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Lose weight, feel great: Newry set for new dance classes in 2015

Shall We Dance Newry – the popular local dance academy, is calling on the Newry & Mourne community to ‘lose weight and feel great’ by coming along to one of their dancing classes. The Newry-based academy has announced it will hold new beginners dance classes for all those local men and women who have made […]

Newry Business Woman wins Best Exporter at the Woman in Business NI Awards

Local Business Woman and owner of The Rug House Clare Vallely has scooped a leading prize at the Women in Business Northern Ireland Awards. The Awards were held in the Culloden Estate & Spa near Belfast late on Thursday Evening. 420 guests attended the event which highlighted the hard work and achievements of many business […]

Norbrook supports employee health and social wellbeing

The Public Health Agency (PHA) has commended Norbrook Laboratories Ltd in Newry for taking part in the ‘Workplace 28 day stop smoking challenge’ to support their employees to stop smoking, and has congratulated the group of staff that took part. The ‘Workplace 28 day stop smoking challenge’ was launched on 1st October to encourage and […]

Business is booming at Newry Schools

Students from Newry are preparing to start a business as they take part in the Company Programme with local charity Young Enterprise. The Company Programme will see 16-18 year olds from Newtownhamilton High School, St Columban’s College, St Joseph’s High School and St Mark’s High School develop marketable products or services and business plans under […]

‘Real need to develop border region’ – Fearon

Newry & Armagh Sinn Féin MLA Megan Fearon has said there is a real need to develop the border region, north and south. Speaking after attending a meeting to discuss all-Ireland co-operation at Stormont this week, the MLA said, “I attended this meeting with representatives of the Centre for Cross-Border Studies alongside my party colleagues […]

Newry’s Brainiest Workplace event

The Brain Injury Foundation in co-operation with the Brass Monkey is holding Newry’s first annual quiz to find the brainiest workplace in Newry on Tuesday 18th November at 8pm in the Brass Monkey. Entries are invited for teams of up to 5 people from any workplace in Newry. So, whether you are in a school, […]

Laws on street trading to change

Social Development Minister, Mervyn Storey MLA, has published his response to the consultation on proposed changes to the law on street trading. A joint consultation with the UK Government and the devolved administrations in Scotland and Wales was published in 2012 seeking views on changes to the Street Trading (NI) Act 2001 and the Pedlars […]

Warrenpoint accountants awarded Investors in People accreditation

Elaine Trainor & Co, Chartered Accountants, based in Warrenpoint and employing three staff, is among 40 organisations from across Northern Ireland celebrating their Investors in People (IiP) accreditation. Derek Baker, Permanent Secretary for the Department for Employment and Learning, congratulated all the organisations receiving the prestigious business award at a celebration event held in Hillsborough […]

The Pilots of the Carnbane: Chamber accused of ‘declaring Newry closed for business’

The Pilots of the Carnbane Way Development project have accused Newry Chamber of Commerce of preparing to ‘close the city for business’ by pushing ahead with a hugely expensive court action in a bid to block and delay the £47 million development at Carnbane Way. And the development company behind the 800 jobs creation project […]

Health Minister introduces Food Hygiene Rating Bill

Health Minister Jim Wells has introduced the Food Hygiene Rating Bill to the Assembly. The bill will, if passed, make it compulsory for Northern Ireland food businesses to display their hygiene ratings under the ‘Food Hygiene Rating Scheme’ (FHRS). The current, voluntary scheme, which has been operating here since 2011, gives consumers a, ‘behind the […]







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