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Leading loyalist William ‘Plum’ Smith is buried. A former leading loyalist paramilitary who played a key role in the peace process has been buried in Belfast.
William “Plum” Smith died in hospital earlier this week after a short illness. He was 62.
He was buried on Friday at St Matthew’s Parish Church on the Woodvale Road. |
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THANK goodness for Joanne McCarthy and the Newcastle Herald (‘Black hole’, Herald, 8/6). I worked in the Upper Hunter mining industry in the booming early years and I was always told when I expressed my concern about the damage being done to the countryside that when mining ceased the landscape would be rehabilitated. |
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His funeral is taking place at St Matthew's Parish Church, Woodvale Road on Friday. The former Ulster Volunteer Force and Red Hand Commando paramilitary was imprisoned during the Troubles for attempted murder. During some of the worst years of the conflict he and other senior loyalists, including.... |
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opinion By Olalekan Waheed Adigun. Abuja What started as a big joke suddenly became a reality. In a desperate bid to stop the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari the heat of the 2015 presidential election, Mr. Ayodele Fayose, the Ekiti state Governor, did the unthinkable. |
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At the funeral, Jaspen Boothe introduced herself as Serina Vine’s sister. She spoke of the deceased’s heroism as a World War II veteran. She bent down and pressed her lips to the top of the casket. Yet Boothe, like the 200 or so others who came to pay their respects Tuesday morning, had never met Vine. |
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Freedom Status: Partly Free Aggregate Score: 60 Freedom Rating: 3.5 Political Rights: 3 Civil Liberties: 4. Quick Facts. Population : 15,473,900 Capital : Lusaka GDP/Capita : $1,721.60 Press Freedom Status : Not Free Net Freedom Status : Partly Free. OVERVIEW. |
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Freedom Status: Partly Free Aggregate Score: 65 Freedom Rating: 3.0 Political Rights: 2 Civil Liberties: 4. Quick Facts. Population : 255,741,973 Capital : Jakarta GDP/Capita : $3,491.90 Press Freedom Status : Partly Free Net Freedom Status : Partly Free. OVERVIEW. |
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Amnesty International on Friday claimed the Nigerian military shot dead unarmed civilians before a march to mark the anniversary of the 1967 Biafran declaration of independence. Police have said at least 10 people were killed five in the town of Onitsha, Anambra state, and five in Asaba, in.... |
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10th June 2016. Reports just reaching Daily Sun indicate that the suspected killers of Mrs. Bridget Agbaheme in Kano two weeks ago are being arraigned before a court in Kano. Details later… For BALD men: This ingredient saves & regrows hair in 29 days 23 yrs boy started importation with N10,450. |
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Tsepiso S Mothibi. Ears open… the elders are discussing boxing, and the name ‘Ali’ is repeated over and over again. Pugilism is the word in fashion and where boxing matches are the news of the day, where no TV screens are exist, where the bioscope comes only occasionally, and only the radioman’s.... |
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Interesting. When, upon the occasion of Muhammad Ali's death a week ago, TFF tweeted words to the effect that maybe, the fact that The Greatest had been hit in the head for two decades straight by some of the hardest bastards on the planet ... might have something to do with his sad demise, Twitter went crazy. |
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