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New bomb fears for Policing Board
Dissident republicans who tried to blow up Northern Ireland's Policing Board
HQ in Belfast are likely to target the building again, a senior officer has
warned.
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Tiger image in tatters as third affair emerges
Tiger Woods’ image lay in tatters today as reports emerged over a third extra-marital affair.
We got it wrong on 11-Plus, says Sinn Fein MLA
A Sinn Fein MLA has said Martin McGuinness was wrong to axe the 11-plus without implementing a replacement.
Hotel offers wedding reception for less than £500
Brides-to-be are rushing up the aisle to take advantage of a wedding deal that
offers a reception for less than £500.
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Republican fuel plant was supplying loyalist districts
Fuel laundered by republican paramilitaries from an illegal diesel plant was destined for loyalist communities.
TUV distances itself from loyalist killer petition
Jim Allister's Traditional Unionist Voice party last night distanced itself
from a petition organised by one of its members calling for the release of
loyalist killer Torrens Knight.
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Video: World Cup 2010 draw team guide new
The draw for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa takes place this evening at
7.30pm.
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Fermanagh hit by more torrential rain
Roads in Fermanagh were under water yesterday as torrential rainfall brought
renewed flooding chaos to the county.
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Death threat to SF politicians
Four SF politicians have been told they will be shot imminently.
Offenders clean up their image... and a river bank
These are the images showing how the Belfast Telegraph helped to transform an unwanted dumping area into a tranquil urban wildlife refuge as part of our Big Clean-Up campaign.
- Thug who stabbed man awarded more compensation than his victim
- Fury over £900 tickets for Paul McCartney at O2 Arena
- Parents took tot's body on 5-hour bus trip
- Hotel porter jailed for wedding cash theft
- RBS warns over Treasury control of bonus payouts
- Jeremy Kyle Show's polygraph man caught lying
- Police appeal over stabbing
- Priest apologises after tax tirade
- Wife's joy as Irish sailor is freed by Iran
- Man held after ammo find
- Clinic’s chart entries made up, claims widow
- I will not be intimidated insists man shot in raid at his home
- Embattled Irish bishop signals he may stand down over criticism
- Killer soldier to give evidence on his officer's shooting
Afghanistan is now Obama's war and the heat is on
US president Barack Obama yesterday braced himself for the flak that awaits any American president who decides he must not merely carry another leader's burden, but make a war his own.
- More charges for US Army massacre suspect
- White House 'gatecrashers' refuse to testify
- New York senate rejects gay marriage bill
- Bank of America to repay government bailout funds
- Mitsubishi shares soar after Peugeot link-up report
- Pakistani security forces kill 15 militants
- Honduras' Congress votes against reinstating ousted president
- Stevie Wonder given UN role to help disabled
- Protesters mark 25th anniversary of Bhopal disaster
- Obamas prepare for first christmas in White House
- Lawyer’s tears as Amanda Knox trial nears end
Torres is back
Fernando Torres will give Rafa Benitez a lifeline tomorrow as he returns to the Liverpool line-up for their clash with Blackburn Rovers.
- Hughes and Evans set for new deals
- Under pressure Wenger feeling the heat
- Arsenal hit by Walcott loss
- Allardyce now 'fit and well'
- Portsmouth fail to pay players again
- Chelsea stronger now than under Mourinho, says Carvalho
- Tevez targets United demise
- Fergie has interesting choice to make
- Wenger doesn’t have to shake on it
- Don’t hand Henry a World Cup ban
- No play threat in Spain
Robert Fisk: Strategy tried before – without success
"They shoot Russians," the young paratrooper told me. It was cold. We had come across his unit, the Soviet 105th Airborne Division, near Charikar, north of Kabul, and he was holding out a bandaged hand.
- Arianna Huffington: Traditional media has to stop whining
- Dom Joly: My specialist subject is... sheer blind terror
- Hamish McRae: Tax if you must, but do so effectively
- James Lawton: Tiger Woods is a sportsman with little time to play the media game
- Kim Sengupta: US Marines give their verdict on Obama's Afghanistan troop surge
- Sean O'Grady: British have only themselves to blame for poor deal in Europe
- Matthew Norman: Impossible conflict behind John Demjanjuk's trial
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College opens £9m technology centre
South West College has opened the doors to a new £9m technology and skills centre in Enniskillen which it believes will give Co Fermanagh a head start as the local economy finally emerges from recession.
- EU bank rules will not affect taxpayers
- Southern shoppers boosting the North, says survey
- Aer Lingus chief attacks pilots' union as talks fail
- Asda stores boost local food sector by £60m this year
- Firms campaign to inspire young
- Mandelson backs new Post Office ‘banks’
- Jobs under threat after medical firm objects to power plant
- Bank bosses to lose bonuses if lending targets are not met
- Bank of America to repay government bailout funds
- Mitsubishi shares soar after Peugeot link-up report
- RBS warns over Treasury control of bonus payouts
Fired-up PM Gordon Brown launches class war on Tory rich
Zac Goldsmith, the Conservative parliamentary candidate who has an estimated £200m fortune, has given up his “non-dom” tax status after the Tories were hit by stinging accusations that they had once again become the party of the rich.
- Culture minister accused of Irish language plans 'insult'
- More risk-taking needed in justice logjam, says Sir Hugh Orde
- MLAs told of format for electing future Justice Minister
- Woodward: Policing and justice devolution 'on track'
- Hung parliament ‘would not affect policing stance’
- Woodward looks to the future on anniversary
- Assembly members 'unlikley' to vote again on own salary levels
Toxic fears for baby bottles
Baby bottles containing the Bisphenol A chemical should be removed from UK shelves, campaigners said yesterday.
- Brtions drink 84 times their own weight
- Men ‘largely ignorant’ of processed meat risk
- Number of swine flu cases falls
- MLAs take health trust to task over bad hygiene
- ‘Bacterial defence systems’ could fight illnesses
- Aids is officially in decline, say experts
- Cutting salt intake ‘could save 4m lives’
- Pregnancy 'could slow development of multiple sclerosis'
- 'Covert copers' more likely to have heart attack
Schools at centre of election bust-up
Northern Ireland schools have clashed with the elections office in a spat over pupils joining the register to vote.
- P6 parents should get behind the Belfast Telegraph's transfer campaign
- Education body delay to cost £21m, says Ruane
- Why one Ulster mum will be marching at Stormont
- 10,000 join Tele's school transfer chaos campaign
- Can new group solve schools crisis?
- Brain drain fears as Irish students opt for the UK
- 8,500 people call for Transfer resolution
- Ruane admits delay in setting up education body
- Transfer test: ‘We can’t wait for all them to be over’
Tele campaign right to highlight litter problem
As chairman of Belfast City Council's health and environmental services committee, I would like to congratulate the Belfast Telegraph for helping to raise awareness about litter through its Big Clean-Up campaign.
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- Calling on all daredevils to help charity
- Mixed wards in psychiatric unit a complete joke
- Oh, show some Christmas cheer
- Let's enjoy the festive season
- In support of reinstatement of death penalty
- Love trumps a wedding band
- Love trumps a wedding band
- A healthy and happy winter for our pets
- Lift country out of the dark ages
- Way to embrace future and pay respect to past
‘Seeing James read the news should help others go public’
James Partridge challenged public attitudes to disfigurement by reading the news on Five last week. Kerry McKittrick talks to three local women on how they coped after being left scarred
- Confessions of a working mother: ‘I’m so glad to be home from hospital’
- Confessions of a working mother: Looking after my wild kids is just snow joke
- Female perspective on Belfast’s sexual history
- My Lost Life
- Anti-depressant hailed as 'Viagra for women'
- Meet Catherine, the transport chief who takes photos of train seats
- Just what do these famous people all have in common?
- Pushchair firm Maclaren backs recall plan
- Home birth warning after baby death
- Outstanding winners out in force at awards dinner
- Women of the Year Awards
Wikipedia UK 'not dying' despite editors exodus
The UK off-shoot of Wikipedia has insisted the site was "definitely not dying" after research suggested thousands of volunteer editors across the world had left.
- What gets Belfast Googling? As ever, we’re obsessed by the past
- Tesco to fight rivals on price with iPhone launch before Christmas
- How the internet use is re-wiring our brains
- Fox boss: Ban illegal downloaders from internet
- Illegal downloaders face broadband limits
- Telly host Eamonn Holmes is top celeb on Twitter
- Wireless electricity: Leap forward for the way we live
- Local media ‘excluded from Digital Britain shot in the arm’
- McCausland cancels meeting over Government’s digital stance
- Two arrested over net bank details virus
- How ergonomics can shape our daily lives
X Factor contestants more likely to eliminated if they sing early
University boffins have confirmed that X Factor contestants are more likely to get the boot if they sing near the start of the show.
- Clarkson, Hammond and May kick off Top Gear mayhem
- 600 hours of TV repeats dominate festive schedules
- Irish stars on guard for new film shoot
- Singer Sabrina Washington denies Jungle romance with Hollyoaks actor Stuart Manning
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- New Moon still No 1 at box office
- Christopher Walken on Broadway
Christmas comes early for Snow Patrol fans
Christmas came early for Irish Snow Patrol fans yesterday when the chart-topping indie band made a low-key appearance at a record shop ahead of last night's gig at Dublin's Olympia Theatre.
48 hours in: Istanbul
Mosques, mansions and markets: Turkey’s biggest city has lots to intrigue the weekend visitor. Twenty years since he first prescribed the perfect 48 hours here, Simon Calder returns
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• Be careful what you step on for that cockroach might just be me
I am fond of animals, though I wouldn't like to be one. Most religions offer varieties of punishment to sinners.
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Allah was kind to Dubai yesterday. Just when the emirate's unspeakable wealth appeared on the point of collapse – stock markets, of course, naturally 'trembled' – along came the feast of Eid al-Adha and sent all the kings and emirs and sheikhs off to their diwans to celebrate the decision by the father of monotheism – the Prophet Ibrahim himself – not to kill his son Ismail.
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• Ten reasons why England can win the World Cup
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