Portadown, Northern Ireland News

Police have advised motorists to reduce their speed and drive with care as there are "widespread" icy conditions on roads throughout Northern Ireland.

THE Portadown home of Craigavon Borough Council member Brian McKeown and his elderly mother Anne was robbed at the weekend.

THE 85-year-old Loughgall woman knocked down in Portadown town centre last Friday afternoon remains in a critical condition in the Royal Victoria Hospital.

A community worker from Portadown has been co-opted as an SDLP councillor to Craigavon Borough Council.

THE manager of the Meadows Shopping Centre has dismissed claims that 'boy racers' are causing a disturbance by using the complex's car park at weekends to show off their modified cars.

TWO pensioners are said to be devastated at the loss of three beloved family pets who perished in an accidental house fire which destroyed their Brownlow home.

Over on my own blog, Northern Notes, I posted a piece the other day focusing on an online campaign to bankrupt the British National Party.

The former head of the Royal Ulster Constabulary has denied withholding information about a controversial murder inquiry from a former Northern Ireland Secretary.

LISBURN'S city centre Post Office has re-opened following negotiations after its sudden closure on Friday.

A Portadown motor auction firm has been fined 1,000 for selling a car with a mileage description 60,000 miles below its true mileage.

PORTADOWN College's long wait for a new principal is over. Banbridge-born Simon Harper, who is the current headmaster at Rathfriland High School, is the replacement for Deborah O'Hare, who left the school earlier this year to become principal at Wallace High School in Lisburn.

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Four Northern Ireland police officers who were on the scene when Robert Hamill was fatally assaulted were of little or no help in protecting him or seeking to apprehend his assailants, the inquiry into his death heard yesterday.

PORTADOWN must not be allowed to return to the dark days of the past, the vice-chairperson of Craigavon District Policing partnership has said.

A FORMER mayor of Craigavon has called on the local DPP to campaign hard against plans to close Portadown's police station in light of ongoing trouble in the town.

A LONDONDERRY to Portadown railway link is not considered feasible over the course of the next decade at least, according to the Roads Minister Conor Murphy.

MAYBE it was because her new husband John Stape is out of jail! But Coronation Street's Fiz Brown was in top form as she met hundreds of Portadown people on Saturday morning! Still, leta s not be carried away with fiction.

I've already blogged Adams' entry in the Register of Members Interests at Stormont.

Loyalists have been blamed for orchestrating violence on Sunday that left ten police officers injured.

Burglars targeted six homes in Lurgan in the space of an hour on Saturday. No-one was at home in any of the premises during the robberies which took place between 1900 and 2000 GMT.