Hundreds of mourners are expected to attend the funeral of football coach James Moore today as the Beechmount community continues to come to terms with the shock of the popular local man’s death. James was found dead at his Locan Street home on Friday evening after he and his friends had been out for the […]
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Procession tribute to James Moore takes place ahead of funeral
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While families watch and wait, close to 1,000 homes lie empty
THERE are almost 1,000 residential properties in West Belfast lying vacant even as demand for housing rockets towards crisis point. A figure of 986 homes – many of them recession-linked repossessions – was revealed in the Assembly recently by Finance Minister
3,000-plus and climbing: crush on local housing waiting list worsens
A LOCAL MLA has said the housing crisis is so bad in West Belfast that some people on the housing waiting list are resorting to drastic measures to improve their chances of getting allocated accommodation – including paying dissident paramilitary groups to send them bullets in the post.
Concern over man found in back garden
A MAN found unconscious in the back yard of a home in Beechmount on Sunday night may have attempted to take his own life, the Andersonstown News has been told.
Raining on Rihanna’s parade
EARLIER this week when I heard that pop megastar Rihanna had been reprimanded for her “inappropriate” behaviour by a Co Down farmer, I recoiled with embarrassment.
Local breeder hits the heights
A LOCAL man who turned a lifelong passion for horses into a successful horse-breeding business is set to travel to Birmingham next week to compete in the Horse of the Year Show.
