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An insurance policy taken out by a 24-year-old woman only started the day after she had been stopped for driving while uninsured, Banbridge Magistrates Court heard last Thursday.

A 62-year-old man said it was a ‘genuine mistake’ that he was driving a van on the A1 without insurance on December 17 last year.

Patrick McCusker (39) , Ballynagarrick Road, Portadown was fined £100 last Thursday at Banbridge Magistrates Court for using a mobile phone while he was driving.

Life peer Lord Kilclooney was today (Friday, April 20) charged with failing to comply with a remedial notice by failing to cut hedges at his Mullinure home in Armagh.

Police are appealing for witnesses to a ‘hit and run’ incident at the Northway, Portadown.

A ‘punch up at a wedding’ was one of the more unusual - or possibly quite routine - incidents police dealt with over the past few days.

A major facelift planned for Dromore town centre has moved a step closer with the appointment of a contractor to carry out a new public realm scheme.

A leaflet drop has been conducted in Gilford, reminding dog owners to clean up after their pets.

When an ‘R’ driver passed them at speed a police patrol followed the car and it reached 60mph on the Northway in Portadown before going through a red light.

A 36-year-old man was fined £100 last Friday at Craigavon Magistrates Court for disorderly behaviour on January 15 this year.

Police have appealed for information following a burglary that took place sometime between 6.30 and 11pm last night (Wednesday, April 18) in the Portadown Road area of Tandragee.

Police have issued one of their more unusual appeals - for an elephant missing from the Portadown area.

Police are hunting two men who carried out a burglary at the home of an elderly woman near Banbridge.

While walking home on New Year’s Day a 24-year-old man launched an ‘unprovoked attack’ on another man leaving him unresponsive on the ground.

A 43-year-old man was fined £300 last Wednesday at Craigavon Magistrates Court for harassing a woman over a period of time.

Senior Ulster player Rob Herring has said the group has to move on following the decision by the IRFU to revoke the contracts of Paddy Jackson and Stuart Olding.

On Thursday, April 26, Both Lives Matter are hosting an event at the Seagoe Hotel in Portadown from 7.30-9.30pm.