Hardpressed North Down is on a seven week road to hell yet again for the local commuters who travel through it in some 50,000 vehicles every weekday! Fed-up motorists are gearing up for another period of ‘disruption’ on one of Northern Ireland’s busiest routes, the main Bangor to Belfast A2, as another stretch of it is resurfaced.
A stylish new Bangor restaurant, which has been tantalising the town’s tastebuds, is facing a major difficulty that other eating houses could only dream about - it’s too popular. Corin, in High Street, has become so successful in just its first four months that its eager customers are having to wait up to 12 weeks to get a table - and they are finding that hard to swallow.
A dream life on the ocean wave has taken passionate sailors Geoff and Jane Murdoch to the end at last of a 9,500 mile trip of a lifetime - around the high seas!
“I want women who are going through the same thing to know they are not alone.” These are the heartfelt words spoken by brave Newtownards woman Patricia Finlay who is raising awareness about postnatal depression.
Royal North of Ireland Yacht Club hosted the Brewin Dolphin RS Elite UK National Championships last week. The event attracted competitors from across the UK, some travelling from Cowes in the Isle of Wight and was sponsored by Brewin Dolphin, North Down Tourism and Charles Hurst Aston Martin/ Jaguar. Even Tayto Crisps helped out.
It was a case of going, going, gone for Bangor’s historic sycamore trees this week. Local environmental lobby group Greenspaces Bangor told the Spectator they were saddened to learn some of the trees had been felled.
Bangor man Sydney Waller, 92, formerly a Chief Petty Officer in the navy, has just received his Arctic Star awarded for Second World War Service North of the Arctic Circle.
On Monday, hundreds of Christians in Bangor had the opportunity to witness a unique act of reconciliation as an Israeli and a Palestinian expressed a unity that transcended their national backgrounds.
This is the Bangor man calling on the government to chop back overgrown trees blocking the few streetlights on a dangerous road. Robin Ballentine lives on Rathgael Road, close to the junction with the A2 dual carriageway. That area only has pavement and lampposts on one side of the street – and tall trees are obscuring the light from several of them.
Bangor traditionally find it hard going at Inver Park, but a 4- 0 win last Saturday sent Seasiders players and supporters home happy as they savoured a fine display and three more points in the bag to make it two League wins in succession.
THE SPECTATOR would like to introduce the next person to take the reins at Bangor Grammar School – Elizabeth Huddleson. On Friday (28th) Mrs Huddleson was revealed at the grammar’s next principal, taking over from long-standing head Stephen Connolly when he retires at the end of this year.
What can you do about budget cuts that could leave 14 of North Down’s primary schools thousands of pounds worse off and have sparked public outrage? Last week the Spectator revealed that proposed changes to the way schools are funded would mean a net loss of £180,000 to North Down’s primary schools sector.
BANGOR is to get a new theatre.
THE best of North Down’s companies were celebrating on Friday night at the end of another successful Bangor Business Awards. The 2013 awards - the 13th annual competition - saw a first with the inclusion of businesses outside Bangor but within North Down. And Holywood in particular made the most of the opportunity to pick up several awards.
THE £11.5 million revamp of Bangor and Holywood town centres got the go-ahead from the council on Tuesday night.
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