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Fri, November 21, 2008
Thursday, 20 November 2008
by Áine McCarron.The PSNI came under heavy criticism this week after the car at the centre of a weekend security alert w...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
A 30-year-old man was arrested in Londonderry yesterday morning (Wednesday) in connection with the murder of Strabane ma...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
by Julie Moore. When Castlederg jogger, Liam McHugh, took part in the Dublin marathon at the end of last month, his 16-...
Thursday, 20 November 2008
Police said last week they were investigating the "criminal activities of the INLA and their associates in the North Wes...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
by Áine McCarron. A Bready mother has said a child will be killed, if a footpath is not laid on a heavily congested sch...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
by Anna Maguire. The son of the late Castlederg councillor, Charlie McHugh, will fill the seat his father occupied on S...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
by Anna Maguire. There was unanimous opposition to the proposed closure of Greenfield Residential Home at a council mee...
Thursday, 13 November 2008
by Anna Maguire. Northern Ireland's chief coroner, John Leckey, has called for more training for staff monitoring babie...
Thursday, 6 November 2008
by Áine McCarron. People queued for nearly 45 minutes at a time in Strabane to vote for America's next president to the...
Thursday, 6 November 2008
by Áine McCarron. The Burndennett community has described the loss of its cricket clubhouse, after a suspected weekend ...
Thursday, 6 November 2008
by Áine McCarron. Strabane councillors have welcomed Regional Development Minister Conor Murphy's confirmation of progr...
Thursday, 6 November 2008
by Anna Maguire. There are nearly 800 people in Strabane paying back loans with a typical interest rate of 183%, the St...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
by Anna MaguireAN EMERGENCY meeting was held this week in a bid to clamp down on vandalism in the area, following a spat...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Irish bomb disposal experts this week defused a partially exploded bomb at the St Johnston home of a Derry man, shot by ...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
FOUR youths aged between 15 and 18 have been arrested for riotous behaviour following a disturbance at the Dublin Road I...
Thursday, 30 October 2008
by Áine McCarronFOLLOWING rising concerns about the number of supposed 'charity' donation bags and fliers making their w...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
As shock Department of Health statistics this week revealed that nine per cent of 15 to 34-year-olds in Northern Ireland...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
The inaugural walk of Strabane Hillwalking and Rambling Club took place on Sunday with a circuit of Gortin Glen in the S...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
by Anna Maguire.A mother with a special needs child broke down this week as she described the callous theft of £250 wort...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
by Áine McCarron. Workers in a Strabane shop say they are being 'tortured' by an aggressive group, who have threatened ...
Thursday, 23 October 2008
by Áine McCarron. Strabane District Council has begun inspecting the district's 1,928 empty buildings in a bid to bridg...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
by Anna MaguireA Strabane farmer has described a suspected arson attack on his barn - which eradicated a year's work and...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
by Áine McCarronInquiries are continuing into a security alert, which forced around 70 people in Sion Mills to evacuate ...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
by Anna MaguireThe manager of Strabane's Citizens' Advice Bureau (CAB) has appealed for volunteers to boost the seven-st...
Thursday, 16 October 2008
by Anna MaguireThe chairman of Strabane District Council, Mr Jarlath McNulty, has said he would sympathise with local ho...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
TYRONE GAA senior football manager, Mickey Harte, has spoken of how he believes his religious faith kept him alive, afte...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
People from Strabane have learned how to make the most of their money - thanks to a partnership between digital inclusio...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
NCP welcomes 'tougher' action of courtsA representative of UK-wide traffic authority, the NCP, this week welcome...
Thursday, 9 October 2008
Northern Ireland Environment Agency clamps down on landownersby Anna MaguireThe decision by the Northern Ireland Environ...
Thursday, 2 October 2008
by Anna Maguire and Aine McCarron. A three-month-old St Bernard pup shot three times at close range is believed to have...
Thursday, 2 October 2008
A day of tribute was held yesterday (Wednesday) to mark the retirement of Eileen McNally, vice- principal of Glebe Prima...
Thursday, 2 October 2008
by Anna Maguire. A local cancer sufferer who takes 15 tablets a day - one of which is estimated to cost up to £2,000 pe...
Thursday, 2 October 2008
by Anna Maguire.A middle-aged couple from the Bridgend area of Strabane have made a formal complaint to the Police Ombud...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
The Assembly's Education Committee yesterday (Wednesday) visited Holy Cross College to witness the bilateral partnership...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
by Stephen McKiernan. A YOUNG kitten has survived after being found dumped in a wheelie bin in Newtownstewart, in an ac...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
By Aine McCarron.Top clairvoyant and 'human telephone link between this world and the next', Keith Charles has been desc...
Thursday, 25 September 2008
by Anna Maguire.Western Trust cutbacks, which will bring to an end a reward scheme for people with learning disabilities...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
by Anna Maguire The family of Strabane pensioner, Maureen McGinley, yesterday (Wednesday) appealed to Ireland's Presi...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
by Anna Maguire Strabane District Council is considering seeking legal advice around protocol governing the display o...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
Lobbyists in Strabane have cautiously welcomed the postponement of water charges in Northern Ireland for another year.Th...
Thursday, 18 September 2008
West Tyrone MLA and Strabane district councillor, Claire McGill, has asked the NI Executive to make tackling poverty a p...
Thursday, 11 September 2008
POLICE are warning of a new financial scam that has raised its head in a number of places in the province.The scam invol...
Thursday, 11 September 2008
SDLP Councillor Eugene McMenamin has called for measures to tackle the gathering of tyres for bonfires in the Strabane a...
Thursday, 11 September 2008
The former chairman of Strabane District Policing Partnership (DPP), Eugene McMenamin, has said he is 'in no doubt' that...
Wednesday, 10 September 2008
The litter mate of a 10-month-old female Collie pup found hanged to death from a shopping trolley at Greenbrae traveller...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
By Aine Mc Carron. Around 70 per cent of Royal Mail vans have been attacked over the past two years in a known troubles...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
By Aine Mc Carron. A 19-year-old man was due to appear in court in Dungannon yesterday (Wednesday), after firefighters ...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
by Aine Mc Carron. Residents in Glebe area near Sion Mills were out in force on Tuesday to campaign against the decisio...
Thursday, 4 September 2008
Sinn Fein has aired concerns over the fear of Strabane's out-of-hours services being transferred to Londonderry. Sinn F...