BUSINESS owners on Botanic Avenue are calling for the extension of the city’s Christmas lights to the area to help tackle the yearly lull in winter trade. As Christmas lights are erected in Belfast city centre, shoppers flock to the area for the winter festivities, making it the busiest time of year for most traders. […]
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Don’t deport us back to Iraq
TWO junior Iraqi doctors who fled their war-torn nation due to death threats made to one of their lives, say they hope the Home Office will reconsider its decision to imminently deport them due to complications with their visa. Speaking from their home off Lisburn Road’s Chadwick Street, Yosra Taleb Abdalla who shares the property […]
Council U-Turn on ‘English Only’ Signage Policy after legal challenge
ANTRIM and Newtownabbey Council has performed a dramatic U-turn on their ‘English Only’ street-naming policy after a legal challenge in the High Court today, Friday. The policy, which was brought forward by Council following a request by local residents from Abbeyville in Newtownabbey for dual Irish and English language street signs in their local streets, […]
MoD fail to stop Ballymurphy inquest going ahead
THE inquest into the deaths of 11 people in the Ballymurphy area of West Belfast over three days in August 1971 will go ahead despite last week’s attempt by the MoD to derail proceedings. The inquest was due to open on Monday but will now most likely start in November. Addressing the families during Thursday’s […]
We’ll not be derailed by latest MoD ‘stunt’
THE Ballymurphy Massacre families have said that the latest ‘stunt’ by the British Ministry of Defence will not derail their much anticipated inquest into the murder of there loved ones. A preliminary inquest into the atrocity takes place at 2pm today (Thursday) at Belfast’s High Court. Last week the MoD handed over a database containing […]
Nominations pour in for Education Award
NOMINATIONS are still being accepted for a school, college or educational project that has made the biggest impact across the city as part of the highly anticipated annual Aisling Awards. As the clock ticks down to the gala event on Thursday October 18, the chance to celebrate those who go the extra mile in our […]
Movie about British Olympic figure skating gold medallists filmed in West Belfast school
THE corridors and classrooms of St Mary’s Christian Brothers’ Grammar School have been transformed from present day to recapture the excitement and adrenalin of 1984 Sarajevo during the winter Olympics for an upcoming Torvill and Dean movie. The film will chart the early years of the British figure skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean […]
