1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (978+ words) Belfast’s food scene looks very different to the one award-winning Co Down chef Chris McClurg left behind 16 years ago. “When I left, it was great and buzzy, but there were probably fewer places and those places were doing bigger volumes,…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (456+ words) Three Australian appeals court judges have reserved their decision on whether an activist can prosecute the King for alleged genocide of Australia’s indigenous people. Uncle Robbie Thorpe, 68, turned to the Supreme Court of Appeal in the state of Victoria after…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1296+ words) Before he was selling out theatres, James Acaster was being heckled in Belfast’s Sunflower pub. “That was my first ever Belfast gig,” he tells me over Zoom. “The comedian Paul Currie was organising it all and he was the first…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (633+ words) Three Australian women were refused bail after they appeared in court charged with slavery and terrorism offences after they arrived home from Syria with another 10 others whom police allege are linked to the so-called Islamic State group (IS). The four…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (478+ words) Three men have been jailed for life for ambushing a “football mad” teenager, subjecting him to a “brutal” knife attack and leaving him for dead in a park. Daniel Matos, 24, Keith Preddie, 34, and Joshua Cowley, 29, were found guilty of the…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (536+ words) A man who wrapped a Nazi flag around his hand before punching a man in the face during a racist assault has been handed a suspended jail sentence. Sentencing Jamie Taylor at Craigavon Magistrates Court, Deputy District Judge Gerard Trainor…...

4+ mon, 1+ week ago   (490+ words) The UK’s first real-world fully electric aircraft demonstration marked an “important step towards making electric mail flights a reality” for rural places, according to Royal Mail bosses. Partnered with Loganair and US aerospace firm BETA Technologies, the company led a…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (302+ words) British Airways is to introduce direct flights to Melbourne as part of an expansion of its long-haul links, which is likely to benefit a number of Northern Ireland businesses operating in Australia. The airline said it will operate a daily…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (591+ words) A teenage girl who was stabbed at a secondary school near Norwich has been released from hospital. The girl was taken to hospital with minor injuries after the attack at Thorpe St Andrew School, which happened around 10.24am on Wednesday. Pupils…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (728+ words) First, a clarification – which is what media folk call a correction when they don’t want to admit they got something, well, incorrect. Actually, now I think of it, there wasn’t anything incorrect in my review of Flink, the very good…...