'It's hard to feel safe anywhere these days!'
'It's hard to feel safe anywhere these days!'
Well, if incidents over the last week are anything to go by...
“It's hard to feel safe anywhere these days…”
That was just one of the many reactions to news of another vicious attack in Portadown over the weekend.
Saturday evening saw one man badly beaten by two suspects; one of whom has since been arrested – police are trying to trace another.
It came on the back of an attempted murder in the town just days earlier. While unrelated, it’s another shocking – and worrying – act of violence. No charges have been levied against a suspect as of yet!
The injured man was found covered in blood following a stab would in the shoulder area. This incident didn’t happen under the cover of darkness but rather 3.25 in the afternoon…the school rush!
And this weekend past saw an array of high profiles attacks..a masked man threatened staff at premises in Lurgan in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Elsewhere in Lurgan, a garden hose was pushed through the letterbox of a house and turned on. When the homeowner opened the door they were threatened with a knife.
A pensioner was punched in the head three times by a young man before he had his car hijacked in Dromore.
And in a separate incident, a woman was seriously assaulted in Banbridge after windows were smashed at two properties!
It’s hard to feel safe anywhere these days, indeed!
Headlines
🚘 Approval given to demolish filling station near Dungannon to build four car showrooms
🎨 Council urged to think of ‘creative solutions’ to tackle ‘explosion’ of graffiti
🏘️ Major housing development in Scarva receives rubber stamp from council
❓Katie Simpson murder: Questions continue to mount but answers not forthcoming
⚖️ Elderly woman (78) threatened with prison if feud with neighbour is not ended
🎸 Armagh metal-heads become ‘basket-heads’ in collaborative new music video
📸 In Pictures: Just A Chat fun day in Lurgan a ‘fantastic success’
⚖️ Lithuanian national sentenced following three high-value Tesco thefts
👮 Nursery school in Lurgan vandalised – two years after arson attack!
🏗️ Construction work starts on £9M new-build for Rowandale Integrated Primary School
🛶 First look at proposed state-of-the-art recreation hub at Camlough Lake
🚛 Co Armagh lorry driver Mo Robinson transferred to NI to serve out remainder of prison term
🐶 Investigation launched after rescue of ‘significant’ number of dogs from Armagh property
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🤔 Conundrum
Well done to those of you who guessed last Tuesday’s conundrum… This Norwegian band is not that unusual
The answer: Aghacommon
Today’s conundrum is this…
We need a hitman for this…
Where in Co Armagh are we talking about?
I was bullied and harassed by PSNI themselves, because Radius Housing Association told them to. Now they are in the High Court in London for breach of Human Rights.