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“Unionists last night erupted in fury after the EU unilaterally activated a crucial clause in the Brexit deal, in what Arlene Foster dubbed ‘an act of incredible hostility’
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So read the opening paragraph in the front page article of the Belfast unionist daily News Letter on Saturday January 30 as news emerged that the EU threatened to invoke Article 16 of the Irish protocol and block the importation of anti- Covid-19 vaccines into the Six Counties from Europe.
Days earlier a public row erupted between Britain and the European Union over the supply of the vaccines with the EU accusing Britain of operating a “first come first served” policy as it emerged that the joint British/Swedish company AstraZeneca warned Brussels that it would only supply 25% of its contracted delivery while at the same time committing to deliver 2 million doses a week to the Britain.
Arrests over Belfast Multi-Cultural Association arson
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Two men arrested over the arson attack on the Belfast Multi-Cultural Association building have been released on bail pending further enquiries.
The pair - aged 42 and 49 - were held on Wednesday after a search of a property in the south of the city.
A 40-year-old man has been charged with two counts of criminal damage to vehicles in the Donegall Pass area of south Belfast in October last year. He will appear in court next month.
The devastating fire at the former church broke out on Thursday, January 14. The organisation said it was left heartbroken after the attack.
There was widespread condemnation of the incident, including from the first and deputy first ministers. Thousands have been raised in a fundraising campaign.
The community hub was extensively damaged in the attack.
TWO men have been questioned in connection with an arson attack on a multi-cultural centre.
It took more than 50 firefighters to control the blaze on January 14 at the Belfast Multi-Cultural Association building on Donegall Pass.
While no-one was injured, volunteers making up food parcels for vulnerable and homeless people had been working in the building shortly before the attack.
Detectives today arrested two men, aged 42 and 49, and searched a house in south Belfast.
A 40-year-old man was also arrested in relation to a previous incident of criminal damage to the building, reported to police in October last year.
Andy George lost his youngest sister to racism. She was only 23 when she took her own life 11 years ago.
Her tragic death is what drove the 41-year-old PSNI Inspector to become president of the National Black Police Association (NBPA), which represents all black/ethnic minority police associations in the UK. It was me who found her. it was so difficult for myself and my family, Andy told the Belfast Telegraph. For me, it s a life lost that didn t need to be. It s what led me to doing the work with the NBPA, and that s what drives me.
Born and bred in Co Armagh, the eldest of four mixed-race children to a Northern Ireland mother and a Malaysian father, he recalls being one of two or three families in the whole town from an ethnic minority .
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