LISBURN was dealt another blow this week when it was announced that Birthdays card shop in Bow Street is among 16 stores across Northern Ireland set to close.

HUNDREDS of pounds worth of jewellery has been stolen from residential premises in the Woodland Park area.

LAGAN Valley MLA Jonathan Craig has said several families in the local area are among those who are being told that body parts of people who died in suspicious circumstances have been retained by the police without the full consent or knowledge of relatives for over four decades.

AS the smell of the freshly cutgrass fills the air so too will the aroma of many global culinary treats as the Continental Market injects seasonal gastronomic splendour into the retail experience in Lisburn.

COUNCILLOR Jennifer Coulter has welcomed new legislation to regulate the use of sunbeds by under 18s as ‘long overdue’.

BOOMER Industries has announced the completion of its latest defence contract.

A NEW album of children’s songs written and produced by well known Lisburn musician John D’Arcy has been released.

A LISBURN Minister says there needs to be more consistency by the Roads Service concerning the erection of posters across the city.

ANTRIM Street car park in Lisburn was one of the top 10 streets, roads and car parks in Northern Ireland for parking tickets in 2011.

THE REV Ferran Glenfield has been instituted as the rector of Hillsborough.

POLICE in Lisburn are appealing for witnesses following the two vehicle road traffic collision in the Woodland Park area on Friday evening that resulted in the death of 24-year-old Neil Graham from the Dromore area.

ALMOST ninety past pupils, together with spouses and guests attended a reunion of Ballykeel-Ednagonnell School recently in Anahilt Presbyterian Church Hall.

THE Lisburn Branch of Progressive Building Society has reason to celebrate after they recently won the Business Retention Award, whilst the Progessive has reported an increase in pre-tax profit to £3.3 million for its 2011 financial year.

A SCHEME under which businesses opening in premises which have been empty for 12 months get a rates concession has been backed by Lisburn City Centre Management and the local Chamber of Commerce.

PUPILS from St Patrick’s Academy Lisburn have met one of television’s most unlikely new stars - Cambridge Professor of Classics Mary Beard.

LAGAN Valley Hospital has received a major boost ahead of the decision on the future of night time services with the South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust was named as one of the top 40 acute hospital trusts in the UK, at an awards ceremony in London.

A REPORT released by the Assembly has revealed proposals to close Lisburn’s Courthouse by 2015.

RESIDENTS in Knockmore held a vigil on Wednesday night to send a message to drug dealers that the community ‘has had enough’.

THE mother of Lisburn motorcyclist Stephen McKeever says the swift actions of race officials and medics has given her son a fighting chance to survive a horrific crash sustained at the Tandragee 100 last Saturday.

A STAY of execution for Hillsborough and Dromore Police Stations has been welcomed after it was agreed to reprieve them up until the end of the comprehensive spending review in 2015.