Northern Ireland News for August 2010 : Page 6

Northern Ireland News, Aug 19, 2010
Farrans Awarded Bangor Pool Project
The Co Antrim builder, Farrans, has been awarded the long-awaited Bangor Pool Project, which is valued at £30 million. It will include Northern Ireland's first 50m Olympic-sized swimming pool. The ...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 19, 2010
Cowen 'One Of World's Top Leaders'
Influential website, Newsweek, have identified the Irish Taoiseach as one of the top ten world leaders. Despite spending his tenure in two of the worst years in Ireland's recent economic history, the...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 19, 2010
Cross-Border Trade Slowing Fast
The flow of cross-border shopping - which has for years been the lifeblood of border traders - has been dramatically reduced. Anecdotal evidence from places like Newry City in South Down has now been...
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Business News, Aug 19, 2010
NI Supermarkets Ruled 'Anti-Competitive'
Local supermarkets have been 'found guilty' of anti-competitive practice, but have been given several years to put their respective houses in order. The retailers have each signed up to a deal with t...
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Business News, Aug 19, 2010
Cross-Border Trade Slowing Fast
The flow of cross-border shopping - which has for years been the lifeblood of border traders - has been dramatically reduced. Anecdotal evidence from places like Newry City in South Down has now been...
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UK National News, Aug 19, 2010
Car 'Ringers' Used Creeper Burglaries
A ten-strong criminal network who were stealing high value vehicles in so-called 'creeper burglaries then 'ringing them' and selling them on to innocent members of the public have been jailed for a to...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 19, 2010
North-South Interconnector Probe Launched
A public inquiry has been launched into proposals for a north-south electricity interconnector. Stormont Environment Minister Edwin Poots ordered the Planning Appeals Commission to investigate NIE an...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 19, 2010
Patton Books Library Refurb Prize
A Co Antrim business, Patton Fit-Out, has booked its place in a top awards ceremony by picking up a prize for its work on a library in Shepherds Bush, London. The Ballymena company, part of the Patto...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 19, 2010
Other NI News In Brief
BIG Appointment The Big Lottery Fund's new Northern Ireland Director has pledged to continue to support communities most in need in a challenging time of recession and change. Joanne McDowell (pictur...
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UK National News, Aug 19, 2010
'No Chaperone Policy' In Half Hospital Trusts
Only around half of acute hospital trusts in England have a formal chaperone policy, despite the recommendations of a public inquiry, new research has revealed. The study, which has been published on...
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Business News, Aug 19, 2010
Patton Books Top Prize For Library Refurb
Patton Fit-Out has picked up a top prize for its work on a library in Shepherds Bush, London. The Ballymena company, part of the Patton Group, took the Gold Award in one of three major categories wit...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 19, 2010
Paolo Nutini Gig Proves A 'Bel-Ter'
Paolo-mania gripped Belfast last night as the Paisley singer-songwriter returned to headline Belsonic - and it was a real 'belter' of a performance. Over 5,000 music lovers came out in force to witne...
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UK National News, Aug 19, 2010
Bidding Begins For Olympic Stadium
Premier league club West Ham has six weeks to finalise its plans as the bidding process for the Olympic Stadium begins. American sports and entertainment giant, AEG, who runs the former Millennium Do...
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UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Other News In Brief
Cornwall Blaze Body Identified A body found after a house fire in Cornwall has been identified as that of a missing local woman. Corby Craze, 43, had been reported missing after a night out in Bodmin...
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UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Gunman's Ashes Scattered Near Rothbury
The ashes of 'fugitive' gunman Raoul Moat have been scattered by his family near the spot where he took his own life. Moat died on July 10 in Rothbury following a six-hour stand-off with police. He h...
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UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Chaos As Kiss Travel Collapses
Travel firm Kiss Flights has collapsed, leaving the holiday plans of more than 60,000 travellers in chaos. The firm, which specialised in flights to Greece, Egypt, Turkey and the Canary Islands, fold...
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UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Coalition Marks 100 Days In Power
The Coalition Government is marking 100 days in power as reports indicate that spending on certain welfare payments, including the winter fuel allowance and child benefit, is being considered. The Go...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 18, 2010
Top Man Suspended In NI Water Probe
As news broke last night that the most senior civil servant in the Department for Regional Development (DRD) has been suspended over controversial events at NI Water (NIW), politicians have jointly ca...
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UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Orkney Cliff Fall Teenager Rescued
A 15-year-old boy has been rescued after falling down a cliff on the Orkney Isles. The incident happened north east of Hoy around the cliffs at the Bay of Tongue around 6pm on Tuesday. The boy, unde...
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UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Wife Remanded Over Spouse's Murder
A woman has appeared in court charged with the murder of her estranged husband in Surrey at the weekend. Sally Challen, 56, of Coverts Road, Claygate, appeared before Staines Magistrates' Court today...
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UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Driver Dies In Four Lorry Collision
A man has been killed in a collision involving four lorries on the M1 this morning. The incident happened around 4:40am between junctions 15 at Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. The driver of o...
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UK National News, Aug 18, 2010
Over 20 Hurt In Rail Crossing Crash
Twenty-one people have been injured after a train collided with a sewage tanker at a level crossing in Suffolk on Tuesday. The incident happened around 5:30pm at Little Cornard, near Sudbury, when th...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 18, 2010
£15m College Campus Planned For Belfast
A £15m educational facility for west Belfast that will boost economic development and promote employability, entrepreneurship and enterprise (or e3) has been announced. It centre is to be constructed ...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 18, 2010
Surveyors Expect Cuts 'To Hit Hard'
Activity in the local construction market fell further in the second quarter of the year, according to chartered surveyors. The latest RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Construction Mar...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 18, 2010
Rasharkin Parade Drama Unfolds
A tiny rural community is at the heart of a parading dispute this week after a decision by the NI Parades Commission to reject an alternative route for an annual parade in Rasharkin was labelled a "re...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 18, 2010
Belfast Welcomes Young Film Makers
Moviemakers of the future are in Northern Ireland this week to take what could be their first steps on the road to international stardom. Some 20 students - from Belfast, Donegal, Dublin, Los Angeles...
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Business News, Aug 18, 2010
Further Development For Drogheda Hospital
There's a €1.8 Million hospital conversion contract ready to start which will see part of the old Accident and Emergency facility at Drogheda's Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital made into a Medical Assessm...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 18, 2010
Castlebawn Tesco 'Not Under Threat'
There is confusion this week over the construction of a new Tesco Superstore in Newtownards after contractors brought in to lay foundations were told they were no longer required, according to the tow...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 18, 2010
Illegal Child Care 'Warning' Issued
A local childcare charity has issued a stark warning to parents who use unregistered childminders. NICMA - the Childminding Association said today that the use of unregistered childcarers in Northern...
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Business News, Aug 18, 2010
£1m Levy On Dublin 'Super' Hospital Bid
A huge new medical facility in south Dublin could be open as early as 2013 - but there would be a 'cost'. As reported in brief on <A HREF= 'http://www.constructionireland.ie/construction_news.asp?new...
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