A West Belfast woman is warning people not to fall for a lottery scam after she was sent a letter through the post saying she had won £750,000. In the letter, sent from ‘the Commonwealth of Nations Online Lottery’, the woman was told her numbers had come up and urged to claim her winnings immediately. […]
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Warning as lottery scam letter is posted to homes
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Christmas tree blamed for blaze
A FIRE caused by a Christmas tree has gutted the inside of a young family’s Northbrook Drive home just as the festive season gets under way. And instead of planning for the big day with her two children, Cherise Maguire (27) is desperately trying to find a new home, but so far without success. Cherise […]
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Ice rink to open in West Belfast
WEST Belfast families will be able to ice-skate in a winter wonderland as the area’s first ice rink comes to the Kennedy Centre. The brainchild of the Féile an Phobail team, the ice rink will open at the local shopping centre next week with excitement already building among budding Torvill and Deans keen to try […]
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Woodvale voting figures still low
The electoral ward that has been the epicentre of the loyalist flag protests has the second lowest rate of voter registration in North Belfast, newly-released figures have revealed. One fifth of those eligible to vote in the Woodvale ward, home to the Twaddell ‘civil rights’ camp, are still not on the register despite pleas for […]
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Only half a cop for the Whiterock
THE Andersonstown News has learned that crime rates have risen by a staggering 300 per cent in the greater Ballymurphy and Whiterock area – with just one part-time neighbourhood police officer to serve 3,800 households. In shocking statistics revealed in the Community Profile of Belfast Trust Areas, published every five years, the Whiterock ward has […]
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Panorama programme raises questions about New Lodge Six
A relative of one of the New Lodge Six has said the tactics of a shadowy military unit revealed on last week’s BBC Panorama programme match almost perfectly with what happened when his uncle and five other men were shot. John Loughran said that although the programme didn’t investigate the Military Reaction Force’s (MRF) role […]
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