Northern Ireland News for June 2003 : Page 3

Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2003
Forum to provide voice for social economy issues
Organisations involved in the social economy in Northern Ireland must have a voice and a platform to help shape future economic policy. That was the message from Enterprise Minister, Ian Pearson who ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 26, 2003
Local company receives £26,000 pay-out
The Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) has awarded a £26,000 grant package to local business McNicholas Construction Services, who are contractors to Phoenix Natural Gas Ltd. The substantia...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
Campbell admits 'regrets' over discredited Iraq dossier
The Prime Minister's director of communications has told the foreign affairs committee today that he "regrets" mistakes made in the drafting process of the 'dodgy dossier' on Weapons of Mass Destructi...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
Bodies of Military Police recovered from Iraqi town
The Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the bodies of six members of the Royal Military Patrol killed yesterday have been recovered from the town of Al Majar al Kabir in Iraq. According to Defence...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
Russian president visits Scottish capital
Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell today welcomed Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila Putina to Edinburgh on the second day of Russian President's state visit to Britain. Mr Putin's visit is th...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
NHS allergy services 'totally inadequate'
Allergy services in the NHS are "totally inadequate" and cannot cope with the rising amount and increasing severity of allergy in the UK, according to a new report from the Royal College of Physicians...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
Rail safety improves but 'key concerns' remain
Safety on the national rail network has generally improved over the past year, but track worker safety was a "key area of concern" as there were five staff deaths in 2002/03 and 17% increase in major ...
Business News, Jun 25, 2003
Serious Fraud Office investigates major insurance scam
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in conjunction with the PSNI have revealed that around 1,000 local businesses have been affected by a multi-million pund insurance scam. The investigation centres on a ...
Recruitment News, Jun 25, 2003
Dixons looks to expansion in a flat market
Electrical goods retailer Dixons is seeking to buck flat sales with the creation of up to 2,200 new jobs - 1,000 of which will be centred in the UK. Despite a dip in pre-tax profits of 5% to £278.6 m...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
Government claims victory in reducing burglaries
The Home Office claimed today that a £26 million initiative has cut burglary in crime hotspots by a fifth over the last three years. The evaluation of the Home Office's 'Reducing Burglary Initiative...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Serious Fraud Office investigates major insurance scam
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in conjunction with the PSNI have revealed that around 1,000 local businesses have been affected by a multi-million pound insurance scam. The investigation centres on a...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Arms find at home of murdered loyalist
Police have uncovered 250 rounds of ammunition and an explosive device, as a result of the search of a house on the Ballyrobert Road in Bangor yesterday. It is believed that the house belonged to lea...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Judgement reserved in Shoukri gun case
Judgement in the case against a top north Belfast loyalist charged with four firearms charges, including possession of a gun with the intent to endanger life, has been reserved. The accused, Andre Sh...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Trimble calls emergency meeting of sundered UUP
As the split within the Ulster Unionist party rumbles on, party leader David Trimble has requested an emergency meeting of party officers tomorrow. Top of the agenda will be the implications of the c...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Irish Sellafield closure request denied
The Irish Government has failed in its bid have nuclear processing power plant, Sellafield closed down. Hearing the case brought by the Irish Government under the United Nations Convention on the Law...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Sanders faces crunch council vote
The political future of disgraced Conservative Party councillor, Neville Sanders was in the balance today on the eve of a crunch meeting of Peterborough council on Wednesday evening. Mr Sanders, 72, ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Derry firm wins £2m engineering contracts
A leading Londonderry engineering firm has won contracts worth more than £2 million for work at the new Coolkeeragh ESB power station in the North West. Brickkiln, a leading waste management and civi...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
Campaign highlights fight against money laundering
The government has launched a nationwide campaign to explain how the public can help to tackle money laundering and the financing of terrorism. The campaign sees the launch of information leaflets in...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
NI health and social services top UK table
A new survey has revealed that Northern Ireland has the lowest management costs in health and social services in the UK. Commissioned by the NHS Confederation in Northern Ireland, the report confirme...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
Police urged to adopt new technology
Police forces must adopt new and developing technology before organised crime gangs do, the Home Secretary will tell a conference of top cops tonight. In his speech to the Police Federation, David B...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Man wounded in 'paramiltary-style' shooting in Coleraine
A man received a gunshot wound to his leg following what police described as a ‘paramilitary style shooting’ in Coleraine last night. The incident took place at around 10.10 pm in the Loughand Hill P...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 25, 2003
Aurion chosen for City and Guilds e-learning initiative
Belfast-based e-learning company Aurion have secured a £100,000 contract to develop the UK City and Guilds first e-learning programme, called Learning for Living. Aurion developed the learning materi...
UK National News, Jun 25, 2003
Software sets about corporate 'bull'
The days of management double-speak – of boardroom pledges to provide "repurposeable, value added knowledge capital", and corporate reports offering "robust, leveragable mindshare solutions delivery" ...
UK National News, Jun 24, 2003
Six British troops die in southern Iraq
Six British soldiers have been killed and eight more wounded in two separate actions in southern Iraq today. The MoD has confirmed that there were two incidents near Al Amarah - about 125 miles nort...
UK National News, Jun 24, 2003
Blunkett slams 'appalling' Royal security
In a speech about Royal security to the Commons today, Home Secretary David Blunkett attacked the "appalling failure of security" that allowed a man dressed as Osama bin Laden to gatecrash Prince Will...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 24, 2003
Shoukri carried gun for ‘protection’
A leading loyalist from north Belfast has said that the handgun he was caught with was to protect himself from an opposing loyalist faction led by Johnny Adair. Andre ‘The Egyptian’ Shoukri, 26, whos...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 24, 2003
Is Donaldson DUP bound?
Is Jeffrey Donaldson set to join Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party? That has been the question on many people's mind since the renegade Ulster Unionist MP was defeated in a Ruling Council vote ...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 24, 2003
Police make appeal following hoax bomb find
Police are appealing for information after a hoax bomb was left outside the house of an SDLP councillor in Co Londonderry early this morning. Councillor Billy Leonard's Portstewart home was initially...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 24, 2003
£5m Peace II funding awarded to NI workspace projects
The European Peace II Programme has announced £5 million of funding for some of Northern Ireland's most deprived and disadvantaged areas. The funding, which will help projects in Belfast, Londonderry...
Northern Ireland News, Jun 24, 2003
Software firm set up £2.5m Belfast operation
A leading UK software company has announced plans to set up a new operation in Belfast. The £2.5 million investment by Latens Systems will see the company locate its headquarters and R&D operations i...