On remand
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The Prison Service charged with failing its young offenders
Northern Ireland
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Cardiac bed cuts 'are a mistake'
BBC News (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The closure of 12 beds for heart patients in the Belfast Trust area has been branded a "mistake" by a leading charity.
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“I think he’s a false teacher..”
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Whilst a lot of the coverage might be concentrated on the issue of women bishops , Will Crawley points out that there may be civil war among the Anglican clergy. My own view of the Un-Enlightenment , the influence of Emperor Constantine , and today’s battles, is already available online.
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Porno plane for Brown?
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
If he doesn’t know already, Gordon Brown will know it now. A PM in political trouble at home is a PM under attack everywhere. Like John Major and Back to Basics, nemesis has caught up with him in the shape of the hacks on his plane to the G8 in Japan. As we know, Brown is a Press-button B Scrooge. He reminds me of that old rogue in “Kidnapped” who fed his ravenous nephew Davy Balfour on “Purrige and...
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Man dies, one injured in accident
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
One man is killed and another is seriously injured after a car crashes into a wall in Kilkeel, County Down.
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AFL scout session angers Brennan
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
GAA president Nickey Brennan reacts furiously after an AFL scouting session is held at Kingspan Breffni Park.
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Two men killed in bus, car crash
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two men are killed in a road accident involving two cars and the Larne Express bus in County Antrim.
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Ambulance Hours
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
The ambulance service is having to make savings of 3% this year. Their solution seems to be to cut the number of ambulance hours. In order to do this they will replace some two crew ambulances with single crew rapid response vehicles. These are usually cars with appropriate equipment. The paramedic in these vehicles will assess and treat the patient. S/he can then decide whether or not the person needs...
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Police given more time to quiz murders suspect
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Police were granted more time today to question a 33-year-old man over the deaths of two French students.
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No surrender to clampers
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
I cannot find this on the BBC web site but I heard on Radio Ulster this morning that if cars have three or more outstanding parking fines registered to them they can be clamped and towed away. This is an attempt to prevent people ignoring parking fines and apparently they will have received multiple written warnings before clamping occurs. Now it might be inappropriate for me to tell everyone this...
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Anti-social repossessions double
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Repossession of Housing Executive properties due to antisocial behaviour almost doubles in 12 months, it emerges.
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Pandora's Box, Chaos theory and Fermanagh
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | yesterday
Pandora's Box was a box which contained all the bad things in the world and when opened released them. Now the term is often used for a dangerous and unpredictable set of things that can happen. I believe Chaos theory is a bit similar with the idea that a butterfly flapping its wings can cause a hurricane. Essentially this is about the unpredictability of complex systems. My final analogy is from Luke...
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Not To Politicise Gaelic or Anything, but...
Everything Ulster (Free subscription) | yesterday
Miller wants Gaelic-medium schools to drop A-levels. Writing in the Andersonstown News (page 10, hope that link works with their dodgy site), Marty Miller has suggested Gaelic-language schools drop A-levels to strike a blow for a united Ireland. "The schools in [Northern Ireland] should follow the same curriculum as their counterparts in the Irish medium sector in the [Republic]. That means pupils...
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Loyalist Haddock seeks media ban
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A loyalist at the centre of collusion allegations begins a High Court attempt to ban the media from reporting his whereabouts.
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Hijackers drag woman from her car
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
A woman has been dragged from her car and threatened during a hijacking in Belfast city centre.
