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Man 'thought cocaine parcels were bibles'
A lorry driver charged in connection with a suspected £5m cocaine seizure is a religious convert who believed he was transporting Christian tracts, a court has heard.
Blizzards shut key airports
Christmas travel plans of thousands of people across Northern Ireland have
been plunged into disarray.
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Jade Goody widower Tweed on rape charge
The widower of Jade Goody is expected to deny raping a teenager.
Family is being forced from home by race hate attacks
A Belfast father has said he is being forced to look for alternative
accommodation after constant racist attacks on his home.
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Blaze at Guinness plant
Workmen repairing a roof with a blowtorch yesterday sparked a major blaze at
the iconic Guinness plant in Dublin city centre.
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QC’s criticism of Bloody Sunday probe ‘an insult’
The brother of a man shot dead on Bloody Sunday has said he feels insulted
after a top QC branded the Saville Inquiry “unnecessary”.
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Priest says shoplifting 'sometimes best option'
A priest has used a sermon to advocate shoplifting in certain circumstances.
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Secret shame at the heart of the Adams family
Throughout Gerry Adams' time as the public face both of Sinn Fein and the IRA, his family has been largely off-limits – until now.
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- Hain hiked MLAs’ office payouts despite advice
- Channel Tunnel train chaos caused by 'wrong type of snow'
- Burglar who tried to torch family in their beds gets life
- After 800 attacks, minister wants all dogs microchipped
China slams Miliband climate claims
China has lashed out at climate change minister Ed Miliband after he accused the country of "hijacking" the United Nations-sponsored summit in Copenhagen.
- Army helps castrate 5,000 Falkland sheep
- Police to quiz runaway Dutch sailor girl, 14, found in Caribbean
- Planes delayed as US wildfire raged
- Man held after boy shot dead in US
- New home for dogs that ate their owner's corpse
- $2.5bn return for investor who bought bank shares when everyone else was selling
- Iran dissident funeral turns into a mass street protest
City: Cook did not lie to fans new
Manchester City have been forced to insist they did not lie to fans over when they approached Roberto Mancini to become their new manager.
- Turner handed four-match ban new
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- Early blow for Mancini
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- O'Neill still taking cautious approach
Laurence White: Gerry’s response to abuse claims shows how he trusts the police
It is difficult to know which is the more astonishing — the level of sexual abuse which went on in the Catholic Church or the level of sexual abuse that allegedly went on in the Adams' household.
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- Barack Obama: The insurance lobby must not be allowed to kill healthcare reform
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- Peter’s body of evidence is grounds for optimism
- Protestors are streets ahead of governments on climate change
- A testing time, but don’t end up like me, a monster in a Micra
- What a funny way Iranian’s have of showing their love
- Members mind their f’s and b’s
OFT vows to continue banking fight
The Office of Fair Trading has pledged to continue its fight with banks despite giving up its legal battle on unauthorised overdraft charges.
- Recession drags on in third quarter
- UK recession 'ended in third quarter'
- ‘No major property price rises expected for 2010’
- NI families here have the lowest disposable UK income
- Danish company buys Norfolkline
- Uncertain future for employees at Nortel
- Workers ‘take rewards in lieu pay rise’
- Commission is needed to investigate ‘fat cats’
- Tourism’s £100m fillip as families stay home
- Pressures of climate change not met by local firms
- Borrowing hits an all time high of £20.3bn
PM and Taoiseach step up pressure over policing
The DUP is facing mounting pressure to resolve a “limited number of outstanding issues” over the devolution of policing and justice powers.
- Executive agrees cuts for the next Stormont budget
- Conservatives to pay back £250,000 in expenses
- Eighty MPs to appeal repayment of expenses
- Dodds in bid to force Lisbon Treaty referendum
- McGuinness to meet UDA
- Talks that reveal the war has melted away
- British and Irish governments 'hopeful despite policing powers impasse'
Call on teenage medical treatment
Teenagers as young as 14 should have the right to refuse medical treatment, legal experts claim.
- Natural defence against swine flu discovered
- Study finds risk in IVF screening test
- Living donors list now tops 3,000
- Cancer patients 'can't afford to stay warm'
- New treatment could aid sufferers of rare cancer
- 'One genetic mutation for every 15 cigarettes'
- Discovery of genes for lung disease may aid treatment
- 'Fresh-faced people live longer'
- Anti-HIV drug failed trial
Ruane bids to end schools priority for Northern children
Pupils living along the border are being unfairly treated by a law that means schools in Northern Ireland must give priority to children living in Northern Ireland when allocating their places, according to Caitriona Ruane.
- Irish government to review cuts to Protestant schools
- Four of five main parties issue joint call for temporary P7 test
- UU Graduations December 15 2009
- Republic’s funding for autism centre resumes
- Warning over failure to invest in Northern Ireland's universities
- QUB Graduations List December 10 2009
- QUB Graduations List December 11 2009
Kate’s courage
The widow of the first PSNI officer to be killed by paramilitaries tells Claire McNeilly of an unbearably hard year as yet another cruel blow hits the Banbridge family
Sir Reg will play part in appeasing republicans
Sir Reg Empey's rejection of the DUPs offer to work to ensure the election of Unionist MPs in Fermanagh/South Tyrone and South Belfast is to be expected (Write Back, December 14).
- Time to end barbaric hunts once and for all
- Changes within the EU must be decided by MPs
- We must look to Europe for waste options
- Hospital staff deserve thanks
- Jimmy deserves a lasting tribute
- McGuinness 'no right to attack Peter Robinson'
- Let's put myth of Santa to rest
- Why UK must not give in to Israel's demands
- Stamps, please
- Only one party to put people of Ulster first
- Our MLAs need to wake up to the real world
James Cameron on real-life aliens new
James Cameron may offer the most exotic planet full of aliens ever put on film in his sci-fi epic Avatar - but he thinks the first extra-terrestrials to arrive on Earth will be much more exciting.
Joe heading for next No 1 spot new
Joe McElderry's single The Climb is now outselling Rage Against The Machine's Christmas No 1 song by a margin of two to one.
48 hours in: Istanbul
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After five days of fierce sunshine and intriguing and ultimately compelling Test action the rain has come hard and unrelenting. The big sky over the veldt has turned into a grey blanket torn by flashes of lightning.
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