In this week's Impartial Reporter.

A CONVICTED sex offender who has recently served the equivalent of a six-month prison sentence for multiple instances of indecency is facing a new count of exposure, which allegedly occurred prior to the last matters being dealt with in court.

All scheduled GCSE and A-level examinations in Northern Ireland will be cancelled, Peter Weir has confirmed.

Police have calle don the public to be aware of a phishing text message scam which is circulationg telling people they are "eligible" for the Covid-19 vaccination.

ASDA, Aldi, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Lidl have all moved to update customers amid a third national lockdown.

A weather warning has been put in place by the Met Office for early tomorrow morning (January 7) as snowfall is expected in parts of Northern Ireland, including County Fermanagh, overnight.

There has been a large community effort by the Fivemiletown Coronavirus response group to bring festive cheer to the Clogher Valley with festive goodie bags and Christmas cheer aplenty.

A STUNNING array of works were submitted for the annual 1FT SQ exhibition hosted by Fermanagh and Omagh District Council, which for the first time in its 13-year history is taking place virtually via Strule Arts Centre's Facebook page.

The Executive have tonight (Tuesday) agreed a package of additional restrictions given the high levels of Covid-19 transmission in the community.

The Education Minister, Peter Weir, has said pre-school education settings, primary and post primary schools will be required to provide remote learning to pupils until the half term break in mid-February.

With schools set to reopen next week and exams still scheduled to go ahead despite the increase in positive cases and deaths in Northern Ireland due to Coivd-19 as well as the discovery of a new strain of the virus which is more transmissible, one te...

First Minister Arlene Foster has been issued a threat by loyalist paramilitaries.

POLICE officers who called at the home of a County Tyrone man to carry out a bail check on Christmas Day were threatened with being stabbed in the neck by a chisel, a court has been told.

The Department of Health has recorded 18 further deaths related to Covid-19 in Northern Ireland, with one of those occurring in the Fermanagh and Omagh District Council area.

After weeks of uncertainty, the post-primary transfer tests scheduled for this month have been cancelled as schools remain closed amid a surge in Covid-19 infections in the north.

A number of new measures are expected to come into force in Northern Ireland, including the extension of remote learning for pupils, as the Executive tries to curb the progression of the Covid-19 pandemic.

KOULLA Yiasouma, the Northern Ireland Commissioner for Children and Young People, paid a visit to Fermanagh Trust recently to meet with its Grant Maker Apprentices.

AN ENNISKILLEN school has raised more than £6,000 for the international development charity, Concern Worldwide.

WITH an agreement on Brexit reached just before Christmas, politicians in Stormont and Westminster convened on Wednesday to debate the 1,200-plus page agreement made between the UK and the EU.

The South East Fermanagh Foundation (SEFF) is looking forward to plans for investment in the old Lisnaskea High School site.

There were 358 new cases of coronavirus recorded in Fermanagh and Omagh between Friday and Monday. In the same four day period there were three deaths recorded in Fermanagh and Omagh, the three dead were all males over the age of 80.

POLICE in Fermanagh are investigating the circumstances of a death on Lough Erne over the weekend. The PSNI and the Community Rescue Service have confirmed the death of a man on Lough Erne on Saturday afternoon.

A SCIENTIST from Kinawely now based in Amsterdam has led a breakthrough discovery in childhood cancer research.

There has been a "huge surge" in demand for food parcels and hampers this year for Enniskillen Foodbank, the manager, John Shades told the Impartial Reporter.

ENNISKILLEN Retained Fire Fighters have made a donation of gifts to the Children’s Ward at the South West Acute Hospital (SWAH).

RETURNING TO PAGES TURNED DURING THE YEAR THAT’S ENDING.

A “HAPPY, content little baby” was dramatically born to Fermanagh parents on their front lawn in Brisbane on December 9, with baby Michael Leavey joining proud parents, Emmett (31) and Lisa Leavey née Doran (33) before they could reach the hospi...

MARATHON man Grant Weir has finished his ‘Going for a walk, hi’ challenge.

THE friends, family and colleagues of "caring and compassionate" Nuala McLaughlin have been left heartbroken following the untimely passing of the local social worker – the first Western Health and Social Care Trust staff member to die after contra...

THE Presidential address at this year’s Clogher Diocesan Synod, held by Zoom online conference call, was presented by the Archbishop’s commissary for Clogher Diocese, Archdeacon Brian Harper, on Thursday, December 26.

TWO members of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council have criticised the decision to have specific items of business heard confidentially, to the exclusion of public and press.

A CHARITY'S seasonal project to provide activities for the people it supports while at the same time helping the less well-off turned into a Christmas gift bonanza.

THE staff and pupils of Ballinamallard Primary School have bid a fond farewell to a long-time member of staff following his recent retirement.

NOELLE McAlinden – a well-known educationalist, creative advisor, artist and founding member of the Aisling Centre's Hope, Healing and Growth event – will share her very personal and challenging story of a family bereaved by suicide to inspire ot...

FOLLOWING the announcement yesterday, Wednesday, December 30 of the approval of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine, the Department of Health has said roll-out will begin here on Monday.

A new year and a new dawn as we gladly said goodbye to 2020 and quietly ushered in 2021.

A NEW Assured Skills Academy for welding at South West College has been announced by Economy Minister Dianne Dodds.

STUDENTS at St. Fanchea's College, Enniskillen were fundraising for two charities during the month of December.

THE latest project by award-winning local filmmaker Riagáin Grainger is set to be his most ambitious yet.

SEVERE weather on Sunday evening shocked many Fermanagh residents as loud bangs were heard, lights flickered on and off, and windows reportedly shook across the county, with the highly unusual cause of this disruption cited as 'thundersnow'.

THE UK-EU agreement on the Brexit deal that was reached earlier this week that will come into effect on January 1, 2021 will have an impact on Northern Ireland (NI) residents in a number of ways, including travel, study and work.

A representative for a developer addressing a virtual meeting of Fermanagh and Omagh District Council’s Planning Committee, was stunned into silence as an expletive which he believed was directed at him, was picked up and broadcast to all in att...

FERMANAGH musicians came together virtually this Christmas in a Jools Holland’s Hootenanny-style online concert, raising more than £1,000 for a local cancer charity in the process.

There were two babies born in the South West Acute Hosptial over the Christmas period. Baby Little was born on Christmas Eve and Baby McKiernan was born on Christmas Day. A spokesperson for the Western Trust said: "Congratulations to the mums and the...

There was one further death in Fermanagh and Omagh in the past 24 hours as cases continue to rise in the district. 130 new cases have been recorded by the Department of Health in Thursday update bringing the total to 3,668 in the Fermanagh and Oma...

TALENT was in abundance as a variety of local musicians performed as part of the second Blakes of the Hollow virtual Open Mic night, hosted by musical duo Niamh Carney and Philana Nolan, known as Laytha.

FERMANAGH musicians came together virtually this Christmas in a Jools Holland’s Hootenanny-style online concert, raising more than £1,000 for a local cancer charity in the process.

Education Minister Peter Weir has announced revised plans for schools reopening after the Christmas break.

RESIDENTS from Fermanagh and South Tyrone have once again featured strongly on The Queen‘s New Years Honours List.

In this week's Impartial Reporter.