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. The district was created on 1 April 2015 by merging the Borough of Antrim with the Borough of Newtownabbey. The local authority is

Geography

The district stretches from the lower

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and Lough Neagh to the shores of

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Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council

Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council replaced Antrim Borough Council and

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. The first election for the new district council was originally due to take place in May 2009, but on April 25, 2008,

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, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland announced that the scheduled 2009 district council elections were to be postponed until 2011. The first elections took place on 22 May 2014 and the council acted as a shadow authority until 1 April 2015.

Freedom of the Borough

The following people, military units and organisation and groups have received the Freedom of the Borough of Antrim and Newtownabbey and its predecessors.

Individuals

* Bertram Bickerstaff : 1 June 1982. * Doris E. Robb : 1 June 1982. * Sidney R. Cameron: 31 October 1992. * Dr. Willie John McBride : 31 October 1992. * George L. Herron : 28 May 1998. * James J. Rooney : 26 May 2001. * Samuel J. Magee : 25 May 2004. * Sir A.P. McCoy : 10 September 2005. (Borough of Antrim) * Tommy McTeague: 24 November 2005. (Borough of Newtownabbey) *

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W.A. Fraser Agnew : 31 October 1992. * Wolf-Dietrich Rienacker: 9 October 2008. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * Dr. Peter Fitzgerald: 3 June 2009. * Norman Dunn : 29 October 2009. * Dr. Rorlof Schierbeek : 12 February 2010. (Borough of Antrim) *

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: 15 January 2019.

Military Units

* The Royal Ulster Constabulary: 1 June 1984. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * The Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve: 1 June 1984. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * The

Ulster Defence Regiment The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army established in 1970, with a comparatively short existence ending in 1992. Raised through public appeal, newspaper and television advertisements,Potter p25 their offi ...

: 11 March 1989. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * The

: 28 April 1990. (Borough of Antrim) * The

Royal Irish Rangers The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) was a regular infantry regiment of the British Army with a relatively short existence, formed in 1968 and later merged with the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992 to form the Royal Iris ...

: 5 May 1990. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * The

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) an ...

: 17 April 1993. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * 321 EOD Squadron, RLC: 30 October 1993. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * The

Royal British Legion The Royal British Legion (RBL), formerly the British Legion, is a British charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants, as well as all others in ...

: 11 May 1996. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * The

: 15 March 1997. (Borough of Antrim) * The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service: 24 May 2000. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * The Royal Ulster Constabulary: 3 March 2001. (Borough of Antrim) * The Royal Ulster Constabulary Reserve: 3 March 2001. (Borough of Antrim) * Northern Ireland Burma Star Association: 6 April 2002. (Borough of Newtownabbey) * The

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force. Although warships were used by English and Scottish kings from the early medieval period, the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years' War against ...

: 18 May 2002. * The

Royal Naval Reserve The Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) is one of the two volunteer reserve forces of the Royal Navy in the United Kingdom. Together with the Royal Marines Reserve, they form the Maritime Reserve. The present RNR was formed by merging the original Ro ...

: 18 May 2002. * The Royal Marines: 18 May 2002. * The

Royal Marines Reserve The Royal Marines Reserve (RMR) is the volunteer reserve force used to augment the regular Royal Marines. The RMR consists of some 750 trained ranks distributed among the four units within the UK. About 10 percent of the force are working with t ...

: 18 May 2002. * The

Northern Ireland Ambulance Service The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS, ga, Seirbhís Otharchairr Thuaisceart Éireann) is an ambulance service that serves the whole of Northern Ireland, approximately 1.9 million people. As with other ambulance services in the United Ki ...

: 10 December 2003. (Borough of Antrim) * The Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service: 10 December 2003. (Borough of Antrim) * The

: 24 June 2006. (Borough of Antrim) * 25 Engineer Regiment, RE: 26 May 2007. (Borough of Antrim) * The Merchant Navy: 4 April 2012.

Organisations and Groups

* The Northern Ireland Hospice: 24 May 2022.

References

External links

Council website
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