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| | | D-Day veteran: I had bird's eye view of D-Day landings - but still feel guilty today | | | | | | George Spencer from Ballymena had perhaps a better view of the D-Day landings at Normandy than any other person - but to this day he feels guilty about the experience. | | | | |
| | | | | | | D-Day 80th anniversary: poignant tributes planned across NI with beacons to light night sky on Thursday | | Beacons will be lit right across Northern Ireland on Thursday evening as part of the UK-wide commemorations to mark the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. |
| | | | | | "Breaking Joey’s record which has stood for 24 years, that’s the feather in the cap." | | Michael Dunlop bounced back from the disappointment of Sunday’s Superbike heartache by winning Wednesday’s Supertwin race to break his revered uncle Joey’s 24-year-old Isle of Man TT record. |
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| | | | | Northern Ireland Property: This £2.85 million home is one of the most important for sale in Cultra in recent times | | This amazing property offers a generational opportunity to acquire an outstanding family home in Cultra.Crangarra is accessed via private entrance gates leading to a sweeping driveway and the ideally positioned 4,000 sq ft home, with outbuildings and stables, a double garage block with carport and a stunning Moroccan style courtyard garden. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Free Presbyterians accuse NI Football League of anti-Christian 'discrimination' for staging matches on Sunday | | The Free Presbyterian Church has written to the NI Football League (NIFL) to complain that it is discriminating against practising Christians by staging matches on the Sabbath. |
| | | | | | One year in jail for speeding prison officer Gavin Hume who killed Edward Montgomery and severely wounded his son | | A prison officer whose “grossly excessive speed” caused his car to aquaplane and crash almost head-on into an oncoming car, causing the death and serious injury of a father and son, was jailed for a year yesterday. |
| | | | | | D-Day 80th anniversary: how Carnlough's 'Paddy the Pigeon' helped the Allied war effort in Normandy | | As a nation commemorates the heroism and sacrifice of the D-Day invasion forces that helped liberate Europe during World War Two, a tribute will also be paid to a pigeon from Co Antrim that went above and beyond for the Allied war effort. |
| | | | | | Activities of the New IRA being probed in searches in the Glenbuck Road and Duneany Road areas of Rasharkin | | Detectives from the Police Service’s Terrorism Investigation Unit, investigating the activities of the New IRA, are carrying out searches in the Glenbuck Road, Rasharkin and Duneany Road, Rasharkin this morning, Thursday 6th June. |
| | | | | | | | | | | | Military piper begins commemorations in Normandy on 80th anniversary of D-Day | | A military piper has begun commemorations for the 80th anniversary of D-Day in Normandy by playing a lament at sea at the exact moment of the beach invasion in 1944. |
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