Summer in Newcastle, County Down

Continuing on our week in The Mournes, here's what you can see & do in Newcastle, the main seaside town at the base of the mountains.

It's always been a fun, family destination with twee, little shops with fancy dress & jokes to buy. There's a new bead shop where you can pick & choose from hundreds of designs and make your own necklace, bracelet or brooch.

Doll's house accessories in Bon Bon's

There are a handful of amusement arcades with video game machines, two penny drop gambling games and a few rides too.

Down in between the buildings we found an outdoor funfair with five rides including small chairaplanes and a waltzer.

These boats are £2 a go.  

For food there's a KFC, Subway, Country Fried Chicken, Mauds Cafe and dozens of ice cream parlours.  There's even a machine that makes candy floss outside Bon Bon's shop.

So whether you're staying at The Mourne Lodge, Dan White's Cottage or Hanna's Close, or just down for the day, Newcastle is a nice little nostalgic seaside stop off.

Expensive, but cool, American import sweets available from Ben & Jerry's icecream shop.

Dame May McFettridge Celebrates 25 Years in Pantomime

If you're from Northern Ireland you knew the comedy character May McFettridge years before Mrs Brown's Boys ever appeared. She's a national treasure and this year marks 25 years of her appearance as the dame in the yearly Grand Opera House, Belfast, Pantomime. 

In celebration the BBCNI website has tracked down the posters from each year, but are missing some of them from the early 90s. Could you help? Click through to see the whole gallery, and to contact them if you have the old programs by any chance. 

I went to this one, the year means I must have been 14. I remember May throwing packets of Cadbury's buttons into the audience.

A very fresh-faced Julian Simmons