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Live and Local Podcast - Supporting Live Local Music On The Isle Of Wight Northern Ireland: Emergency meeting to be held as violence resumes in Belfast - with a bus hijacked and set on fire Violence has again resumed on the streets of Belfast ahead of an emergency meeting of the Northern Ireland Assembly, with a bus hijacked and set on fire and a photographer attacked. The scenes on Wednesday evening followed several nights of unrest in loyalist communities amid tensions over the controversial ...

Police said the bus was pelted with petrol bombs at the junction of Lanark Way and Shankill Road in west Belfast, while stones were thrown at officers and a press photographer was assaulted nearby. Kevin Scott, photographer for the Belfast Telegraph, explained: "Id went to move my car at one point, realising that the situation was ever-changing. "And as I was walking to my vehicle I heard footsteps running behind me, and when I turned around I was being attacked by one male - while another one...

Disturbances have broken out in Newtownabbey fuelling fears of another night of trouble ahead in Northern Ireland.

Graffiti with the name of Tanaiste Leo Varadkar and an address on the wall on Belvoir Street off the lower Newtownards Road in east Belfast (Liam McBurney/PA) A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) spokesperson said officers are aware of the graffiti, and inquiries are ongoing. In January, sinister graffiti targeting Mr Varadkar appeared in the Belvoir area of south Belfast. It warned the Tanaiste not to cross the Irish border. That daubing was condemned by politicians from across the poli...

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating the latest graffiti threat against Leo Varadkar in Belfast. The Tanaiste’s address was daubed on a wall at the junction of the Newtownards Road and Belvoir Street in the east of the city. It is the latest of a number of daubings in Northern Ireland amid anger among some at the Brexit Protocol, with a raft of new checks on goods arriving at ports from Great Britain introduced at the start of 2021. A Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) spokespe...

BORIS JOHNSON has been urged to break away from the Brexit agreement with the EU on Northern Ireland, as the country may be stuck with the blocs vaccination programme from January 2022.

In that time several major retailers, including Debenhams and Arcadia Group, have collapsed. On the main shopping street from City Hall to Castlecourt shopping centre, other long-established companies such as Eason have also closed. “You walk down Royal Avenue from City Hall, and look at old photographs, even from the ’90s, the crowds of people and shops compared to now,” he told the PA news agency. Belfast Beat Newsletter Enter email address Sign Up “We have been here for a long time a...

Owner of one of Belfasts oldest shops Old Time Favourites speaks of fears for high street The business dates back to 1905 - but its owner fears that the high street may never recover Eugene Donnelly at his Belfast sweet shop Old Time Favourites (Image: Niall Carson/PA Wire) Want the biggest politics stories sent to you every week? Simply sign up here and well do the restInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provid...

A FURIOUS row erupted after Britain set out plans to scrap swathes Brussels red tape for Northern Ireland.

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