Then she went rigid, and looked to the left, like someone was after her and they were in the hall.

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Ms Smith told police there had been differences between the pair about the pushchair in the hall and rubbish left outside but that they had made up and apologised to each other.

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Certainly if the DUP hadn't wanted to undercut Naomi Long's support within the loyalist areas of East Belfast, it's hard to understand why they left it so long to float their suggestion that the Union flag should be erected 365 days a year over the City Hall cenotaph.

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