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Ballymena Today Youth Team visit Chocoa

Ballymena Today Youth Team visit Chocoa

Posted by | Oct 4, 2016 |

Ballymena Today Youth Team made a visit to Chocoa. It is a new local business which can be found on the beautiful Greenvale Street in Ballymena. Read what our Youth Team thought below: During the Summer Holidays, I was making use of my much-loved free time – and so I basically lived in coffee shops all that past month! One of the coffee shops that I went to was called Chocoa. Chocoa, Ballymena, is located on Greenvale Street, just between the Fairhill and the Tower Centre, therefore it is a very tempting place to stop after all that hard shopping! It...

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Ballymena Today Youth team review “The Lie Tree” by Frances Hardinge

Ballymena Today Youth team review “The Lie Tree” by Frances Hardinge

Posted by | Sep 15, 2016 |

At Ballymena Today we love books and now Rachel from our youth team has written this great review of The Lie Tree. Let’s see what she thought: Recently I just finished reading a book called ‘The Lie Tree’ by an author called Frances Hardinge. I got the book from my English teacher who originally lent it to me in January for our Readathon challenge for charity! As you can tell, it took me a while to get round to reading it! “The Lie Tree”  by Frances Hardinge Frances Hardinge has won many awards for her writing: in 2006 she...

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Ballymena Today Youth Team – Perfect Pamper Products

Ballymena Today Youth Team – Perfect Pamper Products

Posted by | May 4, 2016 |

Calling girls everywhere! Come on; face it – who doesn’t like treating themselves every so often? It often doesn’t feel like I get a lot of time to do that, so when I do, I make it count! Here are some of my favourite things I like to use on those special occasions… Face mask – “7th Heaven” I never used to use face masks, and was never interested in them. However, after using these a few times, I can’t help but love them! “7th Heaven” has many different types of face masks, such as mud packs, peel-offs, saunas...

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Middletown Coffee – Ballymena Today Youth Team

Middletown Coffee – Ballymena Today Youth Team

Posted by | Jan 25, 2016 |

Our Ballymena Today youth team have paid a visit to Middletown Coffee on Lower Mill Street in Ballymena. Lets see what they have to say: I’ve been travelling again – this time somewhere a bit closer to home… Middletown Coffee! It is a fairly new coffee shop here in Ballymena. But firstly, where does the name come from? Well, “Ballymena” actually means “Middle Town”! I have been there 3 or 4 times now, but it never seems to get old! The last time I went was with Cherry (again!), a few Saturdays ago. As soon as we walked in, you...

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Ballymena Today Youth team final interview with Natalie

Ballymena Today Youth team final interview with Natalie

Posted by | Oct 26, 2015 |

This is our final blog in the series from the interview with BBC news reporter Natalie Lindo who has worked for the BBC in Ballymena. The Youth Team asked her advice on internet safety and a few more questions relating to her job as a reporter. Q: Have you got any advice which would help people to stay safe on the internet? A: Don’t put anything online that you wouldn’t want your grandparents, boss or head teacher etc to see. You can’t get rid of it and sometimes these things come back to haunt you. A joke got a...

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