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Soldiers' memorial vandalised

Wreaths at the memorial to three Scottish soldiers at White Brae, Ligoniel have been desecrated as a result of an arson attack just three weeks after the Highland Fusiliers annual service of remembrance.

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Inside North Belfast

Rushpark to get new play area as council submits application

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

Newtownabbey borough Council is developing a new play area at Rushpark and a planning application has been submitted for the new facility.
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Schools branch out with cross community forest fun

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

About 150 children were let loose on Throne Woods last week as Loughview Community Action Partnership (LCAP) celebrated the success of its Forest Schools environmental programme.
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Wild about wildflowers in Northern Ireland

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

It's all going green in Newtownabbey for the Britain in Bloom campaign.
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Car dealer's rage at showroom clamping

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

A 'disgusted' and 'disgraced' car showroom manager has hit out at the DVA who clamped three for sale cars outside his Lindsay Ford showroom in Newtownabbey.
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Community worker's 'delight' at sentence

Wednesday, 4 April 2012

A NORTH Belfast grandmother whose home was bombed three times has said she hopes her attacker's 11-year jail term will act as a deterrent to others.
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Arthur’s quest for justice

Thursday, 26 January 2012

A north Belfast man whose father was murdered 37 years ago by the IRA is asking the Chief Constable and the Police Ombudsman to reopen the case. Arthur Rafferty was shot on September 8, 1974 in Newington Street. The 56 year old Catholic civilian died three weeks later.
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New research pins down who owns the ‘peace walls’

Thursday, 26 January 2012

A new £2m fund aimed at bringing down Northern Ireland's peace walls by building confidence between divided communities was announced last week, in the same week as the Belfast Interface Project released its Security Barriers and Defensive Use of Space document in City Hall — a document locating all of Belfast’s interfaces.
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Women’s training group overwhelmed by demand

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Training and employment organisation WOMEN’STEC have stated that a new purpose-built premises needs to be created to improve job opportunities and tackle deprivation in north Belfast.
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Delegation meets over dissident threat

Thursday, 12 January 2012

A north Belfast MP and his party colleagues have met with senior police officers this week in an attempt to learn more about the police response to dissident terrorism in north Belfast and how the police are dealing with the threat — after a bomb was planted on a soldier’s car in Ligoniel at the weekend.
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Empey hopes support for Heathrow bill will take off

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Former UUP leader Lord Empey has presented a bill in the House of Lords which he hopes will preserve the links between Belfast City and Heathrow airports.
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Two days of violence leave residents’ windows broken

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Innocent people in two areas of north Belfast have suffered damage to their property in seperate incidents of youth violence last weekend.
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Suspect arrested after early morning shooting

Thursday, 15 December 2011

A senior police officer has branded as “extremely reckless” an early morning shooting incident in the New Lodge area of north Belfast.
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North/east connection for city

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland, has launched the draft Queen’s Quay Regeneration Masterplan for public consultation.
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New sculpture looks to ‘past, present and future’ of areaRemember, respect and resolution.

Thursday, 15 December 2011

They are only three words, but cut into a new sculpture which has been planted in the heartland of Ulster loyalism, they represent so much more according to local representatives.
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Employers expecting a ‘tough year’ in 2012

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Employers in Northern Ireland are still more pessimistic about hiring additional staff than any other region in the UK , according to a new survey by recruitment firm Manpower.
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Nepalese police learn lessons on working with community

Thursday, 1 December 2011

Nepalese police officers have been visiting north Belfast to find out how to develop partnerships with the community.
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Firefighter raises over £31k for local charities

Thursday, 1 December 2011

Firefighter Noel McKee, from the Whitla Fire Station, Northern Ireland Fire & Rescue Service (NIFRS) has managed to raise a staggering £31,000 in the past two years for a variety of local charities.
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Shock at violence of new car crime spree

Thursday, 17 November 2011

The vandalism of a graveyard in Antrim is the most destructive incident of joyriding to have originated in north Belfast in recent weeks. At least four incidents of car thefts, joyriding, or hijackinng have been perpetrated in north Belfast since Wednesday of last week.
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Nursery gets its Hopes up and nets £20,000 award

Thursday, 17 November 2011

Hope Nursery School, on the Shankill Road, will receive £20,000 funding from Nickelodeon’s Nick Jr. having recieved the greatest number of public votes in the channel’s nationwide social responsibility campaign Help Dora Help.
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Notes on a revolution from tech firm’s link-up

Thursday, 17 November 2011

The Ulster Orchestra and Northern Ireland’s largest indigenous IT services company, Northgate Managed Services have joined forces to announce a ‘special partnership’ at Glengormley Integrated Primary School.
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