An Oldpark man accused of serious arson offences will remain in prison after he failed to obtain bail during a hearing in court last Friday. 24-year-old Gary Mulhern is in custody facing two charges of arson endangering life with intent after an incident on February 26 this year. Opposing an application for bail on behalf […]
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No bail for Oldpark man accused of arson offences
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OAP distraught as bus thief takes wallet
A West Belfast pensioner says he has been left “distraught” after his wallet containing £260 was left on a bus on July 12 – and has yet to be handed in. The 69-year-old from News Barnsley, who’s asked not to be named, told the Andersonstown News that he believes he is the victim of a […]
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Local satisfaction as Council moves in to remove bonfire
Belfast City Council moved into a Ballymurphy street this week to remove a towering pile of wood intended for an internment night bonfire. The pile, 15 feet in height, had been collected by local youths over the past six weeks and placed on a derelict site between two homes in Whitecliff Parade. The unstable bonfire […]
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Local UFO spotted?
AMAZING footage of an ‘Unidentified Flying Object’ over West Belfast has been gathering hits on the video sharing website YouTube. Thousands of curious people have watched the film of an object hovering over the Brooke Drive estate earlier this month. The 25-second video was captured on July 12 by a sunbather in his garden and […]
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£3,000 or we’ll shoot your son
A Criminal gang is demanding £3,000 from Poleglass families, threatening that if they don’t pay up “your drug-dealing children will be shot”. A key member of the gang is a Twinbrook thug with such a heavy addiction to prescription drugs that he has been barred from every chemist in the West Belfast area. The man […]
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John’s family wins vital Euro victory
The European Court of Human Rights has been “scathing” about the inquest system in the North as it ordered the British government to pay €20,000 to the family of a West Belfast man who was beaten by the RUC and later died. In January 1998 John Hemsworth (38), above, died from injuries received in July […]
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