A SINGLE stab wound to the neck caused the death of a 21-year-old Portadown man, a murder trial heard this week.

AN 86-year-old Portadown woman has made an impassioned plea for the return of her engagement ring which she has lost after more than 60 years.

FUNDING has been secured for a new £397,800 full-size 3G pitch in Tandragee.

A GOSPEL singer who last month pleaded guilty to 13 charges of indecent assault against young girls is due to appear in court for sentencing on Tuesday.

IN this week’s Times read about the start of the court trial into the murder of young Portadown man Marc Williamson who was stabbed in a flat in the town in August 2011.

POLICE are to give evidence over an alleged attempt to sabotage appeals by two men jailed for murdering Constable Stephen Carroll, a court has heard.

POLICE are appealing for help in locating missing 17-year-old teenager Chantelle Lewis.

A RELIGIOUS service planned for Portadown People’s Park was narrowly approved this week, following an angry debate with nationalist and some unionist councillors voicing concern about potential violence and a breakdown in community relations.

EAMON Atkinson will take his seat at Old Trafford on Sunday as part of a matchday routine essentially unchanged across decades of supporting Manchester United.

THE Portadown Times is publishing a special supplement to mark the 20th anniversary of the bomb that devastated the town in 1993.

POLICE are investigating two burglaries in the Mills Street and Dunbarton Street areas of Gilford.

MARKETHILL High School pupils who are interested in agriculture as a career will be able to take up a GCSE in the subject from September.

WILLIE Madill - who emigrated to Canada in 1959 - arrived back in Portadown on a visit last Thursday. And there, in the Portadown Times’ ‘Old Page’, was a photo of the young Willie, taken about 60 years ago, of his days at Thomas Street Public Elementary School.

A PORTADOWN man who grabbed his mother by the neck during an assault was sentenced to a total of nine months in prison last Friday at Craigavon Magistrates Court.

A PORTADOWN man who put a hoax bomb outside an Orange Hall used his own mobile to make a warning call to the police.

IN this week’s Portadown Times we report on Craigavon Borough Council’s decision to approve a religious service in Portadown People’s Park planned by Portadown Orangemen.

A PORTADOWN woman has been accused of stealing gold rings while employed as a care worker.

CRAIGAVON and Daisy Hill hospitals have been named among the 40 top acute trusts in the UK.

A 58-year-old man will be sentenced in June after he was convicted at Craigavon Crown Court on Wednesday for sexual offences against a boy under the age of 16.

RESIDENTS in parts of Portadown are reporting problems with their bins collections since the introduction of a new system by Craigavon Borough Council.