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Antrim Student finalist – Wedding Journal’s Young Designer of the Year

Antrim Student finalist – Wedding Journal’s Young Designer of the Year

Posted by | Dec 17, 2016 |

Talented young Antrim student, Tommy McLaughlin, has just been announced as a finalist in a national fashion competition! What an incredible talent. Antrim student is announced as a finalist in national fashion competition – Wedding Journal’s Young Designer of the Year 2017 Voting has closed in the Wedding Journal’s Young Designer of the Year 2017 national fashion design competition and Antrim student Tommy McLaughlin has been announced as a finalist. The Wedding Journal’s annual Young Designer of the Year competition, now in its fifth year, launched back in May inviting creative individuals, young designers and fashion students across Ireland...

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Christmas in Ballymena – Slemish Market Garden

Christmas in Ballymena – Slemish Market Garden

Posted by | Dec 16, 2016 |

Slemish Market Garden are one of the local Ballymena businesses to feature in our Christmas in Ballymena series. We love this local business and have written about Frank and his family many times here at Ballymena Today. If you haven’t visited them yet then why not? Here are some of the reasons you need to call with them this Christmas: 1/ They have been selling some of the most beautiful Christmas Trees in the country. The team at Slemish Market Garden have been amazed at how quickly their Christmas Trees have sold through. Hopefully you have your tree up...

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Christmas in Ballymena – The Wellington Barber

Christmas in Ballymena – The Wellington Barber

Posted by | Dec 15, 2016 |

If you have missed the last few weeks here at Ballymena Today then you will have missed the start of our Christmas in Ballymena series. Today we are shining a well deserved spotlight on The Wellington Barber. Christmas in Ballymena – The Wellington Barber The Wellington Barber is the perfect place to go if you have a well groomed gentleman in your life. They provide gents with the best haircuts and hot towel shaves. They also offer a hot towel beard trim, nose waxing and children’s haircuts too. They also have their own range of grooming products which would...

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Christmas at Hillstown Farm Shop

Christmas at Hillstown Farm Shop

Posted by | Dec 15, 2016 |

Hillstown Farm Shop, just outside Ballymena in Northern Ireland, is ready for Christmas! Find out how to create a hassle-free Christmas with our writer Marianne Simpson as she discovers the delights of the shop and café. Christmas at Hillstown Farm Shop This is a working farm: the free-range animals are raised to be sold at its butchery counter or included in the mouth-watering meal selection in the restaurant. They sell home-produced Angus dry aged beef, free range chicken, lamb and rare-breed pork; and offer turkeys, geese, ducks and venison from neighbouring farms; all locally produced fare to, ‘help create...

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Christmas in Ballymena – Hillstown Farm Shop

Christmas in Ballymena – Hillstown Farm Shop

Posted by | Dec 14, 2016 |

At a glance Hillstown Farm Shop, just outside Ballymena, is a popular shop and café, but there is much more to it than first meets the eye. Marianne Simpson visits it before Christmas to find out what makes this local farm shop in our corner of Northern Ireland so special. Christmas in Ballymena – Hillstown Farm Shop Northern Ireland (NI) is gaining a reputation for its entrepreneurial spirit across all areas of industry and business. Many think of farming as a traditional industry but it is becoming an area of diversification as farmers seek to adapt to survive and...

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