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Driver killed his elderly mother in crash tragedy

Crime

Woman stabbed, bound, suffocated pensioner three years ago today – could she be free this month?

Crime

The Duke of Edinburgh who has been involved in a road traffic accident close to the Sandringham Estate but was not injured. Photo: Aaron Chown/PA Wire

Prince Philip crash road may have speed limit cut

Transport

Traffic and travel: avoid collision this morning

News

Ken Clarke blasts ‘sectarian’ DUP

News

Belfast Brexit conference organisers have pre-ordained agenda, claims MLA

News

PSNI return seized files to Jamie Bryson

News

Sammy Wilson: If EU refuses to ditch Brexit backstop then UK can leave without a deal

Opinion

The Duke of Edinburgh behind the wheel. Archive pic by Haydn West/PA Wire

Duke of Edinburgh ‘shocked and shaken’ after car accident near Sandringham

News

A British soldier stands guard for the last time at Fort Whiterock Army Base in West Belfast in 1999 as bulldozers moved in to dismantle the remains of the 20 year-old base which had been home to more than 7,500 troops and witnessed some of the worst of the Troubles. (Photo: Pacemaker)

British Army to deploy throughout U.K. as government plans for 'no deal' Brexit

Politics

Politics More Politics >>

Ken Clarke blasts ‘sectarian’ DUP

News

Political commentator Brian Feeney (left) and solicitor Niall Murphy, of Ireland's Future - a collective of Irish citizens living in the region seeking to highlight the potential impact of Brexit on their rights and livelihoods, which is organising the Beyond Brexit gathering in Belfast. Pic: David Young/PA Wire

Belfast Brexit conference organisers have pre-ordained agenda, claims MLA

News

MPs announcing that Prime Minister Theresa May had lost massively a vote on her Brexit plan in the House of Commons, London on January 15, 2019. Sammy Wilson says: "The toxic deal united disparate House of Commons elements despite the views of the great and the good, the chattering classes and some in the NI business community. Photo: UK Parliament/Mark Duffy/PA Wire

Sammy Wilson: If EU refuses to ditch Brexit backstop then UK can leave without a deal

Opinion

A British soldier stands guard for the last time at Fort Whiterock Army Base in West Belfast in 1999 as bulldozers moved in to dismantle the remains of the 20 year-old base which had been home to more than 7,500 troops and witnessed some of the worst of the Troubles. (Photo: Pacemaker)

British Army to deploy throughout U.K. as government plans for 'no deal' Brexit

Politics

Crime More Crime >>

Driver killed his elderly mother in crash tragedy

Crime

Woman stabbed, bound, suffocated pensioner three years ago today – could she be free this month?

Crime

Loyalist activist Jamie Bryson outside the High Court in Belfast as he has launched a High Court challenge against the legality of warrants used to search his premises. Photo: David Young/PA Wire

PSNI return seized files to Jamie Bryson

News

Alderman John Finlay, DUP

Burglar sprays substance into pensioner’s eyes

Crime

Farming More Farming >>

Focus on ‘Farming for future years’

Farming

Pacemaker Press Belfast 10-01-2019: George Haslett pictured at Musgrave Park Hospital in Belfast, Northern Ireland.'Picture By: Arthur Allison Pacemaker.

‘I was on a high but life can change in a blink’

Farming

Owner Jamie Beattie with office manager Jill McGeown display some of the toys available at the rural business

Little tractors are key to firm’s big expansion

Farming

The dead calves which were dumped in Stoneyford

Six dead calves found dumped in Co Antrim

Farming

Education More Education >>

Education Authority defends dropping Irish language translation from its logo

Education

James Maxwell.

New Carrick principal ‘looking forward to new challenge’

Education

A view of the proposed new SRC campus.

New £45m Southern Regional College campus in Craigavon gets go-head despite opposition

Business

Concerned parents attending the public meeting

Anger by parents at plan to close campus at split school

Education

Business More Business >>

Construction sounds positive note with 5.5% growth in Q3 2018

Business

Boost MD Simon Gray, left, celebrates a record year with Gareth Hardy, MD of distributors Hardy Sales and Marketing Ltd (HSMNI)

Boost enjoys record year in Northern Ireland

Business

Under strand 3 of the 1998 Belfast Agreement London and Dublin should establish a Northern Ireland Brexit Stakeholder Forum which includes trade unions, says Owen Reidy

ICTU: In absence of devolution, Northern Ireland needs a Stakeholder Forum to examine Brexit

Opinion

Amanda Stretton, motoring editor at Confused.com

‘NI drivers now forking out £931 a year for car insurance’

Business

Transport More Transport >>

Prince Philip crash road may have speed limit cut

Transport

The Met Office issued the warning of ice on Wednesday morning.

Roads being gritted, but drivers warned to be wary

Transport

Man arrested after woman in her 80s is hit by car

Transport

M1 motorway closed after crash involving vehicle transporter

Transport

Traffic

Traffic and travel: Collision causing major delays for Belfast-bound traffic

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Environment More Environment >>

Log burners and house coal to be banned in fight against air pollution

Environment

Flood defences beside the Connswater River in east Belfast

Flood threat to 45,000 Northern Ireland properties

Environment

Sinn Fein Cllr Fergal Lennon at the River Closet where there appears to be thousands of dead fish

Call for probe after major ‘fish kill’ in Co Armagh river

Environment

The Nature Friendly Farming Network said food security could be at risk without action

Farm campaigners call for minimum environmental standards after Brexit

Farming

A red squirrel foraging for food in the woodlands outside Mount Stewart in Co. Down

Red squirrels reclaim Ards peninsula

Environment

Health More Health >>

Larne volunteer recognised by stroke charity for ‘empathy with new members’

Health

A new nursing campaign has been launched to tackle the plight of homeless people.

Homeless people in NI ‘20 times more likely to die from drug misuse’

Health

Photo of an examination taken of a packet of painkillers lodged in a woman's throat, which remained undetected by doctors for almost three weeks. Pic: BMJ Journals/PA Wire

NI woman had plastic pill packet lodged in her throat for 17 days

Health

Police surround GP Out of Hours Service at Craigavon Hospital

PSNI say man at GP Out of Hours stand-off was ‘taken to safety’

News

The dangers of alcohol

Alcohol-related deaths in NI soar - to all-time high

Health