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Clean up underway as the Glenarm is currently closed due to a landslide in the area. Diversions are currently in place via the Dickeystown Road and officers are in the area directing traffic.

The full available list of Northern ireland roads still impacted by Storm Debi

Gordon Elliott. (Photo by Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images)

Down Royal 'great day' for Gordon Elliott thanks to five-timer

Letters to editor

Letter: Determining the need for a border poll

A showcase event, held in London’s Palace of Westminster, has heard details of how Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council plans to market its tourism brand on both the domestic and international market. Pictured at The Palace of Westminster networking event showcasing the Lisburn & Castlereagh area are mayor of Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, councillor Andrew Gowan, Ellvena Graham, chair of Tourism Northern Ireland, The Rt Hon Sir Jeffrey Donaldson MP and David Burns, LCCC chief executive. Pic Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia

Westminster event focuses on tourism and ‘Destination Royal Hillsborough’

Northern Ireland property portal, PropertyPal, has released its quarterly report highlighting insights and trends shaping the Northern Ireland housing market over Q2 of 2023. Pictured is an update on the average house prices across Northern Ireland

Latest PropertyPal reveals average property prices across Northern Ireland

St John's parish church, Newtownhamilton, Co Armagh Picture: Billy Maxwell

Council aid for Co Down parish church with acute traffic problems

DUP Councillor Alan Givan

DUP councillor questions if mental health sick days are 'genuine'

Northern Ireland’s local cancer charity, Cancer Focus NI, has opened a brand-new store in Lisburn city centre. Pictured are Tara Lamb, chartered architect and owner of LAM Architects, mayor of Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, Cllr Andrew Gowan, Angela McGrath, director of Retail at Cancer Focus NI, Fiona Cullen, Cancer Focus NI shop manager (Lisburn)

Cancer Focus NI opens new high street store in Lisburn

Charles Stewart Henry Vane-Tempest-Stewart, the 7th Marquess of Londonderry

Gordon Lucy: The liberal unionist who helped win Battle of Britain

Keith and Kristyn Getty told the News Letter about the widespread rejections, disappointments and sheer hard work behind their phenomenal success.

'Our success is built on rejections and disappointments'

A security alert is continuing at playing fields in Castlereagh, on the outskirts of east Belfast.

Road closures in Castlereagh lifted - but no access still to playing fields

Traffic

Collision now cleared on Belfast route after collision between car and Translink

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (right) with Brian Higginson who was elected to represent Castlereagh South

'Consolidation' for DUP in Lisburn and Castlereagh but Alliance closing in

Ballots are tallied in the Great Hall of Belfast City Hall as counting begins in the Northern Ireland council elections

Counting resumes in Northern Ireland local government elections

DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson (right) with Brian Higginson who was elected to represent Castlereagh South

Lisburn and Castlereagh remains a 'strong base' for DUP, says party leader

The Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council offices on Lagan Valley Island, Lisburn

Election 2023 - Lisburn and Castlereagh: Alliance Party vote surged last time
Taking in much of east Belfast, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council is an overwhelmingly unionist one, with the DUP in pole position.

A man has been arrested at the scene of a security alert close to a large police station in east Belfast.

Man arrested following collision close to Belfast police station

PropertyPal, Northern Ireland's leading property portal, released its Q1 2023 Housing Market Update, revealing a return to pre-Covid-19 levels of activity in the region's housing market for the first time since March 2020

Northern Ireland housing market returns to ‘normal’ pre-Covid level of activity

An impression of the new crematorium at Roselawn

Belfast City Council given planning permission for new crematorium at Roselawn

There's a great Easter package at La Mon Hotel & Country Club

Travel: Some great offers this week

Letters to editor

Letters: Unionism must be promoted as a futuristic vision

Lord Castlereagh did much to limit the extent of the rebellion in 1798

Stopgap Lord Castlereagh was a calm voice amid turmoil and rebellion of 1798

King Charles III and the Queen Consort at Hillsborough Castle last September. A row has erupted at Lisburn and Castlereagh council over a fund for coronation events

Council's Coronation fund for community celebrations is oversubscribed

Renata Karkocha from McCulla Ireland Ltd, LCCC’s Development Committee Chairman Alderman Allan Ewart MBE and Janice Cooke from South Eastern Regional College.

HGV Transport Academy is driving careers forward this month

By insisting that the functioning of the Northern Ireland Protocol must be compatible with the Belfast Agreement, above, in all its aspects, the UK government has made a start in addressing matters such as unionist alienation generated by the trade barrier

Lord Bew: Supreme Court is right, NI constitutional status unchanged by protocol

The planned zone of development (in red - with the link road in dashes through the middle)

Plan to grow Lisburn: 'It feels everything is being done to hinder this'

Margaret Harbinson after her sea swim in memory of her mother and in aid of Cancer Research

Pharmacy technician does Christmas Day swim for Cancer Research
Margaret Harbinson from Castlereagh sadly lost her mother to leukaemia last year

Suppliers have been rationing home heating oil deliveries in Northern Ireland due to 'unprecedented demand'.

Heating oil rationing - industry chief says 'don't worry'

Home heating oil prices in Northern can vary from area to area

Huge rise in cost of home heating oil in Northern Ireland

Crowds in Hillsborough, hoping to get a good view of the new King during his last visit after the death of the Queen

No money for new ‘Royal’ Hillsborough road signs

Letters to editor

Letters: No all Ireland any time soon

Missing Crystal Pond

Urgent appeal to find missing 14-year-old schoolgirl

A fallen tree - not last night

Road remans closed by fallen tree this morning after weather warning

Warren Ellis

Gordon Lucy: David Bailie Warden: a united Irishman and an Ulster-Scot

Unite the Union members at Lisburn and Castlereagh Council staged a picket in Lisburn when the strike began on September 6, 2022.

Bin collection chaos set to escalate

Lisburn and Castlereagh Council workers on a picket in Lisburn when the current strike action began on September 6

Bins to remain unemptied as vote on new deal awaited

Lisburn and Castlereagh council workers on a picket line in Lisburn when the current strike began on September 6. Photo: Pacemaker

Lisburn and Castlereagh bin collections remain halted

The price gap between petrol and diesel has hit an all time high

Home heating oil falls for third week, gap between petrol and diesel hits high

CO3 chief executive, Valerie McConville joined by key conference and research sponsors, Evelyn Partners, Community Finance Ireland, Department for Communities, Tony Clarke and Company, Marsh/Ecclesiastical and Baker Tilly Mooney Moore to launch the 2022 CO3 Annual Leadership Conference

‘Valuing Our Sector’: CO3 to hold conference

Royal Mail workers at their picket line outside the sorting office on Prince Regent Road in east Belfast. Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Postal workers latest to take strike action over pay offer

Road closed

Morning collision creating delays

Staff from armagh Banbridge and Craigavon Council

Strike action to affect second NI council from next week

Sir Jeffrey Donaldson

Sir Jeffrey: Publication both timely and necessary

Castlereagh remained a firm believer in Catholic Emancipation until he took his own life in August 1822

Lord Castlereagh, a giant on international stage but much maligned at home

Simon Lee

Green Party councillor defects to SDLP

Myrtle Watson shows the News Letter’s Nikki Hill the marble statues at the Natrional Trust’s Mount Stewart in May 1982. Mrytle was the wife of the custodian of the house Sydney Watson. She told the News Letter: “The dusting is done very carefully and well. We do have other ways of dusting of course. The marble statues are dusted with a rather special soft bristle brush which gets into the crevices and layers of the sculpture.” Meanwhile, polishing was done once a year only with a special National Trust beeswax polish. Picture: News Letter archives

Retro: Keeping house in the grand manner (May 1982)

Blue Zinc co CEO Kyle Lunn

Belfast’s Blue Zinc opens new practice management and admin platform

Jamie Blundell - PSNI pic

Heightened concern for missing 13-year-old Jamie Blundell

PSNI

Police confirm death of 81-year-old motorcyclist following weekend crash

Pictured at the Castlereagh Road site is Gerard Mc Cleland, CEO of Ganson UK, Scott Nelson, senior construction manager at Lidl Northern Ireland and Chris Speers, regional property executive, Lidl Northern Ireland

Lidl NI clears the way for two new stores in Belfast and Omagh

missing Matthew McCard - PSNI

Urgent appeal to find missing man last seen carrying cream shopping bag

John Korchak, director of operations at Inform Direct

Record 9,358 new companies established in Northern Ireland during 2021

Ulster Unionist leader Doug Beattie. Picture: Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Beattie defends ‘oxygen thief’ jibe at TUV candidate

Dr Christopher Warleigh-Lack, National Trust property curator for east Down based at Mount Stewart, the family home of Robert Stewart, better known as Lord Castlereagh stands beside a portrait of Robert Stewart, by Sir Thomas Lawrence. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Famous Ulsterman Lord Castlereagh to be remembered 200 years after his death

Iconic New York bagels proving a popular NI treat