Thursday 23 May 2013
Residents and visitors to the Boucher Road in south Belfast now have a 'blooming' good view thanks to an environmental project by the Housing Executive and children from Donegall Road Primary School.
Newtownbreda High School year 7 pupils have put their entrepreneurial skill and business nous to the test by transforming one of their classrooms into their own version of the hit BBC show Dragon's Den.
Students at Queen's University are voting today to try and overturn a decision to privatise their jobs – which could lead to none of them being employed in the Students Union (SU) in the future.
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Barnett Demesne is set to become a mountain bike mecca after a £445,000 investment sees the completion of a series of mountain biking and walking trails, including the only official dirt jump park in Ireland.
Safefood has announced that Windsor Women's Centre, south Belfast, is one of the nine all island projects to receive funding for the Community Food Initiatives Programme 2013-15.
South Belfast MLA Anna Lo has launched this year's One World Run alongside pupils from St Coleman's PS Dunmurry who take part each year.
This week saw the launch of a targeted blitz to tackle dog fouling in south Belfast.
A former resident of Belfast's Holyland is inviting past and present inhabitants of the area to come together for a reunion next month.
Plans for a major redevelopment of Ravenhill rugby stadium have been given the go ahead, Assembly ministers have confirmed.
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.
A number of students will get the chance to manage and run a busy restaurant in south Belfast over four days in February.
The attack on a young Catholic man in south Belfast last Friday was a show of strength by paramilitaries in the Village, a source has told the Community Telegraph.
A civil servant had more of the worst type of child sex abuse images in his possession than in any other case ever investigated in the UK, a court was told yesterday.
Huge crowds turned out to pay tribute to Bridie Gallagher, Ireland’s first international star, who passed away on Monday, January 9.
A handful of residents still living in a ‘condemned’ street in south Belfast have for the last two months been living in a rubble strewn mess as no one has come to clean up the rubble left by a construction company working on behalf of Northern Ireland Electricity (NIE) and the Housing Executive.
Detectives in south Belfast are appealing for information following the report of a robbery at commercial premises in the Fountain Street area in the early hours of Saturday December 10.
The Arts Council is urging as many people as possible to get along to Parliament Buildings to see a display of work from some of Northern Ireland’s finest emerging and established artists.
The centre of Belfast was overwhelmed by public sector workers and supporters who took part in the biggest strike in decades yesterday (Wednesday, November 30) after talks between Unions and the Government over pension contributions and changing retirement ages broke down.
South Belfast residents’ organisations are mounting a last ditch fight to stop the Westminster constituency disappearing.
Hangover star takes 87-year-old to premiere
The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.
A Briton arrested on suspicion of organised fraud has been found hanged in a French jail.
Nasa chief Charles Bolden has inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.
George Best was the finest footballer of them all, according to England World Cup winner Ian Callaghan.
They know each other inside-out as a result of having squared up so often in the past. As well as having gone head to head on such a regular basis, most of the protagonists are Irish training camp regulars. In addition, many of them have been Test match colleagues.
Justin Tipuric hopes Sam Warburton's selection as British and Irish Lions captain will not harm his chances of earning a Test spot against Australia.
Former Coronation Street star Helen Flanagan did her bit to protest against the skin trade by showing off some flesh of her own.
Twilight's legacy shows no sign of stopping, after the film and its stars lead the Teen Choice Awards with nine nominations.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have vowed not to appear in sex scenes with other people in their films, according to reports.
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