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05 eUrO) Thursday, July 14, 2011

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NI in line for Open return
THE successive US Open triumphs of Graeme McDowell and Rory McIlroy have led to the possibility of an Ulster course once again hosting the British Open. Four years after effectively ruling it out, golf supremos have now vowed to reexamine the possibility. The Open was last held in Northern Ireland at Royal Portrush in 1951. This years event begins at Royal St Georges in Sandwich today with McIlroy the bookies favourite. He tees off in his first round this morning at 9.09am. see sport

Scarva, Bangor and the twelfth

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logs missing, inquiry hears

A SIGNIFICANT number of documents relating to the day two senior RUC men were shot dead in an IRA ambush have gone missing from Dundalk Garda Station, an inquiry heard yesterday. The Smithwick Tribunal heard evidence that both the telephone records and the station log book from the day when Harry Breen and Bob Buchanan were murdered had gone missing. Claims of an IRA mole operating in Dundalk station were again refuted by witnesses. see pages 8 & 9

Republicans must take blame for riot

BY lYNdseY TelfOrd
lyndsey.telford@jpress.co.uk

Mull of Kintyre pilots cleared

DEFENCE secretary Liam Fox apologised yesterday to the families of the pilots in the Mull of Kintyre helicopter tragedy after a new report cleared them of an earlier finding of negligence. The Scottish island crash, in dense fog on the night of June 2, 1994, claimed the lives of all 29 people on board, including leading counter-terrorism experts from Northern Ireland. see page 6

POLICE have been urged to say republicans were behind the Twelfth of July rioting in north Belfast in the same way they condemned loyalists for recent

violence in the east of the city. The call was made by DUP MP Nigel Dodds who said it was very important that the PSNI say who was responsible for serious disorder which resulted in 26 arrests and left 16 police officers injured.

During the violence, cars were hijacked and set alight and over 50 plastic baton rounds were fired by police. Dozens of petrol bombs were also thrown at police lines after the Orange Orders Twelfth parade had passed along the main Crumlin Road past

Ardoyne without incident. The MP for North Belfast said the PSNI must call a spade a spade and added: There was undoubtedly a degree of orchestration you dont have petrol bombs just spontaneously appear. see page 4

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