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Four months on and it continues to go from strength to strength.

By Aislinn Hagan, Niall McCracken and Rodney Edwards for fermanagh.tv

Financial problems has ended up shutting down Vibe FM for good.

The Enniskillen station was wound up in a High Court ruling in Belfast on Thursday.

By Rodney Edwards for fermanagh.tv

Up to a dozen families have been evacuated from their homes because of a security alert in Co Fermanagh.

The PSNI has mounted a major operation following claims that a bomb had been left on the B36 road between Rosslea and Dresternan.

The road has been sealed off to traffic and diversions have been put in place with Monaghan-bound traffic re-routed via Newtownbutler and Clones.

By Rodney Edwards and Niall McCracken for fermanagh.tv

Jobs are at risk at a Fermanagh quarry as the economic downturn continues to hit the struggling construction industry hard.

Tarmac Ltd, which has a base in Ederney, supplies building materials and also offers road contracting services. But owing to the current climate, the English company has been forced to axe its services in the county because of a “lack of demand”. Their Dunaree quarry at Drumquin, Co Tyrone, will be also affected - meaning up to 20 jobs across the two sites are under threat.

Penny Bradley, spokesperson for Tarmac Ltd said: “In response to the tough economic conditions faced by the construction industry, Tarmac has taken the difficult decision to withdraw from some of its operations in the west of the province.” Read more here.

By Rodney Edwards for fermanagh.tv and The Impartial Reporter

Questions are being asked as to why Fermanagh District Council were left to remove a trailer full of illegal waste at Rosslea despite its removal being the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA).

The 40 ft trailer, which was reported stolen from the Smithbrough area of Co. Monaghan, is overloaded with paper waste from the South and was left to fester on a laneway in a scenic area close to the River Finn for up to 10 days. Read more here.

Update: Dissidents blamed for delay

By Rodney Edwards and Niall McCracken for fermanagh.tv

After intense pressure, Gordon Brown has been forced to pledge Government support for IRA victims seeking compensation from Libya.

For several years from 1985, Libya shipped Semtex and arms to the IRA. It is believed Semtex was used in a series of IRA atrocities, including the Enniskillen Bomb in 1987.

Lawyers acting for the IRA victims want the Prime Minister to demand Libyans secure a US-style scheme for victims of terror attacks such as the Poppy Day atrocity in Fermanagh where eleven people were killed and over 60 injured.

Libya had already paid out $2.7 billion (now £1.6 billion) to families of victims of the bombing of the Pan Am jet over Lockerbie in which 270 died.

Enniskillen Bomb sufferer Jim Dixon, who was the most seriously injured person to survive the blast, says Libya has to “pay a price.”

“People refer to it rather crudely as money, but if you commit a crime, you go before the justice and there is a charge made against you. In this case it was the crime of supplying arms and bomb equipment to the IRA.”

“There is a charge against the Libyan Government for what they’ve done and they have to pay a price. If you go to court and you see justice being done it helps to resolve the hurt that you had. If [Muammar] Gaddafi is forced to admit what he’s done wrong and pay reparation for that, then that is justice.”

Mr. Dixon says he has never lived “an hour without pain” since the tragedy.

“The memories are horrific. To be caught up in a bomb is something I couldn’t even describe; the fear and trauma that I went through is indescribable.

“I had a number of fractures in my skull, the bone-cages at the back of my eyes disintegrated in my head – the surgeon told me my eyeballs were sitting down on my cheeks. The roof of my mouth was blown out. I had brain damage, my face was paralysed, my tongue was 80% paralysed, I had a nine-inch gash up the right hand side of my face were my jaw was - part of my jaw was missing. I had ribs broken; my pelvis was broken in three places. My legs smashed.”

“I was told by doctors that I wouldn’t survive the bomb, but I did.”

By Niall McCracken and Rodney Edwards for fermanagh.tv

A Sinn Fein councillor has announced his defection to the Socialist Party.

In a statement, Domhnall O Cobhthaigh said Sinn Fein now shares a “right-wing economic agenda” with the other main Assembly parties.

He added that he unambiguously opposed “all groups who would wish to take us backwards to conflict.”

Mr O Cobhthaigh, who also resigned his council seat, is the fourth Sinn Fein member of Fermanagh District Council to leave the party in the past two years.

By Rodney Edwards for fermanagh.tv

SDLP MLA Margaret Ritchie says she will do all that she can to help Fermanagh people.

By Rodney Edwards for fermanagh.tv

The Western Trust have admitted knowing that there would be a shortage of junior doctors to fulfil Obstetrics and Gynaecology roles at the Erne “several weeks” before the doctors were due to take up their posts.

Services in the Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ward have been temporarily suspended until September 14 because only one junior doctor turned up on the start date of August 5 and all routine and emergency Gynaecology patients, in-patients and out-patients are now expected to travel to Altnagelvin Area Hospital. Read more here.

By Rodney Edwards for fermanagh.tv

30 years may have passed but the hurt and torment caused by one of the darkest days in Irish history is still fresh in the minds of so many.

The bomb in Mullaghmore, Co Sligo, shocked the world. On 27 August 1979 at 11.15am, the IRA detonated a bomb killing 79-year-old Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the Queen, together with his 14-year-old grandson Nicholas and 15-year-old Fermanagh teenager Paul Maxwell.

The 83-year-old Dowager Baroness Brabourne died later from her injuries after the bomb exploded on board Mountbatten’s ‘Shadow V’.

Last Thursday, a special 30th anniversary memorial service took place in the Star of the Sea church in Mullaghmore, as relatives of the deceased, former employees of Lord Mountbatten and visitors gathered to reflect on the day that defined history. Read more here.

By Rodney Edwards for fermanagh.tv and The Impartial Reporter