to leave the EU must meet her party’s red line.
  
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• Lucy Grainger : ‘I have tried to kill myself lots of times but now I’m finally happy and want to live a full life’

  09-10-2018 11:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Lucy Grainger (21), from Newcastle, won the Northern Ireland HSBC UK Breakthrough award at The Prince's Trust Awards.
  
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• Judgment reserved in 'Good Samaritan' bomb appeal

  09-10-2018 10:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Eugene Dalton, Sheila Lewis and Gerard Curran were killed in 1988 after going to look for a neighbour who had been kidnapped by the IRA
  
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• Brexit deal that works for everyone 'eminently possible', claims DUP's Arlene Foster

  09-10-2018 10:25 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  DUP leader Arlene Foster has said that she believes a Brexit deal that works for everyone is "eminently possible" if the political will exists to make it happen.
  
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• Hard core of Tory rebels ready to defy PM over Chequers, says leading Brexiteer

  09-10-2018 09:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  As many as 40 hardcore Tory Brexiteers will resist attempts to coerce them into supporting a Brexit deal with Brussels based on Theresa May’s Chequer’s planl, a former minister has warned.
  
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• Jemma McGrath: ‘I was shot nine times but now I have turned my life around and have my own business’

  09-10-2018 08:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jemma McGrath, who now lives in north Belfast, won the Northern Ireland Ulster Bank Enterprise Award.
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic: Latest updates - delays and diversions

  09-10-2018 08:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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• McDonald's opening 30th outlet in Northern Ireland - creating 100 new jobs

  09-10-2018 08:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A new McDonald's restaurant will open in Northern Ireland next month creating 100 jobs.
  
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• £3k for Northern Ireland man told he was too old for driving job

  09-10-2018 08:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man told he was too old to apply for a job as a store person and van driver has been awarded £3,000 by an industrial tribunal.
  
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• US woman raped in Belfast forest slams idea of victim-attacker meetings

  09-10-2018 08:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A US woman who was raped by a teenager while hiking in a Belfast forest has voiced fears that sexual abuse victims could be retraumatised if brought face to face with their attackers.
  
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• Huge turnout as Distillery legend Bertie McMinn laid to rest

  09-10-2018 08:04 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Close to 1,000 mourners attended the funeral on Belfast's Shankill Road yesterday of Irish League football legend Bertie McMinn in a turnout reflecting his standing in the game and the local community.
  
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• Rebecca Humphries dumps Seann Walsh after his tryst with Strictly dance partner

  09-10-2018 07:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Seann Walsh's girlfriend Rebecca Humphries has broken her silence after he admitted to kissing his Strictly partner Katya Jones, insisting: "I am not a victim."
  
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• Murdered Belfast man Stephen Carson shot in head in his bathroom, court told

  09-10-2018 07:50 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man murdered in a house in south Belfast suffered a fatal shotgun wound to his head while crouched behind a door, a murder trial has heard.
  
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• Sinn Fein bid to halt Raymond McCreesh park sale a ‘slap in face to families of the dead’

  09-10-2018 07:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The brother of a Kingsmill victim has criticised Sinn Fein's bid to stop a council selling off a play park controversially named after a man linked to the massacre.
  
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• Revealed: Primark plans for painstaking work to restore Belfast Bank Buildings after blaze

  09-10-2018 07:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Plans for the redevelopment of the fire-damaged Primark building in Belfast's city centre must be pushed through as quickly as possible, a councillor has said.
  
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• Northern Ireland temperatures to soar but Hurricane Michael is on way

  09-10-2018 07:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Northern Ireland is set to bask in summer sunshine as a surge of warm air sends the mercury soaring across the UK - but autumnal weather will return by the weekend.
  
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• Finance officials ‘should have challenged RHI claims’

  09-10-2018 07:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A senior official in Stormont's finance department will face further questioning today about the role of her staff in the flawed Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme.
  
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• Belfast police may open new inquiry in death of shaken baby Caragh Walsh

  09-10-2018 07:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The PSNI may carry out a second investigation after a coroner found that a 14 week-old baby from west Belfast died from a brain injury caused by violent shaking.
  
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• NI economy upturn may be temporary

  09-10-2018 07:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The pace of economic growth in NI picked up in the second quarter of 2018 according to Danske Bank.
  
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• Pictured: Inside Jamie Dornan’s Los Angeles mansion sold for £2.3m

  09-10-2018 03:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jamie Dornan has sold his sprawling Los Angeles home for around £2.3m amid reports he is now primarily based in Europe.
  
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• NI League Cup third round: Holders Swifts hoping for Warrenpoint revenge

  09-10-2018 00:35 via bbc.co.uk
  NI League Cup holders Dungannon Swifts must exact revenge for Saturday's league defeat by Warrenpoint Town if they are to reach the last eight of this year's competition.
  
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