Baby loss memorial gardens proposed for new Carrick and Larne cemeteries
Mid and East Antrim Council is to show support for parents who have experienced pregnancy loss through the provision of memorial gardens in the borough’s new cemeteries.
Wednesday, 10th February 2021, 3:20 pm
A memorial garden has already been opened at Larne’s main cemetery in Craigyhill after a plot of land was requested by the Little Snowdrops Baby Loss Support Group.
At a special meeting of the borough council on Tuesday, the council agreed to further provision when new cemeteries open at Old Glenarm Road outside Larne and in Carrickfergus.
Two flights have had to be redirected to a Co Antrim airfield beside a mountain due to poor visibility since it opened last summer.
A meeting of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council s planning committee has heard the flights were sent to the isolated Slemish Airfield in the Buckna area, close to the famous mountain where St Patrick is reputed to have tended sheep.
On the council agenda was a planning application for the installation of lights at the runway at Buckna Road, outside Broughshane. The 750-metre private landing strip at Slemish Airfield was constructed in 2017 and is operational with 52 flights permitted annually. The first landing took place in July.
The new premises will replace the current DAERA inspection point at Redlands Road.
It has been designed for the inspection of food and live animals and will include pens and an unloading area for horses when they arrive from other parts of the United Kingdom.
Last month, the council was told that the number of environmental health officers to be employed at Larne port after Brexit is set to be doubled.
Port of Larne
Twelve new environmental health officers employed by Mid and East Antrim Borough Council are based at the Jobs and Benefits Office at Pound Street temporarily after the original temporary accommodation was delayed for a couple of months.
24th December 2020
The East Antrim Boat Club dinghy fleet prepare for a start at Larne Harbour and in the background (left) is MPI Resolution, the world s first purpose-built vessel for installing offshore wind turbines currently based in Larne
Seventeen single-handers took advantage of a favourable day on Sunday last (20th) to hold a Christmas Regatta at East Antrim Boat Club on Larne Lough before the shut down in Northern Ireland on Boxing Day.
The fleet consisted of two Optimists and a Topper racing together, nine Laser Radials, four Laser 4.7s and an Aero starting as a group.
The fleet raced in Larne Harbour, currently the base for MPI Resolution, the world s first purpose-built vessel for installing offshore wind turbines that is pictured top and as Afloat reported previously here.
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Anne Donaghy, chief executive of Mid and East Antrim Borough Council
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