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WORK to carry out a major £2 million enhancement scheme in Solitude Park and create a Memorial Park at the Gate Lodge in Banbridge at a cost of £250,000 got underway this week.

TWELVE boys from 1st Dromore Group have recently gained their Queen’s Scout Award, the Scout movement’s top award for personal achievement.

THE opening of the newly expanded £1.7m community recycling centre on the Scarva Road received a unanimous ‘green’ thumbs up last week by the large crowd who attended the event.

SOCIAL Development Minister Margaret Ritchie MLA visited Loughbrickland last Thursday to see at first hand the new site for a shared future social housing scheme.

BOXING is back with a bang in Banbridge this weekend with highly-rated Haroon Khan –?brother of Amir –?topping the bill against former HML star Andrew Watson at Banbridge Leisure Centre on Saturday.

PETER Crouch made a quick stop off in Donaghy’s Sports yesterday afternoon to help open their new Shoefair department.

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