News

Housing Executive tenants in Tyrone and Mid Ulster are facing a rise in rents.

Dungannon has a new Opera star in the rising. Fans of opera were treated to a lunchtime fest as Gemma Prince

CONCERNED members of the South Tyrone Hospital Community Forum have stepped up their campaign to prevent a proposed reduction in opening hours at the hospital.

Dungannon based independent retailer Menarys have denied closure rumours and has told the Courier that the business is weathering the economic storm.

The Mayor of Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council has met the Chief Executive Officer of the Southern Health and Social Care Trust over proposals to reduce the opening hours at South Tyrone Hospital.

Several new addresses will soon be on their way to Dungannon after the street name of a number of new developments were agreed.

The fist unemployment figures released in 2012 make grim reading for Mid Ulster residents with the news that there was a slight increase in the number of people out of work in the area last month.

A newly established foundation set up in memory of murdered School Teacher Michaela McAreavey is to offer financial aid to students struggling with the rising cost of higher education.

A MID-ULSTER organisation that provides accommodation, care and support for single homeless people

A FAMILY-owned trailer manufacturing business based in Dungannon has scooped a £1million contract to make trailers for one of Saudi Arabia's biggest businesses.

ROADS Service are implementing further measures on the A4 dual carriageway, near Dungannon, to help prevent "wrong way" driving.

Staff in the Housing Executive’s Dungannon Office have raised £600 for the Marie Curie Cancer Care Group.

Christmas Day, with a maximum temperature of 13.5°C, was the warmest Christmas Day on record

Funding to the tune of £190,000 has been secured for the long awaited refurbishment of a former Dungannon Boxing Club.

Dungannon Borough Council has finally reached an agreement with the Roads Service over the gritting of pavements in the town centre…. after a two year wait.

Over 50 percent of electric blankets tested in the Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough over the last seven years were faulty

Housing Executive tenants struggling to pay their rent are being urged to seek help before their debt problems spiral out of control.

Ulster Bank employees across Mid-Ulster’s seven branches are bracing themselves for possible redundancies following the news that 350 jobs are to go across Northern Ireland.

Dungannon’s only hotel, the Bank House Hotel in Irish Street in the town centre has closed, the latest casualty of the economic downturn.

DUNGANNON could be on course for a tourism boom in 2012 thanks to local golf ace Darren Clarke!

Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council is now operating an Oil Stamp Saving Scheme, making oil stamps available for purchase which can be used to make full or part payment for oil delivery.

A Multi million pound scheme to give Dungannon town centre a much needed facelift is due to get underway within a matter of months, the Courier can reveal.