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As part of the Police’s ongoing ‘Make Safe’ campaign, local neighbourhood officers have been busy delivering a suite of training packages to the night time economy educating them on what to look out for that may indicate a child is at risk. The activity is now expanding to Newry, Mourne and Down district. On Friday […]
The lack of a functioning Assembly and Executive is undermining Northern Ireland’s ability to tackle the climate emergency, Alliance MLA Eóin Tennyson has said. The party’s Climate Change and Just Transition spokesperson said a range of actions required by the Climate Change Act are being delayed due to the DUP’s refusal to form a local […]
Upper Bann MP Carla Lockhart has written to the Chancellor to request that he suspend the 25% tariff on steel products entering Northern Ireland. The tariff is being introduced as a result of the Northern Ireland Protocol, after EU quotas for global imports were exhausted. The DUP MP said: “The impact of this tariff will […]
A local Alliance Councillor has welcomed the beginning of construction work for a nature boardwalk and associated ten space car park in Montaighs Moss Nature reserve near Aghagallon. Plans for the works were previously approved by Armagh, Banbridge and Caigavon Council in 2021 however works were delayed due to the beginning of bird nesting season. The Montiaghs Moss Area of Special […]
Alliance Party representatives from Downpatrick and Newry met with the EV Association NI last week to discuss the lack of progress in rolling out EV infrastructure in Newry Mourne and Down District Council. There are now over 10,000 electric vehicles across NI. Downpatrick Councillor Cadogan Enright and Newry’s Helena Young met the EV Association at […]
Alliance MLA Eóin Tennyson has said the people of NI deserve better than stop gap financial measures, as he again appealed for the DUP to stop stalling and get back to work. Tennyson was speaking after it was revealed that with no set budget agreed and in place, a top civil servant had been put […]
Police investigating a report of a burglary at a house in the Crossgar Road area of Ballynahinch are appealing for witnesses. The burglary was reported on Tuesday, 23rd August, however, it may have occurred sometime over the previous seven days. Sergeant Cree said: “The householders returned from holiday to discover that their home had been broken into and […]
Local MP Carla Lockhart has welcomed the completion of resurfacing in Mulberry Crescent in Banbridge, following engagement with the developer and Roads Service. Commenting, Carla Lockhart said: “It is great to see the new surface throughout Mulberry Crescent, and I know this will make a huge difference to homeowners living in this really nice development. […]
Local MP Carla Lockhart has welcomed submission of a planning application for a new play park at Robinstown in the Birches area. The application was submitted following consultation and approval from the Northern Ireland Housing Executive. Commenting, Carla Lockhart said: “With a planning application now submitted, this long standing project has reached another milestone to […]
Minister for Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Edwin Poots MLA has met with representatives from the Northern Ireland Agri-Food Industry to discuss supply chain pressures and challenges caused by on-going rises in input costs and the cost of living crisis. Minister Poots previously described the pressures on the NI agri-food sector, including rising feed and […]
A new drive to help crack down on puppy smuggling has been launched by Minister of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs, Edwin Poots, during a visit to the Stena Line Terminal at Belfast Harbour. It is part of the wider ’Paws for Thought” campaign which aims to disrupt the trafficking of low welfare pups through […]
A local Alliance MLA has called for urgent repair work to be carried out to the cycle path network in Craigavon. The Craigavon cycle path network, known locally as the ‘Black Paths’, consists of over 40km of segregated cycle paths that extend between Lurgan and Portadown and is well used by local residents for commuting […]
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