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BICYCLES and tools have been stolen from garden sheds at a house at Elliott Place in the Coles Hill area of Enniskillen.
Two lawnmowers, three bicycles, a powerwasher, electric hedge clippers, two drills and two toolboxes full of tools were taken from two garden sheds sometime between 10.30 pm on Friday and 8.30am the next day. Read more
On Monday and Tuesday, 26th and 27th April, six petitions, either submitted by Irish people or dealing directly with Ireland will be presented to MEPs at the European Parliament’s Petitions Committee in Brussels.
The first of the petitions, dealing with the ’1 million 4 disability’ campaign, will be presented by former Independent MEP Kathy Sinnott. The other Irish petitions address issues ranging from education for minors affected by autism and abuses in Bulgarian children’s homes to EU laws on food supplements.
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Fermanagh/ South Tyrone MLA Tommy Gallagher
SDLP Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA Tommy Gallagher has reacted angrily to news that cut backs in the planning service may well leave more local people unemployed.
Mr Gallagher, speaking on learning of DOE plans to shed around 270 jobs within planning services, said: “This will have implications for planning service workers at both Enniskillen and Omagh.
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As Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL) launches its 9th Anti Litter League, it is pointing to the good progress that has been made since it first commissioned An Taisce to survey litter levels in towns and cities and rank them according to international standards. The first survey in 2002 showed that only two towns in Ireland were deemed ‘litter free’.
At the end of 2009, that number had risen to 39, or almost two-thirds of all towns.
However, according to a new survey by IBAL, key entry routes for tourists in Ireland – including airports and seaports – are blighted with large amounts of litter.
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