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Editor's Viewpoint: Planning shambles must be reformed
No one can deny that John Lewis has been patient in its pursuit of planning permission for a new store at Sprucefield.
Editor's Viewpoint: A headline act
The Radio 1 Big Weekend mini-festival, with its potential to attract 40,000 young people, is a huge boost for Derry's UK City of Culture programme.
Editor's Viewpoint: Fuelling a furore
Northern Ireland's motorists are being ripped off and that is official. The Office of Fair Trading found we pay more for petrol and diesel than motorists in other parts of the UK. Part of the reason is lack of competition but also the way supermarkets operate.
Editor's Viewpoint: A true gentleman of the Ulster press
Malcolm Brodie worked in a profession, sports journalism, where hyperbole is the stock-in-trade currency of its practitioners.
Editor's Viewpoint: No merit in bid to block police body
The establishment of a new FBI-style body to combat organised crime including the drugs trade and people trafficking makes perfect sense.
Editor's Viewpoint: Gilroy's star rising
Life doesn't get much better for Craig Gilroy than it is at the moment.
Editor's Viewpoint: Neeson right about how far we've come
Actor Liam Neeson, in town to collect his Freedom of Ballymena award, summed up the Northern Ireland of today quite astutely.
Editor's Viewpoint: Vote for real heroes
There are only a few weeks left for you to get in your nominations for the unsung heroes who have helped to create this new, better Northern Ireland. We all know someone who has made a difference to our areas.
Editor's Viewpoint: Town's son shines
A much more positive image of Northern Ireland will be shown today when actor Liam Neeson is made a freeman of Ballymena.
Editor's Viewpoint: The law in Belfast must be upheld
It is clear that the law is being flouted during the current flag protests.
Editor's Viewpoint: Your chance to get city buzzing again
This newspaper's campaign, We're Backing Belfast, has even made it onto the floor of the House of Commons, with North Belfast MP, Nigel Dodds, lauding our efforts to rally support for the beleaguered traders of our capital city.
Editor's Viewpoint: A veritable feast
The Out To Lunch festival is a quirky idea - a bit of entertainment and a bite to eat in the middle of the day - but it is one which has caught on.
Editor's Viewpoint: Warhol welcomed
The opening of an Andy Warhol exhibition at Belfast's MAC is an incredible coup for the city.
Editor's Viewpoint: PM bets big on EU referendum gamble
For a man who in the past has said he believes it is in the national interest for the UK to be in the single market, David Cameron is taking a huge gamble with his pledge to hold a referendum on EU membership by 2017.
Own goal by BBC
Colin Murray, who is to leave BBC's Match of the Day 2 programme at the end of the season, will be sadly missed by many viewers. He brought the enthusiasm of the average fan to analysis of the games, daring to ask questions or make observations which chimed with supporters' views.
Editor's Viewpoint: Economy still the only game in town
Having stirred up a hornets' nest with the divisive flags issue, Sinn Fein now wants to hold a border poll. What possible benefit would accrue from such a poll is unclear, to say the least.
Editor's Viewpoint: Obama's toughest battle is upon him
As he was inaugurated for his second term, President Obama urged the American people to seize the day and work with him to create a more caring, more constructive and safer country.
Editor's Viewpoint: Vitally important
It is an organisation which, over the past 20 years, has transformed the lives of thousands of disadvantaged young people from both communities in Northern Ireland and the Republic.
Editor's Viewpoint: Is another split on cards for the UUP?
A major showdown is looming within the Ulster Unionist Party.
Editor's Viewpoint: A truly stylish start
Ithe 2013 UK City of Culture celebrations in Londonderry/Derry hit all the right notes last night with its Sons and Daughters concert which started the year of celebrations in style.
Radio One's Big Weekend
Three-day festival underway in Derry
Belfast Telegraph Runher 2013
Hundreds of women take part in 10k race
Review: The Hangover Part III
Comedy with big following means blockbuster
Cannes femmes: Shayk and Ambrosio on red carpet
Good guy Zach Galifianakis
Hangover star takes 87-year-old to premiere
FHM's sexiest women - Kunis knocks Tulisa off her perch
Latest News
IMF chief named key witness in case new
International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde has said a Paris court has named her as a key witness in an investigation into a controversial pay-off to an outspoken businessman arranged while she was France's finance minister.
Belfast Telegraph Runher 2013
Hundreds of women from across Northern Ireland have put on their running shoes for charity as part of the Belfast Telegraph's Runher 10k race.
Man arrested after drugs seized new
Gardai have seized 1.7 million euro worth of drugs from a house in Dublin.
Latest Sport
Clark fitness doubt for England new
Calum Clark is a doubt for England's tour of Uruguay and Argentina after an ankle injury ruled him out of Saturday's Aviva Premiership final.
England target top-two ranking new
Stuart Lancaster has been formally set the challenge of leading England into the 2015 Rugby World Cup as one of the two top-ranked nations on the planet.
Players accepting Mourinho return new
Chelsea's players appear to have grown used to the likelihood of Jose Mourinho returning return to the club.
Latest Showbiz
Robbie and Dizzee at Big Weekend new
Robbie Williams joined rapper Dizzee Rascal for a cameo rendition of Losing My Mind at Radio 1's Big Weekend in Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
Jaden Smith: I can ask dad anything new
Jaden Smith has described his famous dad Will Smith as a "walking dictionary" and says he can ask him anything.
Fresh Prince stars reunite at show
Will Smith was reunited with two of his Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air co-stars as his eldest son Trey made his DJing debut in London.
