Northern Ireland News for September 2013

UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Osborne Unveils 'Help-To-Work' Scheme
Chancellor George Osborne has unveiled a plan in which the long-term unemployed will be required to work in exchange for receiving benefits. Under the plan, people out of work for more than two years...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Protesters Begin To Leave Balcombe
Protesters have begun to pack up and leave their anti-fracking camp at an exploratory oil drilling plant in Balcombe, West Sussex. Protests have been ongoing at the site for over two months and began...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Inmates To Be Charged For Damage They Cause To Prisons
The cost of repairs to prisons damaged by inmates, will be be paid for by inmates, the Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling, has announced. Covering all jails and young offenders institutes...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Warrington To Host New Hillsborough Inquest
The new inquest into the Hillsborough disaster will be held in Warrington, coroner Lord Justice Goldring has said. The fresh inquest into the deaths of 96 people will begin on March 31, following an ...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Wait Almost Over For Commonwealth Games Ticket Hopefuls
Organisers of the Galsgow 2014 Commonwealth Games are due to start contacting people who have been successful in their applications for tickets to next year's events. It is expected that some 2.3 mil...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Devon Authorities Investigate Religious Community Over Caning Allegations
Devon County Council and Devon and Cornwall Police are investigating claims of children being beaten with canes at a small religious community in the town. The allegations against the Twelve Tribes C...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Former Sun Reporter First To Be Charged Under Operation Tuleta
The first person to be charged in relation to Operation Tuleta, an investigation into alleged computer hacking and privacy breaches, is former Sun reporter Ben Ashford, who is facing once offence of p...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
Teenagers' Mothers Back CO Campaign
The mothers of two teenage boys who died from carbon monoxide poisoning in 2010 have endorsed a new campaign urging people to install alarms in their homes. 18-year-olds Aaron Davidson and Neil McFer...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
'No Case' For Replacing GCSEs, A-Levels
There is "no case" for replacing the GCSE and A-level examination systems in Northern Ireland, according to a report released today by Education Minister John O'Dowd. The report contains 49 recommend...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
Orange March Request Criticised
An application by the Orange order to complete an 'unfinished' parade that began on 12 July this year has been criticised. The move follows a decision by the Parades Commission earlier this year to o...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Demolition Work Begins On Philpott House
Demolition work has got underway at the former home of Mick and Mairead Philpott, in which six of their children died in a house fire. A bulldozer is on site and the demolition of 18 Victory Road is ...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Thames Boat Tour Service Suspended After Fire
A River Thames boat tour operator has suspended all operations after a fire broke out on one of its vessels. Emergency services and a passing tourist boat rescued some 30 people from the London Duck ...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
NI Excluded From New Irish Passport Design
The new-look Irish passports will not contain any imagery from Northern Ireland in their new design, it has been revealed. Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Eamon Gilmore launched t...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
NI To Vote In Presidential Elections
Northern Irish residents could be given the right to vote in the Irish presidential elections, following overwhelming support for the proposal at the Constitutional Convention. A poll at a meeting la...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
Rural Minister Rules Out Fracking
Northern Ireland's Agricultural Minister Michelle O'Neill has said that no fracking will take place on any land owned by her department. The announcement followed a question by Minister O'Neill's col...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
Minister Chats To Break Irish World Record
Culture Minister Carál Ní Chuilín has taken part in a world record attempt to have the longest Irish language conversation ever. Comhrá 24/7 is being organised by Irish language group Conradh na Gaei...
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Business News, Sep 30, 2013
SensL Technologies Secures Contract With ESA
Seán Sherlock TD, Minister for Research and Innovation,has announced that SensL Technologies, an Irish based innovator in light detection technologies, has secured a contract with the European Space A...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
Funding Released For Newry Docks Project
£68,750 of funding is to go towards a new Maritime history project on the docks areas of Newry. The project will see the commissioning of a sculpture, production of a written history of the docks and...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
£410k For Mid Ulster Resurfacing
£410,000 funding has been announced for two resurfacing schemes in the Cookstown and Magherafelt areas Transport Minister Danny Kennedy made the announcement today. He said: "This significant invest...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 30, 2013
Other News In Brief
Police Appeal Over Dungannon Arson Police in Dugannon are appealing for information after a group of men forced their way into a house in the Springdale area on the evening of Friday 27 Septem...
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UK National News, Sep 30, 2013
Other News In Brief
Two Arrested Over Death Of Baby Girl Police in West Yorkshire have discovered the body of a baby girl. Officers were called to a property on Foldings Avenue in the Scholes area of Cleckheaton...
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Recruitment News, Sep 30, 2013
Over 1,300 Jobs Announced In Ireland Last Week
Fine Gael Dublin South Central Deputy, Catherine Byrne, has said the fact that more than 1,300 jobs were announced in the last week is a strong signal that confidence in the Irish economy is growing a...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 27, 2013
Interpol Issue Warrant For NI Woman
Interpol has issued an international 'Red Notice' for the arrest of Samantha Lewthwaite. At the request of Kenya, 29-year-old Lewthwaite is wanted on charges of being in possession of explosives as ...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 27, 2013
Loyalist Campaigner Wears Abu Hamza Outfit To Court
Loyalist campaigner Willie Frazer arrived at a Belfast court dressed as radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza. Frazer, 53, was wearing a black robe, skullcap, fake beard, a hooked hand and an eye patch at ...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 27, 2013
Carrick's 'Killer Clown' Turns Himself In
A mystery clown has turned himself in to police after an alarm was raised by parents in Co Antrim. On Thursday, police issued an alert after they received reports of two men acting suspiciously near...
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Business News, Sep 27, 2013
Firms To Benefit From New Export Development Programme
More than 100 businesses across five south-west council areas could benefit from a new export development programme, Enterprise Minister Arlene Foster has said. Speaking at the launch of a SME Export...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 27, 2013
Police Investigate Sudden Death Of Kevin Doherty
Police are investigating the sudden death of a man in west Belfast. Kevin Doherty, 30, who is understood to have been at a party in the Divis area, died on Tuesday. Detectives are waiting on the res...
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Northern Ireland News, Sep 27, 2013
PSNI to Receive Freedom Of The Borough In Castlereagh
The PSNI will receive the Freedom of the Borough in Castlereagh, after an Alliance-led proposal received unanimous cross-party support on Thursday night. Councillor Carole Howard said the Alliance gr...
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UK National News, Sep 27, 2013
Men Plead Not Guilty To Murder Of Lee Rigby
Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale have pleaded not guilty to the murder of Lee Rigby, the solider killed in a knife attack in Woolwich, south-east London in May. 28-year-old Adebolajo, of Romfo...
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Recruitment News, Sep 27, 2013
Qualtrics Open New Headquarters In Dublin
Qualtrics, one of the world's leading enterprise survey technology platform, has announced the opening of its new European Headquarters in Dublin, with Taoiseach Enda Kenny T.D., officially opening th...
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