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Health Minister Edwin Poots with Dr William Dickey, Colonoscopy Quality Assurance Lead for Northern Ireland,

‘Bowel cancer test may save your life’

BOWEL cancer is the second most common cancer in Northern Ireland and claims the lives of 400 local people each year, but when detected at a very early stage there is a 90 per cent successful treatment rate.

Bowel cancer patient Margaret Fenton, from Omagh, shows off the life-saving bowel cancer test along with Dr Janet Little, Assistant Director of Service Development and Screening at the Public Health Agency and Larne bowel cancer patient Alaster Smyth at the PHA launch of its bowel cancer screening programme awareness campaign.

‘I feel lucky cancer was detected’

Alaster Smyth, 68, from Glynn, near Larne in Co Antrim praises the bowel cancer screening programme, led by the Public Health Agency, for saving his life.

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George VI: remembering the monarch 60 years on

King George VI died peacefully in his sleep at Sandringham on February 6, 1952 and his death was the occasion of a great outpouring of national grief. Local historian GORDON LUCY reflects on monarch’s life

Pacemaker Press Belfast 21-01-2012: Hilary Glenn pictured at her home in Dromore on facebook . Silver Facebookers feature. Picture By: Arthur Allison.

Silver surfers face up to social networking

If we’re complaining that our children are too busy to talk to us, there is one medium through which we can be sure of keeping up with their adventures - Facebook. And more older people then ever before are logging on to this popular website, as LAURA MURPHY finds out when she meets two ‘silver Facebookers’

‘I’m back in touch with people’

ABOUT two years ago Co Down woman Hilary Glenn set up a Facebook profile and received her first friend request.

Showbiz rss

Jolie pens script about Afghanistan

Angelina Jolie has revealed she has written a script focusing on the conflict in Afghanistan.

Billy Bob Thornton back as director

Billy Bob Thornton has revealed his frustration at the state of films in America prompted him to direct his first feature in more than a decade.

The Artist wins seven Bafta gongs

The Artist made a big noise at the Bafta film awards - winning seven awards including Best Film, Leading Actor and Best Director.

Witt vows to calm cleavage storm

Dancing On Ice judge Katarina Witt, whose cleavage has caused a frenzy among the show's fans, says she will be more careful about how much she gets off her chest in future.

Singer Shaw splits from DJ husband

Former Hear'Say star Suzanne Shaw and her DJ husband Jason King are to separate.

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