Northern Ireland News for November 2006 : Page 5

UK National News, Nov 21, 2006
Government announces plans for 'super-nannies' to help parents
The government has announced plans to bring in 'super-nannies' to help families showing signs of anti-social behaviour. The £4 million scheme will provide dedicated parenting experts in 77 areas acro...
UK National News, Nov 21, 2006
Anti-terror police investigate poisoning case
Counter terrorism officers from Scotland Yard are now investigating the poisoning of a former KGB colonel who is now living in Britain. It is suspected that Alexander Litvinenko, 41, an outspoken cri...
UK National News, Nov 21, 2006
Seventy prisoners abscond from open jail
At least seventy criminals, including three murderers, have absconded from an open prison this year, the Home Office has revealed. Twenty-nine prisoners who fled from Ford Open Prison in Arundel, Wes...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
NI water charges could be in doubt
Plans to introduce water charges to Northern Ireland in April next year could be in doubt due to a setback at Belfast's High Court earlier today. During the hearing, the General Consumer Council won...
UK National News, Nov 21, 2006
Cost of 2012 Olympics rises
The expected cost of the 2012 Olympic Games has increased by nearly £1 billion, Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell has admitted. Speaking to the Commons culture, media and sport committee, Ms Jowell said...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
Ballymena Council supports pitbull amnesty
Councillors in Ballymena have announced their support for a proposal for the first ever pitbull amnesty in Northern Ireland. The decision was made during a meeting of Ballymena Council's Environmenta...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
Pensioner dies after west Belfast collision
Police in west Belfast have appealed for witnesses following a road traffic collision yesterday evening in which a pensioner died. The incident happened outside a taxi office on the Monagh Road area ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
Post-mortem due on north Belfast fire victims
Post-mortem examinations are to be carried out today on the bodies of the three people who died during a house-fire in north Belfast yesterday afternoon. Three generations of the same family died in ...
UK National News, Nov 21, 2006
Four month sentence for man who fed cat to dog
A man who allowed his Staffordshire bull terrier to savage a pet cat to death has been jailed for four months. Callum Myers, 18, was shown on CCTV footage appearing to dangle the cat above his dog, G...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
Police reissue appeal over Keady murders
Police in County Armagh have reissued their appeal for information in connection with the murders of two people on November 6. Thomas O'Hare, 33, and Lisa McClatchey, 21, both died after being beaten...
UK National News, Nov 21, 2006
Sex education has 'limited impact' on teen pregnancies
Sex education has little impact on reducing the number of teen pregnancies, a study has revealed. A study by the Medical Research Council study, published in the British Medical Journal, looked at th...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
New dual carriageway opens in County Down
A new six mile stretch of dual carriageway on the A1 in Co Down costing £25 million has been officially opened today. The opening marks the full completion of the dual carriageway between Loughbrick...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
Government expands new transport scheme for elderly and disabled
A new transport service for people who cannot use conventional bus services was officially launched today in County Down. At the official launch in the Canal Court Hotel in Newry, Gerry McGinn, Depa...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
Local firm wins major contract with support from Invest NI
Moira based firm McMullen Architectural Systems Ltd, has won a prestigious £13 million contract as part of the redevelopment of The Arsenal’s Highbury Stadium, in London. The new development is a co...
UK National News, Nov 21, 2006
Life on council estates 'improving'
Life on some of the UK's council estates is improving, a new report has claimed. The report, conducted by the London School of Economics for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, covered 25 years on 20 es...
UK National News, Nov 21, 2006
ITV rejects merger approach by NTL
The Board of ITV has rejected a merger proposal from NTL as one with "little strategic logic." In a statement, the Board said it believed that "whereas there is obvious appeal to NTL in gaining contr...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 21, 2006
Doorstep crime and rogue traders to be tackled
Northern Ireland consumers are being warned to be vigilant against bogus doorstep callers who prey on the elderly and vulnerable. The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment’s Trading Standa...
UK National News, Nov 20, 2006
Poisoned former KGB man remains in serious condition
A former KGB colonel remains in a serious condition in a London hospital after being poisoned with toxic chemical thallium. Alexander Litvinenko, 44, an outspoken critic of Russian president Vladimir...
UK National News, Nov 20, 2006
Blair pledges support to Afghanistan
Prime Minister Tony Blair has vowed that Britain will remain committed to Afghanistan during a visit to the country. Making his first visit to the country since 2002, Mr Blair said the commitment of ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 20, 2006
Three die in north Belfast house-fire
Three people have died following a house-fire in north Belfast. Two adults and a child are believed to have been in the property in Edenbrooke Close in the Shankill area of the city, when the blaze ...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 20, 2006
Two men remanded over child's rape
Four people have appeared in Belfast Magistrates Court facing charges of rape and child cruelty. Two men, one believed to be the child's uncle, the second man - a friend of the family - have been rem...
UK National News, Nov 20, 2006
Sex offender hands himself in to police
A paedophile who was featured on a new website aimed at tracking down missing sex offenders has handed himself into police. Gordon Stewart was one of five sex offenders whose details were published o...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 20, 2006
Judge calls for inquiry into McDougall appointment
A High Court Judge has today asked for the government's appointment of interim Victims' Commissioner Bertha McDougall, 59, to be investigated by the attorney general. Lord Goldsmith is now to examin...
UK National News, Nov 20, 2006
Woman arrested over child's death
A 22-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the death of a four-year-old girl who died in hospital at the weekend. Leticia Wright, from Almondbury Bank, Huddersfield, was taken to Hudder...
UK National News, Nov 20, 2006
Man pleads not guilty over family killings
A 36-year-old man has pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife and three children in court in Manchester. Rahan Arshad appeared at Manchester Crown Court on Monday charged with the murder of his wife...
UK National News, Nov 20, 2006
BA employee loses battle over Christian cross
A Christian British Airways worker who launched an appeal against the airline's decision not to allow her to wear a cross in work has failed to get the decision overturned. Nadia Eweida, 55, who work...
UK National News, Nov 20, 2006
CCTV footage found in search for missing woman
Police investigating the disappearance of a woman in Ipswich have discovered CCTV footage of her on the night she disappeared. Tania Nicol, 19, disappeared on October 30 after leaving her home in Woo...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 20, 2006
Police treating woman's death as 'murder'
Police are treating the death of a woman in west Belfast at the weekend as murder. The body of Grace Moore, 38, was discovered in a ground floor flat in the Erris Grove area of the Blacks Road at aro...
UK National News, Nov 20, 2006
Investigation launched following football crossbow attack
Police have launched an investigation after a football match was halted due to a crossbow arrow being fired onto the pitch. The arrow was fired onto the pitch at Woodley Sports Centre on Lambeth Groo...
Northern Ireland News, Nov 20, 2006
Woman dies in County Antrim collision
A 33-year-old woman has died following a road traffic collision in north Belfast at the weekend. The incident, which is understood to have involved a female pedestrian and a car, happened at around 1...