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17/08/2015
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NI Comes Up Tops At WordSkills Sao Paulo 2015
Northern Ireland has won four medals and a medallion for excellence at the global skills competition WorldSkills Sao Paulo 2015 as part of Team UK.
The success followed four days of competition against more than 1,000 of the world’s most skilled young people. A gold medal was awarded to Gary Doyle, a plumbing student at Southern Regional College. Silver medals were awarded to Jonathan Gill in landscape gardening, a former student at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise and Chris Bailie, a refrigeration student at South Eastern Regional College.
QMAC Construction Installs New Kitchens For NIHE Tenants
QMAC Construction has completed work on a number of Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) homes in west Belfast.
New kitchens were installed in homes in the Doon Road area of Lenadoon Estate and the Brooke area off Blacks Road.
The NIHE invested £345,000 installing 114 brand new kitchens in tenants' homes.
Assistant Housing Services Manager, Margaret Marley from our West Belfast office, said: "This is more good news for our tenants in the West. They are getting the kitchen they really want as they were able to select their own units and worktops."
ASDA To Increase Price It Pays To Farmers For Milk
SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has welcomed an intervention from supermarket ASDA that will see them increase the price they pay for milk to farmers to assist during the dairy crisis.
Ms Ritchie warned however that further intervention would be needed to support Northern Ireland farmers who sell 85% of dairy products in powder or cheese form.
Ms Ritchie said: "I want to welcome this very positive step from ASDA. Increasing the price they pay to farmers for milk will certainly help during the current crisis across the industry and I hope that other supermarkets will promote similar initiatives.
"It's important, though, that this isn’t seen as a lasting resolution. Farmers in the North export 85% of their mil product in powder and cheese form, which will not benefit from this increase. That's why we need targeted intervention."
(CD)
Northern Ireland has won four medals and a medallion for excellence at the global skills competition WorldSkills Sao Paulo 2015 as part of Team UK.
The success followed four days of competition against more than 1,000 of the world’s most skilled young people. A gold medal was awarded to Gary Doyle, a plumbing student at Southern Regional College. Silver medals were awarded to Jonathan Gill in landscape gardening, a former student at the College of Agriculture, Food and Rural Enterprise and Chris Bailie, a refrigeration student at South Eastern Regional College.
QMAC Construction Installs New Kitchens For NIHE Tenants
QMAC Construction has completed work on a number of Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) homes in west Belfast.
New kitchens were installed in homes in the Doon Road area of Lenadoon Estate and the Brooke area off Blacks Road.
The NIHE invested £345,000 installing 114 brand new kitchens in tenants' homes.
Assistant Housing Services Manager, Margaret Marley from our West Belfast office, said: "This is more good news for our tenants in the West. They are getting the kitchen they really want as they were able to select their own units and worktops."
ASDA To Increase Price It Pays To Farmers For Milk
SDLP South Down MP Margaret Ritchie has welcomed an intervention from supermarket ASDA that will see them increase the price they pay for milk to farmers to assist during the dairy crisis.
Ms Ritchie warned however that further intervention would be needed to support Northern Ireland farmers who sell 85% of dairy products in powder or cheese form.
Ms Ritchie said: "I want to welcome this very positive step from ASDA. Increasing the price they pay to farmers for milk will certainly help during the current crisis across the industry and I hope that other supermarkets will promote similar initiatives.
"It's important, though, that this isn’t seen as a lasting resolution. Farmers in the North export 85% of their mil product in powder and cheese form, which will not benefit from this increase. That's why we need targeted intervention."
(CD)
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