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Northern Ireland News for June 2008 : Page 12
Northern Ireland News, Jun 9, 2008
Streets Closed Following Cork Building Collapse
A number of streets in Cork City are reported to have been closed following the collapse of a derelict building in Shandon Street today. It is understood that the building collapsed shortly after mid...
Streets Closed Following Cork Building Collapse
A number of streets in Cork City are reported to have been closed following the collapse of a derelict building in Shandon Street today. It is understood that the building collapsed shortly after mid...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
NEWS IN BRIEF
Birthday Celebrations For War Veteran A World War I veteran is celebrating his 112th birthday. Henry Allingham, born on 6 June, 1896, is also believed to be the last surviving original member of the ...
NEWS IN BRIEF
Birthday Celebrations For War Veteran A World War I veteran is celebrating his 112th birthday. Henry Allingham, born on 6 June, 1896, is also believed to be the last surviving original member of the ...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
Boy Found Hanged By Grandmother
A young boy has been found hanged at his Lancashire home. Eight-year-old Joshua Aldred was found unconscious in his bedroom by his grandmother in Lytham on Thursday evening. He was admitted to Blac...
Boy Found Hanged By Grandmother
A young boy has been found hanged at his Lancashire home. Eight-year-old Joshua Aldred was found unconscious in his bedroom by his grandmother in Lytham on Thursday evening. He was admitted to Blac...
Recruitment News, Jun 6, 2008
Aviva Announce Job Cuts
Aviva has announced up to 1,800 job cuts by 2010 as part of the company's pending transformation. Aviva says that the operation function of its general insurance business Norwich Union Insurance (NUI...
Aviva Announce Job Cuts
Aviva has announced up to 1,800 job cuts by 2010 as part of the company's pending transformation. Aviva says that the operation function of its general insurance business Norwich Union Insurance (NUI...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
NI Waterway To The World Mooted
A huge construction project centred on waterway-based tourism is set to be literally 'ground-breaking' if funding is achieved. Lisburn City Council is taking the lead in the imaginative development, ...
NI Waterway To The World Mooted
A huge construction project centred on waterway-based tourism is set to be literally 'ground-breaking' if funding is achieved. Lisburn City Council is taking the lead in the imaginative development, ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
Divis Gets Facelift
Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie has today announced that work is about to start on the major refurbishment of St Peter's Immaculata Youth Centre in the Divis Area of west Belfast. The £...
Divis Gets Facelift
Social Development Minister Margaret Ritchie has today announced that work is about to start on the major refurbishment of St Peter's Immaculata Youth Centre in the Divis Area of west Belfast. The £...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
Babysitter Denies Murder Ahead Of Retrial
A babysitter accused of killing a two-year-old will face a retrial in a bid to clear her name. Suzanne Holdworth, 37, of Millpool Close, has denied that she banged Kyle Fisher's head against a banist...
Babysitter Denies Murder Ahead Of Retrial
A babysitter accused of killing a two-year-old will face a retrial in a bid to clear her name. Suzanne Holdworth, 37, of Millpool Close, has denied that she banged Kyle Fisher's head against a banist...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
NI News In Brief
It's A Sign! Hardy Irish naturists should feel better this week with news of a call to erect signage at a local nudist beach. A Leitrim member of the Irish Naturist Association has long been calling ...
NI News In Brief
It's A Sign! Hardy Irish naturists should feel better this week with news of a call to erect signage at a local nudist beach. A Leitrim member of the Irish Naturist Association has long been calling ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
Robinson's 'Gay' Comments Provoke Controversy
On the week of a serious Co Antrim homophobic attack, when the assault victim was "left for dead", the NI First Minister's wife, MLA Iris Robinson, has shocked some BBC listeners with her views that g...
Robinson's 'Gay' Comments Provoke Controversy
On the week of a serious Co Antrim homophobic attack, when the assault victim was "left for dead", the NI First Minister's wife, MLA Iris Robinson, has shocked some BBC listeners with her views that g...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
British Divers Missing In Indonesia
Three British people have been reported missing in Indonesia. The man and two women were among a group that hasn't returned from a diving trip off Bali on Thursday. A further two holidaymakers, repo...
British Divers Missing In Indonesia
Three British people have been reported missing in Indonesia. The man and two women were among a group that hasn't returned from a diving trip off Bali on Thursday. A further two holidaymakers, repo...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
Teen Gets Life For Brixton Murder
A teenager has been jailed for life for the murder of a youth worker. Nathan Foster, 18, from Brixton, was found with six bullet wounds in Marcus Garvey Way, near Brixton Tube stations last August af...
Teen Gets Life For Brixton Murder
A teenager has been jailed for life for the murder of a youth worker. Nathan Foster, 18, from Brixton, was found with six bullet wounds in Marcus Garvey Way, near Brixton Tube stations last August af...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
Two Men Detained After Farm Seige
Two men - aged 50 and 51 - are being held in custody in connection with a siege at a farm near Glasgow. Armed officers and negotiators surrounded Law Muir Farm at Hardgate near Clydebank at around 10...
Two Men Detained After Farm Seige
Two men - aged 50 and 51 - are being held in custody in connection with a siege at a farm near Glasgow. Armed officers and negotiators surrounded Law Muir Farm at Hardgate near Clydebank at around 10...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
Royalties Case Dismissed For Former Busted Members
Two former members of boyband Busted have lost their High Court battle for song royalties. Ki McPhail and Owen Doyle claimed that they were forced to sign away their rights to songs like Year 3000 an...
Royalties Case Dismissed For Former Busted Members
Two former members of boyband Busted have lost their High Court battle for song royalties. Ki McPhail and Owen Doyle claimed that they were forced to sign away their rights to songs like Year 3000 an...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
HazChem Alert At Docks
The emergency services are this afternoon dealing with what police have described as a chemical 'explosion' involving hazardous materials in the docks area of Belfast. The PSNI said a 100-metre exclu...
HazChem Alert At Docks
The emergency services are this afternoon dealing with what police have described as a chemical 'explosion' involving hazardous materials in the docks area of Belfast. The PSNI said a 100-metre exclu...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
Government Plans 'A Swim For All'
Swimming pools could be free for all by the London 2012 Olympics, according to the Government. The first stage of the initiative will give over 60's free admission to swimming pools. Culture, Media ...
Government Plans 'A Swim For All'
Swimming pools could be free for all by the London 2012 Olympics, according to the Government. The first stage of the initiative will give over 60's free admission to swimming pools. Culture, Media ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
Top NI Team Open London Talks
The new NI top team have had little time to celebrate, as they are this morning in London with the Prime Minister. Welcoming Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness to Downing Street on their first day ...
Top NI Team Open London Talks
The new NI top team have had little time to celebrate, as they are this morning in London with the Prime Minister. Welcoming Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness to Downing Street on their first day ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
Investment Conference Bomb Alerts 'Played Down'
It has been revealed that bomb alerts last month - on the opening day of the high profile US-NI investment conference - were far more numerous and potentially much more disruptive than was admitted at...
Investment Conference Bomb Alerts 'Played Down'
It has been revealed that bomb alerts last month - on the opening day of the high profile US-NI investment conference - were far more numerous and potentially much more disruptive than was admitted at...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
Stomach Wound Killed Bar Brawl Victim
The trial of the man accused of killing Short Strand man, Robert McCartney has heard that a single stomach wound killed the victim. Belfast Crown Court heard yesterday from the Deputy State Pathologi...
Stomach Wound Killed Bar Brawl Victim
The trial of the man accused of killing Short Strand man, Robert McCartney has heard that a single stomach wound killed the victim. Belfast Crown Court heard yesterday from the Deputy State Pathologi...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
Councillor Calls On Government To Deliver 'Cost Effective' Stadium
As Belfast City Council has announced a shortlist of five potential sites for a multi-purpose sports stadium in the city, Bob Stoker, Chairman of the council's Parks and Leisure Committee, repeated hi...
Councillor Calls On Government To Deliver 'Cost Effective' Stadium
As Belfast City Council has announced a shortlist of five potential sites for a multi-purpose sports stadium in the city, Bob Stoker, Chairman of the council's Parks and Leisure Committee, repeated hi...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 6, 2008
Farmers 'Notebook' To Lessen Paperwork Burden
A campaign to advise farmers that legislation that requires record keeping of on-farm activities need not be too much of a burden has been launched. The Food Standards Agency Northern Ireland (FSANI)...
Farmers 'Notebook' To Lessen Paperwork Burden
A campaign to advise farmers that legislation that requires record keeping of on-farm activities need not be too much of a burden has been launched. The Food Standards Agency Northern Ireland (FSANI)...
UK National News, Jun 6, 2008
Brown Targets Knives
The PM, Gordon Brown has urged prosecutors to take more teenagers to court if there is a suggestion of a knife being involved in a crime. He said yesterday that 16 and 17-year-olds should be taken to...
Brown Targets Knives
The PM, Gordon Brown has urged prosecutors to take more teenagers to court if there is a suggestion of a knife being involved in a crime. He said yesterday that 16 and 17-year-olds should be taken to...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2008
Interest Rates Remain At 5%
Interest rates are to remain the same in the UK at 5% following a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The Bank of England committee sets an interest rate it judges will enable the inflati...
Interest Rates Remain At 5%
Interest rates are to remain the same in the UK at 5% following a meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC). The Bank of England committee sets an interest rate it judges will enable the inflati...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2008
Investigation Launched After Boy Falls To His Death
An investigation is underway after a young boy died after falling from a tower block. Christian Castano fell from the 18th floor flat in Whitstable House in Ladbroke Grove, north Kensington, at the w...
Investigation Launched After Boy Falls To His Death
An investigation is underway after a young boy died after falling from a tower block. Christian Castano fell from the 18th floor flat in Whitstable House in Ladbroke Grove, north Kensington, at the w...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2008
Conservative Leader Steps Down Amid Expenses Scandal
The Conservative leader of the European Parliament Giles Chichester has stepped down following an expenses scandal. Last night, Mr Chichester admitted that substantial monies had been going into a fa...
Conservative Leader Steps Down Amid Expenses Scandal
The Conservative leader of the European Parliament Giles Chichester has stepped down following an expenses scandal. Last night, Mr Chichester admitted that substantial monies had been going into a fa...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2008
'Tele Shuts Derry Plant
Decades of newspaper history are to come to an end as the iconic Belfast Telegraph has revealed that it is to shut its offices in Londonderry. Independent News and Media - which owns the paper - made...
'Tele Shuts Derry Plant
Decades of newspaper history are to come to an end as the iconic Belfast Telegraph has revealed that it is to shut its offices in Londonderry. Independent News and Media - which owns the paper - made...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2008
Metal Firm Bosses Jailed For Fraud
Three former bosses of a UK metal trading firm have been imprisoned for a total of 25 years and six months after defrauding £359 million from creditors. Virenda Rastogi, Anand Jain and Gautam Majumda...
Metal Firm Bosses Jailed For Fraud
Three former bosses of a UK metal trading firm have been imprisoned for a total of 25 years and six months after defrauding £359 million from creditors. Virenda Rastogi, Anand Jain and Gautam Majumda...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 5, 2008
Community Groups Showcase Good Relations Work
Community groups from across Belfast have been showcasing the work they are doing to promote good relations in the city. Groups working in the fields of community arts, conflict transformation and tr...
Community Groups Showcase Good Relations Work
Community groups from across Belfast have been showcasing the work they are doing to promote good relations in the city. Groups working in the fields of community arts, conflict transformation and tr...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2008
Investigation Into Baby's Death
An investigation has been launched into the death of a baby girl - killed by her own father. Twenty-five-year old Gary Allen, admitted to the manslaughter of his five-month-old daughter in Bournmoor,...
Investigation Into Baby's Death
An investigation has been launched into the death of a baby girl - killed by her own father. Twenty-five-year old Gary Allen, admitted to the manslaughter of his five-month-old daughter in Bournmoor,...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2008
Arsema Mum Accuses Police Of 'Failing To Protect' Daughter
The mother of a teenage girl who killed in a violent attack has slammed police for failing to protect her daughter. Arsema Dawit, who had just turned 15 on Friday, suffered multiple stab wounds resul...
Arsema Mum Accuses Police Of 'Failing To Protect' Daughter
The mother of a teenage girl who killed in a violent attack has slammed police for failing to protect her daughter. Arsema Dawit, who had just turned 15 on Friday, suffered multiple stab wounds resul...
UK National News, Jun 5, 2008
Ozzy Wins Libel Damages
Former hellraiser Ozzy Osbourne has won damages from a British newspaper over health scare allegations. Osbourne, 59, has accepted libel damages awarded at London's High Court for an accusation by th...
Ozzy Wins Libel Damages
Former hellraiser Ozzy Osbourne has won damages from a British newspaper over health scare allegations. Osbourne, 59, has accepted libel damages awarded at London's High Court for an accusation by th...
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Northern Ireland WeatherThis Evening and Tonight:Clear intervals and occasional wintry showers this evening with local fresh snowfalls and some ice. Overnight as winds ease showers will die back to northern coastal areas. Frosty. Minimum temperature -3 °C.
