| They escaped injury when five shots were fired through the living room window in Quickthorn Place in the staunchly Protestant Harper's Hill estate. |
| A few minutes later police were alerted to an incident at nearby Quickthorn Place in which a petrol bomb was thrown at a house but failed to ignite. |
| Minutes later a similar device was thrown at a house in nearby Quickthorn Place, although it failed to ignite. |
| Farm animals were excluded from these coppices by the digging of ditches and the setting up of hedges of quickthorn grown on banks. |
| Quickthorn makes an excellent hedge with a long season of interest, or it can be grown as specimen tree, as it is very hardy and is useful in coastal or exposed positions. |
