Well now I feel old - I've just found a mention of myself on the British Newspaper Archive (www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk) in the Carrick Times and East Antrim Times, from a school prize-giving event in Carrickfergus in 1989!
The newspaper has been added from 1987-1999, and I have been merrily plugging away at it for the last hour, finding all sorts of information about my family, including several photos of my father (pictured below, right), sister and aunt. I actually moved to England in 1991, and so it's great to see reportage of various things my father was involved in both politically and through work for the period after I left.
Thanks you BNA - and any chance of pre-1987 editions going online at any stage?
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