Year: 2015

Christmas Slemish Market Garden Supper Club

Remember how much we loved the Slemish Market Garden Supper club earlier this year. If not then please read here. Well here is your chance to have a taste of some of the best local produce prepared by an excellent and innovative chef. Christmas Slemish Market Garden Supper Club Chef, Rob Curley and the guys from Slemish Market Garden are holding another fantastic food experience with a festive theme on Sat 12th Dec at The Barrista, Broughshane. The ingredients are all locally sourced and the menu will be themed on what is in season and at its best. It costs £40 per person and we think it would make a lovely Christmas treat for the food lover in your life. The Barista is a contemporary coffee shop located in the renowned garden Village of Ulster – Broughshane and is associated with Village Electrics. To book your place contact Rob Curley on Facebook or call 07547804975, or any of the numbers above and enjoy the Christmas Slemish Market Garden Supper...

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Brilliant Ballymena Stocking fillers

We love Ballymena and we have spotted some brilliant stocking fillers for any local. These items are perfect to post to family who have moved away, just pick them up in town and pop them into an envelope and get them posted off. Here are out favourite Ballymena themed stocking fillers. 1/ The Faerie Thorn & Other Stories by Jane Talbot Jane Talbot’s seven bewitching tales will draw you into a world of fairy tales and magick, a world of devilish debts, trysts and trades, of broken bargains and unjust trials, of quick-wittedness, of hoodwinking, of revenge. A dark, tender, dazzling collection...

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PSNI Ballymena launch winter drink drive operation

This winter the PSNI are testing drivers ing Ballymena and throughout Northern Ireland. Police have revealed that last year 270 people were caught driving which over the acceptable legal limit, with the youngest offender aged 17 and the oldest was 71! At this time of the year lots of us are heading out to meet up with friends, family and work mates to celebrate the festive time of year. If you are planning to attend a christmas party be sure to plan ahead meaning you can enjoy yourself without becoming a danger to yourself and others on your way home. You should never ever drink and drive. Just one drink could increase your risk of crashing.The consequences of drinking and driving are devastating. Drivers who consume alcohol before getting behind the wheel may kill or injure not only themselves, but also their passengers and other road users. How does alcohol affect your driving? Alcohol slows reactions and even very low amounts of alcohol will impair the skills needed for safe driving. It slows down the brain, impacting upon your judgement, reason, self control and reaction times. Drivers feel a false sense of confidence, lose their inhibitions and are more likely to take risks. Evidence shows that drivers who have been drinking tend to focus more on the most basic activities, such as steering, and less on other key driving...

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Creative Gardens in Galgorm have all you need for Christmas

Christmas has well and truly landed in Galgorm’s Creative Gardens. Creative Gardens specialise in all year round, colourful plants for both the experienced gardener and beginner alike. Plants are complemented by a huge range of garden accessories, giftware and interiors, with a highlight of the Creative Gardens calendar being their annual Christmas shop that is a seasonal attraction not to be missed. In addition to the main shop at Creative Gardens, the new centre at Galgorm will also include one of the businesses popular cafes, offering the best in home style cooking and baking to the people of Ballymena...

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Advent Reflection in Ballymena

During each week of Advent churches in Ballymena will be opening their doors to welcome people to a time of reflection. Advent is the four weeks which lead up to Christmas and each Wednesday people in Ballymena will have the opportunity stop for a quiet moment. The event is being run by the Ballymena Church Members Forum. Ballymena Church Members Forum is having the annual series of Advent Reflections in the 4 weeks of Advent prior to Christmas. The services are on Wednesdays at lunchtime – from 12.30 to 13.15 so that anyone in Ballymena either having a lunch...

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