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Belfast's next few Lord Mayors are to be chauffered around in a Kia EV6.

Belfast Lord Mayor set to slum it as he’s bumped from plush Audi to cheaper Kia

Max the dog.

Max the dog could be saved from death row after council u-turn

Representing a £9million investment in the town, Lidl Northern Ireland opened the doors of its new store in Carryduff this morning, with huge crowds queuing from early for the opportunity to be the first shoppers to explore the aisles

Huge crowds as shoppers go crazy at one of biggest Lidl NI store openings

Lisburn’s Rosie McNeill pictured with her popular Cookie Monster cupcakes

Love Your Local: NI mum reveals how her fundraising cake hobby rose to success

Trawler men unload their catch at Peterhead fish market, Scotland; there have been reports of imports of Scottish fish being turned back at Belfast port

City council reacts to 'Irish seafood border' complaints

From left: Conchúr Ó Muadaigh, Advocacy Manager with Conradh na Gaeilge, Seán Ó hEacháin, Head of Irish at Coláiste Feirste, Daniel Holder, Director CAJ, Eoghan Ó Garmaile, Community Worker at Glór na Móna, Una Boyd, Claire Donnelly, Principal of local Irish Medium primary and nursery school Scoil an Droichid, Cuisle Nic Liam, Language Rights Coordinator with Conradh na Gaeilge, Hilary Perry, Membership Coordinator at PILS.

Irish language campaigners win legal battle over Olympia Leisure Centre signs

The Ulster Folk and Transport Museum is one of the finest in Europe, displays Ireland's largest and most comprehensive transport collection, from horse-drawn carts to Irish built motor cars, and from the mighty steam locomotives that graced our railways to the history of ship and aircraft building. Picture: Tony Pleavin/Northern Ireland Tourist Board

New transport museum scheme could cost £40,000 (1959)

Gordon Elliott. (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)

Down Royal 'great day' for Gordon Elliott thanks to five-timer

Cancer Focus NI opens new high street store in Lisburn

Londonderry boasts the biggest Halloween celebration in Europe

Get the lowdown on Halloween celebrations across Northern Ireland tonight

A 20mph Speed Limit

Crashes cut by 20mph speed limit

Green light for major apartment complex beside Titanic Belfast

Efforts made to protect areas vulnerable to flooding

New efforts to protect Belfast flooding 'hot spots'

NI council workers set to strike over offer of 1.75% pay hike

Councillors had voted in favour of lighting up Belfast City Hall tonight to mark the Northern Ireland Centenary.

Photograph by Declan Roughan / Presseye

Sinn Fein blocking light up of Belfast City Hall for NI Centenary

Letter to the editor

Boris not to be trusted? Finally the penny drops!
Do DUP promises have any value?
By The Newsroom

Knockagh Monument, Greenisland

Knockagh Monument upkeep funds have now been paid by partner councils

Smithfield Market in Belfast

THROUGH THE ARCHIVES: From the News Letter of February 1956

Belfast City Council has made decisions on a number of planning applications

City council approves £95m urban village comprising 653 homes and 19 storey apar...

Valerie Brown, Plumpy Balms

Balmy online success for local entrepreneur Valerie following Digi-Growth aid

A crowd listens to former Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams speak during the funeral of senior Irish Republican and former leading IRA figure Bobby Storey at Milltown Cemetery in west Belfast. PA Photo. Picture date: Tuesday June 30, 2020. By Liam McBurney/PA Wire

We’ve already seen glimpses of what a SF-run united Ireland would be like

Simon Lee and Michelle Guy from Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council and Elaine Crory and Emma Wallace from Raise Your Voice launch a new campaign to help end sexual harassment against women

Councils support campaign to make misogyny a hate crime

A PR firm employed by Nigel Grimshaw and Suzanne Wylie yesterday made no comment about the situation

Council officials’ threat to quit does not deter parties backing independent pro...

John Finucane.

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Son of murdered solicitor expected to be new lord mayor of Belfast

Mrs Joan Christie with Chief Executive David Burns and Mayor Uel Mackin during a tree planting ceremony at Lagan Valley Island after she received the Freedom of the City of Lisburn and Castlereagh.

Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye

Joan Christie becomes first Freeman of Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council

Irish language protestors dressed in red during an event in 2017. Belfast City Hall will be lit in red tomorrow

Anger as Belfast City Hall to be lit up in support of Irish language act

Belfast remains a major retail centre - without a retail centre

Belfast traders need sure support regardless of building's fate
It's now a month since that devastating fire tore the heart out of Primark's Bank Building store and in the process blocked the centre of Belfast's prime retail area in a stroke.
By The Newsroom

An impression of the planned development at Belfast Waterside

Belfast ready for '˜business on a gobal scale'

Ultra-Lightweight race winner Christian Elkin leads Paul Robinson and Gary Dunlop on Thursday.

Ulster Grand Prix: Thursday's race results

Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn,

Celebration to mark 70th anniversary of hospital

Culture night

Culture night in Â£1 million boost to Belfast's economy

Belfast councillor Jolene Bunting

Belfast councillor under fire after defence of '˜racist' leaflets

Dozens of tyres illegally dumped on a rural road on the outskirts of Lisburn.

Surveillance measures being used to catch fly-tippers

PACEMAKER BELFAST 17/01/2018
Save the Market protest Sunshine not Skyscrapers outside the High Court in Belfast this morning.

Residents allowed to widen challenge to Â£55m Belfast development

A computer-generated image of the entrance to the proposed Â£6m distillery development at Killaney Lodge, Carryduff.

Go-ahead for Â£6m whiskey distillery project

The proposed devevelopment

Build to rent proposal '˜an opportunity' for Belfast

Letters to editor

EU's Capital of Culture move is so petty and spiteful

A generic image of a dog being captured by authorities in England

Single council accounted for 39% of dogs destroyed by local authorities

The average life expectancies in Northern Ireland for men and women are 78.3 and 82.3 years respectively.

REVEALED: Life expectancy in your area

Sandra Chapman

Make bonfires smaller but proposed ban is not justified

A loyalist bonfire at Bloomfield Walkway in Belfast. Police in Northern Ireland have warned their resources could be stretched amid growing fears of tension around the burning of Eleventh night bonfires. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Monday July 10, 2017. See PA story ULSTER Twelfth. Photo credit should read: PA Wire

Sinn Fein accused of being '˜bonfire police' after motion passed

Jayden Braniff, three, at a bonfire in Sandy Row

Sandy Row party goes ahead after funding withheld by council

A computer generated image of how One Bankmore Square will look

Â£65m office development will set new standards for Belfast

L-R: Ulster Grand Prix supporters club members Des Stewart, Vanda Robinson, Alderman James Tinsley and Gail Bailie.

Thousands opposed '¨to plans for cemetery

Tom Ekin: We need to speed up the removing of all barriers

Lidl move okayed

Lidl store move wins green light

Rory McIlroy gets behind '˜extraordinary' Belfast on St Patrick's Day

Court

Judge quashes planning approval for 90 new west Belfast houses

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