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Northern Ireland News for January 2006 : Page 2
UK National News, Jan 30, 2006
'Right to die' plans proposed
Proposals to grant patients the right to die have been drawn up by the government. The proposals, which were drawn up by the Department for Constitutional Affairs as part of the Mental Capacity Act, ...
'Right to die' plans proposed
Proposals to grant patients the right to die have been drawn up by the government. The proposals, which were drawn up by the Department for Constitutional Affairs as part of the Mental Capacity Act, ...
UK National News, Jan 30, 2006
Man in court over elderly couple murder
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of an elderly couple in Kent. Brett Clifton, 21, of Beckett Street, Faversham, is accused of murdering Terry Martin, 72, and his wife Vera, 78, in ...
Man in court over elderly couple murder
A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of an elderly couple in Kent. Brett Clifton, 21, of Beckett Street, Faversham, is accused of murdering Terry Martin, 72, and his wife Vera, 78, in ...
UK National News, Jan 30, 2006
'Lazy fatalism' holds back disability rights
The Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission has said that the inequality experienced by disabled people stands between the Government and its targets to reduce child poverty and increase the numb...
'Lazy fatalism' holds back disability rights
The Chairman of the Disability Rights Commission has said that the inequality experienced by disabled people stands between the Government and its targets to reduce child poverty and increase the numb...
UK National News, Jan 30, 2006
Fraud level triples in a year
A surge in fraud cases in the second half of in 2005 resulted in over £900 million of fraud being recorded - up nearly three times from the previous year's £329 million. According to the report from ...
Fraud level triples in a year
A surge in fraud cases in the second half of in 2005 resulted in over £900 million of fraud being recorded - up nearly three times from the previous year's £329 million. According to the report from ...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 30, 2006
High salt content is 'time bomb' for kids
Northern Ireland’s children are risking heart attacks and strokes in later life because of the amount of salt they eat, according to a leading medical charity. The Northern Ireland Chest Heart and St...
High salt content is 'time bomb' for kids
Northern Ireland’s children are risking heart attacks and strokes in later life because of the amount of salt they eat, according to a leading medical charity. The Northern Ireland Chest Heart and St...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 30, 2006
UCF urge lobbying of MP’s on smoking ban
The Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) is urging members of the public to lobby their local MP’s in advance of the Westminster debate on comprehensive smokefree workplaces in England. The charity has alr...
UCF urge lobbying of MP’s on smoking ban
The Ulster Cancer Foundation (UCF) is urging members of the public to lobby their local MP’s in advance of the Westminster debate on comprehensive smokefree workplaces in England. The charity has alr...
UK National News, Jan 30, 2006
Three million facing chip and pin problems
Three million elderly and disabled consumers face "misery and frustration" with new chip and PIN cards, the National Consumer Council has warned. The NCC said that many people faced problems using th...
Three million facing chip and pin problems
Three million elderly and disabled consumers face "misery and frustration" with new chip and PIN cards, the National Consumer Council has warned. The NCC said that many people faced problems using th...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 30, 2006
Antrim Biotech firm attends Medica
An Antrim biotech company, Fortress Diagnostics, has won new business worth more than £100,000 following its participation in the recent Medica healthcare show in Düsseldorf. The company, based at An...
Antrim Biotech firm attends Medica
An Antrim biotech company, Fortress Diagnostics, has won new business worth more than £100,000 following its participation in the recent Medica healthcare show in Düsseldorf. The company, based at An...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 30, 2006
IRFU backs Maze stadium proposal
NIO Sports Minister David Hanson has welcomed the decision of the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Ulster Branch to commit in principle to the multi-sports stadium at the Maze site close to Lisburn ...
IRFU backs Maze stadium proposal
NIO Sports Minister David Hanson has welcomed the decision of the Irish Rugby Football Union and the Ulster Branch to commit in principle to the multi-sports stadium at the Maze site close to Lisburn ...
Recruitment News, Jan 27, 2006
Coleraine Food Plant To Close: 380 Jobs Axed
Around 480 employees are facing the axe as one of Northern Ireland's biggest food processing factories has announced it is to close. The FarmFed chicken processing plant in Coleraine, is believed to ...
Coleraine Food Plant To Close: 380 Jobs Axed
Around 480 employees are facing the axe as one of Northern Ireland's biggest food processing factories has announced it is to close. The FarmFed chicken processing plant in Coleraine, is believed to ...
Recruitment News, Jan 27, 2006
Jobs Go At Lisburn Factory
A thread factory in County Antrim is to close with the loss of 85 jobs. Coats Barbour thread factory at Hilden, just outside Lisburn, has been in operation for over 170 years. The parent company, Co...
Jobs Go At Lisburn Factory
A thread factory in County Antrim is to close with the loss of 85 jobs. Coats Barbour thread factory at Hilden, just outside Lisburn, has been in operation for over 170 years. The parent company, Co...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Coleraine food plant to close: 380 jobs axed
Around 480 employees are facing the axe as one of Northern Ireland's biggest food processing factories has announced it is to close. The FarmFed chicken processing plant in Coleraine, is believed to ...
Coleraine food plant to close: 380 jobs axed
Around 480 employees are facing the axe as one of Northern Ireland's biggest food processing factories has announced it is to close. The FarmFed chicken processing plant in Coleraine, is believed to ...
Business News, Jan 27, 2006
Armagh company benefit from EU grant aid
An Armagh company is one of 13 Northern Ireland food and horticulture companies to benefit from £3.46m in grant aid from the EU Agricultural Processing and Marketing Grant Scheme. Mushroom processing...
Armagh company benefit from EU grant aid
An Armagh company is one of 13 Northern Ireland food and horticulture companies to benefit from £3.46m in grant aid from the EU Agricultural Processing and Marketing Grant Scheme. Mushroom processing...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Jobs go at Lisburn factory
A thread factory in County Antrim is to close with the loss of 85 jobs. Coats Barbour thread factory at Hilden, just outside Lisburn, has been in operation for over 170 years. The parent company, Co...
Jobs go at Lisburn factory
A thread factory in County Antrim is to close with the loss of 85 jobs. Coats Barbour thread factory at Hilden, just outside Lisburn, has been in operation for over 170 years. The parent company, Co...
UK National News, Jan 27, 2006
Sir Ian Blair apologises for Soham comments
Metropolitan police Chief Sir Ian Blair has apologised for comments made about the Soham child murders during a speech. On Thursday, Sir Ian Blair made a speech to the Metropolitan Police Authority, ...
Sir Ian Blair apologises for Soham comments
Metropolitan police Chief Sir Ian Blair has apologised for comments made about the Soham child murders during a speech. On Thursday, Sir Ian Blair made a speech to the Metropolitan Police Authority, ...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Political parties to meet with US envoy
The US special envoy for Northern Ireland, Mitchell Reiss, is to today begin talks with political parties on possible ways to restore devolution. Mr Reiss, has said that he is going to ask the DUP wh...
Political parties to meet with US envoy
The US special envoy for Northern Ireland, Mitchell Reiss, is to today begin talks with political parties on possible ways to restore devolution. Mr Reiss, has said that he is going to ask the DUP wh...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Paul Berry hearing put back for two weeks
The Democratic Unionist Party has today been prevented from taking any legal action against a suspended Assembly member for a further two weeks. Newry and Armagh Assembly member Paul Berry is current...
Paul Berry hearing put back for two weeks
The Democratic Unionist Party has today been prevented from taking any legal action against a suspended Assembly member for a further two weeks. Newry and Armagh Assembly member Paul Berry is current...
UK National News, Jan 27, 2006
Briton attends embassy over family shootings
The British man, whose wife and child were found shot dead in their US home, has voluntarily attended the US embassy in London for an interview. Neil Entwistle, 27, is believed to have flown to Brita...
Briton attends embassy over family shootings
The British man, whose wife and child were found shot dead in their US home, has voluntarily attended the US embassy in London for an interview. Neil Entwistle, 27, is believed to have flown to Brita...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Man arrested in connection with attempted murder
Police in Armagh have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder. The incident happened at around 8pm last night in the Creevroe area of the town. A man was later taken to hospital with injurie...
Man arrested in connection with attempted murder
Police in Armagh have arrested a man on suspicion of attempted murder. The incident happened at around 8pm last night in the Creevroe area of the town. A man was later taken to hospital with injurie...
UK National News, Jan 27, 2006
Prison staff receive £50 million equal pay deal
More than 3,000 equal pay disputes in the prison service have been settled in a deal worth around £50 million, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has announced. The union said that indivi...
Prison staff receive £50 million equal pay deal
More than 3,000 equal pay disputes in the prison service have been settled in a deal worth around £50 million, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has announced. The union said that indivi...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Attempted abduction of child in Armagh
Police in Craigavon have appealed for information relating to the attempted abduction of an eight-year-old boy. The incident occurred at around 6pm yesterday evening, in the Drumbeg area of the town....
Attempted abduction of child in Armagh
Police in Craigavon have appealed for information relating to the attempted abduction of an eight-year-old boy. The incident occurred at around 6pm yesterday evening, in the Drumbeg area of the town....
UK National News, Jan 27, 2006
Five arrested over elderly couple murder
Police investigating the murder of an elderly married couple in Kent have arrested five people. On Friday morning, two adults and three juveniles were arrested on suspicion of the murders of Terence ...
Five arrested over elderly couple murder
Police investigating the murder of an elderly married couple in Kent have arrested five people. On Friday morning, two adults and three juveniles were arrested on suspicion of the murders of Terence ...
UK National News, Jan 27, 2006
Life sentences for ambulance killers
Four men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for clubbing a man to death in the back of an ambulance. The men - Zak Mayanja, 18, Narcis Danila, 22, Christian Sakyi, 18 and Gabriel Alecu, 30, all...
Life sentences for ambulance killers
Four men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for clubbing a man to death in the back of an ambulance. The men - Zak Mayanja, 18, Narcis Danila, 22, Christian Sakyi, 18 and Gabriel Alecu, 30, all...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Rising Sun killer appeals against sentence
A killer has today appealed against a four year jail term which would mean that he would not have to serve eight life sentences for the 1993 massacre at the Rising Sun bar. Stephen Irwin, 32, origina...
Rising Sun killer appeals against sentence
A killer has today appealed against a four year jail term which would mean that he would not have to serve eight life sentences for the 1993 massacre at the Rising Sun bar. Stephen Irwin, 32, origina...
UK National News, Jan 27, 2006
Lotto sales increase Euro jackpot to £105 million
Millions of people have been purchasing tickets for Friday's Euromillions draw, pushing the jackpot up to £105 million. The jackpot has not been won since November and lottery organisers Camelot said...
Lotto sales increase Euro jackpot to £105 million
Millions of people have been purchasing tickets for Friday's Euromillions draw, pushing the jackpot up to £105 million. The jackpot has not been won since November and lottery organisers Camelot said...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Search to resume for body of missing fisherman
The search for the body of missing fisherman Connor Bogues is to continue later today. Yesterday, off Ardglass police and army divers carried out a search of the wreckage of the Greenhill, using a re...
Search to resume for body of missing fisherman
The search for the body of missing fisherman Connor Bogues is to continue later today. Yesterday, off Ardglass police and army divers carried out a search of the wreckage of the Greenhill, using a re...
UK National News, Jan 27, 2006
Global TB fight receives $600m from Gates
The global fight against tuberculosis has received $600 million (£337 million) in funding from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. However, the campaign launched today [Friday] during the World Economic F...
Global TB fight receives $600m from Gates
The global fight against tuberculosis has received $600 million (£337 million) in funding from Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates. However, the campaign launched today [Friday] during the World Economic F...
Business News, Jan 27, 2006
Chelsea post record loss of £140m
Chelsea FC plc today posted the biggest ever losses of a UK football club. The Blues have sought to play down the huge £140m loss, which far exceeds the £88 loss recorded by the company on 2004/2005...
Chelsea post record loss of £140m
Chelsea FC plc today posted the biggest ever losses of a UK football club. The Blues have sought to play down the huge £140m loss, which far exceeds the £88 loss recorded by the company on 2004/2005...
UK National News, Jan 27, 2006
Eating fruit and vegetables could prevent strokes
Eating more fruit and vegetables could help reduce the risk of suffering a stroke, new research has suggested. In a study published in 'The Lancet', researchers at the University of London analysed r...
Eating fruit and vegetables could prevent strokes
Eating more fruit and vegetables could help reduce the risk of suffering a stroke, new research has suggested. In a study published in 'The Lancet', researchers at the University of London analysed r...
Northern Ireland News, Jan 27, 2006
Police appeal over South Belfast robbery
Police in South Belfast are appealing for information following the theft of thousands of pounds worth of equipment from a building site in South Belfast last weekend. Items taken from the site in De...
Police appeal over South Belfast robbery
Police in South Belfast are appealing for information following the theft of thousands of pounds worth of equipment from a building site in South Belfast last weekend. Items taken from the site in De...
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Northern Ireland WeatherToday:A few fog patches at first, soon clearing to leave a dry day with some patchy cloud and good sunny spells. Light and variable winds. Feeling mild in sunny spells. Maximum temperature 14 °C.Tonight:Dry and quite chilly overnight under prolonged clear spells and light winds. This will allow a few fog patches to develop in places. Minimum temperature 2 °C.
