Dungannon, Northern Ireland News

DUNGANNON landlords are amongst the hardest hit financially in Northern Ireland after they were forced to pay out A 2.7M in rates for empty properties.

DUNGANNON folk can't have their Irish names printed on their driving licenses because the machine in Swansea that does it, can't print fadas.

SOME of Dungannon District's most popular beauty spots and family locations are being targeted by seedy strangers to go 'dogging'.

FOR decades it has been an unwanted landmark on the Dungannon skyline bristling with communication antennae but moves are now afoot to turn it into a tourist attraction.

On a remote hillside, a quarter of a mile inside the Irish Republic, diggers are scraping at peat in pouring rain.

The RUC GC Foundation has declared the first Sunday in June each year to be "Royal Ulster Constabulary GC Day".

Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced a 2.2 million expansion by Greiner Packaging Ltd at Dungannon that plans to create 10 new jobs.

A SHOPKEEPER was left badly shaken after a robber armed with a knife and wearing a pink balaclava targeted a store in Dungannon on Sunday.

Some 312 members of the RUC were killed in terrorist attacks, 302 of these murders happened between 1969 and 1998 representing nine per cent of the deaths due to the Troubles in Northern Ireland.

THE first school in Ireland or the UK to use waste packaging to produce free heating has been launched in Co Tyrone.

A TOTAL of 119 homes have been repossessed by banks and building societies across Mid-Ulster and Tyrone in the past year, it has been revealed, leading to urgent calls for new measures to protect indebted households.

LOCAL schools are the most overcrowded in Northern Ireland, with just over one hundred mobile classrooms popping up on their grounds in the past four years.

Information released in reponse to a question by DUP MLA Lord Morrow, revealed that no parking penalities were issued in Coalisland, while Fivemiletown had more than 200 from 2010 to 2012.

More than 50million has been raised by small businesses auctioning unpaid invoices through online platform MarketInvoice in just over two years.

As tickets are due to go on sale for One Direction's 2014 tour, some young fans are queuing overnight to ensure they will be at the Croke Park concert in Dublin.