Ards advance to Ulster Championship 1
By Daniel Noble
ARDS Rugby will return to Ulster Championship 1 after their first team clinched promotion with a dominant playoff victory at the expense...
Outrage after Millisle’s beach left strewn with litter
By Violet Brown
BEAUTY spots across Ards and North Down are once again being blighted by overflowing bins and piles of rubbish, with councillors urging...
Horse rally returns with beach, batons and brave hearts
Five teams of riders will thunder along the sand this Saturday as Donaghadee’s best-loved summer festival tradition, the Horse Relay, returns to the town’s...
Council walks away from Kircubbin harbour purchase
By Violet Brown
AFTER a decades-long campaign to save Kircubbin harbour, Ards and North Down Council has confirmed it will not throw a lifeline to...
Portaferry woman’s beach cleans ‘aren’t even touching the surface’ of problem
By Joe McCann
A PORTAFERRY woman has called for more to be done to protect and clean Portaferry’s beaches after recent clean-ups recovered huge quantities...
DfI kills off calls for Strangford Lough bridge study
By Violet Brown
CALLS for a feasibility study into a bridge over Strangford Lough have been rejected by the Department for Infrastructure.
The Department (DfI) has...
Newtownards man and Killinchy woman on New Year’s Honours list
A NEWTOWNARDS man and a Killinchy woman have both been included in this year's New Year's Honours list.
A BEM has been awarded to John...
DAERA urged to bring forward support after rain causes rotting crops
By Violet Brown
VEGETABLES are rotting in the ground as they can’t be harvested because of the incessant rainfall, a Comber farmer has warned.
Paul Hamilton...
’Dee man is ‘a parasite’, says judge
A WARNING has been issued over the welfare of elderly women in local care homes after an injunction was issued against a Donaghadee man...