East Belfast pleads for an end to the violence
Over 38 community groups, political parties and churches based in east Belfast have issued a plea for the ongoing violence associated with flag protests to end.However the group in a statement released...
View ArticleAmber weather alert issued as Ulster awaits snow
A blanket of snow is set to cover Britain on Friday with up to 12in (30cm) falling on higher ground, amid fears the latest bout of wintry weather will bring the transport network to its knees.The most...
View ArticleUlster People’s Forum vow to back peaceful flag protests
The Ulster People’s Forum have said they will continue to support peaceful protests in support of the Union flag at Belfast City Hall, and that it is up to protesters if they wish to continue.The...
View Article‘Standstill’ plan to hit rush hour
Operation Standstill is due to take place at the commuter rush hour on Friday night across Belfast. Protests are also set to take place at Taughmonagh in south Belfast from 6pm, at the old town hall in...
View ArticleJoy for Belfast family as hostage is freed
The family of an Irishman held in the Algerian hostage crisis have described their delight at his release after two days of anguish.Father-of-two Stephen McFaul, 36, from west Belfast, made contact...
View ArticleVilliers visits Alliance Party office targeted by protestors
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers visited East Belfast MP Naomi Long’s office yesterday and met several Alliance politicians who have recently been threatened amid the protests in support of the...
View ArticleFlags unrest ‘lightning rod’ for range of gripes
THE director of the Methodist East Belfast Mission says that blaming ongoing flags unrest on UVF members is “lazy” and that the paramilitary group has been working hard to stop violence.Mark Houston...
View Article‘BNP at protests’, it’s confirmed
THE British National Party says that most of its Northern Ireland members are attending flag protests across the Province.Martin McGuinness has said some flag protestors are associated with the party....
View ArticleNolan: I didn’t lose control
PRESENTER Stephen Nolan has rejected claims that a “loyalist mob” was allowed to control this week’s episode of his BBC television show.During the latest Nolan Show, broadcast on Wednesday evening, the...
View Article‘Stroke treatment saved my life’
ELIZABETH Ferguson was out having a meal with friends and family when she suffered a stroke.“It came over me so suddenly - this terrible feeling,” recalls the 63-year-old from east Belfast. “It was...
View ArticleUnionist Forum ‘is a waste of time’
THREE-quarters of people who took part in a News Letter poll think the Unionist Forum is a “waste of time”.Readers cast their votes during our live webchat yesterday with leading east Belfast community...
View ArticleCardinal Brady announces new appointment
Leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady is to retire by 2015 at the earliest.Monsignor Eamon Martin, diocesan administrator of the Diocese of Derry, has been appointed assistant...
View ArticleMinister’s pledge on Savita inquest
A coroner has promised the husband of an Indian dentist who died after she suffered a miscarriage in Ireland that her inquest will be transparent and open to public scrutiny.Savita Halappanavar died in...
View ArticleSix arrested after flag trouble
Six men have been arrested after recent trouble over the flag protests.The men, aged 18, 24, 34, 39, 44 and 49 were arrested on Friday morning in Newtownabbey, Greenisland, Carrickfergus and Greater...
View ArticleAllister and Paisley Jr settle leaflet libel case
RIVAL unionists Jim Allister and Ian Paisley Jr have settled their libel case over the contents of an election leaflet.The resolution was confirmed ahead of a jury trial that was due to begin at the...
View ArticleFuture pension plans leaves a generation of pensioners behind
IS your head spinning with all this new pension information? Mine certainly is and whilst Minister for Pensions Steve Webb made an effort to set out the new plans in the national press this week, I’m...
View ArticleHard choices for glamorous Christine
NEVER mind the political problems we have these days, some of us are occupied by the possibility that our own glamorous celebrity Christine Bleakely might have to decamp to the ‘shores of Americay’...
View ArticleUlster doctors lead the way
I ONLY found out this week that if you live in Northern Ireland you have a much higher chance of getting medical help if you happen to be suffering from dementia. Across the UK hundreds of thousands of...
View ArticleStormont could do with some new blood
THIS newspaper’s interview recently with prominent loyalist protestor Jamie Bryson was extremely revealing. This is a young man – he is 22 – who has shaken the hand of Martin McGuinness and who, when...
View ArticleMcCallister: Unionism and a shared future
Below is the full and unedited speech by John McCallister“Beyond ‘separate but equal’: Unionism and a shared future”“The whole map of Europe has been changed ... but as the deluge subsides and the...
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