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Belfast Telegraph revs up new fuel promotion
The Belfast Telegraph has teamed up with the Henderson Group to offer readers
unbeatable savings at the pump.
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Inside Motoring
Tour De Fource
Thursday, 18 March 2010
I cannot remember a time when the launch of a new Honda has attracted so much
negative publicity in some quarters in the motorcycling press.
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Extras, Extras... read all about it
Thursday, 18 March 2010
A host of accessories are available for the VFR1200F, ranging from a complete
luggage set to an outdoor cover and a u-lock.
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Review: SEAT Ibiza 1.4 16v
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Superminis with 1400cc engines are a common sight in the modern marketplace.
1.4 litres always seems a good fit in cars of this size and the buying
public tends to snap them up.
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Review: Volkswagon Polo GTI
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Many of the best hot hatchbacks have revelled in a raw, back to basics feel
but that kind of exuberance has become harder to replicate as small cars
have grown heavier and more complex.
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Review: Ford Ka 1.2
Thursday, 18 March 2010
A citycar was once a humble thing concerned mainly with giving owners a cheap
and efficient way of getting about town.
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Some TLC for Loris
Friday, 12 March 2010
Jeremy Soden had an idea for a project bike – the restoration of a Yamaha
350LC like the one he used to own early in his biking career.
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Yamaha's big trailie unleashed
Friday, 12 March 2010
Yamaha has at last revealed details of its all new adventure trailie, the XT
1200 Super Tenere. First supplies of the parallel twin, a rival to BMW’s GS
series and the new Ducati Multistrada, will arrive in May.
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Review: Citroen DS3
Friday, 12 March 2010
The DS3 is a Citroen supermini and the first instalment in the manufacturer’s
DS sub-range.
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Car fuelled by coffee: 70mph 'car-puccino’ nears end of journey
Friday, 12 March 2010
A 70mph car fuelled by coffee was last night nearing the end of a jittery
journey from London to Manchester.
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Review: Audi A1
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Forget what you thought you knew about superminis. It turns out that they’re
no longer the practical small cars you choose to cope with the mundane
journeys that litter your everyday life.
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Review: Honda Jazz 1.4i
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Honda is not your ordinary car company and the Jazz is not your ordinary
supermini. This is a manufacturer that doesn’t believe in following the
herd.
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Review: Peugeot 207 S16
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Spectacular doesn’t do justice to the sight of an S2000 rally car in full flow
on a stage of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge.
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Supercars in all Ireland charity drive
Monday, 1 March 2010
It is often said that people love life when it is experienced in all its
glory, and what could be better than combining exquisite supercars, the
finest views of Ireland, and the most superior accommodation available?
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Honda launches 'green' sports car
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Honda has launched a sporty new hybrid hoping to attract younger buyers to the green car market.
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On the trail of a new adventure
Thursday, 25 February 2010
He’s back in his Co Antrim home after having to cut short his round the world
bike journey. But the maps are out again on Wilson Lynn’s table as he plans
part two, undeterred by having his bike wrecked when a Russian truck
carrying it over snow laden mountains in China hit a drift and crashed.
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It's testing times during cold snap
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Much to my annoyance and regret, this weather has put my bike testing on hold;
there’s absolutely no point sampling new models on damp roads made ultra
greasy with salt or, worse still, ice.
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Review: MINI clubman range
Thursday, 25 February 2010
The MINI revolution was televised. It was also on-line, on the airwaves and
lived out in real time on the streets around us.
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Review: Fiat Punto Evo 1.4 Multiair
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Evolution and its stockier associate ‘Evo’ usually spell serious pace and
sporting intent when tagged onto the end of a car’s name.
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Review: SEAT Exeo ST
Thursday, 25 February 2010
If you can’t afford a new Audi A4 Avant estate, how about the old one? SEAT
can help buyers happy to retreat fractionally from the cutting edge of the
compact executive market and settle for something that was gracing the very
best driveways in the most salubrious parts of suburbia just a few short
years ago.
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DeLorean sports car back to the future... and back from the dead
Thursday, 25 February 2010
The rebirth of DeLorean Motor Company has been given the thumbs-up by one of
America’s biggest showbiz personalities.
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All Our Yesterdays: Star Gazing in Armagh
All Our Yesterdays: Star Gazing in Armagh They have been staring into space in Armagh for over two centuries. The city's observatory, founded in 1790, is the second oldest in the British Isles and remains an important centre for astronomical observation today. A new departure in 1966 was the plan to build a planetarium in the grounds of the observatory, where visitors could watch 360 degree displays of the night sky and through audio-visual presentations understand more about the universe we live in. It was the first non-commercial public venture of its kind in the British Isles and by July of that year the £70,000 building was starting to take on its distinctive circular shape. Much of the work was personally supervised by the planetarium's first director, TV astronomer Patrick Moore. It took two years before the planetarium was finally ready for its first public showings. The official opening was carried out on May 1, 1968 by the then Northern Ireland Prime Minister,Terence O'Neill. I have selected some photographs from our archive, from the build to the people who have worked there. By Paul Carson
