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Archive | November, 2011

Ulster set to kick-off European campaign

ULSTER rugby head coach Brian McLaughlin has challenged his players to build upon last season’s Heineken Cup success with another season to remember in European rugby’s elite competition

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Knifed teenagers ‘lucky to be alive’

In what appears to be a random attack the pair were stabbed a total of seven times before Pádraig managed to escape and run to his Atlantic Avenue home to raise the alarm.

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£10 million boost to crack open Girdwood potential

A massive £10 million funding award for a health and well being hub at the Girdwood barracks site has been secured by Belfast City Council, the North Belfast News can exclusively reveal.It is understood £9.6 million has been granted by Europe to build a multi use building on part of the Crumlin Road site which has been at the centre of much controversy in recent times.

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Father separated from kids due to death threat

A New Lodge man whose father was shot dead in 2001 says his young family have been forced to flee their home because he is under threat for dealing drugs in the area.

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Permission given for parade in memory of pipe bomber

The Parades Commission has given permission for a loyalist parade in memory of a teenager who blew himself up with a pipe bomb to pass a once notorious sectarian interface.

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McCord ‘no further on’ 14 years after murder

Fourteen years after his son was beaten to death a UVF gang a North Belfast victims’ campaigner says he is no further on in finding out the truth behind the killing.

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