Ards and North Down strikes highest rate in Northern Ireland
By Julie Waters
RESIDENTS and businesses in Ards and North Down are to face the biggest rate hike in Northern Ireland. According to the latest...
Planning decision beckons for Ards ground project
By Rory McKee
THERE could be positive news in the next fortnight for Ards Football Club and their dream of once again playing senior football...
Ards volunteer’s birthday donation to cancer charity shop
By Sarah Curran
A NEWTOWNARDS volunteer has swapped birthday presents for generosity, donating his gift money to Marie Curie.
Nathan Tennis celebrated his 30th birthday recently...
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...
MP backs school smartphone ban
By Lesley Walsh
STRANGFORD MP Jim Shannon has thrown his weight behind the campaign to reduce smartphone use in schools during class time hours.
Mr Shannon...
Concern raised over Balloo shop proposal
By Lesley Walsh
BALLOO residents fear the proposed redevelopment of an historic building will have an overbearing and ‘detrimental’ impact on their environment.
The owners of...
Council capital spend set to double to £144m
SPENDING on capital projects in the borough is to soar over the next three years.
Council borrowing to finance projects such as a new local...
Ards boy’s brave battle to overcome Tourettes stigma
By Joe McCann
AN 11 year-old Newtownards boy has spoken poignantly about what it is like to live with a complex neurological condition in a...
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...
£6.5m Portaferry complex is ‘music to the ears’ of locals
By Lesley Walsh
PLANS for Ards and North Down borough’s first council-owned GAA pitch must be delivered at pace, now that money has been ring-fenced...