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Stephen Nolan

Now put your money where your mouth is

BBC Northern Ireland has admitted that its big stars CAN reveal what they are paid. Secrecy surrounding BBC presenters’ pay has been a rumbling controversy in Northern Ireland for some time.
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Kayleigh Ann O'Reilly

Heaven & Earth

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Six Northern Ireland eco beauties are jetting off to England this summer to compete for the coveted Miss Earth Northern Ireland crown.
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Julian Simmons with Sunday Life's Gail Henderson

One L of a ride

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Top telly presenter Julian Simmons will drive us round the bend for a new telly show. And learner driver Julian, who has never passed a driving test, was showing off his driving skills yesterday — but this time he was behind the wheel of a dodgem and not a car.
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The number 30 bus which was destroyed by a terrorist bomb on July 7th 2006

Our army of secret spies

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Thousands of ordinary Ulster workers have been trained in anti-terror techniques to battle the threat from al-Qaeda and dissident killers, the Sunday Life can reveal.
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Michael Jackson performing live on stage during his

Jackson live

Sunday, 28 June 2009

He was mad, Bad and even Dangerous during his electrifying and eventful life and career. But no matter what, there was never any doubt that music megastar Michael Jackson always put on a Thriller of a show for his millions of devoted fans around the world.
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Michael Jackson

Cops seek new Jacko Doc

Sunday, 28 June 2009

Cops want to speak to a second person in connection with pop star Michael Jackson's death, US reports claimed last night. And Jacko’s family had a second independent post-mortem carried out on the King of Pop’s body last night.
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PUP leader Dawn Purvis

Loyalist terrorists put guns out of use

Sunday, 28 June 2009

The UVF and Red Hand Commandos yesterday declared they have decommissioned ALL of their terrorist weapons. In another announcement the UDA confirmed it has decommissioned a portion of its illegal arsenal and has started a process that will lead to the destruction of all its arms.
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Tourist bus stoned in Belfast

Sunday, 21 June 2009

An open top bus full of tourists had a window smashed when it was stoned by youths in west Belfast today.
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Killer of Kielty's father is dying of cancer

Sunday, 21 June 2009

A loyalist killer who was sentenced to life for the brutal murder of TV funnyman Patrick Kielty’s father is believed to be dying of cancer.
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Rodney Edwards, begging in Belfast

Undercover - treated like a leper begging in Belfast

Sunday, 21 June 2009

Last Thursday I decided to join the ranks of Belfast’s beggars to gauge the Northern Ireland public’s reaction to the growing problem on the city streets.
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Marc and Matthew Elliott

Anguish of couple who must watch their boys die

Sunday, 21 June 2009

A young family has been rocked by a double heartache — both their kids have the same killer disease.
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Priest assaulted during Orange Order march violence

Sunday, 21 June 2009

A Catholic priest was assaulted by a rioter during violence on the streets of north Belfast on Friday night.
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Shannon (right) and Grainne on wedding day

How gay marriage saved me

Sunday, 14 June 2009

The American girl who was “married” in a blaze of publicity to her lesbian lover in Ulster’s first civil partnership nearly four years ago came within an hour of death recently — after falling critically ill with a brain infection.
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Steven Revels went down after Mark Burcombe came forward about the killings of David McIlwaine and Andrew Robb

25 years of crime-busting

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Crimewatch is celebrating its 25th anniversary this month, having helped to put some of the UK’s most dangerous murderers, rapists and child sex monsters behind bars.
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Children born into addict families face a miserable future

Junkies at birth

Sunday, 14 June 2009

‘Junkie’ babies born at Ulster hospitals are being treated for heroin withdrawal. The infants, born to one or two heroin-user parents, are requiring treatment to overcome addiction to heroin and other synthetic heroin substitutes.
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Shirley Ann Holmes

Model worker stole from pal

Sunday, 14 June 2009

This is the glam brunette who has been warned she may face jail after ripping off her model best mate and stealing from her former employers.
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Seamus Daly

This man was part of the gang that killed 29 people in Omagh ... but he’ll never be brought to justice

Sunday, 14 June 2009

A dissident terrorist involved in the Omagh bombing will not face criminal proceedings — despite police efforts to bring him to court. Seamus Daly was one of four men successfully sued by the families of those killed in the Omagh bomb blast in 1998.
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IVF couple get mixed race child

Sunday, 14 June 2009

A Northern Ireland couple who had IVF treatment is suing Belfast health authorities for millions of pounds after a mix-up at the Royal Victoria Hospital resulted in the wife giving birth to a black baby.
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Dowson?s firm operates out of this building, which still bears the name of previous occupants Alphagraphics, who have absolutely no connection with the BNP

BNP’s secret Belfast lair

Sunday, 14 June 2009

The British National Party is peddling its vile fascist propaganda from a secret Belfast bunker. The BNP’s national call centre is tucked away in an industrial estate in Dundonald — right under the nose of First Minister Peter Robinson, who lives just minutes away.
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A policeman wipes a tear from his eye at the crash site while

A community in mourning

Sunday, 14 June 2009

The heartbroken family of one of the three men killed in Friday night’s light aircraft crash in Co Down has said their lives will never be the same again. Tragic Andrew Burden (24) died along with Stephen Annett (24) and Hugh McKnight (53), who was flying the four-seater plane that crashed and burst into flames in a field just outside the harbour town of Kilkeel on Friday night.
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 Jimmy Nesbitt, with his belover mum.

Jimmy’s pain for mum may

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Tv star James Nesbitt has opened his heart about the “terror” of watching his mum lose her battle with Alzheimer’s. The 44-year-old actor was devastated when once-vibrant May Nesbitt was diagnosed with the disease around six years ago.
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