LOCAL representatives have welcomed the announcement by the PSNI that a dedicated car crime operation targeting the lower Falls has been re-established. Operation Galleas will involve a range of officers from the Auto Crime Team, Neighbourhood Policing Teams, response officers, detectives and officers from the Reducing Offending in Partnership Unit. Last week the Andersonstown News […]
Archive | December, 2014
Mum of six viciously beaten by 8-man gang
A New Lodge mother of six has insisted she will not be forced from her home after a gang of eight men brutally assaulted her and her father in a weekend attack. Catriona Arbuckle suffered a hairline fracture to her cheek, multiple facial injuries and lost eight teeth when she was attacked outside her Meadow […]
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Columbanus and Patrick
St Columbanus (he lived from about 550 until 615 a.d.) should never have got on the wrong side of Queen Brunhild. But he was impatient and that did nobody any favours. When Queen Brunhild came asking for two nephews to be baptised and he refused, because, he said, their daddy would not get married in […]
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Poleglass summer riot chaos: 6 arrested
Police in West Belfast arrested six people at the weekend as part of a special operation against those involved in mass disorder in Poleglass over the summer – and warned more will follow. The arrests were in relation to disorder in the Poleglass area on Friday, August 8 when young people erected burning barricades and […]
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‘Boston tapes’ read to Storey
Extracts from the controversial Boston College tapes formed the basis of the interrogation of the leading Belfast republican Bobby Storey after his arrest last Thursday. The Sinn Féin six county chair was questioned for several hours in Antrim Serious Crime Suite about an IRA investigation into the whereabouts of Divis mother-of-ten Jean McConville, who was […]
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West Belfast is on the road to nowhere now
WEST Belfast has traffic, Squinter’s pretty sure it does. The Glen Road is a nightmare much of the time – you try driving from the Andytown News office to the Falls bus depot during the morning school run, or the other way at teatime on a Christmas shopping evening, and you can make your own […]
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