Northern Ireland News for June 2013 : Page 11

Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
Afghanistan Health Reservists Return To NI
Health Minister Edwin Poots hosted a thanksgiving service yesterday for homecoming health reservists who had been serving in Afghanistan. The service and medal parade was held at Hillsborough Castle....
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
Four Teens Arrested In Connection To Islamic School Fire
The Metropolitan police have arrested four teenagers in connection with a fire at Darul Uloom School, and Islamic boarding school in southeast London. Staff and some 128 pupils of the school in Foxbu...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
Private Equity Firm Buys Vue Cinema Chain
The Vue cinema chain has been sold for £935 million to a private equity firm in Canada. OMERS Private Equity and Alberta Investment Management bought the chain of 146 UK and European cinemas from Dou...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
Guildhall To Reopen
The famous Guildhall in L'Derry is to open to the public later, following a recent renovation. The £9.5m refurbishment restored the 1887 building, both inside and out. Work began in 2010 and the cha...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
George Galloway Considers Run For London Mayor
Controversial MP George Galloway is reported to be considering running for London mayor. The MP for Bethnal West reportedly told a TV interviewer that he has a team “looking at the prospect of [me] r...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
Belfast To Host 'Solstice Run'
Belfast Council has announced city's the first ever 'solstice run' will take place on 21 June. Celebrating the longest day of the year, the event will raise money for the Northern Ireland Children's ...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
NUS Calls On Uni's To Ban Payday Loan Advertising On Campus
As three universities announce they will no longer allow payday loan companies to advertise on the campuses, the National Union of Students (NUS) has called on all UK universities to do the same. The...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 10, 2013
Other News In Brief
Man Arrested Over Dissident Activity A man has been arrested in L'Derry by detectives investigating dissident republican activity. The 39-year-old man was detained this morning and taken the ...
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Business News, Jun 10, 2013
ExamTime NI Develops New Online Resource
A new online resource to help students study and prepare for exams has been developed by ExamTime NI Ltd as part of a £500,000 investment with support from Invest Northern Ireland. The ExamTime.com w...
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UK National News, Jun 10, 2013
Other News In Brief
Prince Philip Send 92nd Birthday In Hospital The Duke of Edinburgh has spent his 92nd birthday in hospital recovering from surgery. To mark the occasion guns were fired in Edinburgh Castle an...
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Recruitment News, Jun 7, 2013
Irish Unemployment At Lowest In Four Years
New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that unemployment is at its lowest rate in almost four years. The unemployment rate now stands at 13.7%, a 1.2% fall from last year. 421,737 ...
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UK National News, Jun 7, 2013
18-Year-Old Jailed For Rape Of 11-Year-Old Schoolgirl
An 18-year-old man who raped an 11-year-old girl in a north London park, has been jailed for life, with a minimum term of eight years. Opemipo Jaji, of Edmonton, denied the attack in Jubilee Park, En...
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UK National News, Jun 7, 2013
Hyde Park Bombing Accused Given Provisional Trial Date
A rpovisional trial date for 61-year-old John Downey, accused of the 1982 IRA Hyde Park bombing which killed four British soldiers, has been set for November 18. Downey, of Co Donegal, was arrested a...
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UK National News, Jun 7, 2013
Van Killer Matthew Tvrdon Detained Indefinitely
Matthew Tvrdon, the man who used a van to kill one and injure 17 others in Cardiff, has been detained indefinitely at Ashworth secure psychiatric hospital. A review has also been order into the care ...
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Business News, Jun 7, 2013
£2.4m Invested In Holywood Retail Space
£2.4m is being invested in Holywood as part of a move to improve the town centre as a retail base within the Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area. The public realm improvement scheme is being delivered jo...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
Police Investigate Second West Belfast Shooting
Police are currently investigating the second shooting incident in west Belfast in one day. A man was shot once in the right leg at Turf Lodge, west Belfast at about 20:10 on Thursday evening. It is...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
Man Arrested Over Dunmurry Hijackings
An 18-year-old man has been arrested by the PSNI following two attempted hijackings in Dunmurry on Thursday 5 June. A bus driver and a taxi driver both reported a group of three or four youths had tr...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
Man Charged Over PSNI Pipe Bomb
A man has been charged over a pipe bomb attack on police officers in north Belfast last month. Police were responding to a 999 call in the Crumlin Road area of the city in the early hours of Tuesday ...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
Investigation Begins Into Train Fire
An investigation has begun into a fire that broke out on a Belfast - Dublin train yesterday evening. 114 passengers were on board train when the fire began in the locomotive of the main Dublin Enterp...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
NI Gas Emissions Fall 5%
Northern Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions decreased by over 5% between 2010 and 2011, according to the latest figures. A new report, Greenhouse Gas Inventories for England, Scotland, Wales and Nort...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
'No Better Place' Than Fermanagh For G8
Tourism Minister Arlene Foster has said UK Prime Minister David Cameron could have chosen no better place to host the G8 summit than Fermanagh. The Minister was speaking as she officially opened the ...
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UK National News, Jun 7, 2013
Men Arrested After Selfridges Smash-And-Grab Robbery
Two men were arrested following a smash-and-grab robbery at a Selfridges store on Oxford Street, central London around 20:30 on Thursday night. The Guardian has reported witnesses claiming to have se...
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UK National News, Jun 7, 2013
William Roache Charged With Five Counts Of Indecent Assault
William Roache has been charged with five counts of indecent assault against four girls aged between 12 and 16 during the 1960s. This is in addition to two previous charges brought in May of raping a...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
Poots Joins UK, Spanish At Health Conference
Health Minister Edwin Poots has joined representatives from the UK and Spanish governments at a health event in Madrid. The conference is focussing on sustainability and has been organised by UK Trad...
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UK National News, Jun 7, 2013
Campaigners Call For More Action On 'Rape Porn'
Campaigners have written to David Cameron calling for more action on so-called “rape porn”. The letter, signed by Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz and more than 100 other academics, expe...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
Free Wi-Fi Announced For Co Down Towns
Three town centres in County Down are to benefit from free Wi-FI, following an investment by the Department for Social Development. Downpatrick, Newcastle and Ballynahinch town centres have become th...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
Fermanagh Crannog Dig Exhibition Opens
A new exhibition has been launched to showcase some of the artefacts uncovered from the recent archaeological dig at Drumclay Crannog. The Fermanagh County Museum’s Drumclay Crannog exhibition will b...
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Northern Ireland News, Jun 7, 2013
Other News In Brief
Police Appeal Over Missing 14-Year-Old Police and the family of missing teenager Samantha Barbour have renewed an appeal for information regarding her whereabouts. 14-year-old Samantha was re...
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UK National News, Jun 7, 2013
10-Hour Siege In Leicestershire Village
A 37-year-old man has been arrested following a 10-hour siege in the village of Manston Close in Rushy Mead, Leicestershire. According to the BBC, police responded to reports of gunshots just after 1...
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UK National News, Jun 7, 2013
New Scheme Encourages Former Military To Become Teachers
A new government scheme will see former soldiers become qualified teachers in two years. In an effort to encourage members of army, Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy to become teachers, ex-soldiers ...
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