On the basis that it’s better to light a candle than curse the darkness, the Belfast Media Group, across all its newspapers and websites this week launches a citywide Buy Local Campaign.
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Better to light a candle than curse the darkness
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Inability to make investment case sees city still lagging behind
News of a reprieve for the Continental service linking Belfast and the US is good news for all the people of this city, not just those who take that transatlantic flight. The news that Twitter has chosen Dublin this week for its European base — the 11th major digital company to locate major operations there — shows that Belfast is still behind the curve when it comes to attracting inward investment.
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What does he have to do?
MICHAEL Quinn may only be 22 years old, but already his name is enough to strike fear into the hearts of the community in which he grew up. And if his name strikes fear into the hearts of people who have mostly never crossed his path, how much more terrified must his past victims be? […]
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We can’t afford job losses
WORRYING words this week as the Health Service union Unison upgrade – downgrade? – their estimate of how many jobs will go in the sweeping cuts that are to sweep across the Belfast Trust.
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Regulator offers us zero insulation from icy blast
If this is competition, then just what would a monopoly look like? That’s the question being posed by hard-pressed householders who have been hit by a double
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Driving change
Education Minister John O’Dowd this week put a spoke in the wheel of the Irish language revival when he blocked recognition of an Irish medium nursery school unit at
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