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Forty-five jobs are under threat at the Athlone branch of B&Q, after the home improvement store announced it has gone into examinership. The Athlone store has been singled out as one of the company’s “uneconomic stores” which are likely to be closed.

One of the most prime, greenfield sites in Athlone has gone on the market this week with a guide price of €1.2m.

Popular singer/songwriter Mickey Joe Harte has been announced as the special guest for the final of the Song for Simon competition, to be held on Saturday February 2 at 8pm in the Sheraton Athlone Hotel.

Three Westmeath events have been chosen as ‘flagship events’ as part of The Gathering 2013 - Festival of the Fires at the Hill of Uisneach in May, the Joe Dolan Westmeath Bachelor Festival in Mullingar on August 2-4, and the Pan European GAA Championship in Athlone in October.

There are two important games of local interest down for decision today (Friday) in the Leinster Senior A colleges football championship with a place in the last eight up for grabs. An all-Westmeath clash takes place when St Mary’s Mullingar welcome Marist College to town. Marist College will be fancied to progress but nothing can be taken for granted in this competition.

Banish those January blues and come along to the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone on Tuesday January 29 at 8pm , where Athlone Film Club will screen the compelling, high octane Argentinian thriller, Carancho (2010).

Months of research and experiments paid off for students from Athlone and Roscommon, with a number of local entries taking home awards from the 2013 BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, held last weekend.

Take time out this week to discover what the region has to offer with an early morning seminar in AIT. The Midland Regional Authority as part of the MidlandsIreland.ie branding initiative in association with Athlone Institute of Technology and Enterprise Ireland will host a briefing entitled ‘Discover what the Midlands region has to offer your business’. This event is targeted at businesses of all sizes, in the fields of environment, food, human health, animal health, nutrition, and cosmetics.

A Westmeath councillor has expressed concern about future development in some of the county’s smaller towns. Cllr Denis Leonard said he was worried that towns and villages like Kinnegad, Rochfortbridge, and Ballynacargy may be deprived of vital services in the future purely because their populations aren’t large enough.

Sixteen teams remain in contention in the Leinster senior A colleges championship ahead of round 2 which is due to take place next Wednesday January 23.