
Sinn Féin MLA Conor Murphy has welcomed Health Minister Michelle O’Neill’s announcement that she is to extend the Physical and Sensory Disability Strategy and Action Plan to 30th September 2017. “I am delighted the Minister has decided to extend the Physical and Sensory Disability Strategy and Action Plan by one year,” he said. “Developed through […]
Sep 15 2016 | Posted in
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SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has questioned the Minister for Climate Change and Industry in Parliament on the safety failings exposed by the BBC’s Panorama documentary. She said, “Like many of my constituents, I am deeply concerned by the safety failings exposed by yesterday’s Panorama documentary. “The Minister stated that his job today was […]
Sep 15 2016 | Posted in
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Police in Newry, Mourne & Down District are focusing on the issue of drugs during the month of September. Whilst local Policing continues, Police are raising the awareness of the issues surrounding drugs and what Police and partner organisations are doing in your area to address it. The Police Service of Northern Ireland continues in […]
Sep 15 2016 | Posted in
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Everyone is invited to join the celebration of food, beer and music at this year’s Oktoberfest held in Kings Hall. Oktoberfest will be held every Friday and Saturday over three weekends from 30th of September – 29th October 2016. In 2008 and 2009 Belfast gave host to a small imitation of the Munich festival and […]

Economy Minister Simon Hamilton MLA has welcomed Critical Power Systems’ announcement that it is to invest £2million and create 47 new jobs in Newry with support from Invest Northern Ireland. The new manufacturing start-up business designs, manufactures and supplies power distribution units for the data centre market. Welcoming the investment Minister Hamilton said, “Critical Power […]

Update at 3:12pm: The A1 has now reopened. The A1 has been closed in both directions between the Banbridge Road, Dromore and the Gowdystown Road. Diversions are in place police have said. This road closure is for safety reasons as there is a fire in the Rowntree Road area of Dromore. Article continues below: Motorists […]
Sep 14 2016 | Posted in
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Buttercrane Shopping Centre will hold a charity coffee event on Saturday 1st October in memory of 18 year old Katherine Neill from Banbridge who died recently after she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Katherine, a talented young woman and an A-Level scholar, lost her battle against Rhabdomyosarcoma last month. Katherine was runner […]

Figures released for the period May – July 2016, show that the Northern Ireland Labour Force Survey unemployment rate was 5.6% – a decrease of 0.2 percentage points over the quarter and 0.7 percentage points over the year. More recent figures for August 2016 show that the number of claimants in receipt of unemployment related […]
Sep 14 2016 | Posted in
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Police investigating an allegation of fraud at the USPCA have arrested a 53 year old man and a 52 year old woman in the Newry area this morning. Speaking to Newry Times, Detective Chief Inspector Ian Wilson, from PSNI Economic Crime Unit, said, “A complaint was made to police in April. “As a result of […]
Sep 14 2016 | Posted in
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A manager within the Southern Trust has given his backing to Organ Donation Week by sharing his story about how he donated his own kidney. Gerard Rocks is the Assistant Director for Promoting Wellbeing within The Trust. In 2014 Gerard’s family was informed that their father Gerry would require a kidney donation in order to […]
Sep 13 2016 | Posted in
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