Inspectors’ road safety fears for kids

5 March 2014
EDUCATION inspectors have called for an urgent review of children’s safety outside Downpatrick’s biggest primary school because of dangers posed by traffic at the school gates.

Lidl challenged to pay out over parking tickets

A LEADING retailer may pay fines running into thousands of pounds which have been levied on people using its car park in Downpatrick.
Families protest amid allegations of bullying

WIVES and partners of Down Council cleansing staff took the unprecedented step of staging a protest outside the local authority’s headquarters on Monday night.
Exploris survives again

EXPLORIS has been denied a six-month stay of execution, with Ards Council giving Stormont just one more month to put money on the table.
Gang hunted for ATM raid

A CRIMINAL gang is being blamed for stealing a cash machine from a business in Seaforde during the early hours of Friday morning.
Farmers’ co-operative to sell Clough complex
Ballygowan may get new health centre
Village green row hits council tourism plans
Fishermen and politicians welcome £400,000 cash boost
Five years to fix doctors crisis

A SENIOR health official has suggested the shortage of doctors which is impacting on hospitals and resulted in the weekend closure of the Downe’s emergency department could take up to five years to address
Work underway to transform PSNI base into houses

WORK is underway to build 12 new social homes at a former PSNI base in Saintfield.
Council backed as row rumbles on

NEWCASTLE has thrown its support behind the local authority in its bitter row with the Catholic Church over land for a new leisure centre.
Frustration after deal fails

AN extraordinary timeline of events in the battle for the St Mary’s school site was outlined at Thursday’s public meeting.
Concerts planned in aid of Mainstay DRP
Pubs hope to get their licences back
Villages get ready to build boats
College improving say school inspectors

SPORTS

Ballynagross pitch boost

A LOCAL soccer club is celebrating a cash windfall from Down Council.
Bears bait Strangford in cup thriller to steal glory

TOLLYMORE faced Strangford for the fifth time this season — the third time at the Links — and recorded a battling 3-2 victory to set up a quarter-final derby duel with Castlewellan Town.
Down canter to impressive win in Louth stroll

DOWN will have had harder training sessions this season than they did in this embarrassingly one-sided encounter in Newry on Saturday night.
Pyers powers Down Ladies to brilliant Breffni success

DOWN Ladies had a tough away game to last year’s All-Ireland Intermediate champions at Breffni Park, but they did well to come away with the plaudits.
McClurg’s heroics unable to save Saintfield in derby

DOWN won their opening game in the Senior 2 Cup against derby rivals Saintfield at The Demesne last weekend.
Sharyn is given Ireland call-up

CONGRATULATIONS to Sharyn Jess, from Killyleagh, on her selection to play for Ireland in the forthcoming home international indoor bowls series in England.

FEATURES

Putting life back into the Downshire

THE empty wards of the Downshire Hospital are to be brought back to life in the form of an innovative 1950s themed musical production.
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From the pages of the Down Recorder, March 5, 1974
Battlefield horror is recalled in new book

KILLYLEAGH library will be the venue for a fascinating lunchtime talk on a gunner officer’s experiences during the First World War later this month.
Fantasy adventure is first novel for Crossgar’s Alana

A CROSSGAR teenager is celebrating the publication of her first book Transfer.
Portaferry man to join the cream of Nashville on stage

JONNY Reid is sharing the stage with some of Nashville’s finest this week.
Premier for Gareth

THE newest play from acclaimed Saintfield writer Gareth Russell is premiering in the Belvoir Players’ Studio this weekend.

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