Man fined 'for living in garage'

A man who has been living in a garage has been fined £1,750 under planning laws.

Andrew Coulter, Cottage Studios, Great Northern Road, Omagh, was fined £500 for the same offence last year.

He received a further fine of £1,750 at Coleraine Magistrates Court plus £184 costs for a continuing offence.

Mr Coulter had refused to stop using the garage in Portrush as a dwelling and to return the use of the building to a domestic garage.