A former bodybuilding champion who battered his fiancé to death on their wedding day because she decided to call off the marriage still refuses to accept responsibility for his crime.
Cool FM DJ will not be presenting Sunday morning show while social media posts examined Cool FM DJ Andy Baird. 11 January, 2021 01:00
COOL FM has said DJ Andy Baird will not be presenting his Sunday morning show while it examines social media posts.
It follows comments posted on his Twitter account about Donald Trump and the recent violence in Washington DC, along with posts describing the coronavirus crisis a scamdemic .
His social media presence on both Twitter and Facebook appeared last night to have been deleted.
The presenter, described as the superhero of the station on Cool FM s website, hosts a breakfast show every Sunday.
A businessman who admits breaking coronavirus rules has denied throwing super-spreader parties at the rear of his shop.
Marko Kolev says he is the victim of untrue rumours and there have been no illegal gatherings at his food store on Ballymena s Linenhall Street. That s not true, there have been no parties here, look for yourself, said the 30-year-old pointing to a large room with a pool table. I don t know why people say there have been parties because there have not been parties.
However, he did admit attending a 50-strong New Year s Eve celebration on Kinhilt Street that flaunted Covid-19 regulations and which was held just yards away from Ballymena PSNI station. The scenes were criticised by politicians as was the poor police response time, with DUP MLA Mervyn Storey branding it reckless .
ONE jab and a world of hope. Northern Ireland s most vulnerable people with disabilities received their first coronavirus vaccine yesterday in the battle against the deadly pandemic.
Residential homes and supported living services in Northern Ireland have suffered a torrid year with both residents and staff facing unprecedented challenges.
But yesterday there was hope at leading disability charity Leonard Cheshire NI as tenants and staff received their first shot of the vaccine.
Among those to receive the vaccine was Leonard Cheshire NI Director Fiona McCabe, whose staff have displayed heroic efforts and faced significant challenges since the virus emerged last March.