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Our Favourite Children’s Books – Throwback Thursday

Posted by Cherry | Jun 25, 2015 |

This Thursday at Ballymena Today we want to share some of our favourite books from our childhood. Why? Because we think that lots of kids out there in Ballymena shouldn’t miss out on these brilliant stories. Even if you wouldn’t call yourself a reader we would love Ballymena young people to enjoy reading these books as much as we did. Chicken Licken (young readers) As a child I force my family to read this book to me so much that it had to actually be hidden in the hope that I would finally give another book a chance. I...

Grove Vets – Stray Campaign

Posted by Cherry | Mar 23, 2015 |

Ballymena Veterinarian centre Grove Vets has enjoyed following the Stray Dog challenge which has been taken on by vets. Participants have taken on this challenge to highlight the plight of dogs who have been abandoned. Just take a look at the video below. Vets were blindfolded, taken to a remote location and abandoned. They then tried to make their way back home without any help. Thousands of dogs are being abandoned in the UK and Ireland each year so the organisers STRAY are using this campaign to make people think about how they treat their unwanted pet. Lucy’s Trust has...

Free Coffee Icon Prints from Coffee NI

Posted by Ally Simpson | Jan 6, 2015 |

Just before Christmas, Coffee Northern Ireland added a few free coffee icon prints to their site for you to download. Here’s what they said… We’ve also added a page called “Freebies” which will have occasional free items for you to download or use for non-commercial purposes… we have some ideas for this which should be fun but for now we won’t make promises about how often we will update that. In the meantime, feel free to download the first four simple coffee icon prints, they are created to be printed in A4 size and are completely free to you for non-commercial use. Click the image, download the file, stick it in a frame, make your room look lovely. The larger images on the page, when clicked are created to be printed in A4 size and are completely free to you for non-commercial use or, you can grab a smaller jpeg on the same page if you you want to use it on your phone as a background image. We love the bright colours and the simplicity of a single icon to represent a certain area of coffee brewing/making. We hope to be seeing more of the same from Coffee Ni during...

How to tackle your January Debt

Posted by Cherry | Jan 6, 2015 |

Ballymena Today recently read about January Debt in The Guardian. The newspaper reports that our consumer debt has reached a seven year high in the UK from Christmas spending. Debt and money worries can be a difficult burden to bear. Here at Ballymena Today we want to direct you to some websites which can offer you information, support and help. The Money Advice Service is a free and impartial money advice website set up by the government. You may have seen their advertisements on television and they offer online support and help via the telephone. Click here to visit Money Advice Service. CAP or Christians Against Poverty is a charity that gives free debt help to anyone in debt. You don’t have to be a member of a local church to take advantage of their courses and advice. Just log on and read through their website and you have the option to enter your postcode and find a CAP course which is being run in a church near you. In Ballymena CAP is run in Partnership with Ballymena Baptist church and is open to all. This service is really helpful as it provides a face to face meeting and help with setting up budgets and spreadsheets to keep on top of your household finances. Click here to visit the CAP website. The Citizens Advice Bureau offer lots of...

Rare Breed returns on UTV

Posted by Cherry | Jan 5, 2015 |

Ballymena Today favourite loves farmer television show Rare Breed and we are glad to see it will be back on our screens tonight. UTV say: In all weather conditions and on every type of farm, from fruit to livestock, crops to Christmas trees, Rare Breed encapsulates the value of the agri-industry, showing our local produce is an international commodity worth millions to the economy every year. In the opening programme we meet farmer Seamus Kane in Co Antrim who is hoping the worst of the rain comes while his cattle and sheep are indoors while in Co Down, arable farmer Allan Chambers, is also patiently waiting for the rain to stop, although there’s no rushing his crop of trees. In Armagh, brothers Geoffrey and John Kinnear are checking which of their dairy cows are in calf. While in Galway, Liam Conway and son Shane, are lambing their pedigree Charollais sheep. At the same time Micheál Looney is welcoming new arrivals at his Cork dairy farm and in Laois, tillage farmer David Walsh-Kemmis, is busy making the most of January’s short-lived dry weather. In Co Clare, we meet John Moroney who breeds Limousins at the gateway to the Burren National Park and twenty three year old Frank McGeeney, one of the tens of thousands of part time farmers who juggles his office job with working on the family farm in...

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Our Favourite Children’s Books – Throwback Thursday

Grove Vets – Stray Campaign

Free Coffee Icon Prints from Coffee NI

How to tackle your January Debt

Rare Breed returns on UTV

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