YOUR VIEWS: Readers on the stories making the headlines. A previous public meeting on the Essich Road housing plans was well attended. Picture: Highland Council Housing plan has major traffic implications The proposal to dump a 400 house development at Essich Road needs examined critically from several perspectives, and not …
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A request for English-Irish street signage at Woodside Hill, Portadown, has finally been approved. Woodside Hill had been the first street in the Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council area to meet the criteria for such provision – namely two thirds of residents in favour of bilingual signs. But …
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Drugs dog Bravo after previous busts in Lerwick and Scalloway. Photo: Police Scotland Drugs worth almost £40,000 have been recovered in Lerwick – thanks to help from a trained sniffer dog. Shetland officers, alongside specialist teams from the Aberdeen Operational Support Unit and Dogs Against Drugs, carried out a routine …
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Delays and non-deliveries of Royal Mail post are causing ‘real and tangible consequences’ for Inverness businesses (stock image). “Real and tangible consequences” are befalling Inverness businesses because of repeated delays and non-delivery of urgent mail. That’s the warning of Inverness Business Improvement District (BID) after calling for Royal Mail bosses …
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A Killylea woman has branded the local postal service a “shambles” after going three weeks without mail. The woman, who did not wish to be named, has told how she previously complained to the Consumer Council, as she was “made to feel like a liar” after raising her concerns. And …
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Photo by K. Mitch Hodge on Unsplash Upper Bann MP, Carla Lockhart secured a “high-level” meeting with senior management of Royal Mail to discuss “unacceptable” postal delays in Banbridge. While the issue of slow post is not unique to Banbridge, Ms Lockhart explained there was a “very specific local issue” …
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Around five tonnes of mail came off the boat on one day over the festive period, while posties’ bags were already bursting at the seams. The Scotland regional secretary for the Communications Workers Union, Craig Anderson, said the run up to Christmas and the week until New Year was a …
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The new Home Bargains store at Oaks Shopping Centre will be more than twice the size of the previous one, and there will also be a garden centre. Credit: Mid Ulster planning portal Plans that will see the Home Bargains store more than double in size at Oaks Shopping Centre, …
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A young man is in a critical condition in hospital following a two-vehicle collision on the Annaghilla Road in Augher, this morning, Wednesday. Sergeant Fletcher said: “We received a report of a collision between a white Audi A4 and a yellow Renault lorry just before 8.10am. “The driver of the …
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Picture: Peter Sutherland, Golspie The A9 was at a standstill on Tuesday morning as Police Scotland coordinated efforts to recover a Royal Mail lorry that had crashed in snow and ice just south of Berriedale. New images from the scene show the large postal vehicle being rescued on the notorious …
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