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08/10/2025

⚖️ CULTRA MAN WHO COVERED HIMSELF IN PETROL OVER NEIGHBOUR DISPUTE PLEADS GUILTY.

A Cultra businessman who doused himself in petrol and threatened to set himself alight in a neighbour dispute entered guilty pleas today (Wed).

Caspar Lund was due to go on trial on four charges but after the prosecuting lawyer withdrew two of them, defence counsel for the 52-year-old confirmed he was admitting guilt to the two outstanding charges.

Lund, from Clanbrassil Terrace in Holywood, entered guilty pleas to behaving in a threatening or abusive manner and using disorderly behaviour on 19 May 2025.

The charges withdrawn by the PPS include an offence of causing criminal damage to his neighbour’s doormat and carpet and also that he made to police, a threat that he would destroy his neighbour’s apartment.

An earlier court heard how the charges arose after Lund “poured petrol over himself and threatened to set fire to himself” at the Cultra apartment block overlooking Belfast Lough.

Fearing the potentially lethal consequences, the people upstairs, “a couple in their 80s, contacted the police.”

The court had heard how Lund and the couple are embroiled in a legal dispute over who owns the freehold.

Officers attended and detained Lund but due to concerns over his mental health, he was taken to the Ulster Hospital and when he was there, Lund was allegedly behaving in a disorderly manner.

In court today (Wed), District Judge Natasha Fitzsimmons told the defence barrister that “in light of the facts” as well as a GP assessment of Lund, “I will require a full pre-sentence report” before the case can be concluded.

Adjourning the case to 19 November, she warned Lund that bail conditions, including having no contact with the victim, “remain in place.”

ENDS
Copy by Paul Higgins
Photo: defendant Caspar Lund

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08/10/2025

🚨CHRISTMAS ANNOUNCEMENT🚨

It’s time for some festive R&R! 💫 Our stores will be closed on Christmas Day & Boxing Day so our incredible teams can enjoy the celebrations with loved ones. ❤️🎅
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08/10/2025

Does anybody know anything about stamps?
Is this a good find yes or no? 
Haven’t published every page, but just to give you all an idea ….

08/10/2025

Love to see people do well. Has anyone got any stories like this they would like to share? You know starting something later in life and made good out of it?
Can’t let age stop you, I suppose is the moral of the story. 🥰

Inspirational 👏

08/10/2025

Looking forward to the future……

In one hand I’ve my first payslip for over 3 years £200, done 77 hours last week £2.60ph 😂😂. But it’s a start..

In the other is our new lease adding another 3 years to our contract….

The cost of living when the war in Ukraine VERY VERY nearly closed us. To tell the truth I didn’t expect it to last years n just ploughed on in a naive way. Eventually gettin to the point of no return n had to keep goin. In retrospect I shoulda quit n walked away. But I’m not one to quit n also evidently quite stupid too 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

But after sitting in a couple meetings and seeing how quickly the progress of the seafront development is goin we’re feeling very positive about the future of Bangor and our location will be prime…

I grew up down the seafront in Marina Bay, Nidge a Pins, The Palladium, Paul’s Chippy, Whoppers, The Palladium…. The list is endless. Even if Bangor got halfway to that it’d be a brilliant place to live n work…

The hardest bit too hasn’t been the losing £180,000 in the first 2 years of the cost of living or the working 50-80 hour weeks unpaid, it’s been having customers stand and argue n hurl abuse at me n staff over our prices.

We know a good 90% of our customers get us, our prices n what we’re about and we’re truly thankful for this…

So here’s to the future & hopefully another 10 years…..

Thank you all so much, we love yas ❤️❤️❤️

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08/10/2025

These are not the same as the keys that were found earlier unfortunately.