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Thu, April 19, 2018
Thursday, 19 April 2018
A STRIKING new mural created by young people from Strabane and supported by the Housing Executive has been unveiled this...
Thursday, 19 April 2018
MELMOUNT Post Office is to be modernised in line with the organisation's new main style branches. The 'new look' Post Of...
Thursday, 19 April 2018
NEW gates have been installed at a notorious anti-social behaviour hotspot in the town centre in a bid to quell weekend ...
Thursday, 19 April 2018
THE publication of the Education Authority's (EA) Strategic Annual Action Plan 2018-2019 has been described as "damaging...
Thursday, 12 April 2018
POLICE in Strabane are appealing for information after a much-loved family pet suffered serious injuries in a hit-and-r...
Thursday, 12 April 2018
FOLLOWING the devastating floods in August 2017, official figures have quoted that an estimated 387,000 Rainbow Trout - ...
Thursday, 12 April 2018
A FRESH row has broken out over a decision by Derry City and Strabane District Council not to send a representative to a...
Thursday, 12 April 2018
AN anti-Brexit lobby group have unveiled a set of new posters as part of their campaign. On Monday night - the eve of th...
Thursday, 5 April 2018
A STRABANE MLA has branded those behind a hoax bomb alert in the town as "idiotic". On Saturday night police received a ...
Thursday, 5 April 2018
VOTERS in West Tyrone will go back to the polls for the fifth time in two years following confirmation that a date for t...
Thursday, 5 April 2018
A NEW half million-pound project has been announced to carry-out repair works along local watercourses affected by the u...
Thursday, 5 April 2018
A MOTION passed at Derry City and Strabane District Council calling on local schools and education facilities to refuse ...
Thursday, 29 March 2018
PLANS by the Education Authority (EA) to establish a young adult centre in the town have been welcomed. West Tyrone SDLP...
Thursday, 29 March 2018
A LOCAL Sinn Féin politician has spoken out about her own experience of receiving abusive comments online as part of a c...
Thursday, 29 March 2018
PLANS for a new social housing development in Sion Mills have been given the go ahead by planners. Tyrone-based Rural H...
Thursday, 29 March 2018
A STRABANE councillor says efforts to secure funding for CCTV cameras in the town centre must be stepped up in a bid to ...
Thursday, 22 March 2018
A 14-YEAR-OLD is recovering after being seriously assaulted by a gang of youths at the weekend. Local Sinn Féin councill...
Thursday, 22 March 2018
A NEW campaign has been launched to encourage householders across the district to visibly number their homes in a bid to...
Thursday, 22 March 2018
STRABANE residents are to be asked for their views on council's plans for the major redevelopment of lesiure centre prov...
Thursday, 22 March 2018
NEW figures have revealed the funding allocations for every school - primary and secondary - in the Strabane district fo...
Thursday, 15 March 2018
NEWS that work is underway on a flood alleviation scheme near Clady has been given a warm welcome this week.Over two yea...
Thursday, 15 March 2018
SECA project co-ordinator, Kamini Rao, says St Patrick's Day is a key event in the organisation's events calendar and a ...
Thursday, 15 March 2018
FUNDRAISING can be a marathon task, but for Castlederg man, Liam McHugh, it's a trot, particularly when he has almost re...
Thursday, 15 March 2018
KNOCKAVOE School and Resource Centre in Strabane is planning a huge charity fundraising event later this year to raise s...
Thursday, 8 March 2018
REACTION to the British Government's proposals on how to deal with the border issue in the wake of ongoing Brexit negoti...
Thursday, 8 March 2018
BUSINESSES in in Strabane have been urged to re-arrange their deliveries schedule in and around St Patrick's Day festivi...
Thursday, 8 March 2018
FAKE council posters in Strabane calling for release of ex-IRA man from jail has angered unionists this week, with the D...
Thursday, 8 March 2018
Statistics published by NSPCC Northern Ireland which reveal that its Helpline team made 130 referrals in the last year (...
Thursday, 1 March 2018
THOSE involved in a spate of anti-social behaviour over recent months in the town have been called on to put an end to t...
Thursday, 1 March 2018
WITH the latest winter storm dubbed the 'Beast from the East' expected to descend on West Tyrone this week various agenc...
Thursday, 1 March 2018
A CAMPAIGN to introduce a new law imposing a legal duty on doctors and other health professionals to admit mistakes has ...
Thursday, 1 March 2018
A PLAY park in Plumbridge extensively damaged by flooding five months ago has reopened. The council-owned park and outdo...
Thursday, 22 February 2018
THE PSNI in Strabane have repeated their call for any information that could help them piece together the events that sa...
Thursday, 22 February 2018
DESPITE major traffic disruptions in the heart of Srtrabane for almost a week now the company installing the new gas net...
Thursday, 22 February 2018
A TOTAL of 1,841 parking tickets for on and off-street parking offfences were issued in Strabane last year, according to...
Thursday, 22 February 2018
THE family of a Strabane pensioner who sustained more than 30 fractures after her death in hospital are supporting calls...
Thursday, 15 February 2018
TEN years on from the murder of Strabane man Andrew Burns, Gardai have issued a fresh appeal for information about his k...
Thursday, 15 February 2018
THE funeral has been held of Strabane woman Lesley McHugh who had been missing for almost five weeks. The 69-year-old's ...
Thursday, 15 February 2018
AN heroic life-saving taxi driver acted in a 'swift manner' - which has been praised by the Fire Service - to rescue an ...
Thursday, 15 February 2018
PLANS for an ambitious masterplan for the regeneration of Sion Mills village are progressing. Last week, councillors gav...
Thursday, 8 February 2018
RATES bills are increasing again after Derry City and Strabane District Council confirmed a hike of almost three per cen...
Thursday, 8 February 2018
A POLICE investigation is underway after two thieves broke into a local business and made off with donations from charit...
Thursday, 8 February 2018
THERE is 'no ban' on the Irish Tricolour being carried in the St Patrick's Day parade in Strabane, councillors have been...
Thursday, 8 February 2018
WARM tributes have been paid to a stalwart community worker who has retired.Strabane man, Danny O'Hagan, who has given t...
Thursday, 1 February 2018
A WELL-known Dublin criminal who killed Strabane man, 35-year-old Michael Barr, was jailed for life in Dublin on Monday ...
Thursday, 1 February 2018
TWO Year nine pupils, Kiera Carolan and Abigail Robinson, from Holy Cross College, Strabane, were crowned County Tyrone ...
Thursday, 1 February 2018
A WARNING has been sounded to dog owners to take responsibility for their animals after a council worker was seriously i...
Thursday, 1 February 2018
AN independent Strabane councillor has challenged the Education Authority's Youth Service to reach out to rural communit...
Thursday, 25 January 2018
TWO three metre high gates are to be installed at a notorious anti-social behaviour hotspot in the town centre in a bid ...
Thursday, 25 January 2018
TWO separate police investigations are underway following the burglary of a Donemana business and a house in Strabane in...
Thursday, 25 January 2018
PLANS to close and merge four rural schools in the Strabane district have been submitted to the Education Authority (EA)...
Thursday, 25 January 2018
OVER one-quarter of children in West Tyrone are living in what has been described as poverty, new figures released by th...
Thursday, 18 January 2018
THE MP for West Tyrone has resigned following mass controversy surrounding the posting of a Twitter video. Barry McElduf...
Thursday, 18 January 2018
TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular local man described as "an absolute gentleman" who passed away suddenly last week. ...
Thursday, 18 January 2018
THE owner of a filling station in Lifford where a multi-million pound winning lotto ticket was sold has spoken of his de...
Thursday, 18 January 2018
SEARCHES are continuing this week for missing Strabane woman, Lesley McHugh. The 69-year-old from Brookvale, Melmount, w...
Thursday, 11 January 2018
WEST Tyrone MLA., Daniel McCrossan, has called on Sinn Fein's MP, Barry McElduff, to resign following what has been desc...
Thursday, 11 January 2018
POLICE in Strabane have renewed their appeal in the search to locate a missing 69-year-old local woman. Lesley McHugh fr...
Thursday, 11 January 2018
DERG councillor and current Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Maolíosa McHugh, has been slammed for usi...
Thursday, 11 January 2018
Anger and frustration has been expressed at the news that a fresh legal challenge has been launched which may stall the ...
Thursday, 4 January 2018
THE PSNI has rejected calls for a new police station in Strabane amid claims that its "unwelcoming" facade is not benef...
Thursday, 4 January 2018
One of the most well-known and highly respected figures in Castlederg and much further afield, Mr James Emery has been h...
Thursday, 4 January 2018
A STRABANE-based youth programme has been credited with turning lives around and received a major funding boost. Launch...
Thursday, 4 January 2018
A FORMER pupil from Strabane Academy was one of just two from Tyrone to have been awarded a presitigious scholarship. J...
Thursday, 21 December 2017
ONE of two young men who sustained serious injuries in what has been described as a "frenzied attack" by a group of men ...
Thursday, 21 December 2017
A SERIOUS assault on two young men in Strabane at the weekend has prompted renewed calls for the installation of CCTV in...
Thursday, 21 December 2017
THERE'S been some positive news this week for people living in the wider area of Donemana with the announcement that the...
Thursday, 21 December 2017
LOCAL businesses in Strabane are bracing themselves for a busy few days in the run-up to Christmas. With just five shopp...
Thursday, 14 December 2017
THE first sod has been cut on the new multi-million pound education campus at Strabane Academy signalling the beginning...
Thursday, 14 December 2017
A LOCAL engineering company has announced that it is to create 83 new jobs as part of a three-year £7million expansion ...
Thursday, 14 December 2017
POLITICIANS have expressed concern over gaps in provision of grit bins across the Strabane area following the first col...
Thursday, 14 December 2017
SINN Féin has greeted Friday's news of a breakthrough over the Irish border with "caution". The UK and Irish governmen...
Thursday, 7 December 2017
A 41-YEAR-old former Strabane man has been refused bail having been charged with the murder of his wife in April this ye...
Thursday, 7 December 2017
SION Mills has won the 'Rural Community Spirit' award in the large village category at this year's Housing Executive's R...
Thursday, 7 December 2017
A LOCAL family have given a digger a festive makeover and it's all in the name of charity. Patrick and Donna Woods deci...
Thursday, 7 December 2017
A TALENTED Strabane student studying hospitality and catering has been awarded a £3,000 pot of cash to assist his traini...
Thursday, 30 November 2017
STRABANE'S East ward has been named as the most deprived area in Northern Ireland according to the latest statistics. T...
Thursday, 30 November 2017
ROADWORKS to facilitate the laying of gas pipelines in Strabane town centre has been suspended until the New Year to fac...
Thursday, 30 November 2017
WORK will begin on part of the A5 road project between Newbuildings and Strabane early next year, the Department for In...
Thursday, 30 November 2017
A LOCAL MLA says those responsible for taking and crashing a car in a local housing estate before setting it on fire wer...
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Backlog in lamp repairs raises concerns over public safety. AN estimated 300 street lights are currently out across Str...
Thursday, 23 November 2017
THREE friends and Raphoe Pipe Band members from Tyrone and Donegal have enjoyed an experience like no other. Victoria C...
Thursday, 23 November 2017
A STRABANE man whose selfless actions have made a difference to the lives of others in his community is a finalist in Su...
Thursday, 23 November 2017
POLICE in Strabane have issued an appeal to householders to be vigilant against home-heating oil thefts over the coming ...
Thursday, 16 November 2017
TRIBUTES have been paid to a talented young Sion Mills mechanic who worked at Pat Kirk in Omagh and who lost his life in...
Thursday, 16 November 2017
A TOTAL of £15 million has been invested to date creating the infrastructure to bring natural gas to Strabane, the comp...
Thursday, 16 November 2017
The delegation, led by Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, councillor Maolíosa McHugh and Leas Cathoirlea...
Thursday, 16 November 2017
DERRY City and Strabane District Council has picked up a prestigious highly commended 'Council of the Year' award at the...
Thursday, 9 November 2017
POLICE have renewed their appeal for witnesses to a serious road crash near Sion Mills which has claimed the life of a y...
Thursday, 9 November 2017
POLICE in Derry City and Strabane are calling on the public to be alert to scams. The warning has been issued following...
Thursday, 9 November 2017
A RURAL West Tyrone community has seen a huge outpouring of grief and sorrow following the tragic death of a prominent l...
Thursday, 9 November 2017
MAYOR of Derry City and Strabane District Council, councillor Maolíosa McHugh and Cathaoirleach of Donegal County Counci...
Thursday, 2 November 2017
THE community of Strabane and further afield have been left horrified by a weekend of criminality and thuggery. In the m...
Thursday, 2 November 2017
THERE has been widespread outrage locally after two Wizard of Oz-inspired hay sculptures created as part of the town's H...
Thursday, 2 November 2017
A FAMILY-run business in Strabane has been left counting the cost after becoming the latest target of vandals. Glen Fre...
Thursday, 2 November 2017
THE president of the Strabane Chamber of Commerce has thrown down a challenge to critics on social media who complain ab...
Thursday, 26 October 2017
DIRTY nappies, plastic bags, food waste and general rubbish are costing local Strabane ratepayers thousands of pounds a ...
Thursday, 26 October 2017
CASTLEDERG-based Sinn Fein Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Maoliosa McHugh, has incurred the wrath of...
Thursday, 26 October 2017
SINN Féin West Tyrone MLA., Declan McAleer, has welcomed confirmation he has received from the Department of Infrastruct...
Thursday, 26 October 2017
THE lucky Strabane winner of the recent SGN Natural Gas Facebook competition with a Vaillant boiler worth £1,500 up for ...
Thursday, 19 October 2017
STRABANE and much of the surrounding district escaped the worst of ex-hurricane Ophelia this week as many others continu...
Thursday, 19 October 2017
POLICE investigations are continuing after an arson attack at a newly-refurbished block of flats in the town. The Hous...
Thursday, 19 October 2017
THE Western Trust has escaped high impact proposals for cuts to its services but it has approved four other proposals to...
Thursday, 19 October 2017
COMMUTERS around the Strabane district may have noticed some spooky figures emerging from the local landscape in recent ...
Thursday, 12 October 2017
AFTER a four-year wait, Strabane's Business Park is finally in business after securing its first tenant. Opened in Marc...
Thursday, 12 October 2017
POLICE are working with the Baronscourt Estate, Newtownstewart, to warn of dangers of using scramblers in and around the...
Thursday, 12 October 2017
ST Patrick's Day festivities in Strabane is to receive a welcome boost to the tune of £30,000 for next year's event. T...
Thursday, 12 October 2017
NORTH West Regional College (NWRC) has been shortlisted for a Public Relations award at the 2017 CIPR Northern Ireland P...
Thursday, 5 October 2017
POLICE and the Education Authority (EA) have both issued separate appeals this week for motorists in Strabane and distri...
Thursday, 5 October 2017
A LOCAL priest has described a concert at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Strabane by 'The Priests' as "truly...
Thursday, 5 October 2017
MAYOR of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Maolíosa McHugh, has told a meeting of council that he makes "no apol...
Thursday, 5 October 2017
A CASTLEDERG home owner has described the terror experienced by a number of local families after a man went on a wreckin...
Thursday, 28 September 2017
Protest to be staged at public health service meeting. A PUBLIC meeting is being held in Strabane this afternoon (Straba...
Thursday, 28 September 2017
MAYOR of Derry City and Strabane District Council, Maolíosa McHugh, says he will "resolutely defend" his position in the...
Thursday, 28 September 2017
A NUMBER of schools and their staff across Strabane are in the running for a host of top accolades in the Families First...
Thursday, 28 September 2017
MOTORISTS have been warned to expect delays as construction work to lay a new gas pipeline is scheduled to continue in R...
Thursday, 21 September 2017
FINAL preparations are underway this week ahead of a sponsored walk taking place in the town this weekend in aid of Bowe...
Thursday, 21 September 2017
There will be emotional and heartbreaking scenes with an outpouring of grief with the border town coming to a standstill...
Thursday, 21 September 2017
Local protest group to raise concerns with Department of Infrastructure A WAR of words has erupted over extending gold m...
Thursday, 21 September 2017
DERRY City and Strabane District Councilís Melvin Sports Complex in Strabane is contending for a prestigious regional ti...
Thursday, 21 September 2017
WE all forget where we put our keys, our doctor's appointments or the name of a movie, but the loss of memory with deme...
Thursday, 14 September 2017
DERRY City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) has warned that a cut to a grant it receives from central government wi...
Thursday, 14 September 2017
HUNDREDS of people are set to descend on the Sperrins and Killeter regions this weekend on Saturday and Sunday to put th...
Thursday, 14 September 2017
LACPATRICK Co-op has unveiled a 30,000 sq ft state-of-the-art Dairy Technology Centre which it has described as one of t...
Thursday, 14 September 2017
ULSTER Unionist MEP., Jim Nicholson, alongside Ulster Unionist councillors, has visited a number of Co Tyrone residents ...
Thursday, 7 September 2017
Uncertainty reigns over financial aid for flood victims FARMERS across County Tyrone whose lands were decimated two wee...
Thursday, 7 September 2017
A STRABANE councillor says he believes engineers within the British Army should be drafted in to help with the rebuildin...
Thursday, 7 September 2017
AN impassioned appeal has been made to vandals to stop targeting a disused play park which is in-line for a makeover. P...
Thursday, 7 September 2017
LOCAL people are reminded that they have just over one week left to give their feedback on the draft Inclusive Strategic...
Thursday, 31 August 2017
CLEAN-up operations are continuing throughout the district as the reality of the damage left in the wake of the destruct...
Thursday, 31 August 2017
A STALWART businessman is preparing to pull the shutters down on a career spanning almost seven decades of trading in St...
Thursday, 31 August 2017
THERE is no shortage of new energy in Strabane after the first domestic consumer was connected to natural gas as part of...
Thursday, 31 August 2017
DERRY City and Strabane District Council have joined an initiative designed to promote only legal sellers and goods at i...
Thursday, 24 August 2017
WORK on the new McDonald's restaurant in Strabane is underway with the fast-food outlet due to open sooner than expected...
Thursday, 24 August 2017
PLANS have been officially unveiled for the creation of a new green space and toddler play area in the Head of the Town ...
Thursday, 24 August 2017
WORK to construct a new £1.3million multi-sport 3G pitch for the town is underway. Diggers moved on site at Melvin Sport...
Thursday, 24 August 2017
STRABANE student, Alice McElroy, is jetting off to study business in the USA this month. Alice, who is currently studyin...
Thursday, 17 August 2017
INVESTIGATIONS are continuing this week into the circumstances surrounding the abduction and assault of a 22-year-old lo...
Thursday, 17 August 2017
STRABANE athletics coach, Stephen Maguire, steered the Great Britain relay team to a stunning 4 x 100m gold at the World...
Thursday, 17 August 2017
THE former Linton and Robinson premises in Strabane is set to receive a new lease of life starting next week when work w...
Thursday, 17 August 2017
THE 47-year-old Strabane man suspected of being involved in the shooting at the Regency Hotel in Dublin, Kevin 'Flat Cap...
Thursday, 10 August 2017
POLICE have confirmed they are treating a pipe bomb attack on a pensioner's home in Strabane as attempted murder. The de...
Thursday, 10 August 2017
LOCAL rescue organisations say vandals are continuing to target and damage riverside safety equipment across the distric...
Thursday, 10 August 2017
THE Alley Theatre's Sounds Like Summer music competition drew to a close on Saturday with 'Great White Lies' taking the ...
Thursday, 10 August 2017
TWO local community groups have been named as recipients of funding in a multi-million pound package unveiled by the Int...
Thursday, 3 August 2017
A COMMUNITY worker has warned that the current spate of vandalism in the village of Sion Mills could ultimately lead to ...
Thursday, 3 August 2017
STRABANE was facing many challenges between Brexit and governent cutbacks but the town would find a way to come through....
Thursday, 3 August 2017
'BOY racers' have been causing havoc at the Canal Basin area of the town, it has been claimed this week. According Sinn...
Thursday, 3 August 2017
SPECULATION is rife in Strabane that the Linton & Robinson store has been sold to a furniture company. However as news o...
Thursday, 27 July 2017
THERE are fears that a major resurfacing scheme on one of Strabane's main thoroughfares could lead to heavy congestion i...
Thursday, 27 July 2017
PLANNED funding for the delayed A5 project has been reduced this year by £30million, it has emerged. Stormont had propos...
Thursday, 27 July 2017
THERE'S been 145 fewer crimes within the Derry City and Strabane Policing District in the last three months, new statist...
Thursday, 27 July 2017
THE DUP has hit out at the Mayor of Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) in a row over how the First Citizen...
Thursday, 20 July 2017
A PIPE bomb attack on a young mother's car in the town just yards from a children's play park has been condemned. The de...
Thursday, 20 July 2017
AN Armagh man has been praised for his bravery after entering a river in Donegal to rescue a couple after their car cras...
Thursday, 20 July 2017
TWO major road resurfacing schemes are due to get underway in the Strabane and Aghabrack areas, it has been announced. ...
Thursday, 20 July 2017
DERRY City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) have been urged to reject a proposal to designate the district as a hol...
Thursday, 13 July 2017
ANGER has been voiced after a large number of election campaign posters were placed on a bonfire at Artigarvan, near Str...
Thursday, 13 July 2017
A MASKED three-man gang broke into the home of a Plumbridge businessman on Monday night and shot him in the face with a ...
Thursday, 13 July 2017
ONE of the top organisations campaigning in the UK against leaving the European Union (EU) has warned people in Strabane...
Thursday, 13 July 2017
A STONE-throwing incident outside Castlederg on Thursday night last had the potential to cause a major accident, a local...
Thursday, 6 July 2017
OVER 200 complaints were received in the Derry City and Strabane Policing District last year about the conduct of police...
Thursday, 6 July 2017
FRESH concerns have been aired over the town's business park which has yet to see a single tenant move on site - four ye...
Thursday, 6 July 2017
FOR as long as Lynsey McGarrigle can remember she wanted to be a fashion designer. The 26-year-old Strabane woman has hi...
Thursday, 6 July 2017
KIDNEY transplants are life-saving - and with 87 transplant patients on their books and 64 more on dialysis three times ...
Thursday, 29 June 2017
A PENSIONER has been left shaken after she was set upon and robbed by two men at the weekend. The Strabane woman, who is...
Thursday, 29 June 2017
ONE of Strabane's most recognisable buildings has been bulldozed to make way for new apartments. The landmark King's Co...
Thursday, 29 June 2017
A STRABANE councillor has called for the installation of gates at an anti-social behaviour hotspot in the town centre. ...
Thursday, 29 June 2017
THE Alley Theatre in Strabane has become the first arts and cultural venue in the Derry City and Strabane District Counc...
Thursday, 22 June 2017
STAFF at a local school have appealed for the community's help in protecting it after vandals targeted its grounds. Four...
Thursday, 22 June 2017
STRABANE'S dog fouling and littering woes could soon be alleviated with the introduction of mobile CCTV cameras. Derry C...
Thursday, 22 June 2017
A STRABANE woman has spoken of her involvement in the Erb's Palsy Group in a bid to raise awareness about the condition....
Thursday, 22 June 2017
A COMMUNITY play park in Newtownstewart has re-opened after vandals caused widespread damage to it at the weekend. Somet...
Thursday, 15 June 2017
A JUDGE has issued a warning to offenders that they will be dealt with 'rigorously' by the courts for drugs offences. Di...
Thursday, 15 June 2017
MAYOR of Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) joined the pupils of Knockavoe School and Resource Centre in S...
Thursday, 15 June 2017
THE Orange Order has again applied to march through Strabane town centre on July 12. Strabane District LOL 14 has lodged...
Thursday, 15 June 2017
A NEW support group is being launched to help increase the confidence and independence of people affected by macular deg...
Thursday, 8 June 2017
A FORMER Strabane man who had been socialising in a bar in the area of London targeted in a terror attack on Saturday ni...
Thursday, 8 June 2017
A CASTLEDERG councillor has become the first Tyrone-based Mayor on Derry City and Strabane District Council. Sinn Féin's...
Thursday, 8 June 2017
VOTERS go to the polls tomorrow, Thursday, June 8, once again in the Westminster election with the West Tyrone constitue...
Thursday, 8 June 2017
A CASTLEDERG woman has been reunited with her prized engagement ring after losing it at a GAA match. Aine Lynch was deva...
Thursday, 1 June 2017
A LOCAL primary school has been left counting the cost after vandals targeted its grounds at the weekend. According to p...
Thursday, 1 June 2017
TRIBUTES have been paid to a popular and much-loved young mother who died suddenly this week. Erica Ramsey, from Iona Vi...
Thursday, 1 June 2017
A FEMALE driver had a lucky escape when the car she was travelling in left the road and collided with a house at Bready....
Thursday, 1 June 2017
MORE than 500 noise complaints were made to Derry City and Strabane District Council last year - and the problem is incr...
Thursday, 25 May 2017
VOLUNTEERS at the local charity shop, Community Help in the Local District (CHILD), have been left devastated after a he...
Thursday, 25 May 2017
A STRABANE woman and her teenage daughter are today coming to terms with the terror attack in Manchester on Monday night...
Thursday, 25 May 2017
A LOCAL resident from the Melmount Road area of Strabane has expressed concerns over late night incidents of anti-social...
Thursday, 25 May 2017
A COUPLE from the Waterside Street area of Strabane have been left 'shocked and devastated' after their home came under ...
Thursday, 18 May 2017
DERRY City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) spent a staggering £4.2 million on street cleaning and litter picking i...
Thursday, 18 May 2017
VANDALS are continuing to target the town's riverside equipment despite repeated appeals to the public to leave the life...
Thursday, 18 May 2017
NEW signage has been installed at a notorious accident blackspot in the Glebe area in a bid to make it safer for motoris...
Thursday, 18 May 2017
A FOUR-week consultation has opened on a multi-million pound public realm scheme which is set to transform Strabane town...
Thursday, 11 May 2017
AROUND 600 people took to the streets of Strabane on Saturday morning in support of the 'Darkness into Light' (DIL) walk...
Thursday, 11 May 2017
FIREFIGHTERS in Strabane have dealt with almost 20 deliberately-set gorse fires over recent days, the Northern Ireland F...
Thursday, 11 May 2017
LAUNCHING 'Fostering Fortnight,' which is running from now until May 21, the Western Health and Social Care Trust (Weste...
Thursday, 11 May 2017
LOCAL politicians have met with health officials to press for urgent action following renewed concerns and complaints ov...
Thursday, 4 May 2017
A WEST Tyrone MLA has warned that the closure of any rural school in the area will "rip the heart" out of the communitie...
Thursday, 4 May 2017
A TRIBUTE to young Artigarvan man, Jack Glenn, who died in the River Foyle has been returned onto one of the piers of th...
Thursday, 4 May 2017
A STRABANE woman who died in a fatal road crash in the town last week was "a gentle woman" who placed her family at the ...
Thursday, 27 April 2017
TRIBUTES have been paid to a Strabane woman killed in a road traffic collision in the town late on Monday night. Margare...
Thursday, 27 April 2017
STRABANE will be rocking this June as Summer Jamm hits the town with some of Ireland's best rock/pop bands. The line-up ...
Thursday, 27 April 2017
DEEP anger has been expressed after heartless thieves stole a number of charity boxes from a Castlederg petrol station a...
Thursday, 27 April 2017
TRANSPORT NI has confirmed it intends to carry-out assessments in two local villages in response to calls from residents...
Thursday, 20 April 2017
A DONEMANA pensioner is unlikely to return to the home she had lived in for decades after thieves ransacked it, police h...
Thursday, 20 April 2017
THE East Donegal and Strabane communities have been left deeply shocked following the tragic death of a young mother who...
Thursday, 20 April 2017
MARKING a child's first birthday is an occasion close to every parent's heart and is a cause for great celebration among...
Thursday, 20 April 2017
A PLETHORA of Irish tricolours hanging off every lampost along the Strabane bypass has sparked outrage from West Tyrone ...
Thursday, 13 April 2017
THIS is the condition that one of the throw-lines along the River Mourne in Strabane has been left in by vandals. The li...
Thursday, 13 April 2017
PLANNERS have given their approval for the construction of a new multi-million pound school campus for Strabane Academy....
Thursday, 13 April 2017
A MEETING is due to take place this afternoon (Wednesday) between Transport NI officials and members of the local commu...
Thursday, 13 April 2017
A POLICE investigation has been launched following an arson attack on the grounds of a vacant shop premises in the Glebe...
Thursday, 6 April 2017
AN increase in the number of parking tickets issued in Strabane has prompted a warning from the chief of Retail NI that ...
Thursday, 6 April 2017
THERE were emotional scenes on Saturday as the family of young Jack Glenn were finally able to lay him to rest - eight w...
Thursday, 6 April 2017
DERRY City and Strabane District Council is setting up a food and craft market in Strabane as part of a pilot scheme aim...
Thursday, 6 April 2017
COUNCILLORS have rubber-stamped plans to provide additional funding to enhance the planned provision of a multi-sport pi...
Thursday, 30 March 2017
A SENIOR police officer has defended the PSNI's handling of a three-day security alert in the town. A device exploded w...
Thursday, 30 March 2017
A BODY found in the River Foyle on Monday has been confirmed as that of missing Jack Glenn. The 23-year-old man, who is ...
Thursday, 30 March 2017
THERE has been a war of words between local politicians over the failure to form the Northern Ireland Executive. On Sun...
Thursday, 30 March 2017
A LOCAL primary school is celebrating after being awarded its fifth Green Flag. On Monday of last week (March 20), St C...
Thursday, 23 March 2017
TWELVE Strabane and district-based businesses have been named as recipients of subsidies under the controversial Renewab...
Thursday, 23 March 2017
FORMER Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness has died at the age of 66, bringing tributes, but also generating mixed e...
Thursday, 23 March 2017
WARM tribute has been paid to a founding member of a community group in Donemana. The late Brian Gallagher, of Cottage B...
Thursday, 23 March 2017
HOUSEHOLDERS in the Derry City and Strabane District Council area who have a food caddy bin are advised that they must u...
Thursday, 16 March 2017
THE PSNI along with Derry City and Strabane District Council officials have issued a stern warning to revellers ahead of...
Thursday, 16 March 2017
STRABANE is gearing up to welcome in the region of seven thousand visitors from all over the district as well as those f...
Thursday, 16 March 2017
ONLY one month after being unveiled as the most romantic town in Northern Ireland, Strabane has once again topped the ch...
Thursday, 16 March 2017
HORDES of people gathered at the Alley Theatre, Strabane, last week to attend the latest show in the local establishment...
Thursday, 9 March 2017
YOUNG people who are involved with the Pulse Centre in Strabane are gearing up to showcase their musical talents with a ...
Thursday, 9 March 2017
THE funeral has taken place of a well-known local man who dedicated many years of his life to volunteering with the Spec...
Thursday, 9 March 2017
A LOCAL community group is celebrating after securing funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. Lisnafin/Ardnal...
Thursday, 9 March 2017
THE DUP's Tom Buchanan may have topped the poll in West Tyrone but ultimately it was Sinn Féin's election, as it tighten...
Thursday, 2 March 2017
IT'S the snap election few could have predicted 10 months ago but tomorrow (Thursday) voters across West Tyrone will go ...
Thursday, 2 March 2017
DERRY City and Strabane District Council is sending letters of support to the victims of bomb attacks in Sion Mills and ...
Thursday, 2 March 2017
CUSTOMERS of the First Trust Bank in Strabane have reacted angrily to news that the local branch is to close. The Main ...
Thursday, 2 March 2017
A REPORT outlining an action plan to refurbish and clean-up Strabane's Greenbrae Traveller halting site is due later thi...
Thursday, 23 February 2017
A PRIEST has spoken of the terrifying moment he realised that burglars had been in his home. The parochial house on the...
Thursday, 23 February 2017
ANTI-Brexiteers have held a second protest amid fears of the return of a hard border once the UK's withdrawal from the E...
Thursday, 23 February 2017
LOCAL community and rescue teams have issued an appeal to vandals to stop targeting lifebelts along the town's river. Bo...
Thursday, 23 February 2017
SEARCHES to recover the body of Jack Glenn have entered their third week. The 23-year-old man, who is originally from A...
Thursday, 16 February 2017
A FRESH appeal for information about the murder of a Strabane man who was shot dead nine years ago has been launched. On...
Thursday, 16 February 2017
SEARCHES to recover the body of Jack Glenn are expected to resume this morning (Wednesday). The 23-year-old Artigarvan m...
Thursday, 16 February 2017
TWO sunbed salons in the Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) area have been fined £250 each after being cau...
Thursday, 16 February 2017
RIVERSIDE Building & Development Group - the promoters behind the landmark Three Rivers Project on the Strabane/Lifford ...
Thursday, 9 February 2017
THE family of 23-year-old Jack Glenn, have issued a heartfelt plea for volunteers to help search for his body after it i...
Thursday, 9 February 2017
THE Western Health and Social Care Trust (Western Trust) and the PSNI have issued a warning to parents in the area to be...
Thursday, 9 February 2017
POLICE Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) officers were called to an incident which occurred at Holy Cross College, Melm...
Thursday, 9 February 2017
AN 'elated' Charlotte Caldwell has confirmed that she has been able to secure her Los Angeles accommodation amid fears o...
Thursday, 2 February 2017
A LOCAL primary school has been left counting the cost after vandals caused widespread destruction on its grounds. Both...
Thursday, 2 February 2017
A FRESH bid to an EU funding pot to finance the multi-million pound cross-border Riverine Project has been submitted. Th...
Thursday, 2 February 2017
A LOCAL councillor has called for an immediate clean up of Strabane's Greenbrae Traveller halting site. Patsy Kelly desc...
Thursday, 2 February 2017
AN independent Unionist councillor on Derry City and Strabane District Council has claimed that every word of Irish spok...
Thursday, 26 January 2017
POLICE in Strabane have increased patrolling on local streets following a spate of burglaries. In recent months there h...
Thursday, 26 January 2017
FEWER people were arrested for drink-driving in the Derry and Strabane area over the festive period when compared to the...
Thursday, 26 January 2017
A SCIENTIST who hails from the town is leading the global battle against pancreatic cancer due to his involvement in an ...
Thursday, 26 January 2017
AN Internet description of people in Strabane as vodka-guzzling gamblers who smoke too much has prompted fury locally. ...
Thursday, 19 January 2017
WEST Tyrone is shaping up for what could prove to be a hectic six-week campaign as candidates swing into election mode f...
Thursday, 19 January 2017
TEACHERS at a large number of schools in Strabane and district will go out on strike this morning (Wednesday). The stri...
Thursday, 19 January 2017
OVER 50 applicants to the non-domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme are based in Strabane and district, accordi...
Thursday, 19 January 2017
A UNIQUE exhibition of watercolour sketches depicting the rich history of Strabane's building and landmarks has gone on ...
Thursday, 12 January 2017
PASSERS-by, including a Translink bus driver, who prevented a man jumping from a bridge in the town at the weekend have ...
Thursday, 12 January 2017
POLICE in Strabane are appealing for information following a second serious assault in Strabane town centre within a mat...
Thursday, 12 January 2017
TWO brothers and an elderly neighbour in an adjoining property were lucky to escape unharmed following a house fire near...
Thursday, 12 January 2017
A STRABANE councillor has pleaded with vandals who are targeting Strabane's Pedestrian Bridge to leave it alone. The ico...
Thursday, 5 January 2017
A FOUNDING member of the Castlederg branch of the Royal British Legion (RBL) Women's Section is 'privileged' to have bee...
Thursday, 5 January 2017
WHILE many of us were ringing in the New Year with Jools Holland and wading our way through the Christmas left-overs, on...
Thursday, 5 January 2017
A FAVOURABLE exchange rate post-Brexit vote means local retailers should continue to reap the benefits of an increase in...
Thursday, 5 January 2017
THERE was a startling 10 per cent increase in the uptake of the Strabane Food Bank services over the festive season comp...
