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Belfast City Council is currently seeking Expressions of Interest (EoI) for sponsorship of its public bike hire scheme. The deadline to receive Expressions of Interest is Friday, December 8 at 4pm

Belfast Bikes sponsorship opportunity now open

Over 450 companies and organisations have signed a pledge to stop all road deaths in Northern Ireland. Pictured are Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, councillor Mark Cooper, councillor Matthew Brady, chairperson of Antrim and Newtownabbey Policing and Community Safety Partnership (PCSP) and Lynda Hurley, head of road safety promotion at the Department for Infrastructure

Over 25,000 sign pledge to stop all road deaths in Northern Ireland

Belfast City Council has launched a public consultation as part of plans to tackle noise nuisance in Belfast city centre. Picture:Sinead McCusker/PA Wire

‘Council is trying to “silence the word of the Gospel” says street preacher

There’s still time to share views on the pavement café licensing scheme with consultation closing on Thursday, November 30. Photo shows Councillor Gary McKeown, Chair of Belfast City Council’s Licensing Committee

Consultation on Belfast’s pavement café licensing scheme closes soon

Cllr Glynis Campbell Sinclair was spotted cleaning her windows while on camera during a meeting of Highland Council's Inverness Area Committee Picture: Highland Council / SWNS

Councillor cleans her home's windows during live-streamed meeting

The £15m Merrow Resort and Spa scheme next to the NW200 paddock on Portstewart’s Ballyreagh Road was first lodged in 2016. The hotel is to include 119 rooms, two restaurants, a spa and conferencing facilities for up to 350 people

Plans for £15m Portstewart hotel and spa deferred over 'land ownership' issues

Councillors have voiced concerns for the future of City of Derry airport, and warned that funding is ‘unsustainable’ without a functioning Executive

Councillors warn funding model for City of Derry Airport ‘unsustainable’

A scene from the flooded town centre of Downpatrick. Photo: Colin McGrath MLA.

Council working to get ASDA back in business in Downpatrick

McDonald’s 'delighted to announce the approval of its plans for a new £4million restaurant in Coleraine following their appeal being upheld by Northern Ireland’s Planning Appeals Commission'

Planning green light for a second McDonald's restaurant in Coleraine

Deputy Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens, Councillor Margaret-Anne McKillop with Kathleen Doherty, owner of Body and Mind Garvagh; Rhonda Williamson, Department for Communities; Garry Cardwell, Council’s Funding Support Officer; Ian McQuitty, Department for Communities, contractor Seamus McGilligan and Town and Village Manager, Julienne Elliot. Credit Causeway Coast and Glens Council

New lease of life for former Garvagh butcher's store

The planning application was presented at a Planning Committee meeting on Wednesday, November 8. It proposed development of a ‘Go’ five-pump petrol station, with forecourt, air and water service area, underground storage tanks, as well as the two-storey drive-thru restaurant, on the vacant site across the road from Long’s supermarket and in front of KFC on Strand Road, Londonderry

New drive-thru restaurant and 24 hour petrol station approved

Ronnie Patton, from Bangor leads more than 750,000 ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) members and future members across 181 countries

Bangor man appointed global president of ACCA

Belfast's Townsend Enterprise Park has unveiled a substantial £280,000 transformation within its property, which has created an enriched working environment for its 46 tenants. Board members Linda Graham and Reverend Jack Lamb are pictured with Lord Mayor Cllr Ryan Murphy and Margaret Patterson McMahon, CEO, Townsend Enterprise Park

Belfast enterprise park unveils £280,000 transformation for 46 tenants

The funeral of John Steele, the Larne man who fell to his death from the top of a 50-foot pyre in Antiville, passes the bonfire site.

Council urged to supply health and safety policies after Co Antrim bonfire death

Belfast City Council has extended its temporary pavement café licensing scheme until the end of December with consultation now underway on a proposed permanent scheme starting in January 2024

Council’s temporary pavement café licensing scheme extended in Belfast

The 11 dogs campaigners believe the council had euthanised (Lost Souls/Facebook)

Council seizes 82 dogs from sanctuary, sparking controversy as 11 put down
Council staff, along with vets, behaviourists and police, seized a total of 82 dogs after they say they found "a significant number" to be suffering

Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council (LCCC) has given the green light to a multi-million pound redevelopment at Dundonald International Ice Bowl at a full Council meeting. Councillors agreed to invest £52 million in the project over the next three years. The UK Government’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has already pledged £12.2 million in financial support. Pictured is a CGI of the new facility

Yes for multi-million pound redevelopment of Dundonald International Ice Bowl

General views of green and blue algae deposits at Lough Neagh

Drinking water from Lough Neagh meeting strict quality standards: NI Water

Ellis Anthony Gibbs dropping litter out of his car window in a car park in Hull. The teenager was fined £250.

Teenager fined £250 after throwing McDonald’s bag out of car window

Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, councillor Mark Cooper BEM recently visited Antrim- based manufacturer, SAM Mouldings, to learn more about the company’s £7million
investment plans at its architectural-mouldings manufacturing facility. Pictured are Sam McCrea, CEO at SAM, Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, cllr Mark
Cooper, Paul Lavery, joint managing director at SAM and Cat McCrea, joint managing director at SAM

NI manufacturer invests £7m in new facility to drive business efficiency

Mid and East Antrim Borough Council and The Department for Communities are hosting their next free job fair at The Braid in Ballymena – and are calling on local businesses seeking to fill posts to get in touch and register to take part. Pictured are Ashley Russell-Cowan DfC, Norman Sterritt MEA LMP, mayor alderman Gerardine Mulvenna and Hayley Barr MEA LMP

Free Job Fair: Are you hiring and on the look-out for new employees..?

Antrim Forum marks 50 years with a £2.4m investment with a state-of-the-art fitness suite, complete with the latest innovative equipment from Technogym and BLK BOX

Antrim Forum celebrates 50 years with new £2.4m state-of-the-art fitness suite

Pictured outside Bushmills Visitor Information Centre (l-r) Eoin Mc Connell Naturally North Coast and Glens, The Mayor Councillor Steven Callaghan, and Gina Doherty Council’s Visitor Servicing Team. Credit McAuley Multimedia

Local food producers link with Visitor Information Centres

Rory McIlroy tees off at the 16th hole during the 2015 Irish Open

Council backs plan for golf ‘task force’ ahead of Open at Royal County Down

Coronation Garden

Council to look at policy over use of Coronation Garden for wedding photographs

Red flags have been removed from two Portrush beaches following water analysis

Red flags removed from West and East Strand beaches in Portrush

Young mum, 22 horrified as Norwich council flat floods with ‘thick brown’ human waste

Mum horrified as council flat floods with ‘thick brown’ human waste
Katie and her autistic son were left with a house flooding with raw sewage every time her neighbours flushed the toilet

Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council has been made aware that blue-green algae has been confirmed at Magilligan Point, beach users should not enter the water as a precautionary measure. Credit Daera

Blue-green algae detected at Magilligan as Council urges caution

Christin Martin from Belfast and her three-year-old daughter Lucy has multiple food allergies (Image: RinkaDink Studio)

NI consumers with food allergies and intolerances suffering

A promotional image used for the Dizney in Drag show

Complaint about children being allowed to watch 18+ drag show

Northern Ireland entrepreneur Gina Thomson, owner of Causeway Aromatics, recently welcomed Mayor of Mid and East Antrim, Alderman Gerardine Mulvenna, to celebrate the opening of the company’s exciting new store in the grounds of Glenarm Castle. Pictured are Gina Thomson, owner, Causeway Aromatics, Ald Gerardine Mulvenna, mayor, Adrian Morrow, estate manager at Glenarm Castle Estates and Allastar McGarry, business vlient manager

Ballymena firm celebrates new chapter in scented products business

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council is supporting a major recruitment drive by Dobbies Garden Centres who are seeking to recruit 120 full and part-time team members for their new flagship store which opens at The Junction Retail and Leisure Park, Antrim, in October 2023. Pictured: Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey councillor Mark Cooper, Chris Flynn, centre director at The Junction, Ken Ferguson, general manager at Dobbies, Antrim and Jenny Campbell, operations manager at Dobbies, Antrim

Council support recruitment drive for 120 new staff at Dobbies Antrim

The gun carriages that hold the cannons will be repaired, cleaned and repainted this summer

Historic cannons on Derry's Walls get spruced up for summer

Hannah Ingram-Moore and her late father Captain Tom Moore (Photo: Getty Images)

Daughter of Sir Captain Tom Moore ordered to tear down home spa

£1 sessions available at Templemore Sports Complex

£1 council leisure activities return for summer to 'get kids more active'

Plans for a pop-up food and drink market in Portrush has received 'strong opposition' from street traders, business owners and residents according to a local TUV councillor

'Disapproval' for 10-week Portrush pop-up food and drink market

Newry, Mourne and Down District Council's Monaghan Row headquarters.

Council explains why no bathing was permitted at beach in Newcastle on Saturday

A popular tourist destination in the Co Down coast, Newcastle beach

Water quality in Newcastle advised as 'poor' as Council warn against bathing

Jeremy Clarkson has won his battle with West Oxfordshire District council as permission to provide more parking at his Diddly Squat farm has been granted.

Jeremy Clarkson given green light for changes at Diddly Squat farm

An artist's impression of the new apartment development planned for Portstewart's York Hotel

Portstewart's York Hotel to become apartments

Paul O’Grady: Comedian given freedom of the borough in posthumous honour from Wirral Council

Paul O’Grady given ‘highest honour’ in tribute after his death

Derry Girls cast

Derry Girls: Treasure trove from hit Channel 4 series to go on show

All boat operations suspended from Bournemouth Pier

Cunningham Covers in Maghera.

Tarpaulin manufacturer seeks extension to Glenshane Industrial Park factory

Bible readings to continue at Northern Ireland council

Council to continue with Bible readings at start of meetings

A Martin Lewis fan revealed how a tip from the consumer champion helped her secure a £8,500 refund from her local council.

Martin Lewis fan shares how they got £8,500 council refund

Alliance Party stalwart John Blair with new councillor Lewis Boyle, aged 18

CLIP - Election 2023: Is this the youngest councillor on the island of Ireland?

Celebrating its 27th edition, the event made a welcome return to its homeplace of the historical Guildhall last November when almost 4,000 visitors attended over the three days

Applications sought for 2023 Guildhall Craft Fair stall holders

Council apologises for ‘error’ and ‘upset’ after entire car park of vehicles wrongfully ticketed

Entire car park of vehicles ticketed after council error

The Rabbit Hotel and Retreat, Templepatrick. Pic: Google Maps

Proposal will see hotel double in size

Lord President of the Council, Penny Mordaunt, carrying the Sword of State, in the procession through Westminster Abbey ahead of the coronation ceremony of King Charles III and Queen Camilla in London.

Penny Mordaunt admits taking painkillers before her sword role in coronation

Ben Thornbury demonstrating 'crazy pothole golf' in Malmesbury

Man sets up pothole crazy golf course to ‘make a point’ to council

Tracey McCallan from Fermanagh and Omagh District Council has been named the Local Government Employee of the Year. Pictured are Cllr Martin Kearney, NILGA president, Claire Carleton, Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council, Tracey McCallan, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, Sandra Pollock, vice chair of the William Johnston Memorial Trust and Cllr Barry McElduff, Fermanagh and Omagh District Council chair

NI council officer comes out on top as Local Government Employee of the Year

Millie used ChatGPT to help write an email to York City Council

Student uses ChatGPT to appeal wrongly issued parking fine

A motion for proposals for an annual pride event in Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon and for the council to participate in the Belfast pride parade along with other corporate bodies was rejected by councillors.

DUP and UUP block plans for Pride event in ABC Council area