Fermanagh, Northern Ireland News

QBRC, the local company who have made a bid for Aventas businesses have welcomed the backing of trade union Unite last week.

Police were justified in using Tasers during five separate incidents across Northern Ireland involving people armed with knives, the Police Ombudsman has found following investigations.

Patients, staff and visitors to hospitals within the Western Health Trust will be asked to stub out their cigarettes from today, as it becomes the first health trust in the Province to go smoke-free.

The police officer who was in charge of security at last year's G8 summit in Fermanagh has been appointed as the PSNI's acting deputy chief constable.

During a Fermanagh District Council meeting last week, cllr Stephen Huggett said that Northern Ireland's strategic housing authority should have a bomb put under its headquarters because of its "abysmal record of traveller accommodation in the county."

Over 60 boats joined by a fleet of cars and vans sailed through the streets of Enniskillen on Saturday, March 1 in a powerful show of Fishermens antifracking solidarity.

POPULAR angling spots including the River Drowes, Lough Melvin and Lough Erne are threatened by plans to extract shale gas from beneath the surface using the controversial drilling process known as fracking, a protest has been told.

The Canadian firm estimates as much as 13.05 trillion cubic feet of gas could be across the "entire area", with between 1.49tcf and 3.86tcf in the "option area" where it has been exploring.

A former soldier yesterday slammed the decision to issue an 'amnesty' letter to John Downey, who has also been linked to two UDR deaths.

A total of A 72m of taxpayers' money was spent last year on PSNI officers working overtime across Northern Ireland, UTV can reveal.