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Kids injured and traumatised after coach attacked by thugs

Local children taking part in a cross-community project have been left “traumatised” after their coach was attacked with missiles.
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Pensioners’ home attack condemned

Two women in their 80s were held up by masked men who ransacked their south Belfast home last week.
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NRG-1, dubbed the Devil?s powder

City hospital concerned over NRG-1 admissions

Belfast City Hospital is dealing with a “worrying” increase in |the number of people taking the recently banned drug NRG-1.
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DoE to review effect of policy on flooding

Environment Minister Edwin Poots has announced a review of how planning policy affects the risk of flooding.
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La Faro to play Reading and Leeds

South Belfast based band La Faro are set to play one of the UK’s biggest festivals next week — Reading and Leeds.
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MLA praises HMRC sackings

South Belfast MLA Anna Lo has praised Revenue and Customs for sacking seven staff for abusing non-nationals who claimed child benefit.
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On the grapevine - August 19

SOUTH BELFAST
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QUB develops life-saving meningitis test

Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast and the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust have developed a groundbreaking test for meningitis which could help save lives.
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Tax warning for gun dog owners here

Lawful and responsible gun dog owners in Northern Ireland are at risk of being hit in the pocket by a new tax, the UK's largest shooting organisation has warned.
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Queen’s admissions advice

The admissions and access service at Queen's University has issued advice to students who will receive their A-level results this week.
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Inside News

£14m boost for rugby at Ravenhill Stadium

Thursday, 26 January 2012

Plans for a major redevelopment of Ravenhill rugby stadium have been given the go ahead, Assembly ministers have confirmed.
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Research pins down who owns 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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Student entrepreneurs get a slice of business life

Thursday, 26 January 2012

A number of students will get the chance to manage and run a busy restaurant in south Belfast over four days in February.
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Beating ‘a reminder of Wright murder’

Thursday, 12 January 2012

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.
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Pervert had ‘worst’ images

Thursday, 12 January 2012

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.
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Family moved by tributes to Bridie, Ireland’s first star

Thursday, 12 January 2012

Huge crowds turned out to pay tribute to Bridie Gallagher, Ireland’s first international star, who passed away on Monday, January 9.
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Hang on! Art exhibition proves a hit at Stormont

Thursday, 15 December 2011

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.
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‘There’s a better way — tax a billionaire’

Thursday, 1 December 2011

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.
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South Belfast communities are ‘being sacrificed’, claims group

Thursday, 1 December 2011

South Belfast residents’ organisations are mounting a last ditch fight to stop the Westminster constituency disappearing.
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Potty transfiguration of Ryan’s Bar spellbinds award judges

Thursday, 1 December 2011

South Belfast’s Ryan’s Bar is celebrating with a pint of butterbeer having been crowned Northern Ireland’s Most Innovative Pub at this year’s Pubs of Ulster Pub of the Year Awards, thanks to their Harry Potter|based theme.
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MP starts term at party helm in Dublin

Thursday, 10 November 2011

South Belfast MP Alasdair McDonnell may have faltered through his acceptance speech after being elected leader of the SDLP at the weekend, but he has been making the most of opportunities to communicate with other political leaders since.
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Harding pupils ‘toast’ school run success

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Over 50 children and parents cycled and walked to Harding Memorial Primary School just before half-term, for a free breakfast to congratulate children for their dedication in transforming the school run.
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Music industry singing city’s praises after EMAs

Thursday, 10 November 2011

The company which brought the MTV EMAs to Belfast was so impressed with the city’s ‘can do’ attitude, it has vowed to return.
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Service shows arrivals how to make the grade

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Migrant workers arriving in south Belfast can now check what jobs they are qualified for.
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Fears that City A&E is ‘closed for good’

Thursday, 3 November 2011

The City hospital’s Accident & Emergency unit has now closed its doors — without ceremony — for a supposedly ‘temporary’ period.
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Pensioners get safety pack

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Around 40 senior citizens from the Ormeau Road received packages to further enhance personal safety in their own homes this week.
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Couple kidnapped by armed gang

Thursday, 3 November 2011

Police are appealing for information about a kidnap and attempted robbery this week.
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Friends ask for help with Megan’s US wish

Thursday, 13 October 2011

INTERNET friends of a south Belfast family have asked for the public’s help and support to send their eight year old daughter on a Starlight Foundation trip to the USA.
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Baggott upbeat as public confidence in PSNI rises

Thursday, 13 October 2011

The PSNI Chief Constable, Matt Baggot has said the latest quarterly update on perceptions of policing, justice and anti social behaviour and the ‘good work’ ongoing in communities is ‘heartening’.
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New artwork brightens up ‘dilapidated’ area of Belfast

Thursday, 13 October 2011

New artwork is being erected on a vacant site on the lower Lisburn Road to help brighten up the area and encourage the regeneration of the area.
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