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Northern Ireland News for January 2009 : Page 7
Northern Ireland News, Jan 20, 2009
Vote On Cutting Number Of Stormont Departments Passed
The DUP has won a battle - but not the war - in a bid to reduce the number of Stormont departments. Assembly members voted yesterday on the party's motion on cutting the number of departments from 11...
Vote On Cutting Number Of Stormont Departments Passed
The DUP has won a battle - but not the war - in a bid to reduce the number of Stormont departments. Assembly members voted yesterday on the party's motion on cutting the number of departments from 11...
UK National News, Jan 20, 2009
Lost Timber 'Heading Towards Kent Shore'
Around 1,500 tonnes of timber that fell from a cargo ship in the English Channel is expected to reach the Kent shore in the next two days. According to Solent Coastguard, the timber is still mid-chan...
Lost Timber 'Heading Towards Kent Shore'
Around 1,500 tonnes of timber that fell from a cargo ship in the English Channel is expected to reach the Kent shore in the next two days. According to Solent Coastguard, the timber is still mid-chan...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 20, 2009
Flanagan 'Unaware' Of Nelson Special Branch Files
Former RUC boss Ronnie Flanagan has told an inquiry into the death of Rosemary Nelson that he had no knowledge of any Special Branch files on the prominent solicitor, and denied ever referring to her ...
Flanagan 'Unaware' Of Nelson Special Branch Files
Former RUC boss Ronnie Flanagan has told an inquiry into the death of Rosemary Nelson that he had no knowledge of any Special Branch files on the prominent solicitor, and denied ever referring to her ...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 20, 2009
Other NI News In Brief
Aldergrove Alert Over Emergency services were called to Belfast International Airport following reports that an aircraft was in difficulties on Monday night. The airport's emergency services were joi...
Other NI News In Brief
Aldergrove Alert Over Emergency services were called to Belfast International Airport following reports that an aircraft was in difficulties on Monday night. The airport's emergency services were joi...
UK National News, Jan 20, 2009
Cancer Patients Urged To Apply For Free Prescriptions From Today
People being treated for cancer will be eligible for free prescriptions from 1st April and can apply for free prescriptions from today. The new scheme, announced by the Prime Minister in September la...
Cancer Patients Urged To Apply For Free Prescriptions From Today
People being treated for cancer will be eligible for free prescriptions from 1st April and can apply for free prescriptions from today. The new scheme, announced by the Prime Minister in September la...
UK National News, Jan 20, 2009
£12m Coastal Resort Regeneration Announced
Coastal towns across four different English regions are to benefit from £12 million from the Government's Sea Change programme. Southport, Great Yarmouth, Bridlington and Hastings are the latest towns...
£12m Coastal Resort Regeneration Announced
Coastal towns across four different English regions are to benefit from £12 million from the Government's Sea Change programme. Southport, Great Yarmouth, Bridlington and Hastings are the latest towns...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 20, 2009
International Deal Is Good News On Jobs
An Omagh-based engineering company has secured its first orders from South America and North Africa, totalling almost £400,000. Telestack International, which is a longstanding Invest Northern Irelan...
International Deal Is Good News On Jobs
An Omagh-based engineering company has secured its first orders from South America and North Africa, totalling almost £400,000. Telestack International, which is a longstanding Invest Northern Irelan...
UK National News, Jan 20, 2009
Other News In Brief
Three Injured In Aircraft Crash Three people have been reported injured in an aircraft crash in Cornwall. The twin-engined aircraft, with a total of three people on board, crashed at Land's End Airpo...
Other News In Brief
Three Injured In Aircraft Crash Three people have been reported injured in an aircraft crash in Cornwall. The twin-engined aircraft, with a total of three people on board, crashed at Land's End Airpo...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 20, 2009
Sainsbury's Signs Up With Clandeboye
A Co Down dairy farm has signed up with one of the UK's biggest retailers. Bryan Boggs, Business Manager, Clandeboye Estate Yoghurt, Anna Patterson, Michael McCambley, Sainsbury's Northern Ireland Co...
Sainsbury's Signs Up With Clandeboye
A Co Down dairy farm has signed up with one of the UK's biggest retailers. Bryan Boggs, Business Manager, Clandeboye Estate Yoghurt, Anna Patterson, Michael McCambley, Sainsbury's Northern Ireland Co...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
Road Tragedy Recalled At City Centre Safety Summit
Just weeks after a tragic bus accident claimed the life of a teenage girl who was crossing a main road in the centre of Belfast, the Northern Ireland Roads Minister Conor Murphy has held a mini 'summi...
Road Tragedy Recalled At City Centre Safety Summit
Just weeks after a tragic bus accident claimed the life of a teenage girl who was crossing a main road in the centre of Belfast, the Northern Ireland Roads Minister Conor Murphy has held a mini 'summi...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
Second Bank Bail Out Measures Announced
The Government has revealed a second package of measures to encourage banks to start lending again, and to help the sector through the financial crisis. Among the measures announced today was a schem...
Second Bank Bail Out Measures Announced
The Government has revealed a second package of measures to encourage banks to start lending again, and to help the sector through the financial crisis. Among the measures announced today was a schem...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
Support Package For Councils Announced As DUP Seeks Stormont Cuts
While on one hand NI's largest political party is calling for cost-saving cuts in the Stormont Assembly - by seeking a reduction in the number of Government departments - a DUP Minister has today pled...
Support Package For Councils Announced As DUP Seeks Stormont Cuts
While on one hand NI's largest political party is calling for cost-saving cuts in the Stormont Assembly - by seeking a reduction in the number of Government departments - a DUP Minister has today pled...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
Clarke To 'Eyeball' Mandelson In Tory Cabinet Role
Veteran Tory MP Kenneth Clarke has stepped back into front line politics, in a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle that will see him come head-to-head with Business Secretary Peter Mandelson. The former Conser...
Clarke To 'Eyeball' Mandelson In Tory Cabinet Role
Veteran Tory MP Kenneth Clarke has stepped back into front line politics, in a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle that will see him come head-to-head with Business Secretary Peter Mandelson. The former Conser...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
More Short Term Jobs Losses Predicted
Unemployment in Northern Ireland could rise by as much as 1,000 every month this year, an economist has said. The claim comes just days after fears were expressed that as many as 20,000 more jobs coul...
More Short Term Jobs Losses Predicted
Unemployment in Northern Ireland could rise by as much as 1,000 every month this year, an economist has said. The claim comes just days after fears were expressed that as many as 20,000 more jobs coul...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
RAF Hercules Airlifts Premature Newborn Twins
Twins born prematurely have been airlifted by an RAF Hercules aircraft from the Outer Hebrides to a hospital on the Scottish mainland, in an emergency rescue operation. The mother of the babies went ...
RAF Hercules Airlifts Premature Newborn Twins
Twins born prematurely have been airlifted by an RAF Hercules aircraft from the Outer Hebrides to a hospital on the Scottish mainland, in an emergency rescue operation. The mother of the babies went ...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
Cargo Ship Loses Timber In Rough Seas
A Russian cargo ship has lost 1,500 tonnes of timber in rough seas off the Sussex coast. The Sinegorsk was 14 nautical miles south of Newhaven on its way from Oskarshamn in Russia to Alexandria in Eg...
Cargo Ship Loses Timber In Rough Seas
A Russian cargo ship has lost 1,500 tonnes of timber in rough seas off the Sussex coast. The Sinegorsk was 14 nautical miles south of Newhaven on its way from Oskarshamn in Russia to Alexandria in Eg...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
Fifty Children Abused A Day, New Figures Show
Police recorded more than 50 sexual offences against children every day last year, new shocking statistics have revealed. The police figures, obtained by children's charity NSPCC, found more than 20,...
Fifty Children Abused A Day, New Figures Show
Police recorded more than 50 sexual offences against children every day last year, new shocking statistics have revealed. The police figures, obtained by children's charity NSPCC, found more than 20,...
Business News, Jan 19, 2009
Other NI Business News In Brief
Fishing For Success Revolutionary cooking technology pioneered by a Kilkeel company is expanding export markets for its range of langoustines and other shellfish. Rooney Fish - assisted by Invest Nor...
Other NI Business News In Brief
Fishing For Success Revolutionary cooking technology pioneered by a Kilkeel company is expanding export markets for its range of langoustines and other shellfish. Rooney Fish - assisted by Invest Nor...
Recruitment News, Jan 19, 2009
Tara Mines Workers Taker Vote On Cost-Cutting Plan
Workers at Tara Mines are will today vote on the proposed cost-cutting plan for workers at the Navan-based company. The deal, brokered after protracted negotiations between SIPTU and the company's ma...
Tara Mines Workers Taker Vote On Cost-Cutting Plan
Workers at Tara Mines are will today vote on the proposed cost-cutting plan for workers at the Navan-based company. The deal, brokered after protracted negotiations between SIPTU and the company's ma...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
Storm Kills Downpatrick Company Director
A weekend storm that battered the east coast of Northern Ireland left a woman motorist dead in its wake. Mairead Teresa Shields, 35, from Raholp, near Downpatrick was killed in Co Down after a tree b...
Storm Kills Downpatrick Company Director
A weekend storm that battered the east coast of Northern Ireland left a woman motorist dead in its wake. Mairead Teresa Shields, 35, from Raholp, near Downpatrick was killed in Co Down after a tree b...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
Flanagan To Appear At Nelson Inquiry
The former head of the RUC is to give evidence at an inquiry into the death of Belfast solicitor Rosemary Nelson. Sir Ronnie Flanagan, who was Chief Constable at the time of Ms Nelson's murder, will...
Flanagan To Appear At Nelson Inquiry
The former head of the RUC is to give evidence at an inquiry into the death of Belfast solicitor Rosemary Nelson. Sir Ronnie Flanagan, who was Chief Constable at the time of Ms Nelson's murder, will...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
Police Appeal For Man Who 'Ignored' Mugged Pensioner
Police have issued an appeal after it emerged a man walked past an 81-year-old woman who asked him for help, as she lay injured on the pavement after being mugged. Metropolitan Police officers want t...
Police Appeal For Man Who 'Ignored' Mugged Pensioner
Police have issued an appeal after it emerged a man walked past an 81-year-old woman who asked him for help, as she lay injured on the pavement after being mugged. Metropolitan Police officers want t...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
Defence Secretary Calls For 'Joint Approach' To Tackle Extremism
Britain's national security depends more than ever on a joint approach to tackling the forces of extremist violence on both sides of the Afghanistan and Pakistan border, the Defence Secretary said tod...
Defence Secretary Calls For 'Joint Approach' To Tackle Extremism
Britain's national security depends more than ever on a joint approach to tackling the forces of extremist violence on both sides of the Afghanistan and Pakistan border, the Defence Secretary said tod...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
Fires Probed
As the police investigate the circumstances of an arson attack in Newtownards, another overnight fire - this time at an industrial estate in Crumlin - is also being treated as suspicious. The second ...
Fires Probed
As the police investigate the circumstances of an arson attack in Newtownards, another overnight fire - this time at an industrial estate in Crumlin - is also being treated as suspicious. The second ...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
Other NI News In Brief
Stabbed Man Hospitalised A stabbing has left a man in his 20s needing hospital treatment for neck injuries following an incident in Poleglass. Police were called to Woodside Park in the Poleglass are...
Other NI News In Brief
Stabbed Man Hospitalised A stabbing has left a man in his 20s needing hospital treatment for neck injuries following an incident in Poleglass. Police were called to Woodside Park in the Poleglass are...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
Children's TV Presenter Hart Dies, Aged 83
Artist and children's television presenter Tony Hart has died at the age of 83. Hart, who appeared on art programmes for nearly 50 years, died in the early hours of Sunday morning, his agent Roc Rena...
Children's TV Presenter Hart Dies, Aged 83
Artist and children's television presenter Tony Hart has died at the age of 83. Hart, who appeared on art programmes for nearly 50 years, died in the early hours of Sunday morning, his agent Roc Rena...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
Body Recovered As Donegal Search For Doctor Continues
As volunteers and coast guard personnel battled strong storms in continuing searches for missing Belfast-born doctor Deirdre Donnelly-O'Flaherty along the east coast of the Inishowen Peninsula at the ...
Body Recovered As Donegal Search For Doctor Continues
As volunteers and coast guard personnel battled strong storms in continuing searches for missing Belfast-born doctor Deirdre Donnelly-O'Flaherty along the east coast of the Inishowen Peninsula at the ...
Recruitment News, Jan 19, 2009
Denham Welcomes New Jobs Report
A new report predicting big employment opportunities in sectors like business, education, distribution and transport over the current decade to 2017 was welcomed today by the Government. The report '...
Denham Welcomes New Jobs Report
A new report predicting big employment opportunities in sectors like business, education, distribution and transport over the current decade to 2017 was welcomed today by the Government. The report '...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 19, 2009
Mayor Hails Derry Station Upgrade Work
A major overhaul of services at Londonderry Rail Station has been completed. Translink said it hopes the improvements will make local rail travel even more attractive, easy to use and hassle free. ...
Mayor Hails Derry Station Upgrade Work
A major overhaul of services at Londonderry Rail Station has been completed. Translink said it hopes the improvements will make local rail travel even more attractive, easy to use and hassle free. ...
UK National News, Jan 19, 2009
Other News In Brief
Two Charged Over Waiter Murder Two men have been charged with the murder of a waiter who died in a fight at an east London restaurant. Syed Qamar Islam, 28, died on Friday after suffering head injuri...
Other News In Brief
Two Charged Over Waiter Murder Two men have been charged with the murder of a waiter who died in a fight at an east London restaurant. Syed Qamar Islam, 28, died on Friday after suffering head injuri...
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Northern Ireland WeatherToday:It will stay dry and also a rather cloudy start, then sunny spells gradually developing through the day. Another mild day with brisk southwesterly winds. Maximum temperature 10 °C.Tonight:Staying dry with clear periods at first then cloudier skies edging in overnight. Turning chilly where skies remain clear. A light southerly breeze. Minimum temperature 3 °C.
