Stories By Tanya Fowles, Local Democracy Reporter
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Tyrone
/ 7 months agoNurse jailed for ill-treating vulnerable elderly patients receiving hospital care
A former staff nurse has been jailed and banned from working with children and vulnerable adults for life following conviction for...
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News
/ 7 months agoVictim in alleged domestic abuse attack ‘made to eat food off floor’
A case of domestic abuse has heard disturbing details of alleged coercive control and degrading abuse which in one instance involved...
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News
/ 7 months agoCharlotte Murray murder perverting justice charges delayed until outcome of appeal
A case involving charges of perverting the course of justice in the Charlotte Murray murder have been delayed awaiting the outcome...
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News
/ 7 months agoFormer youth leader avoids prison for child communication and indecent images
A former youth leader convicted of child sexual offences has avoided prison with a judge repeating his “displeasure and distaste” at...
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Dungannon
/ 7 months agoMan charged with stealing in excess of £264,000 during ATM heists in a month
A forty-two-year-old has appeared in court charged with 35 offences relating to multiple burglaries and attempted burglaries of ATMs across Northern...
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News
/ 7 months agoInsufficient grounds to appeal sex offender child cruelty sentencing say PPS
The Public Prosecution Service (PPS) has concluded there are insufficient grounds to refer the sentence imposed on a father who seriously...
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Armagh
/ 7 months agoArmagh police officer sacked over unauthorised computer access handed fines in court
A former police officer who lost his job for accessing the PSNI computer system without authority and unlawfully obtaining personal data...
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Armagh
/ 7 months agoArmagh Lions share £16,000 from this year’s fundraising with three great causes
Armagh Lions Club have handed over a combined total of £16,000 gathered from this year’s fundraising events. During an informal evening...
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News
/ 7 months agoHow did PSNI screen for trafficked victims in brothels without shutting them down?
The author of Northern Ireland’s Human Trafficking and Exploitation Act has challenged the PSNI to explain why in the course of...
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Lurgan
/ 8 months agoPPS again refuse to send sexual case to higher court despite judge concerns
The Public Prosecution Service has again refused to send a case involving alleged sexual offending to a higher court following a...
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News
/ 8 months agoExtradited man remanded in custody accused of sexually abusing child
A seventy-one-year-old man extradited under a European Arrest Warrant has appeared in court in relation to alleged child sexual offending. Jan...
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Lurgan
/ 8 months ago2023 worst year for GP surgeries handing back contracts to Department of Health
Figures obtained under Freedom of Information have shown 2023 has, to date, been the worst year for GP surgeries handing back...