A RESCUE poodle who was saved from the Chinese meat trade and now works as a therapy dog at a North Belfast primary school has been selected by a London-based charity to be the face of their campaign to promote diversity and respectfulness.

AS the campaign to save Belfast's iconic and historically significant Assembly Rooms gathers pace, historian Seán Napier has said the building should be given back to the people of Belfast – which was the building's original purpose.

BALMORAL Councillor Geraldine McAteer has met City Hall officials to discuss residents' concerns over a number of blockbuster summer concerts at Boucher Playing Fields.

INDUSTRY legend has it that the Sunday Life once had Johnny ‘Mad Dog’ Adair on their front page for over a year without a break. That’s when Johnny was loyalist royalty in Belfast and not sitting in a bedsit in Troon watching his tattoos fade with his notoriety.

A RECENT report - 'Northern Ireland Subvention: Possible Unification Effects' – published by the Institute of International and European Affairs (IIEA) caught the headlines. It contained the startling claim that Irish unity could cost the South up to €20 billion annually. It was grist to the mill of those who oppose unity.