QUIRKY WORLD ... Birthday gift sign is right up Van the Man’s street

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THE NORTH: Belfast City Council is to present Van Morrison with the sign of a street which inspired one of his most famous songs to mark his 70th birthday.

Van grew up in a terraced house at Hyndford St in the east of the city, close to the Harland and Wolff Shipyard. He later wrote about the silence of the long summer nights On Hyndford St.