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Mastheads replaced in the north

The Irish News and Belfast Newsletter have both run special mastheads to drum up support for the city’s bid to be declared European city of culture in 2008.

Both papers have shown the logo being beamed onto the local ship-building cranes – a monument to the ideas and aspirations of the city’s population.

Irish News editor Noel Doran said: “We are delighted to support an initiative which proves that people in Belfast and across Northern Ireland can unite behind a common ideal.”

And as part of the bid, local writer John Trew, who used to be editor of the Newsletter, is compiling a list of 2008 surprising things that people may not know about the city.

He has already recorded hundreds of achievements, including milk of Magnesia, the pneumatic tyre and immersion heaters being invented in Belfast. Belfast is also the only place in the world to have seven streets named after winners of the English Derby.

  • The Irish News is the only independently-owned daily newspaper in the north of Ireland and sells mainly to the nationalist community in Northern Ireland.

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