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Wed, May 22, 2013
Thursday, 23 May 2013
PROPERTIES flooded, railway track closed, rivers overflowing and bursting their banks are events of the past weekend whi...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
WORK has begun on the environmental improvement project to put virtual shop fronts on the derelict premises on Linenhall...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
DUNLOY man, Raymond Kelly has just completed the challenge of a lifetime. Raymond, 44, and a few friends from Dunloy Cyc...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
THE NEWLY elected Chair of Glebeside Community Association has said she is looking forward to working with all of the co...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
HEALTH officials will spend the next six months considering the future of Causeway Hospital, according to Minister Edwin...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
A LARGE crowd gathered at Ballymoney Town Hall on Friday night for an event like no other - it was the graduation of tho...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
CANADIAN relatives of Ballymoney's famed J.B. Armour recently paid a visit to their ancestral homeland to visit sights a...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
BALLYMONEY Councillor John Finlay has welcomed the contract for the Environmental Improvement Project on Linenhall St / ...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
THE time-scale for the development of Magilligan Prison must be fast-tracked according to East Derry SDLP Assembly Membe...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
NORTH Antrim MLA Daithí McKay has said that there needs to be a business 'culture change' to create economic growth in t...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
CLLR Paul Frew DUP MLA for North Antrim has praised the work and commitment of local football coaches who give up many h...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
THE MASSIVE changes planned for local government took a significant step forward last week with the publishing of the Pr...
Thursday, 9 May 2013
A LOCAL MLA has praised the swift actions of residents, police and the ambulance service after a security alert on the G...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
A BALLYMONEY woman has spoken of her shock and horror at the discovery of her second cousin Adrianne Haslet-Davis' invol...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
WORK is now underway on the new community facilities in Dervock. The £1m scheme will include a new community centre, plu...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
SCULLION Hurls workshop in Loughguile was crammed with almost 100 visitors last Thursday for the launch of a unique new ...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
THE Friends of the Roddens group have said that they are 'absolutely shattered and disappointed' by the news that the Ba...
Thursday, 2 May 2013
'BALLYMONEY is dying on its feet' and needs a new body 'prepared to be dangerous and courageous' - that is the opinion o...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
LOCAL MLA Mr Mervyn Storey has requested a meeting with Mr Sean Donaghy, Chief Executive of the Northern Trust, followin...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
STRANOCUM'S Dark Hedges has been voted number five in an internet poll of the world's top ten beautiful tree tunnels. Th...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
BALLYMONEY brothers Aaron and John McLean have both won their respective grades at this years Ulster Pipe Band Drumming ...
Thursday, 25 April 2013
THE Countryside Access Officer with Ballymoney Borough Council Sonya Crawford, is actively encouraging the development o...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
A ROW erupted during last night's (Monday's) council meeting over a decision to fly the Union flag half mast on Wednesda...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
BALLYMONEY Borough Council celebrated World Autism Awareness Month last week at its Civic Headquarters by participating ...
Thursday, 18 April 2013
BALLYMONEY Show was officially launched last week at an Annual Sponsors Reception held at Lissanoure Castle, Loughguile....
Thursday, 18 April 2013
LAST Monday (April 8th) saw 'B Day' in Ballymoney with the introduction of the new 5p levy on every single use plastic b...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
THE RATES divide that emerged in Ballymoney DUP back in February has re-emerged as two DUP Councillors have supported a ...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
BENDOORAGH woman Sammie Jo Blair has told The Chronicle how having a smoke alarm fitted in her family home saved her lif...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
THE CHAIR of Ballymoney Borough Council Development Committee, Alderman Bill Kennedy has asked locals to 'maintain a pos...
Thursday, 11 April 2013
THE ROTARY Club of Ballymoney recently welcomed their very first female member, Ms Johann Muldoon, and the President of ...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
WORK has resumed on the new Ballymoney care home - with an anticipated completion date of August 2013. Speaking exclusiv...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
THEY say it's the small things in life that restore your faith human kindness and that was certainly true on Friday of l...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
TWO weeks ago we reported that St Patrick's Church of Ireland church in Ballymoney has just received a grant of £542,200...
Thursday, 4 April 2013
GLARRYFORD YFC has been very busy recently practising for competitions and preparing for upcoming events. Glarryford per...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
THE EAST of Ballymoney Borough suffered the worst snowfall in decades last weekend resulting in power cuts, roads blocke...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
NEW information has emerged about the identities of the ten American airmen whose B17 tragically crashed on Slieve an Or...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
RUNNER Adam Creighton laced up his trainers to run a marathon 26 miles from Limavady to Coleraine to Ballymoney - all fo...
Thursday, 28 March 2013
AS we approach the 10th anniversary of blue bins arriving in Ballymoney, it's a good time to reflect on how blue bins ha...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
THERE was excellent news on the Ballymoney dereliction front this week with the news that St Patrick's Old Church School...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
THE Northern Regional College in partnership with local Hairdressing Salons has held a one day College Inter Campus Hair...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
THE results are in for the first ever UK Youth Parliament elections held in Northern Ireland. The UKYP represent...
Thursday, 21 March 2013
AROUND 70 pensioners from across County Antrim gathered in the Joey Dunlop Leisure Centre in Ballymoney on Friday for th...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
CALLS have been made for the provision of better GAC training facilities in the Rasharkin community. Claims that Rashark...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
IF YOU went down to a certain car park in Ballymoney on Monday you may have been forgiven for thinking you were in the m...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
WHEN Ballymoney man Jimmy Walker suffered a serious heart attack on Christmas night 2001 he spent four weeks in The Roya...
Thursday, 14 March 2013
DALRIADA School was the venue for a safe driving event for students in Upper and Lower 6th who were newly qualified driv...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
THE Social Development Minister has intervened personally to address concerns arising from the huge ongoing public conce...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
BALLYMONEY Museum Manager Keith Beattie narrowly missed out in winning the Employee of the Year category at the Northern...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
RASHARKIN twins Daniel and Ben Callan are appealing to the local community to lace up their trainers for Cancer Focus No...
Thursday, 7 March 2013
A DALRIADA student has come runner up in the Annual Youth Award Public Speaking competition, supported by Progressive Bu...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
THE HEALTH Minister has written to reassure a Ballymoney community after they contacted him following the frightening re...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
MY return to work after nine months maternity leave wasn't a difficult decision. I always knew I would want my o...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
ONE in five children in Ballymoney live in poverty, according to newly released statistics which place Northern Ireland ...
Thursday, 28 February 2013
A DELEGATION from the Isle of Sky were in Ballymoney last week for a business meeting to explore the further development...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
BALLYMONEY'S Environmental Warden has called upon the public to 'name and shame' the antisocial dog owners who allow the...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
THE NORTHERN Regional College is close to finalising the curriculum plan that will determine its future locations includ...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
BALLYMONEY Borough Council set the rate for the borough at a 0% increase for the year 2013/14 at its meeting on February...
Thursday, 21 February 2013
SENIOR judges have set out their reasons for dismissing Hazel Stewart's appeal against her conviction for murdering her ...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
BALLYMONEY Borough Council has struck this year's rates estimate at a 0% increase to the ratepayer.The figure was reache...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
A LEADING member of the 'Friends of the Roddens' group has said that 'there is no room for complacency' with regard to t...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
A LOCAL charity activist has said that she is 'chuffed to bits' to receive a UK wide award at a special ceremony in Stra...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
THE MAYOR of Ballymoney has said it is with 'great pride' that she represented the Borough at the recent ceremony in Bal...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
NORTH ANTRIM MLA Mervyn Storey has requested a meeting with the Environment Minister Alex Attwood after it emerged that ...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
POLICE have confirmed that there were three Union Flag protests in Ballymoney borough last weekend, in Dervock, Ballybog...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
REGIONAL Development Minister Danny Kennedy has announced that over £300,000 of work on two roads projects in the Rashar...
Thursday, 7 February 2013
IF YOU are aged 16 - 25? Live in Ballybogey, Dunloy, Rasharkin or Stranocum then why not sign up to the new North East P...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
A DELEGATION of 'extremely disappointed' local educators are to meet the Chief Executive (CE) of the North Eastern Educa...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
DISGRACED former Ballymena TUV councillor, David Tweed, has been sentenced to eight years for sexually abusing two young...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
THE BALLYMONEY branch of Bank of Ireland is to close its doors and its seven members of staff will be redeployed to suit...
Thursday, 31 January 2013
THE STRENGTH and depth of the Ballymoney pipe band scene was clear to be seen at a reception held at Stormont last week ...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
TRIBUTES have poured in for the young junior doctor who died in an avalanche in the Scottish mountains at the weekend, a...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
TRIBUTES have poured in for the well loved and respected local Presbyterian Minister Rev Derek Poots OBE who passed away...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
BALLYMACONNOLLY Renewal Group are in the early stages of developing an exciting new 'green' project based at their Orang...
Thursday, 24 January 2013
MORE than 75 local residents attended the launch of the Cloughmills History Project that took place at Cloughmills Prima...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
POLICE are on the hunt for a man after a shooting incident on Linenhall Street in Ballymoney last night (Monday) around ...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
MANY local businesses have expressed serious disappointment that a major fault on the main power artery supplying Ballym...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
THERE was a very special birthday at the Model Care Home in Ballymoney this New Years Day when Miss Martha McBride celeb...
Thursday, 17 January 2013
WHAT a weekend! To God be the glory! Drumreagh hall was packed last weekend, with people, young and older, from all over...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
A DISABLED pensioner who was the victim of an early morning sex pest has issued an emotional warning to other women in t...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
A BALLYMONEY woman has said that she is 'humbled and honoured' to have been awarded with an MBE in the Queens New Years ...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
BALLYMONEY'S Black Santa Liam Beckett who did his traditional week long charity vigil on High Street during the ...
Thursday, 10 January 2013
THE Post Office is proposing to move its Ballymoney branch from its current location on Linenhall Street to Glebeside Sp...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
SPECULATION that Ballymoney Borough Council may consider changing its flag policy to ensure that the Union Flag flies ou...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
LAVIN woman Simone Christie is never one to make empty promises, but her latest effort to raise money for a charity very...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
THE Recycling and Education Officer at Ballymoney Borough Council has encouraged the public to be 'blue bin savvy' when ...
Thursday, 3 January 2013
THE Annual General Meeting for North Antrim Agricultural Association Ltd was held on December 11. Various reports were h...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
LOCAL traders have reported a substantial increase in business in the run up to Christmas with even Santa's Grotto doubl...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
POPULAR local charity activists, sportsman and TV commentator Liam Beckett has thanked the Ballymoney public and people ...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
UNION Flag protesters gathered again outside Ballymoney Town Hall last Wednesday night around 7pm. The group numbering o...
Thursday, 27 December 2012
MEMBERS of the BBC Children In Need sponsored Rock School for disabled and non-disabled young people, The Causeway Crew,...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
BALLYMONEY Borough Council has finally agreed to take on the job of clearing the town's main footpaths of snow and ice.T...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
THE Mayor of Ballymoney, Councillor Evelyne Robinson, has opened a book of condolence in memory of those who died at San...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
A WORLD WAR 2 aircrew researcher from Minnesota USA has written to a Ballymoney man thanking him for laying a wreath in ...
Thursday, 20 December 2012
THE PEOPLE of Loughgiel are used to hitting the headlines for their big dramatic wins... but this time they're thrilled ...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
A UNION Flag protest outside Ballymoney Borough Council offices at Riada House last Friday evening has passed off peacef...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
DUNLOY village has been devastated by the news that two out of the three component companies in the Joseph Hughes Group ...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
BALLYMONEY fans of the popular Channel 4 architectural show 'Grand Designs' had an unexpected treat last Tuesday as prog...
Thursday, 13 December 2012
A BALLYMONEY woman has been described as 'one of the most prolific and successful fashion bloggers in NI' has said she h...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
AN UNPRECEDENTED number of traders, community leaders, politicians, youth representatives and interested citizens cramme...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
CONVICTED sex offender and councillor, David Tweed, will be spending this Christmas behind bars after being found guilty...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
MEMBERS of Compass Advocacy Network (CAN), based in Ballymoney, who are part of Best Buddies International are all set t...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
THIS autumn has seen an exciting and final year of the Sharing Education Project in the Ballymoney area. The project has...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
A BALLYMONEY Councillor has slammed a Planning Service decision not to approve a daughter's proposal to build a house ne...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
THE jury in the trial of Ballymena councillor David Tweed, who faces 14 charges of sexually abusing two young girls over...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
BALLYMONEY Borough Council, as part of its Diamond Jubilee projects, led on a local charity project to knit blankets for...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
A BALLYMONEY councillor who raised the concerns of a constituent she said had got into an 'acrimonious discussion' with ...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
HEALTH chiefs have recommended replacing Coleraine's Ross Thompson mental health unit. The proposal is contained in a No...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
LAST WEEK an emotional appeal was launched after Kerry McHenry's 18-month-old Labrador, Lady, went missing from their ho...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
THE trial of Ballymena TUV Councillor David Tweed heard yesterday (Monday) that he consistently denied allegations of se...
Thursday, 22 November 2012
A BALLYMONEY woman, who used the bank card of a resident of the care home she worked in to steal money from her, has rec...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
BALLYMONEY Borough Council has been the hottest topic on the lips of the locals this week after a delegation from the to...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
SIX YEARS in the making, dogged by delays and uncertainties over funding but at last Ballymoney's 'striking' new pedestr...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
A GROUP of up to forty angry parents and carers, including teachers, and carers gathered at Balnamore Primary School on ...
Thursday, 15 November 2012
BRAND new waste management facilities for Ballymoney Borough Council and six neighbouring local authorities have cost ta...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
BUSINESSES in Ballymena have been allocated ten times more money by Invest NI than Ballymoney firms over the last five y...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
A BALLYMONEY businessman has spoken of the devastating consequences that a deadly new ash tree disease could have for hi...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
THE TOP American diplomat in Northern Ireland paid a flying visit to Ballymoney last Friday and found us to be 'a nice h...
Thursday, 8 November 2012
THE members of the Dalriada school Bar Mock Debating Team grounded in New York for three days due to Hurricane Sandy fin...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
FIFTEEN award winning students from Dalriada School in Ballymoney are currently stranded in New York as a result of Hurr...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
A 20 per cent VAT hike on protein powder products "goes completely against other government plans to improve health and ...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
BALLYMONEY'S own 'solar scientist' flew in from Oslo recently at the invitation of the Mayor Evelyne Robinson who was ke...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
BALNAMORE man Richard McMullan recently did an abseil in aid of the Andy Allen Veterans Support (AAVS).On September 23rd...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
A BALLYMONEY shop owner has called for CCTV to be installed around the town after the window and front door panes of his...
