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Mon, July 28, 2014
Thursday, 24 July 2014
Three primary schools in Ballymena are to explore closer working relationships, as part of a strategy to tackle nearly 1...
Thursday, 24 July 2014
The extraordinary story of Ballymena's D-Day tank, its critical role in a fierce second World War battle and appearance ...
Thursday, 24 July 2014
Police in Ballymena have strongly defended investigations of local hate crimes, after criticism from North Antrim Sinn F...
Thursday, 24 July 2014
The possibility of Dunclug College's planned new school operating on a split site, utilising the closed Ballee Community...
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Ballymena Borough Council missed a golden opportunity to buy the disused Portglenone police station for community use by...
Thursday, 17 July 2014
A number of changes have been made at the top of Ballymena-based Wrights Group, parent company of Wrightbus, to reflect ...
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Ballymena politicians have warmly welcomed Wrightbus International's new £30m contract from SBS Transit in Singapore, wh...
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Senior officers from eight local councils have met in Ballymena to discuss potential EU funding opportunities available ...
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Around £20,000 worth of stolen clothing and household items, discovered in the Ballymena premises of a woman shoplifter,...
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Enterprise minister, Arlene Foster, last night (Monday) announced a £170m expansion by Moy Park that will provide 628 ne...
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Ballymena councillors have agreed to extend the litter reward card pilot scheme for a further six months.The scheme mean...
Thursday, 10 July 2014
Eye-catching and vibrant works of art created by Art and Design students from Ballymena's Northern Regional College, hav...
Thursday, 3 July 2014
A number of RUC Special Branch detectives in Ballymena in the 1970s warned senior officers one of their Catholic colleag...
Thursday, 3 July 2014
Senior police officers within the RUC command structure were aware of a specific threat to one of their Catholic colleag...
Thursday, 3 July 2014
The Orange Order has released details of this year Twelfth parades in Ballymena, Broughshane and Cullybackey.As usual th...
Thursday, 3 July 2014
The North-Eastern Education and Library Board was told last week some Ballee Community High School pupils had been 'ping...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
The bell rang for the final time at Ballee Community High School today (Tuesday).Although the school will not officially...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
An 11-year-old Ahoghill flautist wowed judges in the recent 'Primary School Musician of the Year' awards to take the tit...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Someone in Ballymena could be £116,304 poorer after a prize winning local lottery win failed to be claimed before the cl...
Thursday, 26 June 2014
A couple from the Grange near Toome who attacked a group of women following a dispute at a house party, have both been h...
Thursday, 19 June 2014
A Portglenone man appeared in court yesterday (Monday), charged with the murder of his partner, Denise Dunlop in Ballyme...
Thursday, 19 June 2014
A respected and loved former pupil and teacher of Carniny Primary School was recently remembered as his mother, Ann Hami...
Thursday, 19 June 2014
The managing director of the McKeever Hotel Group, which owns the Adair Arms in Ballymena, Mr Eugene McKeever, was award...
Thursday, 19 June 2014
Debt is causing major concern in Ballymena, with local Debt Action NI, seeing increasing evidence of the struggles of th...
Thursday, 12 June 2014
North Antrim DUP MP, Ian Paisley, has called on the Government to seriously consider buying out the homes of residents c...
Thursday, 12 June 2014
A Harryville woman had to single-handedly save her house from flooding, by directing the traffic away from her front doo...
Thursday, 12 June 2014
Zut Alors!The first ever academic 'Ulster Scots' journal produced in continental Europe has been put together by a Harry...
Thursday, 12 June 2014
The future preservation of one of Ballymena's most iconic statues is being considered by Ballymena Borough Council.Plans...
Thursday, 5 June 2014
The timing of the announcement of the closure of Ballee Community High School was tantamount to "child abuse" in its wid...
Thursday, 5 June 2014
The deputy head girl of Ballee Community High School who is leaving this summer, has penned a powerful and moving letter...
Thursday, 5 June 2014
Ballymena Reservist, Ranger Peter Drennan, has just completed the 'Coast to Coast Extreme Challenge', arguably one of th...
Thursday, 5 June 2014
The Assembly's Agriculture committee last week acknowledged the work of the PSNI in tackling agricultural crime and has ...
Thursday, 29 May 2014
The DUP maintained its dominant position in local politics when it took 16 of the 40 seats in the Mid and East Antrim 's...
Thursday, 29 May 2014
The new Mid and East Antrim 'shadow' council will get down to business immediately, when its 40 new members meet for the...
Thursday, 29 May 2014
BANNSIDE: (6 seats)THE TUV were the big winners in Bannside, topping the poll with Timothy Gaston and Ahogill Thistle pl...
Thursday, 29 May 2014
The last ever Mayor of Ballymena will be elected at the council's annual meeting next Monday night (June 2).With Mid and...
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Ballymena's 46,500 voters go to the polls this Thursday (May 22) to elect the new Mid and East Antrim Council, which mar...
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Ballymena man, Paul O'Neill, is overwhelmed by the worldwide attention a poem he penned for little Oscar Knox has receiv...
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Ten candidates will be fighting for three seats at the European Election on Thursday. The sitting MEPs, Martina Anderson...
Thursday, 22 May 2014
Gareth Harkness, an apprentice Engineer from Ballymena, has been crowned Apprentice of the Year 2014.Gareth, 19, is comp...
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Crime levels in Ballymena rose by 3.1% last year, the first recorded increase for several years.The figures for the year...
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Thousands of people from Ballymena were 'in the pink' on Saturday as the world famous Giro d'Italia sped through the Bor...
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Northern Ireland's favourite vintage event, the fabulous 'Frock Around The Clock Vintage & Handmade Fair', will be makin...
Thursday, 15 May 2014
Enterprise minister Arlene Foster yesterday (Monday) announced Ballymena company Wrights Group is investing over £14m in...
Thursday, 8 May 2014
The far right British National Party is running two candidates in the Mid and East Antrim 'super' council election.Two c...
Thursday, 8 May 2014
A Cullybackey baker has been crowned Mr Northern Ireland at the National Amateur Bodybuilder's Association championships...
Thursday, 8 May 2014
Moy Park, which employs around 1,000 people at its Ballymena plant on the Larne Link Road, has announced results for 201...
Thursday, 8 May 2014
A Portglenone farmer, who last week became the first man in Northern Ireland to be jailed under the Welfare of Animals A...
Thursday, 1 May 2014
A total of 37 candidates will be battling for Balllymena's 20 seats on the Mid and East Antrim new 'super' council, whic...
Thursday, 1 May 2014
The 'non-accidental' death of Ballymena toddler Liam Gonzales Bennett five years ago who died from severe head injuries ...
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Ballymena man, William Reynolds made history last week by making his one 100th blood donation!The extraordinary mileston...
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Ballymena man, Dr John Coulter, an author and journalist from a Unionist background, has just published a new e-book on ...
Thursday, 24 April 2014
RESIDENTS and staff of Pinewood Residential home in Ballymena are praising the decision to keep the home open as a victo...
Thursday, 24 April 2014
PLANS are being finalised for one of the biggest community pageants ever to take place in Broughshane.On Saturday, May 3...
Thursday, 24 April 2014
BALLYMENA Borough Council is to contribute £10,000 to a Civic Pride initiative.The programme aims to improve health and ...
Thursday, 24 April 2014
BALLYMENA Business Centre has been awarded £20,000 from The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), as part of the Groups Inspirin...
Thursday, 17 April 2014
As nominations open today (Tuesday) for next month's Mid and East Antrim 'super council' election, at least 36 candidate...
Thursday, 17 April 2014
The heartbroken family of missing Ballymena man, Jonny Bonnes, has made a fresh appeal for him to come home.Speaking exc...
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Plans for a housing development on the Cullybackey Road in Ballymena have been approved.Planners recommended the previou...
Thursday, 17 April 2014
Ballymena Academy student Kyle Bonnes has been offered a place in one of the UK's leading music theatre companies for yo...
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Ballymena's anti-social behaviour 'hotspots' are to be targeted by police over the next 12 months, it was revealed last ...
Thursday, 10 April 2014
A Ballymena man was yesterday (Monday) cleared of raping a woman in June, 2012. There was some scuffling at Antrim Crown...
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Reducing crime and anti-social behaviour in the Borough's 'hotspots' are among a number of local priorities set out in t...
Thursday, 10 April 2014
Employment and Learning Minister Dr Stephen Farry has highlighted the importance of apprenticeships at a Wrightbus appre...
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Local politicians have expressed shock and concern after it was revealed the deaths of five babies are among 11 being re...
Thursday, 3 April 2014
North Antrim DUP MLA, Paul Frew has accused the Housing Executive of pursuing an agenda that could 'wipe out' the Doury ...
Thursday, 3 April 2014
Health minister, Edwin Poots, last week gave a detailed assessment to the Assembly about ongoing efforts to improve 'poo...
Thursday, 3 April 2014
As people play tricks on each other the length and breadth of the UK this April Fools' Day, the National Lottery is urgi...
Thursday, 27 March 2014
A Ballymena woman has spoken of her distress that a starving horse appeared to be "left to die" in the Curls area of Bro...
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Enterprise Minister, Arlene Foster, has performed the official sod cutting ceremony for the new £10m extension at Galgor...
Thursday, 27 March 2014
North Antrim Ulster Unionist MLA, Robin Swann, whose young son, Evan, suffers from a rare heart condition, has secured a...
Thursday, 27 March 2014
Ballymena Council has agreed to contribute up to a maximum of £20,000 towards dressing the route in Ballymena for the Gi...
Thursday, 20 March 2014
An only son, who believed he was the devil when he stabbed his parents after killing the family dog because he thought i...
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Ballymena residents throw away 72,000 glass bottle aluminium screw tops annually, according to arc21.And now the waste m...
Thursday, 20 March 2014
North Antrim MLA, Robin Swann, has called on health minister Edwin Poots to "help speed up the completion of the parents...
Thursday, 20 March 2014
Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Ivan Lewis MP visited the JTI Gallaher factory in Lisnafillan last week a...
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Angry farmers are threatening to put the brakes on construction of the new multi-million pound A26 dualling scheme at Gl...
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Education minister, John O'Dowd, is still considering the future of Ballee Community High School, which has been recomme...
Thursday, 13 March 2014
Ballymena based, Wrightbus International, in partnership with Volvo Bus, has secured another two multi-million orders fo...
Thursday, 13 March 2014
The formal notice of poll for the new Mid and East Antrim 'super council' will be published on Monday, April 14, firing ...
Thursday, 6 March 2014
The former minister of Cairnalbana and Glenarm, the Rev Stephen Dickinson, has resigned as a minister of the Presbyteria...
Thursday, 6 March 2014
A 'concerned ratepayer' is to complain to the Northern Ireland Audit Office and the Ombudsman over Ballymena Borough Cou...
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Ballymena Borough Council has agreed to a £15,000 funding request from Gracehill Old School Trust towards a restoration ...
Thursday, 6 March 2014
Heartless thieves have stolen personal mementos from the graves of a family's loved ones at Ballymena Cemetery on the Cu...
Thursday, 27 February 2014
A 54-year-old man appeared at Ballymena Magistrate's court on Saturday charged with growing cannabis worth an estimated ...
Thursday, 27 February 2014
A row has erupted over attempts to retrieve parking 'fines' at a well known private town centre car park in Ballymena.Th...
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Leading local cancer charity Action Cancer is bringing its SuperValu Big Bus mobile unit to Ballymena next week.The Bus ...
Thursday, 27 February 2014
Plans are on track for the future upgrade of Ballymena Bus and Rail Station, Transport Minister Danny Kennedy revealed l...
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Ballymena Borough Council has agreed a rate rise of 1.5%, adding about £20 to the annual bill of the average ratepayer.T...
Thursday, 20 February 2014
The current Town Clerk of Ballymena Borough Council, Mrs Anne Donaghy, is to be the new chief executive designate of Mid...
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Unionist and nationalist councillors in Ballymena have clashed over a plan to make amateur sports clubs exempt from rate...
Thursday, 20 February 2014
A Ballymena woman who resisted and assaulted police during a fracas at an Antrim hotel in which a female officer fractur...
Thursday, 13 February 2014
The sister of tragic Ballymena woman, Lizzie Greer, whose body was found in Lough Neagh after a five day search at the e...
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Local politicians have unreservedly condemned a pipe bomb attack at a GAA pitch in Ahoghill over the weekend.The pipe bo...
Thursday, 13 February 2014
The average house price in Ballymena now stands at £118,772 according to the latest survey from University of Ulster, Ba...
Thursday, 6 February 2014
A Ballymena councillor is demanding action, after it was revealed more than a quarter of a million pounds was paid to a ...
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Justice Minister David Ford has welcomed an initiative to enhance safety and reduce rural crime in Ballymena.Farmers at ...
Thursday, 6 February 2014
A former soldier, who served in Iraq, has been given a four-month suspended prison sentence and ordered to pay £100 comp...
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Two Ballymena Academy students, who gained the highest grades in GCSE Construction and Built Environment, were recognise...
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Lord Bannside is urging his loyal grass roots supporters to continue to back the DUP at the forthcoming local government...
Thursday, 30 January 2014
St Louis Grammar School in Ballymena has won Invest Northern Ireland's 2013 Step 'N' Zones Competition, with a business ...
Thursday, 30 January 2014
Ballymena's two Sinn Fein councillors have branded plans to spend £106,000 on safety lighting at a path in the grounds o...
Thursday, 30 January 2014
North Antrim DUP MLA, Paul Frew, has written to Roads Minister, Danny Kennedy, to press the case for a long awaited link...
Thursday, 23 January 2014
The Rev Ian Paisley, now known as Lord Bannside, last night (Monday) launched an unprecedented and blistering attack on ...
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Lord Bannside's astonishing attack on the current party leadership sent shock waves through his former North Antrim cons...
Thursday, 23 January 2014
One of the Borough's longest serving public representatives is to retire next year.TUV Councillor Roy Gillespie will ste...
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Education Minister John O'Dowd has congratulated local students who have been successful in the final of the BT Young Sc...
Thursday, 16 January 2014
THE six times Mayor of Ballymena, councillor James Currie, is to retire from politics when the current council term ends...
Thursday, 16 January 2014
A BALLYMENA mother, whose young daughter was tragically killed in a house fire 20 years ago, has raised £1,300 for the F...
Thursday, 16 January 2014
THE mother of a 12-year-old boy, who was struck in the face with a brick while he slept during a terrifying attack on th...
Thursday, 16 January 2014
A NEW state-of-the-art children's intensive support unit in Ballee has been officially opened by Health minister, Edwin ...
Thursday, 9 January 2014
Two men used an aerosol can as a 'flame thrower', causing horrific injuries to a 'friend' at a party in Ballymena, the l...
Thursday, 9 January 2014
Two young Ahoghill brothers, Ross and Jake Houston, have won coveted places in the National Children's Orchestra of Grea...
Thursday, 9 January 2014
Lord Bannside could be released from hospital later this week.The 87-year-old former First Minister has been receiving t...
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
One of the biggest police fraud investigations in recent years centres on an organised criminal gang in Ballymena.The al...
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
NI Water is scheduled to start essential improvements to the water infrastructure in the Wellington Street, Mill Street,...
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Ballymena SDLP councillor, Declan O'Loan, has said the establishment of the new Mid and East Antrim council, will provid...
