Ballymena Times (Ballymena, Northern Ireland) back issues from November 2007:
VIDEO: Lights, camera, Santa...
Nov 02, 2007 ... Watch Ballymena become the first place in Britain to have its Christmas lights switched on last night here ... On a mild almost balmy night, hundreds of parents and children came to watch Santa Claus and the Ballymena Mayor switch on the ...
VIDEO: Saturday Morning League.
Nov 02, 2007 ... Watch exclusive footage of the Ballymena Saturday Morning League fixture between North End and Ballykeel played at Dunfane Playing Fields last weekend. Ballymena Times TV has ...
United star in brain op shock.
Nov 05, 2007 ... BALLYMENA United goalkeeper Sean O'Neill this week began his recovery from a vital brain operation. The teenage stopper was rushed to hospital last week after suffering from headaches and was diagnosed with fluid between his brain and skull. He underwent an operation ...
Ballymena dentist is crowned with BDA award.
Nov 06, 2007 ... LAURA Jones Dental Practice in Ballymena has recently been recognised by the British Dental Association as being committed to good practice and has joined its exclusive Good Practice Scheme. At present, only10 other practices province wide have been given this accolade. In order ...
PICTURE GALLERY: NRC Graduations.
Nov 06, 2007 ... STUDENTS, parents and guests gathered at the Galgorm Manor in Ballymena for the historic first Northern Regional College (NRC) Graduation Awards Ceremony. View pictures here ... NRC is the result of the further education merger between the North East, East Antrim and Causeway ...
Joanne's an eBay bright spark.
Nov 06, 2007 ... A BALLYMENA businesswoman has proved to be a bright spark on eBay. Joanne Brown Kerr was recently awarded a 'Basics of Selling on eBay' certificate on completing a Northern Ireland Electricity-sponsored training course. Michael Hughes, who is eBay's only five-star ...
Security boost for multi-storey.
Nov 06, 2007 ... ROADS Service Northern Division Network Development Manager, Terry Fulton, has announced additional funding to provide security at Ballymena's multi-storey car park. After meeting with delegates of the Ballymena Town Centre Partnership, Mr Fulton said: "Roads Service recognises ...
Horse-drugs stolen.
Nov 06, 2007 ... POLICE in Ballymena are appealing for information over an bizarre theft which included horse drugs and boiler suits. A quantity of horse-worming medicine, a laptop computer, two hedge clippers, and 12 boiler suits were stolen from premises at Ballybollen Road in ...
Kidnap, threat charges pair remanded.
Nov 06, 2007 ... n TWO people were yesterday (Monday) remanded in custody at Coleraine Magistrate's Court over a number of charges, including kidnapping, relating to an alleged incident at a house in Toomebridge last Friday, November 2. Charles Gibson, 45, of Lisnagat Road, Moyarget, and Lisa ...
Ten-year old hurt by firework.
Nov 06, 2007 ... A 10-year old boy required medical treatment after being struck by a firework in Cullybackey on Hallowe'en night. The boy suffered a burn injury to one of his ...
Crime figures down.
Nov 06, 2007 ... CHRISTMAS has come early for local police with news that crime in the Ballymena Area has dropped by 22.3% since the introduction six months ago of the new H District. One of the key statistics to emerge from the figures revealed that crimes against the person had dropped from ...
Charity van set alight.
Nov 06, 2007 ... A BALLYMENA-based charity which has raised more than [pounds sterling]120,000 this year alone has been targeted by arsonists. A van belonging to the Community Recycling Initiative and another vehicle were set alight in the grounds of the Ballymena North Centre in the early hours ...
PICTURE GALLERY: Tesco opening.
Nov 06, 2007 ... THE queues of customers outside Tesco's new multi-million pound store at Larne Road Link on Monday morning confirmed that the countdown for customers was over. View pictures here ... After months of anticipation, the doors were declared officially opened by Lorraine Boyd from ...
Lauren wraps up autumn league title at Castlehill.
Nov 06, 2007 ... LAUREN Fulton won the main honour - the 90cm Open Horse category - as Castlehill Equestrian Centre's autumn showjumping league came to an exciting conclusion last week. Like most of the preceding weeks, the weather was very kind to competitors for the time of year, and although ...
Gerry-tale story is captured in print.
Nov 06, 2007 ... THE exploits of one of Ballymena's most famous sporting sons have been included in a new boxing book. The story of Gerry Hamill's rise from a boxing-mad youngster at Belfast's Immaculata and Holy Family clubs to Commonwealth Games gold medallist is captured in Legends of Irish ...
Devine hat-trick in Glens rally.
Nov 06, 2007 ... SEAN Devine, as well as being a property developer, has developed an appetite for winning the Glens of Antrim rally, scoring his third straight win on this year's Townparks sponsored event. The Subaru driver took a convincing win, finishing over one minute in front of Glenn ...
Motorcycle chief set to walk away from sport?
Nov 06, 2007 ... ONE of the Ballymena area's best-known motorcycling administrators is to cut his links with the sport. Norman Gordon, for many years one of the key figures in the Mid Antrim club, and a man who has been involved with the MCUI for some 15 years, has resigned from all his posts ...
Slideshow: Mid-Antrim '150' prize night.
Nov 06, 2007 ... ANOTHER successful Mid-Antrim '150' motorcycle meeting was reflected upon on Saturday night. Riders, Mid-Antrim Club members and supporters gathered to enjoy the annual awards evening. ...
MINI Clubman - it's back in Ballymena on Saturday!
Nov 07, 2007 ... MINI enthusiasts are in for a maximum treat on Saturday when the new Clubman roars back on to our roads following its local launch at The Country Garage. With not one but three engine variants - the MINI Clubman, MINI Cooper D Clubman and MINI Cooper S Clubman - MINI fans will ...
Boy hurt in shop assault.
Nov 08, 2007 ... A 16-year-old boy has been assaulted by a man in Ballymena town centre. It happened outside a clothes shop in Wellington Street at about 4pm on Monday ...
Garryowen cup test for Braidmen.
Nov 08, 2007 ... BALLYMENA's hopes of AIB All-Ireland Cup glory face a tough test. The Eaton Park side men face All-Ireland League champions Garryowen in the third round of the competition on January 5, 2008. ...
VIDEO: Shopping frenzy in Church Street.
Nov 09, 2007 ... Who said Christmas was too early in Ballymena?Watch shoppers snap up early festive bargains here ... You could have been forgiven for thinking it was the week before Christmas on Church Street on Thursday. Ballymena Times hit the shops with the Mayor, Maurice Mills and ...
Shirley murder: accused returned for trial.
Nov 09, 2007 ... A POLISH national accused of the murder of Ballymena woman Shirley Finlay has been returned for trial. Henryk Gorski (50), with an address at Hill Street, Ballymena, will appear at Antrim Crown Court on November 23, following a preliminary enquiry at Ballymena Magistrates Court ...
United fans cleared over 'sectarian' claims.
Nov 10, 2007 ... BALLYMENA United supporters have been cleared of allegations of making sectarian comments to Linfield players. The Blues and their manager David Jeffrey have recieved an official warning from the Irish Football Association after the IFA's Disciplinary Committee has ruled that ...
Calling family historians.
Nov 12, 2007 ... Some new appeals for information on our 'ex-pats' section. Are there any ...
Creeper Burglary - witnesses sought.
Nov 12, 2007 ... An Audi A4 car bearing the registration number HNZ 9556 has been stolen from a house at Galgorm Lodge in Ballymena. The keys of the vehicle were taken during a burglary at the owner's house, which occurred while the occupants were asleep on ...
MONEY STOLEN FROM CHURCH.
Nov 12, 2007 ... A SMALL sum of money has been stolen from a church in Ballymena. Damage was also caused to a storage area at St Patrick's Church at Castle Street. The break-in at the ...
VIDEO: Anti-racism at Work event.
Nov 12, 2007 ... Ballymena was the venue for an important event aimed at tackling racism in the workplace last week. Watch video here ... LAST Thursday Ballymena Inter-Ethnic Forum in partnership with Ballymena Community Forum and its Ethnic Minorities Project held an event as part of ...
PICTURE GALLERY: Ballymena remembers.
Nov 13, 2007 ... Ballymena and Broughshane came to a standstill on Sunday in remembrance of those who gave their lives in service. View ...
PICTURE GALLERY: Ballee Prizegiving.
Nov 13, 2007 ... View pictures from the Ballee Community High School Prizegiving here. Photographs by Alan McMullan. ...
PICTURE GALLERY: Charity Ball.
Nov 13, 2007 ... View pictures from the Hair Inventions Charity Ball held in the ...
EXCLUSIVE: Wakehurst boss 'sick' at shock dismissal.
Nov 13, 2007 ... WAKEHURST today began the search for a new manager following the shock dismissal of Neil Candlish on Monday night. The former Ballymena United and Glentoran striker parted company with the Irish League Division Two club just five months after taking over at the Showgrounds. ...
Waiting game on futures of United duo.
Nov 13, 2007 ... BALLYMENA United manager Tommy Wright may shortly have big decisions to make regarding the futures of two of his first team squad. Teenage defender Johnny Flynn is currently on trial with Blackburn Rovers and the Showgrounds club will be waiting to hear whether the Ewood Park ...
Confusion reigns over future of Mid-Antrim '150'.
Nov 13, 2007 ... CONFUSION still reigns over the future of one of the Ballymena borough's biggest annual sporting events - the Mid-Antrim '150'. The popular road race meeting at Clough has been plunged into jeopardy following the resignation of leading official Norman Gordon, a story revealed ...
PICTURE GALLERY: All Saints fight night is a knockout.
Nov 13, 2007 ... ALL Saints Boxing Club held a hugely successful annual fight night on Saturday night. A full house of 250 guests packed into Leighinmohr House Hotel for a wonderful evening of boxing and camaraderie. Special guest for the evening was 1966 Commonwealth Games gold ...
Hockey club coach quits.
Nov 13, 2007 ... BALLYMENA Hockey Club is on the lookout for a new Hockey Development Officer. Englishman David Purchase has regrettably announced his resignation - less than six months after being appointed as successor to Paulene de Bruin. David will be leaving the club at ...
Woman punched on Grove Road.
Nov 14, 2007 ... A woman has been assaulted and an attempt made to steal her handbag. The incident happened around 1:00 am on Sunday November 11 when a man approached the woman as she was walking along Grove Road. After punching the woman, the man attempted to snatch her handbag, but ...
Swann's bird flu appeal to locals.
Nov 14, 2007 ... Robin Swann, the North-Antrim-based Vice-Chairman of influential Rural Youth Europe group, has called on the community to rally behind the Ulster farming industry to combat any threat from bird flu. His call comes following a cull of thousands of birds after bird flu was ...
Santa parade tonight.
Nov 15, 2007 ... SANTA has sent a special message to local Ballymena children ahead of his visit to the Tower Centre tonight (Thursday, November 15) at 7pm. Santa will be parading through the streets on his traditional Christmas parade? however, the parade will be slightly different from other ...
Stranger danger warning.
Nov 15, 2007 ... A POTENTIAL child abduction outside a local primary school has led to the issuing of a stark warning from both police and teaching staff about the danger of strangers. Parents of children attending Ballymena Primary have been advised to remind their youngsters about the folly of ...
Bethan's google logo wins NI heat.
Nov 15, 2007 ... IT'S one the world's best known brand-names and a six year old Ballymena girl is having a crack at re-desiging the famous Google logo. Last week Bethan McLaughlin from Ballymena was crowned Northern Ireland's regional winner in the four to eight age group from over 68,000 young ...
Councillor objects to Sunday roadworks at Church.
Nov 16, 2007 ... BALLYMENA Councillor Roy Gillespie has spoken out against road works scheduled to take place this Sunday, which will facilitate drainage connections to the new Ballymena Baptist Church on Hill Street. Motorists are advised that the street will be closed from it's junction with ...
Crawford appointed as Wakehurst manager.
Nov 16, 2007 ... RODNEY Crawford has been appointed as the new manager of Wakehurst FC. The former Raceview manager takes over the Irish League Division Two side following the shock departure of Neil Candlish on Monday night. Crawford has been part of the club's coaching staff since ...
New venue for Sports Awards.
Nov 16, 2007 ... BALLYMENA'S sporting 'Oscars' will have a new stage in 2008. The annual Ballymena Borough Council Sports Awards will take place in the new Braid Town Hall Complex on January 31. BBC sports presenter Jackie Fullerton will once again host the prize presentation ...
PICTURE GALLERY: Santa's Parade.
Nov 20, 2007 ... Santa rolled into the packed streets of Ballymena last week. View ...
Ticket town: Ballymena sixth in parking fine table.
Nov 20, 2007 ... BALLYMENA has taken a top ranking in the provincial parking ticket league, it has just emerged. The town is in sixth place in the 'tickets table' detailing the enforcement results, just released by the Department of Regional Development (DRD), for 29 Northern Ireland towns and ...
Barking Mad: Animal noise annoys Ballymena folk.
Nov 20, 2007 ... BARKING dogs are the biggest reason for noise pollution complaints in Ballymena, new figures reveal A total of 130 instances of noisy dogs were recorded with Ballymena Borough Council in the past year - more than half the complaints of noise pollution logged by the local ...
PICTURE GALLERY: Cambridge House Prizegiving.
Nov 20, 2007 ... Students from Cambridge House Grammar School were recognised for their achievements at last week's prize giving. View pictures here ... ...
PICTURE GALLERY: Kellswater Flute Band 60th.
Nov 20, 2007 ... Kellswater Flute Band held their 60th anniversary celebrations in the Ross Park Hotel last week. View Pictures here ... ...
Councillors go ON the record.
Nov 20, 2007 ... COUNCILLORS in Ballymena Council have been speaking on the record about 'speaking off the record'. Confused? read on ... At last week's Monthly meeting of Council Councillors discussed whether they could have certain comments omitted from the minutes of the meeting. ...
Warning: heating oil thieves on prowl.
Nov 20, 2007 ... A QUANTITY of heating oil has been stolen from a house at Dunclug Park in Ballymena - and police fear it may be the work of a 'professional' team. The theft of about 350 litres of oil was discovered on Thursday afternoon (15th). Anyone who saw suspicious activity in the area is ...
VIDEO: Gracehill Country Markets.
Nov 20, 2007 ... Gracehill Country Markets has been going for almost 14 years. View Michael McGlade's report from the popular market ...
Blackburn take second look at Flynn.
Nov 20, 2007 ... JOHNNY Flynn's dream move to cross-channel football could take another step closer to reality this week. The Ballymena United defender returned to Blackburn Rovers for a second week's trial, after impressing at Ewood Park last week. "The feedback I was getting is that ...
Rodney ready for Wakehurst task.
Nov 20, 2007 ... RODNEY Crawford is relishing the task of Irish League management after being appointed as the new boss of Wakehurst. The Broughshane man succeeds Neil Candlish following the Scot's shock dismissal from the Showgrounds post eight days ago. Former Raceview supremo ...
American dream for kickboxing duo.
Nov 20, 2007 ... TWO martial artists from the local Jan Ling Freestyle Kung-Fu & Kickboxing Club have been invited as representatives for Northern Ireland in this years NBL Super Grands World Games. Shane McCaffrey & Paddy McLaverty (pictured left) have been competing successfully all year and ...
Braidmen pass students' test.
Nov 20, 2007 ... BALLYMENA moved further away from the foot of the AIB All-Ireland League Division One table with a second successive victory on Saturday. Jacques Benade's men followed up their excellent win at Clontarf by beating University College Dublin by 19 points to nil at Eaton Park. ...
Ahern endorses McIlveen bursary.
Nov 21, 2007 ... The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dermot Ahern, is in Ballymena to endorse a special scholarship set up in memory Michael McIlveen, who died after an alleged sectarian attacks in the town last year. He will attend St Patrick's College, Ballymena where Michael McIlveen ...
Miller to receive award in Ballymena.
Nov 21, 2007 ... Syd Millar is to receive the prestigious 'Legion d' Honneur' - France's highest honour - at Eaton Park, Ballymena, next month. The famous clubrooms will be transformed into a little piece of France on December 12 when the Ballymena man receives the award in recognition of his ...
House fire in Ballymena.
Nov 21, 2007 ... Police are treating as suspicious a fire that caused damage to the kitchen area of an unoccupied house at Alexandra Park in Ballymena. It is understood that a wheeled bin was set against an external door before being set alight ...
Glens salmon disaster.
Nov 22, 2007 ... More than 100,000 salmon worth over [pounds sterling]1m have been killed in a freak jellyfish attack at Glenarm Bay and Red Bay, Cushendun. Billions of small jellyfish called Mauve Stingers were involved - they stung and then stressed the salmon which were being kept in cages ...
Academy awards for United youngsters!
Nov 22, 2007 ... THERE was a large turnout of boys and their family members at Ballymena United Youth Academy's Parents' Night and prize awards last Tuesday in the Des Allen Suite. Youth Academy Chairman Bill Crothers gave a review of last season and some of the plans for the future development ...
Blockade at Transport Firm.
Nov 23, 2007 ... Workers at a Cloughmills haulage firm, now in administration, blocked the entrance to the company's premises. Employees of Reid Transport Ltd, many of them from the Ballymena area, said they wanted to be paid what they are owed and are angry at finding themselves out of work. ...
Man assaulted in his own home.
Nov 23, 2007 ... POLICE in Ballymena want good samaritans who went to the aid of a man who had been assaulted in his own home to get in touch with them. The victim suffered head injuries during the assault which happened between 3:00 am and 4:00 am on Sunday November 18. Police say two men ...
VIDEO: Harryville's Wonderwall.
Nov 26, 2007 ... SCHOOL children from Harryville Primary School have helped create a spectacular monument to the Braidwater Spinning Mill in the King George V park. SCHOOL children from Harryville Primary School have helped create a spectacular monument to the Braidwater Spinning Mill in the ...
Old Galgorm Road - parking nightmare.
Nov 26, 2007 ... POLICE in Ballymena say it's only a matter of time before a serious accident is caused by careless parking on the Old Galgorm Road. Motorists are putting their lives and the lives of other motorists at risk by parking their vehicles on the brow of a hill close to the gates of a ...