Northern Ireland News for June 2013 : Page 10

Business News, Jun 11, 2013
Wright Recycling Receive Training
Establishing a sustainable approach to business is a key objective for many modern day organisations. And it is no different for multi-million pound SME Wright Recycling who has teamed up with a lo...
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Recruitment News, Jun 11, 2013
Groupon Create 20 New Jobs In Dublin
Online offers business, Groupon, have announced the creation of 20 new jobs in its newly established Software Development Centre in Dublin. The company is hoping to recruit experienced software engin...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 11, 2013
229 Jobs For Pharmaceutical Company
229 jobs are expected to be created as a result of a £13.7m investment by a Craigavon pharmaceutical company. Almac Pharma Services provides drug development and manufacturing contract services to in...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 11, 2013
Belfast 'Open For Business' During G8
Belfast's new Lord Mayor, Councillor Máirtin Ó Muilleoir, says the G8 summit will be an "opportunity to show it can handle global events with all the world leaders passing through the city and one or ...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 11, 2013
Def Leppard Guitarist Diagnosed With Cancer
Belfast-born guitarist and Def Leppard member Vivian Campbell has announced he will be undergoing chemotherapy, after being diagnosed with a form of lung cancer called Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The musicia...
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UK National News, Jun 11, 2013
Riot Police Deployed As G8 Protesters Occupy Former Police Station
Some 100 riot police have been deployed in central London as protestors take to the streets to demonstrate ahead on the G8 summit being held in Northern Ireland next week. Officers were sent to Soho,...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 11, 2013
£30m For Disadvantaged Pupils
Education Minister John O'Dowd has moved to provide £30m to specifically target schools teaching children from disadvantaged backgrounds over the next two years. The move is part of a pledge by the M...
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UK National News, Jun 11, 2013
Report Highlights Potential Of Recycling Sector
The recycling sector has the potential to create 10,000 new jobs in the UK by 2020, a new report claims. The Going for Growth report, published today and produced the Environmental Services Associati...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 11, 2013
West Belfast Boxing Club Reopens
Social Development Minister Nelson McCausland has announced the re-opening of a west Belfast boxing club following a £116,000 refurbishment. Gleann Amateur Boxing Club received the funding through th...
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UK National News, Jun 11, 2013
Britvic And AG Barr Merger Given Provisional Approval
The proposed merger of Britvic and AG Barr has been provisionally approved by the Competition Commission. Ahead of its final report, due to be published in July, the commission said the potential mer...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 11, 2013
First Ulster Scots Radio Station Announced
Northern Ireland's first Ulster Scots radio station has been awarded a community licence. fUSe FM, based in Ballymoney, said it will "reflect the traditions, language and culture of Ulster Scots in B...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 11, 2013
OFMDFM Has 'Head In Sand' Over Flags
Alliance Party Chief Whip Stewart Dickson MLA has described the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister as having its "head in the sand" over the issue of flag flying in Northern Irelan...
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UK National News, Jun 11, 2013
EDL Leader 'Utterly Condemns' Attacks On Muslims
The English Defence League “utterly condemns” attacks on Muslims, its leader Tommy Robinson has said. Robinson was peaking after six men were convicted and jailed for a plot to bomb an EDL rally in W...
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UK National News, Jun 11, 2013
Video Evidence To Protect Vulnerable From Courtroom Stress
Following concerns for the wellbeing of children giving evidence in sexual abuse cases the government have announced a new pilot scheme that will see them questioned by defence lawyers on video prior ...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 11, 2013
Other News In Brief
Pair Arrested Over Dissident Activity A man and a woman have been arrested by detectives investigating dissident republican activity. The arrests were made in L'Derry on Monday. A 32-year-ol...
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UK National News, Jun 11, 2013
Body In Morgue Showed 'Potential Signs Of Life'
An investigation has been launched after staff at a mortuary found “potential signs of life” while examining a body. A man who had fallen from the Kessock Bridge, Inverness, on Friday was pronounced ...
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Business News, Jun 11, 2013
Almac To Create 229 New Jobs In Craigavon
Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has announced that Almac Pharma Services is to create 229 new jobs in Craigavon as part of a £13.7million investment. Almac provides highly specialised drug developm...
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UK National News, Jun 11, 2013
Other News In Brief
Sir Henry Cecil Dies Aged 70 Sir Henry Cecil, renowned champion horse trainer, has died aged 70. Described as "the greatest trainer of all time", Cecil was a 10-time champion Flat trainer an...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
10% Of Health Budget Spent On Diabetes Treatment
10% of Northern Ireland's health budget is estimated to be spent on managing diabetes and its complications, according to Health Minister Edwin Poots. Mr Poots said projections estimate the proportio...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
Housing Executive Overpays £18m
The Housing Executive has overpaid planned maintenance contractors a total of £18m, it has been revealed. The news came as Housing Minister Nelson McCausland was updating the Assembly on the Northern...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
Agencies Failing Sexually Exploited Children
A group of MPs have warned that child sexual exploitation is a "large-scale nationwide problem". Following a number of high-profile trials, the Home Affairs Committee said that police forces, social ...
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Recruitment News, Jun 10, 2013
Siptu Calls For More Investment In Childcare Training
SIPTU has asked the Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald, for increased government investment in training for childcare workers, which is both classroom-based and involves on the job training. S...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
NI Journalist Receives Death Threat
A female journalist in Northern Ireland has had a death threat issued against her by dissident republicans, according to the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). According to the Guardian, the threat...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
January Trial Date For Actor Bill Roache
January 13 has been set as the trial date for Coronation Street actor Bill Roache. 81-year-old Roache faces 7 charges of historical sexual abuse, including two counts of rape against a 15-year-old an...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
'Viable Device' Found In Newtownabbey
A 'viable device' has been found in Newtownabbey in the midst of a security alert. The device was discovered in the Cherrylands/Cloughfern area shortly after 06:00 this morning. The area was cordone...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
Food Safety Myths Dispelled
The belief in food safety myths could be putting Northern Ireland consumers at risk of food poisoning, according to a new report. Food safety myths – like using the ‘sniff test’ to tell whether food ...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
Three Jailed For Life For Catherine Wells-Burr Murder
Three Polish nationals have been jailed for life for the murder of Catherine Wells-Burr, in a plot to collect on a six-figure life insurance policy. 31-year-old Rafal Nowak smothered Ms Wells-Burr in...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
NI Women Urged To Take Up Cervical Screening Invite
Women in Northern Ireland are too slow to take up invites for cervical screening, amounting to the highest incidence levels in the UK for cervical cancer. The UK’s only dedicated cervical cancer char...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
EDL Rally Bomb Plotters Jailed
Each of the six men, who admitted terrorism offences in connection with a plot to bomb an English Defence League rally, have been jailed for up to 19-and-a-half years. Omar Khan, Jewel Uddin, Mohamme...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
Home-Made Devices Explodes At Office Of Conservative MP
A home-made explosive device has gone off at the constituency office of Conservative MP Nick Boles, in Lincolnshire. According to the BBC, the “minor explosion” occurred around 01:30 in the early hou...
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