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Local dancers go down a storm in London

A group of local dancers travelled to a prestigious London stage school recently to take part in a week-long series of master classes taught by top industry professionals.

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Getting away from it all

With the price of food on the increase, more and more people are taking the plunge and growing their own.Whether it’s a raised bed or a row of potatoes at the bottom of the garden, it seems that more of us are growing our own vegetables. But what if you want to go further but your garden is just not big enough? In that case the only alternative is an allotment.

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100 jobs created with opening of new state-of-the-art care home

A NEW £3million state-of-the-art care home which has opened in the Colin area is set to bring 100 news jobs to the district.The Lord Mayor of Lisburn, SDLP Councillor Brian Heading, officially unveiled the 44-bed Kilwee Care Home in Cloona Park recently, a facility owned by the Conway Group.

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Local girl does make-up on Rihanna video

A Young West Belfast woman has told the Andersonstown News of her shock when she was picked to do the make-up for the video pop sensation Rihanna shot in the city.

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Reds must be on guard for DC joust

TUESDAY’S victory over Ards was as straight-forward as it needed to be and, though it would have been nice to have got out of first gear entertainment-wise, the most important thing was booking our place in the next round of the competition.

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There’ll be no Irish Christmas at City Hall

Unionists cancelled Christmas for children from the Irish speaking schools at the full Council meeting on Monday evening – with the help of the Alliance Party.A minor setback on the road to the shared city which treats Irish speakers and the Irish language as a great treasure of the one city, but no doubt the Gaeilge groups will respond with their usual vibrancy and dynamism at this Sunday’s Rights and Revelry bash at St George’s Market.

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