
Buttercrane Shopping Centre in Newry have the biggest competition of the year for the best person in our lives; our mums. All you have to do is upload a PHOTO of your Mum to their Facebook page and tell them why she deserves to #Win. THE PRIZE: ** £120 Yummy Mummy Wardrobe makeover from Vila […]

Over 56km of hedgerows and 11,000 saplings were given away at Slieve Gullion recently to farmers, householders and community groups. The crisp winter’s day saw the culmination of the Gullion’s Green Woodland Scheme, which is being run by Ring of Gullion Landscape Partnership together with the Million Trees in a Day project and the Woodland […]
Feb 29 2016 | Posted in
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Police in Newry are appealing for information following a road traffic collision. At around 5.30pm on Saturday, 6th February, a black Mercedes car was in a collision with a female pedestrian. The incident happened close to the TK Maxx store on Merchants Quay. Article continues below: There were a number of people in the area […]
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Newry Councillor Charlie Casey has welcomed comments from Joint First Minister Martin McGuinness regarding the Southern Relief Road and the Narrow Water Bridge project. The Sinn Féin Councillor joined NMD Chairman Mickey Ruane for a meeting with Minister McGuinness following the Newry Chamber Business Lunch with the Joint First Minister in the Canal Court. The […]
Feb 29 2016 | Posted in
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Sinn Féin MLA Chris Hazzard has said he is extremely concerned that live armaments are being washed up onto South Down beaches following periods of bad weather. Speaking to Newry Times, Hazzard said, “It is well known the British Government dumped millions of tonnes of armaments into the Irish Sea after World War II and […]
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Police are appealing for information following the theft of parts from a digger which was parked in a sports ground in the Dorsy Road area near Cullyhanna. Sometime between 4.30pm on Saturday 13th February and 4.30pm on Sunday 14th February, a number of parts including orange ram linkages, an orange bucket ram, an orange lift […]
Feb 26 2016 | Posted in
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A number of Southern Health and Social Care Trust staff have been recognised at the prestigious Institute of Health Care Management Awards recently. The Institute of Healthcare Management is the leading independent membership organisation for health and social care managers. The Institute supports personal development and promotes the improvement of health and wellbeing through quality […]
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The Southern Health and Social Care Trust has been sharing how they are helping more older people to live at home independently with a delegation of Senior Officials from the Finnish Health and Welfare Service. The officials travelled from North Karelia, an eastern external border region in Finland which, similar to the Southern Trust has […]
Feb 26 2016 | Posted in
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A man has died following a single vehicle road traffic collision on the Killowen Road between Kilkeel and Rostrevor this morning, Friday 26th February, police have confirmed. Police received a report of the collision shortly before 6.30am this morning. Two other men have been taken to hospital for treatment for injuries that are not believed […]
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The Public Health Agency (PHA) is again reminding people in “at risk” groups and others who are eligible, to get the winter flu vaccine, with a warning about the deadly dangers associated with catching the flu. As in previous years, influenza H1N1 (often known as “swine flu”) is one of the strains of flu circulating […]
Feb 26 2016 | Posted in
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