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• Narcos Mexico: Belfast show with agents who inspired hit Netflix series - Belfast Live

  13-02-2019 22:49
  Narcos Mexico: Belfast show with agents who inspired hit Netflix series  Belfast LiveThe agents who inspired the hit Netflix show Narcos: Mexico are coming to Belfast. Fans of the show can enjoy A Conversation With Steve Murphy & Javier Pena ...
  
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• Unionist politicians back church leader's statement challenging paramilitary groups in east Belfast - ITV News

  13-02-2019 22:18
  Unionist politicians back church leader's statement challenging paramilitary groups in east Belfast  ITV NewsUnionist politicians in east Belfast have endorsed a statement from church leaders, calling for loyalist paramilitaries to “civilianise” immediately. The move comes ...
  
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• Mum fighting cancer at Belfast hospital planning bedtime book recordings for her three young kids - Belfast Live

  13-02-2019 21:51
  Mum fighting cancer at Belfast hospital planning bedtime book recordings for her three young kids  Belfast Live"Nobody expected Ashlee to take such a sharp decline six weeks ago. She was still supposed to be on her feet and able to function, but no amount of pain ...
  
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• Wayne Boylan murder: 44-year-old man released on bail

  13-02-2019 21:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Wayne Boylan was shot dead at a property in Warrenpoint, County Down, in January.
  
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• Northern Ireland residents should have vote in Irish presidential elections - Taoiseach

  13-02-2019 21:01 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said he believes Irish citizens living in Northern Ireland - and other countries - should be able to vote for the next Irish president.
  
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• Ulster Rugby Round Up podcast S2E26: Considering Cooney, peering at Petrie and cheering Coetzee with John Dickson

  13-02-2019 19:53 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Ulster Rugby Round Up has provincial and international duty to consider this week and needed a helping hand to do it.
  
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• PM ‘playing chicken’ with Irish interests over Brexit, says Sinn Fein

  13-02-2019 19:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Sinn Fein leader Mary Lou McDonald has accused Prime Minister Theresa May of “playing a game of chicken” with Irish interests over Brexit.
  
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• Police in photo appeal over Belfast house burglary - The Irish News

  13-02-2019 19:18
  Police in photo appeal over Belfast house burglary  The Irish NewsPOLICE have issued a photo of a man wanted in connection with a burglary at a house in north Belfast more than a year ago.
  
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• PSNI ‘failed to disclose significant information about Loyalist mass shooting’

  13-02-2019 19:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police in Northern Ireland failed to disclose “significant information” relating to a notorious Loyalist mass shooting to a police watchdog.
  
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• Ballymurphy Inquest hears there were armed civilians in area

  13-02-2019 18:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Gerald Clarke tells the Ballymurphy Inquest he saw people with a shotgun on more than one occasion.
  
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• Belfast school make incredible This is Me carpool karaoke using Makaton - Belfast Live

  13-02-2019 18:51
  Belfast school make incredible This is Me carpool karaoke using Makaton  Belfast LivePupils and staff at St Gerard's School created the video to the hit song from the movie The Greatest Showman.
  
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• One-month extension for historical abuse consultation

  13-02-2019 18:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Victims and survivors will now have until 10 March to take part in the consultation.
  
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• Britain First leader Golding 'stirred up fear and hatred toward Muslims' in Belfast City Hall speech, court hears

  13-02-2019 18:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A speech in Belfast by the leader of far-right group Britain First was aimed at stirring up fear and hatred towards Muslims in Northern Ireland, a court has heard.
  
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• Muckamore Abbey: MP calls on NI secretary to hold public inquiry

  13-02-2019 18:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Police are currently investigating allegations of abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital.
  
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• Call for Northern Ireland Secretary to open public inquiry into Muckamore Abbey Hospital 'scandal'

  13-02-2019 18:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A DUP MP has called on the Secretary of State to open a public inquiry into the allegations of abuse against patients at Muckamore Abbey Hospital in Co Antrim.
  
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• Teenager found guilty of raping child in Belfast park - Belfast Live

  13-02-2019 17:46
  Teenager found guilty of raping child in Belfast park  Belfast LiveSome readers may find the details of this report distressing.
  
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• Karen Bradley refuses to rule out Northern Ireland direct rule

  13-02-2019 17:15 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has refused to rule out implementing direct rule amid the current political stalemate.
  
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• Deliveroo Belfast most popular dishes revealed after three years in city - Belfast Live

  13-02-2019 16:54
  Deliveroo Belfast most popular dishes revealed after three years in city  Belfast LiveSince its launch in the city three years ago, more than 140 restaurants have signed up to the platform.
  
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• NI house prices increased by 5.5%

  13-02-2019 16:24 via bbc.co.uk
  A total of 23,687 homes were sold in 2018 and all council districts saw price increases.
  
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• Border technology 'could take 10 years'

  13-02-2019 16:17 via bbc.co.uk
  David Henig has given evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on the border after Brexit.
  
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• Lack of Executive could become 'new normal', warns Civil Service boss in Northern Ireland

  13-02-2019 15:46 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The head of the Northern Ireland Civil Service has warned that the lack of an Executive at Stormont is at risk of becoming the "new normal" for citizens.
  
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• Northern Irish director Fingleton cleared of sexually assaulting actress

  13-02-2019 15:42 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Bafta-nominated director has been cleared of sexually assaulting an actress in her west London flat.
  
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• Northern Ireland film director Fingleton cleared of sexually assaulting actress

  13-02-2019 15:42 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A Bafta-nominated director has been cleared of sexually assaulting an actress in her west London flat.
  
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• Exhibition highlights special pension for injured campaign

  13-02-2019 15:38 via bbc.co.uk
  A photographic exhibition that forms part of a campaign for a pension for people injured in the Troubles open in the north west
  
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• Belfast man had Nazi memorabilia and shrine to cop killer, court told - Belfast Telegraph

  13-02-2019 15:37
  Belfast man had Nazi memorabilia and shrine to cop killer, court told  Belfast TelegraphA man accused of threatening to kill a judge and storing an "arsenal" of knives and axes at his east Belfast home must remain in custody, the High Court ruled ...
  
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• Two men charged after women stabbed while walking in Coleraine

  13-02-2019 15:34 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Two men have charged in relation to a stabbing incident in Co Londonderry.
  
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• Brexit: Call for Irish border poll during deadlock 'irresponsible'

  13-02-2019 15:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern says a border poll should not take place for the "foreseeable future".
  
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• Bertie Ahern believes time not right for border poll

  13-02-2019 15:16 via bbc.co.uk
  Former Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Bertie Ahern told British MPs a border poll now "or in the foreseeable future" would be the wrong thing to do.
  
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• Northern Ireland traffic alerts: Plea for patience for slow-moving ambulance

  13-02-2019 14:40 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
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• Pat Ward killing: Man and woman in court over murder

  13-02-2019 14:00 via bbc.co.uk
  A man and woman appear in court charged with the murder of the 30-year-old in Clogher at the weekend.
  
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• Belfast Telegraph Schools' Cup hockey LIVE: Updates as Rainey and Ballyclare battle to join Banbridge Academy in the final

  13-02-2019 14:00 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The semi-finals of the Belfast Telegraph Senior Schools' Cup are being played this afternoon and we're at Lisnagarvey HC to keep you fully up to date. Scroll down for our live blog.
  
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• Northern Ireland baby rape charge case file sent to PPS

  13-02-2019 13:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The file against a Co Down man accused of raping his baby son is with a “senior prosecutor for consideration”, a judge has heard.
  
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• Heavy police presence as Pat Ward murder accused appear in Tyrone court

  13-02-2019 13:02 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man and a woman have appeared in court charged with the murder of a man in Northern Ireland.
  
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• Belfast drivers spend week a year in gridlock - jams cost motorists £140m - Belfast Telegraph

  13-02-2019 12:42
  Belfast drivers spend week a year in gridlock - jams cost motorists £140m  Belfast TelegraphBelfast drivers spent over a week sitting in traffic last year in congestion that cost motorists more than £140m, a report has revealed.
  
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• Northern Ireland house price rise highest in UK - Belfast has 7.7% increase

  13-02-2019 12:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  House prices in Northern Ireland grew at the highest rate of any other region in the UK in the last year, according to the latest figures.
  
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• Irish language street signs for West Belfast get green light - Belfast Live

  13-02-2019 12:34
  Irish language street signs for West Belfast get green light  Belfast LiveCouncillor says more of the signs will be seen in city.
  
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• David Sterling: No ministers could become 'new normal'

  13-02-2019 12:34 via bbc.co.uk
  Northern Ireland's top civil servant said services have seen 'slow decay and stagnation' since 2017.
  
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• First Trust Bank to stop printing notes

  13-02-2019 12:09 via bbc.co.uk
  They say it is "a commercial decision" and existing notes will cease being legal currency in 2022.
  
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• Amir Khan, Terence Crawford, Keith Thurman... Belfast's Paddy Gallagher craves big fights - Belfast Live

  13-02-2019 11:59
  Amir Khan, Terence Crawford, Keith Thurman... Belfast's Paddy Gallagher craves big fights  Belfast LiveThe Belfast welterweight returns to the ring on February 22.
  
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