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Clinton will visit Enniskillen in May
Former United States President, Bill
Clinton is expected to visit
Enniskillen in May, when it is likely he
will make a short speech at the site
of the Enniskillen bomb. The site is
being transformed at the moment
and it is thought that Clinton will see
the splendid new “university
partnership” building due for
completion later this year.
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Lisnaskea factory to close with loss
of 196 jobs
The Sir Richard Arkwright factory in
Lisnaskea is to close with the loss of
almost 200 jobs.
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Late start but holiday season gets
underway at last
The traditional opening of visitor
attractions at Easter is getting
underway in Fermanagh for this
weekend. In spite of precautions that
remain in some areas due to the
foot-and-mouth alert, in the main the
county’s attractions are ready for
business.
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Two out of three Unionists to stand
The battle for the hearts and minds
of Unionist voters in
Fermanagh-south Tyrone took on
another twist this week, with
Enniskillen bomb victim Jim Dixon
calling for talks with the two Unionist
candidates already declared.
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Police stage reconstruction of
attempted murder
Police last night (Wednesday)
staged a reconstruction of the
attempted murder of Paul Maye, the
37-year-old man blasted twice at
close range with a shotgun as he left
his girlfriend’s home at
Kilmacormick Avenue in Enniskillen
last Wednesday. It is the second
time he has been targeted and
wounded in a gun attack in the past
14 months.
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Elite doubles workforce to supply
electronic industry
Fermanagh is to get over 100
much-needed new jobs following the
announcement by Elite Electronic
Systems that it is investing £3 million
at its factory in Lackaboy Industrial
Estate on Enniskillen’s Tempo
Road. The company, which
manufactures equipment for the
electronic industry, plans to double
its workforce from the present 114 to
228 over the next three years. The
40,000 square foot factory is to be
extended by 25,000 feet.
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Road victim had lived in County for
just five months
The 22-year-old woman who died
following a road traffic accident on
Derrylin Road, Lisnaskea, last
Thursday, only moved to Fermanagh
last November and was held in high
regard by the many friends she
made during her short time in the
community.
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Traders turn to CCTV to beat crime
Police in Fivemiletown believe that
the recently installed CCTV system
will have an immeasurable effect in
deterring crime in the town.
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Sands’ vision focus of Sinn Fein’s
election campaign
Little is palatable about this year’s
election campaign. The array of
issues is rather like a piece of old
gristle - chewed over repeatedly until
everything fresh has been extracted
long ago.
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The duckling that took refuge in a
sweet shop
Staff at Veitch's Newsagent received
a real Easter surprise when a little
yellow duckling was brought into the
shop by two students for
safe-keeping while they were at
school. Joanne Graham, working in
the shop at the time, said that the
duckling arrived in a cardboard box.
“It’s a lovely wee thing,” said Joanne,
who seems to have got quite
attached to the baby duck, despite
the incessant cheeping which would
drive less patient people quackers.
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Rethink needed on
community funding
Peter Quinn, of Peter Quinn
Consultancy Services, has called for
a more pragmatic approach to
community funding in the county at a
conference on Weak Community
Infrastructure organised by
Fermanagh District Partnership. Mr
Quinn, one of three keynote
speakers at the conference in the
Intec Centre last Thursday,
addressed the 60 strong crowd after
an introduction from the Weak
Community Infrastructure
Programme Manager, Mr Neville
Armstrong.
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Catering services suffer from closure
of marts
In normal times, providing catering at
local marts would have involved
preparing and serving breakfasts,
dinners and snacks to hundreds of
farmers for up to six days a week. But
for the past seven weeks, Jean
Maguire has missed the preparation
work and serving her customers and
instead found frustration and
isolation.
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