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Recent News
- Veteran British actor drops anchor in Bangor
29 July 2010
VETERAN television actor Timothy Spall thrilled his fans when his converted Dutch barge weighed anchor at Bangor Marina last week.
- Crime spree costs £3,000
29 July 2010
VANDALS caused over £3,000 worth of damage during a three day crime spree in the Bangor town centre area.
- Success blossoms for Trevor and Sally
29 July 2010
BANGOR husband and wife, Trevor and Sally McMechan have come up smelling of roses after their recent success at Rose Week.
- Church Street 4am carnage
29 July 2010
THIS was the wreckage-strewn scene after a 4am horror smash in Bangor last week.
- Thugs batter and rob boys
29 July 2010
‘A NIGHTMARE’ overnight camping expedition to an Ards beauty spot has left two teenage boys ‘totally traumatised’ after they fell victim to a terrifying and brutal gang attack.
- Guns target a killer dog pack
29 July 2010
A BLOODTHIRSTY pack of killer dogs is on the loose in rural Ards and is targeting timid farm animals in the countryside, it has been revealed this week.
- New look Seasiders mean business
29 July 2010
BANGOR Football Club´s new look team showed that they are looking to put last season´s disappointments behind them with a fine performance at Seaview last Saturday.
- Cashpoint scam foiled
29 July 2010
CASHPOINT crooks have been stopped from plundering the bank accounts of dozens of people in Bangor by a quick-thinking customer.
- Firm walks away from pool tender
29 July 2010
A FIRM appointed by North Down Borough Council to build Bangor’s new Olympic Pool has walked away from the long awaited project, it is claimed.
- Truancy crisis
29 July 2010
MORE than one tenth of North Down’s teenagers are regularly bunking off or missing school.
- Shop hero disarms masked gunman
29 July 2010
A HEROIC customer restrained a masked gunman as he attempted to rob Xtravision, at Bloomfield shopping complex, this week.
- Counting the cost of your councillors
29 July 2010
NORTH Down’s councillors cost the rate payer £296,806 last year.
- Terror tombs must go
22 July 2010
LOYALIST memorial stones - paid for by taxpayers - must be removed from a Bangor garden of remembrance.
- Not one, two, but three for Rory
22 July 2010
FOUR ‘rollercoaster’ rounds of golf ultimately saw Holywood’s Rory McIlroy tie for third place in the Open Championship at St Andrews on Sunday and with it a cheque for £1/4 million.
- £500,000 cannabis factory shut down
22 July 2010
POLICE have shut down the third cannabis factory found to be operating in North Down in the past seven months.
- Family´s fear for hospital vanish man
22 July 2010
THIS is the Bangor man who walked out of hospital three weeks ago and hasn’t been seen since.
- Male (26) attacked
22 July 2010
VICIOUS attackers used bats and golf clubs to assault a 26 year old man at Bangor’s Bloomfield Road, on Tuesday (20th) night.
- Shock at sudden death of man (18)
15 July 2010
THE sudden death of an 18 year old Bangor man last weekend has shocked the local community.
- Ghouls target graves
15 July 2010
CALLOUS thieves are robbing precious mementos from the graves of loved ones at a local Bangor cemetery.
- Brave Mark battles to recovery
15 July 2010
DARING Holywood explorer Mark Pollock is making ‘slight improvements’ each day, following his 25ft fall from a house window whilst sleep walking.
- Five out of six schools get full marks
15 July 2010
FIVE out of six North Down schools looking for new buildings have been given a clean bill of health.
- Flyover death man handcuffed self
15 July 2010
A BANGOR man found hanging from the Springhill flyover last year handcuffed his own hands behind his back before taking his own life, a court has heard.
- Report snubs Central
08 July 2010
BANGOR Central’s dream new building looks farther away than ever this week after it was left out of the Education Minister’s schools revamp report.
- Moved dad pays tribute to teen team’s cancer run
08 July 2010
WHEN Jonathan Stockton was diagnosed with leukaemia earlier this year, he was left facing months of agonising treatment and an uncertain future.
- Chief Constable enjoys ‘real community conversations’
08 July 2010
NORTHERN Ireland’s Chief Constable Matt Baggott enjoyed some ‘real community conversations’ on his first visit to Kilcooley estate, this week (Monday).
- Crawfordsburn car park row rages on
08 July 2010
A WAR of words continues to rage over multi-storey car park plans at Crawfordsburn’s historic Old Inn, it has emerged this week.
- Street scammers steal necklace
08 July 2010
JEWELLERY scammers posing as town centre street sellers this week robbed a woman of her necklace in broad daylight, police have confirmed.
- Travel misery for ill grandad
08 July 2010
A BANGOR cancer victim has revealed how his five year old grandson was stopped from paying him a flying visit after he had a major operation - by airline red tape.
- Holywood explorer ‘stable’ after 25ft sleepwalking fall
08 July 2010
BRAVE Holywood explorer Mark Pollock is recovering in hospital after falling 25ft from a house window whilst sleep walking.
- 30,000 expected for Twelfth
08 July 2010
Some 30,000 people are expected to be on the streets of Newtownards next Monday to support their local Orange lodges, for this years 12th of July celebrations.
- Threat to contractors
08 July 2010
HOUSEHOLDERS in three North Down areas are being told to pick up their own kitchen caddies following alleged death threats to delivery workers.
- Summer spruce up for seafront eyesore
08 July 2010
BANGOR’S derelict seafront is getting a summer make-over in a bid to breathe new life into the promenade.
- Gunman hijacks van
08 July 2010
AN armed man has held up a parcel delivery van in broad daylight in the heart of a local town.
- Joint team to tackle summer drinking
08 July 2010
NORTH Down’s police officers will work with parade organisers and partner agencies to tackle underage and on street drinking this summer.
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