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This August, enjoy a bumper 116-page edition of Athletics Weekly, bringing you a look ahead to all the athletics action from Paris 2024. Featuring a complete timetable along with predictions by event, on how the biggest names in the sport will perform. Get the ultimate track and field guide delivered directly to your door by ordering your copy here - https://athleticsweekly.imbmsubscriptions.com/oly24dssc/

Is nightlife dying a slow death?🍻❌ We’re investigating the dwindling night time economy and how factors like the cost of living crisis and Covid have changed consumer habits and left businesses on the brink. Watch the episode below or tune in on Shots TV Freeview channel 276 at 10am on Saturday, March 23 Find more exclusive episodes at Shots!: https://www.shotstv.com/

St Patrick's College, Ballymena, is holding an open evening on Wednesday, January 17 at 7pm

St Patrick's College, Ballymena, is holding an open evening on Wednesday, January 17 at 7pm

DH Christie Memorial Primary School 2024 enrolment. For all prospective children and parents: there will be small group school visits by appointment only from November 27 to 30 and on December 4 and 5, from 2.30pm - 3.15pm each day.

Ballymena Primary School is holding an open day on Tuesday, November 28 at 1.30pm.

Here's a video that's bound to make you smile. In 1988, Ulster men were voted the sexiest and most romantic in Britain by “She” magazine. In this footage from Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, Ivan Little walked the streets of Belfast to find out what the public think. This clip is courtesy of UTV (© ITV) and was digitalised as part of the BFI’s heritage 2022 scheme. To watch more footage, visit www.digitalfilmarchive.net

Dancing the night away at Cushendall Fair in years gone by

Have you been to this year's Heart of the Glens Festival yet? In this 1988 UTV (© ITV) footage from Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive, we look at activities which can be described as dance. John Blacking explored the journey of dance at the 19th century Cushendall Fair suggesting that the tendency to dance is an inborn characteristic of all human beings. It generates personal satisfaction, a feeling of refreshment and a greater sense of freedom. The full series continues at Abbots Bromley to watch the traditional Horn Dancers, the Isle of Man for a bit of Morris dancing, and to the corner of Co. Fermanagh near Berrylin where Pat Cassidy demonstrates the traditional ‘Strawman’ as well as ‘Besom Dance’. This clip was digitised as part of the UTV Archive Partnership Project. To watch the full episode, visit https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/dancing-what-is-dance-3018.

Bringing back memories of Meharg's Garage

We thought you might like to see this fascinating old film clip from Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive that turns the clock back nearly 60 years to when UTV reporter Charlie Witherspoon paid a visit to a well-known east Antrim spot - Meharg's Garage in Ballyboley, outside Ballyclare. It shows Charlie reporting from the country lanes around Ballyboley in 1964 from the unusual platform of a penny farthing bicycle. He also takes a closer look at other old bicycles maintained by the Meharg brothers. Charlie continued his tracks on a side-by-side two-rider tandem bicycle. He also grappled with another primitive early bicycling utilising a steering wheel instead of handlebars. The history of bicycles had many dead ends and wrong turns before the early inventors of two-wheeled transport settled on the form that we are familiar with today. This footage is courtesy of UTV (© ITV) and was digitised as part of the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s Archiving Project Scheme 2. To watch the full episode, visit https://digitalfilmarchive.net/media/old-bicycles-5885

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One last look at the massive Craigyhill bonfire in Larne yesterday. See our picture gallery in the comments from last night as what could well be the world's biggest bonfire lights up the skyline.