ENNISKILLEN UUP candidate, Howard Thornton has overcome cancer and is now ready to represent the local people in the new Fermanagh Omagh council.
Lisnaskea’s ‘brilliant’ Strutting Star has even Cowell smiling!
A FERMANAGH based line-dancing teacher can boast that not only did he manage to get a smile out off TV’s Mr Angry – Simon Cowell – but he also secured a standing ovation from the Britain’s Got Talent audience.
Roslea upbringing inspired Warrington into politics
GROWING up in Roslea during the Troubles had a major bearing on Victor Warrington’s decision to run as an Ulster Unionist candidate in next month’s local government elections.
Primary children ‘going to school hungry,’ says Enniskillen curate
SCHOOLCHILDREN are going into school in the morning ‘hungry’ having not been fed at home, according to a local priest.
Pubs bemoan lost trade over Easter
A PUBLICAN in Fermanagh has described a loss of close to 50% during the Easter period as a result of licensing laws that have continued to plague pub owners across the North.
Fire thought to have been started deliberately
AN INVESTIGATION is underway after firefighters fought a bush blaze in the Cornagrade Road area of Enniskillen on Sunday night.
Overwhelming support for ‘buy-out’ team
THERE seems to be overwhelming support, locally, for the team proposing a buy-out of the former Quinn group, now Aventas.
Biker son was ‘one in a million’
A POPULAR Lisbellaw father of four, described by his mother as, one in a million’, died when his motor bike was in collision on Friday night last with a tractor on the road between Brookeborough and Fivemiletown.
CCTV scheme under threat
SOME 600 businesses in Enniskillen have been written to by the acting chief executive of Fermanagh District Council, urging them to renew their commitment to keeping the town’s CCTV system going for another three years.
Jail for 46-year-old Enniskillen man who left family petrified
A MOTHER-of-four has spoken of how her young family were left petrified by their 46-year-old neighbour who would ‘hammer’ their front door in a series of late-night intrusions.