Webchat: Protest speaker Jamie Bryson shook McGuinness’ hand
JAMIE Bryson - one of the most prominent speakers at the ongoing flag protests - shook the hand of Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness two years ago.In an exclusive webchat with the News Letter website on...
View ArticleShould Forums work together?
This week the Unionist Forum - made up of a number of politicians and community representatives - met for the first time. Just a day earlier the self-proclaimed People’s Forum gave a press conference...
View ArticleAttwood denies barrier to John Lewis store bid
MINISTER Alex Attwood yesterday denied an attempt to interfere in the controversial application for a John Lewis store outside Lisburn as he issued policy guidelines restricting retail development at...
View ArticleHonda to axe 800 jobs at Swindon
JAPANESE car giant Honda is to cut 800 jobs at its UK factory after a slump in demand across Europe it said yesterday.Workers at the firm’s plant in Swindon, which employs 3,500, were told the news as...
View ArticleBe tree-wise to ash dieback
As ash dieback continues to threaten the future of Britain’s ash trees, HANNAH STEPHENSON examines the problem and offers a guide showing gardeners what to look out for in their own treesASH dieback...
View ArticleUnionist Forum is told flag plan may not work
THURSDAY’S pan-unionist meeting at Stormont was told that a plan to increase the Union Flag days at Stormont is in jeopardy because two unionist MLAs may not support it, the News Letter understands.The...
View ArticleDon’t ignore real causes of protests - Dr John Kyle
AN East Belfast councillor says a “preoccupation” with paramilitary involvement in recent rioting is distracting people from the real causes of widespread flags-related anger.Those are the views of Dr...
View ArticleIn pictures: Four officers injured in latest violence
Four police officers have been injured in another night of loyalist rioting linked to the Union flag row in Northern Ireland.One of the officers required hospital treatment as some protests again...
View ArticleSecurity alert closes rail line
A SECURITY alert in Belfast on Saturday morning has forced the closure of a railway line.Police say army bomb disposal officers are examining a suspicious object that was found in Donegall Avenue in...
View ArticlePhotographer robbed at knife-point after flag violence
A PRESS photographer had thousands of pounds worth of camera equipment stolen from him at knife-point in Newtownabbey, after covering the violence which flared on Friday night.A PSNI spokesman said the...
View ArticleProbe continues into woman’s death
Police are continuing to investigate the sudden death of a woman in Co Londonderry, earlier this week.A DUP councillor said the Tobermore community had been left ‘shocked and saddened’ by the death of...
View ArticleAnalysis: Legal loophole could return flag
News Letter political correspondent Sam McBride gives his analysis of the options for Unionists seeking to return the Union Flag to Belfast City Hall.THE number of days the Union Flag flies from...
View ArticleUlster cleric comforts murder victim’s widow
A FORMER Co Armagh man who is chief executive of the Church Army in England is foremost in comforting the family of Alan Greaves, the Church of England lay reader and organist who died after an attack...
View ArticleWe need to face reality over stores
THE growth in out-town-stores in Northern Ireland is a welcome manifestation of growing normality post-Troubles, but also the growing prosperity that the Province and most other parts of the western...
View ArticleMan admits using flag riot as diversion for robbery
A man who used a riot as a “diversion” to rob a filling station was remanded into custody on Saturday.A detective constable told Belfast Crown Court that during rioting on the O’Neill Road in...
View ArticlePregnant woman threatened with gun
A pregnant woman was threatened with a gun in an attempted hijacking outside Belfast’s Mater Hospital on Friday night.Police say a man walked up to the woman who was with her mother-in-law as they got...
View ArticleIn pictures: More officers injured as protestors and nationalists clash
VIOLENCE has broken out in Belfast on Saturday, with report of clashes between flags protesters and nationalists.Four police officers have been injured and taken to hospital for treatment.It is...
View Article29 police hurt in flag row clashes
NORTHERN Ireland’s most senior police officer has praised his “courageous” colleagues after sectarian rioting left 29 members of the force injured.Police Service of Northern Ireland chief constable...
View Article1000 attend peace rally
Around a thousand people have attended a peace rally today at Belfast City Hall.A lot of young people and families joined the demonstration but they pointedly stood on the pavement rather than blocking...
View ArticleMan charged over cocaine find
A 32-year-old man is expected to appear in Banbridge Magistrates court on Monday charged with fraudulently importing a Class A controlled drug and possessing a Class A controlled drug and possessing a...
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