Antrim news

• Northern Ireland's hidden A 100m war with cyber crime

  22-07-2017 15:41
  The UK-wide Johnston Press Investigations Unit today launches the first in what will be a series of features about the cyber crime threat - and what you can do to counter it... Northern Ireland is sharing in a massively under-reported UK-wide cyber crime wave costing this province A 100m per year, with one Belfast expert affirming that as few as 1% of offences may be resulting in prosecution, an investigation by the Johnston Press Investigations Unit can reveal. Chief Inspector of Criminal Justi
  
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• Local volunteers off to Hungary

  22-07-2017 11:26
  Volunteers from Kells and Eskylane Presbyterian Churches were welcomed to the Mayor's Parlour at The Braid in Ballymena on Friday ahead of a missionary trip to Hungary. A group of 14, aged from 21 to 65, are preparing to head to the suburbs of Budapest on Monday 24 July.
  
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• Over limit went for 'takeaway' and crashed

  22-07-2017 07:08
  A drink driver who claimed he went to get a Chinese carry-out after his girlfriend fell asleep, collided with another car at Cullybackey Main Street before abandoning the vehicle he had been in. Sean McCarthy , of Drumtara, committed the offences on March 25 this year and at Ballymena Magistrate's Court on Thursday he was banned from driving for three years and fined a total of 900.
  
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• Escalate 'racist' immigrant policy but no border checkpoints: Senator

  22-07-2017 02:41
  The escalation of a 'tragically racist policy' of profiling passengers 'getting onto planes in Derry and Belfast' under the controversial Operation Gull, may be on the cards now as the Conservative government seeks to prevent non-EU nationals getting into Britain in the event of Brexit. That's according to Fianna Fail Senator Mark Daly who has repeatedly criticised Operation Gull, an Anglo-Irish joint initiative that's been targeting suspected breaches of the Common Travel Area for a decade.
  
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