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25/08/2015
Green Party Cllr Condemns East Belfast Burglary
A Green Party councillor has condemned the burglary at a clothes shop in east Belfast over the weekend.
Burglars ransacked David James Kerr store on the Newtownards Road and also stole a quantity of stock.
East Belfast Green Party representative Ross Brown branded the burglary "disgraceful".
He said: "It is the last thing the developing business community in East Belfast needs.
"That such a new shop, which contributes to the local area in so many ways, has been targeted is a worrying development. Indeed I aware of a number of other recent robberies in east Belfast."
(CD/LM)
Burglars ransacked David James Kerr store on the Newtownards Road and also stole a quantity of stock.
East Belfast Green Party representative Ross Brown branded the burglary "disgraceful".
He said: "It is the last thing the developing business community in East Belfast needs.
"That such a new shop, which contributes to the local area in so many ways, has been targeted is a worrying development. Indeed I aware of a number of other recent robberies in east Belfast."
(CD/LM)
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