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Detectives in Newry are appealing for information following a burglary. Sometime between Friday, 22nd January and Sunday, 24th January, entry was forced to a house in Rathmore Road. A number of rooms were ransacked and a sum of cash was stolen. Police would like to hear from anyone who has information that may assist their […]
Feb 8 2016 | Posted in
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Police in Newry are warning the public not to be taken in by offers which seem too good to be true. The warning follows an incident which occurred in Corn Market on Saturday, 30th January. A male approached a member of the public offering an Iphone 6 and Samsung H6 for sale. A price was […]
Feb 5 2016 | Posted in
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During a focused week long road safety operation in Newry, Mourne and Down police issued 76 fixed penalty notices. With dedicated teams providing visible road safety patrols over the last week, a number of motorists received advice and warnings, 12 were reported to the PPS, one person was arrested for vehicle theft, four people were […]
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Police are appealing for information following the theft of two cars. Sometime between 10am and 1pm on Wednesday, 13th January, a gold Vauxhall Nova and Ford Poplar were taken from the shed of a property on Tierny Road, Newry. A side valve engine, an Austin engine and a duck egg green Austin shell from 1960s […]
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Police are appealing for information following the theft of a horsebox. At around 3.05pm on Wednesday, 20th January, an Ivor Williams, twin axled horse box was stolen from Markethill Road. The trailer box is blue and the roof is white. It has no registration but is marked with NEWM127. The trailer was attached to a […]
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Sinn Féin Councillor Barra Ó’Muirí has appealed to the Department of Regional Development to install traffic calming measure in Silverbridge “before someone is killed.” In a letter to the Department the Slieve Gullion representative called for traffic calming measures to be put in place on the section of the Silverbridge Road between Finnegan’s Nursery and […]
Feb 5 2016 | Posted in
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Police are appealing for information after two cars were stolen. Overnight between Sunday, 24th January and Monday, 25th January a black BMW 320D was stolen from the driveway of a house on Cluster Road, Newtownhamilton. During the same time frame a grey Mercedes was taken from Forkhill Road, Mullaghbawn after the keys were stolen from […]
Feb 4 2016 | Posted in
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Newtownhamilton LPT officers have seized a quantity of counterfeit cigarettes. Officers received a report of a two vehicle road traffic collision on Glassdrummond Road, Crossmaglen, at 12.28pm on Friday, 15th January. The driver of a black Citroen Berlingo van which was in collision with a white transit van made off from the scene. Constable Des […]
Feb 4 2016 | Posted in
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A man, aged in his 40’s, has died following a single vehicle road traffic collision in Silverbridge early this morning, Wednesday 3rd February. He was the driver of a van that was involved in a collision on the New Road at its junction with Legmoylan Road. The collision was reported to police shortly after 5.40am […]
Feb 3 2016 | Posted in
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Detectives in Newry are appealing for information following an assault. At around 8.30am on Tuesday, 26th January, three males assaulted a 52 year old man on farmland at Fort Road, Belleek. One of the males had a firearm in his possession and all three were wearing boiler suits. The man sustained facial injuries which required […]
Feb 2 2016 | Posted in
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