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MLAs on the ball

David Hilditch MLA, centre, show his skills with a football on the steps of Stormont to Northern Ireland manager Michael ONeill and other MLAs at the launch of Football for All which aims to promote football for PICTURE: Paul Faith/PA Wire all across grassroots, domestic and international elements of the game

Clanmil weaves new future at Hilden

HOUSING association Clanmil has announced it is to work with the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) to progress plans for the multi-million pound velopment of the historic redeHilden Mill in Lisburn. The organisation has option agreement with signed an the purchase of the NAMA for giving it until June 16 acre site, 2014 to consider proposals for its tion and an exclusive regenerachase if those plans right to purprove Formerly home to the viable. Thread factory since Barbour site includes 200,000sq 1823, the ft of listed buildings and has approval for redevelopment as homes, offices and light industrial units along with retail, community and leisure facilities granted in December 2009. We hope that todays announcement will mark the beginning of an exciting new era for Hilden Mill and a real boost for the local economy, said Clanmil chairman Joan Baird. This site offers an outstanding opportunity to provide needed affordable homes much in brant, mixed neighbourhood a viand were very excited to be involved. Over the coming months well be exploring how Clanmil can progress Hilden Mills transformation into a great place to live and work. Frank Daly, Chairman NAMA said the agreement of was important for the agency. It reflects NAMAs determination to work in partnership with the social housing sector in Northern Ireland affordable housing to provide through our portfolio. solutions It flects our commitment also reto work with the wider state sector to develop and and public tandem with our owndeliver, in cial objectives, a range commerof initiatives which will bring social and economic benefits to Northern Ireland.

Fearghal Eastwood pictured on Court Street, Newtownards, in 2005 as the planning process around Castlebawn began

IRA victims seek answers in Libya

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that it is an edge of town/in Business Correspondent town development is one that r.sherriff@newsletter.co.uk to protect town centre can also work retail. As Environment Minister I not only want to protect the environNEW jobs and the regeneration ment, but significant area of Newtownards of a to create also do everything I can jobs and develop the was given the green light economy. This scheme will help with Environment Minister yesterday as construction Alex Attwood jobs and approved planning permission opportunities in the I hope create for a retail sector. 50 million development Given the existing at the hismajor retail toric Castlebawn site offering in Newtownards in which inRuling on the latest the town. cludes a Tesco and in a series recent approval of major planning applications, for an Mr Centre,extension to Ards Shopping Attwood said the decision Mr Attwood complicated but offered had been to be vigilant on said he wanted how this a boost to tion the area. might impact on a town applicaa great trading reputation, that has This was a judgement including to after much thought, that I came in this time of double dip recession. he I visited the site. I It is the decision that, said. have assessed overall, is the edge the better way to proceed. of town The fact of the proposal, character, literally, with part of the de-

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Green light for Castlebawn

velopment within the I have been attracted town centre. bawn project is being ments of the scheme by those ele- by property developer promoted Fearghal the converting and which will see Eastwood who, restoring of an while expressing existing 19th Century satisafction at the decision, listed building in Court Street, admitted that the prospects with the access for developthis affords to the ment has changed town centre itsignificantly in self. the intervening years. The 20,000 square The world is very much ment will straddle metre developthe town centre and well not be building changed boundary with one speculaquarter of the tively, he said. retail floorspace within the town centre itself. We have permission for the main The mall style element retail element of it and Im happy of the retail scheme will be about that. It gives created by conus a platform to verting and restoring develop the interest existing 19th that century listed buildings shown from a number has been on Street, part of a designated Court of retailers and to try to take Area of Townscape Character that interest within the through to deals. town centre which is badly in need Im very pleased of regeneration. and hopeful but in this market Im very First lodged in 2005, progress the Castle- will be in a very measured way.

A TRIO of men whose lives were changed by IRA violence are preparing to visit a north African jail in an attempt to uncover how Colonel Gaddafis regime armed the organisation. Willie Frazer, John Murray

and Jonathan Ganesh hope to fly to Libya before Christmas to interview former regime member Abdullah al-Senussi, who they believe was a key player in the late tyrants efforts to fuel the conflict in Northern Ireland. After Gaddafi was deposed, Mr al-Senussi was brought back to Libya to stand trial

for his involvement with the previous government, in which he was reportedly the head of intelligence. Now he looks set to face some of the victims of Gaddafis gunrunning programme too. Willie Frazer, the long-time campaigner behind Families Acting for Innocent Relatives,

has lost a string of friends and family to the IRA and believes some of the weapons used to kill them came from Libya. Channels of communication had been set up between him and anti-Gaddafi dissidents when he joined a protest led by Libyan exiles outside the UN in New York in 2009. Turn to page 8

New lead in hunt for Berties killer

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