Northern Ireland News for November 2006

Northern Ireland News, Nov 30, 2006
Omagh judge orders investigation into evidence
The judge at the Omagh bomb trial has today hit out at two police officers after it emerged that there had been doubt cast upon the evidence in which they supplied to the court. Mr Justice Weir, said...
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UK National News, Nov 30, 2006
Reward offered following robbery shooting
A £25,000 reward has been offered after an armed gang shot at unarmed officers during a bank robbery in Horwich. The robbery took place on Wednesday morning at the Barclays Bank on Winter Hey Lane. ...
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Recruitment News, Nov 30, 2006
Irish Labour Affairs Minister To Consult On Minimum Wage
Ireland's Minister for Labour Affairs Tony Killeen has received the Labour Court’s recommendation in relation to the national minimum hourly rate of pay. However, the Minister said that the Economic ...
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UK National News, Nov 30, 2006
Man jailed for grandmother's murder
A man has been jailed for life for the murder of a grandmother in a bus station toilet 12 years ago. Ian O'Callaghan, 38, was found guilty of the murder of 66-year-old Shirley Leach at Bury Interchan...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 30, 2006
Budget DIY closes NI stores
All of the Budget DIY stores have closed their doors today for the final time as a result of the store going into administration. Approximately 200 members of staff will be made redundant due to the ...
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UK National News, Nov 30, 2006
Radiation found in 12 locations in Litvinenko investigation
Traces of a radioactive substance have been found in 12 locations as the investigation into the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko continues. Speaking in the Commons, Home Secretary John ...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 30, 2006
Paisley to meet with family of 'disappeared'
DUP leader Ian Paisley is to today meet with the mother of one of the so-called disappeared. Columba McVeigh, 17, from Donaghmore in Co Tyrone, was kidnapped and murdered by the IRA in 1975. In 1999,...
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UK National News, Nov 30, 2006
Terrorist suspects lose US extradition battle
Two terrorist suspects have lost their court battle to avoid being extradited to the US. Haroon Aswat is accused of attempting to establish a camp in the US to train fighters for Afghanistan, while B...
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UK National News, Nov 30, 2006
Chancellor 'upbeat' over son's disease
Chancellor Gordon Brown has said that he is upbeat about his four-month-old son Fraser's future after it was revealed that he has been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. A spokesperson for Mr Brown and ...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 30, 2006
'Viable device' found in Coleraine
Army Technical Officers have carried out a controlled explosion after a “viable device” was found in County Londonderry in the early hours of this morning. Police were called to the scene after rece...
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UK National News, Nov 30, 2006
Farepak customers to begin receiving compensation
Customers who lost money when the Farepak Christmas saving scheme are to begin receiving compensation in the form of shopping vouchers from next week. The compensation fund has reached more than £6 m...
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UK National News, Nov 30, 2006
UK forces to receive festive 'thank you'
Members of the UK armed forces deployed overseas during the Christmas period are to receive Christmas boxes of gifts, Under Secretary of State Derek Twigg has announced. Dubbed 'the square stocking',...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 30, 2006
Armed robbery in west Belfast
Police in west Belfast have appealed for information following an armed robbery yesterday afternoon. Officers arrived at the DIY store in the Kennedy Centre after receiving reports of shots being fir...
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UK National News, Nov 30, 2006
Internet 'makes life easier' for UK users
Internet users in the UK are using the web in order to make their lives easier, a survey by the HM Revenue & Customs has revealed. The survey found that 86% of internet users found it easier to use o...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 30, 2006
Emergency Services tackle city centre fire
Emergency Services have attended a fire in south Belfast in the early hours of this morning. Fire crews were called to a commercial premises at Greenland Street close to the St Peter's Hill area of t...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 30, 2006
Drugs find in County Armagh
Police in County Armagh have seized a quantity of drugs following a planned police search yesterday evening. The planned operation was carried out at a premises in the Parkmore area of Craigavon shor...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 30, 2006
Human rights conference set for Belfast
The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission is inviting the public to celebrate Human Rights Week by attending a special conference taking place between December 7 and 8 at the Hilton Hotel in Belfas...
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UK National News, Nov 29, 2006
Royal editor pleads guilty to phone-tapping
Clive Goodman, Royal editor of the News of the World, has admitted conspiring to intercept voicemail messages at the Old Bailey. The 48-year-old journalist, from Putney, south-west London, was arrest...
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UK National News, Nov 29, 2006
Schoolgirl to return to Scotland from Pakistan
The schoolgirl at the centre of an international custody battle has been ordered to return to Scotland by a court in Pakistan. Twelve-year-old Molly Campbell, now known as Misbah Rana, left her home ...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 29, 2006
County Armagh pensioner robbed by gang
Police have appealed for information after a pensioner was robbed by a gang in her home in County Armagh. A spokesperson for the PSNI said that a gang of up to six men broke into the home of a woman ...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 29, 2006
Bank heist accused wins right to Lords hearing
A Belfast man accused of the £26.5 million Northern Bank robbery has today won the right to a hearing in the House of Lords. Christopher Ward, 25, from Colinmill, Poleglass, west Belfast, was charged...
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UK National News, Nov 29, 2006
More locations tested in Litvinenko investigation
Police investigating the death of former KGB agent Litvinenko are examining two new locations in London's West End. The search for traces of polonium 210 - a radioactive substance found in the body o...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 29, 2006
Stone reveals plans to Belfast newspaper
Loyalist killer Michael Stone has today revealed his intentions for last Friday's Stormont attack in a letter to a Belfast newspaper. Stone, 51, admitted in a letter to the Belfast Telegraph that he ...
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UK National News, Nov 29, 2006
Police officers shot at in bank robbery
Two police officers have been shot at during an armed bank robbery in Bolton, Greater Manchester. The shooting happened at Barclays Bank on Winter Hey Lane in Horwich on Wednesday morning. A gang of...
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UK National News, Nov 29, 2006
Artist arrested over 'Dreamspace' deaths
The artist who created an inflatable sculpture in which two women died when it broke free from its moorings has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. Durham Police arrested Maurice Agis, 74, in...
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UK National News, Nov 29, 2006
Anti-smoking campaigner dies from lung cancer
Allen Carr, the anti-smoking campaigner whose books helped millions of smokers to give up the habit, has died from lung cancer. The 72-year-old, who used to smoke 100 cigarettes a day before he quit ...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 29, 2006
Sinn Fein leader informed of death threat
Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has today been contacted by police who informed him that there is another threat to his life. A spokesperson for Sinn Féin said: “Sinn Féin takes all of the recent thr...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 29, 2006
Government launches water charges information leaflet
The government has today launched a leaflet aimed at householders, businesses, farmers and organisations in Northern Ireland, to ensue that they are given clear information about what the introduction...
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UK National News, Nov 29, 2006
Protests at immigration centre
Disturbances at Britain's largest immigration detention facility have caused disruption across the whole centre. The trouble broke out at the Harmondsworth centre in Middlesex in the early hours of W...
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Northern Ireland News, Nov 29, 2006
Man due in court over bomb hoaxes
A 19-year-old man is due to appear at Craigavon Magistrates Court later today facing charges of causing bomb hoaxes. The charges relate to two separate security alerts – the first in the Kilmain Stre...
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