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Serious lineup 🤩
Watch Duncan Ferguson's first game in charge of Glentoran live on BBC iPlayer 📺
Follow Larne v Portadown on the BBC Sport website and app 📲
#BBCFootball
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“Rest assured, I am not going away.”
Upper Bann MP @carlalockhart confirms she will set out a “path ahead” early next week.
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🚨Peelers: The PSNI For Real is back!
The popular police series returns to your screens on Wednesday 11 November
Stephen Nolan will again join officers from the Police Service of Northern Ireland as they patrol the streets of Northern Ireland
bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/p…
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Sinn Féin’s Gerry Kelly has changed his mind about retiring from the Assembly.
The joint-longest serving MLA will now contest North Belfast again in 2027.
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Geoff is one of the best. And not just because he's a Cliftonville fan. We'll miss him.
To everything there is a season and my time as the “English fella who does the weather” is coming to an end at Christmas.
But rather amused to be taking a trip in the @BelTel Time Machine with a clean shaven, 13 year old picture from when I started at BBC NI.
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Been a joy and a pleasure to know and to work with you Geoff. We can have a ceremonial burning of our alarm clocks. Will they let us stay in the BBCNI Man Utd what’s app group though? We’ll have to ask @BBCMarkSimpson really nicely.
To everything there is a season and my time as the “English fella who does the weather” is coming to an end at Christmas.
But rather amused to be taking a trip in the @BelTel Time Machine with a clean shaven, 13 year old picture from when I started at BBC NI.
Within seconds of the Drumcree ruling by Mr Justice Scoffield ... the full 59-page judgement was made available online. 📌
This helps everyone interested in the case (especially the journalists). @JudiciaryNI
Here it is:
judiciaryni.uk/files/judicia…
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bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwj3…
'We now go to Mark Simpson in Cambodia ..'
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Our legendary goalkeeper, Harry Gregg, would have turned 94 today.
His courage in the Munich air disaster will never be forgotten ❤️
ALT A black and white photo of Harry Gregg, circa 1980, wearing a United-branded sweatshirt with the initials HG sewn onto the chest.
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The remote North Antrim spot, facing the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland, where campaigners want the remains of Roger Casement to be reburied.
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‘Have you ever wished something didn’t have to come to an end?… There is an old word to describe exactly how you are feeling: finifugal… based on the Latin for ‘fleeing the end’… [but] this emotion only comes at the end of something really good.’
Susie Dent #bookweekni
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Will Grigg playing in a wooden stadium is surely a health and safety concern
📝 We can confirm that Will Grigg has departed the club, joining Forest Green Rovers on a permanent basis.
The forward leaves North Derbyshire having made a momentous contribution to the club’s success in recent seasons, netting 42 times in total for the Spireites and finishing as the club’s top scorer in the National League title-winning season.
Everyone at the club wishes Griggy all the best for the future. 💙
🔗 shorturl.at/uDpju
#Spireites
Best of Belfast. 👏
An awards night in an 130 year old building (recently used at the Fleadh) 🎻
@ArchitectureNI #ArchitectureNight
(Nobody minded the brief power-failure. 💥🔌)