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Fri, December 13, 2013
Thursday, 12 December 2013
An ambitious plan to establish a multi-million pound international mental health centre of excellence in Ballymena has b...
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Two North Antrim unionist MLAs have clashed over plans to spend up to £100,000 on improving a key area in Harryville.DUP...
Thursday, 12 December 2013
Ballymena Arts Festival has been awarded a National Marketing Award for Social Media campaigns for their Blackboard Face...
Thursday, 5 December 2013
The Presbyterian Church has warned ousted minister, the Rev Stephen Dickinson, to stop preaching outside its jurisdictio...
Thursday, 5 December 2013
A Ballymena couple, working as missionaries in the Philippines, are now helping to distribute aid to those affected by T...
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Mr. John Milsted has been appointed plant manager at Michelin's factory in Ballymena.He replaces Wilton Crawford who has...
Thursday, 28 November 2013
About 300 job losses will be confirmed at JTI's Ballymena plant if new European directives on cigarette packet sizes and...
Thursday, 28 November 2013
The South-East Antrim Brigade of the UDA has warned those responsible for "anti-social and criminal activity" in the Bal...
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Ballymena's emergency action plan was deployed last week, after a bomb alert forced about 30 residents from their homes ...
Thursday, 21 November 2013
A Ballymena couple, working as missionaries in the Philippines, have given a graphic account of the 'calamitous' devasta...
Thursday, 21 November 2013
Philip and Tracey have been based in the Philippines since 2004 and their children, twins Hannah and Daisy (7) and Lucy ...
Thursday, 21 November 2013
St. Patrick's College in Ballymena was the venue last week for the launch of a framework for the future provision of edu...
Thursday, 14 November 2013
A brutal attack on a vulnerable woman, in which her head was 'dry shaved', was described by a Ballymena judge last week ...
Thursday, 14 November 2013
The last of the killers of Ballymena Catholic schoolboy, Michael 'Mickey Bo' McIlveen, pleaded guilty last Friday to his...
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Ballymena DUP and Sinn Fein councillors have clashed over plans to spend more than £100,000 on new lighting for a path a...
Thursday, 7 November 2013
The green light for work to start on the main contract to build Ballymena's new £25m health and primary care centre is f...
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Ballymena's area police commander has revealed a 75% reduction in crimes committed by drugs addicted offenders.Chief Ins...
Thursday, 7 November 2013
Main Street in Broughshane has been named regional winner of 'Cultivation Street', a national competition supported by t...
Thursday, 31 October 2013
The North-Eastern Education and Library Board will today (Tuesday) be asked to endorse a plan to cut the enrolment numbe...
Thursday, 31 October 2013
A Cullybackey couple have had a parking fine from a private firm waived, after appealing their case and seeking advice f...
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Ballymena Borough Council has announced a £1.3m community grants scheme to boost the development and enhancement of loca...
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Plans to re-locate Wellington Street's Crown Post Office in a former restaurant building across the road, have been blas...
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Ballykeel Primary School pupils are celebrating after raising an amazing £8,000 for Action MS through a sponsored forest...
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Ballymena Festival of Music, Speech and Dance has just launched the syllabus for the 2014 Festival, which will be held a...
Thursday, 17 October 2013
A Coroner has referred the disturbing and brutal death of a Ballymena toddler back to the Director of Public Prosecution...
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Ballymena Alliance councillor, Jayne Dunlop, has spoken publicly for the first time about her battle with breast cancer,...
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Ballymena triplets Pauline, Rebecca and Francine Millar, attended St Mary's Primary School and St Patrick's College with...
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Ballymena United 2 Coleraine 2 A Johnny Taylor double netted Ballymena United a draw with 'derby' rivals Coleraine at...
Thursday, 10 October 2013
A visit by Government Finance minister, Simon Hamilton, to the A26 yesterday (Monday), provided the clearest hint yet th...
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Mr. Mervyn Rankin, the former Town Clerk and Chief Executive of Ballymena Borough Council, has died suddenly following a...
Thursday, 10 October 2013
Ballymena SDLP Councillor Declan O'Loan has expressed his sadness at the demolition of the Church of Our Lady in Harryvi...
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Ballee Community High School is preparing to challenge any attempt to close the school in the High Court, the Guardian c...
Thursday, 3 October 2013
The chair of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee, Keith Vaz, visited the JTI factory in Ballymena last Thursday to...
Thursday, 3 October 2013
The TUV is strongly supporting a proposal from the Ballymena Branch of the Regimental Association of the Ulster Defence ...
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Two hundred people from the Borough, owing £2.5 million, have sought help from Debt Action Northern Ireland within the p...
Thursday, 26 September 2013
North Antrim DUP MP, Ian Paisley, has defended his absence from a Westminster debate on the Syrian crisis, while he was ...
Thursday, 26 September 2013
Ballymena's Electoral Canvass is well underway and staff at the Broughshane Street office are up to their eyes opening a...
Thursday, 19 September 2013
Former Ballymena Mayor, the Rev Robert Coulter, has expressed his alarm he may not be buried, "with my own people", in h...
Thursday, 19 September 2013
A major planning application for Ballymena's £4m public realm scheme is expected to be submitted before the end of the y...
Thursday, 19 September 2013
A new Department of Justice resource pack for teachers, to help tackle the odious crime of human trafficking,was launche...
Thursday, 12 September 2013
A bitter dispute over the status of a right of way is holding up an ambitious project to redevelop Raceview's old woolle...
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Adam Robinson, the 20-year-old man found badly injured in a wheelie at Sentry Hill last week, looked as if he had been '...
Thursday, 12 September 2013
Ballymena councillors are divided over support for a publication charting the history of the Borough.Entitled 'The Legac...
Thursday, 5 September 2013
The heartbroken mother of a Ballymena man, tragically killed in a road accident two weeks ago, has made an emotional app...
Thursday, 5 September 2013
A diving group, based in Connor, have joined forces with Tidy Northern Ireland, to help clean up the beaches and waterwa...
Thursday, 5 September 2013
Ballymena Borough Council is investigating the potential benefits of forging economic links with several European countr...
Thursday, 29 August 2013
An elderly brother and sister, who are among a number of residents of Pinewood Care Home living in fear of eviction, fea...
Thursday, 29 August 2013
A Larne Road pensioner's back garden has been left "looking like a building site" after heartless thieves stole her heat...
Thursday, 29 August 2013
Cullybackey High School is rightly proud of its fifth year students who have just received their GCSE and other examinat...
Thursday, 22 August 2013
The departure of a complete layer of senior managers, each earning between £50,000 and £60,000, helped Ballymena Borough...
Thursday, 22 August 2013
Northern Ireland Secretary of State, Theresa Villiers, was in Ballymena last week where North Antrim MP, Ian Paisley, ac...
Thursday, 22 August 2013
The average house price in Ballymena is now £122,633, amounting to a 6.1% increase over the year. Overall, performance i...
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Miracle baby Joe Lamont's brave battle for life continues - with the little fighter now needing a liver and kidney trans...
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Ballymena Physio, Gillian Clarke, joined in the World Police and Fire Games celebrations last week when she was chosen a...
Thursday, 15 August 2013
Matthew Crawford, from Ahoghill, has been busy again this summer producing another DVD of his local 12th Day parade whic...
Thursday, 8 August 2013
THERE is an air of anticipation in Ahoghill as the village eagerly anticipates the arrival of the RHS Britain in Bloom j...
Thursday, 8 August 2013
ROADS Service is alerting drivers that the A43 Glenravel Road will be closed in early September for three days - creatin...
Thursday, 8 August 2013
DOURY Road estate in Ballymena is to benefit from a unique housing led regeneration scheme.Social Development Minister, ...
Thursday, 8 August 2013
A NUMBER of former Mayors of Ballymena may stand down when elections for the new Mid and East Antrim council are held ne...
Thursday, 1 August 2013
THE 23rd annual Heart of the Glens Festival gets into top gear this Saturday (August 3) in picturesque Cushendall.The ev...
Thursday, 1 August 2013
The Mayor of Ballymena, Councillor Audrey Wales, has issued an open invitation to all babies from the Borough, born on t...
Thursday, 1 August 2013
NI Water is scheduled to start essential improvements to the sewerage infrastructure in Ballymena town centre later this...
Thursday, 1 August 2013
THREE men were arrested and a mobile fuel laundering plant seized, in an operation led by customs officers in Portglenon...
Thursday, 25 July 2013
The contract to build Ballymena's new £25m state-of-the-art Health and Care Centre has been challenged by one of the bid...
Thursday, 25 July 2013
A Ballymena teenager, who survived a battle for life against all the odds, is backing a very special 'Zipwire' challenge...
Thursday, 25 July 2013
'Doggone' it! 'Bugs Bunny' never starred in a drama like this!And it made the Twelfth of July 'glorious' in more ways th...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Past Orange Order Grand Master, Robert Saulters, called for the Union Flag to be flown from every taxpayer funded buildi...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Plans for one of the biggest ever community development projects in Ballymena moved a step nearer last week.Ambitious pl...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
The Mayor Ballymena, DUP councillor Audrey Wales, and North Antrim MLA colleague, David McIlveen, have met residents fro...
Thursday, 11 July 2013
A row has broken out over the Royal Mail's refusal to allow all requests for Ballymena sorting office staff wanting to t...
Thursday, 11 July 2013
The Tower Centre is investigating the cause of a fire at the weekend which destroyed signage at the front of the Welling...
Thursday, 11 July 2013
The principal of Carniny Primary School, Raymond Ross, has written to parents about the horrific dog attack on five-year...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
The future of all four of Ballymena's controlled post primary schools has still to be agreed, despite the North-Eastern ...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
The campaign to keep Pinewood residential home open stepped up a gear yesterday (Monday) with a march to the steps of Pa...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
North Antrim DUP MLA Paul Frew has launched a blistering attack on the North-Eastern Education and Library Board's consu...
Thursday, 27 June 2013
A number of prominent Ballymena business people have expressed serious concerns, that any plan to remove a significant n...
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Danske Bank is to close its branches in Randalstown and Portglenone will close and merge with Antrim and Ballymena.The b...
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Police were called to the Curry's store in Ballymena after a customer made a complaint about a laptop he claims was "not...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
The pupils of Ballee Community High School have made an impassioned 'save our school' plea and urged the North-Eastern E...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
Several people from the Ballymena Borough received recognition in the Queen's Birthday Honours list at the weekend.Dr Fi...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
A senior official from the North-Eastern Education and Library Board has suggested that a parent concerned about road sa...
Thursday, 13 June 2013
The chair of Ballymena's Police and Community Safety Partnership, councillor James Currie, has issued a strong appeal fo...
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Councillors have welcomed the approval of a budget hotel south of the Larne road roundabout.The proposal is to erect a 6...
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Ballymena hosted an information event last week for local businesses, to advise them of the benefits of joining the new ...
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Ballymena broke more new ground last night (Monday) when well known DUP councillor, Audrey Wales, was elected as the fir...
Thursday, 6 June 2013
They didn't have tickets but local Man United fans still got in to the 'match' of the season!When Old Trafford superstar...
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Ballymena Borough Chamber of Commerce and Industry held a welcome meeting for new members in the Adair Arms last week.In...
Thursday, 30 May 2013
The village of Clough is gearing up for a glamorous 'match of the day' this Saturday when Manchester United superstar, J...
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Ballymena DUP alderman, Martin Clarke, has condemned an act of criminal damage at the King George Park in Harryville as ...
Thursday, 30 May 2013
The community in Ballymena is being asked for their views on an ambitious scheme to revitalise the 'core streets' of tow...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
The Guardian this week reveals the full details of a radical masterplan that calls for Ballee Community High, Cambridge ...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
London's iconic new 'hop on hop off' bus, built by Wrightbus in Ballymena, got the Royal seal of approval last week when...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
The principal of Slemish College, Dr Paul McHugh, has been announced as the 2013 winner of the head teacher of the Year ...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
The campaign against the proposed closure of Pinewood residential home in Ballymena is being stepped up, with the daught...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
The inimitable Mayor of London, Boris 'the bus' Johnston, 'free-wheeled' into Ballymena last Friday, entertaining an aud...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Ballymena Golf Club has been left deeply saddened following the sudden death last week of member Clifford Law. He was 56...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
A police raid on a multi-million pound cannabis factory near Ahoghill last week has been described as a "massive blow" t...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
A public meeting is to be held in the Braid Town Hall later this month to discuss the proposed closure of Pinewood resid...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
Wright Group chief executive, Mark Nodder, met Prime Minister, David Cameron, last week in his capacity as President of ...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Care workers in Ballymena, looking after some of the Borough's most vulnerable citizens, have warned the service could b...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
Police are appealing for the public to assist them in halting a recent spate of hoax bomb alerts and devices in Ballymen...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
A former prisoner has praised the staff of the Simon Community at Millhouse in Harryville for helping him get his life b...
