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Lord Mayor Alderman Margaret Tinsley announces free parking in council-owned off-street pay-and-display car parks in Armagh City, Banbridge, Lurgan and Portadown on Saturday, December 2, 9, 16 and 23. Picture: ABC Borough Council.

Free Christmas parking scheme for Portadown, Lurgan and Banbridge

Belfast Christmas Market runs until December 22

Christmas markets in the UK and Ireland

The Twelfth of July parade in Belfast in 2022. Bands and Orange men form up at Carlisle Circus in north Belfast for the main Belfast.
Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Orangeman and former Lord Mayor backs current Twelfth route

People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstration near the Israeli Embassy, in Kensingston, London: October 9, 2023. PA Photo. Photo credit should read: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Breakdown of pro-Palestine protests on Armistice Day in Northern Ireland

Belfast Christmas Market

Belfast Christmas market returning to Belfast City Hall on November 18

Belfast Lord Mayor councillor Ryan Murphy has launched Belfast City Council’s search for a suitably experienced long-term business partner to help deliver over half a billion pounds worth of multi-site, residential-led, mixed-use developments across the city

Council seeks development partner to boost city population

A former bank building in Portrush has been brought back to life following a £2.5m restoration project. The listed building, originally built in 1898 for the Belfast Banking
Company, has been converted to serviced apartments and a café bar by Andras Hotels, Northern Ireland’s largest hotel group. Pictured are Causeway Coast and Glens Council mayor Cllr Steven Callaghan is the guest of honour at the official launch of the Bank Apartments and the Safehouse Cafe Bar in Portrush pictured with Cafe Bar manager Natasha Kirke and Rajesh Rana, director of the Andras House Hotel Group

NI’s largest hotel group reveals restoration of Portrush listed bank building

Belfast Lord Mayor welcomes U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and senior business delegation. Pictured are Belfast Lord Mayor councillor Ryan Murphy and U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland, Joseph Kennedy III

Belfast Lord Mayor welcomes U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland

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

Linfield manager David Healy. (Photo by Stephen Hamilton/INPHO)

David Healy’s high-flying Linfield with ‘few more gears to go’

Lord Mayor of Belfast Councillor Ryan Murphy at Duncrue Complex alongside Council HGV vehicles that are now running on hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO). HVO is a low-carbon, zero-sulphur fuel made from waste renewable materials like rapeseed and sunflower oil. Photo: Belfast City Council /PA Wire

More than 200 council vehicles now running on vegetable oil

Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council Steven Calllaghan presents Maisie Allison with gifts as her daughter Suzanne and Grand daughter Janice look on .Picture Ruth Callaghan/McAuley Multimedia

World War II vet Maisie celebrates her 105th birthday with highland dancers

Robin Swann MLA president Farmers' Choir, Mid and East Antrim Mayor Alderman Gerardine Mulvenna, and Barkley Thompson, musical director Farmers' Choir. Picture: Farmers' Choir Northern Ireland

Farmers' Choir Northern Ireland start their 2023/24 season with tea the mayor

Lord Mayor of Belfast, councillor Ryan Murphy, joins Glyn Roberts from Retail NI and Colin Neill from Hospitality NI for a tour of businesses in Belfast city centre. The Lord Mayor spoke to local retailers and hospitality providers about current conditions and challenges and highlighted initiatives underway to improve cleanliness and support revitalisation in the city

Mayor meets with business leaders to discuss next steps for Belfast city centre

Mayor of Causeway Coast and Glens, Councillor Steven Callaghan pictured with Aaron Boreland from Ramore Restaurants at the launch of the Chef Academy. Credit Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council

Want to be part of the Chef Academy in Portrush?

This caravan covered in ULEZ protest slogans was chained outside Sadiq Khan’s house in Tooting, London.

ULEZ ‘cash grab’ caravan dumped outside Sadiq Khan’s house
The caravan was sprawled with warnings such as “ULEZ will be your Poll Tax, Mr Khan” and “ULEZ is a cash grab”.

People light candles at the end of Sunday's vigil in Kickham Plaza, Co Tipperary, in memory of Luke McSweeney, 24, his 18-year-old sister Grace McSweeney, Zoey Coffey and Nicole Murphy, both also 18, who died while on the way to celebrate exam results after the car they were travelling in struck a wall and overturned in Clonmel on Friday. Pic: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Clonmel crash tragedy: Hundreds attend vigil after deaths of four young people

Lord Mayor of Belfast Councillor Ryan Murphy (left) and Chair of the Cave Hill Conservation Cormac Hamill at the recently refurbished Millennium maze at Belfast Castle

Lost and found: Volunteers restore castle’s millennium maze

Taking part in the Belfast Mela Carnival Parade. Photo by Kelvin Boyes / Press Eye.

Carnival parade through the city as Belfast Mela gets into full swing

The 17th Belfast Mela Festival was led by the Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Ryan Murphy and founder of the Belfast Mela Festival Nisha Tandon with more than 1000 participants representing 20 different cultures who have made Northern Ireland their home. Picture: Kelvin Boyes/Press Eye/PA Wire

Thousands take part in Carnival to open Mela Festival in Belfast

Family and friends during the funeral for eight-year-old Scarlett Rossborough from her home in Larne on Sunday

The funeral of eight-year-old Scarlett Rossborough takes place in Larne

Mayor of Causeway Coast & Glens Colr. Steven Callaghan with Sam Todd (centre), service delivery manager, Translink and Peter O'Hare, assistant service delivery manager, onboard the Translink Zero Emission buses now in service at Coleraine Bus Station.

New zero emission minibuses for Coleraine

Lord Mayor councillor Ryan Murphy welcomes the vice mayor for Economic Affairs in Sejong, Seung Won Lee, to Belfast

Belfast and Sejong come together to create innovative business opportunities

(left to right) Leyla Gallius (ArtsEkta dancer), Stephen Begg performer and Nisha Tandon CEO of ArtsEkta at the launch of the Belfast Mela Festival at Commercial court in Belfast. Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Belfast Mela: NIs largest multi-cultural event to splash its colour across city

(left to right) Leyla Gallius (ArtsEkta dancer), Stephen Begg performer and Nisha Tandon CEO of ArtsEkta at the launch of the Belfast Mela Festival at Commercial court in Belfast

Belfast Mela Festival is expected to attract tens of thousands of visitors

Michele Campbell, Operations Director for Mid and East Antrim Community Advices Services and Catherine Black, Community Planning and Development Manager for MEABC

School uniform scheme returns in Mid and East Antrim Borough Council

William Newell, Owner of Abode Café with Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Cllr Mark Cooper. (Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council).

New cafe opens on Main Street
Abode Café, a new, vibrant coffee destination has recently opened on Ballyclare’s Main Street.

President and vice-chancellor of Queen’s University Belfast, professor Ian Greer is pictured with Belfast Lord Mayor councillor Ryan Murphy at Queen’s University, Belfast to launch a new Business Services Employment Academy, which will give 15 people living in Belfast, with few or no qualifications, the opportunity to secure an administrative role in the university (Press Eye Ltd)

New partnership helps 15 people in Belfast with no qualifications secure jobs

ABC Council headquarters in Craigavon. Photo by Google

Row after DUP backs Sinn Féin to remove smaller parties from council body

Taylor Swift has announced she is performing at Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium in 2024 as part of her UK Eras tour (Getty Images)

Taylor Swift Era’s tour: Every surprise song performed so far

Derry City and Strabane District Council Mayor Councillor Patricia Logue in the city’s Tower Museum as she cut the ribbon with Ann and Chris McGee parents of show creater Lisa. The event was attended by the original Derry Girls who provided the inspiration for the characters in the hit TV show and actress Jamie Lee O’Donnell who brought the role of Michelle to life.

Derry Girls Experience given thumbs up by fans at the Tower Museum

The Battle of the Somme memorial parade passes through east Belfast on Saturday evening.

Somme sacrifice of 1916 marked with parades and commemorations

Some of the participants on the council’s Belfast Employment Academies who were in City Hall for a celebration event for completion of the programme

Belfast residents’ Employment Academy achievements celebrated at City Hall

Taylor Swift performs onstage for the opening night of "Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour" at State Farm Stadium on March 17, 2023 in Glendale, Arizona. The city of Glendale, Arizona was ceremonially renamed to Swift City for March 17-18 in honor of The Eras Tour. (Photo by John Medina/Getty Images)

Taylor Swift announces UK Eras tour dates with extra show

Cancer Focus NI opens new high street store in Lisburn

Sinn Fein MP John Finucane (right) with party colleague Conor Murphy (left) MLA during a controversial IRA memorial event in Co Armagh on Sunday, billed as the South Armagh Volunteers Commemoration. Phillip Brett says: "Like John I’ve relatives on both sides of the divide and I identify with the pain he has experienced" Photo: Liam McBurney/PA Wire

Phillip Brett: We were told Finucane offered something new, it seems he doesn’t

William King MBE, who has sadly passed away

Tributes paid following the passing of former Coleraine Mayor

The Lord Mayor of Belfast Tina Black with six-year-old Daithi Mac Gabhann who has been awarded the freedom of Belfast City following his family's campaign for changes to organ donation laws. Photo: Steven McAuley/McAuley Multimedia/PA Wire

Daithi gets freedom of Belfast after organ donor campaign success

Antrim and Newtownabbey Crematorium will open on Monday 5 June 2023 on the Doagh Road, Newtownabbey.

NI's second crematorium opening - why is demand rising?

Former DUP MLA Jim Wells

Jim Wells: I can’t see problem with having Bible reading before council meeting

Keith and Kristyn Getty are pictured with Mayor of Lisburn & Castlereagh City Council, Councillor Scott Carson and Chief Executive, David Burns with the Freedom of the city scroll presented to them today.
Photo by Press Eye.

Freemen Gettys thank city which nurtured their talent and success

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar inspecting a guard of honour from the Defence Forces prior to the ceremony of reconciliation and remembrance for those who lost their lives during the Civil War in the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin

100 years since end of Irish Civil War commemorated in Dublin

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Mayor of London on climate emergency and his own health issues

The Lord Mayor of Belfast Tommy Patton and retiring District Master of No 6 District (Ballymacarrett), Mr Arthur Best, received presentation in March 1983 from the officers of the County Grand Orange Lodge of Belfast in Albertbridge Road Orange Hall. Included are William Duncan, District Master, and the Reverend Martin Smyth. Picture: News Letter archives

27 photographs from the News Letter’s archive (1983)

Located in Glengormley, Scrapyard Golf offers a unique and entertaining experience to visitors of all ages, featuring repurposed street furniture, signs, skateboards, bumps, and remoulded tyres as obstacles throughout the crazy golf course. From its humble beginnings, with only 20 visitors per day, the venue has quickly grown to welcome up to 500 people daily. Pictured is Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, Alderman Stephen Ross and Henry Crowe, owner of Scrapyard Golf

New Northern Ireland ‘crazy golf’ venture is celebrating tee-rific success

Local artist Dionne Pollock presents the Mayor of Antrim and Newtownabbey, alderman Stephen Ross, with a digital print of Mossley Mill

Newtownabbey artist tells how creativity has helped her through her darkest days

Visit Belfast’s plans are on track to deliver around £120 million to the local economy this year through its sales, marketing and visitor servicing activity, marking a fresh growth milestone in the organisation’s almost 25-year history. Pictured at the newly refurbished St Colmgall’s on Divis Street in Belfast for the launch of its business plans for the year ahead are Visit Belfast Chair Kathryn Thomson and chief executive Gerry Lennon, Lord Mayor of Belfast councillor Christina Black and Gerry McConville, director of Falls Community Council

Visit Belfast expects city tourism growth to exceed pre-pandemic levels in 2024

The rough location of the new statue of Frederick Douglass (inset); the image shows Lombard Street in Belfast, with Royal Avenue the next street over on the left, and High Street running beneath it (the yellow-clad scaffolding of the burnt-out Primark building can be seen on the far left of the image)

Statue honouring anti-slavery figure to go ahead in Belfast at cost of £150,000

Greg Bradley BLK BOX founder, said: “We are very proud to receive the first-ever King’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade. It is a testament to our team’s hard work and dedication which has led us to winning international contracts, across Europe, Asia and Australia

BLK BOX lifts The King’s Award for Enterprise

Causeway Coast and Glens Council Mayor Cllr Ivor Wallace has the honour of cutting the ribbon at the official opening of the Riverside Hotel Coleraine pictured with Karen Yates CEO Causeway Chamber of Commerce along with Rajesh Rana, director of the Andras House Hotel Group

Andras Hotels open Riverside Hotel Coleraine

Carole and Luke Wilmont Pictured at Ballymoney spring Fair held on Saturday in Ballymoney.

Ballymoney Spring Fair makes a return to the calendar

One of the eye catching displays in the carnival parade.

Family fun at Mayor's Carnival Parade in Lisburn

Eight year old Sheila Hughes holds a garland during a 'christening' ceremony for a baby elephant, also called Sheila. The elephant is the same one that was looked after by Denise Westin Austin in her back garden during the Second World War. CT17-717

NI War Memorial museum celebrates World War Two story of Sheila the Elephant

Ald Stephen Ross with International and overall Ireland EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2022, Martin McKay - TextHelp.

Praise for Antrim businessman

Mayor of Ards and North Down councillor Karen Douglas with Lady Rose and Peter Lauritzen of Mount Stewart Estate and Chris Spurr, chairman of the Ulster History Circle, pictured at the unveiling of a blue plaque to commemorate Viscount Castlereagh at Ards Arts Centre, Town Hall, Newtownards on April 19

Blue plaque in memory of Viscount Castlereagh unveiled in Newtownards