George Best was finally back home in Belfast today.

Football icon George Best has managed to unite people in the North over the past week in a way that no politician ever could, a British government minister claimed today.

GRIEVING but dignified, the family of George Best faced the world’s media only moments after he died.

IAN HOUGHTON witnessed the grief of customers queuing at his fish and chip van on the Belfast housing estate where the soccer legend grew up.

It was the sad news they had been expecting, but George Best’s family were clearly still devastated when they spoke of his death today.