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Loyalists involved in building a controversial bonfire at a walkway in east Belfast - less than 20 meters from local homes - have claimed this is the last year they will build the towering structure on the site.

There will be considerable relief that the main Orange parades passed off peacefully yesterday and were surrounded by a noticeably low-key mood during all the main demonstrations.

PARAMILITARY and racist displays have been placed on a notorious loyalist bonfire in Antrim that had been embroiled in a funding scandal.

A FORMER Ulster Unionist MLA has blamed The Irish News for thousands of tyres being put on a notorious loyalist bonfire embroiled in a funding scandal.

While some efforts have been made to make Eleventh night bonfires more family-oriented and environmentally-friendly events, unfortunately there are some parts of Northern Ireland resistant to change.

A TEENAGER has narrowly avoided an immediate jail sentence after being convicted of writing a racist slogan on a loyalist bonfire, in what is believed to the first ever prosecution of its kind in the north.

A MAN accused of inciting hatred by placing offensive material on a loyalist bonfire in Antrim "utterly disputes" it was him who put it there.

A COUNCIL has admitted it should not have released funding running to thousands of pounds for pallets burnt on loyalist bonfires. Payments were made "in error" to three groups in Antrim to buy wooden pallets. Council guidelines say bonfire groups should only receive funding for related 'family fun events' – but not for the building of pyres. 

POLICE have appealed for information after two householders were threatened with a gun during a robbery at their home in Co Antrim.

A HATE crime case over a notorious loyalist bonfire is being brought to court in a landmark prosecution. Prosecutors have decided to charge a man with placing abusive material on an Eleventh Night bonfire following an investigation by police. The bonfire in...