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The budget for Mayo General Hospital has overrun by more than €2 million for the first seven months of the year, causing fears locally that services will be affected coming into the health service’s busiest time of the year.

The elected members of Mayo County Council this week hit out at the decision by the council executive to close the two civic amenity sites at Derrinumera and Rathroeen at 1pm on Saturdays.

Mayo is not a safe place to get seriously ill this winter because the ambulance service is undergoing huge cutbacks.

The 29-year-old son of a popular Castlebar woman who was stabbed to death on Tuesday morning has been charged with his mother’s murder.

There are 20 state of the art houses lying empty in a newly built Castlebar Town Council housing scheme because the Department of the Environment has withdrawn funding for affordable houses.