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Death brings grim end to holiday trip
Monday dawned a glorious summer’s day.
Karin Nieuwenhuis and her eight-year-old
daughter, Yonna, said good-bye to the
landlady of the guest-house where they had
spent the night and drove down the hill.
Ahead of them Lough Erne shimmered in
hazy early morning sunshine. Karin can
have had no idea that death awaited her
around the first bend in the road.
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Nice guys, really
Looking like latter day Vikings hell-bent on
rape and pillage, around 110 members of
the Harley Davidson Owners Group
thundered through Enniskillen on Saturday
morning.
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Picture framing factory closes
Around 20 people are thought to have lost
their jobs following the closure this week of
Phoenix Picture Frames, based at
Chanterhill, Enniskillen. The business was
founded by Dutch man, Mr. Frank Peeters
more than a quarter of a century ago and
had provided steady employment in the
town. They produced framing products many
of which were exported to a variety of
countries worldwide.
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Outclassed Fermanagh thrashed
GAA: All-Ireland Quarter Final – Fermanagh
0-05 Tyrone 1-21 – Fermanagh were taught
another harsh lesson at Croke Park on
Sunday by a Tyrone side that will now be
fancied to go on and collect the biggest prize
of them all, the Sam Maguire.
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Teenager accused of attempted murder
A 19-year-old unemployed man has been
remanded in custody charged with
attempted murder.
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Author warns of doom for Orange Order
Leading author and historian, Ruth Dudley
Edwards, has openly supported Ulster
Unionist Sam Foster’s beliefs that
Orangemen should not meddle in party
politics and says the future looks bleak for
the Ulster Unionist Party.
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1320 bats in one Crom roost
An old castle, eerily silent courtyards and
dark woods - Crom, near Lisnaskea, is the
sort of place you would expect to find bats.
And you do; hundreds of them. But is it home
to the biggest roost in the British Isles?
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Quick-acting staff escape flames
An early morning blaze caused
considerable damage to the Peppercorn
cafe at Townhall Street in Enniskillen on
Monday.
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Southern waste being dumped illegally in
north
Unscrupulous carriers of waste from south of
the border destined for illegal dumping
grounds in Fermanagh stand to receive up
to £2,000 for each load of rubbish they
deliver.
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Protest called off
A threatened protest by members of the
Rosslea Re-route Sectarian Marches group
against Saturday's Royal Black Preceptory
parade in the village has been called off.
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Murder team searches ex-UDR man’s home
Police officers investigating the murder of
Councillor Patsy Kelly 29 years ago have
searched a number of homes in the Trillick,
Ballinamallard and Dromore areas this
week. One of the searches is understood to
have taken place, under warrant, at the
home of a former UDR man near Dromore.
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Father fined for giving drink to son
A 44-year-old man has been fined £100
after he admitted buying alcoholic drinks for
his 16-year-old son, who was attending a
high school disco.
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Sick swan’s daily visits from his faithful
family
An illness in a member of family of swans
has shown the close bonding between the
male, its partner and young. A cob swan
which has been resident at Castle Archdale
marina for many years, showed signs of ill
health recently when it was noticed he did
not enter the water to feed and relied on the
scraps from local holidaymakers.
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Wanted: 5,000 dancers to do the Gay
Gordon!
Thousands of people may be dancing the
night away in Kesh next Saturday, August
16, as an attempt is made to beat the world
record for the largest Scottish country dance
to be held in one location.
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Writers join summer tribute to Carleton
The world of the Irish peasant, before the
Great Famine of the mid 1840s, was the
world in which Clogher Valley writer, William
Carleton, spent his early youth and
adulthood.
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