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The traditional newspaper for Omagh and district since 1844
The traditional newspaper for Omagh and district since 1844
Fri, May 18, 2012
Thursday, 17 May 2012
STAFF and pupils at St Davog's Primary School at Scraghey between Castlederg and Ederney have been left 'shocked and sad...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
A MAN was taken to hospital following a road traffic collision on the Dromore to Irvinestown Road yesterday (Tuesday).Th...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
LOCAL councillors and community representatives have described as "scandalous" plans to introduce car parking charges at...
Thursday, 17 May 2012
As groups of teenagers prepare to travel to America with the Ulster Project, a group of university students has made the...
Thursday, 10 May 2012
Omagh district councillor, Bert Wilson, has warned that the sharp drop in milk prices - coupled with a rise in animal fe...
Thursday, 10 May 2012
A remarkable 63-year-old Dromore man has clocked up a century of marathons, following his completion of Belfast city's M...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
TRIBUTES have been paid to the well-respected Killen man, who tragically died in a fire at his bungalow last week. Robe...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Western Trust has confirmed that plans remain on track for the opening of the new South West Acute Hospital on June ...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
CASTLEDERG police station is set to remain open - despite being one of a number of rural PSNI facilities that had been e...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
FURIOUS anglers in Omagh are at loggerheads with the local council over the controversial £1.2million hydroelectric sche...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
STRONG condemnation has been voiced after a newly-renovated church hall, just outside Carrickmore, was left badly damage...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
An additional 100 jobs at Cavanacaw's gold mine, near Omagh, will be the outcome, if a planning application for operatio...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
Men's and ladies' fashion outlet, Classic UrbanWear, is celebrating 25 successful years in business in Omagh. The propr...
Thursday, 19 April 2012
NIE, the electricity network company, has completed a £20 million pound investment project in the Omagh area by building...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
"PAUL was one in a million and was just too good for this world" - those were the words of a devoted sister who is organ...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
WEDNESDAY last saw four-year-old, Ruby Gummerson, from Omagh, launch Specsavers' search for budding young artists! The ...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
AN Omagh nursing home will close its doors for the last time on Monday - despite a long-running campaign by residents, t...
Thursday, 12 April 2012
OMAGH has been revealed as Tyrone's parking ticket hotspot, after it emerged that over 5,000 fines were issued to motori...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
THE management and staff at Omagh's Main Street complex are celebrating this week after its wonderful array of colourful...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
THE callous murder of Catholic Omagh police officer, Ronan Kerr, cast a darkness on the lives of many - but out of which...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
THE arrival of a new clothing store in Omagh - creating 10 new jobs - has been heralded as a welcome jobs boost for the ...
Thursday, 5 April 2012
PLANS to close Newtownstewart's only bank in just over two months' time will sound a "death knell" for the village, a lo...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
LOCAL people are set to enjoy basking in continued glorious sunshine as the unusually warm temperatures for March of the...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
WE want justice for Ronan' - those were the words of a heartbroken mother and grieving brother of murdered Catholic poli...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
THE commander of the PSNI F District, which encompasses Omagh and the surrounding areas, has announced that Fintona poli...
Thursday, 29 March 2012
PLANS for the controversial North-South electricity interconnector are in disarray after a public inquiry into the proje...
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Detectives investigating the murder of teenager Arlene Arkinson - who disappeared in 1994 - have resumed a series of sea...
Thursday, 22 March 2012
TAILS were wagging after a show dog owned by a former Kesh woman returned home from Crufts with a coveted top prize red ...
Thursday, 22 March 2012
THE Minister for Social Development (DSD), Nelson McCausland MLA., has given a firm assurance that his department will c...
Thursday, 22 March 2012
AN Omagh-based builder's merchants is celebrating after being awarded the prestigious accolade of 'best marketing' at a ...
Thursday, 22 March 2012
SEVERAL shopkeepers in Omagh have called for the setting up of a weekly town centre market, in a bid to attract more sho...
Thursday, 15 March 2012
A 44-year-old man battered his 73-year-old uncle from Dromore over the head with a hammer until he thought he was dead a...
Thursday, 15 March 2012
STRABANE District Council is to seek an urgent meeting with representatives of the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (N...
Thursday, 15 March 2012
A 63-year-old man who sustained a serious injury to his knee - just over 24 hours after it had been operated on - after ...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
TRIBUTES have been paid this week as the funeral of Laurence Rush, whose wife was among those killed in the 1998 Omagh b...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
AS the legendary singer and entertainer, Engelbert Humperdinck, has been selected to 'fly the flag' for the United Kingd...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
THE Western Trust has come under fire this week after it was revealed that paediatric dental services are to be removed ...
Thursday, 8 March 2012
A FORMER IRA man, jailed for the attempted murder of an off-duty Ballygawley UDR soldier, failed in a legal bid to be fr...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
A revealing new exhibition exploring the stories of the Irish passengers who travelled on Titanic opened yesterday (Tues...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
MRS Audrey Dempsey has taken up the post of vice-principal at Omagh County Primary School, after 19 years in the teachin...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
IT'S all change at the club's top table as husband and wife team, Terry and Ruth Patterson, stepped aside from their res...
Thursday, 1 March 2012
CLOGHER Valley Meats, Clogher, were crowned All-Ireland champions at the recent Countryside Alliance Awards as 'Food Cat...
Thursday, 23 February 2012
A new vascular service recently began in the Tyrone County Hospital in Omagh. Patients requiring treatment for blood ves...
Thursday, 23 February 2012
"I SHOULDN'T be scared but I am," - those were the words of a 74-year-old man, who claims his privately rented home in K...
Thursday, 23 February 2012
THE Castlederg taxi driver, who was involved in a terrifying weekend hijacking incident, has said he may never get behin...
Thursday, 23 February 2012
DETECTIVES investigating the callous murder of Constable Ronan Kerr, who died in a car-bomb attack outside his Omagh hom...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
Members of Cappagh and Lislimnaghan Pantomime Society tread the boards in this year's production of 'Robinson Crusoe' wh...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
One of the biggest tour operators in Ireland has awarded the Ulster American Folk Park with a prestigious prize that rec...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
CONVICTED child killer Robert Howard will be called to give evidence at the inquest into the death of Castlederg teenage...
Thursday, 16 February 2012
TWO of the West's major investment projects - the A5 upgrade and the new Local Enhanced Hospital in Omagh - were given t...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
AN OMAGH resident has expressed his frustration over a spillage of raw sewage seeping into a burn at a public walkway in...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
Omagh Town councillor, Errol Thompson, has welcomed the start of work to build a shared use pedestrian and cycle bridge ...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
A VINTAGE tractor that was stolen from the yard of a civil engineering firm on the outskirts of Mountfield last month ha...
Thursday, 9 February 2012
WEST Tyrone MLA and vice-chairman of Omagh District Council, Ross Hussey, is to meet with senior officials of the Wester...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
THREE students at Drumragh Integrated College, Omagh, are hoping for 'star' results when they sit a GCSE examination in ...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
A REWARD of £1,500 is being offered for information leading to the safe return of a vintage tractor stolen from the yard...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
THE number of domestic burglaries reported locally increased by over four per cent between April and December 2011 compa...
Thursday, 2 February 2012
A MAN has been killed and two injured in three separate road traffic collisions in the Omagh district at the weekend. Th...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
A CHARITY walk and dance to promote awareness of organ transplant and raise much needed funds for the Northern Ireland K...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
THE newly-appointed principal of Omagh High School says he is looking forward to ensuring pupils reach their full potent...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
REVISED proposals to cut opening hours in a number of public libraries across Tyrone were approved last week.While openi...
Thursday, 26 January 2012
AN innovative new system - which allows motorists to pay for parking without cash - is coming to Omagh. The cashless pa...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
JOB prospects in Omagh and surrounds have been given a timely boost with the announcement that JMG Systems Ltd is to cre...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
The Western Trust has appointed Dr Paul McGlinchey as the Clinical Lead for the planned new Omagh Hospital. Dr McGlinche...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
A SERIES of workshops are being held throughout this week to help local schools prepare for impending budget cuts that h...
Thursday, 19 January 2012
FEARS are growing that Omagh could soon be hit by further job losses after doubts emerged this week over the future of t...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
A LOCAL animal shelter has once again made an impassioned plea for animal owners to take responsibility for their pets, ...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
OMAGH District Council has held a reception to mark 40 years of the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE), at which ...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
AN Omagh grammar school will continue its fight for a new building on its existing site - despite the Court of Appeal ye...
Thursday, 12 January 2012
A PROPOSED £1 million crematorium in Omagh would have the potential to service the entire west of Ireland, it has been c...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
Gusts of 75 miles per hour recorded at Castlederg. TYRONE did not escape as severe galeforce winds of up to 80mph batte...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
A SPECIAL fundraising event to raise awareness of the work of the Samaritans has raised over £2,000. The fundraising dri...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
A 19-year-old man who had been found with serious head injuries in the Omagh area during the early hours of Tuesday of l...
Thursday, 5 January 2012
THE New Year programme of events at Sixmilecross Enterprise Ltd community hall kicks off on Monday, January 9, with guit...
