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Injured Afghan veteran set for charity abseil P7 Ulster rowers set sights on Olympic gold
MEET three of our brightest medal hopes, who will be vying with the very best sportsmen in the world for Olympic glory. They are Coleraine rowers Peter Chambers, Alan Campbell and Richard Chambers. London is buzzing ahead of tonights official opening ceremony, which will sound the start gun for what many regard as the greatest show on Earth the much-anticipated Olympic Games 2012. A group of pupils from Ballymena are among hundreds of schoolchildren making up a guard of honour for the competitors as they enter the stadium. Also putting Ulster centre stage are 44 young members of Belfasts Philharmonic childrens and youth choirs who will be screened to an audience of millions performing Danny Boy. The opening ceremony will be shown live on the big screen at Belfast City Hall from 7.30pm tonight, while the Red Arrows will perform a flypast at around 1pm as part of their route across each of the UKs four capital cities.

Milk Cup thrills and spills SPORT

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PICTURE: William Cherry/Presseye

Its the Wild West

Farmers union shocked by latest case of sheep rustling
BY MICHAEL McGLADE
michael.mcglade@jpress.co.uk

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NORTH Antrim has been compared to the Wild West by a shocked farming chief after the second major sheep rustling

incident in two weeks. Yesterday, it emerged that over 100 sheep, many of which were mature lambs, were stolen from a field outside Broughshane earlier this week. The theft which could net the thieves over 10,000 happened

just over 10 miles away from where 200 sheep were stolen in Loughgiel. Police have confirmed they are investigating the strong possibility that a professional sheep rustling gang is behind the audacious pair of thefts.

Harry Sinclair, the president of the Ulster Farmers Union, said that sheep rustling on this scale locally is totally unheard of and something you associate with the Wild West, not Northern Ireland. Turn to page 12

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