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The first edition of the Daily Telegraph (top) and the updated edition (below).

By George, I think they nearly got away with it.

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The agency will be able to target a range of missed payments – from A&E bills to court fines – and will have the power to raid people’s bank accounts for the money that is owed. Officials with the centralised collection agency would also be able to extract money from pensions and welfare payments.
…Carried out by consultancy firm BearingPoint, the report acknowledges how unpopular such an agency would be, as it suggested careful ‘selling’ to ministers of the benefits of such a body would be required.

….The BearingPoint experts, specially hired by the Government, have even advised that bailiffs be allowed to remove personal goods in extreme cases….

Pay Up Or The State Will Raid Your Bank Account (Senan Molony, Irish Daily Mail) unavailable online

 

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Last night her Belfast-based solicitor Kevin Winters said her family were relieved to receive confirmation of the transfer. “It has been a hugely stressful time for Michaella and her family. They are anxious now to move to the next stage.”

Dungannon’s Michaella McCollum is due to be repatriated to HMP Hydebank, Belfast after a transfer request was approved by Peruvian authorities.

Peru approves Tyrone drug’s mules move to home-soil jail (Brendan Hughes, Irish News) (not currently available online)

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A Nigerian man hounded from his new home after it was covered in ‘Locals only’ banners has suffered more racial abuse. Michael Abiona (34) abandoned plans to move into a bungalow in East Belfast after finding protestors outside and banners that read ‘Local houses for local people’.

Now the charity worker has been subjected to racist abuse at a second Housing Executive property in the area. He was showing a Nigerian friend his new home on Holywood Road when a woman got out of a taxi and repeatedly shouted “black bastard” and told them to leave the area.

Mr Abiona said “The way things are, you are watching your back whenever you’re walking the street. You’re scared that people will come and attack you. But I’m not going to allow it affect me.”


Victim of locals-only protest rehoused but suffers yet more racist abuse (Brendan Hughes, Irish News) (not currently available online)

Previously: Orange Diss The New Black

Haters Gonna Hat