3 July 2024THE completed multi-agency report on the floods which engulfed Downpatrick and Newcastle last year is not expected to be completed until next March — 16 months after businesses and homes were swamped.
3 July 2024NEWCASTLE’S all-weather lifeboat, the Leonard Kent, was launched last Thursday evening after the Coastguard received a distress call from a yacht approximately 20 miles south east of Newcastle.