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• West Belfast attack involving group of women being investigated by police - Belfast Live

  08-12-2018 22:25
  West Belfast attack involving group of women being investigated by police  Belfast LiveThe police are investigating reports a woman was battered with a hammer as she was set upon by a gang of women. The incident happened in the Summerhill ...
  
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• Mourinho ‘really happy’ as Manchester United impress in Fulham win

  08-12-2018 19:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jose Mourinho joked a lack of bottled water at Old Trafford must mean Manchester United are saving money for the January transfer window, but Saturday’s comfortable win over Fulham suggested his squad might not need such radical surgery as previously thought.
  
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• French police use armoured vans and tear gas in bid to quell Paris protests

  08-12-2018 19:45 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The rumble of armoured police vans and the hiss of tear gas filled central Paris as French riot police fought to contain thousands of yellow-vested protesters.
  
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• Man seriously injured by armed robbers in Belfast - RTE.ie

  08-12-2018 19:32
  Man seriously injured by armed robbers in Belfast  RTE.ieA man has been assaulted with a gun and left with potentially life-changing injuries during a "brutal" burglary in east Belfast. Two armed men forced their way ...
  
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• Sinn Fein leader reaffirms abstentionist policy at Markievicz celebrations

  08-12-2018 18:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Mary Lou McDonald has used a speech at the centenary celebration for the first female MP to reaffirm her party’s stance on abstentionism.
  
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• 'Safety paramount': Road closures remain as west Belfast bomb search continues - Belfast Telegraph

  08-12-2018 18:07
  'Safety paramount': Road closures remain as west Belfast bomb search continues  Belfast TelegraphRoad closures in place in west Belfast around the Old Golf Course Road area will continue until further notice as police search for a suspect device.
  
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• Masked men detain worker while stealing paint equipment

  08-12-2018 17:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A worker in Newtownabbey has had to endure a terrifying ordeal after being detained by two men stealing paint equipment.
  
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• Salah showing wows rival managers Klopp and Howe

  08-12-2018 17:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Jurgen Klopp believes Mohamed Salah proved his genuine world class all over again with his “exceptional” hat-trick in Liverpool’s 4-0 win at Bournemouth.
  
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• Primark reopens in Belfast after fire

  08-12-2018 14:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Shoppers were queuing outside the new store at Commonwealth House for hours on Saturday morning.
  
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• 'It's like Christmas coming early'

  08-12-2018 14:32 via bbc.co.uk
  More than 1,000 people queued outside the new Primark store in Belfast when its doors opened on Saturday.
  
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• Funeral for father-of-nine found murdered in alleyway takes place in Derry

  08-12-2018 14:32 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral of Eddie Meenan, who died after an assault in Londonderry, has taken place in the city.
  
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• New Primark opens in Belfast to replace store destroyed in fire

  08-12-2018 14:05
  A fire in August gutted the historic Bank Buildings which housed the original PrimarkMore than 1,000 people queued to be among the first inside a new Primark in Belfast, after a huge fire destroyed the original flagship store three months ago.Belfast city centre was devastated by the blaze which gutted the 118-year-old Bank Buildings in August. Nearby shops were forced to close, while other businesses struggled due to footfall in the area more than halving. Continue reading...
  
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• Huge queue as new Primark opens in Belfast after fire

  08-12-2018 14:05
  A fire in August gutted the historic Bank Buildings which housed the original flagship storeMore than 1,000 people queued to be among the first inside a new Primark in Belfast, after a huge fire destroyed the original flagship store three months ago.Belfast city centre was devastated by the blaze, which gutted the 118-year-old Bank Buildings in August. Nearby shops were forced to close, while other businesses struggled due to footfall in the area more than halving. Continue reading...
  
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• Unwrap a terrific book from Northern Ireland this Christmas

  08-12-2018 13:36 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Call me easily impressed, but I reckon the almost half-million sales of Anna Burns’s novel Milkman (Faber, £8.99), since it won the Man Booker Prize in October, should give us all pause for thought.
  
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• 'Goalball puts everyone on a level playing field'

  08-12-2018 13:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Goalball "levels the playing field" for visually-impaired young people.
  
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• Pope Francis appoints new bishop for parts of Fermanagh and Tyrone

  08-12-2018 12:59 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Pope Francis has appointed a new Bishop of Clogher, who will have responsibility for parts of Fermanagh and Tyrone.
  
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• Those Christmas songs that hit the wrong note

  08-12-2018 12:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Another timeless classic got a swipe of the PC axe this week as US broadcasters cleared their Christmas schedules of Baby, It's Cold Outside.
  
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• Denise Mullen: The day I watched my daddy die

  08-12-2018 12:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The brutal school gate murder of Jim Donegan in Belfast this week was all the more shocking because it was witnessed by his 13-year-old son, Cris. Here, Leona O'Neill speaks to a woman who saw her father being killed during the Troubles and hears how the pain never goes away.
  
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• Alan McBride: 'I was very fortunate to be married to two incredible women. One was cruelly taken from me, the other I threw away'

  08-12-2018 12:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The co-ordinator of the Wave Trauma Centre in Belfast has been engaged in peace-building for the past 30 years. Alan was working as a butcher on the Shankill Road when his wife, Sharon, and father-in-law Desmond Frizzell were killed in a bomb attack at the family fish shop in 1993. He lives alone in east Belfast, and has one daughter, Zoe, from his marriage to Sharon. He has a first-class honours degree from Ulster University and an MPhil in reconciliation studies from Trinity College Dublin.
  
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• Watch: Shoppers travel from across the province for Primark reopening

  08-12-2018 11:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  More than 1,000 shoppers queued for the opening of a new Primark store in Belfast three months after a major fire destroyed the original flagship store in the city.
  
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• 1,000 join queue as Primark reopens months after Belfast city centre fire

  08-12-2018 11:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  More than 1,000 shoppers queued for the opening of a new Primark store in Belfast three months after a major fire destroyed the original flagship store in the city.
  
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• Primark re-opens in Belfast after fire gutted historic building - The Irish Times

  08-12-2018 11:09
  Primark re-opens in Belfast after fire gutted historic building  The Irish Times'Town hasn't been the same. It has been dead but hopefully it picks up now.'
  
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• Protesters march through Paris amid fears of new violence

  08-12-2018 10:51 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Crowds of yellow-vested protesters have tried to march on the French presidential palace, surrounded by huge numbers of police bracing for outbreaks of violence after the worst rioting in Paris in decades.
  
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• Traffic disruption: Roads close in west Belfast after reports of suspected device

  08-12-2018 10:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A number of roads have closed in west Belfast after a report of a device left in the Old Golf Course Road area.
  
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• Primark reopens in Belfast after fire - BBC News

  08-12-2018 10:33
  Primark reopens in Belfast after fire  BBC NewsMore than 1,000 people queued outside the new Primark store in Belfast when its doors opened on Saturday. Crowd control measures, including crush barriers, ...
  
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• Weekly review: Imported sand and ice-cream legend

  08-12-2018 10:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Artificial beaches in the seaside town of Newcastle and the death of a "one of a kind" businessman.
  
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• Restaurant review: The Barking Dog

  08-12-2018 10:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Restaurant lifespans are measured in months, not years. Along with haulage, fashion and scented candle making, restaurants have the shortest life expectation of any start-up businesses. But those who do survive can look back to see how and why they got through the difficult first year and point to quality of service, food and atmosphere (as well as clever management of tight margins, rates, supplier payments, staff retention and an endless list of other risks and governance issues).
  
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• PM's deal is fatally flawed and has to be renegotiated, insists DUP leader

  08-12-2018 10:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Arlene Foster last night called on the Prime Minister to go back to Brussels and negotiate a better deal.
  
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• Pair to be sentenced for trying to buy guns on dark web in UDA feud plot

  08-12-2018 10:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Two Co Antrim men will be sentenced next week over a plot to buy guns from undercover police on the 'dark web' which was linked to a UDA feud in Carrickfergus.
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic: Disruption in west Belfast as police carry out searches

  08-12-2018 10:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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• Yachtswoman rescued after accident at sea

  08-12-2018 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A British woman sailing solo in a round-the-world race has been rescued after a vicious storm in the Southern Ocean destroyed her mast and knocked her unconscious.
  
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• Victims' campaigner McBride tells of faith and regrets

  08-12-2018 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A victims' campaigner who lost his wife in the Shankill bomb has spoken of his regret at the breakdown of his second marriage.
  
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• The BBC have dropped me over Gillespie tweet, claims Jude Collins

  08-12-2018 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Controversial media commentator Jude Collins says he has been dropped as a regular panellist by BBC Northern Ireland. 
  
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• Sister challenges Sinn Fein 'hypocrites' as murdered politician is remembered

  08-12-2018 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The sister of murdered unionist politician Edgar Graham challenged the hypocrisy of Sinn Fein as she addressed a poignant ceremony to mark the 35th anniversary of his death.
  
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• ‘My Jim was not a drug dealer’ says widow of man shot dead at Belfast school

  08-12-2018 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The widow of a man murdered outside a west Belfast school has strongly denied he was a drug dealer and has said lies are being spread by people who did not know him.
  
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• Kingsmill relatives say McElduff’s bid to return to politics is ‘sickening’

  08-12-2018 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Relatives of those who died at Kingsmill have expressed their anger at the decision by former Sinn Fein MP Barry McElduff to return to politics, branding it "a slap in the face".
  
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• Huge queue as new Primark opens in Belfast after fire - The Guardian

  08-12-2018 09:00
  Huge queue as new Primark opens in Belfast after fire  The GuardianMore than 1,000 people queued to be among the first inside a new Primark in Belfast, after a huge fire destroyed the original flagship store three months ago.
  
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• Funeral for dad found murdered in alleyway

  08-12-2018 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The funeral of Eddie Meenan, who died after an assault in Londonderry, will take place today.
  
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• East Belfast attack leaves man with 'life-changing' injuries - BBC News

  08-12-2018 09:00
  East Belfast attack leaves man with 'life-changing' injuries  BBC NewsA man has potentially life-changing injuries following an aggravated burglary on Friday, police say.
  
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• Belfast's new Primark is open for business

  08-12-2018 09:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  As far as Belfast shoppers are concerned, it just wouldn't be Christmas without a pair of pyjamas from Primark.
  
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• Back in the spotlight

  08-12-2018 08:44 via bbc.co.uk
  There are concerns a phone data ruling may undermine one of Ireland's most controversial murder cases.
  
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• Proposed salmon farm rattles some in Belfast. Another in Bucksport draws few objections. - Bangor Daily News

  08-12-2018 07:00
  Proposed salmon farm rattles some in Belfast. Another in Bucksport draws few objections.  Bangor Daily NewsOn the surface, it is no great surprise that the two communities would react so differently to these similar proposals.. Maine news, sports, politics, election results, ...
  
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• Belfast technology firm i3 Digital turns up the Heat in New England - The Irish News

  08-12-2018 02:14
  Belfast technology firm i3 Digital turns up the Heat in New England  The Irish NewsBELFAST-based i3 Digital has been chosen to supply the technology for a disruptive heating oil delivery company in the US.
  
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• TV traveller Simon Reeve on bringing new live tour to Belfast's Ulster Hall - The Irish News

  08-12-2018 02:12
  TV traveller Simon Reeve on bringing new live tour to Belfast's Ulster Hall  The Irish NewsOVER the past 15 years, Simon Reeve has become a familiar face on our TV screens via his acclaimed BBC documentaries like Meet The Stans (2003), ...
  
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• Crowds expected as Primark store reopens in Belfast city centre - The Irish News

  08-12-2018 02:12
  Crowds expected as Primark store reopens in Belfast city centre  The Irish NewsPRIMARK will reopen its doors in Belfast today to the relief of thousands of city centre shoppers who have been without the fashion chain staple for 101 days.
  
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• Confidence and supply deal will continue, David Lidington says during Belfast visit - The Irish News

  08-12-2018 02:12
  Confidence and supply deal will continue, David Lidington says during Belfast visit  The Irish NewsThe British government's confidence and supply agreement with the DUP continues, Theresa May's effective deputy has said. Cabinet Office Minister David ...
  
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• Co Tyrone student dies suddenly in south Belfast - The Irish News

  08-12-2018 02:12
  Co Tyrone student dies suddenly in south Belfast  The Irish NewsA CO TYRONE student has died suddenly in Belfast. The man was named locally as 19-year-old Christopher McGettigan from Castlederg. Police said officers ...
  
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• Counselling for Belfast pupils at fatal shooting school - BBC News

  08-12-2018 01:43
  Counselling for Belfast pupils at fatal shooting school  BBC NewsJim Donegan was killed while waiting to pick up his 13-year-old son from his Belfast school on Tuesday.
  
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• UK Championship: Mark Allen beats Stephen Maguire 6-1 to reach semi-finals

  08-12-2018 00:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Mark Allen will face England's Stuart Bingham in the UK Championship semi-finals after a 6-1 win over Stephen Maguire
  
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