Northern Ireland News for May 2012

UK National News, May 31, 2012
Titus Bramble Cleared Of Sex Offences
A Premier League footballer has been cleared of sexually assaulting two women. Sunderland defender Titus Bramble consistently denied charges of groping a woman’s bottom in a club in Yarm, Teesside, a...
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UK National News, May 31, 2012
Rioters Convicted Of Shooting At Police
Three men who blockaded a main road and shot at police during last summer's Birmingham riots deliberately lured police to the scene, a court heard. They started a fire at a pub in Aston and blockaded...
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UK National News, May 31, 2012
UK University Applications Down By 9%
The numbers of people applying to study for degrees in Britain has plummeted. Demand is down by 9% compared to this time last year, figures from UCAS (Universities and Colleges Admissions Service) re...
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UK National News, May 31, 2012
Motor Insurance Market Referred To Competition Commission
The OFT has provisionally decided to refer the private motor insurance market to the Competition Commission after it found evidence that insurers compete in a dysfunctional way that may push up premiu...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
Queen To Visit Northern Ireland Next Month
The Queen is set to visit Northern Ireland during her Diamond Jubilee tour. She and the Duke of Edinburgh will visit Enniskillen and Belfast on June 26 and 27 in the tour of the UK, which marks 60 ye...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
Burglar Finds Body In Lurgan Flat
A would-be burglar found the blood-covered body of a man who had been battered to death two days previously. Andrew Lorimer, 43, was found dead in Portlec Place, Lurgan, in the early hours of Februar...
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Business News, May 31, 2012
Minister Meets First Local Business To Benefit From New ERP
Finance Minister Sammy Wilson has congratulated a local woman from Londonderry who is the first person to benefit from the recently introduced discount for empty retail premises. Mrs Catriona Jones ...
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Recruitment News, May 31, 2012
Wells Hopes Strike Action Doesn't Damage Reputation Of Doctors
Vice Chairman of the Assembly’s Health Committee Jim Wells has commented on the result of the British Medical Association ballot of doctors which see a planned day of industrial action in June. Spea...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
Thousand Olympic Athletes To Train In NI
A thousand world-class athletes will be training in Northern Ireland in the run-up to the summer Olympics and Paralympics. Three wheelchair fencing teams announced today that they have chosen the Uni...
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Recruitment News, May 31, 2012
Over 620 Job Loses Expected At BAE Systems
BAE Systems is set to cut over 600 jobs and close its Newcastle factory. Subject to consultation a total of 620 jobs could be lost in the UK. Around 330 jobs at Newcastle may go plus 200 in its mun...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
'Fifteen Years' For Alleged Bum Pinch
A Northern Ireland businessman is facing up to 15 years in jail after allegedly groping a woman's bottom. Belfast-born Steven Sherriff, who has lived in Dubai for seven years, fell foul of the emirat...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
Outgoing Belfast Mayor Looks Back On Year In Office
The outgoing Lord Mayor of Belfast has cast an eye back over his year in the mayoral chain. Sinn Fein's Niall O Donnghaile leaves office on Friday after being the party's third Belfast mayor. He was...
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UK National News, May 31, 2012
UK House Prices Edge Up By 0.3% In May
The price of a typical UK house rose by 0.3% according to the latest Nationwide House Price Index. The price of typical home now stands at £166,022, but are 0.7%lower compared to last year. Robert G...
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UK National News, May 31, 2012
A&E Waiting Times Hit Eight-Year High
The proportion of patients spending more than four hours in A&E has increased by more than a quarter over the last year, reaching its highest level since 2004, according to the latest quarterly monito...
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UK National News, May 31, 2012
Child Fire Death Couple Remanded
The parents of six children who were killed in a house fire in Derby have appeared in Southern Derbyshire Magistrates' Court Mick Philpott, 55, and his wife Mairead, 31, have been charged with murde...
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UK National News, May 31, 2012
Empty Buildings To Become Available For Start-Up Businesses
20 empty Government buildings will become spaces available for start-up businesses it has been announced today. 18 locations across England have been identified as having the potential to be used by ...
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UK National News, May 31, 2012
Other UK News In Brief
Fiennes Documentary Faked Footage An explorer pretended to fall down a glacial crevasse to get exciting footage for a television documentary, the Appeal Court has heard. Natalie Harrison also...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
NI-Korean Show To Hit Mac Theatre
A multimedia and cross-cultural show will hit the new Mac theatre this month, marking the first time a south Korean ballet troupe ever performs in Northern Ireland. Geoung Soo Kim ballet company will...
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Business News, May 31, 2012
New Premises For Fermanagh Firm Officially Opens
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster today officially opened new state of the art premises for Fermanagh company, Webtech (NI) Ltd. Webtech NI provides a wide range of packaging services to the food and...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
City Of Culture 2013 Programme Launched
Leading art event the Turner Prize will leave London for the first time next year to come to Northern Ireland in the first UK City of Culture celebrations. The prize will be hosted at the new cultura...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
Alliance Under Fire For 'Ludicrous' Move
Alliance Party politicians have come under fire for pulling out of a Stormont all-party working group. Last week, leader David Ford announced the party’s departure from a group set up to discuss comm...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
Lisburn Country House Restored
A derelict Lisburn building has been restored to its former elegance with grant money from the government. Eglantine House, Hillsborough, was gutted by fire in 1990 but has now been transformed with ...
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Northern Ireland News, May 31, 2012
Other NI News In Brief
Senior Police Examined In Mauritius Trial The chief inspector who led the Mauritius investigation into the death of a Northern Irish newlywed was questioned today about allegations of police b...
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UK National News, May 30, 2012
Firefighters Cleared Of Colleagues' Manslaughter
Two senior fire officers have been cleared of manslaughter charges relating to the deaths of four of their colleagues. Station manager Timothy Woodward and watch manager Adrian Ashley were charged af...
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UK National News, May 30, 2012
Titus Bramble: 'She Never Said Stop'
A Premier League footballer who is in court on sex offences said his alleged victim never told him to stop. Titus Bramble, who plays for Sunderland, told Teesside Crown Court today that the anonymous...
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UK National News, May 30, 2012
Doctors To Strike Next Month
Doctors will go on strike next month in a pensions dispute, the British Medical Association has announced. The first doctors' strike since 1975 will take place on June 21 in protest against the coali...
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UK National News, May 30, 2012
Former NOTW Editor Arrested
Former News of the World Editor Andy Coulson has been detained in London this morning on suspicion of committing perjury. The PM's former communications officer was held during the Tommy Sheridan tri...
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Northern Ireland News, May 30, 2012
Lawyer Withdraws From Honeymoon Murder Trial
A honeymoon murder trial has been adjourned for the day after a lawyer walked out. The dramatic twist came after a court in Mauritius heard evidence relating to the moments before Tyrone newlywed Mic...
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Recruitment News, May 30, 2012
New Jobs Announced At Bite Group In Enniskillen
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster today announced that Bite Group in Enniskillen has won new export business that will lead to 23 new jobs in Fermanagh. The new business, worth around £3million, will...
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Northern Ireland News, May 30, 2012
RUC Job Names Sent Out In E-Mail
Names of people who applied for an RUC-related post were accidentally sent out in an e-mail. The Department of Justice has apologised for "annoyance" caused by the security breach, which has been bla...
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