Resident complains of windmill headache
GUY Glencross hates the sight and sound of his new ‘neighbour’ – a 20-metre wind turbine, 90 metres from the front door of his rural Co Tyrone home.Night and day, he claims, the two-blade “monstrosity”...
View ArticleBand who have grown up in the spotlight
THE Therapy? bandwagon rolled into Barcelona last weekend as part a 48-date tour that has taken them from Moscow to Cork by way of Helsinki and Rome. I first saw the band 1989, and chatting to them in...
View ArticleMasked men rob Credit Union
A credit union in Newry was robbed on Friday night by three masked men armed with a hatchet and suspected handgun.Shortly after 7.30pm the men entered the premises on Main Street in Forkill and...
View ArticleAlliance call on councillor to resign seat after quitting party
Adam Harbinson should resign as a councillor for North Down immediately, the Alliance party have said.The councillor, who was co-opted onto the council to replace the late Tony Hill eight months ago,...
View ArticleDUP Conference: Health Minister Edwin Poots makes speech
Health Minister Edwin Poots spoke to those attending the DUP party conference on Saturday morning.Mr Poots referred to the preparations being made for what is usually a busy winter period for the...
View ArticleDUP Conference: Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster speaks on the economy
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster told delegates at the party conference that the only way to recover from our economic woes is to act, and act now; called on people to give their views on removing red...
View ArticleDUP Conference: Deputy leader addresses delegates
DUP Deputy leader Nigel Dodds spoke at length to those attending the conference. Here is an extract from his speech.“This year has truly been a year to remember for so many reasons. But this year has...
View ArticleUnionists must stand together
DUP politicians enter their annual conference today in confident mood, assured, as a party of government and with solid representation at Westminster, that they speak for a majority of unionists.First...
View ArticleKate Carroll ‘cynical’ on killers’ appeal bid
THE widow of PSNI Constable Stephen Carroll, murdered by dissident republicans in Craigavon in March 2009, has reacted with “total cynicism” to the fact that killers Brendan McConville and John Paul...
View ArticleEditor resigns over topless Kate pictures
The editor of the Irish Daily Star newspaper has resigned in the wake of the controversial publication of topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge.Michael O’Kane had been suspended from his role...
View ArticleSammy Wilson slams ‘Victor Meldrew’ press
FINANCE Minister Sammy Wilson has accused Northern Ireland’s journalists of being relentlessly negative about the Stormont Executive.Addressing the first day of the DUP conference on Friday, Mr Wilson...
View ArticleArthur joins our birthday paper trail
READERS are still getting in touch about their remarkable collections of very old News Letters.As part of our 275th birthday celebrations, which include the recent unveiling of a plaque to the paper’s...
View ArticleMan shot leaving nightclub
A man was shot as he left a nightclub in Belfast in the early hour of Saturday morning.Just before 1am the 26-year-old was walking along the Newtownards Road nearf Solway Street when two shots were...
View ArticleMen arrested in dissident police probe
Two men in Derry city were arrested on Saturday by police investigating dissident republican activity.The men, aged 36 and 42, were taken to Antrim Serious Crime Suite for questioning.
View ArticleDUP Conference: NI still matters to Westminster, says Coaker
Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Vernon Coaker MP, spoke to an audience of 350 DUP members and invited guests at the party’s annual conference dinner on Friday.He...
View ArticleChildren injured in bus crash
A BUS carrying schoolchildren with special needs was involved in a serious crash on Friday.Five ambulances attended the scene after the bus collided with a car, resulting in five patients being taken...
View Article‘Majority of Catholics happy to remain part of UK’
Northern Ireland’s First Minister Peter Robinson said he believes most Catholics here want Northern Ireland to remain as part of the UK.The DUP leader told delegates at his party conference on Saturday...
View ArticleMinister relieved after Altnagelvin hospital fire
Health Minister Edwin Poots said it was a huge relief no-one was hurt after a blaze forced the evacuation of five floors of a major hospital in Northern Ireland.Around 120 patients had to be rushed to...
View ArticleWoman who died in Desertmartin crash is named
The 35-year-old woman critically injured in a road crash on Friday morning has died in hospital.She was Brenda Anne Kennedy from the Creagh Hill area of Toomebridge.She was injured when her car was in...
View ArticleMcGuinness blocked from Olympic role?
DIRECTOR of the opening ceremony at the Olympics, Danny Boyle, is said to have wanted Deputy first minister Martin McGuinness to hold the Olympic flag at London 2012.However, when Mr Boyle informed the...
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