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Residents caution over airport agreement move

South Belfast residents opposed to the expansion of Belfast City Airport have expressed “caution” over the environment minister’s plans to modify a planning agreement with the airport that could see take off and landing times changed.

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Basic instinct for the music Translates into charitable gig

A group of North Belfast teenagers are using their musical talents to raise money for cancer research by organising their own charity gig this weekend.

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Medical staff sick of the cuts

An accident and emergency nurse at North Belfast’s Mater Hospital said nurses in the casualty unit are so overstretched they are coming to him in tears about their workload.

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CS spray used by police on Travellers’ site

THE Police Ombudsman’s office has confirmed it is investigating an incident at a Travellers’ site on the Glen Road in which PSNI officers used CS spray on a group of Travellers including a heavily pregnant woman and a six-month-old baby

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‘No offence intended’ by ‘unwashed’ remark

DUP Councillor Christopher Stalford told the Andersonstown News that he “did not intend to cause offence” after labelling West Belfast councillors “the great unwashed”.

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Ice-cream wars: No decision on another poke van for West

EVEN THE subject of ice cream failed to cool tempers at Belfast City Council this week during a row over licensing for West Belfast during which our local councillors were dubbed “the great unwashed”.

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