Still no Answers(24 July 2008) Ratepayers are still in the dark as Newry and Mourne District Council has yet to answer a number of questions relating to the Abandonment of the Albert Basin Development project.
In June the Council announced that they would have to restart ...
Recognising this year’s success stories in style(22 July 2008) BUSINESSES throughout Newry and Mourne have been urged to enter The Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards 2008.
For the first time, local companies and entrepreneurs can compete for seven category prizes in the scheme before going head-to he...
Down people prefer saving to spending(22 July 2008) DOWN people are the most confident about their finances in Northern Ireland, a new survey has revealed.
The surprising finding was revealed in research carried out for the Northern Bank in which 1,000 adults across the North were surveyed, i...
Voting with their feet(17 July 2008)
By Cormac Campbell
The registration plates in Newry’s car parks don’t lie; more and more shoppers from the Republic are travelling to the city for groceries and clothing as well as other goods and services.
What’s more the colu...
Aircraft Jobs for Kilkeel(17 July 2008) The approval by Planning Service of a 30,000 sq foot factory to house 140 workers for the Kilkeel and Mourne Community has been welcomed by South Down MP Eddie McGrady.
“At a time when we hear daily of the negative impact on our local indust...
Basin bill hits £250k mark(15 July 2008) By Patrick Ryan
NEWRY and Mourne could be writing off more than £40,000 by restarting the process to find a developer for Albert Basin project.
The council revealed it has spent £40,070, up to March 31, to appoint a developer in res...
Jobs go in Kilkeel(10 July 2008) Sixty jobs have been lost in Kilkeel’s Toughglass operation due to a downsizing of the company’s activities.
Toughglass are putting the cutbacks down to the increasing cost of power, raw materials and fuel as well as the threat of cheap impo...
Time for local tech sector to ‘light up’ Fast 50(10 July 2008) High-performing companies in Newry are once again being urged to ‘light the way’ and get involved in the definitive benchmarking competition in the island’s technology sector, the Deloitte Fast 50 Technology awards.
The awards are an opportu...
