Antrim news

• Illegal workers arrested: Takeaways facing possible fines

  18-09-2017 23:05
  Three takeaways - in Lisburn, Banbridge and Dungannon - are facing potential penalties totalling 140,000 after immigration offenders from China were found working at their premises. In intelligence led operations, immigration enforcement officers visited The Money Tree, Sloan Street, Lisburn and Donaghmore Chinese Cuisine, Pomeroy Road, Dungannon on Friday, September 15. Phoenix Palace, Dromore Road, Banbridge was visited on Friday, August 25. A 54-year-old man was arrested at The Money Tree, a
  
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• Man in boxer shorts shone laser at police search helicopter

  18-09-2017 18:18
  A camera on a police helicopter recorded a man, wearing only boxer shorts, shining a laser from a bedroom at the aircraft as it searched for a vulnerable missing person at Portrush. The details emerged at Coleraine Magistrates Court today where Christopher McCrory , of Glendun Close, Portrush, admitted a charge of endangering the PSNI chopper.
  
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• Fire engine rampage OAP will not face prosecution

  18-09-2017 13:22
  PACEMAKER BELFAST 05/03/2016 Thieves broke into a County Antrim fire station on Friday night and and went on the rampage in a stolen fire engine.The appliance was driven out of Larne fire station and crashed at Glenarm Road in the town damaging houses and cars.It is understood that no-one was injured in the collision that happened shortly after 04:30 GMT. Photo Aidan O "Reilly/Pacemaker Press A pensioner 'mesmerised by the blue flashing lights' of emergency vehicles will not face prosecution for
  
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• Call for Northern Ireland to have honorary EU status while staying in UK

  18-09-2017 13:22
  More than 200 supporters have signed a petition calling for Northern Ireland to be given "honorary" European Union membership while remaining part of the UK. http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/call-for-northern-ireland-to-have-honorary-eu-status-while-staying-in-uk-36142699.html http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/article36142700.ece/1d3e9/AUTOCROP/h342/PANews%20BT_P-3f13452a-187a-48cd-a85c-c3c010fbebd1_I1.jpg More than 200 supporters have signed a
  
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• Bartha Contemporary opens Jill Baroff and Stefana McClure's first joint exhibition at the gallery

  18-09-2017 04:10
  Bartha Contemporary announces What's Yours Is Mine , Jill Baroff and Stefana McClure's first joint exhibition at the gallery, from September 16 - November 18, 2017. The artists and the gallery have collaborated for over a decade and this exhibition celebrates both this continuous relationship and the artists' recent marriage.
  
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