Olympic and Paralympic heroes and local sporting legends have teamed up with Lidl Northern Ireland to launch this year’s Sport for Good Schools Programme which, in partnership with children’s charity Youth Sport Trust, aims to promote positive mental health amongst secondary school pupils across Northern Ireland through sport. The Lidl Northern Ireland Sport […]
Tool and equipment hire specialist, HSS Hire, has expanded its partnership with leading independent builders merchant, Haldane Fisher by introducing a new desk at its Newry branch. The collaboration will help Haldane Fisher customers to take their builds and projects to the next level, with HSS Hire providing tool hire, equipment, and access […]
A £10 million fund to improve farm businesses opens for applications on 27 September 2022, Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots has announced. The fourth tranche of Tier 1 of the Farm Business Improvement Scheme – Capital (FBIS-C) will support smaller-scale investments to improve the sustainability of farm businesses. The scheme will support the purchase […]
A new campaign has been launched in community pharmacies across Northern Ireland raising awareness of the signs and symptoms of cancer to help with early diagnosis. ‘Spot Cancer Early’ is running in community pharmacies as part of the Living Well service. It highlights the role of pharmacy teams in providing advice and support […]
The Drinking Water Inspectorate (DWI), which is responsible for regulating drinking water quality, has published its Annual Report for 2021. It states that drinking water quality in Northern Ireland is of a high standard. Northern Ireland Water Limited (NI Water) is required to undertake a stringent monitoring programme to verify that the tap […]
The Southern Trust Infant Mental Health Team, i-CAMHS is marking ten years of service. i-CAMHS was originally set up as part of the Trust’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, as the first in Northern Ireland to directly provide intensive specialist support to children under three years old and their parents or primary […]
The Community Children’s Nursing (CCN) team in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust are hosting an event to mark their 21st birthday. The team are marking this milestone occasion with an event on Wednesday 5 October at Seagoe Parish Centre. At the event, they will reflect on just how far they’ve come […]
The Commissioner for Older People this month hosted a meeting with the Minister of Finance, Conor Murphy MLA to raise his increasing concern about the serious impact the cost-of-living crisis is having on older people. The Commissioner and Minister were joined by a number of older people to discuss their concerns about the […]
Police are warning the public to be on their guard against fraudsters operating cost-of-living scams. The warning comes after a scammer contacted a local resident claiming to be from an energy company offering to pay them a grant. The scammer claimed they needed their bank details to pay money into their account. Thankfully, […]
Staff from SuperValu, Centra and MACE stores across Northern Ireland are encouraging customers from Newry to ‘Espresso they care’ and celebrate International Coffee Day (Saturday, 1 October) at their local store while helping to raise much-needed funds for local charities Action Cancer and Northern Ireland Chest Heart & Stroke. From Thursday, 29 September […]
