Anyone see BBC Newsnight last Friday (22nd May)? Me neither. But I was tipped off to watch it on iPlayer as there was a package on how the Executive is managing Covid-19. The opening narrative was that the ‘power sharing Assembly’ (sic) had steered a clear path towards the resumption of contact tracing last week, […]
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OPINION – Prof Mike Tomlinson: North’s Covid-19 death rate significantly higher than in South by mid-May
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EXCLUSIVE FEATURE: A Brave New World – The City’s boldest Architect imagines a Belfast reborn post-Coronavirus
As the Royal Society of Ulster Architects launches a campaign to encourage new thinking about our post-lockdown city, leading urbanist and Forum for Alternative Belfast founder Mark Hackett (left), takes a radical look at how we could develop a new city for its all its people. If we want to kick start the city in […]
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Casement’s like a wheelbarrow – it’s always in front of you, says frustrated county chair
THE Department for Infrastructure has faced further calls to make a decision on the planning application for Casement Park. It comes after the Department said its planners expect to make a planning recommendation on the stadium this summer. Planning permission was previously granted for a 38,000 capacity Casement Park in 2013, but in 2014 approval […]
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Families ‘kept in dark’ over Coronavirus crisis at Clifton Nursing Home
A woman whose mother-in-law lives in Clifton Nursing Home has said that families are being kept in the dark after a regulator ordered its closure due to Covid-19 concerns. Residents could be moved out of the North Belfast home after the RQIA raised concerns about its management of a coronavirus outbreak, which has claimed the […]
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Construction sector puts down building blocks for staged return to work
Workers in the construction sector are among the first to return to the world of work this week as the Executive’s plan to exit the Coronavirus lockdown gathers pace. Construction sector leaders says that was always a given as the nature of outdoor work and space for social distancing on sites lessen the dangers of […]
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