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Business News

Belfast's award-winning Ginger restaurant to expand

Belfast restaurant Ginger Bistro is expanding and taking on the neighbouring former Ulster Scots Agency building.

Northern Ireland

GPs defend £10 fee for signing Irish passport forms

Doctors in Northern Ireland have carved out a lucrative financial sideline.

Section of the Berlin Wall given to Belfast

Northern Ireland

Could part of Berlin Wall inspire fall of Belfast's peace barriers?

Belfast is home to section of an infamous barrier - the Berlin Wall.

Northern Ireland

Dairy farmers asked to repay loans and leave banks

A number of dairy farmers have received 'exit' letters from their banks.

Belfast's hotel boom: Where the 3,747 new rooms will be located

Asian investors are eyeing up future hotel developments in Belfast, it has emerged.

Family members of Jill Elder (43) carry her coffin from her Kilrea on Wednesday afternoon.

Northern Ireland

'Wonderful' Jill Elder laid to rest after car park tragedy

Funeral of Coleraine woman who was killed in a freak tragedy has taken place.

Northern Ireland

Daniel McCoglan inquest 'delay'- court victory for dad

Catholic postman was murdered by loyalist paramilitaries.

News

IRA offered weapons for Boorman film Zardof

IRA once offered to supply guns for use in one of director's movies.

The photograph of Dunluce Castle at sunset that won the top prize in the competition

Northern Ireland

Winning snap of Dunluce proved miles better than rest

Photographer cycled from Belfast to Portrush and back 15 times to get show.

Suzanne Devitt suffers permanent double vision after a brutal attack

Woman jumped on my face and her six-inch heel tore into my eye - now I’ve rebuilt my life and I want to help others do the same

After suffering a brutal attack 11 years ago that left her with permanent double vision, Dublin woman Suzanne Devitt has struggled ever since to rebuild her life.

Foyle Street-based Translink bus drivers Noel Christy (left) and Johnny McLaughlin, who have 80 years of service between them

Northern Ireland

Busmen hijacked countless times still love job after 40 years

Bus drivers from Londonderry have 80 years behind wheel between them.

Peers back Labour-led move to guarantee the rights of EU nationals living in the UK

Brexit

Brexit: Government suffers defeat in Lords over plan to leave EU

The Government has suffered a damaging defeat in the House of Lords.

Rangers

Rangers 3-2 St Johnstone: Gers seal first win in over a month

Emerson Hyndman scores stoppage-time winner for 10-man Rangers.

Celtic

Inverness 0-4 Celtic: Hoops move 27 points clear at the top

Celtic are 27 points clear at the top of the Ladbrokes Premiership.

John Edwards was 'buried alive' at Willowfield Church. Pic Colm Lenaghan/Pacemaker

Live Man buried alive in Belfast

An east Belfast church is to hold a funeral with a very big difference.

Barry 'The Blender' Henderson gets tough on 'litterizers' messing up the countryside

Mixed martial arts legend to tackle 'litterizers'.

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Tributes paid to former SDLP MLA PJ Bradley

The former SDLP South Down MLA PJ Bradley has died.

Aftermath of the attack on the woman’s VW Golf

Paint bomb attack on Polish woman's car not a hate crime, says PSNI

Police say they are not treating an incident in which a Polish woman's car was paint-bombed overnight as a hate crime.

A complaint was lodged with City Hall officials and salmon was offered at the last minute at the regular free dinner for councillors before their monthly meeting. Stock image

Councillors served fish after SDLP complaint

An SDLP politician objected that fish wasn't on the menu at City Hall last night for Catholic councillors who didn't want to eat meat on Ash Wednesday.

Northern Ireland

John Edwards, the founder of Walking Free, a charity set up to help suicidal and addicted people, prepares for his church ‘burial

'I plan to speak to desperate people from the...

Climbing into a coffin to spend three days buried alive, John Edwards looked remarkably...

Winning snap of Dunluce proved miles better...

A photographer who cycled from Belfast to Portrush and back 15 times to get the perfect light for a...

Derry busmen hijacked countless times at...

Two bus drivers from Londonderry with an incredible 80 years behind the wheel between them...

'Wonderful' Coleraine woman Jill Elder laid to rest...

The funeral of a "wonderful" Coleraine woman who was killed in a freak tragedy last week...

UK

Sir Mike Richards has voiced concerns about patient safety

NHS on 'burning platform' over patient safety - hospital inspectors

The NHS "stands on a burning platform" with four out of five trusts needing to...

World

Lewis Hamilton shares his Snapchat pictures and video with fans.

Snap IPO: messaging app valued higher than expected

The company behind the popular messaging app Snapchat is expected to start trading on Thursday after a better-than-expected stock offering.

Riot police were on the streets in Tottenham as trouble flared after Mark Duggan was shot dead by police

Mark Duggan's family continue legal fight against finding he was lawfully killed

The family of Mark Duggan, whose fatal shooting by a police...

Emergency services working on the A27 in West Sussex following the Shoreham air disaster

Final report into Shoreham Airshow disaster to be published

Air accident investigators are to publish their final report...

Voters are going to the polls in Northern Ireland

Voting under way to elect new devolved legislature for Northern Ireland

Voting is under way in the Northern Ireland Assembly...

Authorities in Poland and Switzerland have rejected efforts to return Roman Polanski to the US in recent years (AP)

Prosecutors ask US judge to reject latest Roman Polanski motion

Prosecutors have urged a judge to reject Roman Polanski's...

Jeff Sessions was an early supporter of President Donald Trump and a policy adviser to the Republican candidate (AP)

Attorney general Jeff Sessions 'spoke with Russian ambassador twice in 2016'

Attorney general Jeff Sessions had two conversations with...

People walk past portraits of late North Korean leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang (AP)

North Korea vows 'merciless' response to South Korea-US drills

North Korea has condemned the start of US-South Korean...

Republic of Ireland

Taoiseach Enda Kenny said the move was an 'historic day for Travellers and a proud day for Ireland'

Republic of Ireland grants Travellers formal state recognition

Travellers have been formally recognised...

Business

Retailers enjoyed a better-than-expected Christmas as shoppers splashed out over the festive season

Northern Ireland consumers face higher prices as manufacturing costs grow

The days of Northern Ireland consumers being...

The Lusitania sank off the coast of Ireland

Lusitania telegraph machine 'lost during unsupervised dive'

A telegraph machine from the Lusitania, thought to hold vital clues to its...

Marie Collins accused Vatican bureaucrats of

Sex abuse survivor Marie Collins quits Vatican child protection panel

A clerical sex abuse survivor has quit a...

Transport Minister Shane Ross has said he will not intervene in the Bus Eireann dispute

Transport Minister rules out last minute intervention to halt Bus Eireann strike

Transport Minister Shane Ross has insisted he...

Mortgage approvals last month at their highest in nearly a year

UK debt alarm bells ring as lending rises

The number of mortgage approvals made to home buyers reached its highest level in...

Eurotunnel saw net consolidated profit nearly triple last year

Channel Tunnel has best year with £171m profit

The boss of Channel Tunnel owner Eurotunnel has cheered its "best year" ever as...

The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II uses over 100 Cobham components

Cobham turns to rights issue in bid to tackle debt

Cobham is to conduct another £500 million rights issue as part of efforts to pay...

Sport

Ulster's triple hitter boost as bid for play-offs spot hots up

Ulster will be able to recall three heavy hitters as they aim to keep their winning run and play-off bid going against Treviso on Friday (7.35pm).

Former Wales fly-half Stephen Jones has agreed a new contract as assistant coach of the Scarlets

Stephen Jones agrees new Scarlets deal

Former Wales fly-half Stephen Jones has agreed a new contract as assistant coach with Guinness PRO12 side the...

Exeter head coach Rob Baxter is delighted with the latest group of players to agree new contracts at the Aviva Premiership club

Exeter trio sign new contracts

Aviva Premiership title challengers Exeter have announced new contracts for back-row forwards...

Leicester have announced a profit of £16.4million for the financial year covering their title success

Leicester announce pre-tax profit of £16.4million for...

Leicester have announced a pre-tax profit of £16.4million for the year ending May 31, 2016.

Harry Kane could be a target for Manchester United

Football rumours from the UK media

The latest gossip and rumours from the newspapers and online:

Entertainment

John Cusack guest at Belfast Film Festival

The Oscars it might not be - but a Hollywood star is on the way to Northern Ireland to pick up an award.

IRA offered weapons for Boorman film Zardof

Renowned film director John Boorman has opened up about how the IRA once offered to...

Channing Tatum is co-starring in a new version of Ron Howard's 1984 movie Splash

Jillian Bell worried about fans' response to Splash remake

Actress Jillian Bell has admitted she is worried about the response from die-hard fans to her...

Sir Ken Dodd has been honoured for services to entertainment

Sir Ken Dodd to receive knighthood for 60-year...

Veteran comedian Sir Ken Dodd will be made a knight today in recognition of an outstanding career...

Channel 4 is showing a series about young Muslims in the UK

Lives of young Muslims explored in gritty...

A gritty and humorous series following the lives of young Muslims in the UK begins on Thursday, delving...

Life

'I plan to speak to desperate people from the grave before they get there, to show...

Climbing into a coffin to spend three days buried alive, John...

Opinion

Public can shape the future of Northern Ireland today so don't waste your vote

It may be the election that no-one expected and few outside...

Khloe Kardashian finally feels comfortable baring her arms

Khloe Kardashian felt frustrated when she first started hitting the gym as she...

A$AP Rocky channels his inner big kid through new Guess collection

A$AP Rocky's latest Guess

Joanna Coles: 'I always wanted children and the real sadness would be not having them...

As a new fly-on-the-wall documentary series in...

Public can shape the future of Northern Ireland today so don't waste your vote

It may be the election that no-one expected and...

A defined policy on sign language here surely deserves ministerial and cross-party...

Both British Sign Language (BSL) and Irish Sign Language...

Constant moaning strengthens Donald Trump

US President Donald Trump is not only laughing all the way to winning a second...

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Nightlife

People out at Filthy McNasty's. Sunday 26th February 2016. Liam McBurney/RAZORPIX

Belfast Nightlife: Filthy McNasty's, Sunday February 26 2017 [Photos]

Nightlife

People out at the Limelight for Sketchy Future Clubbing. Thursday 23rd February 2016. Liam McBurney/RAZORPIX

Nightlife: Limelight Future Clubbing

Nightlife

People out at Bot Wednesdays. 22nd February 2016. Liam McBurney/RAZORPIX

Nightlife: Bot Wednesday, Feb 22 [Photos]

Video: NI woman's fright as elephant charges jeep

Food and Drink

Easy pancake recipe - simple, quick mix that's perfect every time

Sunday Life

Northern Ireland postman who pleasured himself through letterbox caught on CCTV making unwanted...

Premier League

Supporters believed that the coach was owned by their opponents Middlesbrough Twitter / @jackwillis

Crystal Palace supporters vandalise own team coach thinking it belongs to Middlesbrough

Sunday Life

Brian and Mairead O’Riordan have pleaded with dissident group ONH to justify death threat against their granddaughter.

Republican terror gang orders Belfast girl (14) out of Northern Ireland

News

Actors Ryan Gosling and Rosemarie DeWitt, composers Benj Pasek and Justin Hurwitz, and actress Emma Stone look on as 'La La Land' wins Best Picture due to a presentation error (later corrected to 'Moonlight') onstage during the 89th Annual Academy Awards at Hollywood & Highland Center on February 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Moonlight wins best film Oscar after La La Land initially handed award in error

Business News

Belfast to New York and Boston flights from £69

Business News

Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Paris - Martha Hunt, Stella Maxwell, Josephine Skriver and Jasmine Tookes

Victoria's Secret to open first Northern Ireland shop

World

Employees in one region of Sweden could be paid for sex breaks

Swedish politician proposes paid sex breaks for workers

Health

Lead scientist Beatriz Mothe said her team was on the right path to developing a treatment (File photo)

Five HIV patients left 'virus-free' in early vaccine trials

Technology

People are being tricked into essentially signing verbal contracts

'Can you hear me?' phone scam to hit UK

Northern Ireland

The anti-gay marriage leaflet that was discovered in the library of Belfast’s Dominican College

Fury as anti-gay marriage leaflet found in library of NI Catholic grammar school

Northern Ireland

What is Humanism? Michael Rosen and Annemarie Young

Free Presbyterian cleric condemns humanist book given to NI primary pupils

Events

John Lennon and his wife Yoko Ono raise their fists as they join a protest in this Feb. 5, 1972, file photo in front of British Overseas Airways Corp. offices in New York on Fifth Avenue. The demonstrators called for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland.

The Troubles gallery - IRA checkpoint, early 1970s

Opinion

Opinion: Topical and political cartoons from Belfast Telegraph

Video News

Video: Leicester's resurgence - The numbers behind the Foxes' improvement against...

Leicester stunned Liverpool with a 3-1 win in the first...

Technology

Technology

Amazon Web Services is a division of the retail giant that provides the infrastructure for much of the internet

Internet down: Many of the world's biggest websites stop working after Amazon Web Services cloud breaks

O2 will enable the company to cut customer service costs

Artificial intelligence to handle O2 customer services

O2 has announced plans to introduce an AI capable of performing the...

Ultra-high definition the hallmark of Sony's new smartphone

Sony has unveiled the world's first smartphone to...

Ministers are to hold a series of roundtables with social media companies, technology firms, young people, charities and mental health experts.

Ministers plan internet strategy 'to make Britain safest place to be online'

Ministers are taking action to tackle...

Technology

Cephalopods possess some extraordinary traits such as instantaneous colour changing, ink squirting, jet propulsion and polarised vision

Octopus 'created during evolutionary war more than 100 million years ago'

Rare Titanic photograph fetches £360 at auction

Charles Haughey's panic over Late Late invite to UK minister Tom King

A proposed appearance by then Secretary of State Tom...

UK secret files released: Thatcher tried to bar Queen trip, Princess and PM's tell-...

Britain and Ireland would get on very well...

Thatcher and FitzGerald shake hands on the Anglo-Irish Agreement

Thatcher's shock admission that UK got it wrong on Irish border in 1921

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told officials...

Archive

Former Taoiseach Charles Haughey with former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher during their meeting in May 1980

Anglo-Irish relations hit 'bottom of the pit' over alleged Provo priest

Barry 'The Blender' Henderson offers up his techniques to get tough on 'litterizers' messing...

Northern Ireland's self-proclaimed mixed martial arts legend Barry 'The Blender'...

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Northern Ireland is gearing up for a return to the polls just 10 months after the last visit.

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Election: 70% surge in viewers for BBC leaders' debate fuels high turnout speculation

Gallery: Northern Ireland Assembly Election 2017: Everything you need to know

Incensed Kennedy slams fake electoral letter in his name as 'politics of the sewer'

Peter Robinson: How I warned Arlene they'd come for her - and why Mike got it wrong

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Belfast's award-winning Ginger restaurant to expand

GPs defend £10 fee for signing Irish passport forms

Could part of Berlin Wall inspire fall of Belfast's peace barriers?

Dairy farmers asked to repay loans and leave banks

Belfast's hotel boom: Where the 3,747 new rooms will be located

'Wonderful' Jill Elder laid to rest after car park tragedy

Daniel McCoglan inquest 'delay'- court victory for dad

IRA offered weapons for Boorman film Zardof

Winning snap of Dunluce proved miles better than rest

Woman jumped on my face and her six-inch heel tore into my eye - now I’ve rebuilt my life and I want to help others do the same

Busmen hijacked countless times still love job after 40 years

Brexit: Government suffers defeat in Lords over plan to leave EU

Rangers 3-2 St Johnstone: Gers seal first win in over a month

Inverness 0-4 Celtic: Hoops move 27 points clear at the top

Live Man buried alive in Belfast

Barry 'The Blender' Henderson gets tough on 'litterizers' messing up the countryside

Tributes paid to former SDLP MLA PJ Bradley

Paint bomb attack on Polish woman's car not a hate crime, says PSNI

Councillors served fish after SDLP complaint

'I plan to speak to desperate people from the...

Winning snap of Dunluce proved miles better...

Derry busmen hijacked countless times at...

'Wonderful' Coleraine woman Jill Elder laid to rest...

NHS on 'burning platform' over patient safety - hospital inspectors

World

Snap IPO: messaging app valued higher than expected

Mark Duggan's family continue legal fight against finding he was lawfully killed

Final report into Shoreham Airshow disaster to be published

Voting under way to elect new devolved legislature for Northern Ireland

Prosecutors ask US judge to reject latest Roman Polanski motion

Attorney general Jeff Sessions 'spoke with Russian ambassador twice in 2016'

North Korea vows 'merciless' response to South Korea-US drills

Republic of Ireland grants Travellers formal state recognition

Northern Ireland consumers face higher prices as manufacturing costs grow

Lusitania telegraph machine 'lost during unsupervised dive'

Sex abuse survivor Marie Collins quits Vatican child protection panel

Transport Minister rules out last minute intervention to halt Bus Eireann strike

UK debt alarm bells ring as lending rises

Channel Tunnel has best year with £171m profit

Cobham turns to rights issue in bid to tackle debt

Ulster's triple hitter boost as bid for play-offs spot hots up

Stephen Jones agrees new Scarlets deal

Exeter trio sign new contracts

Leicester announce pre-tax profit of £16.4million for...

Football rumours from the UK media

John Cusack guest at Belfast Film Festival

IRA offered weapons for Boorman film Zardof

Jillian Bell worried about fans' response to Splash remake

Sir Ken Dodd to receive knighthood for 60-year...

Lives of young Muslims explored in gritty...

'I plan to speak to desperate people from the grave before they get there, to show...

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