Part of ward closed over norovirus
Part of a hospital ward remained closed off today after a suspected outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.Eighteen patients and staff at Antrim Area Hospital have been affected by suspected norovirus.One...
View ArticleFamily say goodbye to army medic
The heartbroken brother of an Army medic gunned down on patrol in Afghanistan kissed her Union flag draped coffin as he lifted it on to his shoulder today.Aaron Day closed his tear-filled eyes and drew...
View ArticleOver 50s shopping scheme launched
A new scheme to encourage over-50s to shop in Belfast recognises the vital role that the generation plays in society, the lord mayor has said.Gavin Robinson made his comments as he helped launch the Be...
View ArticleWings guitarist remains critical
The 69-year-old, from Portstewart, Northern Ireland, was taken ill on Monday night after suffering a heart attack.McCullough, who played with Joe Cocker at the famous Woodstock festival in 1969, is...
View ArticleEnniskillen 25 years on; The Poppy Day bombing
ALMOST two decades after republican terrorists launched a vicious campaign of violence in Northern Ireland, the bombing of a Remembrance Day parade in Enniskillen reverberated around the world as a...
View ArticleTheatre looks forward after 35 years of drama
LIAM Neeson, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Stephen Fry, Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie are just a few of the household names that have graced the boards of the University of Ulster’s Riverside Theatre in...
View ArticleFlybe targets costs in turbulent market
Regional airline Flybe, which operates a range of routes from George Best Belfast City Airport, has warned jobs may be at risk as it slashes costs after the most challenging conditions in its 10-year...
View ArticleBank sticks on interest rates
THE Bank of England resisted unveiling more emergency measures to support the UK recovery yesterday as the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) held interest rates at 0.5 per cent and held quantitative...
View ArticleTributes at funeral of Corporal Channing Day
Hundreds of people joined family and friends of army medic Corporal Channing Day for her funeral in Northern Ireland today.The 25-year-old who served with 3 Medical Regiment became the third British...
View ArticleEnniskillen bomb victim’s son appeals for no more violence
A man who lost his father after the IRA killed Remembrance Sunday worshippers marked the 25th anniversary of the attack by appealing for no return to violence.Days after the shooting dead of a prison...
View ArticleDaniel McKay suspect freed from custody
A man being held by detectives investigating the murder of Daniel McKay was released from custody on Thursday night.A spokeswoman for the PSNI said the 49-year-old, who was detained in the New Lodge...
View ArticleCarrick Hill residents’ group unhelpful say Apprentice Boys
THE Apprentice Boys and the DUP have both expressed their disappointment after a nationalist residents’ group threatened to hold an “even bigger protest than originally planned” following a ruling that...
View ArticleTurkish murder accused due in court
TWO men accused of murdered two Co Down women are due in court in Turkey on Friday.Marion Graham and Cathy Dinsmore from Newry and Warrenpoint were murdered while on holiday in 2011.Wyup Cetin and his...
View ArticleQuinn Group property set alight
POLICE are appealing for information after a report of arson at business premises thought to belong to the Quinn Group.The fire at an electrical substation on a windfarm at the Ballyconnell Road in...
View ArticleMan released in David Black murder inquiry
A man arrested in connection with the murder of prison officer David Black in Northern Ireland has been released unconditionally.The 46-year-old from Lurgan, Co Armagh, was the fourth man detained and...
View ArticleUS election – history in the making
AS it happened, in the end the US Presidential election was not as close run a contest as was predicted.However, the fact that the pollsters couldn’t call it, made these last weeks of the campaign very...
View ArticleChristmas is coming but taxman comes first
I DO like all those Christmas house and home type magazines in the shops this month. Too extravagant for me of course but I do buy them as a gift if someone invites me for lunch. Then there are the...
View ArticleSupplements are vital for health
A REPORT out says millions of us have stopped buying vitamin supplements probably as a response to the economic downturn. The UK market in health supplements is still worth £385 million, up 2.7 per...
View ArticleA wartime story still to be told
WILLIAM Delaney, Robert Habington, Brendan Doherty, Robert Apling, Albert Lyttle, Eric Heaton and Roy Gilliland went to war and never came back. I studied the names of these young men on the headstones...
View ArticleMessages with a double meaning
DAVID Cameron promised before the last election he would not be interfering with the bus pass and fuel allowance for pensioners. Work and Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith says this week he...
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