The Stormont Assembly will convene later today in for a special session designed to clear the way for power over welfare reform to be handed to London. DUP Social Development Minister Mervyn Storey will put a legislative consent motion before MLAs that effectively transfers powers over welfare reform from the Assembly to the British government, […]
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Special sitting of Assembly today to clear the way for hand-over of welfare reform power to London
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UU researchers report exciting development in treatment of the most deadly cancer
Ulster University researchers have developed a new treatment that they believe may increase pancreatic cancer survival rates. UU researchers are pleased with the results so far of a revolutionary new process which involves injecting tumours with oxygen micro-bubbles coated in a drug which is subsequently activated by ultrasound. It’s thought that the new technique could […]
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House burgled for second time during wait for police to examine initial break-in
A North Belfast man has hit out at police after he was kept out of his home for almost a week after a burglary – during which time he was burgled again. Alex Holgate, a 23-year-old student, had his home in Oakley Street off the Crumlin Road, ransacked and robbed while he was in Magherafelt […]
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‘Fist-fighting is now part of RVH job description’
SECURITY guards at the Royal Victoria Hospital are regularly forced to brawl with drunks, drug-users and vulnerable individuals in wards and in the A&E department as pleas for help from senior management go unheeded. That’s the grim picture painted by a member of staff who we spoke to this week. He says spiralling violence on […]
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Execution of criminals ‘imminent’ says new armed group in chilling threat
A NEW armed group has vowed to “execute” criminals in West and North Belfast. In a chilling statement released exclusively to the Andersonstown News, the as-yet unnamed gang – believed to have close ties to the feared INLA – says it is ready to execute those involved in criminality, including drug-dealing, burglaries and assaults. And […]
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Bloody Sunday arrest marks a ‘new phase’ in investigation, say police
AN ex-Lance Corporal in the Parachute Regiment has been arrested in what police are calling a “new phase” in their investigation into the shooting dead of 14 innocent civilians on Bloody Sunday. The man, aged 66, was arrested yesterday in County Antrim and is being questioned at an unidentified police station in Belfast. Detectives from […]
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