Belfast news

• Shots fired at house in New Lodge

  23-11-2019 21:08 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police are at the scene after shots were fired at a house in the New Lodge Place area of Belfast on Saturday evening.
  
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• Media pundit Barbara Whearty charged with attacking pro-life campaigners in Belfast city centre

  23-11-2019 20:56 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A well-known media commentator and cafe owner has been accused of attacking two young women in Belfast city centre.
  
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• My Belfast driver was a geg, says comedy legend Billy Connolly

  23-11-2019 20:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Comedy legend Sir Billy Connolly has paid tribute to the “brilliant” limo driver he used in Belfast by sharing stories about him in his new book.
  
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• Cultra businessman called police-officer 'tarted up bimbo' from Ardoyne in bar

  23-11-2019 20:31 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  This is the shamed Cultra businessman who called an on-duty female police officer a “tarted up bimbo” from a working class district of Belfast when she approached him in a Co Down bar.
  
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• Watch: Hundreds turn out in Belfast for Britain's Got Talent auditions

  23-11-2019 20:13 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Hundreds of people with stars in their eyes turned out for Britain's Got Talent auditions in Belfast on Saturday.
  
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• Judge refuses bid to overturn dissident republican Murphy's alcohol ban

  23-11-2019 19:29 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A prominent dissident republican convicted of harassing his former partner claims the police are harassing him over his bail conditions.
  
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• Police concerned for missing 14-year-old Belfast girl

  23-11-2019 18:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have appealed for help in locating a 14-year-old girl missing from the Ravenhill Road area of Belfast.
  
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• Police warning over arranged fight between young people in Lisburn

  23-11-2019 17:55 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Police have issued a warning to young people after becoming aware of a possible arranged fight in Lisburn city centre.
  
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• Teenager from Dutch asylum centre among Essex lorry dead

  23-11-2019 16:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  One of the teenagers among 39 migrants whose bodies were found in a refrigerated lorry container in Essex had gone missing from an asylum centre in the Netherlands.
  
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• Work of Pat Finucane Centre tainted by director's IRA admission says DUP's Campbell

  23-11-2019 14:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  DUP veteran Gregory Campbell has said that the work of the Pat Finucane Centre (PFC) has been called into question after the group's director admitted he had been a member of the IRA.
  
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• Pat Finucane Centre director admits he was member of the IRA

  23-11-2019 14:37 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The director of human rights advocacy group the Pat Finucane Centre (PFC) has admitted that he was a member of the IRA.
  
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• Man stabbed during south Belfast mugging

  23-11-2019 12:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A man was stabbed during a mugging in south Belfast in the early hours of Saturday morning.
  
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• Masked men rob Portadown takeaway with suspected firearm

  23-11-2019 12:20 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A group of masked men made off with a sum of money after an armed robbery at a fast food takeaway in Portadown in the early hours of Saturday morning.
  
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• Belfast-born florist Shane Connolly on how his mother initially hated him entering the profession which would later see him designing the floral displays for a pair of royal marriages

  23-11-2019 11:23 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast man Shane Connolly's mother lay dying in Marie Curie Hospice as the most important call of his life came through - a meeting with Prince William's staff to discuss the biggest royal wedding in decades.
  
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• Schools on the Frontline: Some staff and pupils during the Troubles still faced the enemy at the gates

  23-11-2019 11:11 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The tears came as a surprise to Johnny Saunderson, the normally hard-bitten TV cameraman, as he revisited the derelict school where his ex-UDR father was murdered 45 years earlier.
  
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• Tributes to Ulster rugby great Willie Gribben after sudden death

  23-11-2019 10:38 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  An influential pioneer of Ulster rugby, Willie Gribben, has died suddenly in Portadown.
  
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• Fine for drunk father who wheeled baby in pram down busy road

  23-11-2019 10:35 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  A father who was so drunk he wheeled his baby son in an incorrectly assembled pram along the middle of a busy road, while cars swerved to avoid them, has walked free from court.
  
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• I paid price of success with my marriage, says NI singer Foy Vance

  23-11-2019 10:30 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Singer Foy Vance has revealed a protracted period of intense touring contributed to the breakdown of his first marriage and said he has changed his attitude to being away from his family.
  
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• Ordinary Love: Lesley Manville talks love scenes with Liam Neeson for new film in which middle-aged Northern Ireland couple's bond is tested by cancer

  23-11-2019 10:27 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  At a time in life when most female actors are competing for dramatic scraps, Lesley Manville is out the door with work. In the last two years the 63-year-old has headed up the hugely popular BBC comic drama Mum, starred in a string of critically acclaimed West End plays, earned an Oscar nomination, and appeared alongside Angelina Jolie in Maleficent 2.
  
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• DUP upbeat on future of York Street Interchange

  23-11-2019 10:16 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  The DUP has said it remains confident that a multi-million-pound road upgrade in Belfast can go ahead despite questions over its future funding.
  
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• Releasing SF deputy results 'nothing to do with media pressure'

  23-11-2019 10:14 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Michelle O'Neill has denied bowing to media pressure after Sinn Fein released the results of an internal contest for the position of its deputy presidency.
  
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• General Election: Aiken blasts DUP's record at Westminster as 'strategic calamity'

  23-11-2019 10:09 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  UUP leader Steve Aiken has launched a stinging attack on the DUP's record at Westminster - describing their three years of influence in the hung parliament as a 'strategic calamity' for the Union.
  
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• Council agrees climate plan to slash emissions in Belfast

  23-11-2019 10:07 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Belfast City Council is taking a lead in the battle against climate change after agreeing to develop an 18-month programme to tackle the environmental crisis.
  
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• 'Terrifying' Northern Ireland waiting times wouldn't be tolerated elsewhere: Steve Aiken

  23-11-2019 10:03 via belfasttelegraph.co.uk
  
  Politicians have described the waiting list crisis in Northern Ireland as "genuinely terrifying".
  
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