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 May
2008 - Holywood Happenings - County Down Spectator
Business is blooming for a family-run Holywood business.
Following its relocation from Belfast the Church
Road based Floralearth has seen its demand increase
rapidly in its specialised field of floral design.
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06 March 2008
Thursday 6 March 2008 at 8:00pm
World Book Day at Poetry Place Holywood Library. With
local poet Jean Bleakney. MORE>> |
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16 March 2008
Enter The Bangor Mile and run, jog or walk through
Castle Park whilst raising money for a great cause.
Participants will make their way along the tree-lined
paths, leading the way to the gardens of the Town
Hall to complete their challenge. Having completed
the event, why not follow a 'Castle Park Nature Trail'
and explore the grounds further? Enter the Mile, get
sponsored and make a difference. MORE>> |
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19th February 2008
Holywood Cricket Club are seeking new players for
the new season 2008
Holywood finished a proud 3rd position last year,
with the two top teams being promoted into the premier
league, we have 3 senior teams and 4 youth teams,
and with the club going from strength to strength
every year, we would like to continue our climb up
the ladder of Ulster Cricket and into the Premier
league where the club belong! MORE>> |
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31st December 2007
Holywood Residents Association has expressed delight
that the long running issue of Estate Agents Directional
Signboards has already reached our new Assembly in
the form of a written question from North Down MLA
Councillor Alex Easton, as follows “To ask the
Minister for Regional Development what plans he has
to introduce additional legislation to prevent estate
agents from erecting signs on lamp posts and telegraph
poles”. MORE>> |
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12 December 2007
At the December Corporate Committee (11 December
2007), North Down Borough Council unanimously supported
a Notice of Motion by Deputy Mayor Councillor Wesley
Irvine calling for action on fuel poverty and, in
particular, that the Minister for Social Development,
Margaret Ritchie, would continue to make funding available
for the Warm Homes Scheme. MORE>> |
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20 November 2007
Do you remember a rubbish dump at a site on the Old
Belfast Road or at Ward Arras Park? |
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14 November 2007
Olympic gold medallist Sebastian Coe visited Northern
Ireland last week to promote the London 2012 Games
and the benefits that it can bring to Northern Ireland. |
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18 October 2007
Question Time came to North Down on Thursday (18
October) when councillors were grilled by young people
from four local schools on topics ranging from recycling
to integrated education to anti-social behaviour.
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29 September 2007
At a special ceremony today (29 September) in Bangor,
the Mayor of North Down, Councillor Dr Stephen Farry,
MLA, paid tribute to the Northern Ireland Prison Service
for its loyal service, often through difficult and
dangerous times, in ensuring a safer society for everyone
in Northern Ireland. The Service was then awarded
the Council’s highest honour—the Freedom
of North Down. |
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15 August 2007
A delegation from North Down Borough Council met
this week with the Education Minister, Caitriona Ruane,
to discuss the future of public sector jobs at Rathgael
House in Bangor, which are under threat as part of
the Government's Workplace 2010 proposals. |
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04 September 2007
The Mayor of North Down, Councillor Stephen Farry,
has warmly congratulated all the agencies involved
in organising the very successful Snow Patrol concert
on Saturday night. |
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18 June 2007
 Culture,
Arts and Leisure Minister, Edwin Poots MLA, has confirmed
North Down Borough Council as the preferred bidder
to build Northern Ireland’s first 50 metre swimming
pool.
Mr Poots said North Down Council’s bid was
approved by Sport Northern Ireland after rigorous
examination in an open competition. |
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Saturday, May 05, 2007
North
Down Borough Council has today (2 May 2007) launched
details of its bid to bring Northern Ireland's first
50m Olympic-sized swimming pool to Bangor. A grant
of £15 million is available from the Department
of Cultfure, Arts and Leisure to build this much needed
sports facility by march 2010, providing almost two
years of use as a training facility prior to the 2012
Olympics. North Down Council intends to build the
Olympic pool as part of a new leisure and aquatics
centre for the Borough, representing an investment
of more than £35million in state-of-the art
sports facilities.
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14 March 2007
It’s an extra special season for sport in Holywood
with the announcement of a £4 million pound
refurbishment and extension of the facilities at Spafield,
Seapark and Sullivan Upper School. Sports including
rugby, football, cricket and hockey players will reap
the rewards of this exciting new opportunity on which,
subject to planning permission, construction will
begin in the summer of 2008. |
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Tuesday, April 17, 2007
New laws that will impact on all private landlords
and tenants in Northern Ireland came into force on
1 April 2007.
The Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006
is aimed at reducing unacceptably high levels of unfitness
and disrepair in the sector; reducing inequalities
between tenure type and clarifying landlord and tenant
obligations/duties. |
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14 March 2007
Pedal power is the latest weapon in the war against
anti-social behaviour in the Borough. From April onwards,
Council Enforcement Staff and PSNI Officers will be
getting on their bikes and undertaking joint patrols
in areas where anti-social behaviour such as underage
drinking and littering has been identified as a problem.
As we look towards the summer months this offers a
cleaner, greener approach to ensuring a cleaner, safer
Borough. |
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The 2007 Bangor, Holywood & Groomsport Visitor
Guide is now available and is packed with forty-four
pages of attractions, activities, events and places
to stay and eat in the borough. |
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January 2007
All of Northern Ireland’s bars, restaurants
and businesses will be smoke-free zones come Monday
30 April and as the critical deadline gets closer
there is good news for local companies who can now
access advice and support from the new smoke-free
environments officer, Joy Hanna, working in North
Down and Ards. |
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November 2006
In an effort to help the blind and visually impaired
with their efforts to recycle at home, North Down
Borough Council, along with others local authorities
in the arc21 area, can now provide embossed panels
for household refuse collection bins that make it
easy to identify the type of waste that should go
into each container. |
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14 November 2006
Mayor of North Down, Councillor Alan Leslie, held
a buffet lunch this week (14 November) in the Town
Hall to mark the launch by Council of its new Community
Support Plan for the Borough, which will run until
2009. The event also marked the award of the more
than £6,500 to community and voluntary Groups
working for the benefit of North Down residents in
the latest round of Council's grant aid programme.
A total of 14 groups received grants of between £200
and £500 to conduct projects within their respective
areas. |
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13 November 2006
As you may be aware the pricing policy for
Nirvana Fitness Memberships were not reviewed along
with other facility charges for 2006/2007. Historically
there have been a number of categories of membership,
payment periods and payment methods within the Nirvana
pricing structure. This highlighted the need to undertake
an operational review of the membership packages. |
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October 2006
The long-hidden Walled Garden, Bangor’s SECRET
GARDEN, from which the public have been excluded for
around 160 years, opened its gates for just two afternoons
earlier this month. |
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August 2006
North Down Borough Council has started work on the
Borough's new Household Waste Recycling and Environmental
Education Centre at Balloo Avenue in Bangor. This
will facilitate more recycling across the Borough
and help Council meet its next big target of 40% of
household waste being recycled by 2010.
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