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Wed, September 28, 2016
Thursday, 29 September 2016
A SIGNIFICANT legacy from the historic Ballymena Castle, and an extraordinary link to the town's past, is in use in an e...
Thursday, 29 September 2016
A BALLYMENA teenager, who started smoking cannabis at the age of 12, is speaking out to warn of the dangers of using dru...
Thursday, 29 September 2016
BALLYMENA BID is on a high after winning free bus advertising worth £25,000 through a Business in the Community's (BITC...
Thursday, 29 September 2016
A LOCAL bakery in Broughshane has closed down with the loss of up to 15 jobs.Sunstart Bakery, which was based on the Woo...
Thursday, 22 September 2016
THE Police Ombudsman has concluded police were justified in using Taser against a woman in Ballymena who who was bleedin...
Thursday, 22 September 2016
THE success of a pilot project aimed at directly addressing the fear of crime in so-called 'hotspot areas' and the assoc...
Thursday, 22 September 2016
NORTHERN Ireland Electricity Networks (NIE Networks) is carrying out a major metering programme in Ballymena in the comi...
Thursday, 22 September 2016
PLANS for a Solar Farm at Ballygarvey Road were approved at last week's Mid and East Antrim Planning Committee meeting.T...
Thursday, 15 September 2016
UNIONISTS clashed angrily with Ballymena SDLP councillor, Declan O'Loan, last week over his criticism of the £63,000 spe...
Thursday, 15 September 2016
NORTH Antrim DUP MP, Ian Paisley, has branded the Boundary Commission proposals for his constitutency a "monstrosity."In...
Thursday, 15 September 2016
FIRST minister, Arlene Foster, underlined the importance of fostering economic partnerships between local and regional g...
Thursday, 15 September 2016
THE PARENTS of Ballymena man, Darren Rodgers, have made generous donations to two Northern Ireland charities in the wake...
Thursday, 8 September 2016
NORTH Antrim DUP MLA, Paul Frew, had a claim for damages against him by a 15-year-old girl over some of his Facebook pos...
Thursday, 8 September 2016
THE managing director of a Polish food retail company, fined last week for selling illegal prescription medicines in Bal...
Thursday, 8 September 2016
TWO North Antrim MLAs are calling for a scheme to reduce traffic accidents at one of Ballymena's "most notorious roundab...
Thursday, 8 September 2016
PORTGLENONE businessman Philip O'Neill recently trekked the gruelling Camino de Santiago trail to help raise money for t...
Thursday, 1 September 2016
SINN Fein in North Antrim was split apart last night (Monday) after Mid and East Antrim councillor, Paul Maguire and 17 ...
Thursday, 1 September 2016
THE Northern Ireland Health and Safety Executive is investigating a gas explosion at a block of apartments in Ahoghill, ...
Thursday, 1 September 2016
BALLYMENA Festival of Music, Speech and Dance has been honoured with the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service at a recept...
Thursday, 1 September 2016
WORKERS representatives at Wrightbus in Ballymena are seeking an urgent meeting with company management over an apparent...
Thursday, 25 August 2016
A LOVING sister from Ballymena, who gave her brother the gift of life by donating one of her kidneys to him, is calling ...
Thursday, 25 August 2016
AS shockwaves continue to reverberate around the North Antrim constituency over last week's resignation of Sinn Fein MLA...
Thursday, 25 August 2016
BANNSIDE TUV councillor Timothy Gaston has condemned vandals who damaged a pathway that had been repaired by volunteers ...
Thursday, 25 August 2016
A CORONER is calling for new safety measures to be implemented on the A26 where an Ahoghill woman was killed, shortly af...
Thursday, 18 August 2016
THE fund to help pay for specialist treatment for brave Portglenone man, Kevin Carey, who has been given three months to...
Thursday, 18 August 2016
BALLYMENA man, Damien McAuley, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer two years ago, is tackling a 480 mile cycle ...
Thursday, 18 August 2016
A FATHER-of-five from Ballymena who drowned at the shoreline in Larne had been worried about losing his job in JTI Galla...
Thursday, 18 August 2016
BALLYMENA SDLP Councillor Declan O'Loan has strongly criticised Mid and East Antrim Borough Council's Planning Committee...
Thursday, 11 August 2016
CHURCH authorites have succeeded in preventing a Building Preservation Notice being placed on a well known hall in Broug...
Thursday, 11 August 2016
THE renewable energy firm behind a £450m project to install a tidal generation scheme off Fair Head is to host two open ...
Thursday, 11 August 2016
A BALLYMENA mother is backing a new blood poisoning awareness campaign, after her three-year-old son fell desperately il...
Thursday, 11 August 2016
NORTH Antrim DUP MLA, Paul Frew, is warning someone could be killed in the Ecos Park area unless illegal scrambler activ...
Thursday, 4 August 2016
BALLYMENA'S leading town centre traders last week laid bare the serious damage to their businesses arising from slippage...
Thursday, 4 August 2016
A DRUG dealer who was on the run for more than a year is to be sentenced at the end of August. Former gym owner Mark Dun...
Thursday, 4 August 2016
A SMOULDERING bonfire site at Kellswater Bridge has attracted criticism from local residents, who have highlighted the d...
Thursday, 4 August 2016
GREEN fingered volunteers from 'Ahoghill In Bloom' are hoping to put on a champion performance this week.Judges from the...
Thursday, 28 July 2016
THE old First Ahoghill Presbyterian Church on the village's Main Street is to be transformed into a state-of-the-art new...
Thursday, 28 July 2016
PERMISSION has been granted for the erection of 20 apartments with associated external storage units, as part of the new...
Thursday, 28 July 2016
A MAN has been arrested and tobacco and cash seized during an operation to disrupt the sale of suspected illicit tobacco...
Thursday, 28 July 2016
STAFF at Portglenone-based Clarke Facades raised a magnificent £5,573, by putting their best feet forward in support of ...
Thursday, 21 July 2016
JTI is to set up a £5m Trust Fund to stimulate the creation of hundreds of jobs over the next 20 years, the Guardian can...
Thursday, 21 July 2016
AROUND 1,000 mourners gathered at Green Pastures Church on Friday (July 15) to say a final farewell to local Royal Irish...
Thursday, 21 July 2016
MID and East Antrim Borough Council's Planning Committee has deferred a decision on changing some conditions regarding a...
Thursday, 21 July 2016
NORTH Antrim DUP MLA, Paul Frew and his Mid and East Antrim councill colleague, Reuben Glover have welcomed the start of...
Thursday, 7 July 2016
A UK government minister warned last week the jailing of a Ballymena couple for running a £1m car parts scam has reinfor...
Thursday, 7 July 2016
COMPLETION of Cullybackey's new park and ride facility could be delayed for up to four years due to concerns about block...
Thursday, 7 July 2016
A BALLYMENA boy got the shock of his life when he received a video call from some of Northern Ireland's football heroes,...
Thursday, 7 July 2016
THE COUPLE from Ballymena, sent to prison last month for selling fake car products, made more than £1m from their five y...
Thursday, 30 June 2016
BALLYMENA was a town in mourning on Saturday, as hundreds of people gathered at St. Patrick's Church of Ireland to pay t...
Thursday, 30 June 2016
NORTH Antrim's jubliant pro-leave supporters have claimed last Thursday, June 23, will go down as the day the UK reclaim...
Thursday, 30 June 2016
A LONG lost treasured photograph of North Antrim MLA, Jim Allister's, great uncle, sergeant William Mullen, who was kill...
Thursday, 30 June 2016
GRACEHILL angler, Paul Smith, has blasted stinking pollution in the river at Ecos Park as an "absolute disgrace."And Mr ...
Thursday, 23 June 2016
YOUTHS, fuelled with a cocktail of alcohol and paracetamol, are causing disruption in Dunvale.Police say they are concer...
Thursday, 23 June 2016
CHARITIES and community groups in Ballymena will benefit from Tesco's new Community Food Connection service - distributi...
Thursday, 23 June 2016
BALLYMENA North Partnership may open community allotments on wasteland behind their centre!Discussion have already taken...
Thursday, 23 June 2016
AS part of celebrations taking place throughout the week leading up to this Saturday's Armed Forces Day, Mid and East An...
Thursday, 16 June 2016
MID and East Antrim Mayor, Councillor Audrey Wales, has led the tributes following the death of Ballymena man Darren Rod...
Thursday, 16 June 2016
SDLP Councillor Declan O'Loan has called on those who have erected Union flags near the former army houses in Ballymena ...
Thursday, 16 June 2016
A BALLYMENA couple have been sent to prison for running an "enterprise" where they sold counterfeit car products on eBa...
Thursday, 16 June 2016
MID and East Antrim Borough Council have a new Mayor, in DUP councillor Audrey Wales and Deputy Mayor, UUP Alderman Will...
Thursday, 9 June 2016
STAFF at Ballymena's electoral office are due to stage a second one day strike today (Tuesday) over plans to close the o...
Thursday, 9 June 2016
BALLYMENA DUP councillor, Audrey Wales, is set to become Mid and East Antrim Borough's first lady mayor at the annual ge...
Thursday, 9 June 2016
BALLYMENA Ulster Unionist councillor, Stephen Nicholl, is demanding protection for Mid and East Antrim ratepayers from f...
Thursday, 9 June 2016
COUNTY Antrim's Lieutenant, Joan Christie, joined Mid and East Antrim Mayor, councillor Billy Ashe, at a very special 'R...
Thursday, 2 June 2016
A BALLYMENA mum, whose three-year-old son is waiting on a dual liver and kidney transplant, has expressed concerns about...
Thursday, 2 June 2016
A SECURITY guard at the Fairhill Centre in Ballymena has been praised for saving the life of a woman who collapsed and s...
Thursday, 2 June 2016
THE Northern Health Trust has apologised to the family of a disabled boy from Ballymena, after his grandfather complaine...
Thursday, 2 June 2016
ACTION Cancer's Big Bus will celebrate its 10th birthday this September and over the years hundreds of women in the Ball...
Thursday, 26 May 2016
A HIGH court judge will be asked to overturn the decision by Justice Minister, David Ford, to close Ballymena courthouse...
Thursday, 26 May 2016
RESIDENTS of Toome Road and Queen Street in Ballymena have welcomed a unique local action plan aimed at protecting their...
Thursday, 26 May 2016
MID and East Antrim councillors have put the small business rates relief scheme under the microscope, demanding new supp...
Thursday, 26 May 2016
BALLYMENA teenager, Shealyn Caulfield, picked up the top prize in her category at the British Heart Foundation Northern ...
Thursday, 19 May 2016
BALLYMENA'S top police officer has welcomed the drop in crimes recorded in Mid and East Antrim last year.Crime in the ar...
Thursday, 19 May 2016
GRACEHILL Primary School pupils are set for the Travelwise N.I. 'Walk to School' week carnival parade after the school w...
Thursday, 19 May 2016
AN Ahoghill mum is striving to help women in Mid and East Antrim gain access to better information about positive birth....
Thursday, 19 May 2016
A WELL known building on the corner of Broughshane Street and Broadway Avenue in Ballymena town centre is to be demolish...
Thursday, 12 May 2016
NEW North Antrim DUP MLA, Mervyn Storey, is being strongly tipped as the possible new Education Minister for Northern Ir...
Thursday, 12 May 2016
THE DUP maintained its dominance over the North Antrim constituency, taking more than 43% of the first preference votes ...
Thursday, 12 May 2016
TRIBUTES have been paid to the Ballymena man who was killed in a three car collision last week.Kenny Wright, aged 50, di...
Thursday, 12 May 2016
A BALLYMENA man who tragically took his own life, told his father his "life was not worth living because he missed his s...
Thursday, 5 May 2016
A BRAVE Portglenone boy, who has twice been diagnosed with leukaemia, has returned to school after months of gruelling t...
Thursday, 5 May 2016
THE ongoing 'selfie' row over a Sinn Fein councillor's social media post about the Queen is again due to be discussed at...
Thursday, 5 May 2016
BALLYKEEL Loyal Sons of Ulster flute band will again host its annual band contest on Saturday, May 21. Bands will leave ...
Thursday, 5 May 2016
FORTY-five five sixth form students from Ballymena Academy were presented with their Millennium Volunteers Awards by Fin...
Thursday, 28 April 2016
A DUNCLUG pensioner claims he is "fighting for his life", after postponing a heart operation due to suffering repeated c...
Thursday, 28 April 2016
THE officers of Ballymena Royal Black District are host this year to the County Antrim Last Saturday Demonstration to be...
Thursday, 28 April 2016
THE headmaster of Ballymena Academy, Mr Stephen Black, has strongly endorsed last week's statement from 80 of the provin...
Thursday, 28 April 2016
A RADICAL plan to help cut carnage on the main A26 Antrim to Ballymena Road would involve banning right turns at three n...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
THE Police Service of Northern Ireland, housing, education and sports organisations have all declared an interest in the...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
THE Guardian this week publishes the first of a two part series in which we put North Antrim's Assembly election candida...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
THE Northern Ireland Independent Retail Trade Association (NIIRTA) last week launched their Alternative Programme for Go...
Thursday, 21 April 2016
THE first ever Mid and East Antrim Pensioners Parliament took place in Ballymena last week, with around 80 older people ...
Thursday, 14 April 2016
A ROW involving a Sinn Fein councillor's 'selfie' with a portrait of the Queen at the Braid Town Hall should be referred...
Thursday, 14 April 2016
NORTH Antrim DUP MP, Ian Paisley, has warned that the £4m Public Realm scheme in Ballymena is causing serious disruption...
Thursday, 14 April 2016
THE line-up for North Antrim Assembly election will include at least 15 candidates - four more than in 2011.With nominat...
Thursday, 14 April 2016
MID and East Antrim Borough Council is planning a series of events to mark the Queen's 90th birthday next week.At last w...
Thursday, 7 April 2016
THE Ballymena Branch of the Regimental Association of the Ulster Defence Regiment unveiled a monument in Memorial Park o...
Thursday, 7 April 2016
TALKS are at an advanced stage over the sale of the JTI factory at Galgorm, in a multi-million pound deal that will see ...
Thursday, 7 April 2016
THE Ballymena Branch of the Regimental Association of the Ulster Defence Regiment unveiled a monument in Memorial Park o...
Thursday, 7 April 2016
THE legacies of Battle of the Somme and Easter Rising are examined in a major new exhibition at the Mid Antrim Museum in...
