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New art gallery in Skelmersdale

Mar 13, 2025 | wigantoday.net | John Fillis

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565Visit Shots! now"Art at the Eccy" Gallery will be opening in the Ecumenical Centre in SkelmersdaleThe Ecumenical Centre in Skelmersdale, will be opening a new gallery “Art At The Eccy” on Friday, March 21 at 6pm. Based initially in the Café area of the centre, which is open to the public during the Ecumenical Centres, normal opening hours.
Kilrea company creating 57 jobs in multi-million pound investment

Oct 3, 2024 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

Economy Minister Conor Murphy today announced that Kilrea-based company Hutchinson is making a significant investment in new equipment that will further boost its productivity and support planned growth including the creation of 57 new jobs.
Economy Minister opens landmark £46m NRC Causeway Campus

Oct 3, 2024 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

Economy Minister Conor Murphy officially opened Northern Regional College’s £46million Causeway Campus in Coleraine yesterday. Featuring state-of-the-art learning and training facilities which will benefit thousands of students and the wider community, the campus is already open to learners and has seen a 15% increase in full-time enrolments for the new academic year.
Your Chronicle - in the shops now!

Oct 1, 2024 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

If you want to know what's been happening in and around the Causeway Coast and Glens over the past week, get yourself down to the shops and grab your own copy of the Coleraine Chronicle. 'Hospital in the spotlight' is the front page heading this week and it's a big week for the future of the Causeway Hospital. Health chiefs came to town to outline plans to remove another service - surgery - as part of the Northern Trust's shake-up of services across its region.
New contractors appointed for Ballymoney Health Centre and Portstewart Family Practice

Sep 24, 2024 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

The Department of Health can confirm that new contractors have been appointed for Ballymoney Health Centre and Portstewart Family Practice. The partners of Ballymoney Family Practice will take on the management of Drs Fannin, Hutchinson & Boyd, Ballymoney Health Centre, with effect from 1 October 2024. The two practices will merge on this date and become one practice. Dr Johnny Burns & Partners took over the management of Portstewart Family Practice on 1 September 2024.
Work begins on £800K Coleraine Ring Road scheme

Sep 24, 2024 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

Infrastructure Minister John O’Dowd has announced that work has commenced on a £800,000 active travel scheme on the A29 Ring Road, Coleraine. This improvement scheme includes the provision of a shared footway/cycleway for a distance of approximately 500 metres along the A29 Ring Road, Coleraine between the Portrush Road Roundabout and Cromore Road.
Marine flares disposal this weekend

Jun 13, 2024 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

NORTH Coast boat owners being are asked to bring any time-expired marine distress flares to a disposal event this weekend. The event in Portrush, Enniskillen and Bangor is being organised by the Royal Yachting Association Northern Ireland and facilitated by the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
Woman dies in Aghadowey crash

Dec 29, 2023 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

The Police Service of Northern Ireland can confirm that a woman has sadly died following a single vehicle road traffic collision in Aghadowey. Lydia Ross, 21, who was from the Ballymoney area, sustained serious injuries in a collision involving a blue Peugeot 207 in the Curragh Road area, which occurred shortly after 10.15pm yesterday evening, Thursday 28th December. She was taken to hospital for treatment, but sadly passed away from her injuries.
'Exotic and exciting' - our past times brought to life for the present in Bann Disc

Dec 21, 2023 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

THEY say the past is another country.... And what an exotic and exciting one those wonderful people at Coleraine Historical Society have uncovered with the publication of the 29th volume of the Bann Disc. Edited by Barbara Harding for her fifth and final time in the hot seat, the popular local history journal journeys well into the past with fascinating tales of derring-do about people and places right across the Causeway Coast and Glens area.
Police issue new scam warning

Nov 22, 2023 | colerainechronicle.co.uk | John Fillis

Police are urging the public to be vigilant after recent reports of a scam in which fraudsters are targeting people in and around Belfast city centre, asking them to withdraw cash in exchange for a bank transfer. Chief Inspector Alan Lowry said: “In recent weeks, police have received reports from members of the public who have been approached by a group of people, or individuals, claiming to be from the south of Ireland.