Antrim, United Kingdom News

The death has taken place of the former Catholic primate of all Ireland, Cardinal Cahal Daly.

Professor Sean Patrick GORMAN Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences and Professor of Pharmaceutical Microbiology, Queen's University Belfast.

A Church of Ireland dean who has raised millions for the most deprived in Northern Ireland and abroad is being made an OBE in the New Year Honours.

CARDINAL CAHAL Daly, the former Catholic primate of Ireland, was last night seriously ill with heart trouble in a Belfast hospital.

A PROPOSAL to build a controversial incinerator which would use poultry litter as fuel has attracted the highest number of planning objections over the last five years.

A gang disrupted by police was making up to 500 counterfeit DVDs and CDs a day, a court has been told.

When you go to Ballyronan on the north-west shore of Lough Neagh youa ll first encounter the busy village street with its constant flow of traffic.

The farming community across Northern Ireland, including Fermanagh, has been shocked and saddened on hearing news of the death on December 5, 2009, of Victor Woods.

Police in Northern Ireland are facing heightened demands to catch the thieves who have used diggers to steal 11 cash machines in nine months.

THE Police and District Policing Partnership in the Antrim Police Command Area would like to wish all motorists a happy and enjoyable Christmas and remind then to act responsibly when on the roads.

THE same "hole in the wall gang" responsible for the smash and grab of two cash-dispensing automatic telling machines at the Ulster Bank and Bank of Ireland branches in Cootehill, Co Cavan , yesterday morning are believed to have carried out 18 near-identical robberies in the North this year.

Police in Northern Ireland are facing heightened demands to catch the thieves who have used diggers to steal 11 cash machines in just nine months.

A cash machine has been ripped from a building by thieves using a digger. In the latest ATM robbery, a 24-hour filling station was badly damaged in Templepatrick, County Antrim.

Welsh pop singer Shakin' Stevens appeared in court in Ireland on Wednesday to answer accusations of assault over an alleged attack on a photographer.

ANTRIM Borough Council has been given a 'guided tour' of Road Services' progress on projects in the area over the past year.

SOCIAL Development Minister, Margaret Richie, has announced funding of A 226,417 towards the overall costs of a complete makeover for the gateway entrance to Randalstown.

A PEDESTRIAN aged 70 was killed on a stretch of road in Ahoghill where the speed limit is due to be reduced from 40mph to 30mph.

North Antrim MLA Ian Paisley Jr has called for a Northern Ireland-wide strategy to tackle the thefts of automated cash machines, following a smash and grab incident in Kells, Co Antrim.

Banks faced heightening demands to introduce immediate new security measures amid claims that hit-and-run cash machine raids in Northern Ireland are running out of control.

Hundreds of future jobs would be at risk if approval is given for a new power station in County Antrim, a NI pharmaceutical boss has claimed.