A TOP Catholic Education chief has pledged to support the future of Cookstown’s Holy Trinity College including a new-build during a review of Post Primary education in Mid Ulster.

A 22 year-old from Castledawson has been chosen to go through to the final of Northern Ireland’s first Miss Bollywood beauty pageant.

MAGHERAFELT glassware company Fire Glass Direct Ireland has announced it is to create 40 new jobs in a £1 million expansion plan.

MAGHERAFELT District Council is to write to DOE Minister Alex Attwood seeking immediate publication of a review into the Rural Planning Policy Statement PPS21.

POLICE in Cookstown have issued a warning after a local resident was conned out of £100 from a fake website purporting to be from the police.

EXTENSIVE damage caused to the Model Village at Moneymore has been ‘mindless vandalism’.

A COOKSTOWN firm has bought a site which was once earmarked for Belfast’s tallest building.

PATIENTS at Antrim Area Hospital were moved from their beds on Saturday morning after workmen hit a gas pipe on the main site.

A TAXI driver has been left in shock after hooded men robbed him and hijacked his vehicle in the Owenreagh Road area of Draperstown on Saturday night.

WHEN the teachers at school first told the lower sixth year about work experience many thoughts raced through my head. As I had a few careers in mind I began to think of possible places to go. As the school term progressed I was able to arrange to visit three different places on the week of my work experience. The week that we had talked so much about quickly came around.

POLICE Ombudsman investigators have renewed their appeal for information about the circumstances which led to the tragic death of 21-year-old Paul Somerville.

MAGHERAFELT SF councillor Caoimhe Scullion, a secondary school teacher believes that education is key to tackling the binge-drinking culture here.

IT’S all change in Magherafelt as one major store is taken over by Tesco.

A COOKSTOWN firm has just finished building a multi-million pound hotel in London - three months ahead of schedule.

THE partner of a republican prisoner released from Maghaberry on humanitarian grounds has said the jail’s health system is “not fit” to care for a terminally-ill man convicted of murdering two soldiers.

POLICE and Army Technical Officers were called to a picnic area on the Glenshane Pass yesterday, when workmen discovered a “suspected firearm”.

IF you enjoy getting out and about then why not join Mid Ulster Walking Club this year.

RATES in Cookstown are set to rise by 1.4% from April.

WORK is to begin soon on a major £400,000 recreational trail at Cookstown’s Davagh Forest.

COOKSTOWN Council is to tell government Mid Ulster does exist as the latest £580m roads and hospital building programme bypassed the constituency.