Northern Ireland News for April 2010

Recruitment News, Apr 30, 2010
Carlow Company Creates Jobs With New HQ
A Co Carlow-based security firm has announced the creation of 50 new jobs with the opening of its new headquarters. Taoiseach Brian Cowen was on hand this morning to officially open the new Corporate...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
'Don't Risk Change' Urges Brown
The final political debate before polling day hit our televisions last night with the three party leaders locking horns in what was the last of three televised debates. PM Gordan Brown warned voters ...
Recruitment News, Apr 30, 2010
Co Antrim Shines At Skills Awards
A Ballymena man has scooped the prestigious title of Northern Ireland Essential Skills Learner of the Year for 2010. Co Antrim's Alastair McCormick clinched the award at the Essential Skills Awards c...
Recruitment News, Apr 30, 2010
Ex Aer Lingus High Flyer Paid €764K
Aer Lingus's annual report has revealed the part State-owned airline paid its former boss Dermot Mannion some €764,000 last year. Mr Mannion left the company in April on a salary of €132,000. However...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Chief Legal Post In Doubt Over Protection
There are fears the man designated to be Northern Ireland's Attorney General might not take up the post because of personal security concerns. This could lead to a crisis in the full implementation o...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
Bedfordshire Brothel Mum Cleared
A middle-aged mother has been cleared of all accusations that she was running a brothel out of her bedfordshire bungalow. Claire Astrid Finch, 49, had fought the case - against over whelming evidence...
Business News, Apr 30, 2010
Sandwich Deal Boosts Newry Business
Sainsbury's has this week signed a deal with Newry-based gourmet sandwich company Deli-Lites to supply sandwiches and wraps to all 12 of its Northern Ireland supermarkets and eight petrol forecourt co...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
£20m 'Toxic Sofa' Payout
Hundreds of victims who suffered skin burns after buying "toxic" sofas are set to receive up to £20million compensation. The customers took legal action after claiming of skin and eye complaints or b...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
E-Fit Released Following An Assault
Police in Westminster have issued an e-fit of a man they wish to speak to after a woman was seriously assaulted in Penfold Street, NW8 on Friday 18 September. At 2.30pm a woman in her 40s was seriou...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Basque Flees NI As Extradition Looms
A Basque separatist convicted of 25 murders is believed to have left Northern Ireland. Jose Ignacio de Juana Chaos, 54, is wanted in Spain to face a charge of glorifying terrorism. De Juana Chaos, w...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Incinerator Inquiry Call Gains Momentum
Another politician has added his voice to what is fast becoming an overwhelming call for a public inquiry into the controversial Lough Neagh Incinerator. Sitting MP William McCrea of the DUP last nig...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
British Women 'More Likely To Die By 60'
British women are ranked high in the league table of premature death, research has revealed. Women are more likely to die early in the UK than in virtually every other western European country. The d...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
Pub Crawl Victim Wants Law Change
A man who was knocked out by the boss of an organised pub crawl, has said there is a problem with the law that allows this kind of event to happen. Mark Roberts, a commercial diver, had approached H...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
Inquest Into Death Of Senior Officer
The inquest into the death of the most senior officer to be killed in Afghanistan and his teenage colleague will begin today. Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, 39, of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, was in ch...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
Driving Ban For Speeding Footballer
A premier League footballer has been banned from driving after been caught speeding. Lee Cattermole has been banned 56 days after being caught speeding at more than 100mph in North Yorkshire. The Su...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
Self-Serve Checkouts: Yes or No?
Sainsbury's will follow a growing trend for self-serve checkouts by replacing hundreds more of its manned checkouts with the new-style terminals. The idea is that shoppers who are buying only a few i...
Business News, Apr 30, 2010
Faster Broadband Connections Onstream
Customers of Belfast-based Rainbow Telecom are set to benefit from free superfast broadband. The company is the first in Northern Ireland to state its pricing structure ahead of the roll-out of next ...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Economy Sinks Derry Hotel Scheme
The economic climate has scuppered a bid to construct a new hotel in Londonderry. A local development company has withdrawn as the preferred developer of a £23m scheme to transform the former City Ho...
UK National News, Apr 30, 2010
Other UK News In Brief
Aberdeenshire Crash Tragedy An early morning road crash has left a man - believed to be aged in his 50s - dead. The accident involved a lorry and a car in Aberdeenshire and happened on the A92 at Cat...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Church 'Halts' Omagh Shopping Centre Bid
Both construction and long-term jobs are at stake as a row erupts over plans to build a £200m shopping centre in Co Tyrone. Property developers, Corbo, launched a planning application to build the sh...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Durkan 'Angry' Over Planning Service Cuts
SDLP Foyle MLA, Mark Durkan has said that the likely rundown of the Northern Ireland Planning Service is not in the public interest, just as it offends the employment rights and interests of the staff...
Business News, Apr 30, 2010
Christian Brothers In Omagh Development Row
A row has erupted over plans to build a £200m shopping centre in Omagh, Co Tyrone. Property developers, Corbo, launched a planning application to build the shopping centre last week, the BBC reports....
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Belfast Lettings Market Grows
Northern Ireland's boom-bust property market has sparked a major shake-up in Belfast's private rented sector. This has produced a generation of 'reluctant landlords' but better-quality accommodation ...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Faster Broadband Connections Onstream
Customers of Belfast-based Rainbow Telecom are set to benefit from free superfast broadband. The company is the first in Northern Ireland to state its pricing structure ahead of the roll-out of next ...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Transport Must Support Economy: Murphy
A network of modern transport facilities must be available as Northern Ireland emerges from recession. That's according to NI Transport Minister, Conor Murphy who said the country's transport network...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Larne Town Hall Set For £3m Contract
Approval has been granted for redevelopment work on one of Co Antrim's best-known Victorian buildings. At a cost of £3.1 million, contractors are to carry out a multi-million pound facelift on Larne ...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 30, 2010
Other NI News In Brief
Sainsbury's Deli-cious Deal Sheree Tynan, Sales Manager, Deli-Lites, Angus O Neill, Sainsbury's Newry Store Manager and Jackie Reid, Sales Director, Deli-Lites Gourmet Sandwich Company are pictured t...
Northern Ireland News, Apr 29, 2010
Black Friday Looms For Quinn Insurance
The axe is looming for hundreds of staff at a border insurance business. Workers at all the beleaguered Quinn call centres will be briefed on the plans tomorrow afternoon, after which the administrat...
UK National News, Apr 29, 2010
Other UK News In Brief
Prison Officer Hospitalised West Yorkshire Police are probing an attack on a prison officer. It happened at 5.30pm on Tuesday and left the officer seriously injured after the attack by an inmate at L...
UK National News, Apr 29, 2010
Brown's 'Bigot' Blunder Blasted
PM Gordon Brown is being haunted by the subject of immigration as an angry voter asks "what is he going to do about it?". Despite efforts to reduce the damage done yesterday, when he called a pension...