Northern Ireland News for August 2012

Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
Ulster Bank Announce Compensation Details
Ulster Bank have announced details of the compensation it will pay to customers who were affected by the recent computer glitch. The bank said customers who ere left out-of-pocket will be reimbursed,...
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Recruitment News, Aug 31, 2012
Cake Worker's Fly To Dublin To Halt Attacks On Conditions And Pay
Workers from Greencore Cakes and Desserts factory in Hull are taking their fight to Dublin in a bid to stop the company's attacks on workers' pay and conditions. Greencore, whose biggest customer is ...
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UK National News, Aug 31, 2012
Other News In Brief
Cumbria Flood Victims A £50,000 relief fund has been made available For householders badly affected by the flash floods which struck west Cumbria. The Cumbria Community Foundation will offer ...
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UK National News, Aug 31, 2012
Heroin And Morphine Drug Deaths Fall
Heroin and morphine are still the substances most commonly involved in drug poisoning deaths, according to The Office for National Statistics. In 2011 there was a 25 per cent drop in fatalities, with...
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UK National News, Aug 31, 2012
Couple Sentenced For £10m Majorca Ponzi fraud
A couple have been jailed for fraud after they fooled British ex-pats out of £10m in a Ponzi investment scheme. John and Linda Hirst splashed out on holidays and wedding celebrations using the procee...
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Business News, Aug 31, 2012
Local Firms Urged To Take Their Business To Europe
Local companies can take their business to Europe and beyond by signing up for the council's latest business development programme. The Exploring Exporting Programme is now open for recruitment to he...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
End To Irresponsible Drinks Promotions
Licensees across Northern Ireland have been reminded that the new industry code on drinks promotions comes into full force on the 1st September. The Joint Industry Code for the Responsible Promotion ...
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UK National News, Aug 31, 2012
Nine Convicted Over Bedfordshire Immigration Scam
A Luton business man who used one of his restaurants as a cover for an immigration scam has been convicted. Gyash Uddin, 39, of Ivy Road, sponsored visa applications for family members from Banglades...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
Nine Men Arrested Over Attack On House In Antrim
Nine men have been arrested following an attack at a house in County Antrim. Around 20 men with hammers and bats smashed windows and a door at a property in the Newpark estate at around 20.10 on Thur...
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UK National News, Aug 31, 2012
Healthy living Into Old Age Can Add Up Six Years To Life
Living a healthy lifestyle into old age can add five years to women’s lives and six years to men’s, finds a study from Sweden published. The authors told bmj.com that this is the first study that dir...
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UK National News, Aug 31, 2012
Officers Injured In Chemical Alert
Eight police officers have been treated in hospital following a drugs raid. West Midlands Police attended a house in Bordesley Green, Birmingham, at around 12am, in support of officers from the Serio...
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UK National News, Aug 31, 2012
Roman Abramovich Wins Breach Of Trust And Contract Case
Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abramovich has won a court battle brought by exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky. Mr Berezovsky, 65, who claimed he had been a business partner of Mr Abramovich...
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UK National News, Aug 31, 2012
Squatting To Become A Criminal Offence
Squatting is to be criminalised for the first time in England and Wales from Saturday 1 September. It will become illegal squat in homes and all other residential buildings. This follows on from a p...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
Quinn Family Withdraw Solicitors
The High Court has given permission for the lawyers of bankrupt businessman Seán Quinn to bring an application to stop representing the family. It is due to be heard on Monday. In a statement the Qu...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
Four Men Arrested For Dissident Activity
Four men have been arrested in Newtownabbey on suspicion of dissident republican activity. PSNI officers detained the men on Thursday evening aged 30,35 and 46. They are being questioned in Antrim p...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
Lorry Driver Pleads Not Guilty To The Death Of A Cyclist
A lorry driver has pleaded not guilty in connection with the death of a cyclist by careless driving. James Jeffers Thompson from Tandragee denied causing the death of Michael Caulfield which happened...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
Minister Calls For 'Urgent Review' Into GCSE English Grading
Education Minister, John O'Dowd, has directed the local exams regulator to carry out an urgent review into the grading of GCSE English examinations by the AQA awarding body in England. Following the...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
Death Threat Made Against School Principal
Alliance Education Spokesperson Trevor Lunn MLA has stated that he is appalled at the death threat which was made against Dr Annabel Scott, Principal of Crumlin Integrated College. She had just retu...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 31, 2012
Other News In Brief
Boy Falls From Three Storey House A boy has fallen three storeys from a house in Belfast this morning. The incident happened at Ainsworth Avenue at around 09.15. His condition has been desc...
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Recruitment News, Aug 30, 2012
SIPTU To Defend Home Help Services
The SIPTU national campaign to defend Home Help services is convening a series of meetings in Sligo and Leitrim during September. SIPTU Organiser, Annette Carpenter, said: "All HSE Home Helps in the ...
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UK National News, Aug 30, 2012
Street Cleaner Stabbed For Stopping Robbery
A street cleaner is fighting for his life after he was stabbed while attempting to stop a suspected burglar in west London. The incident occurred on Rylett Road, Shepherd's Bush, at about 2pm on Wedn...
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Recruitment News, Aug 30, 2012
Call For Target Express Workers To Receive Entitlements ASAP
Sinn Féin Senator David Cullinane has called on the Government and the Department of Social Protection to ensure that the workers at Target Express receive their entitlements as soon as is possible. ...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 30, 2012
Murder Investigation Launched For Missing Caroline Graham
A murder investigation has been launched by detectives searching for Caroline Graham, from Portadown, who went missing in 1989. Caroline was living with her boyfriend in Hanover Street when she disap...
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Business News, Aug 30, 2012
New Social Enterprise Schemes Launched
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced plans by Accept Care Social Firms Ltd in Bangor to establish three new social enterprises, creating 23 new jobs in Northern Ireland's social economy sec...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 30, 2012
Bench Warrant Issued For NI Rapist
A warrant has been issued by a Dublin District court for the arrest of a rapist from Northern Ireland who failed to appear in court. 19-year-old Edward Connors, who raped an American tourist in west ...
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UK National News, Aug 30, 2012
JJB Sports Up For Sale
Sports chain JJB Sports has put itself up for sale. This follows a failed attempt to raise funds for the revamp of up to 180 stores. The Wigan-based retailer, which employs about 4,000 people, warne...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 30, 2012
Shots Fired At Coleraine Flat
A number of shots have been fired at a flat in Coleraine. The incident occurred at a property in the Hazelbank Road area at around 23.30 on Wednesday night. Damage was caused to the living room and ...
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UK National News, Aug 30, 2012
Crewe Footie Fan Banned From All Matches For Three Years
A Crewe Alexandra fan has been banned from attending all football for three years. Dean Law, of Derby Street, Crewe, kicked and punched a train following a pre-season friendly. He appeared before So...
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Northern Ireland News, Aug 30, 2012
Support For Online Suicide To Be Banned
SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has voiced her support for constituent Patti Boyle's campaign to have websites offering advice on how to commit suicide and selling suicide packs outlawed. Her 26 ...
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UK National News, Aug 30, 2012
Met Officers Seize 30 Kilos Of Cocaine
The Metropolitan Police has seized 30 kilos of cocaine following an operation in Hertfordshire. Acting on intelligence, officers from the Met's Central Task Force stopped a 26-year-old man soon after...
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